Archive for June, 2008
Oil Gaps on Dollar Craps
June 6th, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. See what I mean about that dollar and oil? I expected to see a bit more downside on oil, but, as I said, you need that dollar crank to play along. It did, for a while, as noted. If you covered […]
NZ Blackouts Coming: Absurd, Totally Unnecessary, Hold Politicians Accountable
June 6th, 2008Kiwis, what’s about to happen is ridiculous. Contact your MPs. Ask them why we don’t have net metering. Ask them why incentives for individuals to set up small scale generation are so pathetic. Ask them why more effort hasn’t gone into developing baseload capacity from geothermal and wave/tidal sources. Turn them on to Charmaine Watts […]
U.S. Government’s Audited Financial Statement Shows $3.5 Trillion Deficit in 2005
June 6th, 2008Via: USA Today: The federal government keeps two sets of books. The set the government promotes to the public has a healthier bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005. The set the government doesn’t talk about is the audited financial statement produced by the government’s accountants following standard accounting rules. It reports a more […]
Australia: ABC TV Advises CO2-Emitting Children to Die Early
June 6th, 2008Via: The Register: Carbon Cult sickos are under fire for an interactive website that tells children they should die because they emit CO2. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Planet Slayer” site invites young children to take a “greenhouse gas quiz”, asking them “how big a pig are you?”. At the end of the quiz, the pig […]
Developmental Aid Workers Are Killing Africa
June 6th, 2008Must Read Related: Money Raised for Africa ‘Goes to Civil Wars’ Via: Der Spiegel: No one has to starve in Africa. Hunger there results from the failures of unscrupulous rulers — and their friends in the West. Paradoxically, it is the aid workers who are standing in the way of progress. If you follow the […]
Study Secretly Tracks Cell Phone Users Outside U.S.
June 5th, 2008In, Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation, I wrote: We must assume that They are using the full spectrum of surveillance information to try to PREDICT HOW EACH OF US IS LIKELY TO BEHAVE ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. Where we go. What we buy. Where we travel. Which routes we take. Etc. All […]
Electric Car Industry Start-Up For NZ?
June 5th, 2008It will be interesting to see how the government snatches defeat from the jaws of victory on this one. Via: Scoop: New Zealand could soon be building its own electric cars. Talks are underway in the UK now to set up a manufacturing consortium, New Zealand’s daily carbon market news service, Carbon News, reveals this […]
Sweden: Legislation Would Implement Plan to Monitor All Email and Telephone Traffic Coming In and Out of the Country
June 5th, 2008HAHA! This frightens Google! Can you imagine? That’s right. Google—having no problems working with the diabolical Chinese regime—is so horrified by this legislation that it is threatening to pull its systems out of Sweden. Of course, I don’t see Google threatening to pull its machines out of the U.S., where a system like the one […]
Food Is Gold, and Investors Pour Billions Into Farming
June 5th, 2008One of two things is about to happen to people who can’t or won’t take responsibility for the food that crosses their own lips: 1) They’re going to be ripped off; or 2) They’re going to be killed off. Hmm. Why not both? Via: New York Times: “Farmland can be a bubble just like Florida […]
Police Will Run “Military Style” Checkpoints in DC Neighborhoods
June 5th, 2008Via: Washington Post: D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint yesterday to stop cars this weekend in a Northeast Washington neighborhood inundated by gun violence, saying it will help keep criminals out of the area. Starting on Saturday, officers will check drivers’ identification and ask whether they have a “legitimate purpose” to […]
