Archive for February, 2009
Study Takes Step Toward Erasing Bad Memories
February 16th, 2009Oh sure. Via: Reuters: A widely available blood pressure pill could one day help people erase bad memories, perhaps treating some anxiety disorders and phobias, according to a Dutch study published on Sunday. The generic beta-blocker propranolol significantly weakened people’s fearful memories of spiders among a group of healthy volunteers who took it, said Merel […]
Mystery Fireball Streaks Across Texas Sky
February 16th, 2009Via: News8Austin: The U.S. Strategic Command Monday said there’s no relation between the collision of two satellites over Siberia last week and the weekend shower of fireballs over Texas. What looked like a fireball streaked across the Texas sky Sunday morning, leading many people to call authorities to report seeing falling debris. Preliminary reports from […]
Japan Economy Shrinks at Fastest Rate in 35 Years
February 16th, 2009The steady drumbeat of doom continues out of Japan… Via: AP: Strangled by the collapse in global export demand, Japan’s economy shrank at its fastest rate in 35 years in the fourth quarter and shows no signs of reversing course anytime soon. Japan’s gross domestic product contracted 3.3 percent from the previous quarter, or an […]
Top Mexico Drug Cop Charged with Working for Cartel
February 16th, 2009For your News-Not-News file folder. Via: Reuters: The former head of Mexico’s special organized crime bureau has been charged with selling information to one of the country’s most powerful drug cartels, the attorney general’s office said on Sunday. Noe Ramirez, who stepped down as chief of the SIEDO federal investigation unit in July last year, […]
Three Shakes of a Lamb’s Tail: Walmart Can’t Account for 15,800 of Its Exit Signs that Contain Tritium
February 16th, 2009Would “the terrorists” really go through this much trouble to produce a dirty bomb? I doubt it. I don’t know much about dirty bombs, but tritium would have to be near the bottom of the list in terms of desirability for such weapons because it’s a gas. It would dissipate very fast. This tritium exit […]
IRELAND COULD DEFAULT
February 16th, 2009Via: Guardian: Fears are growing that Ireland could default on its national debt after the cost to insure against possible losses on loans to the country rose to record highs at the end of last week. Credit ratings agency Moody’s recently followed rival Standard & Poor’s in warning it might downgrade Irish debt, amid fears […]
Failure to Save East Europe Will Lead to Worldwide Meltdown
February 15th, 2009Via: Telegraph: The unfolding debt drama in Russia, Ukraine, and the EU states of Eastern Europe has reached acute danger point. If mishandled by the world policy establishment, this debacle is big enough to shatter the fragile banking systems of Western Europe and set off round two of our financial Götterdämmerung. Austria’s finance minister Josef […]
And Now: Ammunition Shortages
February 15th, 2009Bullets are the projectiles that are propelled out of firearms. This stupid article treats bullets and ammunition as synonyms. I’m assuming that, regardless of the term, it’s referring to completed, ready to fire ammunition. Is there actually a shortage on bullets? That’s not clear from reading this. I’m sure there are some reloaders out there […]
H.R. 45: Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009: The U.S. Is Establishing National Firearms Licensing Requirements and a National Firearms Registration Database
February 15th, 2009Americans, by the tens of millions, are not going to go along with this. No way. How do we know? Look at California in the 1990s. Millions of gun owners simply refused to register their “assault weapons” when the state required it. Now, if Californians refused to do it, what do you think is going […]
European Economic Collapse: “It May Already be Too Late to Prevent Social Unrest”
February 15th, 2009Via: Times Online: Jon Moulton, the private equity chief, warned a City lunch this week that he feared serious civil unrest. There was, he said, a 25 per cent chance of one of the 15 member countries of the eurozone pulling out of the currency club. That, he said, would be a catastrophic shock leading […]
