Archive for August, 2009
And Now… “Finland Denies Missing Ship Carries Nuclear Material”
August 17th, 2009Suitable for framing. Via: AFP: Finland denies missing ship carries nuclear material By Orlando Rodrigues (AFP) PRAIA — Finnish authorities dismissed talk Sunday that the Arctic Sea was bearing a cargo of nuclear material, as Russia and NATO joined forces in an international hunt for the missing vessel. Jukka Laaksonen, head of the Finnish Radiation […]
Russia Finds Missing Cargo Ship
August 17th, 2009Queue Twilight Zone music. Via: BBC: Russia says it has found a missing cargo vessel near the Cape Verde islands and retrieved its Russian crew. Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said that the 15-member crew had been taken on board a Russian navy vessel. They were in good condition, he said. The Finnish-owned Arctic Sea went […]
IBM Uses DNA to Make Next-Gen Microchips
August 17th, 2009I don’t post a lot of ten-years-from-now type stories, but the weird factor on this one is pretty high. Via: Reuters: International Business Machines Corp is looking to the building blocks of our bodies — DNA — to be the structure of next-generation microchips. As chipmakers compete to develop ever-smaller chips at cheaper prices, designers […]
Stocks Selling Off Around the World; U.S. Futures Down
August 17th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: U.S. stock-index futures retreated, indicating the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will extend last week’s drop, as Japan’s economy grew less than estimated and commodities declined. Stocks in Asia and Europe tumbled. Intel Corp., which gets about 60 percent of annual sales in the Asia-Pacific region, and International Business Machines Corp. fell at […]
Mexican Army Takes Over Customs on U.S. Border
August 17th, 2009Via: AFP: Mexico’s Army took control of customs Sunday on the busy US border, as federal authorities pulled agents off the job in a massive anti-corruption shakeup, officials told AFP. An Interior Ministry official said the dismissals were being carried out at all Mexican border facilities, and that the customs agents were being replaced. Customs […]
Leaked Letter: Neurologists Concerned About Swine Flu Vaccine
August 16th, 2009Unfortunately, the Daily Mail is the original source for this story. Via: Daily Mail: A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter. The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public […]
The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.
August 15th, 2009Via: Progressive: The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States in times of emergency or a major disaster. This request has already occasioned a dispute with the nation’s governors. And it raises the prospect of U.S. military personnel patrolling the […]
Mutated Virus from Vaccine Causing Polio Outbreaks in Africa
August 15th, 2009See The Polio Vaccine: A Critical Assessment of Its Arcane History, Efficacy, and Long-Term Health-Related Consequences by Neil Z. Miller (pdf). Via: Boston Globe: Polio, the dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria. And health officials say in some cases, it’s caused by the vaccine used to fight it. […]
A Complete Unknown: Bob Dylan Detained by Police for Failure to Produce His Papers
August 15th, 2009Via: Telegraph: A novice policewoman picked up an “eccentric old man acting suspiciously”, completely unaware that it was Bob Dylan. The 22-year-old officer was dispatched after residents in the New Jersey town of Long Branch had phoned to complain that a man in the Latin quarter was acting suspiciously. When the officer asked the man […]
FDIC Friday Bank Failures Much More Significant Than Usual
August 15th, 2009Via: CNN: Troubled Colonial BancGroup will be bought by rival BB&T Friday, the government said after state regulators closed the bank whose assets had been frozen by a federal judge. The Montgomery, Ala., bank, which has 346 branches spread across Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Nevada, and Texas, is the sixth largest bank failure in U.S. history […]
