Archive for December, 2009
Google CEO: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
December 11th, 2009Use Bing. HAHA. Oh sure. Via: Ars: Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft’s search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “I think judgment matters,” said Schmidt. “If […]
Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by the CIA
December 11th, 2009Via: New York Times: Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials. The raids against suspects occurred on an […]
The $700 Billion Man: Paulson’s Creature Bugs Out to Wilderness Cabin
December 10th, 2009Via: Washington Post: He wears no coat though it’s freezing, shines no light though it’s near midnight, carries no shotgun though he’s tramping on the pine-needled tracks of black bears. He wants to be lost in these woods. “Come on, you bums,” Neel Kashkari calls to his dogs, two giant Newfoundlands. “Boys, let’s go.” He […]
South African Gold Output Continues to Decline
December 10th, 2009Via: Mineweb: South African gold output fell 5.8 percent in volume terms and total mineral production dropped 8.5 percent in October compared with the same month in the previous year, official data showed on Thursday. Production of non-gold minerals declined 8.9 percent, Statistics South Africa said on its website www.statssa.gov.za (Reporting by Muchena Zigomo)
U.S. Government Funding Research Into “Malintent” Detector
December 10th, 2009Future Attribute Screening Technologies: Magic 8 Ball Arts and Crafts, taken to the nth degree of absurdity and rolled up in a police state shit sandwich. Now with 25% more Grant Swindle! Enjoy your flight. Via: Alternet: This past February, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a one-year, $2.6 million grant to the Cambridge, […]
Brazil: Police Killed More Than 11,000 in the Last Six Years
December 10th, 2009Via: AP: Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Few of the officers have been charged in the extrajudicial killings, which are often labeled in police reports as the deaths of […]
The Devil and Mr. Obama
December 10th, 2009My dismissive contempt for anyone who buys into the “political process” in the U.S. has drained my bile on this issue. I just can’t get worked up over it anymore. I try to huff and puff and grit my teeth, but then all that comes out is, “Forget it. Hell is dealing with true believers.” […]
Norway: The Mysterious Spiral Pattern in the Sky
December 10th, 2009I think I’ve figured it out: Via: CNN: President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway on Thursday but acknowledged the questions surrounding the award. Obama, along with first lady Michelle Obama, walked into Oslo City Hall at 1 p.m. to a trumpet fanfare and sustained applause. In other news: The Pentagon announced Monday […]
China’s Empty City
December 10th, 2009Related: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall — Is Empty
22 Stories Underground: Iron Mountain’s Experimental Room 48
December 9th, 2009Definitely DO NOT miss the image gallery that goes along with this story. Via: Computerworld: Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by a high chain-link fence topped with razor wire. Cars entering the compound are […]
