Archive for April, 2010
Building an Artificial America in a Supercomputer: Synthetic Citizens to Help Social Scientists
April 23rd, 2010I found a one paragraph version of this information linked from Technofascism Blog and I went looking for more. The full text from the 2008 IEEE piece is below. Knowing what we know about the surveillance data that’s being collected, I see no reason why the “simulation” couldn’t be setup to run on real data, […]
Man Sues Pope Over Sexual Abuse and Coverup
April 23rd, 2010Via: CNN: An Illinois man is suing the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI for allegedly covering up sexual abuse by a priest at a Catholic school in Wisconsin. The lawsuit demands the Vatican release the names of thousands of Catholic priests that the suit says have “credible allegations of sexual misconduct” against them. The alleged […]
Buying KFC Buckets Fights Breast Cancer?
April 23rd, 2010The article below doesn’t mention this, but the KFC menu is heavily laden with Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). Finger lickin’ death. Via: Washington Post: I try to keep an open mind, but my brain is just boggled by the Buckets for the Cure partnership between KFC and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. I try to […]
Facebook Steps Up Lobbying, Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencies, FTC
April 23rd, 2010Here’s my (one sentence) guess about what this is actually about: Facebook is a CIA cutout that’s frantically lobbying for privacy legislation to remain lax so that it can continue to run its various intelligence operations on the platform. Via: Venture Beat: Facebook has been gradually boosting its profile in Washington D.C. over the past […]
WellPoint Routinely Cancels Coverage of Breast Cancer Patients
April 23rd, 2010So, let me understand this: Obamacare is going to require people to pay for insurance that can be canceled as soon as they come down with a serious illness? Get the state to hold a gun at people’s heads to pay into a scam. That sounds like a pretty good gig for those diabolical corporations. […]
“Lehman Was the Leading Purveyor of Liar’s Loans in the World” — Incidents of Fraud at 90% — “Lehman Sold This to the World”
April 23rd, 2010I also handled issues for the used-car-salesman-type ‘account executives’. Just before I left, the company switched loan origination systems. The people writing these loans were pissed because they were no longer able to get loans approved for people with fraudulent social security numbers. They would actually complain because the system was telling them that the […]
IRS Agent Didn’t Report $41,842 in EBay Sales
April 23rd, 2010I need a Comedy category. Via: Bloomberg: An Internal Revenue Service agent was found liable for back taxes and penalties for not reporting income on nearly 2,000 transactions on EBay Inc., the online auction site, according to the U.S. Tax Court. Andrea Fabiana Orellana failed to report $41,842 in income in 2004 and 2005 from […]
In March, Food Prices Surged by the Most in 26 Years
April 22nd, 2010Via: AP: Wholesale prices rose more than expected last month as food prices surged by the most in 26 years. The Labor Department said the Producer Price Index rose by 0.7 percent in March, compared to analysts’ forecasts of a 0.4 percent rise. A rise in gas prices also helped push up the index.
Generating Megawatts Like Clockwork
April 22nd, 2010Flashback 1963: The International Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project Via: New York Times: A tidal plant in Manhattan, Maine or elsewhere in the United States that would feed significant power to the grid is at least a few years away.
Goldman’s Chief Executive Visited the White House at Least Four Times
April 22nd, 2010Lots of Change to discuss? Via: McClatchy: While Goldman Sachs’ lawyers negotiated with the Securities and Exchange Commission over potentially explosive civil fraud charges, Goldman’s chief executive visited the White House at least four times. White House logs show that Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein traveled to Washington for at least two events with President Barack […]
