Archive for July, 2010
INDU Chicken Entrails
July 6th, 2010WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I would expect a bit of a sucker bounce (probably not breaking 10K again), followed by the next leg down. Next INDU target 9375. Again, expect a sucker rally first. Via: CNBC: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is repeating a pattern […]
It’s Starting to Feel Like 1932
July 6th, 2010In other news, Mercedes-Benz sales up 13 percent on year in June: Sales of Mercedes-Benz cars were up 13.2 percent in the year to June as strong demand for the premium brand in China and the United States helped drive growth, parent company Daimler AG said Monday. Mercedes-Benz sold 113,300 cars worldwide last month, making […]
Why Morning People Rule the World
July 6th, 2010Via: London Evening Standard: We are all morning or evening people. Scientists have established that our genes dictate around half of what they call our “chronotypes” — our natural preference for certain times of the day. Evolution has produced a range of humans capable of being alert to danger at every hour of the day. […]
BP Remains Key Pentagon Fuel Supplier
July 5th, 2010So it goes… Via: AFP: Despite its role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, energy giant BP remains a key supplier of fuel to the Pentagon, The Washington Post reported. Citing data from the Defense Logistics Agency, the newspaper said BP had contracts with the US Defense Department worth at least 980 million dollars […]
Britain: Surveillance System Monitors Conversations
July 5th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The technology, called Sigard, monitors movements and speech to detect signs of threatening behaviour. Its designers claim the system can anticipate anti-social behaviour and violence by analysing the information picked up its sensors. They say alerts are then sent to police, nightclub bouncers or shop security staff, which allow them to nip trouble […]
TSA to Block Websites that Contain Controversial Opinions
July 4th, 2010Via: CBS: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency’s computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that contain a “controversial opinion,” according to an internal email obtained by CBS News. The email was sent to all TSA employees from the Office of Information Technology on Friday […]
“Should BP Nuke Its Leaking Well?”
July 3rd, 2010Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site… Might Produce a Bad Result Via: Reuters: His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian Minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP’s oil leak in the Gulf […]
Exploding H-Bombs In Space
July 3rd, 2010Via: NPR: Back in the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space, some 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was a weapons test, but one that created a man-made light show that has never been equaled — and hopefully never will.
Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead
July 2nd, 2010At least they have some nice accommodations: Banned FEMA Formaldehyde Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster. Via: Business Insider: Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spill that many […]
Schwarzenegger Orders Minimum Wage for State Workers
July 2nd, 2010Via: Sacramento Bee: The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law — $7.25 an hour for most state workers. The instructions from the Department of Personnel Administration exclude roughly 37,000 state workers in six bargaining units that recently came to […]
