Archive for July, 2010
Be Aware of This Prevalent Corporate Scam in Life Insurance Payout Situations
July 28th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Lohman, a public health nurse who helps special-needs children, says she had always believed that her son’s life insurance funds were in a bank insured by the FDIC. That money — like $28 billion in 1 million death-benefit accounts managed by insurers — wasn’t actually sitting in a bank. It was being held […]
Sony Holographic Display
July 28th, 2010Via: Sony: Next week at Siggraph in LA, Sony will be demonstrating the prototype of a new 360º Autostereoscopic display. The display allows you to view full colour volumetric objects from all angles, as if objects really exist. The display uses special LED light forces and can show 360 unique images to all directions in […]
Land Of The Free: Never In The Civilized World Have So Many Been Locked Up For So Little
July 28th, 2010And not a word about the profit incentive to lock people up! America’s Private Gulag is over a decade old, but worth reading if you’re new to the concept of the prison industrial complex: To be profitable, private prison firms must ensure that prisons are not only built but also filled. Industry experts say a […]
US-Canada Pipeline Leaks Oil Into Michigan River
July 28th, 2010Via: BBC: A pipeline carrying oil from the US state of Indiana to Ontario, Canada has spilled more than 800,000 gallons (3m litres) of oil into a creek which flows into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. A spokesman for the firm running the pipeline, Enbridge Energy Partners, said a malfunction had caused the leak. The […]
Tug Vessel Hits Abandoned Gas Well in Barataria Waterway
July 28th, 2010Via: WWLTV: The Coast Guard and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office are maintaining a two mile safety perimeter around a damaged wellhead in the Barataria Waterway south of New Orleans. A mix of natural gas, contaminated water and light crude oil is spewing 100 feet in the air. According to the Coast Guard, the tug […]
Mexico: Prison Official Sent Inmates to Conduct Birthday Party Massacre
July 27th, 2010Via: Christian Science Monitor: A prison director is suspected of arming inmates and sending them on the July 18 Mexico birthday party massacre that killed 17. To some, Mexico’s drug war seems ‘the script of a science fiction movie.’ When gunmen burst into a private birthday party on July 18 and opened fired on guests, […]
U.S. Rescue May Reach $23.7 Trillion (???)
July 27th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. The Treasury’s $700 billion bank-investment program represents a fraction of all federal support to resuscitate the U.S. financial […]
H.R. 5741: Two Year Conscription for Americans Between Ages 18 and 42 for “National Service”
July 27th, 2010Conscription typically means compulsory military service. That’s not necessarily the case here, but it’s close enough. Will there be arm bands? Happy Hope and Change. Via: GovTrack: HR 5741 IH 111th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5741 To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national […]
David de Rothschild: Masonic Handshake in Sydney; Was His Skull and Bones Belt Buckle on Board?
July 27th, 2010David de Rothschild wears a skull and crossbones belt buckle (I guess it’s the Jolly Roger given his recent voyage on the high seas), and he gave a masonic handshake for the cameras in Sydney. Image: philly.com: Image: Richardson’s Monitor of Freemasonry by Jabez Richardson, page 30: Image: Outside: Can you feel the clean, green […]
What I Did When I Couldn’t Find a Job
July 27th, 2010Via: Chronicle of Higher Education: It was a bit of a shock, losing all expectations. For years—all my life, really—parents, teachers, and guidance counselors had told me that if I went to a good college and did well, I would be able to find a job after graduation that would, with a little ladder-climbing, keep […]
