Archive for October, 2010
Increasing Use of RFID Tracking for Students
October 12th, 2010Can we get these kids some breakfast sticks? Via: Houston Chronicle: Radio frequency identification — the same technology used to monitor cattle — is tracking students in the Spring and Santa Fe school districts. Identification badges for some students in both school districts now include tracking devices that allow campus administrators to keep tabs on […]
Opium Fields Surround Main Australian Base in Afghanistan
October 11th, 2010Via: The Age: MORE than half the fields surrounding the main Australian base in Afghanistan are being used to grow opium poppies, as coalition forces struggle to ween locals off the lucrative crop. Locals question why troops and police have failed to crack down on the semi-open sale of the poppies, according to the report […]
Russia’s State of the Art Inflatable Weapon Decoys
October 11th, 2010Pics at Telegraph. Via: BBC: The Russian military has come up with an inventive way to deceive the enemy and save money at the same time: inflatable weapons. They look just like real ones: they are easy to transport and quick to deploy. You name it, the Russian army is blowing it up: from pretend […]
Surprise — The Very Dark Side of U.S. History
October 11th, 2010Via: Alternet: There is a dark — seldom acknowledged — thread that runs through U.S. military doctrine, dating back to the early days of the Republic. This military tradition has explicitly defended the selective use of terror, whether in suppressing Native American resistance on the frontiers in the 19th Century or in protecting U.S. interests […]
Trading Alert: DBA
October 11th, 2010WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Consider shortside plays on PowerShares DB Multi-Sector (NYSEArca: DBA). Stop $29.10. Currently $28.75x$28.76. Premise: Possible double top. Multiple bearish divergences on the oscillators, also, the daily and weekly OBV. But if it breaks higher, cut it loose fast. That might mean […]
Hal Lewis: My Resignation From the American Physical Society; Global Warming, “Is the Greatest and Most Successful Pseudoscientific Fraud I Have Seen in My Long Life as a Physicist”
October 11th, 2010Via: The Global Warming Policy Foundation: From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society 6 October 2010 Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the […]
Britain: Another Primary School Presents Students with UFO Scenario
October 11th, 2010Others: September 2008: Police Investigate School’s Alien Invasion February 2009: They Came from the Outer Reaches of the National Curriculum July 2009: Children Traumatised by ‘War of Worlds’ Abduction of Teacher April 2010: Alien Field Trip Via: Weston Mercury: Sandford Primary School pupils were amazed to discover that aliens had landed last Wednesday, and set […]
Airport Body Scanners
October 11th, 2010Via: Lew Rockwell: I understand now why the scanners aren’t mandatory. There doesn’t seem to be a need for the authoritarians to officially force everyone through. Everyone around me went through of their own volition. Research Credit: Pookie
‘Dying Communities See Salvation in New Prisons’
October 10th, 2010Hope and Change: Replacing collapsed industries with prisons. Via: AP: Mike Secinore is pinning his hopes on prison. Fresh with a criminal justice degree from the local community college, the 20-year-old Berlin native plans to apply for a corrections officer job at the federal prison expected to open in the city next summer. There aren’t […]
Spain: Child Pornography Ring Involved Police, Business Owers
October 10th, 2010Via: BBC: Police have arrested 57 people over child pornography allegations in Spain, including business owners and local police officers, the authorities say.
