Archive for October, 2010
France: Pension Protests Crimp Fuel, Transport
October 19th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: French refineries remained shut, trains were on half service, schools closed and gas stations ran dry as unions held their fourth strike in two months against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to raise the retirement age. Government ministers said France has enough fuel to last several weeks and that they’ll continue to use police […]
Gold Down $35.60, Dollar Higher Again
October 19th, 2010Related: Reminder: Possible DX Support Ahead Gold: New Record High, $1388 😉
“None of the serial killers I know of have been pilots for the Queen.”
October 19th, 2010Via: Globe and Mail: For all the horrifying variety of their specific crimes, most serial killers tend to have one thing in common: they operate near the margins of society. And then there’s Colonel Russell Williams.
Satellites Spot 3 Miles of NATO Supply Trucks Bottlenecked in Pakistan
October 18th, 2010Via: Wired: Pakistan’s 10-day blockade against NATO convoys has ended, but a new video released by a commercial satellite company shows just how massive the consequences were: a sprawling, three-mile bottleneck of oil tankers and supply trucks, some parked in a dry riverbed, waiting to cross the Torkham border pass into Afghanistan.
Pilot to TSA: ‘No Groping Me and No Naked Photos’
October 18th, 2010Via: Lew Rockwell: Pilot to TSA: ‘No Groping Me and No Naked Photos’ by Michael Roberts October 15, 2010 – My name is Michael Roberts, and I am a pilot for ExpressJet Airlines, Inc., based in Houston (that is, I still am for the time being). This morning as I attempted to pass through the […]
Philippines May Lose 600,000 Tons Rice as Supertyphoon Megi Makes Landfall
October 18th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The Philippines, the world’s biggest rice buyer, may lose 600,000 metric tons of the crop as Supertyphoon Megi, the strongest to hit the nation this year, strikes some of the nation’s biggest producing areas, a government official said. Rice futures advanced. “Once the typhoon hits those areas, the crop will be affected,” Agriculture […]
Not The Onion: Germans Selling 100 Watt Incandescent Light Bulbs as Mini Heaters, “Heatballs”
October 18th, 2010Via: Reuters: A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by marketing his own brand as mini heaters. Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs — by producing them in China, […]
Rice Meets with Obama, then Defends Regime
October 18th, 2010It’s all one regime, of course. Here’s the classic quote, which I’ve probably cited dozens of times over the years: The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, […]
Inside Job
October 18th, 2010Neem: A Tree for Solving Global Problems
October 18th, 2010I was reading this book and finding a lot of information that I could use. I’m sure that all of you will find something of interest as well: Neem: A Tree for Solving Global Problems, National Research Council, 1992. Don’t miss Appendix B! Wow. Free version on Google, including PDF Printed version on Amazon
