Archive for November, 2010
North and South Korea Exchange Artillery Fire
November 23rd, 2010Via: MSNBC: Fires were burning out of control Tuesday after a South Korean island was hit by dozens of artillery shells fired by North Korea. YTN said at least 200 North Korean shells hit Yeonpyeong island. Most of the shells landed on a South Korean military base there. South Korea returned fire and scrambled F-16 […]
Insider Trading: Criminal Charges, Fines Against Large Number of Wall Street Executives and Investors
November 22nd, 2010Upstarts get busted in an attempt to maintain appearances while public menaces Goldman Sachs and AIG are allowed to slip from the headlines. Via: Los Angeles Times: Federal investigators in New York are wrapping up an extensive investigation into allegations of insider trading and other stock-trading irregularities that could bring criminal charges or monetary fines […]
Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
November 22nd, 2010This story is a couple of years old, but I’d never heard of it before. Via: Counterpunch: Looking for weapons of mass destruction? Try the backwoods of North Carolina. The site is easy to find. You don’t need infrared telemetry, informants, or a global positioning satellite. Just follow the railroad tracks deep into the heart […]
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
November 22nd, 2010Via: New York Times: On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh’s life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: book or computer? By all rights, Vishal, a bright 17-year-old, should already have finished the book, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” his summer reading assignment. But he has managed 43 pages […]
Ireland to Seek EU-Led Bailout as Lenihan Works to Avert Bank ‘Collapse’
November 21st, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said Ireland will apply for a bailout as it sets itself up to be the second euro member to seek a rescue from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. “I will be proposing to my colleagues that they should formally apply for a program,” Lenihan said in […]
Into the Abyss: The Diving Suit That Turns Men Into Fish
November 21st, 2010I had thought that the liquid breathing system depicted in The Abyss was purely fictional. According to the developer of the system in the piece below, U.S. Navy SEALs were using such a system in the 1980s. Via: Independent: Humans have proven themselves remarkably adept at learning to do what other animals can do naturally. […]
TSA Pat-Down Leaves Traveler Covered in Urine
November 21st, 2010Via: MSNBC: A retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. “I was absolutely humiliated, I couldn’t even speak,” said Thomas D. “Tom” Sawyer, 61, of […]
Could Millionaires Fleeing the U.S. Cause a Wildcard Economic Event?
November 21st, 2010For years, I’ve received emails from people who want to move to New Zealand. Some young, some old. Some well off, some not so well off. Over the last month or so, three millionaires have emailed me about moving to New Zealand. The three people who emailed me were all going to invest their way […]
A Vegan No More
November 21st, 2010Update: Author Receives Death Threats —End Update— This might be useful if you are having to go through watching someone kill themselves and/or their children on a vegan diet. Or not. Via: Voracious Vegan: Many of you know that I have recently been struggling for the first time in my life with health problems. When […]
Russia Frees Israeli Mercenary
November 20th, 2010Via: BBC: Russia has released Israeli mercenary Yair Klein, who was sought by Colombia for his involvement in the training of paramilitary squads, reports say. Klein, a former Israeli army soldier, is on his way to Israel, Interfax news agency reports. In 2001, a Colombian court convicted him in absentia of training right-wing guerrilla groups. […]
