Archive for December, 2010
New Jersey: Mobile Police Guard Towers
December 23rd, 2010Update: SkyWatch Manned Mobile Surveillance System —End Update—
Placebos Work, Even When Patients Are in the Know
December 23rd, 2010The placebo story is very old and well known. It’s the tip of the iceberg. These films provide a good survey of this area of inquiry. The Living Matrix Something Unknown Is Doing We Don’t Know What Via: Los Angeles Times: In what researchers call a novel ‘mind-body’ therapy, most patients in a study suffering […]
Trader Holds $3 Billion of Copper in London
December 23rd, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: As commodity prices soar to new records, the ability of a few traders to hold huge swaths of the world’s stockpiles is coming under scrutiny. The latest example is in the copper market, where a single trader has reported it owns 80%-90% of the copper sitting in London Metal Exchange warehouses, […]
Recording the Police
December 23rd, 2010Via: Bruce Schneier: I think we need a law that explicitly makes it legal for people to record government officials when they are interacting with them in their official capacity. And this is doubly true for police officers and other law enforcement officials. Related: Man Faces 75 Years in Prison for Recording the Police Research […]
MI6 Spy Gareth Williams: Keys Found Under Body, Inside Bag
December 22nd, 2010Via: Telegraph: Detectives investigating the death of the MI6 spy Gareth Williams have disclosed that keys to the padlock on the sports bag were found inside the North Face holdall, underneath Mr Williams’s naked body. An expert on rescuing people from confined spaces has told investigators that it would be impossible to lock the bag […]
U.S. Postal Service Vehicles to Carry Sensor Packages
December 22nd, 2010Via: New York Times: The service’s thousands of delivery vehicles have only one purpose now: to transport mail. But what if they were fitted with sensors to collect and transmit information about weather or air pollutants? The trucks would go from being bulky tools of industrial-age communication to being on the cutting edge of 21st-century […]
Government Liabilities Rose $2 Trillion in FY 2010
December 22nd, 2010Via: Reuters: The U.S. government fell deeper into the red in fiscal 2010 with net liabilities swelling more than $2 trillion as commitments on government debt and federal benefits rose, a U.S. Treasury report showed on Tuesday. The Financial Report of the United States, which applies corporate-style accrual accounting methods to Washington, showed the government’s […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
December 22nd, 2010Thank you very much. DR NZ$250 [!] KM NZ$60 RM $25 CP $20 KL $50 Comrade Simba $10 CS £10 MW2 $20 RJ $25 Anon $40 MS £30 Eileen $50 Eileen (Farmlet) $50 The Banana Farmers $120 HC €30 MS2 CA$25
Nearly 1 in 4 Students Too Stupid to Pass U.S. Army Entrance Exam
December 22nd, 2010It’s actually much worse than the headline indicates. Check out this sentence: Pentagon data shows that 75 percent of those aged 17 to 24 don’t even qualify to take the test because they are physically unfit, have a criminal record or didn’t graduate high school. Via: AP: Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to […]
Fluoride in Water Linked to Lower IQ in Children
December 22nd, 2010Via: Press Release – Fluoride Action Network: Fluoride is added to 70% of U.S. public drinking water supplies. According to Paul Connett, Ph.D., director of the Fluoride Action Network, “This is the 24th study that has found this association, but this study is stronger than the rest because the authors have controlled for key confounding […]
