Archive for March, 2011
Chinese Military Trains Messenger Pigeons
March 4th, 2011Via: Telegraph: China is training 10,000 messenger pigeons to deliver vital military communications in the event of the country’s communication systems breaking down. According to the Chinese state media, the pigeons are being trained by a special unit of the People’s Liberation Army in the central city of Chengdu. “They will be primarily called upon […]
CENTCOM Tries to Pull the ‘Persona Management Software’ Fat Out of the Fire
March 3rd, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: Washington Post: The U.S. Central Command says its new “Persona” social media “infiltration” software is designed to cozy up to extremist bloggers overseas, not law-abiding Americans chatting on Facebook or similar sites. Earlier this month, the Web buzzed with a report that the software was designed to “manage ‘fake people’ on social […]
Former Goldman Sachs Director Charged with Insider Trading
March 3rd, 2011Via: Globe and Mail: On the afternoon of September 23, 2008, in the midst of some of the darkest days in American financial history, a handful of people dialled into a conference call and learned a piece of good news. Legendary investor Warren Buffett was about to invest billions in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a […]
British Government UFO Files on ‘Rendlesham Incident’ Missing
March 3rd, 2011Via: BBC: Intelligence papers on a reported UFO sighting known as the “Rendlesham incident” have gone missing, files from the National Archives reveal. The missing files relate to a report of mysterious lights from US servicemen at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk in 1980. The disappearance came to light with the release of 8,000 previously classified […]
Higher Vitamin D Intake Needed to Reduce Cancer Risk
March 3rd, 2011Via: UC San Diego: Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha have reported that markedly higher intake of vitamin D is needed to reach blood levels that can prevent or markedly cut the incidence of breast cancer and several other major diseases than […]
FDA Pulls More than 500 Drugs Off Market
March 3rd, 2011Via: St. Louis Today: The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered the removal from the market of more than 500 prescription drugs used to treat colds, coughs and allergies because the medications had never gone through a federal review of their safety and effectiveness. “We don’t know what’s in them, whether they work properly […]
Oil: How High Will It Go?
March 3rd, 2011WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Some emails have been stacking up with regard to what’s happening with oil prices. In summary, people are wondering, “How high will it go?” and “How bad could this get?” and “Is this it?” etc. As you know, I ignore fundamentals […]
Libya: U.S. Amphibious Assault Ships Reach Mediterranean Sea
March 3rd, 2011Via: Reuters: Two U.S. amphibious assault ships have reached the Mediterranean Sea, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, as Washington intensifies pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to end his four-decade rule. The USS Ponce and the USS Kearsarge, assault ships that typically carry Marines, cleared the Suez Canal from the Red Sea and entered […]
Two U.S. Warships, 1200 Marines Sent to Libyan Coast
March 2nd, 2011Via: Wall Street Journal: Also Tuesday, the U.S. ordered two warships and 1200 Marines to the waters off of Libya, but a top Obama administration official stopped short of saying the forces would intervene in the clashes that have consumed the country following anti-Gadhafi protests here in recent weeks. At a Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary […]
Lawyer Says Sirhan Sirhan Was Brainwashed
March 2nd, 2011Via: ABC News: A lawyer for Sirhan Sirhan, the confessed assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, plans to present new evidence at a parole board hearing suggesting that he did not act alone, was potentially brain washed and cannot remember anything about the 43-year-old shooting. “There is no question he was hypno-programmed,” lawyer William F. Pepper […]
