Archive for May, 2011
NSA Collects as Much Data as Is Stored in the Entire Library of Congress Every Six Hours [???]
May 23rd, 2011I try to avoid the black/grey/white propaganda narratives surrounding the alleged Bin Laden assassination. The whole thing is so absurd that it’s just impossible for me to take it seriously at all. However, in my routine monitoring of stories about the NSA, I came across the claim that the agency is processing an amount of […]
Fukushima: Workers Suffer from Internal Radiation Exposure
May 23rd, 2011Via: Mainichi: The government has discovered thousands of cases of workers at nuclear power plants outside Fukushima Prefecture suffering from internal exposure to radiation after they visited the prefecture, the head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said. Most of the workers who had internal exposure to radiation visited Fukushima after the nuclear crisis […]
Disney Ride Now Includes “Security Check Area, Similar to a TSA Checkpoint”
May 23rd, 2011Absolutely breathtaking. Via: Mouse Planet: The second room of the queue is now a security check area, similar to a TSA checkpoint. The two G-series droids are still there, G2-9T scanning luggage and G2-4T scanning passengers… While we won’t tell you why, you’ll enjoy paying a lot of attention to what the scans of the […]
The World’s Largest Man-Made Floating Object
May 23rd, 2011Via: Popular Science: Shell is making good on its promise to build the largest object ever to float on water, announcing Friday it would build the Prelude FLNG Project to harvest offshore natural gas fields. The gargantuan ship will suck up the equivalent of 110,000 barrels of oil per day. The floating liquified natural gas […]
Tornado Destroys Joplin, Missouri
May 23rd, 2011Via: Missourinet: Emergency responders from throughout Missouri have descended on Joplin after a mile-wide tornado devastated the Southwest Missouri town. Twenty four are confirmed dead, dozens are still missing.
The Death of Catherine Hurd in Manhattan
May 23rd, 2011Via: Telegraph: Lord Hurd’s daughter-in-law has been found dead after apparently committing suicide by jumping from the roof of her home in New York. Catherine Hurd, a mother of five, fell the four storeys from the top of the rented townhouse in Manhattan where she lived with the former foreign secretary’s son Thomas, a British […]
Utah Embraces Gold and Silver as Currency
May 23rd, 2011The Utah Gold and Silver Depository is an interesting idea, but remember how fractional reserve banking got started in the first place? That’s right: Gold depositories started issuing paper promissory notes that people used instead of their actual gold. The depositories noticed that only a small number of notes were redeemed in the physical gold. […]
Pakistan Says China to Operate Key Port, Build Navy Base
May 23rd, 2011Via: Wall Street Journal: Pakistan’s defense minister said China has agreed to take over operation of the strategically positioned but underused port of Gwadar, and that Islamabad would like the Chinese to build a base there for the Pakistani navy. Ahmad Mukhtar gave no clear timetable on the possible change at Gwadar, on Pakistan’s western […]
Russia: Putin to Run for President Again
May 23rd, 2011Ah, yes, Democracy in action! *wink* Will we get to see more absurd Putin propaganda? Missing from that gallery are some of my favorites: Vladimir Putin Helps to Tackle Russia’s Summer Wildfires, and: Via: The Australian: RUSSIAN Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has decided to run for the presidency next year, raising the possibility of a […]
Texas: Alpha Radiation in Harris County Drinking Water
May 22nd, 2011Via: KHOU: Newly-released e-mails from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality show the agency’s top commissioners directed staff to continue lowering radiation test results, in defiance of federal EPA rules. The e-mails and documents, released under order from the Texas Attorney General to KHOU-TV, also show the agency was attempting to help water systems get […]
