Archive for June, 2011
The “E-Uterus”
June 28th, 2011I’ll be looking for a Sinister Sites update on this. Via: Telegraph: While Herman Van Rompuy, the EU president, has described his “Europa building” as a “jewel box”, David Cameron has been less enthusiastic dubbing it a “gilded cage”. But perhaps even more unfortunate is the moniker the edifice, which will house Mr Van Rompuy’s […]
Britain: Police Break Into Homes; Lecture People About Burglary Risks
June 28th, 2011I didn’t believe that this was real. I thought that some hoax had been picked up by a tabloid newspaper and that it was off to the races from there. Nope. It’s real. This is the ‘Operation Poppins’ page on the London Metropolitan Police website. Via: The Sun: COPS are breaking into homes in a […]
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Intentionally Flooded Farmland, Now Offering to Buy It
June 28th, 2011Via: KMBC: Some river bottom property owners say they received a letter from the Army Corps of Engineers’ Kansas City district office asking them if they want to sell their land. KMBC’s Micheal Mahoney reported that the letter is angering some of the people who received it because some of them are fighting for their […]
Greece: Possibility of a Military Coup?
June 28th, 2011Via: CityWire: While the IMF stalls on its rescue package for Greece, many in the market are beginning to question whether the country would not in fact be better off out of the euro altogether. But for Steven Cordell, manager of Cazenove’s Pan Europe fund, that is a scenario that should be avoided at all […]
Wildfire Spreads to Within One Mile of Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab
June 28th, 2011Update: 30,000 55-gallon Drums of Plutonium-Contaminated Waste, Stored in Fabric Tents Above Ground [???] Via: AP: The anti-nuclear watchdog group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, however, said the fire appeared to be about 3 1/2 miles from a dumpsite where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above […]
Researchers Discover New Alloy That Converts Heat Directly Into Electricity
June 28th, 2011Still waiting… (Not holding breath.) MIT: Turning Heat to Electricity University of Utah: A Sound Way to Turn Heat Into Electricity Via: PhysOrg: University of Minnesota engineering researchers in the College of Science and Engineering have recently discovered a new alloy material that converts heat directly into electricity. This revolutionary energy conversion method is in […]
FOIA’d Documents Raise New Questions About Airport Body Scanner Radiation Risks
June 27th, 2011Cancer clusters… Via: Electronic Privacy Information Center: In a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, EPIC has just obtained documents concerning the radiation risks of TSA’s airport body scanner program. The documents include agency emails, radiation studies, memoranda of agreement concerning radiation testing programs, and results of some radiation tests. One document set […]
Flood Berm Collapses at Nebraska Nuclear Plant
June 27th, 2011Via: AP: A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no water inside the plant, the U.S. […]
Greece: ‘A Sovereign Debt Crisis of Sophoclean Dimensions’
June 27th, 2011Via: Telegraph: The essence of ancient Greek tragedy is that the audience knows it will end in disaster, but feels compelled to watch the horror unfold. And so it is with the modern version, a sovereign debt crisis of Sophoclean dimensions. Themes of the great dramatist’s finer works are all there: how arrogance, pride and […]
Threat of $100 Billion Hit if U.S. Top Rating Lost
June 27th, 2011I definitely wouldn’t assume that the impact of a credit rating cut would be limited to $100 billion. I doubt there is any way to know what the impact will be because so many derivatives have been struck off the underlying debt. In other words, this $100 billion number may be just the tip of […]
