Archive for July, 2011
Liberation from the Taliban: U.S. Builds New Jails Across Afghanistan
July 14th, 2011Via: Wired: The U.S. military is supposed to turn its massive jail on the outskirts of Bagram Air Field over to the Afghan government this year. But the U.S. is going to keep holding detainees in Afghanistan for a long, looooong time to come — as new military construction contracts reveal.
U.S. Used Strategic Bombers Against Libya
July 14th, 2011Via: Air Force Magazine: A quick symphony of planning allowed USAF’s heavy bombers to strike 150 targets in Libya. On March, five Air Force bombers—three B-2s and two B-1Bs—attacked targets in Libya as part of NATO’s mission to protect civilians from government attack in that country’s uprising and civil war. On the first night of […]
The “War On Drugs” Is A $2.5 Trillion Racket: How Big Banks, Private Military Companies And The Prison Industry Cash In
July 14th, 2011Via: AmpedStatus: Anyone who researches the “War on Drugs” already knows that it has been a very costly disaster. As the Global Commission on Drug Policy recently reported: “The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world…. Vast expenditures on criminalization and repressive measures directed at producers, […]
The Human Genome Contains a Million Years Worth of Population Data
July 14th, 2011Via: io9: Our genes don’t just help determine who we are — they also preserve an incredibly ancient record of who our ancestors were. Our genomes can actually reveal human population sizes dating all the way back to before humans even existed. Richard Durbin of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Heng Li of the […]
Gold at Record, Make or Break
July 13th, 2011Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Update: Pivot Established Above Previous Record High Intraday support at $1577.46, above previous record high of 1575.41. Bullish. —End Update— It’s trying to break out. Immediate term, beware of a double top off the May 2 high.
Drama: Obama Says He Cannot Guarantee Social Security Checks Will Go Out on August 3
July 13th, 2011Those checks will go out. If they don’t, it’s a Zombie Apocalypse. Via: CBS: President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. “I cannot guarantee that […]
‘Emergency’ Declared in Arizona Town Over Corruption Allegations
July 13th, 2011Arizona: Woman Arrested for Speaking at City Council Meeting Via: AP: The far western Arizona town of Quartzsite was in a state of upheaval Monday after the town council ousted the mayor from power and declared a state of emergency, all over an online video that shows a woman being arrested. Mayor Ed Foster told […]
Samsung Netbook NP-NC215-A01US with Built In Solar Panel
July 13th, 2011This might be of interest to the many Cryptogon readers who, shall we say, have no fixed address. Since grabbing an unauthorized charge can result in a jail sentence, this is just one more way to avoid a potential encounter with the filth. This netbook will ship in August. Via: Amazon: More: Engadget
EMERGENCY EU MEETING: POSSIBILITY OF GREEK DEFAULT
July 12th, 2011Via: Reuters: European Union leaders are poised to hold an emergency summit after finance ministers acknowledged for the first time that some form of Greek default may be needed to cut Athens’ debts and stop contagion to Italy and Spain. “There will be an extra summit this Friday,” a senior euro zone diplomat told Reuters, […]
JP Morgan Uses Field-Programmable Gate Array Supercomputer to Cut Credit Risk Analysis from 8 Hours to 12 Seconds
July 12th, 2011Via: ComputerworldUK: JP Morgan is now able to run risk analysis and price its global credit portfolio in near real-time after implementing application-led, High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities developed by Maxeler Technologies. The investment bank worked with HPC solutions provider Maxeler Technologies to develop an application-led, HPC system based on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology […]
