Archive for July, 2011
South California?
July 2nd, 2011These aren’t the suburbs of the Lane Meyer and Ferris Bueller days. These suburbs are Snowcrash style corporate burbclaves, complete with mercenary armies, shakedowns and worse. —Visions of Teen Angst, Then and Now Via: CBS: Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone apparently thinks so, after proposing that the county lead a campaign for as many as […]
India: Cars for Sterilisation
July 1st, 2011Via: BBC: Health officials in the Indian state of Rajasthan are launching a new campaign to try reduce the high population growth in the area. They are encouraging men and women to volunteer for sterilisation, and in return are offering a car and other prizes for those who come forward. Among the rewards on offer […]
Author of Blog About the Sunny Sheu Case Claims Assault by Undercover Police Officer
July 1st, 2011Via: The Murder of Sunny Sheu: Today, June 29th, I spoke with a reporter from BI for two hours and then left for his office to give him some information I did not want to discuss on the phone. Outside I noticed a silver van with nobody in it illegally parked across the street from […]
Where Will You Go When the Sovereign Debt Volcano Blows?
July 1st, 2011Via: Daily Bell: I do not have a crystal ball or inside political information on a specific imminent threat, only the observation that the sovereign debt crisis from Europe, a debt ceiling misstep from the clowns in Washington or a Middle East event could suddenly trigger the collapse. Actually any major political or economic shock […]
Fannie Mae Silence on Taylor Bean Opened Way to $3 Billion Fraud
July 1st, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The first sign of what would ultimately become a $3 billion fraud surfaced Jan. 11, 2000, when Fannie Mae executive Samuel Smith discovered Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. sold him a loan owned by someone else. Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored enterprise which issues almost half of all mortgage-backed securities, determined over the […]
Euthanasia Coaster
July 1st, 2011Via: Science Gallery: Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from […]
Case Against Strauss-Kahn Collapsing
July 1st, 2011Update: Accuser Worded as a Hooker Via: New York Post: Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s accuser wasn’t just a girl working at a hotel — she was a working girl. The Sofitel housekeeper who claims the former IMF boss sexually assaulted her in his room was doing double duty as a prostitute, collecting cash on the side from […]
Hopey/Changey: Obama Awards Defense Chief Gates Medal of Freedom
July 1st, 2011Via: Reuters: President Barack Obama awarded retiring Secretary of Defense Robert Gates the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a farewell ceremony on Thursday morning. “A humble American patriot; a man of common sense and decency; quite simply, one of our nation’s finest public servants,” Obama said of Gates. Obama spoke at a departure ceremony outside […]
