Archive for August, 2011
Israeli-Style Airline Passenger Screening Starting in Boston
August 2nd, 2011Via: Boston Herald: Boston’s TSA screeners — part of a security force whose competency has come under fire nationwide — soon will be carrying out sophisticated behavioral inspections under a first-in-the-nation program that’s already raising concerns of racial profiling, harassment of innocent travelers and longer lines. The training for the Israeli-style screening — a projected […]
Gold Still Running Higher
August 2nd, 2011Update: $1661.07 —End Update— Update: Korea on the Bid Via: The Street: Gold prices were hitting record highs Tuesday as the Bank of Korea announced it bought gold for the first time since 1998, reminding investors of gold’s large safe haven appeal as global economies slow. —End Update— New record high: $1641.05.
Internet Archivist Seeks One Copy of Every Book Ever Published
August 2nd, 2011Here’s one for your Svalbard Seed Vault Gives Me The Willies file folder. Via: AP: Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word. Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonprofit Internet Archive in 1996 to save a copy of […]
New Zealand Medical Establishment Attempted to Murder Man Rather Than Let Him Recover from Terminal Pneumonia With High Doses of Vitamin C
August 2nd, 2011Watch and learn. Via: 3News: The amazing story of a King Country dairy farmer who caught swine flu and very nearly died.
Debt Bill Vote
August 1st, 2011Reuters: Passed in House. Live CSPAN: Passed in Senate.
Obombya Regime Wants Changes to Arms Export Licensing Process… To Export More Arms
August 1st, 2011Via: Aviation Week: The Obama administration is proposing to shift tanks, trucks and other military vehicles currently controlled on the U.S. Munitions List (USML) to the less-restrictive U.S. Commerce Control List (CCL) by year’s end as part of a broader effort to reform the U.S. arms export licensing process. The licensing process governs foreign sales […]
TEPCO: HIGHEST RADIATION YET DETECTED AT FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI
August 1st, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, said it detected the highest radiation to date at the site. Geiger counters, used to detect radioactivity, registered more than 10 sieverts an hour, the highest reading the devices are able to record, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility, […]
Useless Studies, Real Harm
August 1st, 2011Via: New York Times: In an age of for-profit clinical research, this is the new face of scandal. Pharmaceutical companies promote their drugs with pseudo-studies that have little if any scientific merit, and patients naïvely sign up, unaware of the ways in which they are being used. Nobody really knows how often companies conduct such […]
Android Tablet for Toddlers
August 1st, 2011Via: Engadget: When some of us were tots, there was one family computer, and we were lucky if we got our sticky little fingers on it while we were still in diapers. Times have changed, though, and for some parents, sharing the ‘ol iPad or 10.1 with curious babies just won’t do. Enter Rullingnet’s Vinci […]
Japanese Monitor Radiation On Their Own
August 1st, 2011Via: Times Union: Kiyoko Okoshi had a simple goal when she spent about $625 for a dosimeter: She missed her daughter and grandsons and wanted them to come home. Local officials kept telling her that their remote village was safe, even though it was less than 20 miles from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power […]
