Archive for November, 2011
The Contiguous United States Visualized by Distance to the Nearest McDonald’s
November 9th, 2011Via: DataPointed: To gauge the creep of cookie-cutter commercialism, there’s no better barometer than McDonald’s – ubiquitous fast food chain and inaugural megacorporate colonizer of small towns nationwide. … Behold, a visualization of the contiguous United States, colored by distance to the nearest domestic McDonald’s!
Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey
November 9th, 2011Via: Food Safety News: More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of products labeled “honey.” The removal of these microscopic particles from deep within a […]
Man Finds Two GPS Trackers on His SUV
November 9th, 2011Via: Wired: As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear oral arguments in a case Tuesday that could determine if authorities can track U.S. citizens with GPS vehicle trackers without a warrant, a young man in California has come forward to Wired to reveal that he found not one but two different devices on his […]
Fracking Industry Executives Suggest Military PSYOP Techniques to Peers for Dealing with Public
November 9th, 2011Click through for the audio recordings. Via: CNBC: Last week’s oil industry conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston was supposed to be an industry confab just like any other — a series of panel discussions, light refreshments and an exchange of ideas. It was a gathering of professionals to discuss “media and stakeholder […]
Berlusconi Promises to Resign
November 9th, 2011Via: AP: Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi conceded Tuesday he no longer had the support to govern and announced he would resign like his Greek counterpart, becoming the biggest political casualty yet of the European debt crisis. Berlusconi promised to leave office after Parliament passes economic reforms demanded by the European Union to keep Italy from […]
North Carolina’s Eugenics Victims Speak Out
November 8th, 2011Via: MSNBC: Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes. “I have to carry these scars with me. I have to live […]
Olympus Admits It Hid Losses For Decades
November 8th, 2011Via: Reuters: Japan’s Olympus admitted on Tuesday it hid losses on securities investments dating back to the 1980s, bowing to weeks of pressure to explain a series of baffling transactions that have put the future of the firm in doubt. The revelations by the 92-year-old maker of endoscopes and cameras appear to vindicate ex-CEO Michael […]
China: Regime Admits 10% of Farmland Polluted with Heavy Metals
November 7th, 2011Considering the source, I’d start by doubling or tripling the estimate. Via: AFP: About 10 percent of China’s farmland contains excessive levels of heavy metals due to contaminated water and poisonous waste seeping into the soil, state media said Monday, citing a government survey. Pollution from heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cancer-causing cadmium […]
Pakistan: Nuclear Weapons Moved Around Country in Delivery Vans to Hide Their Locations from U.S. and Indian Intelligence Agencies
November 7th, 2011Gee, I wonder what scenario we’re being prepared for with this narrative… Via: The Atlantic: Nuclear weapons must go to the shop for occasional maintenance, and so they must be moved to suitably equipped facilities, but Pakistan is also said to move them about the country in an attempt to keep American and Indian intelligence […]
Property Prices Collapse in China
November 7th, 2011Via: Forbes: Residential property prices are in freefall in China as developers race to meet revenue targets for the year in a quickly deteriorating market. The country’s largest builders began discounting homes in Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen in recent weeks, and the trend has now spread to second- and third-tier cities such as Hangzhou, Hefei, […]
