Archive for December, 2011
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Trillion Dollar Boondoggle
December 14th, 2011Via: Wired: The most expensive weapons program in U.S. history is about to get a lot pricier. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, meant to replace nearly every tactical warplane in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, was already expected to cost $1 trillion dollars for development, production and maintenance over the next 50 years. […]
Patent for Amazon Big Brother Tracking System That Tries to Guess Where You’re Going
December 14th, 2011We must assume that They are using the full spectrum of surveillance information to try to PREDICT HOW EACH OF US IS LIKELY TO BEHAVE ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. Where we go. Which routes we take. What we buy. Etc. —Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation Via: CBS: Location tracking has become a […]
Real Estate Market Worse Than Reported: Sales Figures Since 2007 Are Bogus Due to “Double Counting”
December 14th, 2011Via: Reuters: Data on sales of previously owned homes from 2007 through October this year will be revised down next week because of double counting, indicating a much weaker housing market than previously thought. The National Association of Realtors said a benchmarking exercise had revealed that some properties were listed more than once and in […]
Disclosure: Long DBA
December 14th, 2011Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I’m long DBA.
U.S. Dollar Index: Breakout
December 14th, 2011Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. The dollar has clawed its way up and out of the recent range on the European chaos. Look for some resistance in the vicinity of 81.444. Update: Gold Breakdown The spot gold weekly candle is down through the 50EMA just now. […]
Austrian Makes Formal Request for All Personal Information Facebook Keeps on Him
December 14th, 2011Via: ThreatPost: Be careful of what you ask for. That’s a lesson that Max Schrems of Vienna, Austria, learned the hard way when he sent a formal request to Facebook citing European law and asking for a copy of every piece of personal information that the world’s largest social network had collected on him. After […]
Russia Will Use Nuclear Reactors Beyond Their Engineered Life Spans
December 14th, 2011Via: The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: In response to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, countries such as Germany and Switzerland are preparing to phase out aging nuclear power plants. The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom), however, is taking a very different approach. In 2001, Rosatom began extending the operation of […]
The Neil Keenan / “Dragon Family” Trillion-Dollar Lawsuit Is Real
December 14th, 2011The full text of the lawsuit (Case 1:11-cv-08500-JFK, Filed 11/23/11, downloaded from pacer.gov) has been posted at the Divine Cosmos website: This is a civil claim arising out of the concerted, knowing, malicious scheme and international conspiracy engaged in by the Defendants for the designed purpose of defrauding plaintiff KEENAN, the designated Agent of his […]
Blackwater, Xe, ACADEMI
December 13th, 2011Via: AFP: The US security firm formerly known as Blackwater, which was barred from Iraq over a deadly 2007 shooting, has renamed itself a second time. USTC Holdings, the investor consortium that acquired ex-Blackwater firm Xe Services in December 2010, announced ACADEMI as the new name and brand for Xe Services. The rebranding came as […]
South Korea: Seoul Skyscraper Resembling Twin Towers Collapse
December 13th, 2011Pic at link. Via: Bloomberg: The design of twin skyscrapers planned for Seoul may be modified in the wake of criticism that a cloud-shaped bridge joining the buildings resembles the explosions that felled the World Trade Center towers. MVRDV, the Dutch architecture firm that drew the plans for the towers joined at the 27th floor […]
