Archive for May, 2012
Moody’s Downgrades Italian Banks, Outlook Negative
May 15th, 2012Via: Reuters: Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the long-term debt and deposit ratings for 26 Italian banks on Monday, citing the country’s recession and rising bad debt levels. The banks were all downgraded by at least one notch, and for some, by as many as four notches, Moody’s said, adding all of the banks affected have […]
NBC: Revolution
May 15th, 2012Via: YouTube: Semi-Related: The E-bomb: Defence Secretary Warns Of EMP Weapons Threat
Beyond the Black Rainbow: ‘A Reagan-Era Fever Dream’
May 15th, 2012Via: YouTube:
DataKiller Instantly Obliterates Data on Magnetic Media
May 15th, 2012It makes a satisfying pop sound. Via: Engadget: Platform of Japan demonstrated the information obliterating devices at the Information Security Expo. A large powerful magnet realigns the bits on the surface of the drive’s platters eliminating all trace of the data that existed before, without physically damaging the hardware. With just the push of a […]
Canon: Fully Automated Digital Camera Manufacturing by 2015
May 15th, 2012Via: AP: Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs — a key change being played out across Japan, a world leader in robotics. If successful, counting on machines can help preserve this nation’s technological power — not the stereotype of machines snatching assembly line jobs from […]
Kodak Park Had a Nuclear Reactor
May 14th, 2012Via: Democrat and Chronicle: For more than 30 years, Kodak Park was home to a little-known underground labyrinth containing a small nuclear research reactor, one of the few of its kind in the world. It wasn’t a power plant, and carried no risk of explosion. Nothing ever leaked. Eastman Kodak Co. officials say the research […]
Profits: Louisiana is the World’s Prison Capital
May 14th, 2012Via: Times Picayune: Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran’s, seven times China’s and 10 times Germany’s. The hidden engine behind the state’s well-oiled prison machine […]
The Urban Farming Guys in India
May 14th, 2012Via: Urban Farming Guys: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Florida Farm Workers Tell How Drugs, Debt Bind Them in Modern Slavery
May 14th, 2012Via: Tampa Bay Times: LeRoy Smith thought he had hit rock bottom when he found himself trolling Atlanta’s gay district, looking to exchange sex acts for a hot hit off a crack pipe. Then he wound up on a Florida farm near the small town of Hastings, being bilked blind, he says, by a man […]
Gold
May 14th, 2012Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. The mega monthly candle ascending triangle… failed. The traditional Fibonacci retracements are in green on the chart below.
