Archive for August, 2012
Facebook Bears Garner 500% Profit From Structured Product Bets
August 6th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Facebook Inc. (FB)’s 45 percent drop since its initial public offering generated returns of more than 500 percent for European investors that bought structured products benefiting from the stock’s decline. A put warrant, a security for speculating on the future direction of a company’s share price, which predicted Facebook would be at $22 […]
Vast International Child Abuse Network
August 6th, 2012Don’t casually click through to this one. This is a bad one. If you take care of children, and you want to know what’s lurking out there, by all means, read it. My goal, however, is not to traumatize you when you show up here for something to read as you drink your coffee. So […]
Sikh Temple Shooter Served in U.S. Army Psychological Operations Unit
August 6th, 2012Wade Michael Page Was White Supremacist Via: CBS News: Before he strode into a Sikh temple with a 9mm handgun and multiple magazines of ammunition, Wade Michael Page played in white supremacist heavy metal bands with names such as Definite Hate and End Apathy. The bald, heavily tattooed bassist was a 40-year-old Army veteran who […]
Chemotherapy Can Boost Cancer Growth
August 6th, 2012Now with more, “Completely unexpected.” Via: AFP: Cancer-busting chemotherapy can cause damage to healthy cells which triggers them to secrete a protein that sustains tumour growth and resistance to further treatment, a study said Sunday. Researchers in the United States made the “completely unexpected” finding while seeking to explain why cancer cells are so resilient […]
NASA: Mars Curiosity Livestream
August 6th, 2012Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captured Image of Curiosity During Parachute Descent Via: NASA: An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 meter) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater. — They did it. […]
DARPA Receiver Hits 0.85 Terahertz
August 5th, 2012Via: U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: DARPA researchers have created the world’s first solid state receiver to demonstrate gain at 0.85 terahertz (THz). This is the latest breakthrough in the DARPA THz Electronics program in its quest for transistor-based electronics that will enable electronic capabilities at THz frequencies. This represents progress toward the second […]
Carole Waugh
August 5th, 2012Was the body locked in a gym bag? Via: NBC: A body found in a lock-up garage in New Malden, southwest London, was identified as that of missing oil executive Carole Waugh, the Scotland Yard said Friday. Waugh, 50, who had previously worked in the oil industry in London and Libya, had not been seen […]
Bailout Funds Recipient Goldman Sachs Invests in New York City Jails Program
August 5th, 2012Via: Reuters: Goldman Sachs will invest nearly $10 million in a New York City jails program, using an innovative financial instrument in which private investments fund public social services, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday. Goldman will create one of the nation’s first “social service bonds” to help fund a New York City program that […]
And Now… Texas and U.S. Facing Growing Threat of Domestic IEDs; Suspend Posse Comitatus?
August 4th, 2012Via: Houston Chronicle: Improvised explosive devices have claimed the lives and limbs of thousands of American soldiers across Iraq and Afghanistan. And now officials say the devilish devices are posing a growing threat across Texas and the United States. The accused shooter in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre, James Holmes, allegedly deployed IEDs in […]
Portland: FBI Raids Homes Looking for ‘Anti-Government or Anarchist Literature’
August 3rd, 2012Via: KGW: Left behind at one of the homes was a search warrant affidavit that said agents were looking for anti-government or anarchist literature or material; black clothing, backpacks, face coverings and shoes; green, red, black, grey or blue/purple paint; sticks and flags carried during the commission of the offenses and material for making flags; […]
