Archive for October, 2012
Traders Spy on Oklahoma Hub With Satellites, Sensors and Infrared Cameras
October 2nd, 2012Via: NPR: The bottleneck of crude stored in Cushing, Okla., has become the country’s “biggest bank vault of oil,” Businessweek’s Matthew Phillips writes. And it’s only getting bigger. The clog — which is pushing down the price of West Texas Intermediate crude from Oklahoma, creating a gap with its international rival, Brent — is making […]
Deprived of Nature, Kids Exposed to ‘Shocking’ Amount of TV
October 2nd, 2012Via: Common Dreams: In addition to the troubling 80 minutes of TV that the average child in the United States watches each and every day, a new study released on Monday found that the amount of “secondhand” exposure to television for young children was “staggering” and should be of additional concern to parents and pediatricians […]
New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels
October 1st, 2012Via: ABC / Univision: On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez. Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and […]
About One in Four People Out of Work in Spain and Greece
October 1st, 2012Via: Telegraph: Eurozone unemployment has hit a record high, revealing further evidence of a two-speed Europe as increasing numbers of young people in Spain, Greece and Italy desperately seek work while Germany’s jobless rate continues to fall. … The overall unemployment rate in Spain has reached 25.1pc, while the latest data from Greece for June […]
Jamie Lamb Hilton
October 1st, 2012Incredible. Via: New York Daily News: A former beauty queen says she is “pretty well back to normal” after undergoing a remarkable brain surgery in which 25 percent of her skull was stored in her abdomen for safe-keeping.
Modern Wheat a ‘Perfect, Chronic Poison’
October 1st, 2012Via: CBS News:
The Rockwell International Integrated Space Plan
October 1st, 2012Via: Grist: Sean Ragan of MAKE magazine just posted this amazing graphic, which he tracked down after being mildly obsessed with it for more than a decade. It’s an “Integrated Space Plan” drawn up by Rockwell International, a conglomerate of manufacturing companies in the aerospace, electronics, and truck component industries. The plan was created in […]
Cryptogon Readers Sign Up for Hosting with BlueHost
October 1st, 2012Thanks to the owners of incathedra.com and F* Systems (not the real company name) for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. F* Systems guys: Considering your company’s line of work, I seriously doubt that you want to be mentioned here, but if you do, please email me from your domain and I’ll post it. Cryptogon […]
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