Archive for November, 2012
IDF Fires Warning Shot into Syria After Shell hits Golan
November 11th, 2012Via: Jerusalem Post: Israel says further attacks from Syria will “illicit a vigorous response” from IDF, sends letter to UN warning Syrians to avoid spillover; Incident marks first time IDF has fired at Syria since 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Fault Under Japan Nuclear Plant May be Active
November 11th, 2012Via: AFP: Japan’s only working nuclear power plant sits on what may be a seismic fault in the earth’s crust, a geologist has warned, saying it is “very silly” to allow it to continue operating. Mitsuhisa Watanabe says the earth’s plates could move underneath the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, causing a catastrophe to […]
‘The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years’
November 11th, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: Students anywhere are being offered free instruction online. … Agarwal believes that education is about to change dramatically. The reason is the power of the Web and its associated data-crunching technologies. Thanks to these changes, it’s now possible to stream video classes with sophisticated interactive elements, and researchers can scoop up […]
Mexico’s New President Set to Empower a ‘Devil’s Cartel’
November 11th, 2012Via: Narcosphere: Baruch Vega, a long-time CIA operative, has raised a red flag over the incoming president of Mexico’s decision to employ the former head of the Colombian National Police, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, as his security advisor in the war on drugs. “I do not think Naranjo will be running a war against drugs,” Vega […]
The Distribution of Economic Pain From the Financial Crisis in One Chart
November 11th, 2012Via: Jesse’s Café Américain: No wonder the wealthiest ten percent feel so clever, and even perhaps triumphant. The collapse caused by the widespread banking fraud has barely affected them, whereas it wiped out most of the last ten years of growth in the middle class and the poor. Research Credit: pookie
Mexican Hitman Claims Cartels Bought Guns from U.S. Border Patrol
November 11th, 2012Via: Wired: The testimony of a Mexican hitman turned US government witness has revealed some astonishing details of life inside Mexico’s criminal underworld. Most astonishing of all: claims that cartel assassins obtained guns from the US Border Patrol. According to Mexican magazine Revista Contralinea, the testimony comes from a protected government witness and former hitman, […]
Foodstamps Surge By Most In One Year To New All Time Record, In Delayed Release
November 11th, 2012Via: Zerohedge: There was, however, another closely tracked number which perhaps is far more indicative of the economic “growth” in the past 4 years, which certainly had a delayed release. The number of course is that showing how many Americans are on foodstamps, and usually is released at the end of the month, or the […]
‘Incident’ on NZ’s Only International Internet Link
November 10th, 2012Everyone knows that you don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. In New Zealand, however, the whole damn show is A) dependent on a single submarine cable operator that is B) majority owned by Telecom New Zealand, a company that has been slapped with the largest ever fine for anti-competitive conduct in New […]
CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns—Affair with High-Profile Journalist… But Wait, There’s More
November 10th, 2012You’ll love this. Via: National Post: David Petraeus resigned abruptly Friday as CIA director after an FBI investigation discovered his affair with biographer Paula Broadwell. Broadwell, who released All In: The Education of General David Petraeus earlier this year, is now under investigation for trying to access Petraeus’ email, which may have exposed classified documents, […]
Germany Ships More Power Abroad Despite Nuclear Plant Closures
November 10th, 2012Update: Germany Powers France in Cold Despite Nuclear U-Turn Somebody somewhere sent this in. It’s from February. Via: Reuters: Germany came to the rescue of France during last week’s cold snap by massively exporting electricity to its neighbour, silencing critics who slammed Berlin last year for abruptly shutting down 8 nuclear reactors after the Fukushima […]
