Archive for April, 2013
Canadian Scientists Charged with Smuggling Dangerous and Highly Contagious Pathogens from China
April 5th, 2013Via: AFP: Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs. Klaus Nielsen and Wei Ling Yu, former researchers at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), are accused of attempting to export harmful pathogens that could infect humans and livestock to China. Nielsen was apprehended […]
Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
April 5th, 2013How many intelligence services have cutouts listed in this heap of data??? Via: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore […]
Police Warned A Month Before Colorado Movie Theater Attack That Holmes Was A Public Danger
April 5th, 2013Via: USA Today: Records show Colorado university psychiatrist warned police a month before July mass shooting that suspect had homicidal thoughts and was a public danger. A University of Colorado psychiatrist told campus police a month before the Aurora movie theater attack that James Holmes had homicidal thoughts and was a public danger, according to […]
Italy: Police Find Unmarked Gold Bars Worth $7.5 Million Hidden in Car
April 5th, 2013Maybe I should consider adding an Italy-Switzerland Border category… The whole situation is strange, but the fact that the bars have no identifying stamps (manufacturer, weight, serial number, fineness) is extraordinarily strange. Of course, the suspects’ names and the company the husband says he “represents” were not released. I have no idea why the AP […]
Enron’s Skilling May Be Released From Prison Over A Decade Early
April 4th, 2013Via: Zero Hedge: Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling may be the latest beneficiary of the culture of pervasive permitted, even according to some – encouraged, crime. After being sentenced to prison for 24 years in the aftermath of Enron’s spectacular 2001 bankruptcy, the former CEO may be released after serving well less than half of […]
New Hybrid Memory Cube Spec to Boost DRAM Bandwidth by 15X
April 4th, 2013Via: Computer World: Backed by 100 tech companies, the three largest memory makers announced the final specifications for three-dimensional DRAM, which is aimed at increasing performance for networking and high performance computing markets. Micron, Samsung and Hynix are leading the technology development efforts backed by the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMC). The technology, called a […]
Bank of Japan to Pump $1.4 Trillion Into Economy in Unprecedented Stimulus
April 4th, 2013Via: Reuters: The Bank of Japan unleashed the world’s most intense burst of monetary stimulus on Thursday, promising to inject about $1.4 trillion into the economy in less than two years, a radical gamble that sent the yen reeling and bond yields to record lows. New Governor Haruhiko Kuroda committed the BOJ to open-ended asset […]
Italy Seizes Record Assets from Wind Farm Tycoon
April 3rd, 2013Via: BBC: The Italian authorities have seized assets worth 1.3bn euros ($1.7bn: £1.1bn) from a Sicilian businessman involved in renewable energy. Investigators allege that Vito Nicastri was a front man for the Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, investing illegal earnings in his business empire. The anti-mafia agency said in a statement it was the biggest ever […]
Obama Administration Pushes Banks to Make Home Loans to People with Weaker Credit
April 3rd, 2013Via: Washington Post: The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place. […]
‘Let Them Eat Teslas’
April 3rd, 2013Why are tuition costs so high in the first place? Government Inflated the College Loan Bubble: The real problem is that we’ve been running a higher education bubble, one that — like the real-estate bubble — has been pumped up by cheap government money. Since 1999, student loan debt has increased by 511%, while disposable […]
