Archive for May, 2013
Feds Consider RICO Charges Against Hedge Fund
May 22nd, 2013It’s too bad that the Feds gave billions of dollars to AIG, the Squid et al, instead of prosecuting them as criminal enterprises. Lehman? Fuggetaboutit. Via: Wall Street Journal: Federal prosecutors are considering charging hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP as a criminal enterprise through a powerful legal tool used against the Mafia and drug […]
U.S. Special Forces Getting Constellation of Mini Satellites To ‘Hunt Down People Considered To Be Dangerous To The United States And Its Interests’
May 22nd, 2013Those birds should be busy when they fly over Washington, D.C. Oh. Wait. Via: Wired: In September, the U.S. government will fire into orbit a two-stage rocket from a Virginia launchpad. Officially, the mission is a scientific one, designed to improve America’s ability to send small satellites into space quickly and cheaply. But the launch […]
Florida: Man Under Investigation for Links to Boston Marathon Bomber Killed by FBI
May 22nd, 2013Wife of man killed by FBI agent says he was never questioned about Waltham triple murder Via: Boston Globe: The wife and best friend of the Chechen man shot and killed here by an FBI agent on Wednesday insisted today that authorities never questioned him, or them, prior to the fatal confrontation, about an unsolved […]
Florida: Police State Urban Week
May 22nd, 2013Via: CBS: Cameras, both mobile and stationary, have been installed throughout the city. Ready to be deployed throughout the city of Miami Beach are a total of 62 light towers, twelve visual messaging boards and three watch towers. Roughly 400 officers per shift from multiple agencies will pack the streets of Miami Beach. In addition […]
Bill Oddie’s BankWatch
May 22nd, 2013“He’s a Banker, of course he’s gonna charge.” *chortle* Via: Global Witness: Research Credit: BJ
Bill Drafted In Secret Would Block Release Of Some Newtown Massacre Records
May 22nd, 2013Via: Hartford Courant: The staffs of the state’s top prosecutor and the governor’s office have been working in secret with General Assembly leaders on legislation to withhold records related to the police investigation into the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre — including victims’ photos, tapes of 911 calls, and possibly more.
DARPA: Robotic Hand Strong Enough to Hold 50lb Weight, Dexterous Enough to Use Tweezers
May 22nd, 2013Via: DARPA: The ARM-H track of DARPA’s Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program focuses on development of robust, low-cost and dexterous robotic hand hardware. DARPA funded performers to design and build hand mechanisms that could replace the claw-like hands currently used on robots with hands incorporating 3-4 fingers and useable palms. The teams successfully produced hands […]
3-D Printed Food?
May 22nd, 2013“So we eventually have to change our perception of what we see as food.” That’s hilarious, considering what already passes as food for a lot of people. I’ll take a pass, and continue slaughtering cows in my driveway. Oh! Funny story: Kids from a couple of dozen homeschooling families have a gymnastics class together once […]
Third Party Testing Of Rossi’s E-Cat: ‘Energy Was Produced In Decidedly Higher Quantities Than What May Be Gained From Any Conventional Source’
May 21st, 2013Via: Giuseppe Levi, Evelyn Foschi, Torbjörn Hartman, Bo Höistad, Roland Pettersson, Lars Tegnér, Hanno Essén: The two test measurements described in this text were conducted with the same methodology on two different devices: a first prototype, termed E-Cat HT, and a second one, resulting from technological improvements on the first, termed E-Cat HT2. Both have […]
More Poor People Are Now Living in Suburbs Than Cities
May 21st, 2013Via: Daily Ticker: If you think of the typical American suburb as a refuge from the bustling city next door, you may want to think again. According to a new book from the Brookings Institution, the suburbs are changing and are becoming home to a larger number of poor people. The result: more poor people […]
