Archive for October, 2007
AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance
October 31st, 2007Please indulge me by re-reading this extended passage from Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation: Remember Russell Tice, the NSA SIGINT officer who had knowledge of a special access NSA operation that was so disturbing that he tried to tell the U.S. Congress about it? What was Tice talking about here: Tice said his information […]
Lockheed Martin Co-Developing System to Predict Stability of Nations
October 31st, 2007Sounds like a plugin level task for the SEAS system. Via: Washington Business Journal: Lockheed Martin Corp. said Wednesday that a team lead by its Cherry Hill, N.J.-based Advanced Technology Laboratories has won a $1.3 million contract to develop a system for predicting crises and the stability of countries. The contract is for the first […]
Over 1000 Imbeciles Volunteer to be Poisoned by Quacks
October 31st, 2007While the JBTs look on. Did they hand out any freedom fries? By the way, in a comment on the story below, there was a link to Daily Dose of Terror. You’ll like that one. Via: AZ Central: Chandler Regional Medical Center’s flu shot drill Saturday was a hit with residents and considered a success […]
Raising a Brand-Free Kid
October 31st, 2007Brands are everywhere, eh? Let me look around the farmlet… Cows: yes. Goats: yes. Gardens: yes. Trees: yes. Stream: yes. Brands? Nope. Becky and I have been discussing this issue and we’re taking it very seriously. (Our child hasn’t even been born yet.) We’re already wondering if we will be able to find other homeschooling-no-tv […]
Chinese Chemicals Flow Unchecked to Market
October 31st, 2007On a good day, the pharmaceutical industry is an institutionalized death racket. And on a bad day… Via: New York Times: In January, Honor International Pharmtech was accused of shipping counterfeit drugs into the United States. Even so, the Chinese chemical company — whose motto is “Thinking Much of Honor†— was openly marketing its […]
Does Gold Know Anything About Upcoming Fed Decisions?
October 31st, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any financial instrument. Chock this one up as something interesting to watch, one way or the other: I was watching spot gold prices continuously before the last Fed announcement. Gold rallied before the announcement was made public. I thought: “They” knew that the rate […]
Soy: Frankenfood Blood Crop
October 31st, 2007Via: Globe and Mail: What could be a more eco-righteous symbol of the hippie vegetarian movement than a block of tofu? As it turns out, the gentle bean has become somewhat of a blood crop in South America. A recent article in The Daily Telegraph uncovered that land-rights activists are risking death, while vast swaths […]
The $915B Bomb in Consumers’ Wallets
October 31st, 2007Via: CNN: This past summer’s subprime meltdown involved about $900 billion in now-suspect securitized debt, reckless lending, and consumers who buckled under the weight of loans they couldn’t afford. Now another link in the consumer debt chain – credit cards – is starting to show signs of strain. And the fear that the $915 billion […]
Cloned Meat and Dairy Products on the Way
October 30th, 2007Via: Examiner: Families and friends who share eggnog, lamb curry or beef stew this winter may not know whether the main ingredients came from cloned animals, after the governor vetoed a San Francisco lawmaker’s labeling bill. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to end a voluntary moratorium on the sale of dairy and […]
NZ: Power of the Sea Waits to be Harnessed
October 30th, 2007Imagine my shock. Via: New Zealand Herald: In just a decade New Zealand may be drawing on the sea to supplement its energy supply. Marine energy technology, also known as blue energy, is being developed overseas and there is growing interest in it here. Our large coastline means the country would be well placed to […]
