Archive for August, 2008
Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Gunned Down
August 14th, 2008Via: Los Angeles Times: The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party was shot and killed Wednesday by a man who barged into his Little Rock office. The suspect fled, apparently to the Arkansas Baptist State Convention about six blocks down the street, where he threatened a security guard. When he left there, sheriff’s deputies gave […]
Suspected U.S. Missile Strike Kills 9 in Pakistan
August 14th, 2008In how many countries is the U.S. military killing people? I’ve lost track. Via: Los Angeles Times: In what could herald an intensified U.S. campaign against Islamic insurgents in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a suspected American missile attack killed at least nine people near the Afghan border, local officials said Wednesday. It was not immediately known […]
Martial Law: Crime-Ridden Arkansas Town Expands 24-Hour Curfew
August 14th, 2008Constitutional arguments against martial law are going to sound increasingly strange to broke, helpless people who are living under failed state conditions. Thomas Hobbes teaches us that people don’t want to live in a state of nature (anarchy, with all the bad connotations). They’ll gladly submit to the iron fist of the “sovereign” in order […]
A ‘Frankenrobot’ with a Biological Brain
August 14th, 2008Four years ago, the same technique was used to teach a network of rat neurons to fly a jet in a flight simulator game. See: ‘Brain’ in a Dish Flies Flight Simulator. This thing below is another Kevin Warwick production. * roll eyes * Via: AFP: Meet Gordon, probably the world’s first robot controlled exclusively […]
Bank Owned House in Detroit Sells for $1
August 13th, 2008Via: Detroit News: One dollar can get you a large soda at McDonald’s, a used VHS movie at 7-Eleven or a house in Detroit. The fact that a home on the city’s east side was listed for $1 recently shows how depressed the real estate market has become in one of America’s poorest big cities. […]
Berkeley Scientists: World In ‘Mass Extinction Spasm’
August 13th, 2008Via: NBC11: Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world are a sign of a biodiversity disaster larger than just the deaths of frogs and salamanders, University of California, Berkeley scientists said Tuesday. Researchers said substantial die-offs of amphibians and other plant and animal species add up to a new mass extinction facing the planet, […]
One Third of New Home Owners Owe More Than House Is Worth
August 13th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth, according to Zillow.com, an Internet provider of home valuations. Second-quarter home prices fell 9.9 percent from a year earlier, giving 29 percent of owners negative equity, said Zillow, the Seattle-based […]
National Enquirer Founder Had CIA PSYOP Background, Mob Connections
August 13th, 2008Do you ever wonder if mainstream news reporters sometimes try to send coded messages through their otherwise straight-laced articles? What was going through Edward Kosner’s mind when he wrote, “Like people and anthrax spores, publications have their unique DNA,” in a story about Generoso Pope Jr., the mob and CIA connected founder of The National […]
Contraceptive Pill Can Lead Women to Choose Wrong Partner
August 13th, 2008LadyComp. No toxic side effects. No ongoing expenses. Better chances of sniffing out a good mate!? Via: Guardian: Taking the contraceptive pill can lead a woman to choose the “wrong” partner, the findings of a study published today suggest. The pill is thought to disrupt an instinctive mechanism that brings people with complementary genes and […]
Race Is On to Claim Arctic Energy Reserves
August 13th, 2008Via: Times: A US Coast Guard cutter will depart for the Arctic this week as part of a race against Russia to claim the vast spoils of oil and natural gas below the sea floor that both nations are scrambling to exploit. The cutter Healy will leave Barrow, Alaska, tomorrow on a three-week journey to […]
