Archive for March, 2009
California Tent City Residents Required to Wear Wristbands
March 31st, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: Tent City residents gather as the city of Ontario starts the process of sorting out who may stay and who must leave. The city issued wristbands – blue for Ontario residents, who may stay, orange for people who need to provide more documentation, and white for those who must leave. The […]
Home Price Declines Still Accelerating
March 31st, 2009Via: AP: Home prices sank by the sharpest annual rate on record in January, and the pace continues to accelerate, but there were a handful battered metro areas where price declines slowed, according to data released Tuesday. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index of home prices in 20 major cities tumbled by a record 19 percent […]
Panel: All Teens Should be Tested for Depression
March 31st, 2009…an independent panel of experts convened by the federal government… Say that out loud a couple of times. If you feel the need to bathe afterward, that’s cool. Via: AP: An influential government-appointed medical panel is urging doctors to routinely screen all American teens for depression — a bold step that acknowledges that nearly 2 […]
Flint, Michigan: Government Considering Abandoning Parts of City, Cutting Off Police and Fire Service
March 31st, 2009Via: Mlive: Look in any direction from Bianca Bates’ north Flint home, and you’ll see graffiti-covered siding, boarded-up windows and overgrown lots. About half of the homes on her block are burned out or vacant magnets for drug dealers and squatters. It isn’t where she thought she’d end up, but it’s all she can afford […]
Ahead of G20 Summit, Council Told to Switch Off Illegal CCTV Network
March 31st, 2009Via: Guardian: The security operation at this week’s G20 summit was thrown into chaos last night when it emerged that the entire network of central London’s wireless CCTV cameras will have to be turned off because of a legal ruling. The Department for Transport (DfT) has ruled that Westminster council’s mobile road cameras – a […]
British Government Wants to Install “Communication Box” to Track Vehicles Across Europe
March 31st, 2009Via: Guardian: The government is backing a project to install a “communication box” in new cars to track the whereabouts of drivers anywhere in Europe, the Guardian can reveal. Under the proposals, vehicles will emit a constant “heartbeat” revealing their location, speed and direction of travel. The EU officials behind the plan believe it will […]
Russia Wants Inclusion of Gold Bullion in the Basket-Weighting of a New World Currency Based on Special Drawing Rights
March 31st, 2009Lipstick on a pig? Via: Telegraph: Russia has become the first major country to call for a partial restoration of the Gold Standard to uphold discipline in the world financial system. Arkady Dvorkevich, the Kremlin’s chief economic adviser, said Russia would favour the inclusion of gold bullion in the basket-weighting of a new world currency […]
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North Korea Has Two Nuclear Warheads for Missile, Kyodo Reports
March 31st, 2009Forget the grain of salt. Take it with a 5 KG salt lick, like I give my cows. Anything is possible, but because of the timing, this sounds like preaction PSYOP to me. Just guessing. Via: Bloomberg: North Korea has two nuclear warheads it can load on its mid-range Rodong missile, Japan’s Kyodo News reported, […]
Dutch Hybrid Bus Goes Twice As Far as Conventional Bus on a Liter of Diesel
March 31st, 2009Via: Technology Review: A company based in the Netherlands called e-Traction has developed a new kind of hybrid bus that uses in-wheel electric motors to improve efficiency and a GPS system to reduce pollution in congested areas of a city. The bus is a series hybrid: a diesel generator charges a battery, which in turn […]
