Archive for November, 2009
More Openness and Transparency: Obama Regime Prevents Millions of Pages of Military and Intelligence Documents from Being Declassified; Had Been Scheduled for Release by the End of the Year
November 30th, 2009Via: Boston Globe: President Obama will maintain a lid of secrecy on millions of pages of military and intelligence documents that were scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year, according to administration officials. The missed deadline spells trouble for the White House’s promises to introduce an era of government openness, say advocates, […]
BBC Photographer on Being Stopped by Police
November 30th, 2009Via: BBC: BBC News photographer Jeff Overs was stopped and questioned for taking photographs in Westminster. Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, for which he takes photographs, Mr Overs said he was worried that policing against terrorism was making the UK feel like “the Eastern Bloc”.
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Blind Man Able to Read With Visual Prosthesis System
November 30th, 2009Via: Times Online: A blind man fitted with a “bionic eye” in a trial at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital has delighted doctors by being able to read simple words. The implant uses a camera mounted on spectacles to send wireless signals to nerves that control sight. The brain then decodes the image. Peter Lane, […]
New Bomb-Resistant Trucks Will Blast RPGs Before They Hit
November 30th, 2009Via: Wired: The U.S. military’s toughest trucks are getting a new layer of protection — against rocket-propelled grenades. The Army recently awarded an $8 million contract to equip MRAP (mine resistant ambush protected) armored trucks with Iron Curtain. It’s a protection system which blasts incoming rockets before they can hit the vehicle. If the system […]
U.S. Antitrust Investigation of Monsanto
November 30th, 2009Oh sure. Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture Obama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety Post Has anyone tried to calculate how much public money Monsanto winds up with each year due to corrupt, broken and bat shit insane agricultural subsidies? I’d guess that the answer to that question would […]
U.A.E. Removes Sunday London Times From Newsstands
November 30th, 2009* chortle * Via: Wall Street Journal: The Sunday London Times newspaper was removed by authorities from shelves in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday amid intensive reporting of Dubai’s debt problems, an executive at the paper said. The National Media Council ordered the paper blocked by distributors without providing a reason, an executive at […]
U.S. to Probe China Cargo Plane Crash
November 30th, 2009Alternate headline: Cargo Plane Belonging to CIA Cutout Crashes in China Via: Wall Street Journal: A Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane that crashed in flames on takeoff from Shanghai’s international airport, killing three American crew members, wasn’t carrying sensitive goods, a senior executive with the plane’s operator said. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter aircraft was carrying “general […]
Four Police Officers Shot Dead in Washington Coffee House
November 30th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Four police officers were “executed” in a day-time ambush in a coffee shop next to McChord Air Force Base in Washington. The officers, three men and a woman, were wearing bullet proof vests and did not even have time to return fire as the killer, armed with a handgun, unleashed a volley of […]
U.S. FOOD STAMP PROGRAM EXPANDING BY 20,000 PEOPLE PER DAY
November 29th, 2009Via: UPI: The stigma of food stamps is fading amid record use of the U.S. nutrition program, which now feeds more than 36 million people, officials said. “I think the response of the program has been tremendous,” said Kevin Concannon, an under secretary of agriculture, “but we’re mindful that there are another 15, 16 million […]
