Archive for January, 2013
Maisto Fresh Metal Tailwinds 1:97 Scale Die Cast RQ-1 Predator with Display Stand
January 26th, 2013Check out the comments. Via: Amazon (This is not an Amazon affiliate link): Includes: US Air Force Medium Altitude, Long Endurance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) RQ-1 Predator with Display Stand (Dimension: 6″ x 3-1/2″ x 1″) Detailed authentic replicas with display stand Die cast metal and plastic 1:97 Scale (Dimension: 6″ x 3-1/2″ x 1″) […]
Iran Unveils Machine for Amputating Thieves’ Fingers
January 26th, 2013Via: France24: One of Iran’s official press agencies published photos showing the public amputation of a thief’s fingers on Wednesday. These show a man getting his finger chopped off with a machine resembling a rotary saw. WARNING: These images may shock viewers.
Google Earth Exposes North Korea’s Secret Prison Camps
January 26th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Human rights activists are turning to Google Earth to identify the vast network of prison camps that dot the North Korean countryside and hold as many as 200,000 people deemed hostile to the regime.
Sixty Percent of Children in Detroit Live in Poverty
January 26th, 2013Via: CBS Detroit: A new report from Data Driven Detroit reveals that in spite of the many families with kids that left Detroit between 2000 and 2010 — much of the city’s population still consists of children living in poverty. Sixty percent of children in Detroit live in poverty, per the “State of Detroit” report. […]
Antigua to Establish WTO Sanctioned Warez Site
January 26th, 2013Via: TorrentFreak: The Government of Antigua is planning to launch a website selling movies, music and software, without paying U.S. copyright holders. The Caribbean island is taking the unprecedented step because the United States refuses to lift a trade “blockade” preventing the island from offering Internet gambling services, despite several WTO decisions in Antigua’s favor. […]
Britain: Triple Dip Recession
January 25th, 2013Via: Telegraph: The UK economy shrank by 0.3pc in the final three months of last year, raising the prospect of a triple dip recession, as Britain’s manufacturers suffered their worst year since the financial crisis.
Bill Gates: The Better Than Cash Alliance
January 25th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Billionaires are known for not keeping a lot of spending green in their wallets. But that’s not why Bill Gates hates cash. He hates it because of its effect on people at the opposite end of the wealth spectrum—the world’s poor and unbanked. The Better Than Cash Alliance, which was founded last September […]
Secret UK Uranium Components Plant Closed Over Safety Fears
January 25th, 2013Via: Guardian: A top-secret plant at Aldermaston that makes enriched uranium components for Britain’s nuclear warheads and fuel for the Royal Navy’s submarines has been shut down because corrosion has been discovered in its “structural steelwork”, the Guardian can reveal. The closure has been endorsed by safety regulators who feared the building did not conform […]
Hillary Clinton’s Fresnel Prism Glasses
January 25th, 2013Some people (with zero skills of discernment) are submitting links to stupid websites talking about “Hillary Clinton’s teleprompter glasses,” etc. Those are not teleprompter glasses, Google Glass or any technology related to digital displays. Here’s a pic of what this is all about. Here’s a crop of that image: What you’re looking at above is […]
NYPD Will Begin Testing New Device That Scans People for Concealed Weapons
January 25th, 2013Via: New York Daily News: Get ready for scan-and-frisk. The NYPD will soon deploy new technology allowing police to detect guns carried by criminals without using the typical pat-down procedure, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday. The department just received a machine that reads terahertz — the natural energy emitted by people and inanimate objects […]
