Archive for July, 2016
The Obama Administration Has Brokered More Weapons Sales Than Any Other Administration Since World War II
July 31st, 2016Via: The Nation: The numbers should stagger anyone. According to the latest figures available from the Congressional Research Service, the United States was credited with more than half the value of all global arms transfer agreements in 2014, the most recent year for which full statistics are available. At 14 percent, the world’s second largest […]
Ireland Jails Three Top Bankers Over 2008 Banking Meltdown
July 30th, 2016Nearly destroy a country, face a prison sentence of less than three years. Not bad. Via: Reuters: Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday for up to three-and-a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country’s economy. The trio will be […]
Breakthrough Solar Cell Captures CO2 and Sunlight, Produces Burnable Fuel
July 30th, 2016I’ve posted lots stories about similar technologies and the main problems are, very low yields, scalability, short lived and/or expensive catalysts. But who knows? Maybe it will become viable before the Mr. Fusion. Via: University of Illinois: Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered a potentially game-changing solar cell that cheaply and […]
Venezuela: Forced Labor
July 30th, 2016Via: CNN: A new decree by Venezuela’s government could make its citizens work on farms to tackle the country’s severe food shortages. That “effectively amounts to forced labor,” according to Amnesty International, which derided the decree as “unlawful.” In a vaguely-worded decree, Venezuelan officials indicated that public and private sector employees could be forced to […]
Electronic Voting Systems and Security
July 30th, 2016Of course, it’s worse than Bruce admits: Clinton Foundation and Electronic Voting Machines Via: Bruce Schneier: Over the years, more and more states have moved to electronic voting machines and have flirted with Internet voting. These systems are insecure and vulnerable to attack. But while computer security experts like me have sounded the alarm for […]
Trump Picks Former Goldman Partner And Soros Employee As Finance Chairman
July 29th, 2016This came out back in May. Via: ZeroHedge: In an oddly ironic twist, today Donald Trump announced that he has picked as chairman of his newly launched fundraising operation none other than a former employee of the bank he has repeatedly criticized in the past, and which he used as a foil to criticize Ted […]
After 100 Years World War I Battlefields Are Poisoned and Uninhabitable
July 29th, 2016Via: We Are the Mighty: At places like Verdun, the artillery barrages were so overwhelming, 150 shells hit every square meter of the battlefield. Concentrated barrages and driving rains turned the battlefield into a quagmire that swallowed soldiers and shells alike. Further complicating the cleanup is the soil contamination caused by the remains of humans […]
Hundreds of Democratic Party Delegates Replaced with Actors
July 29th, 2016I don’t know about the white noise generator theory. That could be some sort of wi-fi hardware. If that’s a white noise generator, let me know the manufacturer and model number. But never mind that! The fact that people off the street are apparently being paid to sit there for the cameras is absolutely bizarre. […]
Judge Dismisses Case Against Chandra Levy Suspect
July 28th, 2016Via: USA Today: A judge dismissed the indictment Thursday against the man charged with killing intern Chandra Levy, after prosecutors asked to drop the case that drew national interest and embroiled a lawmaker in scandal. Ingmar Guandique, who lived in Washington, was found guilty in 2010 of killing Levy, who disappeared in 2001. Guandique, who […]
Highest-Paid CEOs Run Worst-Performing Companies
July 28th, 2016Via: Independent: The highest-paid CEOs tend to run some of the worst-performing companies, according to new research. The study, carried out by corporate research firm MSCI, found that for every $100 (£76) invested in companies with the highest-paid CEOs would have grown to $265 (£202) over 10 years. But the same amount invested in the […]
