Archive for August, 2010

The war on Colombia’s drug lords is losing ground to an herbicide-resistant supershrub. Is it a freak of nature – or a genetically modified secret weapon? By Joshua Davis Page I drop half a milliliter of water into a plastic test tube and mash a piece of a leaf inside. As the water tints green, [...]

WRITTEN BY MICHAEL TENNANT THURSDAY, 01 JULY 2010 10:15 Economist Robert Higgs wrote a paper in 1997 arguing that “regime uncertainty” — “a pervasive uncertainty among investors about the security of their property rights in their capital and its prospective returns” owing to the constant barrage of regulation emanating from the Franklin Roosevelt administration and [...]

August 26, 2010 Use Of “Assault Intervention Device” Tantamount To Torture FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2582 or 2666; media@aclu.org LOS ANGELES – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Southern California today sent a letter to Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca demanding that he not employ a high-tech ray gun built [...]

Communications interception systems are designed to comply with Lawful Interception (LI) delivery standards. These include norms set by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as well as the American Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). However, some agencies are operating ‘above the law’ and are exempt of LI restrictions. Organizations such as the Intelligence and National Security [...]

The State Government has suspended its free flu vaccine program for WA children aged under five after 22 children became ill and were taken to Princess Margaret Hospital within hours of having their injections. Health Minister Kim Hames said the otherwise fit and healthy children had suffered febrile convulsions – which involved a fit or [...]

The possibility of compensations for children and young people diagnosed with narcolepsy recently is to be assessed later if a link between the disease and the swine flu vaccine is established, says Minister of Social Services Paula Risikko (Nat. Coalition Party). “The matter must be evaluated when all studies have been made. Experts insist that [...]

By Robert Higgs Oct 12, 2009 Because I despise politics in general, and the two major parties in this country in particular, I go through life constantly bemused by all the weight that people put on partisan political loyalties and on adherence to the normative demarcations the parties promote. Henry Adams observed that “politics, as [...]

By Bertrand Russell. May 3, 1919. The battle for political democracy has been won: white men everywhere are to live under the regime of parliamentary government. Russia, which for the present is trying a new form of constitution, will probably be led by internal or external pressure to adopt the system favored by the Western [...]

August 23, 2010 Rene Johnston/Toronto Star Several dozen of the 300 people facing charges for alleged criminal acts during the G20 summit had their charges withdrawn Monday. One young woman high-fived a friend before bolting from the courtroom after hearing the news. Christopher Miller, who was charged with mischief under $5,000, said he was happy [...]

The “Lost” STTF Talkshoe Recordings…

Posted: 17th August 2010 by BAM in *BAM*

The Original Seeing Through The Fog Broadcasts!! Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Share on Facebook

How I Control Gravitation

Posted: 17th August 2010 by BAM in Science, Technology
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by T.T. Brown Science & Invention (August 1929) / Psychic Observer 37(1) There is a decided tendency in the physical sciences to unify the great basic laws and to relate, by a single structure or mechanism, such individual phenomena as gravitation, electrodynamics and even matter itself. It is found that matter and electricity are very [...]

A Public Service announcement from one of those Reality Tv stars people seem to like so much….. http://media.abovetopsecret.com/media/3712/Were_In_A_Lot_Of_Trouble_Here/ Share on Facebook

A deal cut between Google and Verizon for preferential treatment of bandwidth would set the stage for the end of Net Neutrality where all Internet traffic is equal. Jared Newman Thursday, August 05, 2010 07:06 AM PDT If Google and Verizon really are conspiring to kill Net neutrality, as several reports suggest, both companies would [...]