China recently conducted a space test involving two satellites that rendezvoused several hundred miles above Earth in a maneuver analysts say will likely boost Beijing’s anti-satellite weapons program.
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Inside the Ring
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010It’s NOT the Economy, Stupid: It’s the Mess in Washington
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Despite all the worry about the sluggish US economy, businesses and investors are finding an even bigger reason to be cautious these days: the political mess in Washington.
Homelessness Up 50% In New York City
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010If you think you’ve been seeing more people sleep on city streets, statistics back up the perception. The homeless population living on New York City streets has gone up 50 percent in the past year, according to city statistics reported by the HellsKitchenLife.com blog.
Iran has material for 1-2 atom bombs: ex-IAEA aide
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for 1-2 nuclear arms but it would not make sense for it to cross the bomb-making threshold with only this amount, a former top U.N. nuclear official was quoted as saying.
ALERT: 13.3 ppm of COREXIT found INLAND, near Florida border —
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Chemist says tests show “toxic solvent” 2-butoxyethanol that “RUPTURES red blood cells”
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Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Rosenberg calls current economic conditions “a depression, and not just some garden-variety recession,” and notes that any good news both during the initial 1929-33 recession and the one that began in 2008 triggered “euphoric response.”
Commercial Property Owners Choose to Default
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Brian L. Frank for The Wall Street Journal
The Cannery at Del Monte Square in San Francisco, on which Vornado recently stopped making payments. Like homeowners before them, some companies are choosing to default on debt or to surrender buildings.
Like homeowners walking away from mortgaged houses that plummeted in value, some of the largest commercial-property owners are defaulting on debts and surrendering buildings worth less than their loans.
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Yes Folks, Hindenburg Omen Tripped Again
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010The latest trigger has prompted the Omen’s creator, Jim Miekka, to exit the market. “I’m taking it seriously and I’m fully out of the market now,” Miekka, a blind mathematician, said in a telephone interview from his home in Surry, Maine. “I would’ve probably stayed in until the beginning of September,” depending on how the indicators varied. “That was my basic plan, until the Hindenburg came along.”
Cracks in the Iranian Monolith
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Opposition is spreading in the streets, in prisons, and even in the military.
New Logan searches blasted
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
TOUCH AND GO: Federal screeners’ new ‘hands-on’ body searches has drawn fire from Logan travelers and the ACLU.
Logan airport security just got more up close and personal as federal screeners launched a more aggressive palms-first, slide-down body search technique that has renewed the debate over privacy vs. safety.