http://dickdestiny.com/blog1 Aka George Smith e-mail: webmaster at dickdestiny Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:58:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Underlining the use of the drone by those who have everything on those with nothing (aka the privileged using their privilege to afflict the sorely afflicted): Witnesses say a surveillance drone has crashed into a refugee camp in the Somali capital. Drones have been used by the U.S. to attack or ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/02/03/bombing-paupers-expensive-kit-falls-out-of-sky/ Working hard at it, another bog standard journalist churns out his bog standard feature on electrical doomsday, at the Boston Globe. Contained therein, all the assertions and scenarios delivered by authority, again demonstrating what I've come to believe is a profound defect in the American national security mind brought on by ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/02/03/so-many-doomsdays-working-example/ Taking up the first 130 words of a 1700 word piece on the potential for cyberattack, an Asbury Park Press reporter presents what's standard practice -- the fictional doomsday. From the newspaper: Power generators at a plant in New Jersey spin wildly out of control, then grind to a halt. Other utilities step ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/02/02/so-many-doomsdays/ Soligenix, a small company from the old Alliance for Biosecurity, recently acquired about six hundred thousand dollars from a New Jersey government state tax division function. Essentially, it looks like an accounting trick installed by the state to keep poorly-performing companies alive for a little while. In the last ten years ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/02/02/worthless-bioterror-company-propped-up-by-nj-business-welfare-fund/ "Israel, Finland and Sweden are more prepared than larger nations to fight a conflict in cyberspace, according to a McAfee-backed cyber-defence study," reports the Register. (No link.) Next: The study, Cyber-security: The Vexed Question of Global Rules, is based on interviews with experts in the nascent field by by McAfee and ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/02/02/gone-to-belgium/ Today I point you to an article in the Western Farm Press on the attempted revival of the castor industry in the US. Castor oil has value in industry but in the Seventies it died here for reasons having to do with price. It was produced much more cheaply overseas ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/02/01/reviving-the-castor-industry-in-the-us/ "Slaves can not play hockey." Who would argue? My favorite unique social protest group, the Ukrainian FEMEN, again in a collection of photos, this time in Zurich, Schweiz (the well known country for stealth banking and corporate wealth tax evasion), protesting the Hockey World Cup. At Cryptome, run, don't walk. Their photographer has ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/02/01/why-cant-we-have-such-nice-things-in-pasadena-more/ A collection of photos taken of FEMEN, a unique Ukrainian social protest group, at the World Economic Forum in Davis, Schweiz, is here at Cryptome. Do go there at once to see them full size and -- ahem -- in the flesh. The Davos World Economic Forum is where all the ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/01/31/why-cant-we-have-such-nice-things-in-pasadena/ Flagged by the redoubtable Pine View Farm, Frank directs us to this piece at the Guardian: Those now dispensing judgment from on high are not gods, though they must feel like it. The people striking mortals down with drones are doubtless as capable as anyone else of self-deception, denial and cognitive ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/01/31/bombing-paupers-us-waging-a-cowards-war/ Readers will recall the absurd public relations program launched a month or so ago, one designed to increase tourism and therefore spur economic growth and jobs in the hospitality industry. You see, it's recognized we have a bad rep. Lotsa people don't wanna come here anymore. They don't dig being run ... http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2012/01/31/so-much-for-the-us-of-awesome-possibilities/