Thursday, December 22, 2011

Government rolls out high-tech gun shot detectors

Allison Barrie
FOX News Gunshots ring out in the dead of night, and not a single person reports it. Yet police know exactly where the shots came from, even before they arrive on the scene.
It sounds like a scene from The Minority Report, but it's real. A new technology called ShotSpotter enables law enforcement officials to precisely and instantaneously locate shooters, and it has been

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Collective Action to Prolong the Economic Depression

by Bill Bonner
The Daily Reckoning

Have yourself a merry little depression…

What’s this? Christine Lagarde, IMF chief, said last week that the world’s nations needed to work together to avoid a 1930s-style depression.

But seeing the way they work together…and where they seem to be headed…we’d prefer a depression.

The idea of the world’s authorities is not to solve the debt problem, but to make it larger. One bank goes bust; they get a bigger bank – a central bank – to bail it out. One country goes broke; they get a bigger country to bail it out.

The US bailed out its financial sector. Europe has

Las Vegas Sands building casinos in Japan?


Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) By Jacob Adelman and Kiyotaka Matsuda


Adelson, chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., has for at least half a decade sought to reverse a ban on the gambling houses in the world’s third-biggest economy, only to be blocked by Japanese legislators arguing casinos would fuel organized crime and provide little benefit. Now, a group of 150 lawmakers plans to introduce a bill that could allow

Friday, December 16, 2011

Thomas Perez: Obama's one-man Gestapo

From a September 3rd, 2010 posting by Wes Vernon at Renew America


If you tried to help a "protected" Obama constituency, you had better hope that your best efforts didn't fail. The Gestapo will have you in its crosshairs.

This is not the Gestapo of the thirties-Germany variety so vividly portrayed by Hollywood long after the bright shiny black uniforms and man-sized flashlights of the SS became extinct and