Tuesday 21 May 2013

Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage | TechCrunch

Rob Ford Crack Video: Toronto Mayor is Canada's Most American Pol | New Republic

Scandalous behaviour for any Toronto resident?

RealClearWorld - Why Russia Won't Allow Syria Intervention

The Deeper Blame for Benghazi - NYTimes.com

RealClearWorld - Japan's New Optimism Has a Name: Abenomics

Smart Meter Dangers: The Health Hazards of Wireless Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure | Global Research

Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Extremely Low-Frequency (ELF) and Radiofrequency (RF): What are the Health Impacts? | Global Research

Important to take note of cancer causing effect of EMF radiation on small boys?

Senate Panel Says Apple Uses Firms Outside the U.S. to Avoid Taxes | TIME.com

As do Starbucks, etc!?

Yahoo Reboots Flickr, Offers One Terabyte of Storage | TIME.com

Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!

Could Cell Tower Radiation Cause Cataracts? - www.electricsense.com | www.electricsense.com

Robert..

FYI!

Arthur

WiFi Radiation – How To Protect Yourself - www.electricsense.com | www.electricsense.com

The WHO conclusion that everyone needs to know is that 24/7 WIFI and cellular tower use and exposure can have serious health consequences.

Apple’s Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds - NYTimes.com

Stateless?

Summer's almost here


Liquified Air Could Be Cheaper Energy Storage Than Batteries - The Green Optimistic

Thwarting the second law of thermodynamics will pay huge huge dividends is the usability of energy that would otherwise be lost. If it moves then tap it for energy?

Cruet Cronyism: How Big Olive Oil and Big Government collude in restraint of dining | WashingtonExaminer.com

Corruption begins with subtle changes in operations that have big implications and alter the competitive landscape significantly. The large operators pass rules to squeeze out the small. You may witness legislation thinking it is cool only to realise too late that organised crime was behind it?

Steven Cohen to Testify Before Grand Jury over Insider Trading - 24/7 Wall St.

It's a good reason to separate honest banking from investment and speculative houses wanting to see too deeply into company and managers bank accounts?

Lake Sherwood man pleads guilty to insider trading » Ventura County Star

Insider trading sounds cool, but it is a pathway to crime, prosecution and jail? 

Insider trading probe arrest raises stakes for fund industry - FTAdviser.com

Corruption almost always starts invisibly. Then, explorers in search of criminal activity search and probe the data. Then, cases are built up until finally arrests are made. It takes time and money to pry opening the cesspits of secret crimes!

Will Russia get Nicaragua's Trains Rolling Again?

What is rolling?

Pastora: Costa Rica loses big with new canal route

A deep wide scratch between two very large oceans can make all the difference to a country's landscape and economic future. What are the real costs and benefits? Will the increase in size of vessels alter the useful world trading routes on the map between Asia and Europe? 

Is Nicaragua’s renewable energy revolution maxing out?

A windmill world? 

DPRK releases Chinese fishing vessel: consular official - Xinhua | English.news.cn

Too close to a country that seems intent on disruption, like a naughty child misbehaving badly to get its parents attention!

S. Africa to build wind farm in search for clean energy - Xinhua | English.news.cn

100 MW or about half a Niagara Falls generating station?

Envirogen Launches Emissions Control Technologies · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader

Explainer: what is ocean energy?

If it moves tap it for energy?

200 foreign firms to share expertise at ‘Saudi Energy’ | ArabNews

Britain is booming? FTSE reaches 12-year high as record looms | Business | guardian.co.uk

Still behind Europe?

The man who 'nearly broke the internet' | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Oklahoma City tornado: 91 feared dead - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk

Worst tornado in a while?

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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth. ... more!