thestatedtruth.com | September 4, 2010
Without tax incentives, this may all be for not……..John Mauldin explains the simple facts of job growth…..Want to increase productivity and jobs? The best way it seems, is to encourage private business, and especially startups. “So we can’t count on the Intels or Microsofts to create employment: we need the entrepreneurs.” Delta Force There are [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 2, 2010
Consumers are eschewing fixed-line alternatives for their cell phones, opting to keep connected to a single number whether they’re at home or in the car. www.dailyreckoning.com
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thestatedtruth.com | August 25, 2010
An economic recovery doesn’t look anything like this: www.dailyreckoning.com
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thestatedtruth.com | August 25, 2010
NIKOLA TESLA THE GENIUS WHO LIT THE WORLD Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, which was then part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, region of Croatia. His father, Milutin Tesla was a Serbian Orthodox Priest and his mother Djuka Mandic was an inventor in her own right of household [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 9, 2010
John Williams of Shadowstats.com uses m-3 velocity of money (or turnover of money) as an important barometer, here is what he is saying now, Williams’ assessment of the economy was spot on in 2008…….. A greater systemic solvency crisis is closer then ever . . . within the next six months to a year. What is happening [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 4, 2010
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — Computer hackers have begun targeting power plants and other critical operations around the world in bold new efforts to seize control of them, setting off a scramble to shore up aging, vulnerable systems. Cyber criminals have long tried, at times successfully, to break into vital [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 3, 2010
From Art Cashin on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Longtime readers know that for years we’ve been remarking on the unusual lack of solar activity. Well, the sleeping sun woke up Sunday and woke up in a big way. Here’s a bit of detail from Spaceweather.com: COMPLEX ERUPTION ON THE SUN: On [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 2, 2010
Hulu is a website offering commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States In order to ensure that no international users outside the U.S. have access to the videos, Hulu blocks many anonymous [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | July 30, 2010
By John Hughes July 30, 2010 The U.S. House passed legislation that would increase by sixfold the minimum experience pilots need to work at airlines in response to a commuter-plane crash. The requirement that pilots have 1,500 hours of flight time, surpassing the current 250-hour minimum, was sought by pilot unions and relatives of victims [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 20, 2010
BP document…. “If BOP and wellhead are removed and if we have incorrectly modeled the restrictions the rate could be as high as 100,000 barrels per day up the casing or 55,000 barrels per day up the annulus (low probability worst cases).” ….. “This number is in sharp contrast to BP’s initial claim [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 19, 2010
By JENN SAVEDGE Mother Nature Network (mnn.com) Five years ago, Sprint erected an 85-foot cell phone tower in the middle of California’s Vista Del Monte Elementary school. At the time, Sprint studied the tower’s structural safety and an initial power reading, but since then teachers and students have become increasingly concerned about the tower’s [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 19, 2010
More ships are on the way…… Sometime in the next 10 days, the Helix Producer processing ship is due to arrive on the scene – and start pumping up 20,000 to 25,000 barrels (840,000 to 1.05 million gallons) of oil daily from yet another line connected to the Gulf of Mexico well’s broken blowout preventer. [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 19, 2010
Can burning oil be ‘environmentally friendly’? At current crude-oil prices, that burn rate suggests that $700,000 worth of petroleum is going up in smoke every day. Admittedly, it’s not your usual “smoke.” BP is using in a smokeless atomizing burner that is supposed to be more environmentally friendly than the usual equipment. However, the EverGreen [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 17, 2010
#1) Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of more than 17,000 National Guard members along the Gulf coast to be used “as needed” by state governors. So what are all of these National Guard troops going to be doing exactly? Are the troops going to be used to stop the oil or to control the [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 15, 2010
A bleak Ghazni Province seems to offer little, but a Pentagon study says it may have among the world’s largest deposits of lithium. By JAMES RISEN Published: June 13, 2010 WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 15, 2010
Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”, NASA has warned. By Andrew Hough National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 2, 2010
June 2, 2010 By MATTHEW L. WALD A report just issued by the Energy Department and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, known as Nerc, an industry group that polices the power grid, lists three categories of threats to the grid: coordinated cyber- and physical attacks, pandemic disease and electromagnetic damage. Grid experts have long [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 20, 2010
Is British Petroleum lying? 95,000 Barrels Are Leaking Daily, Says Engineer….A professor of engineering told Congress that the reality is 95,000 barrels of oil are gushing out of the oil leak daily.That’s 4 million gallons a day. Not the 5,000 barrels reported. ~~~~~~~~~~ Gregory White | May 20, 2010 While BP may [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | March 5, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist A Word From The Wise By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: March 5, 2010 I was traveling via Los Angeles International Airport — LAX — last week. Walking through its faded, cramped domestic terminal, I got the feeling of a place that once thought of itself as modern but has had one too many [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | February 23, 2010
U.S. Unprepared for Cyber War, Former Top Spy Official Says By Jeff Bliss Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. isn’t prepared for a massive attack on its computer networks by another country, a former top intelligence official said. “If the nation went to war today, in a cyber war, we would lose, former Director of [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | February 17, 2010
Fast Company 10 Most Innovative Biotech Companies by Elizabeth Svoboda (Additional Reporting By Erica Westly) 1. Novartis H1N1 put a spotlight on Novartis’s success with vaccines based on cells, a process that’s faster and more reliable than the traditional method of growing viruses in chicken eggs. Novartis won EU approval to sell cell-based flu vaccines, [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | January 5, 2010
Google Introduces Nexus One Handset to Take On IPhone By Brian Womack Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., aiming to take on Apple Inc.’s iPhone and defend its dominance in Web search, introduced a touch-screen mobile phone called Nexus One and opened an online store for the handset. The device is 0.45 inches (11.5 millimeters) [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | December 30, 2009
Security experts say the scanners may be the best defense in stopping attacks such as an attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound aircraft Christmas Day.
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thestatedtruth.com | December 2, 2009
From www.ingerletter.com
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thestatedtruth.com | November 12, 2009
Wall Street Faces ‘Live Ammo’ as Congress Aims to Unravel Banks By Alison Vekshin and Robert Schmidt Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) — Seven Wall Street lobbyists trooped to Capitol Hill on Nov. 9, hoping to convince Representative Paul Kanjorski’s staff that his plan to dismantle large financial firms was a bad idea. They walked out with [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | November 12, 2009
Buffett Says U.S. Should Put Pressure on CEOs of Rescued Firms By Andrew Frye Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett, the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said the U.S. should demand greater sacrifices from the heads of bailed- out companies. “More sticks are called for,” Buffett told business school students at Columbia [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 28, 2009
China has made aggressive and well-timed moves in the solar race. In only five years it has gone from being a negligible player to the world’s top producer of solar PV cells, according to a new report from the European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Energy. Worldwide solar module production increased by 80% in [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 23, 2009
U.S.S. Independence (LCS-2) …….We’ve been hearing rumblings about these U.S. Navy triple-hulled ships, so here’s one that was launched recently….Build by General Dynamics, it’s called a “Littoral Combat Ship” (LCS), and it can move weapons around faster than any ship in the Navy. Littoral means close to shore, and that’s where these fleet-hulled ships will [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 28, 2009
International Paper Treads Monsanto’s Path to ‘Frankenforests’ By Jack Kaskey Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — International Paper Co., the world’s largest pulp and paper maker, plans to remake commercial forests in the same way Monsanto Co. revolutionized farms with genetically modified crops. International Paper’s ArborGen joint venture with MeadWestvaco Corp. and New Zealand’s Rubicon Ltd. is [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | August 14, 2009
Boeing Halted Work on 787 Sections Due to ‘Wrinkles’ By Susanna Ray Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — Boeing Co. said it stopped work more than a month ago on two sections for the 787 Dreamliner after tiny wrinkles were discovered in the composite-material fuselages supplied by Italian vendor Alenia Aeronautica. The flaws were found on 23 [...]
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thestatedtruth.com | May 10, 2009
Wi-Fi to Go, No Cafe Needed ……………..From The New YorkTimes………Getting online isn’t impossible, but today’s options are deeply flawed. Most of them involve sitting rooted in one spot — in the coffee shop or library, for example. (Sadly, the days when cities were blanketed by free Wi-Fi signals leaking from people’s apartments are over; they [...]
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