According to The Metro, recently the NYPD “Disorder Control Unit” held a massive civil unrest exercise involving 180 cops.
One New York City cop arrogantly dismissed recent riots in England: “The London response wasn’t that great, they were outnumbered and taken by surprise.”-Mike Codella, retired NYPD detective
Part of the training involves teaching the cops how to “troll” social media sites. The trolling skills are now mandatory for a newly created juvenile justice unit
Vanguard Defense Industries was hacked by AntiSec.
Vangard Defense sells the UAV “ShadowHawk” to the military, police and even private companies.
The AntiSec hackers put Vangard documents online, they belong to Senior Vice President Richard T. Garcia. They contain internal meeting notes, contracts, schematics, non-disclosure agreements, employee’s personal information, and counter-terrorism documents.
Japan says it will offer less developed countries money, and other aid, to help them develop infrastructure and industries, in exchange for exclusive mining rights for rare earth minerals.
China has been using the same tactic for decades. Japan says they’re adopting such a policy in order to compete with China.
Rare earth minerals are used in high tech products like cell phones and hybrid cars. Because of the rapid development of high tech devices, and the increasing global dependence on them, rare earth minerals could become the “oil” of the 21st century.
“Fiat is intensively examining St. Petersburg along with Nizhniy Novgorod. No decision has been made yet. Most likely the Italian automaker will select a green field site. We expect that they will make a decision on the site in the fall.” –Dmitry Levchenkov, Russia’s Economic Development Ministry
Fiat, the owner of Chrysler, is actively looking to start factories in Russia, to build cars and spare parts. The reason? Car sales are booming in Russia.
Just in the first 8 months of 2011, Fiat saw a 59% increase in sales in Russia. That’s impressive when you realize that most Russians are hesitant to own a Fiat: “Few Russian drivers opt for Fiat because the service and spare parts are difficult to find in Russia. However, if Fiat builds an assembly facility and handle the production and create a unique distribution channels with service centers its world popular five door hatchbacks could invade the Russian cities frequently.”-Alexandr Tsipin, journalist
Fiat has already made deals with Russian car maker GAZ. Fiat hopes to build 120 thousand cars per year in Russia.
The major reason for Fiat’s huge jump in sales, they’re the cheapest foreign car in Russia.
I wonder what Fiat will do with it’s Chrysler operations in the U.S. and Canada? Canadian labor unions have been warning that Fiat will shut down Chrysler factories.
It’s called Ground Force One, a $1.1 million dollar bus made in Canada, and used by the Obama administration.
There’s also a Ground Force Two, because your government bought two of these behemoth buses. And your taxes paid for them!
Ground Force Two is actually being called Stagecoach. But don’t blame Obama, the second bus will be used to transport the Republican candidate for the 2012 election campaigns.
Officially the public is being told the buses came from a Tennessee company, but ABC News found out they were built in Canada, and only modified in Tennessee.
“Anonymous demands that this activity revolving around censorship cease and desist and we know you are already planning to do this again.”-warning to BART police from Anonymous
In retaliation for the Bay Area Rapid Transit police cutting off cell service, to prevent a mass protest, Anonymous hacked them and took personal data of at least 2,000 BART users.
San Fransisco’s BART officials say the Anonymous hack will not stop them from cutting off cell service in the future: “It’s one of the tactics we have at our disposal. We may use it; we may not. And I’m not sure we would necessarily let anyone know in advance either way.”-Jim Allison, BART
Operation BART is now being investigated by the Department of Homeland Security.
“I have believed for a long time that Israel wants this al-Aqsa Mosque simply not to exist.”-Mark Dankof
August 11, Israel orders the construction of 1,200 illegal settlement homes around al Quds (Jerusalem). On top of that one Israeli official said they are about to authorize another 2,700 more homes in occupied Palestinian territory.
Some officials say they’re going ahead with the illegal settlement homes to address the bad economy that so many Israelis are protesting. Officials say the settlements will provide affordable housing.
The European Union says Israel’s continued illegal settlement construction guarantees there will be no peace: “Settlement activity threatens the viability of an agreed two state solution and undermines ongoing efforts to resume negotiations.”-Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Egyptian and Russian officials have stressed that the settlements are illegal. They violate UN resolution 452, which bans settlement construction in occupied Palestinian territory.
The Journal of Glaciology, and NASA, says that 18 hours after the massive March 11 tsuanami hit Japan, it torn off huge chucks of ice at the South Pole.
Large pieces of the Sulzberger ice shelf, one the size of Manhattan, broke off between March 12 and 16. NASA scientists watched and took pictures of the event using a satellite.
NASA said they immediately turned there eyes towards the South Pole when the March 11 tsunami hit Japan. They wanted to test a long time hypothesis, that large numbers of ice bergs appearing in the ocean coincide with large earthquakes and tsunamis. They got their proof.
Amazingly the tsunami was only one foot high when it hit the Sulzberger ice shelf.
Ever since Tokyo Electric Power Company installed a water decontamination and recirculation system, they’ve had problems after problems. Now the entire system has crashed.
The system includes filters and pumps designed in the United States and France. The idea is to decontaminate the massive amount of radioactive water flooding into the basements of the reactor buildings, then re-use that water to cool the unstable reactors.
The most common problem, in the many weeks since it’s installation, has been the fact that the decontamination part is not working well, the radiation levels are not being reduced to a level TEPCo would like (this is another proof that radiation levels coming out of the reactors are much higher than TEPCo would like to admit).
The next most common problem is that pumps keep failing. This time all the pumps have failed, including the back up pumps.
Beginning Thursday, 04 August 2011, pumps began failing. By Saturday, 06 August, all the pumps were down. As usual TEPCo does not know why, and is investigation to find out why!!!
TEPCo is planning on hooking up a Japanese designed filters and pumps to the system, as if that’s the solution.
Japanese scientists have successfully made sperm from stems cells, called iPS cells. Note only that but they have a bunch of baby mice to show for it.
The iPS cells were mixed with a protein, which turned the iPS cells into primordial cells that can develop into sperm.
Don’t worry men, you’re still involved. The primordial cells are then injected into the male’s testis, where they develop into sperm. The experiment worked with mice. It’s hoped this process could help men who can’t develop their own sperm.