Huge drug-war training complex planned for U.S-Mexico border

A former SEAL, Brandon Webb, is fronting a plan for a proposed $100 million privately operated and funded training camp for military and law enforcement near San Diego and Tijuana. It will be a launching area for unmanned drones too. Webb says such military and surveillance capabilities will be necessary should Mexico topple into anarchy [...]

French Senate passes pension bill. The protests accomplished nothing

All that protest in the streets, with blocked streets and shut-down ports, has accomplished precisely nothing. The French Senate just passed a law raising the pension age from 60 to 62.

Symbolic protests in the streets accomplishes very little now. The police know how to isolate it, the media often ignores it, and politicians simply [...]

Watergate II inevitable as cash floods election

From Al Hunt, executive editor Washington at Bloomberg

A prediction: The U.S. is due for a huge scandal involving big money, bribery and politicians. Not the small fry that dominates the ethics fights in Washington; really big stuff; think Watergate.

His article seems to imply he knows far more than can publicly disclose now.

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Aargh, UK kills massive Severn tidal power plan

And opts for nuclear instead, apparently

Countering the ideologues of the Two-Party State

Poli-Tea effectively counters the tedious arguments against voting for third parties, such as “Monsters might win, be scared”, “I know we suck but the other side is suckier”, “You poor deluded idealistic fool”, “You’re wasting your vote”, and so on. Like, how is voting for a major party not wasting my vote? Really, I [...]

CNG-powered cars from Russia

This new line of compressed natural gas cars from Russia will transport 4 adults at up to 74 mpg getting 61 mpg.

Mercedes to lease 100 fuel cell cars in US

A three-minute fill-up gives the Mercedes F-Cell hatchback a range of 250 miles. Now we just need many more hydrogen refueling stations and fuel cell cars could become popular.

Address To Anti-Obama Rally, US Capitol, October 23, 2010

Read it before you dismiss it as wacko Tea Partiers. There’s plenty of truth here.

Excerpts.

There are many valid reasons for opposing Obama. Mine may be different from those of some of you. It is important to attack Obama for what he does, not for what he says. Obama operates through duplicity, deception, [...]

70% of all stock market trades are held for 11 seconds

Long-term value investors have been known to hold for as long as 2 minutes rather than 11 seconds.

Any relation between this and the small investor instead running onto a casino floor in Vegas and throwing money in the air, are strictly spurious.

Hank Williams III. Crazed Country Rebel