Daily Archives: May 21, 2011
India: Raising the Minimum Deterrent
India may expand nuclear program, says top adviser – Syndey Morning Herald
Thorium also is mentioned.
Some analysts say Pakistan has the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world. There are fears this will force India to increase its stockpile and trigger a fresh nuclear arms race in the volatile south Asia region.
… But Dr Kalam, who is here as a guest of Sydney University, has urged Australia to co-operate with India in the development of nuclear reactors that use thorium instead of uranium to produce electricity.
Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam … “strength respects strength”. Photo: Peter Rae
Related articles
- Abdul Kalam urges solutions to make N-plants safe (lemonews.wordpress.com)
Bat Out of Heaven
Lady Gaga: icon or just eye-candy? – Telegraph
Everything about Lady Gaga’s new album speaks of empire-building ambition. It is full-on, full-throttle, brash, big-statement pop.
related: Auteur producers who made pop a matter of record – Telegraph
2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake
All revenue from the purchase of this book will be used to help the earthquake victims through the Japanese Red Cross Society. You can also donate to the American Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami fund.
Gene Simmons on Obama: “He has no f-ing idea…”
Knocking the Wind out of Renewable Energy
Pickens’ New Plan: No Wind : Roll Call Lobbying
With wind energy projects not proving as financially viable as he anticipated, Pickens has tabled the renewable energy portion of his acclaimed Pickens Plan for clean energy and turned his focus exclusively to increasing development of natural gas.
Related articles
- Billionaire Pickens says Obama lacks energy plan (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Is Happiness Overrated?
A New Gauge Helps to See What’s Beyond Happiness – NYTimes.com
“If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a
long time ago… ”
God vs The Large Hadron Collider
Kleptocracy
End the IMF | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty
The sex scandal involving the just-departed International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is of course no reason to abolish the agency – but then we didn’t need another reason. The agency, centerpiece of J. M. Keynes’s postwar inflationary Bretton Woods brainchild, should never have been created in the first place, since it was another calculated step toward global government-controlled money.
Related articles
- Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn Trying to Torpedo the Dollar? (thetruthiswhere.wordpress.com)
- DSK and the downfall of France’s elites (cbsnews.com)
- Strauss-Kahn hidden inside New York safe house – Reuters (news.google.com)
- Behind Strauss-Kahn, a Formidable Wife (newser.com)
TSA in a Galaxy Far Far Away
Renovated Disney ride gets a TSA checkpoint – Boing Boing
When it’s your turn to go through the passenger scan (a thermal body scan), you may be verbally accosted by a security droid.
