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BP-contaminated water may look clean, but is explosive.

nurikabe — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:29:41 +0000

As a Bostonian, even I find this disturbing.

Media Blackout

nurikabe — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:44:14 +0000

Interesting aside: Anderson Cooper is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt. Bayou Lee thinks that’s why he doesn’t come across as “handled” like much of the rest of the media.

The Toll on Louisiana

nurikabe — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:59:47 +0000

Edward James Olmos (yep.. ~~Captain~~ Admiral Adama), is in Louisiana trying to figure out what’s going on.

Sadly it sounds like “not much”.

Is BP hiding their toxic spill with a worse toxin?

nurikabe — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:58:18 +0000

Louisiana residents filed a suit on June 17th claiming that the Nalco dispersant, Corexit, is actually four times more toxic than the oil itself.

WKRG.com

Nalco appears to be part of the Blackstone Group, Apollo Management, and — big surprise — Goldman Sachs. Lucky for them it’s a bull market for environmental disaster.

Internet “Kill Switch” on the way…

nurikabe — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:00:10 +0000

The Huffington Post is doing a good job of keeping on top of the Kill Switch. The kill switch concept was originally part of the Bush2-era Project for a New American Century where they called for increased control over space and cyberspace. Which is essentially increased control over the flow of information and populations.

A cyber kill switch would be a prerequisite for any kind of martial law declaration.

BP Blocking Media Access

nurikabe — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:28:11 +0000

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“Top Kill” Failed. The camera feed is a fake. And so are the cleanup workers.

nurikabe — Sun, 30 May 2010 04:34:48 +0000

The attempt at a top kill appears to have failed as experts predicted:

It would also appear that the live feed is actually a considerably more mild leak — more palatable, I suppose. A fake. Like the cleanup workers BP had bussed in for the president.

Enough is enough. Boycott BP.

We cannot have homeland security unless we understand the whole planet… is our homeland. — John Perkins

nurikabe — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:59:49 +0000

John Perkins, reformed Economic Hitman, just posted this animation from Studio Joho to his Twitter feed. It’s brilliant.

Gold Rush in China

nurikabe — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:46:10 +0000

And yet very little talk of gold on this continent…

Cygwin SSH just doesn’t call $HOME lately…

nurikabe — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:18:32 +0000

With the new version of Cygwin, SSH suddenly doesn’t seem to phone $HOME anymore. Which is usually going to be set to something like c:\Users\. In general Cygwin is supposed to look at $HOME first and then use alternative home settings, such as /etc/passwd.

The quick fix is to make sure the relevant entry in /etc/passwd matches what you have in $HOME.