December 2012

Jack Donovan on "Police State Liberals"
Contra expatriating
Reaping what you sow: SF murals being defaced by taggers
Soviet-era spy tech still spying on ex-satellite states
The long, strange (ego) trip of Anonymous member "Commander X"
Game show host talks about his sensory deprivation chamber experiences
 Obama should jail his opposition "like a third-world dictator"
Making brain cells from urine
Is it time to put a "may be dangerous to your financial future" warning label on graduate school?
 Experimental handcuffs under development can shock, inject drugs as well as restrain
Urban Outfitters buys garage sale clothes and resells them to hipsters
Items found between the pages of second-hand books
NTSB seeking to require black-box recording devices in all new cars
Defending the world, bankrupting ourselves
Small business owners, white collar professionals are today's kulaks
Amsterdam to create "scum town" neighborhood to exile its anti-social residents to
 Obama campaign still asking for contributions a month after winning re-election
Elites prefer to rule an impoverished citizenry to not ruling at all
 Fresh crop of "celebrity victims" making the mainstream media get real about SWATTING
 CA city official tells residents to "lock your doors" and "load your guns" after PD lay-offs

In a brave twist, Microsoft releases an ad for IE 10 that mocks those who hate Internet Explorer

Hurricane Sandy Observations: Oct. 31- Nov. 05, 2012

"In view of the fact that an ever-encroaching federal colossus has for decades been methodically sapping personal sovereignty and self-sufficiency away from its subjects, I find a perhaps naïve degree of comfort in the fact that some citizens are seizing the power back into their own hands, where it has always belonged."

- Jim Goad @ Taki's Mag

Gov. Chris Christie clowning it up on SNL while thousands still living in ruins

Gawkers touring NYC storm damaged neighborhoods pissing off residents

Borough of Queens pushed to the brink...'We are living like animals'...
Sandy is backlashing on Obama after he promised quick aid to victims

Sandy refugees complain of "prison-like conditions" at FEMA tent camps

Hurricane Sandy: New Yorkers arm themselves to fend off looters, criminals

 Hurricane Sandy: No rat exodus from NYC's flooded subways; likely most drowned

What do people buy for urban self-defense & survival in a civilized country like the UK?

Obvious not firearms of any sort. Guns are illegal. So what then does the law-abiding Brit acquire to defend himself and his homestead? Popular Mechanics came up with a list of stuff from retail sales data from UK Amazon.com purchases following the recent UK rioting of last week. So what did the Brits buy?

Weaponry: Aluminum baseball bats, Kubotan key chains, and Tonfa police batons (since withdrawn from sale). Fire suppression and escape: Large size fire extinguishers and window mounted escape ladders. Deterrent: CCTV camera systems for outside viewing. Security: Key lock fire resistent home safes. Miscellancous: garden shears, cell phone chargers,

I understand all of the choices except for the garden shears. Maybe as a weapon? No idea.