Pepsi and IBM are Now More Creditworthy than the U.S. Government

" Agora Financial’s Rude Awakening notes that the U.S. Government is now considered less credit-worthy than Pepsi or IBM by the credit default swap market: "As the nearby chart indicates, the price of insuring Treasury debt against default now costs more than the price of...

WITH SHOT AND SHELL, OR “MODULAR CROWD CONTROL MUNITIONS”… WE MUST BEND...

December 8, 2008by Mike Ferner "Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov   The Army Times reported on September 30 that a combat brigade, about 4,000 troops, which could be called on for “civil unrest and crowd control,” had been assigned...

Stink Attack: Chemical Crowd Control

Apparently stank-powered crowd-control was developed a few years ago, but only recently was it put into real-world action. Isreali security forces brought the non-lethal fluid to bear on protestors at the Ni'in security fence on Friday. The mixture is less harmful than tear...

Wired News: Sonic 'Lasers' Head to Flood Zone

Air-raid sirens, Frank Sinatra songs and Muhammad Ali trash talk blared over the Southern California desert in a demonstration of new acoustic technology for crowd control and disaster communications.In mid-90's morning heat at Edwards Air Force Base, HPV Technologies and...