Never one to be unprepared for unthinkable and grotesque disaster, the Tokyo Fire Department is now using a robotic body collector.
“Robokiyu the Rescue Robot” is seen below in a demonstration of its cadaver collection skills, allowing corpses to be collected and transported from disaster sites.
Having just finished Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine I immediately began [...]
From 2004. MoveOn has just started an Obama in 30 seconds contest.
The New York Times reports on this “Bush Surprise Serenade,” a hidden G.W. recording at an eerily friendly elite media-political event.
Bush has had a complex history with his artistic/cultural skills and social media. In the past few weeks, cell phone videos of Bush’s funky dancing in Africa made it to YouTube and others. And [...]
Foreign Policy magazine, the Maxim or US Weekly of international affairs writing, offers the following ten things that won’t change no matter who’s President.
America’s relationship with China
The partisan divide
Dependence on foreign oil
The decline in manufacturing jobs
The flow of illegal drugs
Military spending
The influence of lobbyists
U.S. support for Israel
Ethanol subsidies
The primary system
A pretty reasonable if over-simplified list. [...]
Q Thank you, sir. A simple question.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. It may require a simple answer.
Q What’s your definition of the word “torture”?
THE PRESIDENT: Of what?
Q The word “torture.” What’s your definition?
THE PRESIDENT: That’s defined in U.S. law, and we don’t torture.
Q Can you give me your version of it, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Whatever the law says.
October 17, 2007 Press Conference [...]
