KittyWampus's Journal - Democratic Underground http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 21 May 2013 21:10:31 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:10:31 With Climate Volatility/Tornados- We Should Begin Building Underground Houses. It Saves Energy and saves lives. Besides Underground Housing, there is also the concept of Earth Sheltering.

From Wiki:

Underground Living-

Besides obvious novelty, underground living offers additional benefits when compared to living in traditional buildings, such as a nearly constant comfortable tempera... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/13 Tue, 24 May 2011 18:17:45 Post Earthquake Haiti Episode of "No Reservations" With Antony Bourdain (and Sean Penn) Did anyone see this on the Travel Channel? Bourdain goes to Haiti and we see:

His crew buying all the food a street vendor has to give out to starving Haitians on the perimeter. Chaos ensues as big guys shove kids away.
Sean Penn helping build a community of 50 THOUSAND displace Haitians. Penn ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/12 Tue, 03 May 2011 17:52:28 Yapese Stone Money- Talking About Alternative Forms Of Currency, Some Peoples Use Rocks Yap island is in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean as part of Micronesia. It has a strong indigenous culture which uses Stone Money called Rai.

Stone money
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Yap_Stone_Money.jpg/737px-Yap_Stone_Money.jpg

A large (approxim... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/10 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:51:12 List Of Countries W/ Compulsory Identification Cards This is sort of related to AZ today. I looked for this info just for the sake of curiosity, not to prove any point. Maybe some other DU'ers might be interested.

From Wiki so I won't swear it's complete or accurate.

Albania
Argentina
Belarus
Belgium
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Br... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/11 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:38:43 High Ranking Iranians Who Say Election Was Stolen (Iran's Own Electoral Commission Included) DU'ers who, for whatever reason, refuse to accept the Iranian election was purely fraud please read-


[b]An Ayatollah Dissents[/b]

A Farsi-speaking reader translates this article:

Grand Ayatollah Sanei in Iran has declared Ahmadinejad's presidency illegitimate and cooperating with his gov... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/9 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:55:24 Buy Premium Bird Seed? Your Credit Card Co Knows You Pay Your Bills. They Know More About You... then you know about yourself.


Buy premium bird seed? Your credit card company knows you'll pay your bill
Buy chrome accessories for your car? Your credit card company knows you have a greater chance of paying late.

Credit card companies also know when you log on and check your balance.

C... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/8 Sun, 17 May 2009 20:23:20 Geithner Handed Out 3 No-Bid Contracts To BlackRock (Firm W/Ties To NYFed) This thread has been combined with another thread.

[link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5543253&mesg_id=5543674|Click here] to read this message in its new location.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/7 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:08:33 Geithner Proposed Treasury Guarantee ALL Debt In Banking System This thread has been combined with another thread.

[link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5543253&mesg_id=5543667|Click here] to read this message in its new location.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/6 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:02:04 Treasury Officials Used Copy Of Financial Industry's Template To Draft Bailout Bill .....Mr. Geithner has also recruited aides from Wall Street, some from firms that were at the heart of the crisis.

A bill sent recently by the Treasury to Capitol Hill would give the Obama administration extensive new powers to inject money into or seize systemically important firms in danger of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/5 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:53:50 Proof Torture Doesn't Work. Info On Interrogation Methods That Do Work (A Compendium) In a nutshell, the preferred method of extracting valuable information is gaining the confidence of prisoner and/or trick information out of them without them realizing it. If it's the ticking time bomb, psychological compulsion.

The first list is from an invaluable piece that has live links sou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/4 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:51:43 Federal Govt. "Stress Tests" Will Favor Big Banks Over Smaller Regional Banks AP Exclusive: Fed tests harder on regional banks

AP Exclusive: 'Stress tests' focus on loans, not securities, will favor big banks

DANIEL WAGNER
AP News

Apr 21, 2009 13:14 EST

The government's "stress tests" of 19 large banks take a harsher view of loans than of other troubled assets, a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/2 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:12:51 Competent Alternative Staff For Treasury [b]William K. Black[/b] is Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He was a senior regulator during the savings and loan scandal and blew the whistle on prominent politicians, including House Speaker Wright and the five US Senators who became famous as t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KittyWampus/1 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:35:22