Techotic

In Britain local councils are recruiting unpaid environmental volunteers. These volunteers main tasks are to report anyone who drops litter, fails to recycle their rubbish properly, or who allows their dog to foul the streets. They are encouraged to “snoop” on their friends and neighbors.

The Public Profiler site plots eight million last names using data from electoral rolls and phone directories as well as covering 300 million people in 26 countries, showing the origins of names and where families have moved to. It also contains five million forenames most closely associated with different surnames and lists the top regions and cities for each surname.

According to figures calculated by the BBC. The U.K. government has lost the personal information of up to four million of its citizens in one year alone. But the thing is, it is getting worse, not better.

Police arrested some climate protesters during a series of raids in Kent, UK and confiscated their “criminal” equipments” [knives, chisels and bolt cutters] as well a War On Terror board game, because they said the balaclava included in the set could be used in a criminal act.

Gold is still precious, don’t get me wrong, but recent price plunges in its market suggest that the economy might not be as bad as we think.

Yes we are experiencing bad housing times but production was up 0.2% in July and now with gold taking a plunge and gas prices nearly lower than $110 a barrel things are not looking so good for those who jumped into this market.

This Irish person in south Belfast seems to be living in the 60s, when he advertised his house for rent with a sign which said it was “not available to any foreigners”.

The man who had advertised the house for rent said he had experienced problems in the past when a foreign tenant was intimidated.

Another case of David vs. Goliath. Georgia the small (former Soviet colony) has picked a war with her step mother. Well without getting into politics its quite obvious that this was well timed. Who would have thought that such a tiny country would try and challenge one of the biggest super powers in the world?

As if it was not evident before, maybe this story will make it clear. A top executive of a chain of LA hospitals (CEO to be exact) was arrested after it was found out he was part of a scheme to bring in homeless people supposedly treat them and charge government programs high prices for the services offered. This would of course cost the government millions of extra dollars and ensure those involved new Caddy’s and Bentley’s to part in their mansions.