But They’ve Given Murdoch Great Footage!

CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police
Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using [...]

Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #086

Hundreds turn out for 2nd day of food protests in Somalia
The food protests were sparked by shopkeepers’ refusal to accept some bank notes, apparently over fears of counterfeiters. The protests were not as widespread as on Monday, when tens of thousands took to the streets and two people died when troops fired into the crowds.
On [...]

You Decide: Greed Or Stupidity?

And if the latter, why wasn’t the person who gave the loan summarily fired?
NatWest lent a single mum on benefits £5,000 for a nose job. Why?
Could this be the craziest loan in credit-crunched Britain? In what a leading voluntary sector debt expert calls “one of the most irresponsible loans I have ever seen from a [...]

Japan’s New Trend: Death By Self-Gassing

Couple posts warning sign on window before gassing selves to death in car
ECHIZEN, Fukui — A man and a woman, both aged in their 20s, gassed themselves to death in a car here by mixing detergents to produce deadly hydrogen sulfide in an apparent suicide pact, police said.
At around 12:50 a.m. on Monday, a 27-year-old [...]

Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #085

UBS reports 1Q net loss $11 billion
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss bank UBS, hard hit by the U.S. subprime crisis, reported a first-quarter loss of $10.97 billion and said Tuesday it will slash almost 7 percent of its work force.
The 11.5 billion Swiss franc loss compares with a net profit of 3 billion francs in [...]

Chronicles Of Depression 2.0: #084

Those of you who have been lulled into a false complacency because of my lack of Doom posts here are going to be in for one hell of a shock in the comings months.
As it is, the pulse of things is picking up.
This morning, this was the headline:
Oil hits record $120.93 a barrel on supply [...]

Raideen!

Put those speakers up!
I distract all of you with the opening theme and visuals from a great 1970s Japanese anime series, Brave Raideen.
Yuusha Raideen Opening jap

Strangely, the series was never dubbed into English but the ginormous toy robot was sold here.
All this is my way of telling you I’m otherwise busy and will not be [...]