Some items of interest:
- Narco-evangelicals. From the UK to Mexico.
- "The Mexicanization of US Law Enforcement." Interesting, Killebrew from CNAS is using my terminology: "The drug lords... are seeking to “hollow out our institutions, just as they have in Mexico.” NOTE: Of course, this pales in comparison to a similar "hollowing out" perpetrated by the financial services industry on US legal/regulatory institutions.
- Another item, right out of "Power to the People": Goldman Sachs gets a bigger H1N1 vaccine allotment than a hospital. For those dependent on the global economy, your security will increasingly depend on who you work for.
- Hyper local production. Ghana's unlicensed gunsmiths have the ability to produce 200,000 weapons a year, some of which are at a quality equal to global manufacture (h/t Duncan Kinder). I suspect that the quality and quantity of local manufacture will eventually greatly exceed global manufacture as events progress.
- Synthetic neurobiology. MIT's Ed Boyden.
- Factor E-Farm releases its compressed earth brick machine. 9 bricks per minute. Kits for sale.
- A map mash-up of global shipping traffic, down to the hour (h/t Coming Anarchy).
- This could have been retitled, "The Men that Stare at Military Theory" to the same effect. ;->
- Unemployment tops 10.2% in official numbers (which are fluffy). Graph relative to previous recessions (this is the worst on record since D1). People forced into part-time work is still large and growing. The big hole in these numbers (since they were built for the last century and not this one) is the massive number of self-employed consultants that aren't generating anything close to what they did 2 years ago.
- Canary in the coal mine. Lone gunmen in Orlando.
