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World’s first ‘invisible’ skyscraper planned for South Korea

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“Architects in South Korea are going to need one big invisibility cloak. Seoul will soon add a 1,476-foot tower to its skyline, you just may not be able to see it.  The international architectural firm GDS Architect received the green light to begin building the ‘world’s first invisible tower.’  The glass-encased Tower Infinity will use cameras to snap real-time pictures of the area directly behind the building and project them back onto the building’s reflective surface. This will create the illusion that viewers are looking straight through the building.”

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/09/17/world-first-invisible-skyscraper-planned-for-south-korea/

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Mining for digital gold in Thailand

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“Bitcoin can be compared with voice-over-IP or internet telephone in the last decade. The technologies were first deemed illegal since there was no law supporting them.  Surangkana Wayuparb, director of the Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) under the Information and Communication Technology Ministry, said the agency will study the business model of Bitcoin, as well as possible regulations and public awareness of this digital currency since the central bank said the issue was not within its authority. Don Sambandaraksa said the decision by the central bank to ban trading of Bitcoins in and out of the country while still allows Bitcoin mining doesn’t make any sense.”

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/finance/369905/mining-for-digital-gold

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Google Street View driver in triple hit and run crash in Indonesia

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“A driver collecting video data for internet giant Google’s Street View feature in Indonesia slammed into two vehicles after trying to flee responsibility for an earlier crash, police said Saturday.  The Indonesian man had been driving a Subaru hatchback in Bogor district on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday with Google’s logo and a camera poking from the roof, when he hit a public minivan.  The minivan driver got in his vehicle, Gunawan said, and gave chase for around three kilometres (around two miles), before the Google car smashed into a second minivan. ‘He tried to flee again, but soon crashed into a parked truck before he gave up,’ Gunawan said.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/14/google-street-view-driver-in-triple-hit-and-run-crash-in-indonesia/

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South Korean troops kill man trying to swim North

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“South Korean troops shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into North Korea on Monday after he ignored repeated warnings to turn back, the defence ministry said.  The spokesman said Nam was believed to have been trying to defect to the North, and had jumped into the river with a flotation device to help him get across. Hours before the shooting, hundreds of South Korean factory supervisors drove across a nearby border crossing into North Korea after both sides agreed to reopen a joint industrial zone shut down in April.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/16/south-korean-troops-kill-man-trying-to-swim-north/

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Rooftop urban gardeners in Bangkok grow edible algae

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“Three times a week, Patsakorn Thaveeuchukorn harvests the green algae in the barrels. ‘The algae is growing so fast, normally the doubling time is around 24 hours,’ said Patsakorn, whose employer EnerGaia uses Bangkok’s rooftops to grow spirulina. The empty space on top of Bangkok’s many skyscrapers provide suitable growing conditions for spirulina as the constant high temperatures and sunlight are ideal breeding conditions.  The algae also helps combat carbon dioxide levels through photosynthesis, its champions say, and growing it in cities means it can reach consumers the same day it is harvested.  The company says it is the only producer of fresh spirulina in the world.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/27/rooftop-urban-gardeners-in-bangkok-grow-edible-algae-a-sustainable-souce-of-protein-and-alternative-to-meat/

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Thai doctor: “I’m not a slave to insurance companies or regulations…”

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“People often presume that the medical care in the developed West is the best in the world.  But over the years, it’s become a centralized, bureaucratic mess. In Thailand, private medical care is excellent, efficient, and tremendously cost effective.  Many of the international hospitals are more like five-star hotels and luxury shopping malls. And there’s very little waiting.  The quality of the care is also first rate. Many of the doctors were trained at western universities and fellowships.  One of the physicians I met yesterday received her MD in Singapore, plus a Masters degree and PhD in her field at a top university in California, and then another fellowship at Harvard.”

http://www.sovereignman.com/lifestyle-design/local-doctor-im-not-a-slave-to-insurance-companies-or-regulations-12683/

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Hong Kong Wrong [2006]

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“Though a colony of socialist Britain, Hong Kong followed a laissez-faire capitalist policy, thanks largely to a British civil servant, John Cowperthwaite. Assigned to handle Hong Kong’s financial affairs in 1945, Cowperthwaite was so famously laissez-faire that he refused to collect economic statistics for fear this would only give government officials an excuse for more meddling. The results of his policy were remarkable. At the end of World War II, Hong Kong was a dirt-poor island with a per-capita income about one-quarter that of Britain’s. By 1997, when sovereignty was transferred to China, its per-capita income was roughly equal to that of the departing colonial power.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116009800068684505.html

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Dennis Rodman (& Russia) Promoting Global Peace

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“Dennis Rodman has a road-map to peace: ‘building trust and understanding through sport and cultural exchanges,’ as he put it. It’s slow, laborious and precludes lobbing bombs at North Korea or depriving its poor, long-suffering people of contact with the world.  Rodman says this about his frequent visits to Pyongyang: ‘I know in time Americans will see I’m just trying to help us all get along and see eye to eye through basketball and with my friendship with Kim I know this will happen.’ On the other hand, a woman of war has just issued forth in support of Barack Obama’s adventure in Syria.  Hillary Clinton or Dennis Rodman for public office? I know what my choice would be.”

http://barelyablog.com/dennis-rodman-russia-promoting-global-peace/

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John Kerry, 1971: ‘I Don’t Think U.S. Can Apply Moralism Around The World’

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John Kerry, 1971: ‘I Don’t Think U.S. Can Apply Moralism Around The World’

“Taped on Nov 2, 1971.  Five months before this show, WFB had taken as his text, for a commencement address at West Point, Mr. Kerry’s sensational testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the barbarism of our activities in Vietnam. Neither host nor guest has changed his views since, but there is light as well as heat generated on Vietnam in particular and morality and foreign policy generally.”

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David Stockman: The End of U.S. Imperium—Finally!

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“Next week Congress can do far more than stop a feckless Tomahawk barrage on a small country that is already a graveyard of civil war and sectarian slaughter. By voting ‘no,’ it can trigger the end of the American Imperium—five decades of incessant meddling, bullying, and subversion around the globe that has added precious little to national security but left America fiscally exhausted and morally diminished.  Indeed, the tragedy of this vast string of misbegotten interventions is that virtually none of them involved defending the homeland or any tangible, steely-eyed linkages to national security. They were all rooted in ideology.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/the-end-of-u-s-imperium-finally.html

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