Weekly Recap of the News and stuff

MIT Technology Review - Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled by Your Brain. Why would you want anyone to be able to read your brain?

Reuters - Merkel says euro members must be prepared to cede sovereignty. Heck, a politician named Nigel Farage of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), has been saying that this is what the EU has wanted to do all along. I guess he was right.

Wired - New Life for the L.A. River. I wrote about this at the time. A couple of kayakers went down some of the L.A. River with the intent of proving it a navigable river. The problem is that it is not a river, 99% of it is a storm drain system that was built of concrete by the army corp of engineers to prevent flooding. As they explain in the article, the purpose of the kayaking trip was to make a bogus claim and place the system under federal control.

Wired - How Federal Distracted-Driving Guidelines Will Shape Your Next Phone.

Wired - How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain. Google is attempting to create a self aware computer brain; but, it will not work, it will not be self aware.

Forbes - GOP's Dave Camp: Why Not Put All Federal Employees Onto Obamacare's Exchanges?. This was too obvious and I even wrote that this is how it would end when the healthcare bill was passed.

Pension Rights Center - Pension Provisions in H.R. 4348 – Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act. There is a bill which funds highway repair. It does a few interesting other things. Firstly it declares many local roads to be part of the National Highway System. It also changes the interest rates of the future in regards to pension plans. It says that organizations are putting too much into the pension plans because they assumed higher interest rates than we have experienced. Now, if we experience inflation in the future and interest rates rise, all these pension plans will find themselves underfunded and you watch, down the road the government is going to nationalize all pensions and retirement accounts.

Rolling Stone - Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
. A nice little article explaining how the rates for everything, money, gold, whatever, are all fixed by a very few people. Ahhh, but what do they see as the solution.

x.republic - Farage: Eurocrats' Cyprus cash grab a template for future stealing. A short video where Nigel Farage says that the EU plans on taking money out of your bank account to bail in banks. You as a depositor lose some money but get stock in the bank. That is what happened in Cyprus.

CBS Los Angeles - Hawthorne Schools Speed Up Lunch Line With Palm Scanners. Now kids can look forward to being monitored by cameras non-stop in their schools and using their biometrics just to get lunch.

Sorry it was not more fascinating. I have had a busy week and lots to do. I will leave you with this comedian, a young man from Britain with Cerebral Palsy, we don't get a lot of choices over what the world hands us; but, we do get to choose how we handle it. This guy is amazingly funny and original. Huffington Post - Britain's Got Talent - Jack Carroll, 14-Year-Old 'Britain's Got Talent' Contestant And Comedian, Is Our New Hero (VIDEO)