Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have genetically engineered a strain of mice whose FOXP2 gene, which is associated with speech, has been replaced with the human version.
You can view a video summary by clicking here.
Luddites, no doubt, will go for the obvious and cite The Island of Doctor [...]

The pace at which the words and actions of White House agents are providing confirmation of my earlier prediction that Pres. Obama will steer to the right of Pres. Bush the Younger is breathtaking.
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Pres. Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, is on record expressing her belief [...]

Remember those photos of US soldiers committing torture and other crimes that Pres. Obama wants to cover up?
Now, we have a better idea of why he is going back on his promise of more open and transparent government.

“One photo reportedly showed an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner and another was said to show [...]

Double-plus intriguing news. Reader Vincent Cate has posted the following as a comment to my original LMF Theory post:

27 May 2009 at 18:16
Today both Russia and China said that the dollar is not losing its reserve currency status. By LMF Theory, it would follow that it is. Time to buy gold and silver.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/05/27/afx6470478.html
http://www.dailyfx.com/story/market_alerts/fundamental_alert/China_s_Senior_Official_Expects_U_S__1243407700118.html

From the [...]

In the spring of 1987 the Whole Earth Review published an article by Italian economist, Carlo M. Cipolla, titled, “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity” (pp.2-7), which provides a very useful rubric for categorizing human action.
Cipolla’s presentation takes the form of a 2×2 matrix, with one axis representing loss or gain to oneself and the [...]

Are you old enough to remember the Laffer Curve? The rulers of Maryland apparently are not.
Maryland raised taxes on millionaires. Maryland now has fewer millionaires.
Dang!
<voice=”Princess Leia”>The tighter you squeeze, Governor, the more millionaires will slip between your fingers.</voice>
CWE

How much energy is consumed in the production of replacement parts for car engines, including mining, manufacturing, distribution, and warehousing?
I ask, because, in addition to driving up food prices, according to Business Week, “ethanol-laced gasoline is already destroying engines across the country in ever larger numbers.”
But don’t take the word of those wackjob libertarian radicals [...]

Although Pres. Obama is making all the right noises about closing Guantánamo, he is not talking about closing ‘Guantanamo’, in the sense of everything that Guantánamo stands for.
The Independent, a British newspaper, reminds us that Pres. Obama is quietly leaving the notorious US prison at Bagram, Afghanistan, open for business, even after signing an executive [...]

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) should change affiliations from the Democratic Party to the Metarchist Party!
On 20 May 2009, Rep. Cohen got FBI Director, Robert Mueller, to admit — in a discussion about drug policy before the United States Congress — that no one has ever died from marijuana. Mueller responds with the gateway drug [...]

According to ScienceDaily, “Scientists at Oxford University have tamed a virus so that it attacks and destroys cancer cells but does not harm healthy cells“.