Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
News overnight that North Korea conducted it’s second nuclear test at it’s test site near Kilju, in the north eastern part of their country. Early indications are that the shot was between 2 Kilotons and 6 Kilotons, a larger yield than their first attempt where the result was a fizzled 500 Tons. There are conflicting […]
A very interesting change has taken place on the Sun. As readers of this blog know, I have been watching the Sun for some time, especially with regards to the deep solar minimum we currently have between sunspot cycle 23 and cycle 24. If you look at the image above, you might not see any […]
I honestly don’t blame the administration for talking up the economy over the past few months. I am sure they wanted to see if they could nudge Americans into coming out of the bunkers and buying again. It worked for George Bush after 9-11, maybe they can give it one more go? Sadly, Sally and […]
Message to the Democrats in Congress, put down the stick and back slowly away from the CIA. There is a chance that if you do that, they might go back to looking for the bad guys and leave you alone. Again from the Politico, this little plum: CIA briefers may have broken law Democrats on […]
I actually laughed quite a bit when I first read this article in Politico, Democrats: CIA is out to get us Democrats charged Tuesday that the CIA has released documents about congressional briefings on harsh interrogation techniques in order to deflect attention and blame away from itself. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat […]
At 5:00 PM Eastern today, the treasury will finally release their “Stress Test” results. Not to belabor this, but you should largely ignore them. From the Wall Street Journal: Results of the government’s stress tests of the nation’s largest 19 banks started to trickle out Wednesday, highlighting the burgeoning gaps between the industry’s strong and […]
The rookie president is busy shredding the intelligence community, and my biggest gripe is I am not sure how much I should talk about it. But here is something from the UK press that indicates that one of the big names that the Obama administration may try to target with a show trial would be […]
Today the Drudge Report had a rather alarming red faced link, describing that China now had a special “Kill Weapon” that was a threat to US aircraft carriers. The article cited was produced by the US Naval Institute, and outlines this weapon: After years of conjecture, details have begun to emerge of a “kill weapon” […]
As someone who has spent a good deal of time as a volunteer and coach for the Special Olympics, I would first like to mention that I did not think the Presidents comments were offensive or funny. I knew for a fact that there are many Special Olympians who are first class athletes. Now word […]
From the amazing iTulip.com site, a graph that well explains the likelihood of the idea that we are in a new “bull market” just because we had 4 days where the stock market did not dive.