Flametoad

There’s an interesting, short editorial on the Britannica blog about where the economic policies of the last decade will leave us when China shifts some of its export economy to consumption. The premise is that they don’t need us to buy as much of their goods, they won’t need to prop up the US economy [...]

Back in the 1980’s, sci-fi author Jerry Pournelle wrote a series of books based on the premise that the United States and Soviet Union continued in co-existence right up into the stars. This was very much to both country’s benefit, because the Co-Dominium had the secondary effect of keeping all other nations under the control one or the other global [...]

Okay, here’s the setup: China to Use Weather Control at Olympics
and the money-quote:
If rain clouds are expected the Weather Modification Office can call on 1,500 staff with 30 aircraft to drop chemicals into the clouds to force them to drop their water early.
A further 37,000 part-time staff can fire additional materials into the clouds using 7,113 [...]

 
I believe I’ve written in the past about a how a load of Seagate hard drives were found to contain trojans straight from the factory in China. Here’s even more chilling news. LCD photo frames from China have also been found to contain trojans.
According to the San Franciso Chronicle:

"An insidious computer virus recently discovered on [...]