Category Big Brother

Mar 31 2012

The Bunker Bed

American’s fearing a rise in crime during the economic downturn are buying state-of-the-art gun safes hidden inside their beds. The BedBunker weighs a whopping 1,300lbs empty and features locks used in government high security buildings like the Pentagon. Worried homeowners can now store 35 rifles and 70 hand guns underneath them while they sleep. Product inventor and designer John Adrain, from Heracles Research Corporation, said a number of billionaires have begun buying his product. ‘Home invasions are on the rise,’ he said. ‘More people are looking for secure places to store their valuables and weapons. ‘What better place is there to store things than secretly under your bed.

 

VIA: –UNIQUE DAILY–

Mar 23 2012

The 10 Companies That Profit Most From War

Global sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest defense contractors increased in 2010 to $411.1 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The increase reflects a decade-long trend of growing military spending. Since 2002, total arms sales among the 100 largest arms manufacturers have increased 60%.

Mar 15 2012

The Genius of George Orwell

Orwell’s columns remain a delight, partly because he wrote so clearly and moved so easily from topics which were grave to others which were light, partly because, though at times he was like all of us silly and even stupid, and his political judgment was erratic, one is always aware of a searching intelligence. Take this, for example – it comes from a column written in March 1944:

Western civilisation, unlike some Oriental civilisations, was founded partly on the belief in individual immortality. If one looks at the Christian religion from the outside, this belief appears far more important than the belief in God. The Western conception of good and evil is very difficult to separate from it. There is little doubt that the modern cult of power worship is bound up with the modern man’s feeling that life here and now is the only life there is. If death ends everything, it is much harder to believe that you can be in the right even if you are defeated. Statesmen, nations, theories, causes are judged almost inevitably by the test of material success…

Mar 4 2012

Japanese researchers build speech-jamming gun that stops you mid-sentence

You’re at a movie theatre and the kids behind you won’t stop babbling. Not a problem. You reach into your bag, whip out your trusty speech-jamming gun, whirl around in your seat and blast them. No more nattering.