Archive for November, 2006
Digital Assets in Multi Player Video Game Worth Over US$1 Million
November 28th, 2006Get wiped out by the real estate bubble in the real world? No problem, just get rich off the real estate bubble in a video game. The most incredible thing about this is that it’s not that different from how banking works in the real world. The U.S. Dollar. Wow. The fact that it’s viable […]
Ford Mortgages Assets to Pay for Overhaul
November 28th, 2006This is weird. I know Ford insiders read Cryptogon. Here’s my PGP key. What unanticipated events? Via: New York Times: For the first time in its 103-year history, the Ford Motor Company is mortgaging its assets, including factories, equipment, office buildings, patents and trademarks, and stakes in subsidiaries like Volvo, in order to raise $18 […]
France in ‘Vigilance’ Plea on Falling Dollar
November 28th, 2006The other day, in a comment, I wrote: China holds all the cards now. Everyone knows it. They have been keeping the music playing these last few years, and they can pull the plug on the U.S. at their whim. Of course, it’s more complicated than that. The U.S. and China are now in a […]
Snitch Lies, Elderly Women Shot to Death While Defending Herself from Police
November 28th, 2006Do you get it yet? Via CNN: An informant cited in a search warrant as having purchased narcotics at an elderly Atlanta woman’s house denies buying drugs there, authorities say. Undercover officers raiding the 88-year-old woman’s house shot her to death last week after she fired on them while they broke down her door in […]
U.S. Army to Game Designers: Take Out Vulerabilities to Technology
November 28th, 2006They’re making warfighting doctrine internally consistant with the other fallacies of technological society. They’re not learning from Their mistakes in Iraq. The Myth of the Machine is so tantalizing, it blinds even the most power mad psychopaths, and opens them up to strategic defeat. That’s good news. In the early battles of the Rise of […]
U.S. Dollar: Play Money for Tourists
November 28th, 2006Welcome to the United States of Tijuana! Well, not quite. Mexicans actually make lots of the goods that they sell in TJ. How much of the crap being sold to tourists in the U.S. is made in the U.S.? Uh… Via: NY Post: A depressed dollar is turning Fifth Avenue into a virtual flea market […]
Access Your Postal Mail on the Web
November 28th, 2006People do a lot of very stupid things as a matter of routine, but signing up for this service might take the cake. I wonder if new clients get a free dunce cap with this? Via Slashdot: “Remote Control Mail gives us one more reason not to leave our computers. Their service lets you access […]
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
November 27th, 2006Via Rigorous Intuition: The bastards are not omnipotent, but they are omnivorous, which only appears to be a God-like quality in a world such as this.
Offical Report Released on Mexico’s “Dirty War”
November 27th, 2006How many of these operations were tasked/supported by CIA? A) All B) Most C) Many Via: National Security Archive: Mexican authorities released a groundbreaking report over the weekend on the government’s use of violent repression to crush its opponents during the 1960s-80s. The full report has now been posted here on the Web site of […]
Poisoned Spy Visited Israel with Oil Dossier
November 27th, 2006Now we’re getting somewhere. It’s like the mafia, but with nuclear missiles. Via Times Online: A dossier drawn up by Alexander Litvinenko on the Kremlin’s takeover of the world’s richest energy giant will be given to Scotland Yard today as police investigate the former KGB spy’s secret dealings with some of Russia’s richest men. It […]
