Archive for February, 2007
U.S. Mortgage Crisis Goes Into Meltdown
February 27th, 2007I explained the racket in my Wall Street Chop Shop essay. Via: Telegraph: Panic has begun to sweep the sub-prime mortgage sector in the United States after the bankruptcy of 22 lenders over the past two months, setting off mass liquidation of housing loans packaged as securities. The rapid deterioration could not come at a […]
Lawrence Livermore Demonstrates 67KW Solid State Laser
February 27th, 2007Do you really think They plan on sending this thing to town with lithium ion batteries on board? Several weeks ago, I wrote the following about EEstor: “[The] clean green electric Hummers of the future are going to be spunoff from Pentagon death ray and super cannon projects…. The military needs the energy density that […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $1
February 27th, 2007Thanks, DK.
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
February 26th, 2007To anyone out there who still doesn’t understand the limousine liberal scam… Via: tennesseepolicy.org: Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade […]
U.S. Economy Leaving Record Numbers in Severe Poverty
February 25th, 2007Via: Bradenton.com: The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high, millions of working Americans are falling closer to the poverty line and the gulf between the nation’s “haves” and “have-nots” continues to widen. A McClatchy Newspapers analysis of 2005 census figures, the latest available, found that nearly […]
WHAT HAPPENED TO CHENEY’S AIRCRAFT?
February 25th, 2007Uhh… Something VERY weird happened here. Via: Sky News: A Reuters photographer at Sydney airport said Air Force 2 had proceeded towards the runway as normal and revved its engines before the engines appeared to decelerate. A mobile staircase was sent out to the plane but a door in the plane opened and an unidentified […]
De Facto U.S. Flat Tax: 40%
February 25th, 2007You godda problem wid dat? Via: MSN: Politicians… generally talk about only one tax: the federal income tax, which offers graduated rates from 10% to 35%. Politicians rarely talk about what real people experience: the true maze of taxes and government benefits. If someone put them all together, we could see what our actual tax […]
U.S. Generals ‘Will Quit’ if Bush Orders Iran Attack
February 25th, 2007A couple of quick quotes from recent Cryptogon essays: Brzezinski’s testimony indicates to me that the expansion of the conflict into Iran might not be allowed to happen. Don’t ask me how it will be stopped, but he is the mouthpiece of the people who run this show, not in appearance, but in fact. He […]
A Fascist for Every Occasion
February 25th, 2007Honestly, I haven’t looked too closely at the Neoconservative literature. Why? I read The Prince when I was eighteen years old. The whole Neocon thing just seems like a Machiavelli fan club/psychopath cult to me; a rehash, in other words. So, why do the Neocons appear to be in control? Politics, for most of the […]
White House Rehearses for a Domestic Attack
February 24th, 2007The same IEDs that the British taught the IRA how to build? Tell me another one. Via: MSNBC: The White House is staging a high-level exercise Saturday to test responses to the prospect of a massive domestic terrorist attack involving IEDs (improvised explosive devices)—the same deadly roadside bombs that have been used by insurgents against […]
