Archive for March, 2007
Income Gap Widening, Wealth Concentration at Pre Great Depression Levels
March 30th, 2007Via: New York Times: Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 percent of Americans — those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 — receiving their largest share of national income since 1928, analysis of newly released tax data shows. The top 10 percent, roughly those earning more than $100,000, also […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $35 / Pookie Is Pissed
March 30th, 2007Pookie has made what she called a, “Denial of Service Donation,” and writes that she, “…is pissed as hell and believes that this is the proper response by Cryptogoners to Denial of Service attacks.” HA! Thanks, Pookie, for your incredible generosity and support. I’ve spent several hours working on hardening the defenses, trying to make […]
A Deconsumption Post!
March 29th, 2007Steve wrote, “Whatever decisions I might make for the future, they should only be ones I’d want to make anyway, regardless of what may actually come to pass in the world.” How do you improve on that?
47 Large Core Columns, More Than a Dozen of Which Retained Dimensions of 54 x 22 Inches Through the 66th Floor
March 29th, 2007For the most part, I stopped thinking about the demolition of the WTC towers about three years ago. I filed that one away right next to my JFK folder. While it’s not intellectually rigorous to be content with, “The usual suspects did it. I don’t know exactly how. But They did it,” I sleep well […]
Denial of Service
March 29th, 2007UPDATE 2: In Summary – Bad Behavior But first, I will say that I’m quite sure that this wasn’t done by the U.S. government. Why? Because a few U.S. military and government zombies were involved with the attack. If this was a U.S. government operation, I seriously doubt that they would use zombies from their […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $20
March 28th, 2007Thanks MS!
Russian Intelligence Sees U.S. Military Buildup On Iran Border
March 28th, 2007Via: rian.ru: Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran’s borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. “The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran,” the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not […]
Oil Jitters
March 28th, 2007Via: Bloomberg: Oil rose for a seventh day in New York, climbing close to $65 a barrel, on concern a dispute over Iran’s capture of British servicemen would escalate, disrupting supplies from the Middle East. Oil surged $5 in seven minutes late yesterday on speculation the U.K. would mount a rescue attempt, and rose today […]
China Shifts to Euros for Iran Oil
March 28th, 2007Via: Intel Daily: China’s state-run Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp, the biggest buyer of Iranian crude worldwide, began paying for its oil in euros late last year as Tehran moves to diversify its foreign reserves away from U.S. dollars.
The Right to Raw Milk
March 27th, 2007Excellent raw milk article. Via: Acres USA: ACRES U.S.A. Fresh or raw milk producers are having problems just about everywhere, such as in Michigan, where they pulled over a guy and destroyed his product and raided his house and took the records — and similar things have happened in state after state. I’d like to […]
