Archive for June, 2007
Blood Money and More Blood Money
June 28th, 2007On the one hand, you’ve got a reporter talking about Cheney and his privatized genocide and ripoffs. Then you’ve got a story about how the U.S. Army has just awarded $150 BILLION worth of contracts for more of the same, except with three corporations, instead of one. It’s just a nonstop meat grinder of doom […]
Number of U.S. Prisoners has Biggest Rise in 6 Years
June 28th, 2007Via: Yahoo / Reuters: The United States, which has the most prisoners of any country in the world, last year recorded the largest increase in the number of people in prisons and jails since 2000, the Justice Department reported on Wednesday. It said the nation’s prison and jail populations increased by more than 62,000 inmates, […]
What Did $19 Billion Buy?
June 28th, 2007Guess who’s training and arming the Iraqi insurgents… That’s right. Via: Washington Post: The United States has invested $19 billion to train and equip nearly 350,000 Iraqi soldiers and police since toppling Saddam Hussein, but the ability of those forces to provide security remains in doubt, according to the findings of a bipartisan congressional investigation […]
International Energy Agency Chief Economist on Oil: “If Iraqi Production Does Not Rise Exponentially by 2015, We Have a Very Big Problem”
June 28th, 2007Kill off, plain and simple. Via: DailyKos: If Iraqi production does not rise exponentially by 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia fulfills all its promises. The numbers are very simple, there’s no need to be an expert…
Doctors Back Microchipping Plan
June 28th, 2007Tell me another one. Via: Yahoo / AFP: Doctors could soon be storing essential medical information under the skin of their patients, the American Medical Association says. Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients, […]
Wired on Ron Paul’s Web Campaign
June 28th, 2007Via: Wired: When Texas Congressman Ron Paul entered the race for next year’s Republican presidential nomination, few political analysts paid much notice. Paul has no backing from political bigwigs or any campaign war chest to speak of. As the Libertarian Party presidential nominee in 1988 he won less than one-half of 1 percent of the […]
DARPA’s Better Bionic Arm
June 28th, 2007Via: Popular Mechanics: It’s an ambitious deadline: By 2009, DARPA hopes to have a mechanical arm whose functionality is on par with a flesh-and-blood limb. A new arm developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is just as ambitious, allowing its user to actually feel an object in his grasp. […]
Iranians Attack Gas Stations Amid Rationing
June 27th, 2007Via: USA Today: Angry Iranians attacked several gas stations in protest after the government suddenly began long-threatened fuel rationing, while many others rushed to fill their tanks. The Oil Ministry announced the start of rationing Tuesday night only three hours before it was due to begin at midnight. The sudden announcement sparked long lines at […]
Three Cryptogon Readers Contribute $50 Each!
June 27th, 2007Pookie, JS and KP each sent $50! WOW! Thanks for providing such a strong finish to June.
Realtors Attend Worship Service to Pray for Better Real Estate Market
June 27th, 2007I love it! Via: North East Florida Daily News: More than 300 people with a keen interest in the Emerald Coast’s real estate market gathered Wednesday at Destiny Worship Center to ask for God’s blessing. The Real Estate Prayer Luncheon was organized in hopes of breathing life and positive thinking into the area’s slumping housing […]
