Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
California Plans to Spray Pesticide Over Urban San Francisco, Marin County and the East Bay
February 16th, 2008“I suppose it’s all just a coincidence that Arnold Schwarzenegger selected a belt buckle to wear—on the cover of a mass circulation news magazine—that features a human skull. Sure, Arnold’s dad was a Nazi and Arnold denies that he admired Hitler and liked to pretend to be an SS officer, despite eyewitness accounts to the […]
U.S. to Try to Shoot Down Spy Satellite
February 15th, 2008Remember how the Magic Anchor took out those undersea fiber optic cables recently, and how the network operators re-routed some of the traffic; satellite links played a key role. In strategic information warfare, decapitation means taking out not only the primary links, but the backup ones as well. I’d imagine that .mil would have had […]
U.S. Loses Prison Camp Records of Bin Laden’s Driver
February 11th, 2008One for your My-Dog-Ate-It file. Via: Reuters: The U.S. military has lost a year’s worth of records describing the Guantanamo interrogation and confinement of Osama bin Laden’s driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive’s war court hearing on Thursday. Lawyers for the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, asked for the records to support their argument […]
Gulf States May Have to Drop Dollar Pegs
February 6th, 2008Interesting development, with so many of the Intertubes getting damaged in the region… Via: Bloomberg: Gulf states including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will have to revalue their currency pegs this year following the dollar’s decline and U.S. interest- rate cuts, said Bear Stearns Cos. and Merrill Lynch & Co. Five nations lowered […]
Weekly Gold Chart Has Formed a Shooting Star… or Something
February 2nd, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. There was a change of circumstances between the time I wrote this post and the close of trading on Friday. Remember how grim things were looking for the dollar, and how well gold was doing? Don’t ask me how, why, who? […]
Third Undersea Internet Cable Cut in Mideast
February 2nd, 2008I spent some time this evening trying to get a better idea of what this information warfare campaign is all about. (Anyone who tells you that this is some sort of fluke is a f*@$^!& idiot, and that’s being kind.) Remember the Iranian Oil Bourse? This is from January 4, 2008: Iran Oil Bourse to […]
Opium Fields Spread Across Iraq
January 18th, 2008Do you get it yet? Via: Independent: The cultivation of opium poppies whose product is turned into heroin is spreading rapidly across Iraq as farmers find they can no longer make a living through growing traditional crops. Afghan with experience in planting poppies have been helping farmers switch to producing opium in fertile parts of […]
Greenspan Joins Hedge Fund that Made Billions Shorting Subprime Derivitives
January 18th, 2008Imagine my shock at the coincidence! Via: Telegraph: Alan Greenspan, the 81 year-old former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is set to join the US hedge fund Paulson & C. as an adviser. Dr Greenspan will advise Paulson on the global financial markets, and under the terms of the agreement he will not advise any […]
US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand Building Biometric Database
January 15th, 2008This article expands on points touched on in FBI Prepares Vast Biometrics Database. Of course, there’s still no mention of the fact that the states involved make up the ECHELON club. A couple of interesting notes: Northrop Grumman built the systems that comprise the UK’s biometric fusion center known as IDENT1. Also, a future database […]
Reader Email: Did My Gold Analysis Spot Informed Buying Before Bhutto Assassination?
December 30th, 2007JJ writes: I was stunned to see the news that Benazir Bhutto was killed within hours of your recent analysis on gold. As you said, gold did in fact rise further in the aftermath of that tragic event. You wrote, “I find it interesting that some players see the need to take long positions right […]
