Archive for December, 2006
Orlov: Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’
December 9th, 2006Dmitry Orlov’s, Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: The USSR Was Better Prepared for Peak Oil than the US, is probably the finest meditation on what America is facing that I have ever read. Orlov stresses themes that are axiomatic on Cryptogon: It’s not that bad, it’s worse. Political activism is a joke and a waste of […]
Georgia Foreclosures Jump 99%
December 7th, 2006We have just lost cabin pressure. Via: Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Hundreds of Georgians lost their homes Tuesday. The houses, taken from debt-laden homeowners, were sold to bidders on courthouse steps statewide. The increasingly busy monthly auctions show that not all of the residential market is in decline. Foreclosures are rising. More than 115,000 properties across the […]
Survival Acres Continues Sponsorship of Cryptogon
December 7th, 2006Survival Acres has opted to sponsor Cryptogon for another month. Survival Acres offers a vast selection of dehydrated, freeze dried and bulk storable food. Guys, please take advantage of the opportunity to get prepared (for who knows what?) while supplies are plentiful. Thanks, Survival Acres, for supporting Cryptogon, and making all of these products available […]
On The Edge of Blade Runner
December 7th, 2006I couldn’t resist posting this. It’s a documentary that came out in 2000 about Blade Runner, probably my all time favorite film (along with Apocalypse Now, Jacob’s Ladder, Fight Club and Pi). Since Cryptogon probably has a higher percentage of Blade Runner freaks as readers than most other sites, I figured, why not!? On the […]
America’s Robot Army
December 6th, 2006Recently, I wrote, “In the early battles of the Rise of the Machines, victory will go to the side with the monkey wrenches, not the side with the terminator robots. The bad news? The bad news will be the result of another couple of decades worth of autonomous weapons research and design. You won’t want […]
U.S. Department of Energy: Concentrator Solar Cell at 40% Efficiency
December 6th, 2006Imagine – my – shock… This is a big, BIG deal. I’ve always thought that: A) They have not one, but several solutions; and B) They’ve had these solutions for decades. When I suggested these things in the past, some of you wrote to me and told me to get my head examined, take off […]
Iran Replaces Dollar with Euro in Most Oil Dealings
December 6th, 2006Via: Mher News: Iran has started replacing dollar with euro in majority of its crude oil exchanges in the last several months, an informed source with Iran’s Oil Ministry said here on Tuesday. Oil Ministry has taken the policy to substitute dollar with euro, and begun to implement it for most of its oil dealings, […]
Say Hello to the Goodbye Weapon
December 6th, 2006This weapon is old news, but note the tenacity with which the military carried out the Dr. Mengele inspired research. How many hundreds or thousands of people have dedicated their careers to this thing? What could have been accomplished if all of this time, effort and money was directed at non-evil objectives? This, actually, is […]
Registered Traveler Program
December 5th, 2006Via: NY Times: READY or not — and some critics say not — the long-delayed Registered Traveler program is moving forward, with the single existing operator planning a succession of openings soon at four airports, while a competitor says it is about to join in. … The Registered Traveler program provides identity cards, which include […]
Richest Two Percent of People Own More than Half the World
December 5th, 2006Via: Reuters: Two percent of adults have more than half of the world’s wealth, including property and financial assets, according to a study by the U.N. development research institute published on Tuesday. While global income is distributed unequally, the spread of wealth is even more skewed, the study by the World Institute for Development Economics […]
