Archive for February, 2007
Strong Angel III
February 8th, 2007I started poking around to see if I could find any indication of the military response to the events of a couple of days ago involving the root DNS nodes. There is, without a doubt, a military response. Of course, who actually did the thing vs. who gets guns pointed at their heads are really […]
Cryptogon Readers Contribute $30 and $50
February 7th, 2007AS, a long time Cryptogon reader and contributor, sent $30. Reader CF also kicked in a generous $50. It’s all going into the small barn / milking shed fund at this stage. Building materials are incredibly expensive here in New Zealand. We have been advised by people who know what they’re doing to go with […]
SERIOUS ATTACK ON ROOT DNS NODES
February 7th, 2007Two days ago, in a comment on the Zbigniew Brzezinski Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee story, I wrote the following: This thing is collapsing for multiple reasons, and all at once… I’ve thought along these lines as well, especially re: a strategic, false flag takedown of the Internet mainly to blame “the terrorists†for […]
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
February 7th, 2007Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements: Embracing All Those Which Are Most Important In Dynamics, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Steam Engines, Mill and other Gearing, Presses, Horology, and Miscellaneous Machinery: and including Many Movements Never Before Published and Several Which Have only Recently Come into Use by Henry T. Brown: Over five hundred simple mechanical movements […]
$12 Billion Dollars Missing in Iraq
February 7th, 2007Forget the bogus contracts for war toys and crap. Just print the money and deliver it to the thieves in shrink wrapped bundles. It sounds like a scene out of Miami Vice! But no, this was official U.S. policy. Of course, Bremmer says that the funds were used in the, “best interests of the Iraqi […]
Bottled Water as Black Ops Swindle
February 7th, 2007Spooks lining their pockets with blood money?! Imagine my shock. This case represents just one tiny deal. What about the other $12 billion that went missing in Iraq? Via: San Francisco Chronicle: CIA officers operating in northern Iraq bought drinking water from a bottling plant there for years prior to the 2003 invasion that ousted […]
Bottled Water as Ecocidal Folly
February 7th, 2007Via: Triple Pundit: Well, I doubt that Fiji has a booming plastics industry so they probably get the bottles from China. I would suspect that they get the bottles in the form of “Blanks” which are then expanded to their final size and shaped by a process called “stretch blow molding.” The total mass of […]
Steve Jobs Taps the Mat on DRM
February 7th, 2007They lost on this one, and They know it. Via: Apple: The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $35
February 7th, 2007Pookie, Queen of Cryptogon contributions, continues her glorious reign. Thank you. In Case You Don’t Know: Pookie
U.S. Sent $4 Billion in Cash to Baghdad Before Handover
February 7th, 2007Oh sure. And in other news, Lieberman wants a war on terror tax. Tell me another one. Via: Reuters: The U.S. Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraqis, lawmakers said on Tuesday. […]
