Archive for May, 2007
Bush Wants Phone Companies Immune to Privacy Suits
May 5th, 2007Via: Washington Post: The Bush administration is urging Congress to pass a law that would halt dozens of lawsuits charging phone companies with invading ordinary citizens’ privacy through a post-Sept. 11 warrantless surveillance program. The measure is part of a legislative package drafted by the Justice Department to relax provisions in the 1978 Foreign Intelligence […]
Is IBM About to Fire 150,000 Employees?
May 5th, 2007Via: pbs.org: The IBM project I am writing about is called LEAN and the first manifestation of LEAN was this week’s 1,300 layoffs at Global Services, which generated almost no press. Thirteen hundred layoffs from a company with more than 350,000 workers is nothing, so the yawning press reaction is not unexpected. But this week’s […]
CRYPTOGON READER CONTRIBUTES $501
May 5th, 2007Over the last couple of months, it seems like some of you have been in a race to see how fast you could get us to the minimum monthly goal of $500. Dagobaz wasn’t taking any chances in May. She sent $501, along with the following message: Kevin; i want to join pookie. 🙂 expect […]
Cheney Hosts Queen’s Tour of Jamestown
May 4th, 2007I wonder if anyone in these crowds has ever heard of the Declaration of Independence? Via: CNN: Several hundred people rose early Friday to position themselves at Jamestown Settlement for a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth II. The British monarch is visiting the site of the first permanent English settlement in America to commemorate Jamestown’s 400th […]
Potential Padilla Jurors Unsure of Who to Blame for 9/11 Attacks
May 4th, 2007Even the troglodytes sense a disturbance in the force farce on this one. If they even know the official story—many of them freely admit that they’re clueless—they don’t seem to buy it. I wonder how many of them have heard the one about Satam al-Suqami’s magic passport! HAHA On a different point, I’m slightly jealous […]
April Earnings
May 4th, 2007Combined Cryptogon and Farmlet earnings in April came to: $876.84. As I’m sure you know by now, the minimum goal to keep things from getting too weird is $500. Amazon commissions in April blew away the old record. We hit the 7% payout tier for the first time. More of you are remembering to order […]
Wheat Super-Blight
May 4th, 2007Keep the “glorified bread-and-water diet” quote from the bee dieoff story in mind as you read this one. Via: New Scientist: “This thing has immense potential for social and human destruction.” Startling words – but spoken by the father of the Green Revolution, Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, they are not easily dismissed. An infection is […]
Honeybee Die-Off Threatens Food Supply
May 3rd, 2007Via: Yahoo / AP: Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of the nation’s honeybees could have a devastating effect on America’s dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet. Honeybees don’t just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering […]
FDA ORDERS DETENTION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTIEN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA
May 3rd, 2007The “Typical American Diet” amounts to a perpetual, slow moving genocide. But that’s on the best of days. What you have here is a cluster f*&% of unimaginable proportions. Via: U.S. Food and Drug Administration: IA #99-29, 4/27/07, IMPORT ALERT #99-29, “DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA FOR ANIMAL OR […]
Higher Education Conformity
May 3rd, 2007Via: Alternet: My theory is that employers prefer college grads because they see a college degree chiefly as mark of one’s ability to obey and conform. Whatever else you learn in college, you learn to sit still for long periods while appearing to be awake. And whatever else you do in a white collar job, […]
