Archive for May, 2007
China: America’s Banker
May 3rd, 2007Via: CNN: China, Long recognized as the world’s factory, is earning a new distinction: America’s banker. As it continues to suck in foreign investment and crank out exports, the world’s fastest-growing economy is piling up foreign currency, mostly dollars, at an astonishing rate. In April, China’s central bank stunned economists with the disclosure that, in […]
Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers’ Brains
May 3rd, 2007If you think that the ultimate goal for this project is a set of “Star Wars”-style binoculars, you’ve got another thing coming. Of course, we can’t leave it up to the Wired reporter to connect the dots. The article asks, “Why all the rush?” Three years ago, I wrote: The ultimate goal is to replace […]
Soldiers Must Clear All Blog Entries and Personal Emails Through Military Censors
May 3rd, 2007I don’t see anything about restrictions on the hordes of .mil PSYOP trolls who show up to spread bullshit in comments… Hmm. Via: Wired: The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, […]
Hedging Disaster
May 3rd, 2007Via: Boston Globe: As hedge fund and private-equity operators try ever harder in the face of more competition to produce exorbitant returns, they do ever-riskier and more conflict-laden deals. This trend increases the damage to the economy, the extremes of inequality, and the risks to the system. When Long Term Capital Management — a hedge […]
Man Ran Bank from Washington Home, IRS Not Pleased
May 2nd, 2007Woh! Do as we say, not as we do! And, like I wrote in the post from earlier today, if you thought online anonymity was a tough nut to crack, try keeping your financial life private. Via: Yahoo / AP: A man operated a “warehouse bank” out of his suburban home, taking at least $28 […]
Chickens Now Raised on Tainted Pet Food, FDA Says Don’t Worry
May 2nd, 2007UPDATE: And Pork Too What to do with all that tainted pet food that was killing animals around the U.S.? Make chicken feed out of it, of course! Yummy! Via: CNN: More farms across the United States will likely be affected by animal feed tainted with recalled pet food, federal health officials said Tuesday, after […]
Blueprint for Dictatorship
May 2nd, 2007Via: Antiwar: America is headed for a military dictatorship – and recent legislation makes this all but inevitable. Last September, Congress passed the Defense Authorization Act, which empowered the president to declare martial law with very little provocation, namely in the aftermath of a “terrorist attack or incident.” Having determined that “the execution of the […]
High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity
May 2nd, 20072013 Update How Unique – and Trackable – Is Your Browser? Software Can Identify You from Your Browsing Habits Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users —End Update— With the U.S. Government trying to shut down websites and stealing gold, I feel the need to discuss communications security, surveillance and anonymity as the U.S. collapses further into overt […]
JFK Murder Plot “Deathbed Confession” Aired On National Radio
May 2nd, 2007Prison Planet is hosting the audio clip that aired. Via: Prison Planet: The “deathbed confession” audio tape in which former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt admits he was approached to be part of a CIA assassination team to kill JFK was aired this weekend – an astounding development that has gone completely […]
Advertisers Broadcast Messages On Focussed Audio Beams
May 1st, 2007Thoroughly terrifying. Via: Boston Herald: Advertisers have a new way to get into your head. Marketers around the world are using innovative audio technology that sends sound in a narrow beam, just like light, making it possible to direct messages right into consumers’ ears while they shop or sit in waiting rooms. The audio spotlight […]
