Archive for June, 2007
Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers
June 23rd, 2007What do you want to bet that “Robot Compatible” cultivars will be developed… After all, if it can’t be grown/harvested by a robot, is it really worth it? I know! They can send smaller versions of these robots into the skyscraper farms to replace the idiots roaming around in lab coats. Via: Wired: Vision Robotics, […]
Cryptogon Reader Signs Up for Hosting with Blue Host
June 22nd, 2007Thanks to the Cryptogon reader who decided to host somethinghappeninghere.net with Blue Host. Cryptogon receives $65!
Bush, Senate Head for Showdown on Domestic Spying
June 22nd, 2007This nonsense theater isn’t going to go anywhere. This is an enemy collaborator congress. This is just a smoke and mirrors distraction. If these idiots would simply read the court documents related to the EFF’s case against NSA/ATT, they would see the clear and present danger that the regime in the White House represents. But […]
Arizona Wants to Expand DNA Database to Include Those Arrested, not Just Convicted
June 22nd, 2007Via: Arizona Republic: State lawmakers voted Tuesday to expand the state’s DNA database dramatically by requiring all people arrested for certain crimes to provide DNA samples for state records whether they are convicted or not. Conservative and liberal lawmakers alike raised alarms that the measure would violate the civil liberties of people never convicted of […]
Cheney: Vice President’s Office is Not Part of the Executive Branch
June 22nd, 2007The make-it-up-according-to-our-whims phase. Via: RawStory: The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney told an agency within the National Archives that for purposes of securing classified information, the Vice President’s office is not an ‘entity within the executive branch’ according to a letter released Thursday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “The Oversight […]
Hamas Acted on a Very Real Fear of a U.S.-Sponsored Coup
June 22nd, 2007Via: Guardian: Washington’s fingerprints are all over the chaos that has hit Palestinians. The last thing they now need is an envoy called Blair. Did they jump or were they pushed? Was Hamas’s seizure of Fatah security offices in Gaza unprovoked, or a pre-emptive strike to forestall a coup by Fatah? After last week’s turmoil, […]
Bloomberg: “The Worst is Yet to Come for the U.S. Housing Market”
June 22nd, 2007Mainstream news seems to be catching up with Cryptogon warnings from two years ago. Nice work guys. Via: Bloomberg: The worst is yet to come for the U.S. housing market. The jump in 30-year mortgage rates by more than a half a percentage point to 6.74 percent in the past five weeks is putting a […]
Confidence in U.S. Congress at All Time Low
June 21st, 2007Imagine my shock. Via: USA Today: Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress. This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period of time […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $50
June 21st, 2007Thanks, PR!
Introducing iPanopticon for Students
June 21st, 2007Anyone who willingly submits to this deserves what’s coming. Via: Breitbart / AP: New technology will place cameras inside students’ homes to ensure that those taking exams online don’t cheat. This fall, Troy University in Alabama will begin rolling out the cameras for many of its approximately 11,000 online students, about a third of whom […]
