Archive for June, 2007
Feds Cut Brown’s Power, Phone and Internet Access
June 15th, 2007The Ed and Elaine Brown situation is getting really weird. The feds have now cut them off, but people are still being allowed to come and go from the property. Since the Browns have been inviting, “serious people willing to fight” to join them… Something is very wrong here. When I first heard about this […]
FBI Terror Watch List ‘Out of Control’
June 14th, 2007Via: ABC News: A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names. Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror. The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified. […]
NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite
June 14th, 2007In the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity, I wrote: There are dozens of off the shelf products that you would swear were designed for use by intelligence agencies, but they’re routinely peddled to—and used by—corporations. If corporations have and use these surveillance capabilities, what are the intelligence agencies running on the service providers’ networks? I’ll […]
One Magic 8 Ball to Rule Them All? Hallelujah, Brother, Praise the Lord
June 13th, 2007Do you notice how this technocratic theocracy is the same old snake handling and sky god worship, but with “science” and computers? Same result, it just doesn’t look like a Pentecostal revival. Instead of people speaking in tongues and waving bibles, technocrats in suits are telling us that the machines will find the terrorists who […]
Africa Command: The American Military’s New Frontier Outpost
June 13th, 2007Via: Esquire: A few years ago, with little fanfare, the United States opened a base in the horn of Africa to kill or capture Al Qaeda fighters. By 2012, the Pentagon will have two dozen such forts. The story of Africa Command, the American military’s new frontier outpost.
Oil Demand ‘Rising Faster than Expected’
June 13th, 2007Mmmm hmmm. Can they top July 2006, or not? I guess we’ll find out soon enough. Via: Financial Times: World oil demand is rising faster than previously expected while non-Opec supply is growing more slowly, the International Energy Agency has said in its latest monthly assessment of the market. The rich countries’ energy watchdog warned […]
Cryptogon Readers Contribute $100 and $30
June 13th, 2007DE sent $100 and CW sent $30. Thanks guys! Becky and I are looking at cloth nappy options… Oh my. HA
Passport Problems Trap Citizens in U.S.
June 13th, 2007I can’t imagine that anyone reading Cryptogon for any length of time wouldn’t have their passport situation sorted out, but just in case you don’t know what’s happening… Via: MSNBC: With so much fighting going on about people who want to get into the country, we didn’t realize how hard it is to get out. […]
Tony Blair Calls for Media Regulation to Contain Pernicious Conspiracy Theories
June 13th, 2007Ahhh, poor Tony needs Soviet style censors to hide his grave and despicable crimes. Via: Telegraph: Tony Blair hinted today at new restrictions on internet journalism, saying online news coverage had become “more pernicious and less balanced” than traditional political reporting. In a farewell lecture on public life, he said that much of the British […]
ABN Fears World Housing Crash; UK Housing Overvalued by 50%
June 13th, 2007Via: This is Money UK: Soaring borrowing costs could spark a housing slump on a ‘global scale’, investment bank ABN Amro has warned. Families have taken on ‘unsustainably large’ mortgages, leaving them vulnerable to the sharp increases in bond yields and official interest rates seen in recent weeks, wrote economist Dominic White. Britain is one […]
