Archive for July, 2007
Cheney Pushes Bush to Act on Iran
July 17th, 2007Did you hear the one about the strategic supersonic B1 bombers, originally designed to carry nuclear weapons, that are being used against the AK-47 wielding insurgents in Iraq? Tell me another one. Via: Guardian: The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George […]
Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for Iraq
July 15th, 2007Via: AP / MyWayNews: The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a turboprop engine, able to fly at 300 mph and reach 50,000 feet. It’s outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles. The Reaper is loaded, but there’s no […]
Russian Energy Pipeline Giants to Form Corporate Armies
July 15th, 2007Via: mnweekly: Lawmakers voted Wednesday to give Russia’s natural-gas and oil pipeline monopolies the right to set up armed security units to protect the country’s energy infrastructure. One lawmaker said the move could lead to “a multitude of corporate armies.” Instead of hiring private security firms, state-controlled gas giant OAO Gazprom and oil pipeline monopoly […]
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to Pay $660 Million to Victims
July 15th, 2007Via: Breitbart / AP: Hundreds of people who claim they were abused by clergy affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles can expect to be paid more than $1 million each in a $660 million settlement of their lawsuits. The deal, by far the largest settlement in the church’s sexual abuse scandal, was […]
Woman Lives Contently in Tiny, Tiny Dream House
July 15th, 2007Enemy combatant. Via: katu: Talk about down-sizing! One woman is living in a house that you really have to see to believe. “It’s 84 square feet, so roughly the size of a parking spot. Actually, smaller than a parking spot,” says Dee Williams, who decided it was time to move. She was living in a […]
Saudi Flights on Mob, CIA Linked Charters
July 15th, 2007Via: Mad Cow Productions: The owner of one of the air charter companies involved in the airlift of Saudi Royals and bin Laden family members out of the U.S. after the 9/11 attack has been identified in numerous published reports as a business partner and “close associate†of New England Mob Boss Raymond J. (Junior) […]
Seafaring Super-Rich Dive to Ocean Bottom in Luxury Submarines
July 15th, 2007Hmm. Plan to survive the kill off phase in style? Naaah. This is simply a bunch of rich maniacs who have the same deranged whims. Move along now. I love the pathological obsession with secrecy, though. Whatever these idiots have planned, it’s not going to go the way they think it will. I don’t know […]
Air Force Quietly Building Iraq Presence
July 15th, 2007B1-B (long range, supersonic) strategic bombers and F-16C fighters are being used against dusty insurgents and their assault rifles… Incredible. Uncle $cam is going to have to borrow another couple of hundred billion dollars from the Chinese to keep this circus going. Of course, the word Iran doesn’t appear anywhere in this story. Not once. […]
Mexico: A Nation-State Dissolves?
July 15th, 2007Via: The Oil Drum: The collapse of the Mexican Nation-State will have serious, negative impacts on global oil markets, on the US economy, and on xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in the US, not to mention its impacts inside Mexico. It might not happen in 2007—and it certainly won’t occur in one sudden “bang†that can […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
July 14th, 2007Pookie sent $130 and MW sent $20. Many thanks to both of you.
