Archive for September, 2007
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions and Sign Up for Hosting with Blue Host
September 4th, 2007JB sent $50 and JG set $10. Also, the owners of Salon Intuitions and Dialup Land signed up for hosting with Blue Host via Cryptogon. I will receive a $130 commission payment from BlueHost as a result of these signups. Thanks to all of you for getting September off to such a great start.
Asymmetric Warfare: Causing Incredible Economic Damage by Simply Smashing Machines
September 4th, 2007In 1996, when I suggested to a crusty, old professor of mine that crude, physical attacks on electricity and communications infrastructures could cause economic damage on par with conventional military attacks, but at a fraction of the cost, both in terms of money and manpower required, he chuckled. I wrote the term paper anyway. The […]
PROPERTY PRICES IN SOME AREAS COULD BE CUT IN HALF
September 3rd, 2007Via: Finfacts Ireland: US homes may lose as much as half their value in some US cities as the housing bust deepens, according to Yale University professor Robert Shiller. Meanwhile, Martin Feldstein of Harvard University says that experience suggests that the dramatic decline in residential construction provides an early warning of a coming recession. The […]
Mexico Trucks to Roll on U.S. Highways
September 3rd, 2007Via: Yahoo: The Bush administration can proceed with a plan to open the U.S. border to long haul Mexican trucks as early as next week after an appeals court rejected a bid by labor, consumer and environmental interests to block the initiative. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco late on Friday denied […]
MSNBC: Do You Believe Any 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?
September 3rd, 2007Via: MSNBC: Woops.
U.S. May Invoke ‘State Secrets’ to Squelch Suit Against Swift
September 3rd, 2007Via: International Herald Tribune: The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn once again to a favorite legal tool known as the “state secrets” privilege to try to shut down a lawsuit brought against a Belgium banking cooperative that secretly supplied millions of private financial records to the U.S. government, court documents show. […]
Pentagon ‘Three-Day Blitz’ Plan for Iran
September 3rd, 2007Via: Times Online: THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert. Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing […]
Bill Clinton ‘Shocked’ Hillary Donor Was a Fugitive
September 3rd, 2007Bill Mena Airport Clinton was shocked by the revelations… Via: Newsday: Former President Bill Clinton said he was “shocked” by revelations that a top fundraiser for his wife is a fugitive from justice and claimed he didn’t even know what “HillRaiser” Norman Hsu did for a living. “You could have knocked me over with a […]
August Earnings
September 3rd, 2007Cryptogon and Farmlet supporters made August a great financial month for the Becky and me. Earnings from all sources came to $1,138.91, or about 2.3X the minimum monthly goal of $500. We’re heading into Spring here in New Zealand and we’re going to be firing up some projects that are long past due: chicken house […]
BARCLAYS ADMITS BORROWING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS AT BANK’S EMERGENCY RATE
September 1st, 2007More “technical difficulties” at one of the world’s top banks. Remember the recent Wells Fargo disaster… Via: Guardian: Barclays has been forced to borrow hundreds of millions of pounds from the Bank of England’s emergency lending facility for the second time in a fortnight, it was revealed last night. In a hurried and emotive statement […]
