Archive for October, 2007
Dollar Breaking Down Again, Gold Trying for $750
October 11th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Headline says it all. But, is the Dow at 20,000 yet? Note: Hourly overhead resistance on gold is at $747.50 and support at $742.50. Make or break, right now.
Credit Card Debt is Ready to Blow
October 11th, 2007You already know about the subprime mortgage apocalypse… Since the lending requirements for mortgages have been tightened up, banks are now issuing more credit cards to the slobs who took out those stupid loans! Via: Baltimore Sun: After every financial crisis over the past 10 years, the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates and pumped […]
1,000 Drive Through Flu Shots to be Given in 3 Hours for Terrorism Drill
October 11th, 2007I N C R E D I B L E Via: Arizona Republic: Chandler health officials are asking residents to roll down their car windows and roll up their sleeves for an emergency terrorism drill that will test the efficiency of mass drive-through vaccinations. The first drill of it’s kind at Chandler Regional Medical Center […]
Micro UAV Surveillance at Antiwar Protests
October 10th, 2007Via: Washington Post: Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. “I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or little […]
S&P: U.S. Subprime Crisis Will Not Peak Until 2009, “We Underestimated the Extent to Which Fraud Was Occurring in the Industry”
October 10th, 2007Via: Reuters: The U.S. subprime housing crisis will not peak until 2009, rating agency Standard and Poor’s said on Tuesday, adding it had underestimated the extent of fraud in the industry. S&P expected the world economy to grow 3.6 percent in 2007 and 3.5 percent in 2008, with emerging market economies driving growth. The U.S. […]
Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Popular Video Game at Church
October 10th, 2007Via: New York Times: First the percussive sounds of sniper fire and the thrill of the kill. Then the gospel of peace. Across the country, hundreds of ministers and pastors desperate to reach young congregants have drawn concern and criticism through their use of an unusual recruiting tool: the immersive and violent video game Halo. […]
Again: Minot B-52 Nuclear Weapons Story
October 10th, 2007Via: Star Telegram: Last month, six W80-1 nuclear-armed AGM-129 advanced cruise missiles were flown from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana and sat on the tarmac for 10 hours undetected. Press reports initially cited the Air Force mistake of flying nuclear weapons over the United States in violation of Air Force […]
Wild Gold Action
October 9th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Man, the action on gold has been wild. Look what happened after I issued my warning last weekend: Volatile, rangebound action Notice how I never suggest that Cryptogon readers should even think about shorting the thing. While the situation I described […]
U.S. Man Faces Potential 30-Year Prison Sentence for Stealing a Doughnut
October 9th, 2007Via: International Herald Tribune: A Missouri man could potentially face a 30-year prison sentence for stealing a doughnut from a store. Scott A. Masters, 41, of Park Hills, Missouri, has been charged with felony second-degree robbery in the theft of a 52-cent doughut from a Country Mart in Farmington, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) south […]
“Its My Party and I’ll Bust Who I Want To”
October 9th, 2007Via: Madcowprod: Seventeen months after an American-registered DC9 airliner was busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine, a major international scandal is brewing over a second drug trafficking incident in Mexico’s Yucatan involving an American-registered jet owned by a dummy front company of the kind usually associated with the CIA. A weekend visit to “Donna Blue […]
