Archive for November, 2007
Military Releases Heavily Redacted Report on Directed Energy Weapon Accident
November 10th, 2007Don’t microwave me, bro! Via: Wired: Seven months after an airman was burned in a test of the nonlethal heat beam, the Air Force has released a heavily redacted version of the mishap report that reveals few details about what happened. The military has bent over backwards to demonstrate to the public that the Active […]
Cryptogon Readers Contribute $50 and $100!
November 10th, 2007Eileen sent $50 and Cryingfreeman sent $100. These are core contributors. Their generosity is astonishing. Thank you.
Lifelines for the Drowning Dollar
November 10th, 2007Investing Very Close to Home: Shelter, Water, Food, Security/Community. Collapsitalism: What I’d Keep in My Collapse Portfolio: Analysis on how to protect your assets (and profit) from this dire situation. Investing in Oil, Food, Alternative Energy, Gold or Water? Yes, All of the Above: Many eggs, many baskets. Cryptogon’s Strategic Bearish Call on the Dollar, […]
Chart: The Cost of the War in Iraq vs. Spending on Solar Energy Research
November 10th, 2007In The Power Crisis Mythology, the 40% Efficient Solar Cell and the Cost of the War in Iraq, I wrote: Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, has developed a solar cell technology that has a conversion efficiency of 40.7%. They accomplished this with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. […]
Wave Power Attracts Investors
November 10th, 2007BIG investors. And it’s fascinating, the shit-for-brains level of context that Business Week manages here: “…if wave power becomes commercially viable.” A far more fascinating question is why and how it didn’t become viable over forty years ago?! Who died, and who made a killing? Think of it another way: The U.S. landed guys on […]
Like it or Not, $100 Oil Forces New Energy Policy on U.S.
November 10th, 2007“The reality is that the oil companies are going to lift our wallets and then flip us upside down to shake loose any change that may have remained in our pockets.” —From an upcoming Cryptogon essay Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. BP solar panels, Chevron wave power, etc… Who knows? Cheney’s […]
Vaccine Causes AIDS/HIV Related Infection that Spreads Through the Body via Common Cold Virus
November 10th, 2007This is THE most terrifying story that I have ever seen. Of course, They’re saying that V520 vaccine trial was a failure. But let’s boil this down. What did They actually wind up with after two decades of research? V520 amounts to an AIDS/HIV related infection that spreads through the body via the common cold […]
Arraignment and Federal Indictments for Bernard Kerik, Close Giuliani Associate and Botched Nominee to Head Department of Homeland Security
November 9th, 2007Tax evasion, corruption, mafia connected construction businesses: Fuggetaboutit. Windfall stock options payout on taser related swindling: $6 million. A filthy, sycophantic crook like this almost becoming the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Priceless. Via: AP: Bernard Kerik, the police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani who nearly became head of the Homeland […]
NZ Attorney General on GCSB Intercepts in Urewera 16 Case: “That Evidence Will Never See the Light of Day.”
November 8th, 2007Not even in 200 years? * uncomfortable chuckle * Why would the evidence—collected under interception warrants—“never see the light of day?” Well, it turns out that the government isn’t going to go with terrorism charges here after all. But… Revealing the “evidence” would reveal the methods by which it was collected, and, in all likelihood, […]
U.S. Military Veterans Constitute a Quarter of America’s Homeless
November 8th, 2007Via: AP: Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday. And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are trickling into shelters […]
