Archive for December, 2007
Christmas Miracle: Shane MacGowan Turns 50
December 25th, 2007If this piss drunk maniac can live to see 50, it indicates to me that ANYTHING is possible. Happy Christmas!* Shane MacGowan Via: AFP: The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan, whose Christmas song “Fairytale of New York” remains a classic hit, told a newspaper he never thought he would live to celebrate his 50th birthday Tuesday. […]
The Voice of God Weapon
December 25th, 2007Via: Wired: The Voice of God weapon — a device that projects voices into your head to make you think God is speaking to you — is the military’s equivalent of an urban myth. Meaning, it’s mentioned periodically at defense workshops (ironically, I first heard about it at the same defense conference where I first […]
“Adverse Self-Reinforcing Dynamic”: Financial Crisis May Make 1929 Look a “Walk in the Park”
December 25th, 2007Some Christmas cheer from the Telegraph. Via: Telegraph: Twenty billion dollars here, $20bn there, and a lush half-trillion from the European Central Bank at give-away rates for Christmas. Buckets of liquidity are being splashed over the North Atlantic banking system, so far with meagre or fleeting effects. As the credit paralysis stretches through its fifth […]
PG&E Agrees to Buy Power from Canadian Firm’s Proposed ‘Wave Park’
December 24th, 2007Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Ocean waves pack immense energy in a small area. Tapping even a fraction of it could provide large amounts of electricity without pumping greenhouse gases into the air. And because the energy is so concentrated, the machines needed to tap it, in theory, don’t have be as big as a wind […]
Police Begin Fingerprinting on Traffic Stops
December 24th, 2007See, the pigs need the biometric ID to protect you, to make sure they only issue bullshit revenue generating tickets to the right slaves. Why not just get the eye scan, ear lobe and gate recognition data too? Via: wbay: If you’re ticketed by Green Bay police, you’ll get more than a fine. You’ll get […]
Hoover Planned Mass Jailings in 1950: He Wanted to Suspend Habeas Corpus and Detain 12,000
December 23rd, 2007“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Via: San Francisco Chronicle – New York Times: A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the long-time director of the FBI, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty. Hoover […]
Cryptogon Reader Signs Up for Hosting with Blue Host
December 23rd, 2007Thanks to the owner of Marginal Way House for signing up for webhosting services with Blue Host. Cryptogon received $65 as a result.
Statement Introducing the Free Competition in Currency Act
December 23rd, 2007The man is taking his life in his hands. Via: U.S. House of Representatives: Statement Introducing the Free Competition in Currency Act 13 December 2007 Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. Madame Speaker, I rise to introduce the Free Competition in Currency Act. This act would eliminate two sections of US Code that, although ostensibly intended to […]
No Trial, No Conviction: FBI Steals Millions of Dollars Worth of Gold from Individuals on Deposit with Liberty Dollar, Plans Auction
December 23rd, 2007That the cops have stolen people’s gold and intend to sell it isn’t news to me, but rather a real world lesson on why I keep my gold in a vault in Switzerland. The U.S. is “behind enemy lines” in my opinion. People in the U.S. are in grave danger. It’s not complicated, if you’ve […]
No Charges, No Trial, No Conviction: Cops Steal a Couple’s Life Savings Over a Small Amount of Marijuana
December 22nd, 2007Via: LimaOhio.com: Two robbers who broke into Luther Ricks Sr.’s house this summer may have not gotten his life savings he had in a safe, but after the FBI confiscated it he may not get it back. Ricks has tried to get an attorney to fight for the $402,767 but he has no money. Lima […]
