Archive for January, 2008
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $50
January 12th, 2008AH, a long time reader and contributor, sent $50. Thanks, AH.
ISP Content Filtering in America: Federal Crimes and Civil Wrongs Permitting the Recovery of Punitive Damages and Attorney’s Fees
January 12th, 2008Via: The Volokh Conspiracy: The Wiretap Act makes it a federal crime and a civil wrong permitting the recovery of punitive damages and attorney’s fees for intercepting the contents of a person’s communications over an interstate communications network. Although there are no cases directly on this, network-level scanning of traffic for copyrighted content is likely […]
Taxpayers of America: “You’re Going to Help Bank of America Finance its $4 Billion Buyout of Countrywide”
January 12th, 2008Imagine my shock. Via: Fortune: Guess who’s helping Bank of America pay for its $4.1 billion purchase of Countrywide Financial? Answer: The taxpayers of the United States. That’s because Bank of America, which is solidly profitable, will be able to use some of Countrywide’s losses to offset its own taxable income. The tax break could […]
Over the Last Decade, Every Person in the U.S. has Borrowed About $4,000 from Someone in China
January 12th, 2008Via: The Atlantic: Through the quarter-century in which China has been opening to world trade, Chinese leaders have deliberately held down living standards for their own people and propped them up in the United States. This is the real meaning of the vast trade surplus—$1.4 trillion and counting, going up by about $1 billion per […]
REAL ID Zone Ahead
January 12th, 2008REAL ID is one false flag incident away from smooth sailing throughout the realm. It’ll be like that evil, re-animated Heinrich Himmler, twisted freak, shit for brains Chertoff says below: Citizens would love to have a REAL ID license… Via: CNN/AP: Residents of at least 17 states are suddenly stuck in the middle of a […]
2008 Presidential Charade Promises Deepening of Government Criminality and Expansion of War
January 12th, 2008I’ve been sick of this issue since the 1990s (when I read Votescam: The Stealing of America by James M. Collier). But, I like this piece below. “Mass insanity and unfounded hopes…” What an excellent way to describe the Presidential (s)Election process! Via: globalresearch.ca: Every election in modern US history has been a criminal manipulation, […]
Oil Shipments Missing from Strategic Petroleum Reserve
January 12th, 2008Via: ABC News: How do you not notice when 308,000 barrels of oil go missing? That’s the question government auditors were asking after they looked into the Department of Energy’s management of oil received for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a critical program to assure energy stability in the U.S. in case of an oil crisis. […]
Consumer Confidence Sinks to Record Low
January 11th, 2008Via: AP: Consumer confidence fell to an all-time low as worries about jobs, energy bills and home foreclosures darkened people’s feelings about the country’s economic health and their own financial well-being. According to the RBC Cash Index, confidence tumbled to a mark of 56.3 in early January. That compares with a reading of 65.9 in […]
U.S. Government Likely Favors Bank of America Buyout of Countrywide
January 11th, 2008The title should actually be: U.S. Dollar Holders Are About to Buy Countrywide and Most of Them Don’t Even Know It Countrywide can’t go down. But the U.S. Dollar can. Via: AP: A buyout of hobbled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial likely would be approved by regulators, analysts say, because otherwise the company could file for […]
Mexico’s Pemex Stopping U.S. West Coast Oil Exports
January 11th, 2008Via: Reuters: Mexican state oil monopoly Pemex will stop shipping crude oil to the U.S. West Coast from February due in part to a shortage of infrastructure at Salina Cruz port, the company said on Wednesday. Pemex was only shipping a tiny 20,000 barrels per day of oil to the U.S. Pacific coast out of […]
