Archive for February, 2008
California Plans to Spray Pesticide Over Urban San Francisco, Marin County and the East Bay
February 16th, 2008“I suppose it’s all just a coincidence that Arnold Schwarzenegger selected a belt buckle to wear—on the cover of a mass circulation news magazine—that features a human skull. Sure, Arnold’s dad was a Nazi and Arnold denies that he admired Hitler and liked to pretend to be an SS officer, despite eyewitness accounts to the […]
Britain: ‘£10 Licence to Smoke’ Proposed
February 16th, 2008Via: BBC: Smokers could be forced to pay £10 for a permit to buy tobacco if a government health advisory body gets its way. No one would be able to buy cigarettes without the permit, under the idea proposed by Health England. Its chairman, Professor Julian Le Grand, told BBC Radio 5 Live the scheme […]
How the Spooks Took Over the News
February 15th, 2008Via: Independent: So, who exactly is producing fiction for the media? Who wrote the Zarqawi letters? Who created the fantasy story about Osama bin Laden using a network of subterranean bases in Afghanistan, complete with offices, dormitories, arms depots, electricity and ventilation systems? Who fed the media with tales of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, […]
Repo Lots Overflow with Cars
February 15th, 2008Via: USA Today: Car and truck repossessions this year are headed for the highest level in at least a decade, thanks to easy credit and a faltering economy, says an economist for one of the largest wholesale auto auction services. So many vehicles are being snatched from owners who stop making payments that some repo […]
U.S. to Try to Shoot Down Spy Satellite
February 15th, 2008Remember how the Magic Anchor took out those undersea fiber optic cables recently, and how the network operators re-routed some of the traffic; satellite links played a key role. In strategic information warfare, decapitation means taking out not only the primary links, but the backup ones as well. I’d imagine that .mil would have had […]
Britain: Arrested, Caged and DNA Tested — for Using MP3 Player
February 15th, 2008This is the result of Stazi programming that people in Britain are subjected to day and night. Darren Nixon is lucky to be alive. Via: Metro: A commuter was arrested at gunpoint and had his DNA and fingerprints taken simply for listening to his MP3 player while waiting for a bus. Darren Nixon was surrounded […]
Dead Georgian Billionaire
February 14th, 2008Any guesses about what’s really going on here? I have absolutely no idea. For example, what is the nature of the relationship between mobsters from the former Soviet Union and British elites? Via: Times Online: He feared death would come through a sabotaged flight or a bloodbath of his bodyguards but it was in a […]
Welcome to Cyberwar Country, USA
February 14th, 2008Another mulibillion dollar boondoggle. In the Wired piece below, there’s just one voice of reason. John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, says, “They’ve got the whole thing tarted up, and it’s hard to tell what they’re actually doing.” That’s it. He gets it. Information Warfare is part of the military industrial complex now, but look into […]
Cryptogon Reader Signs Up for Hosting with Blue Host
February 14th, 2008Thanks to the owner of chunkthis.com for signing up for hosting with Blue Host. Cryptogon received $65.
U.S. Political Establishment Lines Up Behind Barack Obama
February 13th, 2008I finally read something about the Obama religion that wasn’t a bunch of bullshit! Via: World Socialist Web Site: It is necessary to distinguish sharply between the political shift among working people and youth, a movement to the left which presages the outbreak of mass social and political struggles, and the efforts of the ruling […]
