Archive for June, 2008
George Carlin Dies
June 23rd, 2008Via: Time: When the culture began to change in the late 1960s — when the old one-liner comics on the Ed Sullivan Show were looking pretty tired and irrelevant to a younger generation experimenting with drugs and protesting the War in Vietnam — George Carlin was the most important stand-up comedian in America. By the […]
Floods: More Expensive Beef, Pork, Poultry, Eggs, Cheese and Milk on the Way
June 23rd, 2008Via: AP: Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store. In the latest bout of food inflation, beef, pork, poultry and even eggs, cheese and milk are expected to get more expensive as livestock owners go out of business […]
Cryptogon Reader Sends Contribution
June 22nd, 2008JC sent $25. Thank you.
Photographer Documents Secret Satellites — All 189 of Them
June 22nd, 2008Via: Wired: For most people, photographing something that isn’t there might be tough. Not so for Trevor Paglen. His shots of 189 secret spy satellites are the subject of a new exhibit — despite the fact that, officially speaking, the satellites don’t exist. The Other Night Sky, on display at the University of California at […]
New Zealand Hitting the Wall
June 22nd, 2008No surprises here. I can’t be arsed to find the story, but years ago, I wrote that I’d pick New Zealand in a state of collapse over Southern California any day. The theory could be put to a test here soon enough, the way things are going. It’s funny, up here in the Far North, […]
Freight Traffic on Upper Mississippi Halted
June 22nd, 2008Monitoring… Via: AP: The flooding in the Midwest has brought freight traffic on the upper Mississippi to a standstill, stranding more than 100 barges loaded with grain, cement, scrap metal, fertilizer and other products while shippers wait for the water to drop on the Big Muddy. “We’re basically experiencing total shutdown,” said Larry Daily, president […]
Security Fears Over Food and Fuel Crisis
June 22nd, 2008“In 2008, food could become an out front national security issue in the developed world.” —Cryptogon, January 2, 2008 Via: Financial Times: Western countries have upgraded the food and fuel crisis into a national security concern as they fear record high energy and agriculture commodity costs are destabilising key developing regions of the world. The […]
Socialists Made Eugenics Fashionable
June 21st, 2008If you have ever wondered why the crackpot left seems as terrifying as the crackpot right, it’s because they’re both products of the same nuthouse—run by the wealthiest people [sic] on this planet. Via: National Press: An exhibition of the history of those scientific ideas that gave a grimy intellectual veneer to the Nazi genocide […]
Urban, Rural, or ?
June 21st, 2008Via: Comrade Simba: So if I’m standing and line at a bank or some store and I want to bitch about the price of a 50 pound sack of corn chops to feed the chickens with, where am I if all I can expect to get is a blank stare? Must be an urban area, […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $20
June 20th, 2008MW has been supporting Cryptogon longer than anyone else. Thanks, MW.
