Archive for October, 2008
Dollar Hits 2-Year High
October 22nd, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. This last leg up on the dollar prompted a couple of emails. Who? What? How? Am I holding US$ now? Etc. etc. Please recall, U.S. Dollar Index: Bears, the Squeeze Is On, from August. Remember this chart? Old U.S. Dollar Index, […]
Mutant Seeds for Mesopotamia
October 22nd, 2008Via: Uruknet: One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under “freedom” and “democracy,” would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be illegal. … What makes this Order 81 even more outrageous is that Iraqi farmers have been saving wheat and barley seeds since […]
Cryptogon Reader Sent $50
October 22nd, 2008An anonymous reader sent $50 via the Amazon Honor System. Thank you.
U.S. Policymakers Mull Creation of Domestic Intelligence Agency
October 22nd, 2008Via: CNN: The United Kingdom has MI-5, which roots out spies and terrorists in the British Isles. Canada has CSIS — the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S. have its own domestic intelligence agency? On Monday, at the request of Congress, the RAND Corporation outlined the pros and cons of […]
Muslim Fanatic Prisoners to be ‘De-Programmed’ Using Controversial Techniques to ‘Cure’ Them of Beliefs
October 21st, 2008Via: This Is London: Psychologists in the Prison Service will try to ‘cure’ extremist Muslim inmates of their political beliefs with controversial therapies similar to those used to ‘de-programme’ members of religious cults. The experimental treatments are being developed by a special Extremism Unit set up by the Ministry of Justice in January last year, […]
Colin Powell: “There’s going to be a crisis come along on the 21st or 22nd of January that we don’t even know about right now.”
October 21st, 2008What do you make of this one? Additionally, Joe Biden mentioned a “generated crisis”: “Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about […]
Centuries of British Freedoms Being ‘Broken’ by Security State
October 21st, 2008Full text. Via: Telegraph: Centuries of British civil liberties risk being broken by the relentless pressure from the ‘security state’, the country’s top prosecutor has warned. Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned that the expansion of technology by the state into everyday life could create a world future generations “can’t bear”. In […]
Gold Falls Nearly 4%, Breaks Through Support at $775
October 21st, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Just FYI: DBA is looking interesting again. Via: Reuters: Gold fell nearly 4 percent after the opening of the U.S. market as a stronger dollar curbed interest in the precious metal as an alternative investment, and as oil prices fell more […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $20
October 21st, 2008RM sent $20. Thank you.
U.S. Pilot Was Ordered to Shoot Down UFO
October 21st, 2008Via: Reuters: Two U.S. fighter planes were scrambled and ordered to shoot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) over the English countryside during the Cold War, according to secret files made public on Monday. One pilot said he was seconds away from firing 24 rockets at the object, which moved erratically and gave a radar […]
