Archive for November, 2008
Traders to Collect Big on Slick Bet
November 17th, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Here’s a different kind of Peak Oil chart than the one you’re used to seeing. Via: Financial Times: Investors who placed summer bets that oil prices would fall below $100 a barrel are set to make huge profits on Monday, with […]
UK: Poachers Feed a Burgeoning Black Market in Food
November 17th, 2008Via: Independent: Once, the poacher was a man with big pockets in his raincoat sneaking on to an aristocrat’s land to steal game for his family pot. Now he is likely to be part of a gang from town, in it for hard cash, rampaging through the countryside with guns, crossbows or snares. Police in […]
UK: Housing Market ‘Far Worse’ Than Figures Suggest
November 17th, 2008Via: Independent: House prices across the UK have already fallen far further than official data and market indicators suggest, Rightmove, the online estate agent warned yesterday, as it revealed that up to 300 estate agents were quitting its service every month. While the latest figures from leading mortgage lenders such as Halifax suggest that prices […]
U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe: “There Is No Way of Knowing,” Where Paulson Transferred Bailout Money
November 17th, 2008Via: Tulsa World: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said Saturday that Congress was not told the truth about the bailout of the nation’s financial system and should take back what is left of the $700 billion “blank check” it gave the Bush administration. “It is just outrageous that the American people don’t know that Congress doesn’t […]
It’s Like Meat with a Pause Button
November 17th, 2008Hormel Foods is manufacturing as much Spam as possible. Sales of macaroni and “cheese,” Jell-O and Kool-Aid are also growing. Via: New York Times: The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They […]
And Now: The Skin Cancer Vaccine
November 16th, 2008Oh sure. Via: Daily Telegraph: THE pioneering Australian scientist who discovered the cure for cervical cancer is on the verge of creating the world’s first vaccine for skin cancer. Professor Ian Frazer, former Australian of the Year, has revealed the vaccine could be ready within the next five to 10 years. As with the jab […]
Cryptogon Reader Sends AU$20
November 16th, 2008Thanks TH. Note on Earnings This Month: Earnings are running far below normal this month. If you’re one of the 99+% of people who read Cryptogon but haven’t yet taken any action to support it, please consider helping out now by using any of the affiliate links along the right sidebar or making a direct […]
Criminal U.S. Air Marshals
November 16th, 2008Via: USA Today: Shawn Nguyen bragged that he could sneak anything past airport security using his top-secret clearance as a federal air marshal. And for months, he smuggled cocaine and drug money onto flights across the country, boasting to an FBI informant that he was “the man with the golden badge.” Michael McGowan used his […]
Sean Nicholas Green
November 15th, 2008Via: Washington Post: Oxon Hill Man Fatally Shot at Stop Light By Aaron C. Davis Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 13, 2008; 6:53 PM An Oxon Hill man who worked with sensitive national security information was fatally shot Wednesday evening as he sat in his car at a stop light near his home, according […]
Kanika Powell
November 15th, 2008I tried to determine the nature of the work that she was involved with—or even where she worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory—but I couldn’t find anything solid at all. This is how she signed her emails: Kanika T. Powell, Special Security, 13-S448 JHU/APL. What’s 13-S448? I guessed that 13 might be […]
