Archive for December, 2008
Obama: Don’t Stock Up On Guns
December 9th, 2008Yeah, right. I’m sure that you’ll obey Obama. This reminds me: Some Cryptogon readers in Bloomfield, Indiana are starting up a firearms business called West Fork Enterprises. (They decided to use BlueHost to host their site, and generously helped Becky and me out by signing up via Cryptogon.) If you live in that area, perhaps […]
Financial Times: “And Now for a World Government”
December 9th, 2008Via: Financial Times: I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible. A “world government” […]
New York Times to Borrow $225 Million Against Its Mid-Manhattan Headquarters Building
December 8th, 2008I love it. Via: IHT: The New York Times Company plans to borrow up to $225 million against its mid-Manhattan headquarters building, to ease a potential cash flow squeeze as the company grapples with tighter credit and shrinking profits. The company has retained Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate firm, to act as its agent […]
South Australia to Buy ‘Critical Needs’ Water
December 8th, 2008IL suggested this story and wrote: Uh… no water. Just a bit of an emergency, no? Just got back from there and it is dry, dry, dry. And to top it off, most of the populace seem oblivious. I mean they know it doesn’t rain much and they’re in the driest state in Aust (I […]
In Lean Times, SoCal Residents Trade Guns for Food
December 8th, 2008How many boxes of Cheezits were the hand grenades worth? Via: AP: A program to exchange guns for gifts brought in a record number of weapons this year as residents hit hard by the economy look under the bed and in closets to find items to trade for groceries. The annual Gifts for Guns program […]
Pollution Causing Feminisation of Males Across Multiple Species
December 8th, 2008Via: Independent: The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals. The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, […]
U.S. Treasuries May Represent “The Biggest Bubble of All,” Yields Near Zero
December 8th, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. This is why the dollar has been rallying recently. Via: AFP: The panic in global financial markets has sparked an unprecedented rush into safe US Treasury securities, driving yields on short-term government notes down to almost zero. Due to stampeding demand […]
Three SUVs on Altar in Chicago Church as People Pray for Bailouts
December 8th, 2008Wide swaths of the U.S. have been taken over by open air mental institutions. No fences to keep people in. No padded rooms. Just lots of crazy people milling around. Via: Reuters: With sport-utility vehicles at the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit’s largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for […]
Riots Across Greece
December 8th, 2008Via: Reuters: Greece braced for a third day of demonstrations on Monday after the fatal shooting by police of a teenager triggered underlying anger over the Conservative government’s economic policies and the worst rioting in decades. Thousands clashed with police and rampaged through Athens and other cities this weekend, destroying scores of businesses, injuring dozens […]
Gold Backwardation Stories
December 8th, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. If I buy a wheat contract, I should have to take delivery of the physical wheat on the specified date. If I sell a wheat contract, I should have to deliver the physical wheat on the specified date. I should not […]
