Archive for December, 2008
Cryptogon Readers Sign Up for Hosting with Blue Host
December 8th, 2008Thanks to the owners of 00v00.org and westforkguns.com for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $180. Note: If you want to sign up for BlueHost and earn Cryptogon a $90 commission, you must click a BLUEHOST LINK ON CRYPTOGON (the banner ads work too) and then sign up. There is absolutely no way […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
December 8th, 2008Thank you. CS £15 ID €10 JB $25 MO $25 Pookie $75 SM $25
Angry Laid-Off Workers Occupy Factory in Chicago
December 7th, 2008Via: AP: Workers who got three days’ notice their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won’t go home without assurances they’ll get severance and vacation pay they say they are owed. About 200 union workers occupied the Republic Windows and Doors plant in shifts Saturday while union leaders outside […]
One of Two Indian Men Arrested in Connection to the Mumbai Attacks, “Was a Counterinsurgency Police Officer”
December 7th, 2008Via: AP: One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday, demanding his release. The arrests, announced in the eastern city of Calcutta, were the first […]
The Milwaukee Community Currency Story
December 7th, 2008Sometimes, I read a story, grit my teeth and pray that people don’t submit it to me by the dozens. Oh well. People are SO HAPPY about this. * Holding my head in my hands * My problem with this article is this sentence: And it’s completely legal. Oh sure. And what currency will the […]
November Earnings
December 7th, 2008November earnings for Cryptogon and Farmlet came to a total of $1610.48. November started out very slow. There were a small number of contributions from core contributors—the readers without whom Cryptogon would not exist—and then one new contributor. I mentioned that earnings were way down in a post and a wave of contributions came in, […]
British Government Must Delete the Genetic Profiles of Innocent People from DNA Database
December 6th, 2008Via: Guardian: The fingerprints and DNA samples of more than 857,000 innocent citizens who have been arrested or charged but never convicted of a criminal offence now face deletion from the national DNA database after a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. In one of their most strongly worded judgments […]
SWAT Team Conducts Food Raid in Rural Ohio
December 6th, 2008Via: Crossroad: On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. The team was aggressive and […]
New Record: 10 Percent of U.S. Home Loans At Least One Month Late in Payments or in Foreclosure
December 5th, 2008Via: AP: A record one in 10 American homeowners with a mortgage were either at least a month behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of September as the source of housing market pressure shifted to the crumbling U.S. economy. The Mortgage Bankers Association said Friday the percentage of loans at least […]
Employers Cut 533K Jobs in November, Most in 34 Years
December 5th, 2008Via: AP: Skittish employers slashed 533,000 jobs in November, the most in 34 years, catapulting the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent, dramatic proof the country is careening deeper into recession. The new figures, released by the Labor Department Friday, showed the crucial employment market deteriorating at an alarmingly rapid clip, and handed Americans some more […]
