Archive for December, 2008
Toxic Ash Pond Collapses in Tennessee
December 25th, 2008This should do wonders for water quality in the region. Via: Scientific American: The residue of millions of tons of coal burning at Kingston Fossil power plant in the Watts Bar Reservoir in Tennessee burst the bounds of the pond in which it was contained, burying as many as 400 acres of land in up […]
Hiring Window Is Open at the Foreign Service
December 25th, 2008Besides the rhetorical reasons for this, it might also indicate A) that the U.S. is increasingly going to be relying on the kindness of others to survive, which will require diplomatic personnel at multiple levels, and B) that some very major changes are afoot with regard to the North American Union, the Amero and other […]
Fed Grants GMAC Ability to Seek Bailout Funds
December 25th, 2008I’m not as convinced as these guys in the piece below. This is already a make-it-up-as-you-go kind of show. Why couldn’t Hank and Ben just wave their magic wands and declare that GMAC qualifies as a bank, or whatever other damn thing they want to call it? —‘Already Bankrupt’ GM Won’t Be Rescued by U.S. […]
Will the North American Union Happen Under Obama?
December 24th, 2008Bailiffs Get Power to Use Force on Debtors
December 24th, 2008Via: Times Online: The government has been accused of trampling on individual liberties by proposing wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable force” against householders who try to protect their valuables. Under the regulations, bailiffs for private firms would for the first time be given permission to restrain or […]
Quantifying Overextension—America’s “Predicament”
December 24th, 2008I doubt that any of you need to see a quantitative analysis about how overextended America is. So why post this? Cryptogon is not about trying to change society, popularity contests, group think circle jerks, or lobbying politicians on the ship of fools to make minor course corrections on the way to oblivion. At this […]
Fund Manager Tied to Madoff Case Found Dead
December 24th, 2008For the first time, I’m preemptively adding a story, this story, to the Assassination category. —The Desperate Final Hours of the World’s Biggest Ever Financial Fraud Via: AP: A fund manager who lost more than $1 billion of his clients’ money to Bernard Madoff was discovered dead Tuesday after committing suicide at his Manhattan office, […]
Teams from Obama and Bush Regimes Will Run Joint Terrorism Drill in January
December 23rd, 2008Via: USA Today: What would happen if terrorists attacked the United States at the start of Barack Obama’s presidency? The Bush administration doesn’t want to wait to find out. It’s planning to test the incoming government’s readiness next month in a series of tabletop exercises involving top Bush and Obama officials. Concerned about the first […]
Cryptogon Reader Sent $150
December 23rd, 2008AR sent $150. Thank you.
And Now: The Bionic Sex Chip
December 23rd, 2008Via: Times Online: FORGET Viagra: scientists are working on an electronic “sex chip” that will be able to stimulate pleasure centres in the brain. The prospect of the chip, which could be a decade away, is emerging from progress in deep brain stimulation, in which tiny shocks from implanted electrodes are given to the brain. […]
