Archive for February, 2009
New Orleans: Residents on Notice of Upcoming Police Training
February 5th, 2009Via: KATC: The New Orleans Police Department is warning residents not to panic if they see helicopters flying around the city after dark. The department will be hosting military training in and around the city between Jan. 27 and Feb. 8. The training includes the use of military helicopters flying after dark throughout the city. […]
Rethinking Diversification
February 5th, 2009Diversification, diversification, diversification. Assets, geography, skills, everything. I know that many of you can’t send your more—shall we say?—mainstream friends and relatives to Cryptogon, but if there’s any hope for them at all, this is it. Via: Solari: For our entire lives, most of us have depended on highly centralized systems. Our food comes from […]
Financial Coup d’Etat
February 5th, 2009This one kinda sneaks up on you. Make that you read it all the way through. Via: Solari: Slowly, as the pieces fit together, we shared a horrifying epiphany: the banks, corporations and investors acting in each global region were the exact same players. They were a relatively small group that reappeared again and again […]
Cheney Warns of New Attacks
February 4th, 2009Yesterday, Cryptogon reader offthereservation suggested that I look at a list of U.S. State Department notices on the U.S. Embassy site for Japan. This person said to look at the notices dated 09/07/01 and 09/10/01. Obviously, those were just before The Big Day. Offthereservation noted that a brand new Worldwide Caution was just released on […]
Judges Took Bribes to Send Children to Privately Owned Juvenile Detention Centers
February 4th, 2009Via: Post-Gazette: State lawmakers are seeking ways to compensate children sent to detention centers by a pair of Luzerne County judges charged with taking kickbacks for sending juvenile defendants to facilities in Luzerne and Butler counties. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Stewart Greenleaf said yesterday he would hold a hearing to find ways to help the […]
Big Pharma’s Drugs to be Weaponized to Fight “Mind Wars” on Future Battlefields
February 4th, 2009Via: Natural News: Pharmaceutical products could be employed to boost the performance of one army’s soldiers while undermining the minds of those on the other, according to a National Research Council report drafted for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. The report, “Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies,” addresses the question of how emerging neuroscience technologies […]
Gordon Brown Suggests World Heading for a ‘Depression’
February 4th, 2009Via: Times: Gordon Brown appeared to acknowledge for the first time today that the world economy was heading for a 1930s-style “depression”. Mr Brown stumbled slightly over his words at Commons question time, just a week after admitting that Britain was facing a “deep” recession. As the financial gloom deepens, he told the Tory leader […]
And Now… Google Offers Service to Track People via Their Mobile Phones
February 4th, 2009The surveillance side of this is the chickenfeed. There’s something far more sinister than the simple surveillance… an angle we haven’t heard about yet. Tice never did tell his story to Congress about this different aspect of the program. Well, my guess is that it has something to do with providing surveillance data for this […]
The Army’s Remote-Controlled Beetle
February 4th, 2009The Singularity is here somewhere… It’ll be great. Really. Via: MIT Technology Review: A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week. Scientists at the University of California developed a tiny rig that receives control signals from a nearby computer. […]
“Fishy” Supernotes from Taiwan
February 4th, 2009Via: Taipei Times: When a customs agent at San Francisco International Airport examined a package from Taiwan that was supposed to contain a birthday gift of candy and books, he thought it smelled “fishy.” Thinking it might contain food that had been imported illegally, the agent opened the parcel. Inside, he found US$380,000 in counterfeit […]
