Archive for March, 2009
Death Squad Leader ‘Was Top CIA Agent’; Facing War Crimes Charges at the International Criminal Court at The Hague
March 23rd, 2009Via: Sunday Herald: THE LATE President Milosevic’s secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States’ top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92. The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of […]
“Smart” Power Grid Is Found Susceptible to Cyberattack
March 23rd, 2009Thanks, Captain Obvious. Via: PC World: An emerging network of intelligent power switches, called the Smart Grid, could be taken down by a cyberattack, according to researchers with IOActive, a Seattle security consultancy. IOActive researchers have spent the past year testing Smart Grid devices for security vulnerabilities and have discovered a number of flaws that […]
Jay Rockefeller: Would It Be Better If We Hadn’t Created the Internet?
March 23rd, 2009Department of Homeland Security Investigating Large Ammunition Purchases
March 23rd, 2009Via: Post Star: Everyone interviewed by The Post-Star for this story agreed ammunition of all calibers has gotten tougher to find, as gun owners stock up. Prices skyrocketed in recent years as metal prices went up, which caused many gun owners to stock up in anticipation of rising ammunition prices. There are also concerns that […]
Still Think It’s About the Bonuses? The Big Takeover
March 22nd, 2009Via: Rolling Stone: It’s over — we’re officially, royally fucked. No empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far. It happened when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was forced […]
Three Oakland Police Officers Killed, One Critically Wounded After Traffic Stop
March 22nd, 2009Via: San Jose Mercury News: In the most horrific day in Oakland Police Department history, a parolee shot to death three police sergeants within two hours of one another Saturday afternoon. When officers tracked down the suspect, a fourth officer was shot and was in critical condition Saturday night. The three veteran officers killed were […]
Dollar Declines Most Since 1985
March 22nd, 2009Via: Bloomberg: The dollar dropped the most against the currencies of six major U.S. trading partners since the Plaza Accord almost a quarter-century ago as the Federal Reserve’s plan to purchase Treasuries spurred speculation that it’s debasing the greenback. “What it introduces is the problem of the currency to the extent that the Fed is […]
Cattle Respond to Magnetic Fields from Power Lines
March 22nd, 2009Via: AP: High-voltage power lines mess with animal magnetism. Researchers, who reported last year that most cows and deer tend to orient themselves in a north-south alignment, have now found that power lines can disorient the animals. When the power lines run east-west, that’s the way grazing cattle tend to line up, researchers led by […]
MMS: Solution of Sodium Chlorite and Citric Acid
March 22nd, 2009A friend of mine, who lives in the bush a couple of valleys over from us, told me about MMS (Miracle Mineral Supplement) a few months ago. I looked into it briefly, thought that it seemed interesting, and that I’d need to take a closer look at some point. Then, in response to the story […]
Cryptogon Reader Signs Up for Hosting with BlueHost
March 22nd, 2009Thanks to the owner of quantumconfigurations.com for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $90.
