Archive for June, 2009
Australia: Anti-Fluoride Extremists ‘Threaten to Kill MP’
June 22nd, 2009Via: The Age: Anti-fluoride extremists have threatened to kill a Victorian government minister and blow up a regional water authority. As anger over fluoridating Geelong’s water supply mounted today, Labor minister Lisa Neville has been targeted along with water and health officials. A death threat was left with a bottle of water on the verandah […]
Kiwis Moving Closer to Cashless Society
June 22nd, 2009Japan was the future cashless country in yesterday’s news cycle. Today it’s New Zealand. Well, New Zealand will probably use a Pan Asian digital currency, at some point, along with Japan and several other states…either that or Kongbucks. Via: New Zealand Herald: Cash is no longer king in New Zealand, according to the Retirement Commission’s […]
JAPANESE MEN IN FAKE BOND CASE RELEASED BY ITALIAN AUTHORITIES
June 22nd, 2009Update 10 is at the top.
City of London Fraud Has Increased by 63% Over the Last Year
June 22nd, 2009Via: Guardian: The number of fraud cases being investigated by City of London police has increased by 63% over the last year to more than 10,000, involving losses of well over £1bn, according to Steve Head, chief of the force. Head warns that the UK is about to be hit by a further wave of […]
The Empire Strikes Back: FTC Plans to Regulate Blogs That Have Affiliate Relationships
June 22nd, 2009What has happened is that bloggers have blown the support columns out from underneath traditional media and the people who run the show don’t like that. The fact that some of us are able to survive by maintaining blogs must have come as an incredible shock to fat bastards in boardrooms across the land. That […]
Green Shoots: Numbers on Welfare See Sharp Increase
June 22nd, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: Welfare rolls, which were slow to rise and actually fell in many states early in the recession, now are climbing across the country for the first time since President Bill Clinton signed legislation pledging “to end welfare as we know it” more than a decade ago. Twenty-three of the 30 largest […]
Japan Considering Taxing Cash; “Nominal Rates of -4% Might be Closer to What is Required to Rescue the Economy from Another Deflationary Spiral”
June 21st, 2009Japanese people will just buy more gold and park their speculative yen back in the carry trade pachinko parlor (this may already be happening). Why wouldn’t they? If holding cash means a guaranteed loss of 4% a year, that’s a pretty good incentive to gamble. Bonus points to the state for the totalitarian surveillance grid […]
Goldman Sachs to Make Record Bonus Payout
June 21st, 2009Mission accomplished! Via: Guardian: Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm’s 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year, sparking concern that the big investment banks which survived the credit crunch will derail financial regulation reforms. A lack of competition and a surge in […]
At Least 19 Dead in Iranian Protests
June 21st, 2009Via: CTV: Iranian state television has raised the death toll from anti-government demonstrations to at least 19 and reported Sunday that the daughter of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, along with four other family members, has been arrested for participating in the protests. According to the report, authorities made the arrests late Saturday. The names of […]
Anyone Willing to Translate a News Story from Japanese Into English?
June 21st, 2009UPDATE: TRANSLATIONS ARE IN The Japanese/Italy/Switzerland bond caper has taken an unbelievable turn. See the main post for more. Update 10 is at the top. —End Update— I know that there are at least two Cryptogon readers who are capable of doing this, but I’m not cheeky enough to ask them directly on a Sunday […]
