Archive for June, 2009
City Asks Prospective Employees for Usernames and Passwords to Websites They Use
June 19th, 2009Oh sure. Via: Montana’s News Station: Applying for a job with the City of Bozeman? You may be asked to provide more personal information than you expected. That was the case for one person who applied for employment with the City. The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component […]
Allen Stanford Surrenders to FBI
June 19th, 2009Via: Washington Post: R. Allen Stanford, under investigation in an alleged $8 billion fraud involving sales of certificates of deposit through his Antiguan bank, surrendered to federal agents yesterday, his attorney said. The case is one of the largest alleged financial frauds in U.S. history and comes just months after New York financier Bernard L. […]
Cash to Become Extinct as Chips Take Off
June 18th, 2009Via: News AU: CASH is accelerating down the path to extinction as new technologies threaten to mark the end of loose change within a decade. Bank and credit union bosses say cash won’t be alone, with wallets and credit cards also likely to disappear too. They told The Advertiser’s round table forum that cash and […]
Nanotechnology: The New Asbestos?
June 18th, 2009Via: Food Navigator: The safety risks of nanotechnology use by the food industry could make it “the new asbestos”, says toxicologist Dr George Burdock of the Burdock Group. Nanotechnology refers to controlling matter at an atomic or molecular scale measured in nanometers, or millionths of millimeters. In the food industry, the technology has excited manufacturers […]
Britain: First Trial Without Jury Approved
June 18th, 2009Via: BBC: The Court of Appeal has ruled that a criminal trial can take place at Crown Court without a jury for the first time in England and Wales. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, made legal history by agreeing to allow the trial to be heard by a judge alone. It is the first […]
Baxter Expects to Deliver A/H1N1 Vaccine to WHO by July
June 18th, 2009See: Baxter International “Unintentionally” Sent Flu Samples to Companies that Contained H5N1 Avian Flu Via: PharmaBiz: Baxter International Inc. has completed testing and evaluation of the A/H1N1 influenza virus and is now in full-scale production of a commercial A/H1N1 vaccine using its Vero cell culture technology. Baxter received an A/H1N1 strain from the US Centers […]
New York Home Prices Forecast to Drop 40%
June 18th, 2009Via: Time: What’s it feel like to survive one hurricane only to be told that another is on the way? New York City–area homeowners are in just that spot. After the region suffered the brunt of financial-industry cutbacks, the next big wave of woe could be a nor’easter of collapsing home prices. That’s the forecast […]
Boeing Searching for Information on Jackblack12.info
June 18th, 2009A Boeing user (host: slb-proxy-03.boeing.com, ip: 130.76.64.16) conducted the following Yahoo search: jackblack12.info The Boeing user visited the following Cryptogon page: Operation Blackjack Part 2 is Up. I mentioned jackblack12.info in a comment on that post.
“This Was a Failure of the Entire System,” Obama Said; Solution? Make the System Bigger
June 17th, 2009More ministries, Comrade. Always more ministries! In this case, we need a Ministry of Ministry Supervision. In Fiat Currency Hell, endless financial complexity allows for swindling at heretofore unthinkable levels. This may sound counterintuitive, but the purpose of expanding the regulatory machinery is to facilitate even vaster amounts of fraud. This is what happens when […]
Russia, China to Promote Ruble, Yuan Use in Trade
June 17th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: The leaders of Russia and China agreed to expand use of the ruble and yuan in bilateral trade to lessen dependence on the U.S. dollar a day after they took part in the first summit of the so-called BRIC countries. “We agreed to take further steps in this direction, including, perhaps, by adjusting […]
