Archive for July, 2009
June Earnings
July 10th, 2009June earnings came to a total of $1314.91. That’s a great result. Thanks to all direct cash contributors and to everyone who remembered to use affiliate links on Cryptogon.
Harsh Winter Storm About to Hit Us
July 10th, 2009Over approximately the next 48 hours, there’s a strong possibility that our electricity and Internet access are going to be knocked out by a very intense winter storm. We’re fortunate enough to have a couple of fish bins worth of children’s library books and a new bucket of Duplo bricks to help get us through. […]
U.S. National Security Agency Visit
July 9th, 2009The U.S. National Security Agency user (host: ncmd.nsa.gov, ip: 63.239.69.1) conducted the following Google search: Three generations of imbeciles are enough. The NSA user visited the following Cryptogon page: “Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough”: The U.S. Eugenics Legacy. 63.239.69.1 gets up to some interesting activity; interesting mostly because how stupid it is. It must […]
Mexico Accused of Torture in Drug War
July 9th, 2009Via: MSNBC: The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, according to documents and interviews with victims, their families, political leaders and human rights monitors. From the violent border cities where drugs are brought into the United States to the remote highland regions where […]
Britain: Police Examine News Group Phone Tap Claims
July 9th, 2009Thousands? Via: Guardian: Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists’ repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories. The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg On The “Growth In Populations That We Don’t Want To Have Too Many Of”
July 9th, 2009Here’s an interesting moment of clarity. Via: New York Times: Q: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda? JUSTICE GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so […]
Green Shoots: U.S. Food-Stamp Recipients Reach New Record High with Each Passing Month
July 9th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: A record 33.8 million people received food stamps in April, up 20 percent from a year earlier, as unemployment surged toward a 26-year high, government figures show. Spending also jumped, as the average benefit rose. It was the fifth straight month of record participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, according to the […]
FDIC Gearing Up for Large Number of Bank Failures
July 8th, 2009Via: Washington Business Journal: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is gearing up to handle a large number of bank failures expected as a result of bad mortgages, both in residential and commercial real estate, an economist said Tuesday. “They know they’re going to take down a large number of banks and they can’t do it […]
Deutsche Bank Stockbroker in IT Probe Fell to Death
July 8th, 2009Via: BBC: A City stockbroker fell to his death from a rooftop restaurant two days after bosses investigating an IT-related matter sent him home early. Anjool Malde, 24, was found on the ground outside Coq d’Argent in London’s Square Mile at midday on Sunday. He left his Deutsche Bank office early on Friday afternoon after […]
U.S. Mortgage Fraud ‘Rampant’ and Growing
July 8th, 2009Via: Reuters: U.S. mortgage fraud reports jumped 36 percent last year as desperate homeowners and industry professionals tried to maintain their standard of living from the boom years, the FBI said on Tuesday. Suspicious activity reports rose to 63,713 in fiscal year 2008, which ended last September, from 46,717 the year before. California and Florida, […]
