Archive for August, 2009
Britain: One Crime Solved Per 1000 CCTV Cameras
August 26th, 2009HAR! Via: BBC: Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city’s surveillance network has claimed. The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals. In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out of 269 suspected robbers. David Davis […]
Australia: Was a Covert Operative Planted in a Group of Five Melbourne Men Charged with Terrorism Offences?
August 26th, 2009Via: The Age: THE Australian Federal Police has come under pressure to reveal whether a covert operative was planted in a group of five Melbourne men charged with terrorism offences. The charges relate to an alleged plot to attack the Holsworthy Army Base in NSW. It was revealed yesterday that one of the men, Saney […]
State of Florida Sold Personal Information from Registration and Driver License Records to Mass Marketers
August 26th, 2009Via: Miami Herald: Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet have agreed to pay the federal government $1.5 million to settle a complaint that the state violated motorists’ privacy. The panel accepted the deal Tuesday, but it also will need the Legislature’s approval. Florida violated federal law by selling personal information from registration and driver […]
George Carlin – Conspiracy Theorists
August 26th, 2009Geithner: Auditing the Fed Is a “Line That We Don’t Want to Cross”
August 26th, 2009Via: Corbett Report: In an interview released today by Digg and the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressured about the growing popular movement to Audit the Fed spearheaded by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. A visibly uncomfortable Geithner attempts to dismiss the question by stating “I’m sure people understand that you want to […]
Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off
August 26th, 2009Via: Wired: Some people suspect that a multitasking lifestyle has changed how they think, leaving them easily distracted and unable to concentrate even when separated from computers and phones. Their uneasiness may be justified. In several benchmark tests of focus, college students who routinely juggle many flows of information, bouncing from e-mail to web text […]
Geithner Asks Congress for Higher U.S. Debt Limit
August 26th, 2009Via: Reuters: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner formally requested that Congress raise the $12.1 trillion statutory debt limit on Friday, saying that it could be breached as early as mid-October. “It is critically important that Congress act before the limit is reached so that citizens and investors here and around the world can remain confident […]
As Budget Deficit Grows, So Do Doubts on Dollar
August 26th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: The U.S. economy may be showing signs of recovering from the financial crisis, but the jury is still out on the future of the U.S. dollar. While many analysts expect the dollar to strengthen in coming months as the crisis fades and the U.S. economy turns toward growth, a growing chorus […]
CIA Threatened to Kill Detainee Families
August 25th, 2009Until the early 1980s, the U.S. military ran an intelligence training program in Latin America and elsewhere using manuals that taught foreign officers to offer bounties for captured or killed insurgents, spy on nonviolent political opponents, kidnap rebels’ family members and blackmail unwanted informants, according to recently declassified Army and Defense Department documents. The manuals, […]
Goldman Sachs “Trading Huddles”
August 25th, 2009I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy. —Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets Via: Wall Street Journal: Securities regulators are examining weekly meetings at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in which research analysts […]
