Archive for August, 2009
July Earnings and Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions in August
August 25th, 2009I don’t know about other parents out there, but for me, having an almost two-year-old son has shaken loose a couple of cotter pins and caused a few gears to throw some teeth around here. There is a constant hum of activity that is accentuated by crashing sounds and gleeful shrieks and laughter. Updating Cryptogon […]
Britain: 29% of GPs Will Refuse Vaccine; Another 29% May Refuse It
August 25th, 2009Via: Guardian: Many GPs, as well as their patients, may be reluctant to be immunised against swine flu once a vaccine is developed, surveys suggest today. A survey of GPs published on Healthcare Republic, the website of GP magazine, found that up to 60% of GPs may decline vaccination. Although the numbers who responded were […]
Fed Must Release Reports on Emergency Bank Loans, Judge Says
August 25th, 2009In other news, Obama to Nominate Bernanke for Second Term as Fed Chief. Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve must make records about emergency lending to financial institutions public within five days because it failed to convince a judge the documents should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. Manhattan Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta […]
Massachusetts: $1,000 Fine Per Day, 30 Days Prison for Refusing to Obey State Officials During Swine Flu “Emergency”
August 24th, 2009Legislation: AN ACT RELATIVE TO PANDEMIC AND DISASTER PREPARATION AND RESPONSE IN THE COMMONWEALTH
And Now… ‘Cash for Refrigerators’
August 24th, 2009Via: Business Week: A $300 million cash-for-clunkers-type federal program to boost sales of energy-efficient home appliances provides a glimmer of hope for beleaguered makers of washing machines and dishwashers, but it’s probably not enough to lift companies such as Whirlpool and Electrolux out of the worst down cycle in the sector’s history. Beginning late this […]
Madoff Dying of Cancer?
August 24th, 2009Update: Bureau of Prisons Denies Madoff Has Cancer Via: Reuters: Bernard Madoff, convicted of swindling $65 billion through the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, has told fellow prison inmates that he is dying of cancer, the New York Post reported on Monday, citing unnamed prison sources. Madoff, 71, who since June has been serving a 150-year sentence […]
“In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government.”
August 24th, 2009Via: Huffington Post: The American government — which we once called our government — has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “economic royalists,” who choose our elected officials […]
The Deep State Does Not Respond to FOIA Requests
August 24th, 2009Via: Sheila Casey: In an attempt to get to the bottom of what really happened on 9/11, citizen investigator Aidan Monaghan has filed dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with federal agencies such as the FBI, SEC, Department of the Navy, and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Agency after […]
The Continuing Militarization of Biological Sciences
August 24th, 2009Don’t miss the last sentence. Via: Nature: In 2003, military analysts from the Counterproliferation and Technology Office of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington DC predicted that emerging biotechnologies were likely to lead to a “paradigm shift” in the development of biological warfare agents. They warned that it would soon become possible to engineer agents […]
Insurers’ Biggest Writedowns May Be Yet to Come
August 24th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: How many legs would a calf have if we called its tail a leg? Four, of course. Calling a tail a leg wouldn’t make it a leg, as Abraham Lincoln famously said. Nor does calling an expense an asset make it an asset. This brings us to the odd accounting rules for the […]
