Archive for October, 2009
NYPD Tracking Cell Phone Owners
October 9th, 2009Via: New York Post: The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects’ phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes. In the era of disposable, anonymous cell phones, the file could be a treasure-trove for detectives investigating drug rings and other criminal […]
Fly, Colt, Fly: Police Suspect ‘Barefoot Burglar’ is Stealing, Crashing Planes
October 9th, 2009The kid should have become a CEO of a large, crooked corporation. Then he would have been rewarded with taxpayer funded bonuses for his sociopathic behavior… Hmm. Why aren’t hundreds of cops and helicopters, etc. trying to apprehend those CEOs for doing pretty much the same thing as Colton “Colt” Harris-Moore, but on a planetary […]
Obama Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
October 9th, 2009I thought that this was a hoax, and that, if I left it alone for an hour, all the media will have to admit that they got punked by 4chan or something similar… Nope. It’s real. And, well, why not? Obama is only perpetuating two illegal wars and a global network of 737 military bases. […]
Geither and “A Revelation Likely to Fuel Conspiracy Theorists”
October 9th, 2009Via: Times Online: President Barack Obama has “tremendous confidence” in Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, even though he has spoken to executives from Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and other banks more than 80 times in his first seven months in office, the President’s spokesman Robert Gibbs said last night A Freedom of Information request by […]
10,000 Applicants for 90 Factory Jobs
October 9th, 2009Via: Courier Journal: In the latest sign of weakness in Louisville-area employment, about 10,000 people applied over three days for 90 jobs building washing machines at General Electric for about $27,000 per year and hefty benefits. The jobs dangle medical, eye care, prescription and dental benefit packages, as well as pension, disability, tuition assistance and […]
The Secret Cycle
October 9th, 2009Reader AD sent in an excellent New Yorker piece that will be of great interest to anyone who dabbles in financial woowoo arts and crafts. While the focus is on conman/genius? Martin Armstrong, there’s something here for most Cryptogon readers. I thoroughly enjoyed this. The Secret Cycle: Is the financier Martin Armstrong a con man, […]
Green Shoots: Budget Deficit Hit Record $1.4 Trillion in 2009
October 8th, 2009Via: AP: The federal budget deficit tripled to a record $1.4 trillion for the 2009 fiscal year that ended last week, congressional analysts said Wednesday. The Congressional Budget Office estimate, while expected, is bad news for the White House and its allies in Congress as they press ahead with health care overhaul legislation that could […]
Towards Hyperinflation: A Review of the Gold Market in the Context of Western Hyperinflation
October 8th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. DISCLOSURE: I am a BullionVault client and affiliate. Paul Tustain, Director of BullionVault, has written an excellent piece about the nature of cold, the situation with some critical commodities and the potential for hyperinflation in the years ahead. I’d strongly recommend […]
Gold Breaks Higher Again
October 8th, 2009$1051.
How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect
October 8th, 2009I liked this New York Times piece. Here are a couple of related terms that Cryptogon readers may find interesting. Inattentional blindness: Inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, is the phenomenon of not being able to see things that are actually there. This can be a result of having no internal frame of reference […]
