Archive for March, 2010
Yet Another Bubble: Trade sK0oL Loans
March 15th, 2010Via: New York Times: One fast-growing American industry has become a conspicuous beneficiary of the recession: for-profit colleges and trade schools. At institutions that train students for careers in areas like health care, computers and food service, enrollments are soaring as people anxious about weak job prospects borrow aggressively to pay tuition that can exceed […]
U.S. “Bunker-Buster” Bombs On Way To Diego Garcia?
March 15th, 2010Via: Herald Scotland: Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. […]
On the Spot with Kim Jong-il: North Korean Propaganda Photos
March 15th, 2010Via: The Big Picture: The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state-run (and only) news agency, sporadically releases photos of reclusive 69-year-old leader Kim Jong-il as he makes “on-the-spot” guidance visits. Kim Jong-il, continuing a practice begun by his father, Kim Il-sung, makes these visits to factories and facilities throughout the country, purportedly to […]
U.S. Intelligence Planned to Destroy WikiLeaks
March 15th, 2010Via: Wikileaks: This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. “The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out”. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses “trust […]
State of Utah Allows Rainwater Collection After Registration and Purchase of Standardized Container
March 15th, 2010Thank you, Master. Via: AP: The Utah Legislature has passed a bill that would permit the personal collection of rainwater. The House unanimously approved the legislation on Wednesday. It has already cleared the Senate. If signed by the governor the measure would reverse a decades-old prohibition on rainwater harvesting in the state. Senate Bill 32 […]
Mexico: Three People Connected to the U.S. Consulate in Juarez Executed in Front of Their Children
March 15th, 2010All governments routinely run covert operations out of their embassies and consulates. I have no good reason to believe that this incident had anything to do with covert operations, however, multiple articles quote family members and neighbors who don’t know what Lesley A. Enriquez did at the consulate. “Officials” in Washington also don’t know what […]
Scientists Identify Opium Poppy Genes Responsible for the Production of Codeine and Morphine
March 15th, 2010Via: Independent: Scientists have identified the genes of the opium poppy responsible for the production of the painkillers codeine and morphine, which could lead to new ways of making the drugs without having to cultivate fields of poppies. Opium poppies naturally produce morphine and smaller amounts of codeine in their seed pods. They are collected […]
Experiment Allows Scientists to Identify Which of Three Seven Second Video Clips Test Subjects Are Thinking About
March 15th, 2010Thought reading machine? You definitely wouldn’t know it from reading many of the headlines that have been written about this story, but the answer is no, it’s not a thought reading machine. Eleanor Maguire, one of the researchers, said, “We are not at the point of being able to put people in a scanner and […]
Placing the New Zealand Internet Filter Story in Perspective
March 15th, 2010I rarely need to do this, but please stop submitting this story. Dozens of you guys think I have somehow missed this. I didn’t. Why didn’t I post it? First of all, given everything that’s out in the open about what governments are doing on the Internet, is this story even relevant for Cryptogon readers? […]
Lehman’s $50 Billion Conjuring Trick
March 15th, 2010Via: Times Online: In May 2008, as the world span towards the worst financial crisis in living memory, Matthew Lee, a senior vice-president at Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank, decided to make a stand. After 14 years with the firm, the New York-based Edinburgh University graduate was convinced the bank was heading for disaster. […]
