Archive for March, 2010
Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System: One Library of Congress Per Second
March 9th, 2010Via: Press Release: Cisco today announced a major advancement in Internet networking — the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) — designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and set the pace for the astonishing growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade and beyond. … The […]
Gendercide: The Worldwide War on Baby Girls
March 9th, 2010Via: Economist: XINRAN XUE, a Chinese writer, describes visiting a peasant family in the Yimeng area of Shandong province. The wife was giving birth. “We had scarcely sat down in the kitchen”, she writes (see article), “when we heard a moan of pain from the bedroom next door…The cries from the inner room grew louder—and […]
Biometric ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
March 9th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including […]
Pope’s Brother Linked to New Claims of Child Abuse by Clergy
March 9th, 2010Via: Independent: A series of allegations in Germany and Holland have plunged the Catholic Church into a renewed crisis over how it has dealt with child abuse after it emerged that the Pope’s brother ran a renowned choir at the centre of some of the latest claims. Reports of systematic historical abuse by clergy have […]
The World’s Most Expensive Military Cemetery
March 9th, 2010I don’t think much about what could have been, but it’s hard not to when looking at this abomination. Via: Telegraph: The world’s most expensive military cemetery, a £22.6 billion centre dubbed “The Boneyard”, has been pictured in a spectacular series of new high-resolution Google Earth satellite images. The 2,600 acre facility, officially known Davis-Monthan […]
A EUROPEAN IMF?!
March 9th, 2010Via: BBC: The European Commission has confirmed that it may set up a version of the International Monetary Fund to bolster the eurozone’s financial stability. Germany and France are leading the move, part of a series of initiatives aimed at avoiding a repeat of the sort of financial crisis engulfing Greece. The German Chancellor Angela […]
Australia: Standard & Poor’s Faces Lawsuit Over Bogus Ratings
March 9th, 2010Via: The Age: THE credibility of ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has come under legal attack in a $40 million action by a local government superannuation investor over a AAA-rated debt investment that subsequently turned toxic in the financial crisis. S&P has been challenged to defend the rating it subscribed to ”constant proportion debt obligation” […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
March 9th, 2010Thank you. DS $25 MM $10 Also, FH sent $60 back in February. I didn’t acknowledge this contribution at the time because of technical difficulties. Thanks FH.
60 Years of Drug Trafficking at the Venice Municipal Airport
March 8th, 2010Via: Mad Cow Productions: An investigation into suspicious circumstances surrounding the sale of the former Huffman Aviation has unearthed an explosive secret at the heart of an otherwise unremarkable aviation facility. Almost since its inception, the specter of heroin trafficking has hung over the airfield which would later become the Venice Municipal Airport. During World […]
Reduce Postal Service Deliveries to Three Days Per Week?
March 8th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. Postal Service, facing a $238 billion budget deficit by 2020, should consider cutting delivery to as few as three days a week as the agency attempts to pare costs, a consulting firm said. Those cuts are among changes McKinsey & Co. presented in a report this week at a postal conference […]
