Archive for March, 2010
Bank of England Warns Families to Expect Fall in Living Standards
March 18th, 2010More Recovery news. Via: Telegraph: Families have been warned by the Bank of England to expect an effective pay cut in the coming months because of the economic climate. In a blunt warning issued in a key report, the Bank also said that it is too early to conclude that unemployment has peaked. It said […]
Biden in Israel: A Gift of Broken Glass and More Weirdness
March 17th, 2010* Queue Twilight Zone Music * Via: Reuters: In the region where symbolism may matter most, the signs for U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit were inauspicious. First Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak cancelled talks in Cairo and flew to hospital for gallbladder surgery. Then came an Israeli gift of broken glass and an eerie power […]
Police Misconduct: Injustice Everywhere
March 17th, 2010People submit diabolical cop stories to Cryptogon everyday. Clearly, there’s way too much of this happening for me to handle on Cryptogon. Yes, I agree, the endemic bad-cop situation is a nightmare. And it’s a nightmare that should be brought out into the open, but it’s simply far beyond the scope and capacity of what […]
The History of the Honey Trap
March 16th, 2010Via: Foreign Policy: MI5 is worried about sex. In a 14-page document distributed last year to hundreds of British banks, businesses, and financial institutions, titled “The Threat from Chinese Espionage,” the famed British security service described a wide-ranging Chinese effort to blackmail Western businesspeople over sexual relationships. The document, as the London Times reported in […]
Junk Bond Avalanche Looms for Credit Markets
March 16th, 2010Via: New York Times: When the Mayans envisioned the world coming to an end in 2012 — at least in the Hollywood telling — they didn’t count junk bonds among the perils that would lead to worldwide disaster. Maybe they should have, because 2012 also is the beginning of a three-year period in which more […]
Google Appears to Drop Censorship in China
March 16th, 2010Via: MSNBC: Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google’s Chinese search engine Tuesday, after the company said it would no longer abide by Beijing’s censorship rules. Despite a report in the China Daily that Google China was still filtering […]
Time Magazine: “What if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto something?”
March 16th, 2010I don’t agree with a lot of the woowoo in this article [cheap fuel cells powering off grid shanty towns?], but it’s still a good article and it describes a lot of things that Becky and I implemented in our own lives years ago. You’re probably sick of seeing this repeated on Cryptogon, over and […]
PayPal Apologizes to Cryptome
March 16th, 2010Via: Cryptome: From: “Muller, John” jmuller[at]paypal.com To: “cryptome[at]earthlink.net” cryptome[at]earthlink.net Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:29:17 -0700 Subject: PayPal Dear Mr. Young: I wanted to reach out and apologize for PayPal’s restriction of Cryptome’s account. As the head of PayPal’s legal department, I am responsible for the policies that govern the use of our service. While […]
The Lehman Brothers Swindle
March 15th, 2010Defense Department Official Established Network of Private Contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to Help Track and Kill Suspected Militants
March 15th, 2010Via: New York Times: Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from […]
