Archive for April, 2010
Lehman Channeled Risks Through Cutout
April 13th, 2010Some of this, the MO in particular, will seem very familiar to long time Cryptogon readers… Via: New York Times: It was like a hidden passage on Wall Street, a secret channel that enabled billions of dollars to flow through Lehman Brothers, Louise Story and Eric Dash write in The New York Times. In the […]
Japan to Investigate Chinese Warships Near Okinawa
April 13th, 2010Via: Reuters: Japan said on Tuesday it would investigate the sighting of several Chinese submarines and warships last week in the high seas near the southern island of Okinawa, where U.S. bases are concentrated in Japan. Two submarines and eight vessels were spotted on Saturday about 140 km (90 miles) southwest of Okinawa, the first […]
U.S. Military Warns of Massive Oil Shortages by 2015
April 13th, 2010Flashback: U.S. Navy Researchers Claimed to Have Experimentally Confirmed Cold Fusion. Via: Guardian: The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact. The energy crisis outlined in a Joint Operating Environment report from the […]
Homeland Security Wants Cellphones to Sniff for Bio Agents
April 13th, 2010Via: Danger Room: Your cellphone can already tell you where to find the nearest Starbucks or the most convenient subway station. But it might soon be smart enough to alert you to a toxic threat during your morning commute or coffee break, thanks to a new plan from the Department of Homeland Security. The last […]
Italian Aid Workers Arrested Over Afghan Assassination Plot
April 12th, 2010Via: Al Jazeera: Nine people, including three Italian medical workers, have been arrested in Afghanistan for allegedly plotting to kill a provincial official. Gulab Mangal, who is the governor of Helmand, said those held were planning attacks in Lashkar Gah, the province’s main city, “and the number one target was myself”. He said that the […]
Cable Ties Kissinger to Pinochet Assassinations
April 12th, 2010Via: AP: As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington’s Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows. Whether Kissinger […]
Random Matrix Theory
April 12th, 2010Via: New Scientist: SUPPOSE we had a theory that could explain everything. Not just atoms and quarks but aspects of our everyday lives too. Sound impossible? Perhaps not. It’s all part of the recent explosion of work in an area of physics known as random matrix theory. Originally developed more than 50 years ago to […]
Water Doom: The Spring Gave Out, Drought Continues
April 12th, 2010Crossposted from Farmlet. The Far North of New Zealand is experiencing the worst drought in 60 years. Kaitaia, the town near us, has been running under emergency conditions for weeks. Anyone caught using a hose outside faces a NZ$20,000 fine. The local farming community is in deep trouble. The hay and silage that has been […]
The Cove
April 12th, 2010I just saw The Cove. It’s worth a look on several levels. On the DVD, the “extra features” are really good too—must see for anyone who eats larger, predatory fish. Hint: You’re poisoning yourself.
Newstralia?
April 11th, 2010You laugh, but: Common Border for Australia and New Zealand. Via: BBC: That subject turns out to be the suicide of New Zealand. No not suicide in New Zealand but a proposal to cash in the country’s independence and become instead, the seventh state of the Australian commonwealth. An opinion poll has suggested that no […]
