Archive for June, 2010
$99 Fuel Cell for Small Electronic Devices
June 17th, 2010Via: Horizon Fuel Cell: The miniPAK portable electronic device charger is designed to meet the needs of users who want more portable energy in one package, at a lower cost than existing rechargeable or disposable battery-based options. The MiniPAK portable electronic device charger is a palm-size universal portable power charger and power extender for ANY […]
Around 300,000 People Displaced Inside Kyrgyzstan
June 17th, 2010Via: CNN: About 300,000 people are now estimated to be internally displaced in Kyrgyzstan by ethnic violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday, citing information from the Kyrgyz interim government and non-governmental organizations. Families and host communities were sheltering many of them, but at least 40,000 people were in need of shelter, according to the […]
New Claims for Unemployment Benefits Rise Sharply
June 17th, 2010Via: AP: The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped last week after three straight declines, another sign that the pace of layoffs has not slowed. Initial claims for jobless benefits rose by 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. It was the highest level in a month […]
Bank of America Ordered Traders: No Oil Deals with BP Beyond June 2011
June 16th, 2010Via: Reuters: Bank of America Merrill Lynch has ordered its traders not to enter into oil trades with BP Plc that extend beyond June 2011, a market source familiar with the directive told Reuters. The order to the bank’s traders came from a high-level executive and was made on Monday, according to a source familiar […]
Trillions in Resources & Funding Our Enemies
June 16th, 2010Via: David Degraw: Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in order to keep the wars raging and the profits rolling in. As former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell explained: “Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the US military machine to turn.”
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NSA Whistleblower Used Hushmail to Communicate with Reporter
June 16th, 2010Absolutely no surprises here. At best, Hushmail is useless for communications where a state is the privacy attacker. At worst, it’s a purpose built honeypot. See this one from 2007: Hushmail: Encrypted Email Provider Turns Over Clear Text Messages to Feds. Via: Weekly Standard: To communicate covertly with the Sun reporter, Drake opened up a […]
GCHQ by Richard Aldrich
June 16th, 2010GCHQ by Richard Aldrich on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Via: Register: If information indeed is power, then GCHQ is undoubtedly the closest thing the British government has to the Death Star. As the historian Richard J Aldrich notes in the introduction to his excellent new history of the Cheltenham-based agency it represents by far our largest, […]
Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Proposed for U.S.
June 16th, 2010Oh sure. Via: ZDnet: A new US Senate Bill would grant the President far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of, or even shut down, portions of the internet. The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects “shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or […]
American Man On Mission to Hunt Down Osama Bin Laden Arrested in Northern Pakistan
June 16th, 2010I couldn’t help thinking about Jake and Elwood as I read through this one. Via: BBC: An American man who claimed to be on a mission to hunt down Osama Bin Laden has been arrested in northern Pakistan, police say. They said that Gary Brooks Faulkner, 52, was detained in the mountains of Chitral district […]
