Archive for July, 2010
Ireland’s Credit Rating Downgraded by Moody’s
July 19th, 2010Via: Irish Times: Credit agency Moody’s has downgraded Ireland’s government bond ratings to Aa2, blaming banking liabilities, weak growth prospects and a substantial increase in the debt to GDP ratio. However, Moody’s lead analyst for Ireland Dietmar Hornung said it was a “gradual, significant deterioration, but not a sudden, dramatic shift”, and the agency believed […]
New Zealand: Country Calendar: Growing Strong — Whangarei Growers Market
July 19th, 2010We were over at my mother and father in laws’ house on Saturday. They have a television, so we all watched Country Calendar. Country Calendar is usually very good, but it was particularly good this time. Most of the food purchased in New Zealand is sold through the retail networks of just two large corporations. […]
Cryptogon Readers Sent Contributions in July
July 19th, 2010Thank you very much. Pookie $75 AB $15 EJ $50
June Earnings
July 19th, 2010Earnings from all sources in June came to a total of $1646.65. That’s an outstanding result. There was wildcard level activity on NitroPak and BullionVault. Amazon activity was also much heavier than usual. Thanks to everyone who sent direct contributions (just eleven generous people in June) and remembered to use affiliate links to conduct business.
U.S. Army Suicides in June: Highest Since Vietnam Era
July 19th, 2010Via: CNN: More U.S. soldiers killed themselves last month than in recent Army history, according to Army statistics released Thursday, confounding officials trying to reverse the grim trend. The statistics show that 32 soldiers killed themselves in June, the highest number in a single month since the Vietnam era. Twenty-one of them were on active […]
Gold and Silver Transactions with Dealers Over $600 Will Require IRS Filing Effective January 1, 2012
July 19th, 2010Via: Numismaster: A blizzard of paperwork could be about to hit numismatics. Passage by Congress of the national health care legislation has had an unintended consequence to the nation’s coin collectors, vest-pocket dealers who buy and sell coins, and larger dealers who are frequent buyers of coins that collectors periodically liquidate as they trade up […]
Mystery Trader Buys All Europe’s Cocoa
July 18th, 2010Via: Telegraph: Even Willy Wonka might struggle to use this much chocolate. Yesterday, somebody bought 241,000 tonnes of cocoa beans. The purchase was enough to move the entire global cocoa market, sending the price to the highest level since 1977, and triggering rumours and intrigue in the City. It is unclear which person, or group […]
Testing Gulf Water: One Sample Exploded in Lab
July 18th, 2010Chinese Oil Pipelines Explode
July 18th, 2010Via: Telegraph: More than 2,000 firefighters worked overnight to control flames and further blasts on a second pipeline after the initial explosion. China Central Television showed flames raging among tanks at the port in the northern city of Dalian, and state media described flames 30 meters high. The cause of the initial blast was not […]
Columbia University Brain Imaging Center Routinely Injected Mental Patients with Drugs that Contained Potentially Dangerous Impurities
July 18th, 2010The article describes the “impurities” as, “Unknown chemicals that may or may not be related to the tracer itself.” In other words, the victims could have been injected with anything. As usual, the New York Times fails to provide any context for this atrocity du jour, but feel free to build that context on your […]
