Archive for October, 2010
Satire: New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears
October 4th, 2010Via: The Onion: New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears Research Credit: JH
Meredith Whitney: States Will Need Federal Bailout Within a Year
October 4th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. government will face pressure to bail out struggling states in the next 12 months, said Meredith Whitney, the banking analyst who correctly predicted Citigroup Inc.’s dividend cut in 2008. While saying a bailout might not be politically viable, Whitney joined investor Warren Buffett in raising alarm bells about the potential for […]
Army Embeds Active-Duty PSYOPS Soldiers at Local TV Stations
October 4th, 2010Via: The Upshot: The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, The Upshot has learned. Since at least 2001, both WRAL, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., and WTOC, a CBS affiliate in Savannah, Ga., have regularly hosted active-duty soldiers from the Army’s […]
Ireland Cancels All Remaining 2010 Bond Auctions Due to Market “Turbulence”
October 4th, 2010Via: ZeroHedge: Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said that his government decided to cancel bond auctions for the rest of the year because of “turbulence” in bond markets, and the state is already funded into next year. He made the comments in an interview with national broadcaster RTE. “We are funded until next May,” Cowen […]
Iran Arrests ‘Nuclear Spies,’ Intelligence Chief Says
October 4th, 2010Via: CNN: Iran arrested a number of “nuclear spies,” its intelligence minister said, in the wake of widespread reports of a sophisticated new computer virus that may have been aimed at Iran. Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi made the announcement Saturday, without giving any details, Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency reported. Iran is widely thought to […]
U.S. Judge Asks Vatican to Serve Court Paper to Pope
October 4th, 2010Via: AP: A federal U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a priest in Wisconsin. The request is an incremental step in a lawsuit that accuses the officials of conspiring to keep the […]
Beijing’s Billions Buy Up Resources
October 3rd, 2010Via: Independent: While much of the developed world is baulking at its debts in the aftermath of the financial crisis, China has continued a global spending spree of unprecedented proportions, snapping up everything from oil and gas reserves to mining concessions to agricultural land, with vast reserves of US dollars. This year alone, Chinese companies […]
EU’s Technolife Project: Social Engineering for the Coming Technofascist World
October 3rd, 2010Via: Technofascism Blog: In yet another attempt to gain public acceptance for the coming technological tyranny, the EU has recently funded the University of Bergen in Norway to create a website that collects people’s opinions on three emerging techno-fascist technologies: biometric id, human augmentation, and global tracking systems. … The TechnoLife project will present the […]
ISGP Taken Down Again
October 2nd, 2010Here’s the isgp.eu backup file that Joël van der Reijden had posted previously. Via: isgp.eu: ISGP has been up from September 2004 to September 2010. After the millionth page load it was taken down. A book may some day replace the website, but this is not a certainty at this point. Research Credit: dt
Big Picture Gallery: Human Landscapes in South West Florida
October 2nd, 2010Via: Boston Globe / Big Picture: A couple weeks ago, I was listening to a story by NPR’s Planet Money team about “Toxie” a toxic asset they had purchased to follow and help tell the story of the recent financial meltdown. One of the mortgages in Toxie was on a home bought for investment in […]
