Archive for November, 2010
“It is inconceivable that the euro fails”
November 28th, 2010Via: Reuters: Senior euro zone officials dismissed any risk of the single currency area breaking up after financial markets, alarmed by Ireland’s debt crisis, forced the borrowing costs of Portugal and Spain to record highs. “There is zero danger,” Klaus Regling, chief of the euro’s financial safety net, European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), told German […]
U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown
November 27th, 2010They’re just arbitrarily hijacking sites via DNS now. They could redirect any .com, .net or .org site’s traffic to their takedown page. They could do it to Cryptogon or any other site using these top level domains. What other TLDs can the U.S. Government arbitrarily hijack? Via: New York Times: In what appears to be […]
North Korea Recalls Expats
November 27th, 2010Via: Independent: A mass exodus of North Korean workers from the Far East of Russia is under way, according to reports coming out of the region. As the two Koreas edged towards the brink of war this week, it appears that the workers in Russia have been called back to aid potential military operations. Vladnews […]
IRELAND: ANGLO IRISH BANK, NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY TO BE CLOSED BY GOVERNMENT?
November 27th, 2010Via: Irish Examiner: Amid speculation last night that the rate of interest to be charged on the EU/IMF bailout could be as much as 6.7%, Fine Gael’s finance spokesman Michael Noonan said that kind of rate was “far too high” and unaffordable on any reasonable projection of growth. The Department of Finance said the interest […]
Cryptogon Readers Sign Up for Hosting with BlueHost
November 27th, 2010Thanks to shufflinnoah.com and cannabissynthetica.com for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $180.
Jim Corr : Message to the People of Ireland
November 27th, 2010Via: Jim Corr:
Britain: D-Notice Issued for Upcoming WikiLeaks Diplomatic Documents Dump
November 27th, 2010Torrent: WikiLeaks Insurance File Via: Guardian: David Cameron and other world leaders were being briefed by the US state department about what American diplomats fear will be contained in the expected leak of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables sent to Washington by US ambassadors around the world. The leak is expected to be co-ordinated by […]
EU Rescue Costs Start to Threaten Germany
November 27th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union. Credit default swaps (CDS) measuring risk on German, French and Dutch bonds have surged over recent days, rising significantly above the levels of non-EMU states in Scandinavia. “Germany cannot keep […]
TSA Agents Use Same Set of Gloves to Carry Out Multiple Grope Downs
November 26th, 2010Via: Natural News: There’s a startling fact about the TSA pat-downs that most of us have not realized: TSA agents often do not change their latex gloves between pat-downs! With these pat-down reaching into your pants, feeling your genitals, and sweeping bare armpits and buttocks, those latex gloves being worn by the TSA agents are […]
Insurance Companies Using Electronic Data About Lifestyle and Purchasing Habits to Generate Risk Profiles
November 26th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people’s longevity. Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people’s health—a costly process. Today, however, data-gathering companies have such extensive files on most U.S. consumers—online shopping details, catalog […]
