Archive for December, 2010
U.S. Real Estate Wreck to Continue
December 10th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: U.S. home values are poised to drop by more than $1.7 trillion this year amid rising foreclosures and the expiration of homebuyer tax credits, said Zillow Inc., a closely held provider of home price data. This year’s estimated decline, more than the $1.05 trillion drop in 2009, brings the loss since the June […]
$500 Million to Keep Cheney Out of Nigerian Prison?
December 10th, 2010I keep thinking that someone is taking the piss out of all of us with this one, but… Via: Global Post: Halliburton is planning to make a plea bargain in former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s corruption case, Nigerian officials told GlobalPost. Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency charged Cheney as the head of Halliburton when its engineering […]
cryptogon.ch
December 10th, 2010I’ve registered cryptogon.ch with the Swiss registrar Switchplus. I don’t know how well .ch will hold up going forward, but it seemed prudent to at least have an alternative if I should lose control of the cryptogon.com domain for any reason. At a minimum, .ch appears to be far, far more desirable than the U.S. […]
Ron Paul, Author of ‘End the Fed,’ to Lead Panel Overseeing Central Bank
December 10th, 2010Hell, at this late stage of the game, why not? Via: Bloomberg: Representative Ron Paul, Texas Republican and author of “End the Fed,” will take control of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve. House Financial Services chairman-elect Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican, selected Paul, 75, to lead the panel’s domestic monetary policy subcommittee […]
Video from London Riots
December 10th, 2010Related: Looks Like Prince Charles Soiled His Union Suit
Ex-WikiLeaker Explains His Spinoff Group, OpenLeaks
December 10th, 2010Daniel, it’s like I said before: I’m hopeful and skeptical at the same time. Via: Forbes: Former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg has always considered Julian Assange’s whistle-blowing site a two-pipe operation: One pipe takes submissions in from anonymous leakers, another publishes them out to an uncensorable web site. But since defecting from WikiLeaks in September […]
Anonymous Running Attacks on Anti-Wikileaks Sites with Low Orbit Ion Cannon
December 9th, 2010LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon): LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) is a network stress testing application, written in C# and developed by “praetox”. It attempts a denial-of-service attack on the target site by flooding the server with TCP packets, UDP packets, or HTTP requests with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host. […]
Government Steals $190,040 from Brothers
December 9th, 2010Via: Chicago Tribune: The government is attempting to keep a little more than $190,000 it seized from two brothers after one of them was pulled over in a traffic stop that didn’t even result in a traffic ticket. Jesus Martinez, 27, had $190,040 in his possession when his pickup truck was stopped by an Aurora […]
This Is No Ordinary Bank
December 9th, 2010Via: Ventura County Star / AP: This is no ordinary bank: The ATMs are in Latin. Priests use a private entrance. A life-size portrait of Pope Benedict XVI hangs on the wall. Nevertheless, the Institute for Religious Works is a bank, and it’s under harsh new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led […]
U.S. Treasuries Sell Off
December 9th, 2010Monitoring… Via: Reuters: Treasury prices plunged on Wednesday for a second straight day, pushing benchmark yields to a six-month high, after a deal in Washington to extend tax cuts fueled fears of inflation and a swelling budget deficit. The sharp dip in prices brought some buyers to the table in an auction of $21 billion […]
