Archive for September, 2011
The $300 Million Cable That Will Save Traders Milliseconds
September 13th, 2011Now with more Flashcrash! Via: Telegraph: In the high-speed world of automated financial trading, milliseconds matter. So much so, in fact, that a saving of just six milliseconds in transmission time is all that is required to justify the laying of the first transatlantic communications cable for 10 years at a cost of more than […]
Bankruptcy Among College Grads Grows
September 13th, 2011I love the language! It’s not a depression or an economic collapse. What we’re seeing is a, “Sophisticated evolution of the profile of the American debtor that now extends to disparate age, income and ethnic groups.” Via: CNN: Bankruptcy has gotten more educated over the past five years, as financial distress spread to more of […]
Ghosts with Shit Jobs
September 13th, 2011I wish it wasn’t just a trailer. Via: ghostswithshitjobs.com:
Conspiracy of Silence
September 13th, 2011Via: YouTube: Related: The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska by John W. DeCamp
CIA Wants Court to Invoke Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) in Case Involving Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla
September 13th, 2011Via: Narco News: The fingerprints of the CIA have surfaced in a controversial federal criminal case pending in Chicago against Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, an alleged kingpin in the Sinaloa “drug cartel.” US government prosecutors filed pleadings in the case late last week seeking to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), a measure designed […]
‘Person of Interest’ TV Show
September 13th, 2011Just in case you didn’t know the state was doing this to you all day long… Via: Wall Street Journal: To promote its new fall drama “Person of Interest,” CBS Corp. is turning its eye on viewers. To highlight the show’s theme of citizen-surveillance, CBS is tapping into the trend of interactive billboards, installing one […]
Post-September 11, NSA ‘Enemies’ Include Americans
September 13th, 2011Bamford mentions the new NSA facility in Utah, but he doesn’t mention the other new one in Texas. Ironically, he’s quoted in this piece about the new facility in San Antonio: Surrounded by barbwire fencing, the anonymous yet massive building on West Military Drive near San Antonio’s Loop 410 freeway looms mysteriously with no identifying […]
More Evidence of Economic Recovery: Bank of America Will Eliminate 30,000 Jobs, Largest Cut by a U.S. Company This Year
September 13th, 2011Via: AP: Bank of America is slashing 30,000 jobs as part of an effort to reverse a crisis of confidence among investors. It’s the largest single job reduction by a U.S. company this year. What CEO Brian Moynihan is trying to do is nothing less than save the nation’s largest bank. Investors have cut the […]
Court Approves Lawsuit Against Toyota Over Cyberstalking Ad Stunt
September 13th, 2011This is definitely one for your Not The Onion file folder. Via: Wired: A woman who was targeted by Toyota in a creepy, stalker-themed online advertising stunt will be allowed to sue the company, despite the carmaker’s argument that she unknowingly agreed to the whole thing. Amanda Duick sued Toyota in 2009 over its intrusive […]
Fast and Furious: ‘Keep Selling, They Told Him’
September 12th, 2011Via Los Angeles Times: In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard’s Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell guns to every illegal purchaser who walks through the door. For 15 months, Howard did as […]
