Archive for September, 2011
Gold Filling the Gap
September 2nd, 2011Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Flashback: “There’s more to that 38.2% level than meets the eye.” Ok, here’s the current chart: Now, longside could get rough headed back into the retest of $1912. Short termers: Get ready to lock it in, hedge it, pare it down, […]
Homeland Security: The Decade’s Biggest Scam
September 2nd, 2011Via: Salon: The Los Angeles Times examines the staggering sums of money expended on patently absurd domestic “homeland security” projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of “9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, […]
WikiLeaks: Iraqi Children in U.S. Raid Handcuffed, Shot In Head, U.N. Says
September 2nd, 2011Via: McClatchy: A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi. The unclassified cable, […]
Microsoft Sued Over Phone Tracking
September 2nd, 2011Via: Information Week: Microsoft on Wednesday was sued in a district court in Seattle for allegedly tracking Windows Phone users without consent. Plaintiff Rebecca Cousineau claims in the complaint that Microsoft is racing to develop a targeted location-based advertising system and has to map the locations of cell towers, wireless routers, mobile phones, and computers […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions and Sign Up for Hosting with Blue Host
September 2nd, 2011Pookie sent $75, CB sent $50 and GB sent $50. Thank you. Thanks also go out to the owner of tedpump.com for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $90 as a result.
August Earnings
September 2nd, 2011Earnings in August came to a total of $1233.46. The five people who sent funds in August were all repeat contributors who have given too much already. I am, as always, grateful for your generous support. Affiliate commissions were great. There had been a bit of a drought of BlueHost signups lately, but there were […]
U.S. BACKED FORCES ROUND UP BLACK AFRICANS IN LIBYA
September 2nd, 2011*wink* *blink* *nod* at the part in bold below. Via: AP: Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift jails across the capital. Virtually all of the detainees say they are innocent […]
Mossad Cut Deal with New Zealand Government to Secure Early Release of Operatives
September 1st, 2011Via: New Zealand Herald: Israeli spies convicted of trying to obtain false passports got off lightly in exchange for the return of several more illegally obtained New Zealand passports, Nicky Hagar’s book claims. Other People’s Wars, was released yesterday and investigates New Zealand’s role in the “war on terror”. The book claims that after the […]
Documents Reveal New Details About DHS Development of Mobile Body Scanners; Not Certified “People Scanners”
September 1st, 2011Too much radiation. No consent. Via: EPIC: EPIC has obtained more than one hundred fifty pages of documents detailing the Department of Homeland Security’s development of mobile body scanners and other crowd surveillance technology. The documents were obtained as a result of a Freedom Information Act lawsuit brought by EPIC against the federal agency. According […]
FEMA and Your ‘Federal Family’
September 1st, 2011Via: Palm Beach Post: Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.” In a Category 4 torrent of official communications during the approach and aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has repeatedly used the phrase “federal family” when describing the Obama administration’s response to the storm. The […]
