Archive for April, 2012
Estimating Government Support for Canadian Banks During the Financial Crisis
April 30th, 2012Via: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Throughout the 2008-2010 financial crisis, Canadian banks were touted by the federal government and the banks themselves as being much more stable than other countries’ big banks. Canadians we assured that our banks needed no bailout. However, in reality, Canada’s banks received billions in cash and loan support during […]
To Fight Climate Change, UK Funds Forced Sterilisation of India’s Poor
April 30th, 2012Via: Guardian: Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian women and men, the Observer has learned. Many have died as a result of botched operations, while others have been left bleeding and in agony. A number of pregnant women selected for sterilisation […]
RFK Assassination Witness: There Was a Second Shooter
April 30th, 2012Via: CNN: As a federal court prepares to rule on a challenge to Sirhan Sirhan’s conviction in the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, a long overlooked witness to the murder is telling her story: She heard two guns firing during the 1968 shooting and authorities altered her account of the crime. Nina Rhodes-Hughes wants the world […]
London 2012: Missiles May be Placed at Residential Flats
April 30th, 2012Via: BBC: The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics. An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a “Higher Velocity Missile system” could be placed on a water tower. A spokesman said the MoD had not yet decided whether to deploy ground based […]
March and April Earnings
April 30th, 2012I’m very behind with acknowledging the financial contributions and commissions that keep Cryptogon alive. Total earnings in March came to $1472.38. Thank you. In April, four Cryptogon readers sent contributions: Pookie $75 TM $10 Eileen $104 MW $20 Thank you. Thanks also go out the owners of biostasislabs.com, richardjhealy.com and getbitstories.com for signing up for […]
Economist Intelligence Unit: ‘Rise of the Machines: Moving from Hype to Reality in the Burgeoning Market for Machine-to-Machine Communication’
April 30th, 2012Via: Economist Intelligence Unit: Fast-forward to 2012, and much of what used to be M2M whiteboard concepts can now be found in the field. The Fonterra Co-operative Group, a New Zealand-based dairy company, has set up autonomous forklifts within a warehouse that can work around the clock, with far fewer accidents and reduced wear and […]
‘Is it only a matter of time before drone technology is used in civil society?’
April 30th, 2012Via: Independent: It is the snooping function foreseen by Orwell that is the most significant next step for drones in our societies: with our cities and public buildings already saturated with surveillance cameras, we may fondly suppose that the state’s monitoring of our daily lives has gone as far as it can go. But we […]
Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.
April 30th, 2012Via: New York Times: THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; […]
Disneyland: Club 33
April 30th, 2012My mom used to take my sister and me to Disneyland quite often when we were children. As a freak child, I was mostly interested in identifying the wizard-behind-the-curtain aspects of the place. I used to want to follow the Disney security men around to see where they went and what they did. To this […]
Libya’s Former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem Found Dead in Danube River
April 30th, 2012Via: BBC: The body of Libya’s former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has been found in the Danube River, Austrian police say. A spokesman said there were no signs of violence to Mr Ghanem’s body, which was in the river that flows through Vienna. The former prime minister, 69, worked as a consultant for a Vienna-based […]
