Archive for January, 2013
Mississippi River Nears Historic Lows, Shipping at Risk
January 3rd, 2013Via: Reuters: The drought-drained Mississippi River will rise slightly later this week between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois, but later continue its decline toward historic lows, according to a National Weather Service forecast. Low water, due to the worst U.S. drought since 1956, has already impeded the flow of billions of dollars worth of grain, […]
Former Icelandic Bank Executives Jailed for Fraud
January 2nd, 2013Nine months isn’t much, unless you consider that U.S. executives involved with these rackets got taxpayer funded bonuses instead of prison sentences. Via: Reuters: Two former executives at an Icelandic bank which collapsed in the 2008 financial meltdown were sentenced to jail on Friday for fraud which led to a 53 million euro loss, in […]
Fiscal Cliff ‘Debt Reduction’ Deal Adds $4 Trillion to Federal Deficits Over a Decade
January 2nd, 2013Your what hurts? Via: Reuters: In the controversy surrounding the “fiscal cliff” issue, it’s easy to forget that the origin of the entire debate was a professed desire to reduce swollen federal deficits. Whether the target was $4 trillion over 10 years, as proposed by the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission, or in the $2 trillion […]
Temporary Outages
January 2nd, 2013Update: Response Time —End Update— Cryptogon is under attack (DDOS). I’m attempting to deal with it. If the site is down, it means that I’ve needed to take it offline to get control, or my host is throttling my account to prevent other domains on the server from being affected. If you have encountered error […]
