Archive for April, 2013
Chinese Colonel Says Latest Bird Flu Virus Is U.S. Biological Weapon
April 10th, 2013Via: Washington Post: Colonel Dai Xu of the People’s Liberation Army wrote online that the new strain of bird flu hitting China, known as H7N9, is an American “bio-psychological weapon” meant to destabilize China. The rant, posted to Dai’s account on the Twitter-like service Weibo, had already been shared by more than 30,000 fellow users […]
Helmut Kohl: I Acted Like a Dictator to Bring in the Euro
April 10th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Helmut Kohl, Germany’s former chancellor, has admitted that he acted like a “dictator” to bring in the single currency to the country, otherwise he “would have lost” had he held a referendum. In an interview conducted for a journalist’s PhD thesis, Germany’s longest-serving postwar chancellor said that he would have lost any popular […]
Comex Gold Inventories Collapse
April 10th, 2013Via: Bull Market Thinking: A stunning piece of information was brought to my attention yesterday. Amid all the mainstream talk of the end of the gold bull market (and the end of the gold mining industry), something has been discretely happening behind the scenes. Over the last 90 days without any announcement, stocks of gold […]
Request for Assistance from Cryptogon Readers in Geneva, Switzerland
April 10th, 2013Update: Day 4: Live Feed Down Again What a disaster…. — Update: Day 3: Live Feed Down — Update: Day 2: Both Motors Not Working — Update: It’s Not Working The livestream shows the Yildiz motor, but it’s not running. People are making hilarious comments in the chat about how it must need new bearings, […]
Forbes: ‘Unemployment Is Really 14.3%–Not 7.6%’
April 10th, 2013Unemployment is really about 23%, but, hey, it’s Forbes. Via: Forbes: The current job-creation numbers are meaningfully below the level we might expect during a period of record corporate earnings and the reaching of new peaks in the major stock market indices. Let’s go to the videotape – The unemployment rate is 7.7%. But, there […]
Texas Law Prevents Veterinarian from Offering Consultations Over Internet
April 10th, 2013Via: U.S. News and World Report: But in March—after more a decade of dispensing veterinary advice over the Web for a small fee— the Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners sent Hines a letter claiming the department “has received a complaint alleging you have and are currently operating an internet consultation service which provides medical […]
Earthquake Strikes Near Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant, Kills 20
April 9th, 2013Via: NBC: A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck near Iran’s only nuclear power station Tuesday, killing 20 people and injuring 500, according to one report, and generating tremors that were felt on the other side of the Persian Gulf. The quake struck about 60 miles southeast of the city of Bushehr on Iran’s south coast, the U.S. […]
ATF Sting Operation Used Brain-Damaged Man, Then Charged Him
April 9th, 2013Via: Journal Sentinel: ATF agents running an undercover storefront in Milwaukee used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to set up gun and drug deals, paying him in cigarettes, merchandise and money, according to federal documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel. For more than six months, federal agents relied on Chauncey Wright to promote […]
Japan: Patriot Missile Systems Deployed in Tokyo
April 9th, 2013Via: CNN: Japan deployed missile-defense systems at three sites around Tokyo early Tuesday ahead of a possible missile launch by North Korea, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said. The Patriot missile batteries were set up in the central district of Ichigaya and in the suburbs of Asaka and Narashino, Suga told reporters Tuesday. The deployments […]
FUKUSHIMA: AT LEAST THREE OF SEVEN UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS LEAKING RADIOACTIVE WATER
April 9th, 2013Via: New York Times: The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant halted an emergency operation Tuesday to pump thousands of gallons of radioactive water from a leaking underground storage pool after workers discovered that a similar pool, to which the water was being transferred, was also leaking. At least three of seven underground chambers at […]
