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7/22/2006

New Washers, Dryers Send Messages to PCs :.

Rather than taking a sane approach to dealing with energy scarcity, the solution, rather, is to ignore what is happening by dazzling oneself with useless technological baubles of every description.

This story gave me an idea about how I could sum up our new lifestyle, relative to that of so-called "normal" society.

Here's how Becky and I do our laundry:



Keep the above arangement in mind as you read the following story. Peggy Spencer, and people like her, are in for the shock of their lives. And if you live near someone who's washing machine has an IP address, chances are, you're going to be in for the shock of your life as well:

Washers and dryers that link wirelessly to Internet-connected home networks are being tested by consumers who are receiving updates on their dirty laundry via cell phones, computers and TV sets.

Messages not only indicate when a wash is complete but also can warn that a lint filter is clogged or a load is too large. Users can remotely command the machines to fluff dry clothes or start a load from a distance after being told - oops - they forgot to start the wash.

Peggy Spencer, a 57-year-old teacher whose family is involved in a trial of the system launched by the Internet Home Alliance, hopes to use it to monitor the wash from the comfort of a lounge chair - at her neighborhood pool.


Related: No End in Sight for N.Y. Blackout



Missing Italian Banker Found Dead :.

This is too much! Especially for all of us tinfoil hat lunatics who thought there was anything weird about the murder of Roberto Calvi. Well, at least Gianmario Roveraro wasn't found under Blackfriars bridge. That would have really given the conspiracy theorists a wind up!

I'm starting to lose track of all of the corporate criminal carcasses littering the landscape.

Hmmmm. What's a safer job, microbiology or banking?

A top Italian banker missing since early July has been found dead near a bridge outside Parma.

Gianmario Roveraro, who founded Italian financial services group Akros Finanziaria, vanished on 5 July. His body was reportedly badly beaten.

Police suspect his disappearance may have been linked to a business row. Three people have been arrested.

No ransom demand was made, but Mr Roveraro, 70, contacted his family saying he needed a million euros.

Mr Roveraro had previously been questioned by police over the collapse of Italian food giant Parmalat, which he advised in the 1990s.

Mr Roveraro had not been seen since attending a meeting of the Catholic conservative group Opus Dei in Milan on 5 July.

He did contact his family on two later occasions. First he told his wife that he needed to visit to Austria to resolve an unspecified problem.

In his second call Mr Roveraro said he needed one million euros in cash wired to him immediately.



U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery to Israel :.

Yes, Master. Right away, Master:

The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hizbollah targets in Lebanon, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

Citing U.S. officials who spoke on Friday on condition of anonymity, the Times said the decision to ship the weapons quickly came after relatively little debate within the administration, and noted in its report that its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others who could perceive Washington as aiding Israel in the manner that Iran has armed Hizbollah.

The munitions are actually part of a multimillion-dollar arms-sale package approved last year which Israel is able to tap when it needs to, the officials told the Times. But some military officers said the request for expedited delivery was unusual and indicated that Israel has many targets it plans to hit in Lebanon.

The arms shipment has not been announced publicly. The officials who described the administration's decision to rush the munitions included employees of two government agencies, one of whom described the shipment as just one example of a broad array of armaments that the United States has long provided Israel, the Times said.


7/21/2006

How About That Gold?

A few weeks ago, in Gold Gapping Down Along with Global Stock Markets, I wrote:
It makes no sense that gold should be available for purchase with U.S. dollars. It makes absolutely no sense. If gold is the "real money" gold bugs (I used to be one) believe it to be, it makes no more sense to be able to buy gold with U.S. dollars than in would make to be able to buy a cow with a cupful of rocks.

...

If there's one thing I've learned in all my years of looking at events, it's that events never go the way anyone thinks they're going to go in the future. It seems so obvious that gold is the way to go with the instability and precarious nature of the global economic system. Right?

Explain gold's recent leg down, in the face of crashing global stock markets.
And what about now? With the Middle East smoldering, Israel tearing Lebanon to shreds---the gold bugs should have been licking their chops, right?

Woops: Gold Closes Lower; Loses 7.2% on the Week
Gold futures closed lower Friday, as investors, unsettled by the metal's recent volatility, shrugged off dollar weakness and speculation that Israel is planning a ground invasion of Lebanon.

Gold for August delivery closed down $12.30 at $620.20 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The metal lost 7.2% on the week.
Did you catch that? Gold futures closed lower Friday, as investors, unsettled by the metal's recent volatility, shrugged off dollar weakness and speculation that Israel is planning a ground invasion of Lebanon. Shrugged off?!

Hint to gold bugs: gold should not be shrugging off things like dollar weakness and the potential start of World War III. Not if all the real money/safe haven talk is valid.

I'm not saying that gold is or isn't the way to go, because I don't know. Anyone who does claim to know is full of sh*t. All I'm saying is that the assumptions that go along with gold aren't holding up against real world events. That's all.


7/20/2006

ISRAEL ABOUT TO SEIZE SOUTHERN LEBANON :.

Pitched battles raged between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters on the border Thursday, and Israel warned hundreds of thousands of people to flee southern Lebanon "immediately," preparing for a likely ground offensive to set up a buffer zone.



Hacking Digital Rights Management :.

Like a creeping fog, DRM smothers more and more media in its clammy embrace, but the sun still shines down on isolated patches of the landscape. This isn't always due to the decisions of corporate executives; often it's the work of hackers who devote considerable skill to cracking the digital locks that guard everything from DVDs to e-books. Their reasons are complicated and range from the philosophical to the criminal, but their goals are the same: no more DRM.

We're going to revisit the history of the most famous DRM cracks. While the stories themselves are fascinating, one of the merits of such an exercise is to use the lessons of the past to consider the challenges of the future.


Related: Years of DRM Stories on Cryptogon



BRITAIN: CARBON SWIPE-CARD PLAN :.

On the one hand, I like the idea of energy wasters being penalized and energy conservers being rewarded.

In theory.

On the other hand, there is no reason for energy scarcity other than to control us all. But there is another, even more frightening dimension to this. (This is a very weird and complex issue.) If you think about it long enough, you have to come to this critical question: If the technologies that have been able to provide infinite energy, for at least the last three decades, had been implemented, would civilization be any better off?

If there had been no energy scarcity over the last thirty years, my guess is that domed cities would be the only inhabitable areas on the planet by now (at best). And have no doubt about it, that is the clean, green, fascist plan for the future:

The environment minister, David Miliband, today unveiled a radical plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by charging individuals for the amount of carbon they use.

Under the proposals, consumers would carry bank cards that record their personal carbon usage. Those who use more energy - with big cars and foreign holidays - would have to buy more carbon points, while those who consume less - those without cars, or people with solar power - would be able to sell their carbon points.

Mr Miliband denied suggestions that the scheme would penalise the poor, by, for example, forcing the elderly to turn off their central heating in winter to save carbon points.

"The technical work that has been done so far suggests that poorer people would actually do well out of it," the minister told Channel 4 News at Noon.

"It is not the poor who are the biggest emitters of carbon. It is not the poor who have the biggest cars or the biggest holidays or the most aeroplane flights or the most energy inefficient usage."

Under the scheme, all UK citizens from the Queen down would be allocated an identical annual carbon allowance, stored as points on an electronic card similar to Air Miles or supermarket loyalty cards.


Related: Sustainable WalMart?! Tell me another one.



Reader Email: Causus Belli

Re: the Daniel Ellsberg story, C writes:
the "within days after" seems off to me. don't we need the terror to give our causus belli? or will the fact that such a nefarious act had to have been in the planning before we attack therefore show the necessity of our preemptive doctrine? good grief...
My response:
Does it matter? These maniacs don't even need causus belli to unleash their ghastly plans. They can do anything they wish now, causus belli or not.

I wouldn't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing the U.S. Government into a rational actor. It doesn't need to be rational. Power is the policy; that's the only rationale they need. (See Full Spectrum Dominance, their term, not mine.) Besides, Americans, generally, are in such a daze that .gov could tell them to dig their own graves, at gun point, and they'd do it.

They are doing it. Happily.



Gallery of Horror: From Israel to Lebanon :.

WARNING: Extremely graphic images.

This makes my gallery of horror on the same topic seem tame by comparison.

One suggestion to fromisraeltolebanon.info: Post the captions along with the images, especially the photographer's name and the press organization.

Israeli PSYOP teams might try to discredit these images, etc. That's why I always include captions.

Research Credit: Ann, Mark, Amy, whatreallyhappened.com...



The Insane Brutality of the State of Israel :.

The tragedy of Gaza has been described a hundred times over, as have the tragedies of 1948, of Qibya, of Sabra and Shatila, of Jenin -- 60 years of atrocity perpetrated in the name of Judaism. But the horror generally falls on deaf ears in most of Israel, in the U.S. political arena, in the mainstream U.S. media. Those who are horrified -- and there are many -- cannot penetrate the shield of impassivity that protects the political and media elite in Israel, even more so in the U.S., and increasingly now in Canada and Europe, from seeing, from caring.

But it needs to be said now, loudly: those who devise and carry out Israeli policies have made Israel into a monster, and it has come time for all of us -- all Israelis, all Jews who allow Israel to speak for them, all Americans who do nothing to end U.S. support for Israel and its murderous policies -- to recognize that we stain ourselves morally by continuing to sit by while Israel carries out its atrocities against the Palestinians.



Tesla Motors Roadster :.

If you need to waste some time at work, this should do the trick.



Daniel Ellsberg Unfurls :.

WOW!

Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national firestorm in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the US military's account of activities during the Vietnam War, to The New York Times. The release awakened the American people to a systematic program of organized deception carried out by the Pentagon against the population to continue the Vietnam War.

Daniel Ellsberg, speaking on air to GCN radio host Jack Blood, stated his concerns that criminal elements of the US government were psychologically capable to have carried out 9/11. He warned that within days after a US military strike on Iran that Bush's handlers would probably stage some type of terror attack in the West to legitimize the new war.

Ellsberg went on to state that another major Reichstag-like state-sponsored attack would be followed by a martial law scenario which might include detention camps for American dissenters.

Ellsberg said that he worked with individuals at the highest levels of government who staged war provocations several times to whip up pro-war sentiment in the US. Daniel Ellsberg now joins the ranks of hundreds of prominent engineers, physicists, economists, military officers, pilots, high-level intelligence analysts, and cabinet ministers who are exposing the 9/11 hoax.


7/19/2006

Is Monitor110 Parsing Your Intel? :.

I was thinking about doing this manually for clients for $50 per week; like a Private Label version of Cryptogon, tasked to order. I wonder what these guys are charging? ;)

From the Product Overview page:
Monitor, Collect, Organize and Display...

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Monitor110 filters and organizes the data into easy to use themes. Each channel is related to a specific company, brands, topic, issue, persons or products.

We regularly expand both our data sources as well as subjects (themes) covered.

Currently Monitor110 offers three types of themes:

Corporate Themes: We monitor for internet updates related to a specific corporation. Most of the information is organized by ticker. Currently we are collecting information on over 5,700 publicly traded companies. We also monitor for activity related to several privately held corporations.

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Here are a couple of their bots:

fasta.monitor110.com on ip 206.188.0.22
fastb.monitor110.com on ip 206.188.0.23



YaaaHOOOooo! Wipes Out 22% of Shareholder Wealth in One Day :.

Remember the lesson from earlier today on selling outside the spread?

Yahoo's stock price plunged by nearly 22 percent Wednesday, marking its largest one-day drop ever after the Internet powerhouse postponed a pivotal change to the advertising formula that propels its profits.

...

The wipeout erased about $10.4 billion in shareholder wealth.



Cryptogon Experiences Record Traffic

Cryptogon received over 10,000 visits yesterday, or slightly more than 2X normal volume, thanks to links from lifeaftertheoilcrash.net and whatreallyhappened.com (two of my favorite sites).

This is the most activity Cryptogon has ever experienced in a 24hour period; and this doesn't even include feed loads.

Thanks, guys!



Home Sellers Learning Day Trading Skills :.

When I used to trade, and I wanted out of a position -NOW- I would use a technique that was referred to as selling outside the spread.

Rather than getting in line with the rest of the sheep to get a fill on a market order (which are executed in sequence), I'd enter a limit order slightly below the current bid. For the cost of a penny or two, sometimes for nothing, I'd get to jump the line of market orders and get an instant fill. Time is all that matters now. With market orders, where are you in line? Depending on liquidity, this isn't a trivial question. The axe, meanwhile, could drop the price much lower as all the market orders pile up. And it's all about getting out of the way of the axe.

Confused? Think of musical chairs. Imagine that the music has stopped and you don't have a chair. Selling outside the spread is like pushing someone, who's about to get a chair, out of the way and taking the chair for yourself.

The same technique should work for home sellers. The question is, at what cost? The ugly phase begins when lots of other sellers get the same idea at the same time. That's when---sorry for more trading lingo--- downward momentum builds and the real pain begins:

Home sellers are learning what any retailer, from Wal-Mart to the owner of the corner gas station, already knows: Low prices are one of the surest ways to beat the competition.

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Massachusetts' largest real estate firm with more than 3,500 agents, is coaching agents on how to persuade clients to list their homes at an asking price that undercuts those of comparable ones on the market.

The hope is low prices will attract more prospective buyers, leading to faster sales. Other real estate agents in the Boston area report success with similar strategies in a housing market with an unprecedented glut of properties for sale.

Called "drama pricing" or "energy pricing," it is a drastic measure for difficult times. And it seems to run counter to the conventional strategy of selling your home for the highest price possible.



Pat Buchanan: Where Are the Christians? :.

[WARNING: Link contains images of Ann Coulter.]

Uh, they're waiting to be raptured, Pat:

But what Israel is doing is imposing deliberate suffering on civilians, collective punishment on innocent people, to force them to do something they are powerless to do: disarm the gunmen among them. Such a policy violates international law and comports neither with our values nor our interests. It is un-American and un-Christian.

But where are the Christians? Why is Pope Benedict virtually alone among Christian leaders to have spoken out against what is being done to Lebanese Christians and Muslims?



Chief U.S. Economist at Deutsche Bank: 'The Housing Market's in Trouble' :.

Someone give this guy an honorary degree in rocket science:

Confidence among U.S. homebuilders dropped this month to the lowest level in more than 14 years as sales fell and orders were canceled.

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo index of builder confidence declined to 39, the lowest since December 1991, from 42 in June, the Washington-based association said Tuesday. It was the eighth decline in nine months for the index.

"The housing market's in trouble," said Joseph Lavorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank AG in New York. "We have become decidedly more cautious on the outlook since the index has started falling."


Related: Housing Panic Blog <--- Hilarious and terrifying.


7/18/2006

CRYPTOGON IS DIESEL POWERED! :.

UPDATE: Seems back to normal...

Cryptogon was down today for about 3 1/2 hours due to a municipal power failure (dead transformer) at Blue Host's data center in Orem, Utah.

I was more concerned with all of the clients I've referred to Blue Host, over the past couple of months, than I was with my own show.

"Oh sh*t," I thought, "I feel like a real idiot."

HA! Thankfully, they were all still up and running! A bunch of older clients, including me, just had UPS, which ran down after a few minutes. The newer clients were covered by diesel generator backup.

Here's where it gets interesting...

All Blue Host domains (165,000+ of them) are now---believe it or not---powered by a diesel generator.

The BlueHost guys moved the boxes that weren't connected to diesel generator power (Cryptogon was hosted on one of these) to a different set of racks that does have diesel generator power.

If Cryptogon goes down again, it probably means the generator ran out of juice.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! I love how fragile this sh*t really is.


7/17/2006

Chinese PSYOP Forces Attempt Perception Management Online :.


Does the diabolical Chinese regime realise that they could just hire Netvocates?

China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said on Thursday.

China has struggled to gain control over the Internet as more and more people gain access to obtain information beyond official sources. The country has nearly 100 million Internet users, according to official figures, and the figure is rising.

A special force of online commentators had already been operating in Suqian city in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu since April, the Southern Weekend said.

Their job was to defend the government when negative comments appeared on Internet bulletin boards and chatrooms, the weekly quoted local officials as saying. Suqian city's propaganda department recruited the commentators from among government officials, the weekly said, adding that they must "understand (government) policies, be versed in (political) theories and be politically reliable". "They will guide public opinion as ordinary netizens. This is both important and effective," Ma Zhichun, one of the recruited commentators, was quoted as saying.


Related: Chinese Try Mobile Death Vans



Cryptogon Blocked from U.S. Air Force Domains

A Cryptogon reader writes:
I guess you're too subversive for our delicate eyes at USAF bases in [DELETED]. This Monday morning I tried to access your page from work and was greeted by an 'unauthorized: personal/politics' banner.

We have no trouble reading Drudge, NewsMax, FreeRepublic, and WorldNetDaily. I guess I'll have to wait till I get home to see some 'reality-based' information.

Keep up the good work...
I've been noticing substantially fewer .mil visits lately. Actually, I'm not getting any visits at all from .mil, that I can ID as .mil. Cryptogon used to get hundreds per day. I just assumed that They they started routing the traffic through nodes that resolved back to civilian networks. But maybe not...

It's probably safe to assume that Full Spectrum Dominance applies to the brains of U.S. military personnel, and hence the firewall 'approved access' list.

Here's a free (but check out their paid offerings), easy-to-setup tool for folks who are trying to use the web from behind restrictive firewalls: logmein.com.

If you can reach logmein.com from your browser, you can take remote control of any computer that has free access to the Internet; your home computer, for example. Then you will be able to browse cryptogon.com and any other sites that are blocked from work. (Until the donkeys wake up and block logmein.com, of course.) This was an excellent solution for me when I worked for a criminal Wall Street bank that had restrictive firewall policies.

NOTE: If your network warlord is logging keystrokes, it will be able to gain control of your PC. Be careful!

UPDATE: CIFA.MIL Still Works

CIFAGB01.CIFA.MIL (Counter Intelligence Field Activity) 214.4.150.228 arrived via whatreallyhappened.com. Thanks, Mike! ;) About CIFA.MIL. It makes sense that they'd have a clear shot to the net.

It also looks like uscg.mil (U.S. Coast Guard) and some overseas army.mil nodes are still open.



Who's Sweet as Honey? :.

WTF? I wonder if "he" wears a hood and/or a cape?

Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thing
Bush: Yeah.
Blair: What does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if we get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way...
Bush: Yeah, yeah, he is sweet
Blair: He is honey. And that's what the whole thing is about. It's the same with Iraq



LEBANON: DEATH, INJURY AND DESTRUCTION MADE IN AMERICA

I have to post these images, because, as an American, I am responsible for this. All Americans are responsible for this:


















7/16/2006

ISRAELI ATROCITIES IN LEBANON :.

Our intelligence sources in Lebanon have reported to us exclusively that Israel is now using poison gas and depleted uranium shells on towns in the south of Lebanon. Residents of the small village of Kasarshoba became violently ill, experiencing severe vomiting, after the Israelis hit the village with poison gas. In other cases, underground shelters in southern Lebanon were hit by Israeli depleted uranium shells. Our sources also report that the entire southern suburbs of southern Beirut, with a population of 800,000, have been totally depopulated. Israel has targeted thousands of civilian homes for destruction.

Meanwhile, Israeli government spokespersons and Bush administration officials took to the Sunday morning talking head programs in Washington to defend Israel's barbarous actions. The networks failed to present the views of Lebanese government spokespersons. Israel's and the Bush administration's line is that Israeli attacks are "precision targeted." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointedly refused to criticize Israel on ABC's This Week.



Eight Canadians Killed in Israeli Strikes :.

The corporate media doesn't pay any attention when the Mad Dog kills Lebanese civilians. But CNN managed squeeze out one sentence on these Canadians:

Eight Canadians were among those killed Sunday in southern Lebanon, a spokesman for Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said.



The Newt: It's World War III :.

Turn away from the flash. Drop to the ground and lay in a prone position with your feet toward the mushroom cloud. Cover your head with your hands. Close your eyes:

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says America is in World War III and President Bush should say so.

Gingrich said in an interview Saturday that Bush should call a joint session of Congress the first week of September and talk about global military conflicts in much starker terms than have been heard from the president.

"We need to have the militancy that says 'We're not going to lose a city, " Gingrich said.

Gingrich said in the coming days he plans to speak out publicly and to the administration from his seat on the Defense Policy Board about the need to recognize that America is in World War III.



Iran Warns Israel of 'Unimaginable Losses' if Syria Attacked :.

Luckily, the beer we made last week is ready:

Iran warned its arch-enemy Israel Sunday of "unimaginable losses" if it attacks Syria adding that the Islamic republic was "standing by the Syrian people".

"We hope the Zionist regime does not make the mistake of attacking Syria, because extending the front would definitely make the Zionist regime face unimaginable losses," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.




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