Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
What Would Be The Odds?
February 9th, 2010I happen to know the name of the person mentioned in the story below. However, a New Zealand blogger is currently facing charges for releasing the name, so I will not publish it here. If you’re reading Cryptogon, you’re more cunning than most, so I’m confident that, if you want to know the name, you [...]
Infowars and Prison Planet Not Available for Most Internet Users in New Zealand
February 8th, 2010Update: Infowars and Prison Planet Are Accessible Again
The sites are loading normally now on Telecom NZ.
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The New Zealand site infonews.co.nz reported that infowars.com and prisonplanet.com are mostly not accessible inside New Zealand. I can confirm that this is the case on Telecom New Zealand, the main provider of Internet access in the country. Many [...]
Two Nuclear Physicists Dead, One Missing Since December 2009
February 7th, 2010Update: More
Of Goats and Men lists a few more:
Timothy Hampton
Shahram Amiri
Lokanathan Mahalingam
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1. Antonio Ferrigno – Killed
2. Massoud Ali Mohammadi – Killed
3. Lachlan Cranswick – Missing
Are there more that I haven’t noticed? Let me know.
Via: CBC:
A scientist who disappeared from Deep River, Ont., in mid-January showed no changes in his behaviour in the days before [...]
Head of Davos Security Dead, Just Before Start of Meeting, Police Suspect Suicide
January 27th, 2010Via: BBC:
The police commander in charge of security at the World Economic Forum in Davos has been found dead in his hotel room, local authorities have said.
Markus Reinhardt, 61, had been head of police in the Swiss canton of Graubunden since 1984.
“All indications point to a suicide,” local police said in a statement.
Police captain Marcus [...]
My U.S. Credit Card Was Deactivated After I Sent $20 to Wikileaks
January 26th, 2010Wikileaks is down for fund raising. I sent them $20 using my U.S. credit card.
The next day, Bank of America’s Magic 8 Ball deactivated my account and sent this to me:
Irregular Credit Card Activity
Account: Bank of America ending in XXXX
Date: 01/25/2010
We detected irregular activity on your Bank of America Credit Card on 01/25/2010. [...]
Wife of French Ambassador to Lebanon Was On Downed Plane
January 25th, 2010Via: Reuters:
All 90 people aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane were feared dead after it plunged into the Mediterranean, minutes after taking off from Beirut in stormy weather on Monday.
Flight ET409, a Boeing 737-800, heading for Addis Ababa, disappeared off the radar some five minutes after taking off at 2:37 a.m. (7:37 p.m. EST on Sunday) [...]
Chavez: U.S. Weapon Test Caused Haiti Earthquake
January 22nd, 2010If you know of better sources for this information, please send them over.
UPDATE: Hugo Chavez Did Not Accuse the U.S. of Causing the Haitian Earthquake
It turned out that the dodgy sources for the Chavez thing lived up to their reputations.
Via: The Anti Press:
On January 19, Spanish newspaper ABC, a newspaper of record in Spain, published [...]
Royal Navy Flotilla Withdrawn to Cut Costs, Weeks Before Haiti Disaster; First Gap in Cover in Caribbean Since 17th Century
January 21st, 2010See: PENTAGON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE FOR HAITI WENT LIVE AFTER EARTHQUAKE HIT
Via: Times Online:
A Royal Navy flotilla that might have provided relief in the first hours after the Haitian earthquake was withdrawn weeks before the disaster because of budget constraints, the Ministry of Defence said last night.
Naval sources told The Times that the unpublicised cut [...]
“He said he had a ‘zinging’ in his ears.”
January 21st, 2010Via: Washington Post:
Christopher Bryan Speight described himself in court papers as a dependable, hardworking person who was not quick to anger, and he showed pride in his ability to “find ways to get out of problems without using force or violence.”
Friends, in letters in support of his successful 1995 application for a concealed weapons permit, [...]
PENTAGON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE FOR HAITI WENT LIVE AFTER EARTHQUAKE HIT
January 20th, 2010Via: NextGov:
As personnel representing hundreds of government and nongovernment agencies from around the world rush to the aid of earthquake-devastated Haiti, the Defense Information Systems Agency has launched a Web portal with multiple social networking tools to aid in coordinating their efforts.
On Monday, Jean Demay, DISA’s technical manager for the agency’s Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation [...]
