Archive for April, 2007
TANKER CRASH COLLAPSES SECTION OF HIGHWAY NEAR SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE
April 30th, 2007UPDATE: Schwarzenegger Delares State of Emergency
Any guesses on the indirect costs of this one?
Via: CBS News:
A stretch of highway near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed Sunday after a gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames, a loss that officials said could leave freeways leading to one of the nation’s busiest spans in near paralysis [...]
U.S. GOVERNMENT SEIZES E-GOLD ACCOUNTS, OWNERS INDICTED
April 29th, 2007It begins.
Via: Florida Today:
Two Brevard County men and two digital currency businesses they operated in Melbourne have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, accused of running an unregulated financial network that catered to criminals moving money.
Tuesday’s four-count indictment, made public Friday, charged e-gold Ltd., Gold & Silver Reserve Inc. and owners Dr. [...]
Verio Terminates Cryptome’s Web Hosting Service
April 29th, 2007NOTE: Cryptome’s hosting service is being terminated, not Cryptogon’s. Several readers are emailing me about this. READ CAREFULLY. While this could happen to me at any time, it hasn’t happened yet.
Via: Cryptome:
Dear Mr. Young,
This letter is to notify you that we are terminating your service for violation of our Acceptable Use Policy, effective Friday May [...]
Wal-Mart Seeks Former Intelligence Officers for Security
April 29th, 2007Via: AP / Houston Chronicle:
Wal-Mart Stores has been recruiting former military and government intelligence officers for a branch of its global security office aimed at identifying threats to the world’s largest retailer, including from “suspect individuals and groups.”
Wal-Mart’s interest in intelligence operatives comes at a time when the retailer is defending itself against allegations by [...]
UK: Lip Reading Surveillance Cameras
April 28th, 2007Remember remember: you’re all a bunch of slaves on the 5th of November.
Via: Infowars:
“Read my lips….” used to be a figurative saying. Now the British government is considering taking it literally by adding lip reading technology to some of the four million or so surveillance cameras in order identify terrorists and criminals by watching what [...]
Deputy Secretary of State Revealed as Prostitution Service Customer; Resigns Abruptly
April 28th, 2007Family values.
Via: Daily Background:
Tobias, the Deputy Secretary of State (and Condoleeza Rice’s right-hand man) resigned today after ABC News discovered that he had been a customer of a notorious DC prostitution service, Pamela Martin and Associates, which the Department of Justice has brought to court.
Mr Tobias, who had previously been appointed by President Bush to [...]
Really Small Houses
April 28th, 2007There are a lot of weird ways to avoid the mortgage/rent industrial complex…
Via: SF Gate:
Down a rambling residential road on the outskirts of Sebastopol, the dream house sits like a testament to discriminating taste.
This dream house is the love child of artist-builder Jay Shafer, who lovingly hand-crafted it. The stainless-steel kitchen, gleaming next to the [...]
Jeremy Grantham: All the World’s a Bubble
April 28th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument.
In Money: Going Tactical, I wrote, “We’re looking at this situation and all we see are bubbles. Real estate bubbles. Currency bubbles. Equity bubbles.”
What’s the difference between me writing something like that, and someone like Jeremy Grantham saying the same thing a [...]
Private Gold Storage “Increasingly Difficult” in the U.S. Says World-Leading Gold Ownership Service
April 28th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument.
BullionVault makes it too easy for individuals to take their fiat funny money out of circulation, and that has obviously caused discomfort somewhere in the nether realms. Why would Brinks drop a client as large as BullionVault without providing any reason for [...]
Euro Hits All-Time High Against Dollar
April 27th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument.
I keep going back to U.S. Dollar Index Breaches Significant Weekly Supports: 80.85 on the U.S. Dollar Index is the critical support. We’re at 81.16 now. We’re approaching The make or break moment.
Via: Yahoo / AP:
The euro reached an all-time high against [...]
