Archive for June, 2007
Investment Landfill: Is Your Pension Fund a Dump for Toxic Waste?
June 30th, 2007Paul Tustain, the director of BullionVault, has written a special report on the Bear Stearns crisis. You should know that Paul is in the business of making gold ownership simple and efficient for individual investors. You should also know that I am a BullionVault client. Via: BullionVault (PDF): It starts with the humble mortgage. Lots […]
Satire: London Bomb ‘Not Scary Enough’, Brown Tells MI5
June 30th, 2007I can’t take this nonsense seriously. A total piss take represents best analysis I’ve seen so far: Via: The Daily Mash: PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has dismissed the latest London bomb scare as “feeble” and “unlikely to frighten the public”. Mr Brown is understood to be disappointed with MI5’s effort, describing it as “half-arsed and […]
Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation
June 30th, 2007Simulex Inc.’s Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation system is almost certainly how the priests of the technocracy are now maintaining “normal” operations. The system allows for terra scale datasets with granularity of results down to one node (individual). It has a physics engine for tracking any number of people (or other elements) in virtual […]
New York City: Public Photography May Require Permit and $1 Million Insurance Policy
June 30th, 2007HAHA! Would you like a Statue of Liberty (Made in China) with that? Via: New York Times: Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before taking pictures or filming on city property, including […]
CIA’s Four Year Old Mind Control Victim
June 29th, 2007Since when did the corporate media start mentioning the CIA’s trauma induced mind control programs? This information has been around for years, but I’ve never read it in the mainstream press before. Via: The Australian: The nature of the experiments, gathered from government documents and testimony in numerous lawsuits brought against the CIA, is shocking, […]
United States Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner: Secret Trials for Terrorists
June 29th, 2007The mask is off the maniac fascist Nazi loving liberals. This is it. The sum of all fears. Total, overt fascism. A senior federal judge calling for warrantless surveillance and secret trials! It will be interesting to see how many people will allow themselves to be taken alive, and how many won’t. My guess, based […]
Turley: Avoid Bush’s Executive Privilege Claim by Investigating NSA Program as a Crime
June 29th, 2007Sure. Via: ThinkProgress: Yesterday, after years of White House stonewalling, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas to the Bush administration for documents related to the warrantless domestic surveillance program. Today, during a background discussion with reporters, senior Bush administration officials indicated that they would invoke executive privilege in order to deny the NSA documents to […]
U.S. Family Tries Living Without China
June 29th, 2007I wrote a post about this several years ago, but Sara Bongiorni turned the exercise in to a book. Via: Reuters: Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China. […]
McDonald’s Goes McOrganic
June 29th, 2007No matter how absurd anyone thinks it will get, the corporations manage to take it further. Via: Telegraph: The fast food chain announced yesterday that all the milk used in the teas and coffees it sells in 1,200 outlets in the UK will come from organic British cows from the end of next month. The […]
White House Asserts Executive Privilege
June 28th, 2007Imagine my shock. What’s next for this Enemy Collaborator Congress? Bootlicking? Via: Breitbart / AP: President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers’ demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors. Bush’s attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over […]