Archive for January, 2008
Hackers Cut Cities’ Power
January 19th, 2008The spook’s moving lips tell us nothing we don’t already know, so… What is the spook really trying to tell us? Via: Forbes: Cyber-security experts have long warned of the vulnerability of critical infrastructure like power, transportation and water systems to malicious hackers. Friday, those warnings quietly became a reality: Tom Donahue, a CIA official, […]
Homeland Security’s National Applications Office (NAO)
January 19th, 2008Via: Global Research: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established a new domestic spying operation in 2007 called the National Applications Office (NOA) and described it as “the executive agent to facilitate the use of intelligence community technological assets for civil, homeland security and law enforcement purposes within the United States.” The office was to […]
And Now: The AAA Rated Bonds
January 19th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Ambac Financial Group Inc. scrapped a plan to raise equity capital after the bond insurer’s shares plunged 70 percent in the past two days, putting its AAA credit rating in jeopardy. Without new money, New York-based Ambac risks losing the top ranking it depends on to sell bond insurance. Ambac, the second- largest […]
Cryptogon Readers Sign Up for Hosting with BlueHost
January 19th, 2008Thanks to owners of e3clo.net and orgoniseafrica.de for signing up for webhosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $130.
Opium Fields Spread Across Iraq
January 18th, 2008Do you get it yet? Via: Independent: The cultivation of opium poppies whose product is turned into heroin is spreading rapidly across Iraq as farmers find they can no longer make a living through growing traditional crops. Afghan with experience in planting poppies have been helping farmers switch to producing opium in fertile parts of […]
Forget Helicopter Ben: Bush and Congress Set to Drop Thermonuclear Confetti Bombs
January 18th, 2008Let me get this straight: My wife and I are going to owe no federal income tax and the maniac state is going to give us $1,600!? I don’t remember smoking crack this morning, but that’s what the Bloomberg piece tells us! Wow, now I know what it’s like to be an evil U.S. corporation! […]
Greenspan Joins Hedge Fund that Made Billions Shorting Subprime Derivitives
January 18th, 2008Imagine my shock at the coincidence! Via: Telegraph: Alan Greenspan, the 81 year-old former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is set to join the US hedge fund Paulson & C. as an adviser. Dr Greenspan will advise Paulson on the global financial markets, and under the terms of the agreement he will not advise any […]
A Look at the U.S. Dollar Index
January 17th, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I’m still bearish, overall, on the U.S. Dollar, but I have slightly less confidence in the bets that I’ve made. There’s no point in trying to parse all the bullshit in the financial press. Let’s look at the chicken entrails instead. […]
Gold Support Holding
January 17th, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. For everyone who’s not trading this thing… Near term support might be in at around $876, as per this recent post: If it can manage to breakdown below $888, look for support around the first fib fan line. Now, a current […]
Former Republican Congressman Charged in al-Qaida and Taliban Fundraising Case
January 17th, 2008Via: Yahoo / AP: A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan. Mark Deli Siljander, a Michigan Republican when he was in the […]
