Archive for January, 2009
Obama Reaches Out for McCain’s Counsel
January 19th, 2009Change. Via: New York Times: Not long after Senator John McCain returned last month from an official trip to Iraq and Pakistan, he received a phone call from President-elect Barack Obama. As contenders for the presidency, the two had hammered each other for much of 2008 over their conflicting approaches to foreign policy, especially in […]
Juarez Vigilante Group Claims it Will Kill One Criminal Every 24 Hours
January 19th, 2009If the nightmare of Juarez is unfamiliar to you, check out, While You Were Sleeping by Charles Bowden. That’s from 1996. Via: El Paso Times: A group calling itself the Comando Ciudadano por Juárez, or the Juárez Citizens Command, is claiming it will kill a criminal every 24 hours to bring order to the violent […]
Israel Recruits ‘Army of Bloggers’ to Combat Anti-Zionist Web Sites
January 19th, 2009The shill-o-matic is going into afterburner mode. Via: Haaretz: The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an “army of bloggers,” to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German. The program’s first volunteer was Sandrine Pitousi, 31, […]
Circuit City to Close 567 Remaining U.S. Stores; Layoff 34,000 People
January 19th, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: Bankrupt Circuit City Stores Inc. said Friday it was closing its 567 U.S. electronics stores and leaving its 34,000 employees jobless as the nation’s employment picture grew bleaker. It was the worst day this year for news of layoffs, bank losses and store closings, and employers signaled more bad news ahead.
RBS SLAUGHTERED: “FULL-SCALE NATIONALIZATION” NEXT
January 19th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc said it may post a loss of as much as 28 billion pounds ($41 billion), the biggest ever reported by a U.K. company, as the credit crisis worsens. The stock slumped as much as 46 percent. Britain’s biggest government-controlled bank may post a full-year loss before exceptional […]
Will United States Be Forced to Nationalize Banks?
January 19th, 2009Via: Reuters: The U.S. government’s latest bank rescue, this time a multi-billion dollar lifeline handed to Bank of America, has led to more talk of what once would have been unthinkable — European-style nationalization of major American banks. Few see the government nationalizing the entire banking system the way Sweden did in the 1990s, but […]
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And Then They Came for Me: Journalist Writes His Own Obituary and Is Assassinated Days Later
January 19th, 2009Via: The Sunday Leader: No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. In the course of the past few years, the independent media have increasingly come under attack. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and coerced. […]
And Now… Plague Sweeps Through al Qaeda Terror Training Camp, Killing 40
January 19th, 2009Well, let’s take a quick walk down Cryptogon memory lane: Plague-Infested Mice Missing from Bioterror Research Lab World of Warcraft Disease Model U.S. Researchers Trying to Create Pandemic Avian Flu Researchers Have Isolated the Genes that Made the 1918 Flu Pandemic So Deadly, and Spliced Those Genes Into Modern Flu Viruses Via: Telegraph: The Black […]
U.S. Military Joint Forces Command User Visits Cryptogon
January 19th, 2009The jfcom.mil user (host: usufprx1.jfcom.mil, ip: 137.246.207.202) accessed the following Cryptogon page directly: The American Culture Bomb: Satire from the Onion and a Long Forgotten U.S. Army War College Essay Then, the same user submitted the following message using my story suggestion form: A new submission (form: “Story Suggestions”) ============================================ Submitted on: January 13, 2009 […]
