Archive for June, 2009
Work Begins on World’s Deepest Underground Lab
June 28th, 2009Via: AP: Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world’s deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings — a place uniquely suited to scientists’ quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter. Scientists, politicians and other officials gathered Monday for a groundbreaking […]
Man Deposits $200 with Pot, Cocaine at Bank
June 28th, 2009A little Florida reading for the weekend. Via: AP: Authorities said a man using the drive-through at a Tallahassee bank deposited $200 and a small bag containing marijuana and cocaine. Police said an employee at the Wachovia Bank called police Wednesday after the unusual deposit. An officer arrested a 38-year-old man and found the remnants […]
Where’s the Gold?
June 27th, 2009Via: Huffington Post: The Comex is the name for the largest gold futures market in the world, traditionally centered in New York City. Although the market recently became part of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, it has retained its old nickname. Also, the depositories which hold the actual bars of gold used to settle the futures […]
FDIC Friday: Five More Banks Seized by Regulators
June 27th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Five U.S. banks with total assets of about $1.04 billion were seized by regulators, pushing this year’s tally of failures to 45 as a recession drives up unemployment and home foreclosures. Community Bank of West Georgia, in Villa Rica, Georgia; Neighborhood Community Bank of Newnan, Georgia; Horizon Bank of Pine City, Minnesota; MetroPacific […]
Ben Bernanke on Ron Paul’s Proposed Leglslation to Audit the Federal Reserve
June 26th, 2009“My concern about that legislation is that if the GAO is auditing not only the operational aspects of our programs and the details of the programs, but is making judgments about our policy decisions, that would effectively be a takeover of monetary policy by the Congress, a repudiation of the independence of the Federal Reserve, […]
At Least 19 States May Have to Shut Down Some Services
June 26th, 2009Via: CNN: At least 19 states still have to approve their fiscal 2010 budgets before next Tuesday. If they don’t, staffers might not be paid and services might shut down. One week and counting. An unprecedented number of states have only days left to pass their fiscal 2010 budgets. At least 19 states are still […]
Gerstner Says Short-Term Gains Should Be Taxed at 80%
June 26th, 2009The margin is the problem. Take margin out of the picture. End it all. Deleverage the trades. Make it so that you can only trade the amount of equities that you have in cash. Sheesh! What a concept. Now, I’m not so keen on the 80% tax part because this would eliminate the potential for […]
Saddam Hussein Bluffed About WMDs Fearing Iranian Arsenal, Declassified FBI Files Show
June 26th, 2009Via: New York Daily News: Saddam Hussein feared Iran’s arsenal more than a U.S. attack, and even considered asking ex-President George W. Bush “to protect” Iraq from its neighbor, once secret FBI files show. The FBI interrogations of the toppled tyrant – codename “Desert Spider” – were declassified after a Freedom of Information Act request. […]
Kurt Sonnenfeld: FEMA Visits Cryptogon
June 26th, 2009The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency user (host: dnpoker-1.fema.gov, ip: 63.97.115.10) accessed the following Cryptogon pages directly: Kurt Sonnenfeld: 9/11 FEMA Videographer at Ground Zero Goes Public Archive for the ‘False Flag Operations’ Category If this user arrived from a search engine, no HTTP referrer headers were transmitted.
D.C. Crash Kills General Who Scrambled Jets on 9/11
June 26th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: David F. Wherley Jr., the head of the Washington National Guard who scrambled jets over the city during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was among those killed in the worst commuter train crash in the city’s history, officials said. Wherley’s wife, Ann, was also among the nine people killed when a train plowed into […]
