Archive for September, 2009
Mind Training for Modern American Warriors
September 23rd, 2009Via: Time: Not long ago at Fort Bragg, N.C., the country’s largest military base, seven soldiers sat in a semi-circle, lights dimmed, eyes closed, two fingertips lightly pressed beneath their belly buttons to activate their “core.” Electronic music thumped as the soldiers tried to silence their thoughts, the key to Warrior Mind Training, a form […]
U.S. Taxpayers May Owe As Much As $23.7 Trillion for “Stimulus” and Bailouts
September 23rd, 2009Via: Bloomberg: U.S. taxpayers may be on the hook for as much as $23.7 trillion to bolster the economy and bail out financial companies, said Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. The Treasury’s $700 billion bank-investment program represents a fraction of all federal support to resuscitate the U.S. financial […]
2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen Deployed for G-20 Security
September 23rd, 2009Via: Lebanon Daily News: More than 2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen – including several from Lebanon County – are in Pittsburgh for the G-20 summit, set to take place Thursday and Friday. During the mission, dubbed Operation Steel Kickoff, the Guardsmen will fall under the direction of the U.S. Secret Service and will support local, state […]
AIG May Not Repay Its Taxpayer Tab
September 23rd, 2009Mmm hmm. Via: ABC News: One year after the biggest corporate bailout in the country’s history, a government watchdog office Monday warned that American taxpayers may not recoup the full $182 billion given to embattled insurance giant American International Group. “AIG’s ability to restructure its business and repay the government is unclear at this time,” […]
The U.S. Trains Forces In Afghanistan That Then Go To Work For The Taliban
September 23rd, 2009Via: Salon: The big Afghanistan debate in Washington is not over whether more troops are needed, but just who they should be: Americans or Afghans — Us or Them. Having just spent time in Afghanistan seeing how things stand, I wouldn’t bet on Them. Frankly, I wouldn’t bet on Us either. In eight years, American […]
University of Chicago Professor Dies from Exposure to Plague
September 23rd, 2009Definitely one for the dead biologists list. Via: ABC News: A University of Chicago researcher died after being exposed to a strain of bacteria that causes plague. And Malcolm Casadaban’s family wants answers. The Chicago Department of Public Health says there’s no sign anyone else was exposed to the bacteria. The tragic irony is that […]
Sydney Dust Storm
September 23rd, 2009Must see pictures. Via: Daily Mail: An outback dust storm has swept across eastern Australia, shrouding Sydney in a dramatic red glow. It’s also been wreaking havoc, disrupting transport and placing health authorities on alert for widespread respiratory illness. International flights were diverted from Sydney, ferries on the harbour were suspended, and motorists were warned […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
September 23rd, 2009Thank you. SM $25 MW $20 DT $50 Eileen $40 Thanks also to AVP, who sent $50 along with a kind and funny thank you card:
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
September 22nd, 2009Via: Wired: Valery Yarynich glances nervously over his shoulder. Clad in a brown leather jacket, the 72-year-old former Soviet colonel is hunkered in the back of the dimly lit Iron Gate restaurant in Washington, DC. It’s March 2009—the Berlin Wall came down two decades ago—but the lean and fit Yarynich is as jumpy as an […]
Microchips Will Make Sure Patients Swallow Their Drugs As Directed
September 22nd, 2009Via: Financial Times: Patients who fail to pop pills on time could soon benefit from having a chip on their shoulder, under a ground-breaking electronic system being developed by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group. The company is testing technology that inserts a tiny microchip into each pill swallowed and sends a reminder to patients by […]
