Archive for September, 2010
Cryptogon Reader Signs Up for Hosting with BlueHost
September 22nd, 2010Thanks to the owner of radiolibertycentral.com for signing up for hosting with BlueHost. Cryptogon received $90.
Inside Norway’s Underground Military HQ
September 22nd, 2010Everything old is new again. Click through for video. Via: BBC: In November, Norway will officially move its military command base to its former Cold War complex in Bodo inside the Arctic Circle. As Russia is strengthening its armed presence on the other side of their shared border, there is no better illustration of the […]
Gold Futures Top $1,290 an Ounce on Globex
September 22nd, 2010Via: MarketWatch: Gold futures climbed to new heights above $1,290 an ounce on Globex during Asia’s morning trading Wednesday with investment demand on the rise after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it was worried about deflation and was prepared to consider more action to boost the economy. Gold for December delivery touched a high of […]
Vatican Bank Investigated Over Money-Laundering
September 21st, 2010Via: BBC: The head of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, is under investigation as part of a money-laundering inquiry, police sources say. Prosecutors also seized 23m euros ($30m; £19m) from the bank’s accounts with another smaller institution. The inquiry was launched after two suspicious transactions were reported to tax police in Rome. The Vatican […]
U.S. Hunters Shoot Down Google Fiber
September 21st, 2010Via: IT News: Google has revealed that aerial fibre links to its data centre in Oregon were “regularly” shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables underground. The search and advertising giant’s network engineering manager Vijay Gill told the AusNOG conference in Sydney last week that people were trying to hit insulators […]
Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?
September 21st, 2010A Cryptogon reader ordered this book on Amazon and I thought I’d mention it for any of you who might be interested: Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever? by Clinton Ober, Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. and Martin Zucker I have no idea what to make of this, but after reading around on various sites, […]
Rendell’s Office Releases Content of All Bulletins on Planned Protests
September 21st, 2010Here’s the document dump: PA Intelligence Bulletins. Via: Philadelphia Inquirer: The bulletins, issued to police, public officials, and commercial interests three times a week since October, were prepared by a private contractor that the state Office of Homeland Security hired last year for $103,000 without competitive bidding. Much of their content – such as announcements […]
Pope’s Astronomer Says He Would Baptise an Alien
September 21st, 2010Why is the pace picking up? Via: Guardian: Aliens might have souls and could choose to be baptised if humans ever met them, a Vatican scientist said today. The official also dismissed intelligent design as “bad theology” that had been “hijacked” by American creationist fundamentalists. Guy Consolmagno, who is one of the pope’s astronomers, said […]
Alien Field Trip
September 21st, 2010Related: Britain: Children Traumatized by ‘War of Worlds’ Abduction of Teacher Research Credit: HS
Pentti Linkola, Finnish Environmentalist: “Kill Defectives”
September 21st, 2010Via: penttilinkola.com “We will have to…learn from the history of revolutionary movements — the national socialists, the Finnish Stalinists, from the many stages of the Russian revolution, from the methods of the Red Brigades — and forget our narcissistic selves.” — “Our only hope lies in strong central government and uncompromizing control of the individual […]
