Archive for June, 2010
Biggest Threat to Your Safety While Traveling by Commercial Flight? The Food
June 29th, 2010What happened to: FDA Warning Letter to LSG SkyChefs (World’s Second Largest Provider of Airline Catering Services) from back in January? Via: CBS: Many Americans fear for their safety while flying, scared of the possibility of something going wrong with the plane’s maintenance. It turns out, however, the biggest safety issue you face while flying […]
Fannie-Freddie Bailout Could Cost Taxpayers $1 Trillion
June 29th, 2010Via: CNBC: For American taxpayers, now on the hook for some $145 billion in housing losses connected to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans, that amount could be just the tip of the iceberg. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the losses could balloon to $400 billion. And if housing prices fall further, some experts […]
FBI Rolls Up Russian Spy Ring
June 29th, 2010Via: New York Times: They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers. But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of […]
BP Worker Found Dead of “Natural Causes”
June 29th, 2010Via: nfwdailynews.com: A BP cleanup worker was found dead in his Village Inn room Sunday afternoon. The 48-year-old man’s identity has not been released. “There are no signs of foul play,” said Michele Nicholson, spokeswoman for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. “I don’t think there was anything suspicious about it.” A spokeswoman at Mobile’s Unified […]
Bill Clinton: Blow Up The Well
June 28th, 2010Via: CNN:
RBS: “Get Ready for the Cliff-Edge”
June 28th, 2010Buy U.S. Treasuries? Anyway… Via: CNBC: The credit team at RBS in London are getting very bearish and warning clients to “get ready for the cliff-edge,” where prices of stocks and commodities will “collapse.” RBS credit chief Andrew Roberts said the edge is just around the corner for the European banking industry and the economies […]
A Quiet Crisis Whispers of Impending Poverty
June 28th, 2010Via: Automatic Earth: “The ECRI leading indicator produced by the Economic Cycle Research Institute plummeted yet again last week to -6.9, pointing to contraction in the US by the end of the year. It is dropping faster that at any time in the post-War era.” The latest data from the CPB Netherlands Bureau shows that […]
Supreme Court Strikes Down Chicago Handgun Ban
June 28th, 2010The 2nd Amendment has anything to do with “self-protection”… Unless they’re talking about protection from the government. Via: CNN: In another dramatic victory for firearm owners, the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional Chicago, Illinois’ 28-year-old strict ban on handgun ownership, a potentially far-reaching case over the ability of state and local governments to enforce limits […]
So Far, 400 Have Sought Medical Care After Visits to Escambia County Beaches
June 28th, 2010Via pnj.com: The Escambia County Health Department lifted a health advisory on Pensacola Beach on Friday on the advice of a beach official and against the advice of a federal environmental official. But the advisory was not lifted for Gulf Islands National Seashore’s Fort Pickens beach, immediately west of Pensacola Beach or Johnson Beach on […]
Eating Leaves and Lizards to Survive in Niger
June 27th, 2010Via: BBC: Aid organisations are warning that millions of people are facing starvation from drought and crop failure in the West African country of Niger, and some people are turning to desperate measures to survive. If you look up “bo” on the internet, nothing that makes sense comes up. But we were looking at a […]
