Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Bernanke Named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
December 16th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was named “Person of the Year” by Time magazine today for leading the “most-powerful, least-understood government force shaping our lives,” Managing Editor Richard Stengel said. Bernanke, 56, was picked for his efforts to shepherd the U.S. out of the biggest economic slump since the Great Depression, Stengel said […]
UK’s Richest Man Could Make More Than £1 Billion from Carbon Trading Scheme
December 16th, 2009Via: ClickGreen: New analysis released by climate change NGO Sandbag has revealed that the UK’s richest resident, Lakshmi Mittal, CEO and major shareholder of the steel giant ArcelorMittal, could make over £1 billion between now and 2012 from his company’s participation in the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme.
U.S. Government Workers Owe Government $3 Billion in Unpaid Taxes
December 15th, 2009For your In-Case-You-Want-to-Piss-Yourself-Laughing file. Via: WTOP: At a time when the White House is projecting the largest deficit in the nation’s history, Uncle Sam is trying to recover billions of dollars in unpaid taxes from its own employees. Federal workers owe more than $3 billion in income taxes they failed to pay in 2008. According […]
Missing Bush-Era E-Mail Is Found
December 15th, 2009Via: New York Times / AP: Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mail messages from 94 days in the administration of President George W. Bush, and the Obama administration is searching for more potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the […]
Kucinich: The Truth About Afghanistan
December 11th, 2009The $700 Billion Man: Paulson’s Creature Bugs Out to Wilderness Cabin
December 10th, 2009Via: Washington Post: He wears no coat though it’s freezing, shines no light though it’s near midnight, carries no shotgun though he’s tramping on the pine-needled tracks of black bears. He wants to be lost in these woods. “Come on, you bums,” Neel Kashkari calls to his dogs, two giant Newfoundlands. “Boys, let’s go.” He […]
The Devil and Mr. Obama
December 10th, 2009My dismissive contempt for anyone who buys into the “political process” in the U.S. has drained my bile on this issue. I just can’t get worked up over it anymore. I try to huff and puff and grit my teeth, but then all that comes out is, “Forget it. Hell is dealing with true believers.” […]
Norway: The Mysterious Spiral Pattern in the Sky
December 10th, 2009I think I’ve figured it out: Via: CNN: President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway on Thursday but acknowledged the questions surrounding the award. Obama, along with first lady Michelle Obama, walked into Oslo City Hall at 1 p.m. to a trumpet fanfare and sustained applause. In other news: The Pentagon announced Monday […]
China’s Empty City
December 10th, 2009Related: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall — Is Empty
China Executes Rogue Trader, Millions Still Missing
December 9th, 2009Via: Reuters: China on Tuesday executed a former securities trader for embezzlement, the first person in the industry to be put to death, but millions of yuan are still missing, a state newspaper said. Yang Yanming was sentenced to death in late 2005 and took the secret of the whereabouts of 65 million yuan ($9.52 […]
