Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
Native Americans Now Living in Deadly FEMA Trailers; Thousands Already Distributed, More Requested
July 7th, 2011Via: Seattle Times / AP: Wanda Tiger and her husband needed a new home after a long-term house-sitting arrangement came to an end. But for members of their American Indian tribe in rural Oklahoma, affordable housing options were few. Then tribal leaders learned of an impossibly attractive offer: Mobile homes that had never been occupied […]
Mysterious Deaths of Two Staten Island Marines
July 4th, 2011Via: SI Live: New Brighton natives Duane Robert Liburd Jr. and Hamson R. Daniels McPherson never knew each other. But the two young men wound up in the same place a half-world away — as U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa. And in a tragic coincidence, Liburd, 22, and Daniels McPherson, 21, […]
$6.7 Billion In Cash Missing in Iraq
June 15th, 2011I don’t know how many times I’ve posted this one, but CNN has just aired a new piece about it, and, yep, the cash is still missing. Maybe it went to the same place as the missing $2.3 trillion that Rumsfeld mentioned on September 10, 2001. Via: CNN:
Blackwater Hires Former AIG Regulatory Compliance Chief
June 13th, 2011I couldn’t make it up if I tried. Via: Wired: Nothing says, “We’re through with scandal!” quite like hiring a former executive from one of the country’s leading economic bloodsuckers. Blackwater — sorry, Xe Services — really wants to turn the PR page from the bad old days of Nisour Square, when the infamous private […]
Major Israeli Shipping Firm Accused by Washington of Doing Illicit Business with Iran
June 3rd, 2011Update: And now: Scandal-Hit Israeli Billionaire Sami Ofer Found Dead Via: BBC: Sami Ofer, an Israeli billionaire at the centre of a scandal over business contacts with Iran, has died at his home in Tel Aviv. Israeli media reported the 89-year-old had passed away after a long illness. The US last month imposed sanctions on […]
Libya Lost $1.3 Billion on Options Trades Done with Goldman Sachs
May 31st, 2011But first, remember this one? The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs: The point to bear in mind, as Mr. Sloan brilliantly makes clear, is that as Goldman was peddling C.M.O.’s, it was also shorting the junk on a titanic scale through index sales — showing, at least to me, how horrible a […]
Ex-Egypt Bank Head Arrested on Sex Charges
May 31st, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The former chairman of Egypt’s Bank of Alexandria was charged with sexually abusing a maid at the Pierre Hotel in New York, police said. Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, 74, chairman of El-Mex Salines Co., was arrested yesterday after a 44 year-old female maid alleged he attacked her May 29, according to a police […]
Norwegian Institute for Air Research: Radiation Forecasts on the ‘Zardoz’ Subdomain
May 13th, 2011Via: Dutchsinse YouTube Channel: Research Credit: dale
Massive Floods Extend Across Midwest, South
May 4th, 2011Via: CNN: An engorged Mississippi River spilled out onto huge swaths of farmland in the South and Midwest on Wednesday, prompting massive flooding from Minnesota to Louisiana. Heavy rains spawned flooding that meteorologists say is not expected to fully relent until early June. Areas along the Ohio River Basin also experienced heavy flooding, forcing residents […]
Army Corps Detonates Explosives on Flood Levee
May 3rd, 2011Via: Reuters: The government on Monday detonated explosives to blow a hole in a flood levee on the Mississippi River and save several towns from being inundated, including Cairo, Illinois. Six plumes of flame rose from the area of the explosion and a loud boom was heard at about 10 p.m. local time, a Reuters […]
