Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Banks Demolishing and Trying to Give Wrecked, Looted Homes Away
October 16th, 2011This is such a sickening, egregious waste. So it goes. Via: Washington Post: Cleveland — The sight of excavators tearing down vacant buildings has become common in this foreclosure-ravaged city, where the housing crisis hit early and hard. But the story behind the recent wave of demolitions is novel — and cities around the country […]
Geithner: U.S. to Play ‘Very Major Role’ In Helping Europe
October 15th, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: CNBC: The U.S. plans on being an active partner as efforts intensify to get Europe get back on its feet financially, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC Friday. … Geithner said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has “very substantial” resources to fund a device that could look like the Troubled Asset Relief […]
Obama Regime Deploys U.S. Troops to Uganda
October 15th, 2011Uganda: Scramble for Minerals Begins: Firms from China, India, Australia and South Africa have shown interest in exploring and producing the minerals. … The revelations come shortly after an aerial survey report confirmed that Uganda is endowed with copper, iron ore, cobalt, tin, gold as well as platinum. Via: Bloomberg: President Barack Obama authorized about […]
Pentagon Can’t Demonstrate Funds Are Being Spent as Intended
October 13th, 2011I wonder if “the terrorists” will blow up the accountants and auditors again… Via: Center for Public Integrity: The Pentagon, which previously warned that reliable military spending figures could not be produced until 2017, has discovered that financial ledgers are in worse shape than expected and it may need to spend a billion dollars more […]
Insane Ban on Cash Transactions in Louisiana
October 13th, 2011Via: Ackel and Associates: This summer, the State Legislature and Governor of Louisiana passed a law that bans individuals and businesses from transacting in cash if they are considered a “secondhand dealer”. House Bill 195 of the 2011 Regular Session (Act 389) broadly defines a secondhand dealer to include “… Anyone, other than a non-profit […]
‘No Food Rights’ Judge Quits to Work for Monsanto Law Firm
October 13th, 2011There ought to be a RICO investigation into that f*cker. Via: Food Freedom: The Wisconsin judge who recently ruled that we have no right to own a cow or drink its milk resigned to join one of Monsanto’s law firms. Former judge Patrick J. Fiedler now works for Axley Brynelson, LLP, which defended Monsanto against […]
Harrisburg Files for Bankruptcy
October 13th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which faces a state takeover of its finances, filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to pay the debt on a trash-to-energy incinerator. The City Council made its 4-3 decision yesterday against the advice of a city attorney who said members did not follow proper procedure. It’s this year’s ninth bankruptcy filing […]
Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’
October 13th, 2011Do you notice how this technocratic theocracy is the same old snake handling and sky god worship, but with “science” and computers? Same result, it just doesn’t look like a Pentecostal revival. Instead of people speaking in tongues and waving bibles, technocrats in suits are telling us that the machines will find the terrorists who […]
AOL Launches New Unmanned ‘Lights Out’ Data Center
October 12th, 2011They role all the hardware issues into batch jobs that get dealt with by contractors. I wonder how many years it will be before they build Ikea warehouse style data centers, where robots will actually pull and replace the defective server units? You could have a data center the size of a couple of football […]
