Archive for February, 2007
Game Over: Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling
February 4th, 2007This is great! I only included a few of them, click through and pass it around. Via: Common Dreams: You know your empire’s crumbling when the folks who are gearing up their empire to replace yours start blowing up satellites in space. And then they don’t bother to return your phone calls when you ring […]
UK: Ministers Plan ‘Big Brother’ Police Powers
February 4th, 2007Via: Telegraph: A swathe of controversial “Big Brother” style crime-fighting techniques are to be introduced by the Government under the cover of the 2012 London Olympics, a leaked memo has revealed. The document, drawn up by officials at the Home Office and sent to 10 Downing Street, paves the way for a much wider use […]
Iranian Nuclear Scientist ‘Assassinated by Mossad’
February 4th, 2007The primary source is a U.S. propaganda front, but for whatever it’s worth… Via: Sunday Times: A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran. An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been […]
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Retired U.S. Officers: Iran Attack Would Be a Disaster
February 4th, 2007See: Zbigniew Brzezinski Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Via: CNN: Three former senior U.S. military officials warn that any military action against Iran would have “disastrous consequences” and urged Washington to hold immediate and unconditional talks with Tehran. The Bush administration has increased the regularity and vehemence of its accusations against Iran, prompting speculation […]
Chicago Fed Warns of ‘Time Bomb’ Mortgages
February 4th, 2007Via: Daily Herald: Officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago called on state agencies to clamp down on lenders that make high-risk mortgage loans to people who can’t afford them. In a conference at the bank on Wednesday, Federal Reserve examiner John Taylor said states need to put more resources into examining the lending […]
Zbigniew Brzezinski Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
February 4th, 2007It concerns me that Brzezinski is being flogged around the Internet as some sort of good guy, after this testimony. Let’s take a closer look at Brzezinski to fit his recent and astonishing appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee into context. In The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Zbigniew Brzezinski writes: […]
Oil Over $59
February 3rd, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. See this post from a couple of weeks ago. Like I said, only insiders, crackpots and lunatics would have tried to catch this move… Via: Business Week: Oil prices settled above $59 a barrel Friday, finishing the week at its highest […]
Texas Requires Cancer Vaccine for Girls
February 2nd, 2007Oh sure. Tell me another one. Via: Breitbart / AP: Gov. Rick Perry ordered Friday that schoolgirls in Texas must be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, making Texas the first state to require the shots. The girls will have to get Merck & Co.’s new vaccine against strains of the […]
U.S. SAVINGS RATE AT LEVEL SIMILAR TO GREAT DEPRESSION
February 2nd, 2007Via: Houston Chronicle / AP: People are saving at the lowest level since the Great Depression, and that could be a problem for the millions of baby boomers getting ready to retire. In fact, the Commerce Department reported Thursday that the nation’s personal savings rate for all of 2006 was a negative 1 percent, the […]
