Archive for June, 2007
Thousand Dollar Fine for Driving Vegetable Oil Car
June 13th, 2007Wow! The snarling, fascist stage of collapse is turning out to be more absurd than even I anticipated. Unhook the vampire state’s fangs from your neck, even a little, and you’re going to get a ticket or a gun shoved in your face. Gentle hint to greasers: Cops are the only people who notice your […]
Man Faces Seven Years in Prison for Videotaping Traffic Stop
June 12th, 2007Do as we say, not as we do. Via: Pennlive: Brian D. Kelly, 18, of Carlisle likely isn’t the only the person around central Pennsylvania who was unaware that recording a police officer during the commission of a traffic stop constitutes a felony criminal act. Kelly, who says one of his hobbies is making movies, […]
Maniac Fascist Chinese Regime Makes Millions Homeless for Olympics
June 12th, 2007Via: Scotsman: WANG Baoguan burned himself to death while being forcibly evicted from his Beijing home to make way for the city’s construction project for the 2008 Olympic Games which China hopes will confirm its status as a global power. He is just one of the estimated 1.5 million residents of Beijing who will be […]
Angelina Jolie Joins Council on Foreign Relations
June 12th, 2007What frightening, global plantation clap trap is she going to be peddling? Covergirl spokesperson for the amero? You can almost see the Oprah interviews about the chip or the vaccinations or the one currency to rule them all, or some other atrocity. (Take your pick.) Fat people in the audience, nodding their heads in agreement. […]
U.S. Delivered “Flawed” Nuclear Weapon Plans to Iran
June 12th, 2007Via: Guardian: Deep in the bowels of the CIA, someone must be nervously, but very privately, wondering: “Whatever happened to those nuclear blueprints we gave to the Iranians?” The story dates back to the Clinton administration and February 2000, when one frightened Russian scientist walked Vienna’s winter streets. The Russian had good reason to be […]
Chinese Drop Biofuel Plans as Food Prices Rise
June 12th, 2007Duh. Via: Times Online: China’s communist rulers announced a moratorium on the production of ethanol from corn and other food crops yesterday at the very time that Western leaders are rushing to embrace alternative food-based fuel technology. Beijing’s move underlines concerns that ethanol production is driving up rapidly the costs of corn and grain. It […]
U.S. States Renamed for Countries with Similar GDPs
June 12th, 2007Several people are commenting around the Intertubes that they’d like to see a per capita version of this. Me too. But for those of us who look at the U.S. economy, year in and year out and wonder, “How? Just… How can it be? How can it continue?” This is how, in one picture. Via: […]
Walmart Tries to Become Your Bank with the “Walmart MoneyCard”
June 12th, 2007Via: Consumerist: “Would you like to load your check onto a Wal-Mart MoneyCard?” Get ready to hear this phrase whenever you cash a check at Walmart (which you shouldn’t do anyway, but that’s another post.) Walmart has launched a prepaid debit card, issued from the same bank that also issues their credit cards. Why is […]
Putin Calls for New Financial World Order
June 11th, 2007Via: Financial Times: Russian president Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for a radical overhaul of the world’s financial and trade institutions to reflect the growing economic power of emerging market countries – including Russia. Mr Putin said the world needed to create a new international financial architecture to replace an existing model that had become […]
New Zealand Government Trying to Halt Rise of Kiwi Dollar
June 11th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. UPDATE: 6/12/2006: Well, That Didn’t Take Long: New Zealand Dollar Rises as Investors Return to Higher Yields Maybe the New Zealand Government should try… spit balls? Well, I’m not the senior currency strategist at Banc of America Securities, but that guy […]
