Archive for July, 2007
Womb-on-a-Chip May Boost IVF Successes
July 27th, 2007Via: New Scientist: Can conception, the most intimate of human experiences, be automated? Teruo Fujii of the University of Tokyo in Japan and his colleagues are building a microfluidic chip to nurture the first stages of pregnancy. They hope, eventually, to create a fully automated artificial uterus in which egg and sperm are fed in […]
NYSE Imposes Trading Curbs as Stocks Tumble
July 26th, 2007Plunge Protection Team, please pick up the white courtesy phone. Via: Reuters: The New York Stock Exchange said on Tuesday it instituted downside trading curbs at 11:06 a.m. (1506 GMT) as U.S. stocks fell sharply on concerns about deterioration in the credit markets. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index (.NYA: Quote, Profile, Research), which […]
It’s the Old Sell-Gold-to-Cover-Stock-Losses Play
July 26th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Some of you will understand this: Story #1: Dow Leads Global Selloff on Credit Woes: Wall Street suffered its second-biggest plunge of the year Thursday, leading global markets lower as investors fled stocks amid increasing uneasiness about the mortgage and corporate […]
Genocide: The Hidden Agenda Behind the Bush Adminstration’s Bio-Fuel Plan
July 26th, 2007Via: Global Research: In the mid-1970’s Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a protégé of the Rockefeller family and of its institutions stated, “Control the oil and you control entire nations; control the food and you control the people.” The same cast of characters who brought the world the Iraq war, the global scramble to control […]
Former U.S. Soldiers Receiving Bills for Equipment Damaged During War
July 26th, 2007In other news, announced by Rumsfeld on September 10, 2001, the Department of Defense is missing $2.3 trillion. I wonder if the people responsible for looting that inconceivable sum of money are getting collection notices in the mail. Fascist regimes always eat their own. People who serve these governments are almost always ignorant of this […]
“We Are Experiencing Home Price Depreciation Almost Like Never Before, With the Exception of the Great Depression”
July 25th, 2007Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. stock market tumbled the most in four months after Countrywide Financial Corp.’s earnings prompted concern the housing crisis is spreading. Shares of homebuilders sank to their lowest since 2003 and financial companies dropped after Countrywide, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said more borrowers are falling behind on home- equity loan payments. […]
Dollar Gaps Up, Central Banks Sell Gold
July 25th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy sell or hold any financial instrument. HAHA! I love it. It’s gold dumping time in Europe. And how about that U.S. Dollar index… Via: Market Watch: The dollar rose to a two-week high against the euro and gained against the yen early Wednesday, rebounding from multi-year lows […]
Theresa Duncan, Jeremy Blake, the Devil and Dick Cheney
July 25th, 2007Theresa Duncan announced that she was working on an essay called, “The Devil and Dick Cheney.” Two days later, she was dead and now Jeremy Blake, her boyfriend, is missing. According to legend, he was last seen taking off his clothes and wading out into the ocean. While his body has not been found, his […]
Halliburton Used Bribery Network to Bloat War Costs
July 25th, 2007In other news, Halliburton’s second-quarter net income more than doubled. Via: New York Times: Federal investigators have uncovered what they describe as a sweeping network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving at least eight employees and subcontractors of KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary, in a scheme to inflate charges for flying freight into Iraq in […]
New Insights on the Soviet Union’s Collapse
July 25th, 2007Via: Christian Science Monitor: In November, the Brookings Institution will publish the English translation of “Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia,” now a bestseller in Russia. Written by Yegor Gaidar, an economist who was Russia’s acting prime minister between 1991 and 1994, the book uses information from Soviet archives to tell the story […]
