Archive for March, 2008
U.S. Drops China from List of 10 Worst Rights Violators
March 15th, 2008What’s more absurd, the fact that China isn’t on the list, or that the U.S. issues such a list in the first place? More than a million Iraqis have died since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. I wonder if that figures into the report at all… Via: IHT: The announcement that the U.S. […]
Dubya: “I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines…”
March 14th, 2008I wonder if Bush knows the one about the most severely wounded American soldier? Via: Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush got an earful on Thursday about problems and progress in Afghanistan where a war has dragged on for more than six years but been largely eclipsed by Iraq. In a videoconference, Bush heard from […]
Chaos in Tibet Capital as Protests Spread
March 14th, 2008Via: Reuters: Protesters in Tibet’s capital Lhasa burnt shops and vehicles and yelled for independence on Friday as the region was hit by protests, prompting its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to urge Beijing to stop “brute force”. Peaceful street marches by Tibetan Buddhist monks over past days gave way to the biggest demonstrations the […]
Right Now, Feds Might be Looking Into Your Finances
March 14th, 2008Yeah, they need to steal money from you to bail out the crooks on Wall Street. “Mr. Smith, we see here that you leaned left instead of right the last two out of five times you farted. We’ll need to seize your funds until you can provide us with an itemized, externally audited report of […]
BEAR STEARNS STOCK CUT IN HALF
March 14th, 2008Via: Reuters: Bear Stearns Inc shares fell 50 percent on Friday, on news the bank’s liquidity position had deteriorated significantly in the last 24 hours, prompting it to secure financing from JPMorgan Chase and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Shares fell to $28.59 on the New York Stock Exchange.
EMERGENCY: U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE, JPMORGAN TRYING TO PREVENT COLLAPSE OF BEAR STEARNS
March 14th, 2008Spot gold $1005. Dollar getting slammed again. Trading remains orderly. — That looked like it was going to get weird for a few minutes… Do the riot police show up when Wall Street goes looking for handouts? Via: AFP: JPMorgan Chase on Friday said it was acting with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York […]
FBI Made ‘Blanket’ Demands for Phone Records
March 14th, 2008Via: New York Times: Senior officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation repeatedly approved the use of “blanket” records demands to justify the improper collection of thousands of phone records, according to officials briefed on the practice. The bureau appears to have used the blanket records demands at least 11 times in 2006 alone as […]
House Agrees to Rare Secret Session on Spy Bill
March 14th, 2008The following passage is from, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer: “What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on […]
IMF Tells States to Plan for the Worst; “Think the Unthinkable”
March 14th, 2008A handful of Wall Street firms created this mess, and guess who’s going to pay? Mmm hmm. Via: Financial Times: IMF tells states to plan for the worst By Krishna Guha in Washington Published: March 13 2008 02:00 | Last updated: March 13 2008 02:00 Governments might have to intervene with taxpayers’ money to shore […]
Hundreds Line Up for Government Handouts, Meet Riot Police Instead
March 13th, 2008Via: Palm Beach Post: A crowd of more than 500 people waiting for hours this morning for housing voucher applications were dispersed by police in riot gear at the Boca Raton Housing Authority when the applications ran out sooner than expected. The action prompted complaints that officers used excessive tactics and housing authority officials were […]
