Archive for May, 2008
Expert Witness and Family Found Dead in San Clemente Home
May 28th, 2008UPDATE 1: June 2, 2008: Grace Ucar Maintained Wiki Page on Bacillus Anthracis (Cause of Anthrax Disease) As with all strange cases, we note the Coincidences: Bacillus anthracis, from MicrobeWiki, Edited by Grace Ucar Obviously, it’s not weird for a girl who majored in biology to maintain such a reference. We’ll probably never know just […]
Olmert ‘Took Cash in Envelopes’
May 27th, 2008Via: BBC: A US businessman has testified he gave envelopes full of cash to Israel’s prime minister but said he did not seek or receive any favours in return. Morris Talansky told an Israeli court he did not know how the money was spent, but linked it to Ehud Olmert’s “love” of “expensive” luxury goods. […]
Whitney: Pain Is Far from Over for U.S. Banks
May 27th, 2008Via: MarketWatch: “As we see no near- or medium-term comeback in securitization volumes, we believe losses will only accelerate further and far worse than even the most draconian estimates,” according to Whitney. “Due to continued deterioration in consumer liquidity, we are raising our loss expectations significantly for the group and lowering our earnings estimates significantly.”
Some U.S. Farms Outsourced to Mexico
May 27th, 2008Via: AP: Antonio Martinez used to pay smugglers thousands of dollars each year to sneak him into the United States to manage farm crews. Now, the work comes to him. Supervising lettuce pickers in central Mexico, Martinez earns just half of the $1,100 a week he made in the U.S. But the job has its […]
Every Adult in Britain Should be Forced to Carry ‘Carbon Ration Cards’
May 27th, 2008I have an idea about this carbon sinning nonsense. It goes back to Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm. In short: Because modern society destroys human identity, mindless conformity to all order of fascist, technocratic prison policies gives the masses a sense of belonging to something. Religions worked for a while. The vengeful sky god […]
They Rule the World: A Shadowy Organization Is in Power, and It’s Made Up of the Very, Very Rich
May 27th, 2008This is core lunatic fringe stuff, wrapped in tinfoil. It’s also The Washington Post. What’s your take on the Them’s coming out party? As someone who has followed this type of information for about twenty years, I don’t know what to make of the mainstreaming of this… area of inquiry. You might think that all […]
U.S. Residents in Military Brigs? Government Says It’s War
May 27th, 2008Via: AP: If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply. But Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is a U.S. resident being held in a South Carolina military brig; he is the only enemy combatant held […]
Chilean Judge Orders Arrest of Pinochet-Era Soldiers and Secret Police
May 27th, 2008See: The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh Via: Guardian: A Chilean judge has ordered the detention of almost 100 former soldiers and secret police officers from General Augusto Pinochet’s regime as part of investigations into human rights abuses, according to reports. Among the 98 held are former employees […]
Steepest Decrease in Driving Ever Recorded in U.S.
May 27th, 2008Via: CNN: At a time when gas prices are at an all-time high, Americans have curtailed their driving at a historic rate. The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded. Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less — that’s 11 billion […]
Google, Chevron, Goldman Sachs Build Mirrors in Desert to Beat Coal With Solar
May 27th, 2008For years, I wanted to believe that Peak Oil could bring this horror show down. My problem, of course, was that I couldn’t ignore simple, observable realities and the fact that evil people have many plans up their sleeves… Unfortunately, this horror show grinds on, whether we want it to, or not. —Shell’s $30 per […]
