Archive for May, 2008
The New Homeless: Formerly Middle Class People Sleeping in Their Cars
May 16th, 2008Maybe those SUV purchases weren’t stupid choices after all—people are living in them now. This is a CNN video report: The New Homeless. Research Credit: PD
Texas: U.S. Citizenship to be Checked During Emergency Evacuation
May 16th, 2008I knew there were going to be different camps. Look back at, Texas: Background Check Required Before Evacuation; Different Buses for “Criminals”: What do you want to bet that the thought criminals will wind up on the buses with the wanted felons, and that those buses will go to different camps. Surely, if there are […]
U.S. Government Hiding True Unemployment Rate in Statistics
May 16th, 2008Via: Daily Reckoning / Mogambo: In fact, there are now more people on Government Payrolls (22,385,000) than Goods Producing payrolls (21,618,000)! Hahaha! We are so freaking doomed! What makes it So Damned Funny (SDF) is that a conceited, self-absorbed nation like America, that boasts how smart we are, cannot possibly realize the utter, utter stupidity […]
Documents Link Wind Farm Foes to International Energy Conglomerate
May 16th, 2008Imagine my shock. Via: Boston Globe: A new lobbying firm for the group opposing a wind farm off Cape Cod filed a federal document last month reporting that its work for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound is partially funded and shaped by an international energy conglomerate. The disclosure represents the first documented financial connection […]
Bush’s ‘Appeasement’ Speech in Israel
May 16th, 2008Useful Context: How Bush’s Grandfather Helped Hitler’s Rise to Power Perhaps an Amnesia category would be useful. Via: Independent: President George Bush lavished anniversary praise on Israel yesterday, as Palestinians commemorated the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” when 700,000 were forced from or fled their homes 60 years ago. In a special address to the Israeli Knesset, […]
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May 16th, 2008Thank you. Eileen $125 ED $25 SB $10
Land of the Free: Police Arrest Man without Any Probable Cause, Give Him Knock Out Drugs, Insert Camera into His Rectum, Force Him to Vomit, Take His Blood, X-Ray Him; No Illegal Drugs Found
May 16th, 2008The U.S. is starting to make Darkness at Noon look like a walk in the park. Via: Times Union: Two years ago, Tunde Clement stepped off a bus at the city’s main terminal downtown. Clement, a black man, was carrying a backpack and coming from New York City. That may have been enough to pique […]
Securing Your Notebook Against U.S. Customs
May 15th, 2008Via: Guardian: Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you’re entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I […]
Not-So-Safe-Deposit Boxes: States Seize Citizens’ Property to Balance Their Budgets
May 15th, 2008Via: ABC News: The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they’re supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a “Good Morning America” investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn’t really unclaimed and then use the money — your money — to balance their budgets. Unclaimed […]
Violence in Mexico Spills Across U.S. Border
May 15th, 2008State authority is breaking down in Mexico—even by Mexican standards. I know what you’re thinking: Mexico has been collapsing for decades. That’s true, but I don’t ever recall top police officials running for their lives, while others are gunned down. Via: AP: Three Mexican police chiefs have requested political asylum in the U.S. as violence […]
