Archive for September, 2008
France: “The Electronic Bastille Is Upon Us”
September 5th, 2008Via: MSNBC / Reuters: “The Edvige database has no place in a democracy,” wrote Michel Pezet, a lawyer and former member of a body charged with protecting French citizens from electronic prying, in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper Le Monde. “There is nothing in the decree that sets limits or a framework. Whether the database […]
UK: House Prices Post Record Annual Fall
September 5th, 2008Via: Reuters: House prices fell for the seven month running in August to stand a record 12.7 percent lower than a year earlier, a survey showed on Thursday, in a sign the property downturn has already turned into a crash. HBOS, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, said house prices in the world’s fourth biggest economy fell […]
UK: Food Prices Soar This Year
September 5th, 2008Via: Reuters: Food prices in shops and supermarkets have risen by more than 8 percent this year, with some items up nearly 50 percent, a survey for the BBC said on Friday. The survey, carried out by retail analysts Verdict Research, found that meat and fish prices had gone up by almost 23 percent while […]
Bisphenol A May Impair Learning and Memory
September 5th, 2008One waking nightmare to another… Via: Globe and Mail: Exposure to bisphenol A, the hormonally active chemical used to make the linings of most tin cans and hard plastic bottles, may be able to alter brain function, impairing the ability to learn and remember, according to a new study by researchers from Canada and the […]
Storms Devastate Haiti
September 5th, 2008Haitians were eating dirt. Those were the good days. Via: Guardian: Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three weeks unleashed “catastrophe” and submerged much of the impoverished Caribbean nation, said President Rene Preval. A fourth […]
Maniac Fascism: It’s Illegal to Collect Rainwater in Utah Without a State Permit
September 5th, 2008You’ll love this one. Research Credit: efs / infowars.com
Defiant Cheney Vows Georgia Will Join NATO
September 5th, 2008Tell me another one, Dick. Via: Guardian: The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, yesterday issued a direct challenge to Moscow’s sway over Georgia, pledging Washington’s support for its eventual membership of Nato, while denouncing Russia’s “illegitimate” invasion. “Georgia will be in our alliance,” Cheney said after talks with President Mikheil Saakashvili. Cheney used his one-day visit […]
People Who Live Without TV
September 5th, 2008Is it really only one to two percent of Americans who don’t watch TV? Maybe they ought to be on the terrorist watch list. Citizens shouldn’t be turning off their telescreens! WARNING: Nonsense Left/Right political labels ahead. Via: Yahoo News: For many Americans the thought of life without TV is akin to forgoing food, shelter […]
A Sampling of What U.S. Inmates Make, and for Whom
September 5th, 2008Via: Mother Jones: Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor. Here’s a sampling of what they make, and for whom. Eating in: Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of […]
Abramoff Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
September 5th, 2008Via: Reuters: Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced Thursday to serve four more years in prison in a corruption scandal that rocked Washington’s power elite and helped Republicans lose control of Congress. Abramoff is already serving a nearly six-year term on unrelated charges and the new sentence will be served at the same time, meaning […]
