Archive for September, 2008
Merck Cancer Vaccine Made Mandatory for Immigrants Seeking Permanent U.S. Residence
September 17th, 2008Breathtaking. Via: Prison Planet: Immigrants seeking permanent legal residency in the U.S. are now mandated to take an expensive and controversial vaccine that has been linked with thousands of serious complaints and several deaths. The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine — known as Gardasil — is one of five the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently […]
RUSSIAN STOCK MARKET CRASHES, CLOSES
September 17th, 2008Via: Financial Times: Russian shares suffered their steepest one-day fall in more than a decade on Tuesday, losing up to 20 per cent, as a sharp slide in oil prices and difficult money market conditions triggered a rush to sell. The heads of the Russian central bank, the finance ministry and the financial market regulator […]
Fed to Give AIG $85 Billion Loan and Take 80% Stake
September 17th, 2008Via: IHT: In an extraordinary turn, the Federal Reserve agreed Tuesday night to take a nearly 80 percent stake in the troubled giant insurance company, the American International Group, in exchange for an $85 billion loan. The Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase had been trying to arrange a $75 billion loan for […]
Chinese Baby Formula Contained Melamine
September 16th, 2008Via: New Zealand Herald: Chinese police have arrested two brothers suspected of adding an industrial chemical to milk they sold to a company that produced infant formula that has killed two babies. The news came just hours after Fonterra chief executive Andrew Ferrier said he was happy with the way the NZ dairy giant had […]
Russia: Satanic Ritual Murder
September 16th, 2008Via: Telegraph: The eight suspected Satanists, aged 17 to 19, allegedly lured the four youths to parties on the forested edge of Yaroslavl’s city limits, before inducing them to drink and then chopping up their bodies. Police found the victims’ arms and legs in a pit dressed with Satanic symbols, and investigators say each victim […]
“There is going to be a new financial world order that will be born of this”
September 16th, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: In the biggest reshaping of the financial industry since the Great Depression, two of Wall Street’s most storied firms, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., headed toward extinction. New York-based Lehman, founded 158 years ago, said early today that it filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to find […]
EMERGENCY: AIG CRASHING
September 16th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: American International Group Inc.’s ratings cut drove the cost of default protection on Wall Street banks to a record on concern that the insurer needs more cash to back $441 billion of credit derivatives. Credit-default swaps on Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wachovia Corp. and Citigroup Inc. all traded at record highs […]
U.S. Stocks Drop, S&P 500 Sinks Most Since 2001 Terror Attacks
September 15th, 2008Waiting for the open in Tokyo. Japanese markets were closed yesterday… Via: Bloomberg: U.S. stocks tumbled, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to the steepest drop since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, as Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy and declining commodities increased speculation that credit-market losses and the economic slowdown will worsen. Stocks erased […]
Google’s Offshore Data Barges
September 15th, 2008HAR! Via: Times: Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”. The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore. The “water-based data centres” would use wave energy to […]
Scottish Activist Films Israeli Navy Shooting at Gaza Fishermen
September 15th, 2008Via: Sunday Herald: A SCOTTISH human rights activist has filmed the Israeli navy firing machine guns at unarmed Palestinian fishing boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The footage, taken on September 6 by Andrew Muncie, who is from the Highlands, shows an Israeli gunboat engaging fishing boats while international […]
