Archive for November, 2008
Eugene Mallove: Charges Against Suspects Dismissed
November 7th, 2008Via: Norwich Bulletin: More than three years after their arrests, a Superior Court judge Thursday dismissed charges against the two suspects in a 2004 Norwich slaying, leaving Norwich police with a four-year-old unsolved murder. “There are still unanswered questions that need to be answered,” said Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane, who was the former New […]
Bletchley Park Saved for Posterity
November 7th, 2008Via: Guardian: Bletchley Park – the code breaking centre made famous for its role in cracking the Enigma code during the second world war – looks set to be saved from extinction after a £330,000 grant from English Heritage. Bletchley made its name by playing host to a team of mathematicians who used an early […]
Ron Paul Warns of Great Shift Toward Global Government Under Obama
November 7th, 2008Via: Infowars: Texas Congressman and 2008 presidential candidate Ron Paul has warned that the euphoria surrounding the election of Barack Obama combined with the overwhelming fear of major international crises could facilitate a cataclysmic shift toward a new world order. Appearing live on the Alex Jones show earlier today, the Congressman spoke of a feeling […]
Rahm Emanuel: One of the Biggest Recipients of Wall Street Money in Congress
November 7th, 2008Lobbying by the financial industry before and during the financial crisis has come under criticism from consumer groups, members of Congress and President-elect Barack Obama. “It’s ridiculous that the perpetrators of this mess should be the people dictating to Congress how to get out of it,” says Kathleen Day of the non-profit Center for Responsible […]
Just Three ‘Superbanks’ Now Dominate Industry
November 7th, 2008Via: MSNBC: The financial crisis that has been sweeping the globe has reshaped nearly every corner of the economy, but no industry has been altered more radically than banking. Several of the nation’s biggest banks have failed or been absorbed by healthier institutions, leaving three giant “superbanks” with an unprecedented concentration of market power: Bank […]
U.S. Unemployment Rate Jumps to a 14-Year High
November 7th, 2008Double the rate and you might have a more meaningful figure. Via: AP: The nation’s unemployment rate bolted to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as another 240,000 jobs were cut, stark proof the economy is almost certainly in a recession. The new snapshot, released Friday by the Labor Department, showed the crucial […]
OBAMA CONSIDERING JON CORZINE, ANOTHER FORMER GOLDMAN SACHS CHIEF EXECUTIVE, FOR TREASURY SECRETARY
November 6th, 2008Change can happen. Change we need. Yes, friends, change is having different former CEOs of Goldman Sachs serving as Treasury Secretary. Via: Star Ledger: Gov. Jon Corzine, a multimillionaire and former Wall Street chief executive, is being actively vetted by the Obama transition team as a possible candidate for Treasury secretary in the new administration, […]
MASSIVE BANK OF ENGLAND RATE CUT
November 6th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Gold rose in London after the Bank of England cut interest rates 1.5 percentage points and said global banks are in the worst disruption for almost 100 years. The central bank lowered the benchmark rate to 3 percent as policy makers tried to contain the damage caused by a recession. The European Central […]
California Voters Approve $10 Billion Bond for Bullet Trains
November 6th, 2008This seems like a pretty good project… Better a few decades late than never, eh? But if the state is hardly able to obtain financing for its current debt, how will it pull this thing off? Via: AP: California voters are green-lighting the nation’s most ambitious high-speed rail system, approving a nearly $10 billion bond […]
New Banner Image Explanation
November 6th, 2008Cryptogon’s global readership has been growing much faster than U.S. readership. In fact, there are now more non-U.S. readers than U.S. readers. As such, it was a bit silly of me to make a banner image that assumes knowledge of an American pop-culture icon. More than a few readers from outside the U.S. were baffled […]
