Archive for November, 2008
U.S. Strike Kills Afghan Wedding Party Goers
November 5th, 2008Via: Reuters: A U.S. air strike killed a number of Afghan civilians, officials said on Wednesday, as President Hamid Karzai called on newly elected Barack Obama to make it his priority to stop the killing of innocents. Scores of civilians have been killed in U.S. air strikes this year leading to seething resentment against the […]
Dutch Parliament Considering Forced Birth Control for “Unfit” Mothers
November 5th, 2008The shit-for-brains Malthusian mini-Hitlers love this stuff. The shrill “peak everything” people are some of the most deranged statists that I’ve ever come across. They sound like flaky greenies at first, but mention centralized government plans to implement orderly kill off/population reduction programs and pay close attention to their responses. These fascists can’t help it. […]
Pentagon Allocates More Troops to Homeland Combat Units
November 5th, 2008This might be enough troops to lock down a few square miles of ghetto southeast of the University of Southern California campus. But not much more than that. Via: Prison Planet: Northcom has announced that two more U.S. military units will be assigned for domestic homeland security missions, bringing the total number of combat ready […]
Pentagon Ready to Brief Incoming Administration Immediately
November 5th, 2008The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election […]
2008 U.S. Presidential sElection Open Thread
November 5th, 2008I wasn’t planning to do this, but people want to talk about the sElection. Let it rip!
Dollar Whacked, Gold Gapped
November 4th, 2008Via: MarketWatch: Gold and other metals futures rallied Tuesday boosted by sharp weakness in the U.S. dollar and broad strength in commodities, with copper prices soaring 8% and silver gaining 7%. Gold for December delivery surged $30.60, or 4%, to $757.40 an ounce in electronic trading on Globex. The contract earlier hit an intraday high […]
Big Money Moving Into Geothermal
November 4th, 2008Via: Los Angeles Times: Not far from the blinking casinos of this gambler’s paradise lies what could be called the Biggest Little Power Plant in the World. Tucked into a few dusty acres across from a shopping mall, it uses steam heat from deep within the Earth’s crust to generate electricity. Known as geothermal, the […]
Now Unpaid Utility Bills Are Skyrocketing
November 4th, 2008Via: Wall Street Journal: Utilities are becoming more aggressive about collecting money from delinquent customers, leading to a surge in service shutdowns just as economic woes are pushing up the number of households falling behind on bills. The utilities say they are under pressure to clean out accounts that are weighing down their books at […]
Fed Hires Bear Stearns Risk Boss
November 4th, 2008Via: Clusterstock: In a move that is sure to put to rest the notion that there are no second acts in American life, former Bear Stearns chief risk officer Michael Alix has landed a job in the office of the Federal Reserve charged with assessing the safety and soundness of domestic banking institutions. We suppose […]
Most Corporations Pay No U.S. Income Taxes
November 4th, 2008Via: Reuters: Most U.S. and foreign corporations doing business in the United States avoid paying any federal income taxes, despite trillions of dollars worth of sales, a government study released on Tuesday said. The Government Accountability Office said 72 percent of all foreign corporations and about 57 percent of U.S. companies doing business in the […]
