Archive for November, 2008
Auto Sales Collapsing
November 4th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: U.S. auto sales plummeted 32 percent in October to the lowest monthly total since January 1991, led by General Motors Corp.’s 45 percent slide, as reduced access to loans and a weaker economy kept consumers off dealer lots. Ford Motor Co. reported a 30 percent drop in car and light- truck sales from […]
AIG Bailout Just Another Government Boondoggle
November 4th, 2008Via: Washington Post: A number of financial experts now fear that the federal government’s $143 billion attempt to rescue troubled insurance giant American International Group may not work, and some argue that company shareholders and taxpayers would have been better served by a bankruptcy filing. The Treasury Department leapt to keep AIG from going bankrupt […]
Previously Unreleased September 11 Videos of North Tower and Building Seven Collapsing
November 4th, 2008On November 1st, user GldBr released the following videos on the video sharing site veoh.com. This is a new user account and there are no other videos posted as I write this. Lots of sites are copying these videos and re-packaging them as their own material. The quality will be noticeably reduced as the already […]
Clancy’s End War
November 4th, 2008Here’s a fun one for the kids this holiday season; from the Tom Clancy Propaganda Industrial Complex: Video games must be considered as a key social engineering influence now. Take your pick on what your little Stanley is supposed to internalize as a result of “playing” this.
The GM Genocide
November 4th, 2008Via: Daily Mail: Shankara, like millions of other Indian farmers, had been promised previously unheard of harvests and income if he switched from farming with traditional seeds to planting GM seeds instead. Beguiled by the promise of future riches, he borrowed money in order to buy the GM seeds. But when the harvests failed, he […]
Mercenary Firm Offers to ‘Detain Troublemakers’ on Election Day
November 4th, 2008Via: Wired: CIA-linked private military contractor Evergreen Defense & Security Services offered to post sentries at Oregon election offices on Tuesday, “detaining troublemakers” and making sure voters “do not get out of control.” In an e-mail to local election supervisors, obtained by the McMinnville, Oregon News Register, Evergreen president Tom Wiggins said he “recognized the […]
Chinese Factories Closing by the Tens of Thousands
November 3rd, 2008This story uses the phrase, “Government statistics.” Not just any government’s statistics, but China’s government statistics! HA. Anyway, here’s some of the follow-on effects of Joe and Jane Six Pack not being able to use their house as an ATM anymore. Via: Los Angeles Times: Financially troubled plants are being abandoned by the boss, leaving […]
Off The Grid: Life On The Mesa
November 3rd, 2008No, it’s not another Mad Max sequel. Via: SnagFilms: Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of eco-pioneers, teenage runaways, war veterans and drop-outs, live on the fringe and off the grid, struggling to survive with little food, less water and no electricity, as they cling to their unique […]
Moscow Denies Pentagon Claims of ‘Stolen’ Russian Nuclear Weapons
November 3rd, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: RIA Novosti: Russia’s Foreign Ministry denied on Friday claims by the U.S. defense secretary that large amounts of Russian nuclear weapons had been stolen or misplaced. Speaking in Washington on Tuesday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Robert Gates expressed concern that some Russian nuclear weapons from the former Soviet arsenal […]
China Is Becoming the Biggest Producer of Pharmaceutical Ingredients in the World
November 3rd, 2008Via: New York Times: Concerns about Chinese drugs have become so intense that just three weeks ago, the Health and Human Services secretary, Michael O. Leavitt, announced that the F.D.A. would open an office in Beijing by the end of the year and offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou next year. The agency still plans to […]
