Archive for December, 2008
UK: Teachers to Get ‘Role Model’ Code
December 20th, 2008Fast forward a bit: Mr. Smith, The Ministry of Love has noticed that you have recently visited websites that the Ministry of Truth has identified as unfit for viewing by a licensed Role Model. As a result, we have made a notation to your MasterFile of -10 demerits. Continued thoughtcrimes may result in loss of […]
Madoff Can’t Leave Apartment, Prosecutors Fear ‘Harm or Flight’
December 20th, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Bernard Madoff, accused in a $50 billion investment fraud, was placed under 24-hour house arrest in his $7 million New York City apartment after prosecutors warned of his “harm or flight.” Madoff, 70, had been subject to electronic monitoring and a 7 p.m. curfew under a Dec. 17 court order. Now […]
Schwarzenegger Orders Unpaid Leave for State Workers
December 20th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today ordered all state workers to take two days of unpaid leave each month to conserve money amid a record budget deficit and a legislative impasse over how to fix it. The furloughs will begin in February and will last through June 2010, Schwarzenegger said in an executive order. […]
China Says Lending to U.S. Will Not Go On Forever
December 20th, 2008Via: AFP: China warned Wednesday it would not keep lending money to the US economy indefinitely, even as new data showed it had consolidated its position as the top buyer of American government bonds. “China’s increased purchase of US Treasury securities should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the assumption that the US can […]
Las Vegas: Hundreds Line Up for Shot at Fewer Than 50 Jobs at New Fast-Food Store
December 20th, 2008Via: Las Vegas Sun: If president-elect Barack Obama could have stepped out of the flat-screen TV on the wall of the Holiday Inn Express on Rainbow Boulevard on Monday, he would have come face to face with the stark reality of the economy. As rain pelted the roads and Obama announced more Cabinet appointments, close […]
Three Out of Four Undersea Cables Connecting Internet Traffic Between the Middle East and Europe Have Been Cut
December 20th, 2008Via: PC Magazine: European telecommunications providers reported Friday that three out of the four telecommunication cables connecting Internet traffic between the Middle East and Europe had been cut. In a statement, France Telecom reported that the “Sea Me We 4” cable was cut at 7:28 AM local time, the “Sea Me We3” was severed at […]
UFO Footage from Santiago, Chile
December 19th, 2008The Xfiles soundtrack is silly and irritating, but… What do you make of this one? Des OVNI a Santiago Le 10/12/08 !!Uploaded by playlist-video Via: AllNewsWeb: A remarkable video has been filmed of craft over the night skies above the city of Santiago in Chile last week on December 10th. The video shows what appears […]
Auto Makers to Get $17.4 Billion
December 19th, 2008More antics. Trying to push “PAUSE” on collapse. Via: Wall Street Journal: The White House announced a $17.4 billion rescue package for the troubled Detroit auto makers that allows them to avoid bankruptcy and leaves many of the big decisions for the incoming Obama administration. Speaking from the White House, President George W. Bush said […]
Mediterranean Fiber Optic Cables Cut, Disrupting Middle East Communications
December 19th, 2008Here we go again. Via: Bloomberg: Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted by submarine cable failures between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. The failures cut the flow of “data of various kinds” between Europe and the Middle East, and there’s no timeframe for when communications will be […]
Career Army Officer Sues Rumsfeld, Cheney, Saying No Evacuation Order Given on 9/11
December 18th, 2008Via: Raw Story: A career Army officer who survived the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, claims that no evacuation was ordered inside the Pentagon, despite flight controllers calling in warnings of approaching hijacked aircraft nearly 20 minutes before the building was struck. According to a time-line of the attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration notified NORAD […]
