Archive for February, 2009
GM CONSIDERING CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY FILING
February 15th, 2009Via: Reuters: General Motors Corp, nearing a Tuesday deadline to present a viability plan to the U.S. government, is considering as one option a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would create a new company, the Wall Street Journal said in its Saturday edition. “One plan includes a Chapter 11 filing that would assemble all of […]
Rural Zimbabweans Are Desperately Panning for Gold Powder to Ward Off Starvation
February 15th, 2009Why don’t people grow potatoes? Why don’t they grow beans? Wouldn’t that be easier than panning for gold all day to buy industrial food? In this video, I saw dirt, ruminant animals, water, and plenty of biomass that could be turned into compost. People had shovels… Yet, starvation is setting in. I don’t understand why […]
Ben Bernanke’s Childhood Home Sold After Foreclosure
February 15th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: Travis Jackson walks through his modest ranch house, admiring the kitchen’s built-in spice rack and the red-oak floors. He draws back the curtains, and sunlight illuminates the pride on his face. The young banker just bought Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s childhood home at a foreclosure sale. “This is where it […]
Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support”
February 14th, 2009Blackwater has probably been used for U.S. Government narcotics trafficking operations before, but it looks like that is going to be a major component of their business going forward. Note the phrase “aviation support” in the story below. Aviation support is synonymous with narcotics trafficking. If you read, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, this […]
Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down
February 14th, 2009Facing debtor’s prison in a country with summer temperatures over 120F/48C? I’d run for my life too. Via: New York Times: Sofia, a 34-year-old Frenchwoman, moved here a year ago to take a job in advertising, so confident about Dubai’s fast-growing economy that she bought an apartment for almost $300,000 with a 15-year mortgage. Now, […]
Panasonic Employees Ordered to Buy $1500 Worth of the Company’s Products
February 14th, 2009Japan is in very deep shit. But then again, which country isn’t? Via: Telegraph: Its electronic gadgetry is gathering dust on the shelves of high street stores, nobody is buying new fridges and the mountain of unsold plasma televisions is growing by the day. However, in desperation, Panasonic has hit on the perfect counter-attack against […]
Also Aboard Flight 3407: Alison Des Forges, Expert on Genocide
February 14th, 2009Via: New York Times: Alison L. Des Forges, a historian who documented the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and was an authority on human rights abuses in Central Africa, was a passenger on Continental Airlines Flight 3407 when it crashed near Buffalo on Thursday night, killing all 49 people on board. She was 66. The death […]
Unredacted Documents Reveal Prisoners Tortured to Death
February 13th, 2009Via: RawStory: The American Civil Liberties Union has released previously classified excerpts of a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. These previously unreported pages detail repeated use of “abusive” behavior, even to the point of prisoner deaths. The documents, obtained by the ACLU under a Freedom of Information […]
Thousands of Guns U.S. Sent to Afghanistan Are Missing
February 13th, 2009Mmm hmm. See: NATO Forces Supplied Food, Water and Arms to Taliban Forces in Southern Afghanistan Via: CNN: More than one-third of all weapons the United States has procured for Afghanistan’s government are missing, according to a government report released Thursday. The U.S. military failed to “maintain complete inventory records for an estimated 87,000 weapons […]
On Board Flight 3407: Beverly Eckert, 9/11 Widow, “My Silence Cannot Be Bought”
February 13th, 2009Update: She Met With Obama Days Before Crash Via: The Buffalo News: The usually joyful meet-and-greet area of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport was a corridor of tears and sorrow early this morning as family and friends of those aboard Continental Express Flight 3407 filed in to get official word of their loved ones’ fates. […]
