Archive for February, 2009
RCMP Agent Concedes Key Role in Set-up, Running of Terrorist Training Camp
February 4th, 2009Via: Globe and Mail: Mubin Shaikh always had the makings of becoming the great Canadian spy. In his teens, he was a drill sergeant in the cadets. While still in his early 20s, he started volunteering information to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. A few years ago, at age 30, the Canadian-born Muslim was publicly […]
PANASONIC TO CUT 15,000 JOBS, SHUT 27 FACTORIES
February 4th, 2009Via: AP: Panasonic Corp. said Wednesday it will slash as many as 15,000 jobs and shut 27 plants worldwide, joining a slew of major Japanese companies announcing deep cuts as the global slowdown batters the world’s second-largest economy. The world’s largest maker of plasma display TVs also announced a net loss for the October-December quarter […]
New Hampshire: HCR6 – A Resolution Affirming States’ Rights Based on Jeffersonian Principles
February 4th, 2009Via: New Hampshire House of Representatives: A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles… …That any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive Order of the President of the United States of America or Judicial Order by the Judicatories of the United States of America which assumes a power not delegated to […]
Financial Collapse Put to Music
February 4th, 2009Via: kreidler-net.de: Research Credit: GT
Trading Note: USO
February 4th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. My limit buy order got taken out on USO today for another small lot. The chart doesn’t look good for bulls (descending triangle), and USO could easily take another leg down. That’s fine. If it goes under 25, I’ll consider buying […]
Obama Requested $40 Billion in Additional “Defense” Spending for 2010
February 3rd, 2009Making the world safe for Hopenosis? Via: Salon: Obama’s 2010 fiscal year budget calls for $527 billion in defense spending (not including the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan). That is more than the U.S. allocated for defense in 2009 and equals what the Bush administration budgeted for 2010: The Obama administration has given the Pentagon […]
U.S. Unemployment Statistics Hiding the Dismal Truth
February 3rd, 2009Via: Market Oracle: All told, 2.6 million people lost their jobs in 2008. And, to underscore the accelerating nature of the problem, more than half of those job losses occurred in the final four months of the year. In December, a total of 11.1 million were unemployed. An additional 8 million people were working part […]
Obama Has Appointed Nine Members of the Trilateral Commission to Top-Level and Key Positions
February 3rd, 2009Via: August Review: For anyone who doubts the Commission’s continuing influence on Obama, consider that he has already appointed no less than nine members of the Commission to top-level and key positions in his Administration. According to official Trilateral Commission membership lists, there are only 87 members from the United States (the other 337 members […]
JAPAN: “THERE HAS NEVER BEEN DATA THIS BAD FOR ANY MAJOR ECONOMY — EVEN IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION”; “WE ARE LITERALLY LOOKING AT THE UNIMAGINABLE”
February 3rd, 2009Via: Naked Capitalism: I have been writing about an Asian black hole for almost two months now. I have been crying from the rooftops about an emerging depression in Japan. It has been as though a neutron bomb had gone off in the world. There was no one who seemed to notice, no one who […]
State Budget Troubles Worsen: At Least 46 States Faced or Are Facing Budget Shortfalls for This and/or Next Year
February 3rd, 2009Via: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: States are facing a great fiscal crisis. At least 46 states faced or are facing shortfalls in their budgets for this and/or next year, and severe fiscal problems are highly likely to continue into the following year as well. Combined budget gaps for the remainder of this fiscal […]
