Archive for February, 2009
Australia: Rate Cut to Record Low Amid “Unfolding National and International Economic Emergency”
February 3rd, 2009Via: AFP: Australia launched a 42 billion dollar (26 billion US) stimulus package Tuesday and slashed interest rates to a 45-year low in a bid to battle the global economic crisis, which has choked growth. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the massive stimulus package was aimed at nation building and supporting up to 90,000 jobs […]
Captain Jonathan Bayless: Another Minot Air Force Base Death
February 3rd, 2009The 91st Missile Wing is a U.S. Air Force strategic nuclear missile unit. They deal with the Minuteman III ICBMs. I’ve added this to the Minot AFB Nuke Master Death List. UPDATE: This is a Much Better Minot List Than Mine Minot AFB Clandestine Nukes ‘Oddities’ Via: AP: The body of a missile combat crew […]
Chinese Earthquake May Have Been Caused by Dam
February 2nd, 2009Via: Telegraph: The 511ft-high Zipingpu dam holds 315 million tonnes of water and lies just 550 yards from the fault line, and three miles from the epicentre, of the Sichuan earthquake. Now scientists in China and the United States believe the weight of water, and the effect of it penetrating into the rock, could have […]
The Globalisation of Addiction
February 2nd, 2009Every once in a while, Reddit redeems itself. Via: Nthposition: Bruce Alexander is best known – though deserves to be much better known – for the ‘Rat Park’ experiments he conducted in 1981. As an addiction psychologist, much of the data with which he worked was drawn from laboratory trials with rats and monkeys: the […]
Personal Bankruptcies Soar 33%
February 2nd, 2009Via: MSN: Personal bankruptcies surged to more than 1 million filings in the United States in 2008 — the most since a rewrite of bankruptcy laws went into effect in 2005. Filings of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcies rose 33% in 2008 as the economy worsened, according to data from U.S. bankruptcy courts and […]
Folding Dealers Shock Car Buyers with Unpaid Liens
February 2nd, 2009Via: AP: The national wave of auto dealership closures has come crashing down on thousands of people who are on the hook for used-car loans that dealers were supposed to absolve. When a car buyer still owes money on a vehicle he is trading in, the dealer promises to pay off the outstanding loan, then […]
Violent Unrest Rocks China as Financial Crisis Hits
February 2nd, 2009Via: Times Online: Bankruptcies, unemployment and social unrest are spreading more widely in China than officially reported, according to independent research that paints an ominous picture for the world economy. The research was conducted for The Sunday Times over the last two months in three provinces vital to Chinese trade – Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. […]
Rahm Emanuel: “If you are on that no fly list, your access to the right to bear arms is cancelled”
February 2nd, 2009Tens of millions of Americans have been emptying gun stores of weapons of every description and ammunition for months. I have no idea what PSYOP is planned to get the thought criminals to go quietly, but it’s probably going to be a doozy. —H. R. 645: To Direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to Establish […]
War Driving San Francisco Cloning RFID Passports
February 2nd, 2009Via: Engadget: Chris Paget just did you a service by hacking your passport and stealing your identity. Using a $250 Motorola RFID reader and antenna connected to his laptop, Chris recently drove around San Francisco reading RFID tags from passports, driver licenses, and other identity documents. In just 20 minutes, he found and cloned the […]
Change We Can Believe In: Obama to Expand CIA Rendition Program
February 2nd, 2009I guess there’s no need for the secret prisons if the victims just happen to die during “rendention.” Via: Chicago Tribune: The CIA’s secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a wind-swept naval base on the southeastern corner of Cuba. But even while […]
