Archive for March, 2009
U.S. Special Forces ‘Executive Assassination Ring’ Reported Directly to Cheney
March 12th, 2009Via: MinnPost: At the end of one answer by Hersh about how these things tend to happen, Jacobs asked: “And do they continue to happen to this day?” Replied Hersh: “Yuh. After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought […]
‘Very Real Probability’ that Britain Will be Bankrupted
March 12th, 2009Via: Telegraph: House prices may fall by a further 55 percent and there is a “very real probability” that Britain will be bankrupted, a leading investment bank has warned in a private note to clients. People who bought buy-to-let flats are expected to “begin panic selling” and the average home value could drop below £100,000. […]
China’s Trade Surplus Shrinks as Exports Plunge
March 11th, 2009Via: The Age: China’s exports tumbled in February as the world’s third-largest economy felt the full force of the global financial crisis, but capital spending accelerated with the help of the government’s massive stimulus package. With the world experiencing its deepest recession in decades, pessimists said the slump in exports was unlikely to end soon. […]
Indiana: Thousands of Families Line Up at Mall to Get Food Handouts
March 11th, 2009Via: MSNBC: In this job-starved city where President Barack Obama last month made a public appeal for his economic stimulus plan, hundreds of volunteers — and an agency that specializes in handing out food — worked together Tuesday to feed 5,200 hungry families. Roughly 300 local volunteers worked with Feed the Children to distribute more […]
Terrorist Watch List Hits 1 Million
March 11th, 2009You want growth? We got growth. Via: USA Today: The government’s terrorist watch list has hit 1 million entries, up 32% since 2007. Federal data show the rise comes despite the removal of 33,000 entries last year by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center in an effort to purge the list of outdated information and remove […]
California Raw Almonds Must be Treated, Judge Rules
March 10th, 2009Mmm hmm. Oh, just wait for HR 875. Your clone burger with genetically engineered freedom fries and synthetic pHood perfumes—to hide the rancid smells—will be A-OK. But raw, whole foods that haven’t been saturated in carcinogens, cooked or irradiated… to render them “safe”… This is enemy combatant stuff. Via: McClatchy: A federal judge Monday upheld […]
Treasury Official Who Let AIG Cook Books Is Allowed to Retire
March 10th, 2009Via: ABC News: The man at the center of a fraud scandal at the Treasury Department has been allowed to quietly quit and retire from his job as a government regulator, despite allegations that he allowed a bank to falsify financial records and amidst outcries from investigators who say the case shows how cozy government […]
Obama Looking at Military Options in Mexico
March 10th, 2009Translation: The upstarts need to be taken out so that sanctioned “Agency” narcotics can flow into the U.S. in a more orderly manner. The current arrangement is too messy. If they were really interested in stopping this, they would look at legalization or decriminalization, but increased militarization serves two main purposes. First, it will drive […]
Northern Ireland Murders
March 10th, 2009Elements of the Republican movement have been playing a larger role in the government than at any point since the establishment of British rule in Northern Ireland. I could be wrong here, but it seems like someone doesn’t want that to continue. In addition to the two British Army soldiers that were killed, a police […]
Canada: Military Readies Reservists for Threats to ‘Domestic Front’
March 9th, 2009Via: National Post: The Canadian military has embarked on a wide-ranging plan to turn its reserve soldiers into focused units trained and equipped to respond to a nightmarish array of domestic threats, including terrorist “dirty bomb” attacks, biological agent containment, Arctic catastrophes and natural disasters. The creation of seven units within each region of the […]
