Archive for March, 2009
Pimco Says Closed-End Funds Delay Dividend Payments
March 5th, 2009Bond rumblings… Via: Bloomberg: Pacific Investment Management Co. said three of its closed-end funds had postponed dividend payments declared Feb. 2 because they failed to meet the ratio of assets to borrowing set by regulators. Pimco Corporate Income Fund, Corporate Opportunity Fund and High Income Fund won’t make payments scheduled for today or for April […]
UK: Job Vacancies and Pay Fall at Record Pace
March 4th, 2009Can they eat CCTV cameras? Via: Reuters: Demand for staff at companies fell at its fastest rate in more than 10 years in February and pay also fell at a record rate as firms slashed costs, a survey showed on Wednesday. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation/KPMG report on jobs said the poor economic climate had […]
Russian General Says U.S. May Have Planned Satellite Collision
March 4th, 2009Via: RIA Novosti: A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said. According to official reports, one of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian […]
Russian Scholar Says U.S. Will Be Under Martial Law in 2009
March 4th, 2009I was going to ignore this, like I did the last time it came up, but the emails are already rolling in… I just don’t think that it’s going to go down this way. Why? Because Americans are like mushrooms. In general, they like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit. They’re absolutely content […]
FDIC: Depositor Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year
March 4th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said the deposit insurance fund could dry up amid a surge in bank failures, as she responded to an industry outcry against new fees approved by the agency. “Without these assessments, the deposit insurance fund could become insolvent this year,” Bair wrote in a March 2 […]
A Canadian Traveler Who Asked U.S. Border Officer to Say “Please” Gets Peppersprayed
March 4th, 2009Welcome to The Land of the Free. Via: National Post: A Canadian who demanded courtesy from a U.S. border security guard says he was pepper sprayed and held in custody for three hours for asking the disrespectful officer to “say please” when ordering him to turn his car off during a search. “I refused to […]
Fed Launches New $200 Billion Consumer Credit Program
March 3rd, 2009And now the U.S. Dollar is going to be backed with credit card debt, auto debt, student loan debt and small business loan debt. The Chinese will love this. Via: AP: The Federal Reserve on Tuesday rolled out a much-awaited program aimed at boosting the availability of credit to consumers and small businesses. The Fed […]
Vitamin D-Deficiency Crisis Looms, Researcher Warns
March 3rd, 2009See: The Miracle of Vitamin D. Via: Deseret News: While the nation is in the midst of a financial crisis, another crisis is looming large — a health crisis caused by vitamin D deficiency. That message was delivered to about 55 medical researchers, nutritionists and public health officials who gathered at the Joseph Smith Memorial […]
Italy: Gypsy Vaccination Scheme Starts
March 3rd, 2009Via: Financial Times: Italy’s Red Cross has launched its biggest vaccination programme since the second world war, with the goal of immunising several thousand gypsy children living in camps around Rome. The operation began at Casilino 900, a camp on the eastern outskirts of the capital that is believed to be one of the largest […]
Scientists Make HIV Strain That Can Infect Monkeys
March 3rd, 2009My commentary consists of two links: 1. The AIDS conspiracy (If this is new to you, prepare to lose many hours.) and 2. Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward T. Haslam Via: Reuters: Scientists have created a strain of the human AIDS virus able to infect and multiply in monkeys in a step toward testing future […]
