Archive for March, 2009
Obama & Biden Chipped or Wearing Tracking Devices?
March 3rd, 2009Via: The Memory Hole: While profiling White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza saw something interesting in Emanuel’s office. It’s mentioned only in passing: Next to his computer monitor is a smaller screen that looks like a handheld G.P.S. device and tells Emanuel where the President and senior White […]
Obama Regime Continues to Prevent Illegal Wiretapping Case from Going Forward
March 3rd, 2009Illegal wiretaps we can believe in. Via: Ars: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the government’s plea to stay a January ruling allowing an Islamic charity that alleges it was subject to illicit warrantless wiretapping to proceed with its lawsuit. But Obama administration attorneys have signaled that they plan to continue fighting tooth […]
CIA Destroyed 92 Interrogation Tapes, Probe Says
March 3rd, 2009Duh. Something to cleanse your news-not-news palette with this morning. Via: Washington Post: The CIA got rid of 92 videotapes depicting the harsh interrogations and confinement of “high value” al-Qaeda suspects, government lawyers disclosed yesterday, as a long-running criminal probe of the tapes’ destruction inched toward a conclusion that is not expected to result in […]
TOYOTA LOOKING TO JAPANESE GOVERNMENT FOR FINANCING
March 3rd, 2009Via: AP: Toyota’s financing unit is in talks with a Japanese government-backed bank on possible lending, the automaker said Tuesday, underlining the serious woes facing the car industry amid plunging global sales. Toyota Motor Corp. said no details had been decided. Kyodo News and NHK TV reported earlier in the day, without identifying sources, that […]
Some of Bush’s Secret Memos on Presidential Power Released
March 3rd, 2009The documents available from the U.S. Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/documents/olc-memos.htm Via: Chicago Tribune: The Obama administration on Monday made public nine long-secret legal memos setting out an extraordinarily broad interpretation of presidential power that was used by the Bush White House to justify its actions in the war on terror, including one 2001 opinion authorizing […]
BANK OF ENGLAND MAY USE QUANTITATIVE EASING THIS WEEK
March 3rd, 2009Via: Reuters: The Bank of England could this week start buying assets with newly created money to boost the money supply and the economy, Chancellor Alistair Darling said in an interview on Tuesday. Darling told the Daily Telegraph newspaper he also expected more banks to take advantage of the government’s Asset Protection Scheme, which insures […]
Dow Wreck Continues: Below 7000
March 2nd, 2009Via: AP: The Dow Jones industrial average plunged below 7,000 Monday for the first time in more than 11 years as investors grow even more pessimistic about the health of banks, and in turn the economy.
Why Do 160,000 Cats Each Year in the USA Develop Terminal Cancer at Their Vaccine Injection Sites
March 2nd, 2009I can’t say much because New Zealand is a small, small, impossibly small village, but let’s just say that we know veterinarians who DO NOT give multiple vaccinations to animals. These veterinarians have small children. You can do the math, I’m sure. Via: Dogsadversereactions: A team at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine conducted several […]
Australia and New Zealand Working on “Common Border” Policy
March 2nd, 2009What will they call the money? Hmm? The KiwAussie Dollar of Greater Oceania? A few months ago, I emailed the NZ Reserve Bank and asked them if there was a common AU/NZ currency on the horizon. They assured me, “No.” Mmm hmm. Via: New Zealand Herald: Trans-Tasman flights could be reclassified as domestic routes by […]
French Farmer is New Sun King
March 2nd, 2009This is an interesting piece that looks at how France is using guaranteed contracts to buy power to stimulate alternative energy projects. It sounds better toward the end, where they’re talking more about decentralization, with risk and profits being spread around to larger numbers of people. Via: Reuters: Bright winter sun dissolves a blanket of […]
