Archive for March, 2009
Laid-Off Professionals Turn to ‘Survival Jobs’
March 2nd, 2009This reads like Cryptogon circa 2004-2005. During the final days at the last corporate job that I would ever have, I tried to tell those guys that I worked with… “Don’t blindly sell yourself to another criminal organization. They’ll just screw you again and again. Play the next one to win. Get out of debt. […]
AIG Enters Record Books with $61.7 Billion Quarterly Loss
March 2nd, 2009Via: Reuters: American International Group Inc posted a $61.7 billion fourth-quarter loss — the biggest quarterly loss in corporate history — after reaching a revised rescue deal with the U.S. government that wards off for now the prospect of crippling credit rating downgrades. The massive quarterly loss, equal to $22.95 a share, was AIG’s fifth […]
UK: Contingency Plan for Deployment of British Army in Case of Bank Riots
March 2nd, 2009Let me know if there’s a better source on this. Via: Daily Express: TOP secret contingency plans have been drawn up to counter the threat posed by a “summer of discontent” in Britain. The “double-whammy” of the worst economic crisis in living memory and a motley crew of political extremists determined to stir up civil […]
Gordon Brown: ‘Globalisation is Not an Option , it is a Fact’
March 2nd, 2009I have obtained secret surveillance video from inside Number 10 that sheds some light on Gordon Brown’s “Global New Deal”: Via: Times Online: Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, and a time when one chapter ended and another began. The […]
What is Gobekli Tepe?
March 1st, 2009This is one WTF, followed by another WTF, followed by another… Wikipedia: Gobekli Tepe Archaeology: The World’s First Temple 7,000 Years Older than Stonehenge: The Site that Stunned Archaeologists Smithsonian: Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? This Smithsonian Magazine article states: Hodder is fascinated that Gobekli Tepe’s pillar carvings are dominated not by edible prey […]
Delphi Allowed to Cancel Benefits for 15,000 Workers
March 1st, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Delphi Corp., the bankrupt auto- parts maker, won permission to cancel health-care benefits for 15,000 current and former salaried workers, saving $1.1 billion as it tries to emerge from court protection amid falling vehicle sales. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain in New York issued the ruling today after witnesses for Troy, Michigan-based Delphi […]
