Archive for April, 2009
Man Shoots Himself in a Movie Theater Midway Through a Showing of The Watchmen
April 7th, 2009If you know of any info that looks at MK related triggers or themes in The Watchmen, let me know. I haven’t seen the film. Note: If your comment has anything to do with how bad the film is/”I don’t blame the guy”/making a joke out of this etc.: Please don’t bother. We get it […]
March Earnings
April 7th, 2009In March, earnings from all sources came to a total of $1759.59. That’s a great month! Big Thank Yous to everyone who sent direct contributions and/or used any of the affiliate links in March. That Amazon result is a shocker. (In a good way.) $551.38 in commissions… It’s everything from used paperbacks that cost about […]
Pfizer to Pay £50 Million After Deaths of Nigerian Children in Drug Trial Experiment
April 7th, 2009Via: Independent: A divorce case was all that passed for excitement at Richard P Altschuler’s “kinda small” lawyer’s office in West Haven, Connecticut, when the phone rang nine years ago. On the other end of the line, a world away in the heat of Nigeria, was Etigwe Uwo, a young lawyer with “an incredible story […]
U.S. Fighter Jets Scrambled to Intercept Stolen Plane
April 7th, 2009Uh… Um. Hmm. I don’t have any idea what category to even use for this. I’ll just use War for now because it involves U.S. fighter planes. Via: Reuters: A pilot stole a small airplane in Canada on Monday and headed south, forcing U.S. military officials to scramble F-16 fighter jets to trail him, before […]
Useless Currencies of the World Unite!
April 7th, 2009Via: Daughty: My brain went into some kind of weird spasm when Zhou Xiaochaun, head of the People’s Bank of China, went on record as saying that he doesn’t trust the dollar to be the world’s reserve currency anymore, and wants, instead of gold, the International Monetary Fund to expand the supply of Special Drawing […]
U.S. Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats
April 6th, 2009Via: The Nation: In the wake of the accusation by Chas Freeman that his nomination to lead the National Intelligence Council was derailed by an “Israeli lobby,” a forthcoming memoir by another distinguished ambassador adds stunning new charges to the debate. The ambassador, John Gunther Dean, writes that over the years he not only came […]
Italy Muzzled Scientist Who Foresaw Quake
April 6th, 2009Via: Reuters: An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L’Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population. The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval […]
Guantanamo Lawyer Facing Jail Over Letter to Obama?
April 6th, 2009UPDATE: The Daily Mail Story Was Correct See: Salon Radio: Binyam Mohamed lawyer Clive Stafford Smith —End Update— Several sites are bending over backwards in trying not to link to the source of this story, The Daily Mail. Some blog wrote about the Daily Mail piece and that has transformed into the source of this […]
Geithner Wrong, Crap Assets Correctly Priced, Say Harvard And Princeton Professors
April 6th, 2009Just in case your Captain Obvious file needs some padding. Via: Clusterstock: The government’s official view that toxic assets are incorrectly priced due to illiquidity “fire sales” is wrong, a new study by Harvard and Princeton finance professors suggests. You can read the whole paper by Harvard’s Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford and Princeton’s Jakub […]
Gold Sharply Lower
April 6th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. The next significant support is around $850. Via: Bloomberg: Gold dropped to a 10-week low in London on speculation the world financial crisis may be easing, reducing the precious metal’s appeal as a haven. Silver fell. Bullion has tumbled 5 percent […]
