Archive for April, 2009
Pawnbroker Opens in Square Mile as City Workers Hock Their Rolexes
April 6th, 2009For the first time in nearly a century… Via: Guardian: It’s usually sovereign rings and chunky gold chains that get pushed under the counter window for a pawnbroker to inspect but at Nikolas Michael the items are far grander. Not far from the gilded towers that house the London bases of discredited institutions such as […]
Japan: Part of Economic Stimulus Includes Promotion of Solar Power Generation
April 6th, 2009I was reading through this piece and it was blah, blah, blah and then promotion of solar power generation jumped out. I wasn’t expecting to see that. If anyone in knows what this means, with more precision that we see here, let us know. Via: Wall Street Journal: Japan will craft what would be its […]
Thousands Flee Bomb Attacks by U.S. Drones
April 6th, 2009Via: Times: AMERICAN drone attacks on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, Pakistani officials claimed after a new attack yesterday killed 13 people. The dead and injured included foreign militants, but women and children were also killed when two missiles hit a house in the village of Data Khel, […]
Hundreds of Thousands of Jobless Americans About to Exhaust Their Unemployment Benefits
April 6th, 2009Via: AP: In the coming weeks and months, hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment benefits, just when it’s never been harder to find a job. Congress extended unemployment aid twice last year, allowing people to draw a total of up to 59 weeks of benefits. Now, as the recession drags on, […]
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
April 5th, 2009Via: Global Research: We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample […]
Bill Moyers with William K. Black
April 5th, 2009Via: PBS: BILL MOYERS: Is it possible that these complex instruments were deliberately created so swindlers could exploit them? WILLIAM K. BLACK: Oh, absolutely. This stuff, the exotic stuff that you’re talking about was created out of things like liars’ loans, that were known to be extraordinarily bad. And now it was getting triple-A ratings. […]
The Power of Chi
April 5th, 2009I first heard of chi/ki/qi when I took Aikido (for a couple of weeks before I got hurt…bad). What I experienced in Aikido, besides pain, was interesting, but nobody got shocked, nothing burst into flames and the sensei wasn’t able to power any lights.
Drunks on St. Mary Street, Cardiff, Wales
April 5th, 2009First of all, I’m no stranger to the bottle. Second of all, I’m not interested in any sort of moral judgment with this. I’ve seen a fair amount of public drunkenness in different parts of the world, but I haven’t seen anything like this. Even in some of the pissups around Dublin, I never saw […]
Rocket Fuel Chemical Found in Baby Formula
April 5th, 2009The unnecessary feeding of formula to infants amounts to yet another corporate social engineering atrocity. Here is a list of conditions that are more likely to affect formula fed babies. The Wikipedia page for infant formula contains bibliographic information on each of these: Digestive/gastrointestinal issues * Appendicitis * Constipation and Anal fissures * Diarrhea * […]
Gunman Kills Three Police Officers in Pittsburgh
April 5th, 2009Richard Poplawski had a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Marines. This would prevent him from legally owning firearms. It might be interesting to learn how he obtained the weapons. Via: New York Times: In a scene that neighbors described as a four-hour-long war zone, three police officers were fatally shot and two others wounded Saturday […]
