Archive for June, 2009
MPs Claim Rates as Living Expenses Then Don’t Pay Councils
June 20th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Dozens of MPs have made “phantom” claims for council tax on their parliamentary expenses – receiving thousands of pounds more than they actually paid their local authorities, Telegraph.co.uk can disclose. Senior MPs and ministers, including Beverley Hughes, David Blunkett and Mark Tami, are accused of over-claiming for council tax on their designated second […]
California Faces Prospect of “Multi-Notch” Credit Rating Downgrade
June 20th, 2009Via: Reuters: California, which is struggling to close a $24.3 billion budget gap, faces the prospect of a “multi-notch” downgrade in its credit rating if the state’s legislature fails to act quickly to produce a budget, Moody’s Investors Service warned on Friday. Moody’s decision to place California’s general obligation debt on alert for a possible […]
FDIC Friday: Banks in Georgia, North Carolina, Kansas Closed by Regulators
June 20th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Banks in Georgia, North Carolina and Kansas with total assets of $1.5 billion were closed yesterday, bringing this year’s tally of failures in the U.S. to 40 amid the highest unemployment in a quarter century. State regulators shut Southern Community bank of Fayetteville, Georgia and Cooperative Bank in Wilmington, North Carolina. The Office […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is Interested in Operation Blackjack
June 19th, 2009A U.S. Department of Homeland Security user (host: bcp3.cbp.dhs.gov, ip: 63.167.255.153) conducted the following Google search: operation blackjack. The DHS user visited Operation Blackjack: The Story of Terrorist Nuclear Attacks on Major Western Cities. Twice. I’ve avoided following the Blackjack/Jackblack developments too closely on here because I’m pretty sure that the point is to study […]
Twitter Feed
June 19th, 2009I can’t imagine why people are asking me for this, but here you go: http://twitter.com/cryptogon.
Parents Banned from Taking Pictures of Their Own Children at Sports Day
June 19th, 2009The people who come up with this nonsense are mentally ill, and so are the people who obey it. Via: Telegraph: Mrs Ethelston’s Church of England Primary School, in Uplyme, Devon, prohibited photos and video filming, claiming it was due to changes in child protection and images legislation. It is the first time the school […]
Images Reveal Full Horror of ‘Amazon’s Tiananmen’
June 19th, 2009Via: Independent: First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands in surrender. He is knocked to the ground and given an extended beating by eight policemen in black body-armour and helmets. Demonstrators […]
And Now: Shit in the Cookie Dough
June 19th, 2009Via: AP: Food maker Nestle USA on Friday voluntarily recalled its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after a number of illnesses were reported by those who ate the dough raw. The company said the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating reported E. coli illnesses that might be related […]
Consumers Could Get Up to $4,500 Toward New Car
June 19th, 2009What did the filthy criminals on Wall Street have to buy to get their taxpayer funded bonus payments? Via: AP: Car shoppers could take advantage of government incentives worth up to $4,500 this summer to send their old gas guzzler to the scrap heap in favor of a more fuel-efficient new vehicle. President Barack Obama […]
U.S. Treasury Will Attempt to Auction a Record $104 Billion In Debt Next Week
June 19th, 2009And the Fed will just hit the BID button when nobody else will. Via: CNBC: The Treasury announced Thursday a record $104 billion worth of bond auctions for next week, part of its herculean efforts to finance a rescue of the world’s largest economy. The sales will exceed the previous record of $101 billion set […]
