Archive for July, 2009
And Now… Tony Blair for President of EU?
July 18th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Downing Street has been forced to admit that it is backing Tony Blair to be President of the European Union. The intervention came after Baroness Kinnock embarrassed Gordon Brown by admitting that the Government wants Mr Blair to take up the newly created role. The position will come into force if the Lisbon […]
Man Given Six Months to Live Discovers Tumour is Harmless Abscess
July 18th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Phil Collins, 61, quit his job, planned his own funeral and blew £18,000 from a pension pay-out after being told he had inoperable gallbladder and liver cancer. He fulfilled a lifelong dream of buying a Triumph motorbike, bought wife Isabel a car and made financial arrangements to ensure she was secure after his […]
Legal Immunity Set for Swine Flu Vaccine Makers
July 18th, 2009Swine Flu 1976 & PropagandaUploaded by Dianequiose-4. – Explore international webcam videos. Via: AP: The last time the government embarked on a major vaccine campaign against a new swine flu, thousands filed claims contending they suffered side effects from the shots. This time, the government has already taken steps to head that off. Vaccine makers […]
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Amazon Deletes Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindle Ebook Readers
July 18th, 2009I don’t understand why anyone would buy a Kindle. Then again, I don’t understand the popularity of many things. Via: New York Times: This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and […]
Senator Quashes Treasury’s Bid for Humorist
July 18th, 2009Via: The Hill: The chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee quashed an effort by the Treasury Department to hire a cartoonist after the link to the job ad was posted on the Drudge Report. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) contacted the Treasury Department to complain after Matt Drudge’s website linked to a want ad for […]
NHS Instructed to Plan For Up to 65,000 Swine Flu Deaths
July 17th, 2009Via: Medical news Today: In a week that has seen the British swine flu death toll reach 29 and it is estimated that 55,000 people have caught the virus, hospitalizing 652 of them, the National Health Service (NHS) has received instructions to plan for the death toll reaching up to 65,000. On Thursday, the UK’s […]
U.S. Commercial Paper Market Collapsing
July 17th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. commercial paper market, the cheapest source of corporate cash, is shrinking at a record pace, raising the cost of capital for borrowers from Consolidated Edison Inc. to Kellogg Co. The market for company debt due within nine months has plunged 28 percent since April 8 to $1.1 trillion, its longest and […]
Public Menace Exxon Sabotaged Oil Wells
July 17th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. oil company, may be fined more than $1 billion for “malicious” sabotage of wells to prevent other producers from tapping fields it no longer wanted, the Texas General Land Office said. Jerry Patterson, commissioner of the land office that oversees oil leases that help fund Texas schools, […]
Paulson Reveals U.S. Concerns of Breakdown in Law and Order
July 17th, 2009How are those bond auctions going, Hank? Via: Independent: The Bush administration and Congress discussed the possibility of a breakdown in law and order and the logistics of feeding US citizens if commerce and banking collapsed as a result of last autumn’s financial panic, it was disclosed yesterday. Making his first appearance on Capitol Hill […]
