Archive for September, 2009
‘E-Bomb’ Doomsday Conference
September 10th, 2009Via: Wired: It’ll fry pace makers, destroy iPhones, and turn laptops into useless paperweights. It’s the scariest thing most people outside the Washington Beltway have never heard of: electromagnetic pulse weapons. And you can learn all about it starting today at the EMPACT conference in Niagara Falls, New York. Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, is a […]
Good Billions After Bad
September 9th, 2009Via: Vanity Fair: Last October, Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, putting $700 billion into the hands of the Treasury Department to bail out the nation’s banks at a moment of vanishing credit and peak financial panic. Over the next three months, Treasury poured nearly $239 billion into 296 of the nation’s […]
First Solar to Build 2-Gigawatt Power Plant in China
September 9th, 2009Via: Reuters: First Solar Inc said on Tuesday it plans to build the world’s largest solar plant in China in the first major foray by a U.S. company into the Asian nation’s fast growing alternative energy sector. Under a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government, First Solar will build a 2-gigawatt power plant, enough […]
Mob Connected New York City Building Officials Taking Bribes at Construction Sites, Dealing Drugs
September 8th, 2009Fuggetaboutit. Via: New York Post: AT LEAST six city building inspectors — some with ties to a powerful crime family — were videotaped taking bribes at construction sites, and some were seen dealing cocaine and prescription pills while on duty, The Post has learned. The corrupt Department of Buildings workers — who lined their pockets […]
U.S. Alone Responsible 68.4% of Global Arms Sales
September 8th, 2009Green shoots… a missile? Via: New York Times: Despite a recession that knocked down global arms sales last year, the United States expanded its role as the world’s leading weapons supplier, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals, according to a new Congressional study. The United States signed weapons agreements […]
Green Shoots: Employers’ Hiring Plans at Lowest Level in the History of Manpower’s Employment Outlook Survey
September 8th, 2009Via: Market Watch: Employers’ hiring plans for the upcoming fourth quarter dropped to their lowest level in the history of Manpower’s Employment Outlook Survey, which started in 1962. A net -3% of employers said they’ll hire in the fourth quarter, down from -2% in the third quarter, on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the […]
The Rise of Israel’s Military Rabbis
September 8th, 2009This reminds me of the Cleric character class in Dungeons & Dragons. Via: BBC: Israel’s army is changing. Once proudly secular, its combat units are now filling with those who believe Israel’s wars are “God’s wars”. Military rabbis are becoming more powerful. Trained in warfare as well as religion, new army regulations mean they are […]
Cayman Islands Heads for Bankruptcy
September 8th, 2009How about if they just tax the money related to the drug trade? *wink* Via: Guardian: The white sands of Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman have long caressed the toes of the world’s wealthiest financiers, who flock to this balmy spit to avoid the taxman’s prying eyes. But the world’s biggest hedge-fund venue and […]
UN Wants New Global Currency to Replace Dollar
September 8th, 2009Around 70.79, two doors emerge: Behind Door #1: The dollar will stage a massive rally/dead cat bounce/short squeeze from Hell. (Don’t ask me how this would happen.) Behind Door #2: A wildcard event; a system transformation. System transformation is lingo from International Relations. It means paradigm change; a break from past normative assumptions about the […]
Charlie Sheen: Twenty Minutes with the President (PR Stunt)
September 8th, 2009Punkd: This is fake. What really happened on 9/11 enters the realm of yetti and hobgoblins. Via: Infowars: I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with our 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, while he was out promoting his health care reform initiative. I requested 30 minutes given the […]
