Archive for November, 2009
Russia’s Whistleblower Cop is a YouTube Sensation
November 12th, 2009Via: Global Post: Alexei Dymovsky sits in full uniform and stares at the camera with tired eyes. “Maybe you don’t know about us, about simple cops, who live and work and love their work. I’m ready to tell you everything. I’m not scared of my own death,” Dymovsky says in a YouTube message addressed to […]
Boy Diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome After Swine Flu Shot
November 12th, 2009Via: MSNBC: A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu. Jordan McFarland, a high school athlete from Alexandria, Va., left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children Tuesday night in a wheelchair nearly a week […]
The Dow Priced in Gold
November 12th, 2009Via: Reuters:
Cuba Orders Extreme Measures to Cut Energy Use
November 12th, 2009Via: Reuters: Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt “extreme measures” to cut energy usage through the end of the year in hopes of avoiding the dreaded blackouts that plagued the country following the 1991 collapse of its then-top ally, the Soviet Union. In documents seen by Reuters, government officials have been warned that […]
China Signals That It May Allow Currency to Rise Against Dollar
November 11th, 2009Via: CNBC / Reuters: China sent its clearest signal yet that it was ready to allow yuan appreciation after an 18-month hiatus, saying on Wednesday it would consider major currencies, not just the dollar, in guiding the exchange rate. In its third-quarter monetary policy report, the People’s Bank of China departed from well-worn language on […]
Brazil: The Blackout in Pictures
November 11th, 2009Surreal pictures. Via: Daily Mail: Much of Brazil was plunged into darkness last night as a problem at a hydroelectric dam left millions without electricity. As these eerie pictures show, the major cities, such as Rio de Janeiro – the home of the 2016 Olympic Games – were left looking like ghost towns, with only […]
Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraqi Officials After Murder of 17 Civilians
November 11th, 2009Via: New York Times: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials. Blackwater approved the […]
Britain: State to ‘Spy’ on Every Phone Call, Email and Web Search
November 11th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Every phone call, text message, email and website visit made by private citizens is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies. All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they […]
Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert
November 11th, 2009Via: MSNBC: The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers. Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the […]
Vatican Looks to Heavens for Signs of Alien Life
November 11th, 2009Via: AP: E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. “The questions of life’s origins and of whether […]
