Archive for December, 2009
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December 23rd, 2009Thank you. AF CA$5 MW $20 RM $25 AS €100! Eileen $45
Trading Shares in Milliseconds
December 23rd, 2009I like the part about how NASDAQ is looking at requiring all brokers to use a specified length of network cable on the links to the exchange’s servers. HA. The article assumes the reader will get it, but just in case you don’t, the point is that the length of the cable affects the latency. […]
Swindler Duped CIA Over Al-Qaeda Decoding Scam
December 23rd, 2009Related “research”: U.S. Government Funding Research Into “Malintent” Detector? Via: AFP: A con artist convinced the CIA and other US agencies in 2003 that he could decode secret messages sent by Al-Qaeda through Al-Jazeera broadcasts, Playboy magazine reported. Duped by claims that “bar codes” on Al-Jazeera television contained targeting information for Al-Qaeda attacks, former president […]
Mumbai Terror Suspect David Headley Connected to U.S. Intelligence, Heroin Smuggling
December 23rd, 2009Via: Times Online: A key terror suspect who allegedly helped to plan last year’s attacks in Mumbai and plotted to strike Europe was an American secret agent who went rogue, Indian officials believe. David Headley, 49, who was born in Washington to a Pakistan diplomat father and an American mother, was arrested in Chicago in […]
Cost to Fight Each Al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan Per Year: $300 Million
December 23rd, 2009War is a Racket by Smedley D. Butler Via: ABC News: As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama’s description Tuesday of the al Qaeda “cancer” in that country left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about […]
Ford Offers Retirement, Buyouts to All Hourly Workers With at Least a Year of Service
December 22nd, 2009Via: AP: Ford Motor Co. has offered buyout or retirement incentive packages to all of its 41,000 U.S. hourly workers as it tries to further reduce its factory work force. Ford, the healthiest of Detroit’s three automakers and the only one to avoid government aid and bankruptcy protection, still has more workers than it needs […]
Trillions of Troubles Ahead
December 21st, 2009Via: Forbes: If the government stays on the course it’s been on for the past forty years without a radical change, the federal government will soon have a $10 trillion budget. In other words, the federal budget deficit will be $1.4 trillion. Just to make the size more visible, that’s $1,400 billion. Our colleague Rob […]
Israel: Harvest Time
December 21st, 2009Via: Guardian: Israel has admitted pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others, without the consent of their families – a practice it said ended in the 1990s – it emerged at the weekend. The admission, by the former head of the country’s forensic institute, followed a furious row prompted by a Swedish newspaper reporting […]
U.S. General Declares War on Pregnancy
December 21st, 2009Via: AP: A US Army general in Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of reasons a soldier under his command could be court-martialled. The policy, outlined last month by Major-General Anthony Cucolo, would apply to female soldiers who become pregnant while deployed in combat zones and the male soldiers who impregnate them. Civilians reporting […]
GE Attempting to Silence a Danish Academic from Discussing Dangers of Omniscan
December 20th, 2009Via: Times Online: Two years ago in a conference room in the Randolph hotel in Oxford, Henrik Thomsen gave his inside account of a medical “nightmare”. In a presentation to about 30 colleagues, Thomsen, one of Europe’s leading radiologists, revealed how patients treated at his hospital had subsequently contracted a rare and potentially fatal disease. […]
