Archive for January, 2010
Geithner’s New York Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure
January 7th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer’s payments to banks during the depths of the financial crisis, e-mails between the company and its regulator show. AIG said in a draft of a regulatory […]
France Ranked Best Place to Live—Again
January 7th, 2010Via: International Living: To produce this annual Index we consider nine categories: Cost of Living, Culture and Leisure, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Health, Infrastructure, Safety and Risk, and Climate. This involves a lot of number crunching from “official” sources, including government websites, the World Health Organization, and The Economist, to name but a few. We also […]
Cocaine Vaccine Leads Addicts to Take Ten Times More Cocaine
January 7th, 2010A novel way of boosting demand? Via: Popular Science: Over the last decade, the advances in neuroscience that led doctors to view addiction as a disease, rather than a desire or personal failing, raised the natural question of whether or not addicts could be vaccinated against drug use as if it were a virus. While […]
Stimulus to Bring Body Scanners to Airports
January 7th, 2010Mission accomplished. Via: CNN: The U.S. government is using $25 million in stimulus money to buy and install full body scanners in airports this year, in an effort to ramp up security and create jobs. The Transportation Security Administration is using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to purchase 150 of the full […]
No Bailout for Greece
January 6th, 2010Via: Reuters: EU officials arrived in Greece on Wednesday for an inspection visit, hours after ECB Executive Board member Juergen Stark was quoted as saying the bloc would not bail out Greece if its debt problem worsened. The government’s broad outline of how it will get out of its fiscal mess has not impressed markets, […]
2.4 Million Pounds of Plastic Pollution Enter the World’s Oceans Every Hour
January 6th, 2010Plasticalypse. Via: Chris Jordan: This new series looks at mass phenomena that occur on a global scale. Similarly to the first Running the Numbers series, each image portrays a specific quantity of something: the number of tuna fished from the world’s oceans every fifteen minutes, for example. But this time the statistics are global in […]
Parents Arrested for Failing to Register Home-Schooled Kids
January 6th, 2010Via: CBS6: A Montgomery County couple has been arrested on child endangerment charges for failing to register their children with the school district as they were home-schooled, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Richard Cressy, 47, and Margie Cressy, 41, both of the town of Glen, never registered their four children or their home-schooling […]
European Parliament to Investigate “Pandemic” Scam
January 6th, 2010Via: Global Research: The Council of Europe member states will launch an inquiry in January 2010 on the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign, focusing especially on extent of the pharma‘s industry’s influence on WHO. The Health Committee of the EU Parliament has unanimously passed a resolution calling for the […]
What’s New in the British Police State?
January 6th, 2010The relentless crapification of Britain continues. Click through for lots of links. Via: Josh Fulton: We last checked in with the British police state about two months ago. Let’s see what’s new.
Explosive Reached Ireland After “Failed Test”
January 5th, 2010Via: RTE: A quantity of explosive, found in a flat on Dorset Street in Dublin this morning, was brought into the country following a failed security operation in Slovakia. It is understood the explosive was one of eight pieces of contraband planted by the authorities in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers at Bratislava Airport in […]
