Archive for January, 2010
Britain: Police Plan to Use Military-Style Spy Drones
January 24th, 2010Via: Guardian: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance. The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is […]
Sock Puppet Nation: Obama has Suspicious Number of Letter-Writing Fans Named ‘Ellie Light’
January 24th, 2010Via: The Plain Dealer: Ellie Light sure gets around. In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area. “It’s time for Americans to realize […]
Children Disappearing from Hospitals in Haiti
January 24th, 2010With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. Via: France24: The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced Friday that several children have gone missing from hospitals in Haiti in the aftermath of the killer earthquake, raising fears of trafficking for adoption abroad. “We have documented let’s say around 15 cases of […]
America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship
January 23rd, 2010Holy shit, this one will scorch your eyeballs! Forget my excerpts. Click through and read the whole thing. Highly recommended. Via: Kitco: Thanks to the endless barrage of feel-good propaganda that daily assaults the American mind, best epitomized a few months ago by the “green shoots,” everything’s-coming-up-roses propaganda touted by Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, the […]
Radicalized Americans in Yemen and Somalia May Pose Threat to United States
January 23rd, 2010Oh sure. Via: Security Management: Approximately 72 American citizens, some ex-convicts, have disappeared into the ungoverned spaces of Somalia and Yemen and may pose a jihadist threat to the United States, according to a report released yesterday by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Chairman Sen. John F. Kerry warns in the report that Al […]
Credit Swaps Rise Most Since June Amid Regulatory Uncertainty
January 23rd, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The cost to protect against defaults on U.S. corporate bonds rose this week by the most since June as President Barack Obama proposed reigning in banks and Chinese regulators said credit growth would be restricted this year. Credit-default swaps on the Markit CDX North America Investment-Grade Index Series 13, which is linked to […]
California May Issue IOUs Again If Budget Not Fixed
January 23rd, 2010Via: Bloomberg: California Controller John Chiang said he may have to use IOUs for the second year in a row to pay some government bills unless politicians close the $20 billion budget deficit facing the most-populous U.S. state. Chiang, the elected Democrat who pays the government’s expenses, said in a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger […]
FDIC Friday: Five More Banks Fail
January 23rd, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: Regulators seized five banks in Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, lifting the total number of failures this year to nine as financial institutions struggle with loan defaults and a weak economy. Two of the five institutions had assets of more than $1 billion. The Florida bank, in Miami, was […]
Dow Jones Industrial Average Might Move Sharply Lower
January 23rd, 2010WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Longs, watch out. Often times, on a setup like this, there’s a period of “disbelief” over what has happened, and there’s a move back up. If that happens: 1) Don’t believe it, 2) Go short.
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