Archive for February, 2010
CIA Officers Working for Private Corporations
February 2nd, 2010Related: They Made a Killing: The Use of Knowledge of Covert Operations in the Stock Market Via: Politico: In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and […]
Britain: Significant Percentage of Teenagers Think Oats Grow on Trees, Bacon Comes from Sheep
February 2nd, 2010Via: Telegraph: Teenage schoolchildren think oats grow on trees and bacon comes from sheep, a survey showed today. Many children and young adults also believe eggs were a key ingredient in bread, the researchers said. The survey showed 26% of children thought bacon came from sheep, 29% thought oats grow on trees, while 17% of […]
Deficit Balloons Into National Security Threat
February 1st, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: The federal budget deficit has long since graduated from nuisance to headache to pressing national concern. Now, however, it has become so large and persistent that it is time to start thinking of it as something else entirely: a national-security threat. The budget plan released Monday by the Obama administration illustrates […]
Jim Cramer: Illuminati Not That Bad
February 1st, 2010It’s the usual nonsense for the first couple of minutes, but then, “And you know what, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, Goldman Sachs and the Queen of England are not all bad.”
Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast
February 1st, 2010Via: Scientific American: Genetic engineering is coming to the forests. While the practice of splicing foreign DNA into food crops has become common in corn and soy, few companies or researchers have dared to apply genetic engineering to plants that provide an essential strut of the U.S. economy, trees. But that will soon change. Two […]
Airstrip Built at Zimbabwe Diamond Field
February 1st, 2010Via: Telegraph: A secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which would enable clandestine weapons shipments. Diplomats and analysts believe that the mile-long runway is intended for arms shipments, probably from China, for which troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe would pay on the […]
Quadrennial Defense Review: Melee Mode, Cyberwar, More Killer Robots, Environmental Catastrophes
February 1st, 2010Via: CNN: The Pentagon will no longer shape the U.S. military to fight two major conventional wars at once, but rather prepare for numerous conflicts and not all in the same style, according to a draft of a new strategic outlook the Pentagon is announcing on Monday. The new mantra for military planners will replace […]
U.S. Surrounds Iran with “Missile Shield”
February 1st, 2010Via: Guardian: Tension between the US and Iran heightened dramatically today with the disclosure that Barack Obama is deploying a missile shield to protect American allies in the Gulf from attack by Tehran. The US is dispatching Patriot defensive missiles to four countries – Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait – and keeping two […]
White House to Paint Grim Fiscal Picture
February 1st, 2010For a much more meaningful translation of the story below, see: America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship: One stark and sobering way to frame the crisis is this: if the United States government were to nationalize (in other words, steal) every penny of private wealth accumulated by America’s citizens since the nation’s founding 235 years ago, […]
Allstate May Shed 20% of Its Agents
February 1st, 2010Long ago, I used Allstate for car insurance because my parents did. After two years of thinking, God damn, this is expensive, I shopped around and found a much better policy for half the cost. I told my new insurance agent how Allstate was screwing me and she wanted to put me on their radio […]
