Archive for March, 2010
Satire: New College Graduates To Be Cryogenically Frozen Until Job Market Improves
March 20th, 2010Via: The Onion: In a bold new measure intended to address unemployment among young professionals, lawmakers from across the political spectrum agreed on legislation Tuesday to subsidize the cryogenic freezing of recent college graduates until the job market recovers. The bill, expected to swiftly pass in both houses, would facilitate the subzero preservation of any […]
Boy Scouts Chronicle the Sexual Abuse of Young Boys by Scout Leaders
March 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post / AP: The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years. The “perversion files,” a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the […]
FDIC Friday: Seven More Banks Fail
March 20th, 2010Via: AP: Regulators on Friday shut down seven banks in five states, bringing to 37 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year. The closings follow the 140 that succumbed in 2009 to mounting loan defaults and the recession. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over First Lowndes Bank, in Fort […]
Synagogue Bomb Suspects: The Feds Put Us Up to It
March 20th, 2010Via: NBC New York: Defense attorneys say an alleged plot to bomb New York synagogues was hatched and directed by a federal informant. Lawyers for four men from Newburgh have filed a motion to dismiss the terror indictment against them. They said the informant badgered the defendants until they got involved in the plot. They […]
U.S. Forest Service Admits Putting Surveillance Cameras on Public Lands
March 19th, 2010Via: Island Packet: Last month, Herman Jacob took his daughter and her friend camping in the Francis Marion National Forest. While poking around for some firewood, Jacob noticed a wire. He pulled on it and followed it to a video camera and antenna. The camera didn’t have any markings identifying its owner, so Jacob took […]
Australia: Electricity Prices to Rise by Up to 64%
March 19th, 2010Via: 9MSN: A NSW government rebate will be expanded to more than one million electricity consumers, to allay fears some families will be left in the dark by the state’s largest-ever electricity price increases. Electricity bills in NSW will soar by up to a total of 64 per cent over the next three years, with […]
South America to Create New EU-Type Bloc to Defy U.S.
March 19th, 2010Via: Deutsche Welle: The 24-strong bloc of Latin American states known as the Rio Group is to join the Caribbean Community to form a new trade body intended to present opposition to US dominance. What can it really hope to achieve? The Rio Group assertively announced the birth of its successor earlier this week, at […]
Bernanke Wants to Eliminate Reserve Requirements Completely
March 19th, 2010Via: The Economic Collapse Blog: Up until now, the United States has operated under a “fractional reserve” banking system. Banks have always been required to keep a small fraction of the money deposited with them for a reserve, but were allowed to loan out the rest. But now it turns out that Federal Reserve Chairman […]
Waihopai Three Acquitted
March 19th, 2010On a gut level, I’m glad that the Waihopai three were acquitted. I find New Zealand’s subservient participation in the AUSUSUKs military adventures and surveillance fetishes repellent. On a logical level, though, this appears to indicate that if an accused party can convince a jury that they were acting in the interests of the “greater […]
Ex-Pfizer Worker Cites Genetically Engineered Virus In Lawsuit Over Firing
March 18th, 2010Via: Hartford Courant: Medical experts will be watching closely Monday when a scientist who says she has been intermittently paralyzed by a virus designed at the Pfizer laboratory where she worked in Groton opens a much anticipated trial that could raise questions about safety practices in the dynamic field of genetic engineering. Organizations involved in […]
