Archive for June, 2010
Body in Ottawa River Is Likely Missing Nuclear Scientist
June 16th, 2010Via: CBC: The body pulled from the Ottawa River last week is almost certain to be that of the Chalk River scientist who went missing in January, according to a friend of the scientist. Lachlan Cranswick, 41, vanished five months ago in a case that confounded police and the community and yielded few clues to […]
Army Deserter and Civilian Woman Attempted to Enter MacDill Air Force Base (Special Operations Command) with Fake IDs; Vehicle Contained Several Firearms and Ammunition
June 16th, 2010I have no idea what to make of this one. I put it in War only because the venue was an Air Force Base. Via: St. Petersburg Times: The man and woman arrived at MacDill Air Force Base as it cleared out for the day. They slowed the sport utility vehicle and showed identification. In […]
Memphis: Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres
June 16th, 2010Any ideas? Via: WREG: Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why. Farmers are scratching their heads and some are worried their crops may be lost to the mysterious plague. It’s happening along a large swath of land near the Shelby and Tipton county border along Herring Hill Road and elsewhere […]
Euro Turmoil Sends Borrowers to Loonies, Francs
June 15th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: A drop in the euro to near its lowest level in four years means Canadian dollars and Swiss francs are accounting for record shares of global bond sales as investors flee turmoil in Europe’s government debt market. General Electric Co.’s financing arm has led C$5.66 billion ($5.5 billion) of bond sales this month, […]
The U.S. Wins the Right to Abduct Innocent People with Impunity
June 15th, 2010Via: Salon: The Supreme Court today denied a petition of review from Maher Arar, the Canadian and Syrian citizen who was abducted by the U.S. Government at a stopover at JFK Airport when returning to Canada in 2002, held incommunicado for two weeks, and then rendered to Syria, where he spent the next 10 months […]
Johnson & Johnson Hired Fake Shoppers To Buy Up Bad Motrin, Avoid Public Recall
June 15th, 2010Via: Consumerist: Ever since the FDA and Congress started asking Johnson & Johnson to explain why it keeps recalling medicine, there have been references to an unpublicized “recall” that happened in November 2008. Last month, at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a J&J executive swore that the company didn’t mean […]
Americans Get the Most Medical Radiation in the World
June 15th, 2010Via: AP: We fret about airport scanners, power lines, cell phones and even microwaves. It’s true that we get too much radiation. But it’s not from those sources — it’s from too many medical tests. Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, even more than folks in other rich countries. The U.S. accounts […]
Greece: Junk
June 14th, 2010Via: CNBC: Moody’s on Monday downgraded Greece government bond ratings into junk territory, citing the risks in the euro zone/IMF rescue package for the debt-laden country. The agency downgraded the rating by four notches to Ba1, placing it one notch into junk status.
Israel’s Leader Capital Markets CEO “Commits Suicide”
June 14th, 2010Via: Reuters: The chief executive of Leader Capital Markets, one of Israel’s top investment banks, has committed suicide, a company spokeswoman said on Sunday. Danny Barak, 48, jumped from his office on the 17th floor of one of Tel Aviv’s most prominent office towers on Friday, the spokeswoman said. Barak, who is survived by his […]
Fannie-Freddie Fix at $160 Billion With $1 Trillion Worst Case
June 14th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The cost of fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies that last year bought or guaranteed three-quarters of all U.S. home loans, will be at least $160 billion and could grow to as much as $1 trillion after the biggest bailout in American history. Fannie and Freddie, now 80 percent owned […]
