Archive for December, 2010
U.S. Tells Uganda: Consult Us Before Using Intelligence to Commit Atrocities
December 9th, 2010Via: Guardian: The US told Uganda to let it know when the army was going to commit war crimes using American intelligence – but did not try to dissuade it from doing so, the US embassy cables suggest. America was supporting the Ugandan government in its fight against rebel movement the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), […]
Shell Claimed it Inserted Staff Into Main Ministries of Nigerian Government
December 9th, 2010Standard operating procedure. Via: Guardian: The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians’ every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The company’s top executive in Nigeria told US diplomats that Shell had seconded […]
Steve Wozniak: ‘We’ve Lost a Lot of Control’
December 8th, 2010Via: CNN: The world has mostly caught on to Steve Wozniak’s vision of having a computer in every home. But this digital lifestyle can sometimes turn rotten, he said last week. Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and designed, programmed and built some of the world’s first personal computers, laments the byproducts of a […]
Saudi Arabia: U.S. TV Effective for Countering Jihad
December 8th, 2010In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a society in order to repurpose it. Military failures will […]
North Carolina: Police Will Take Fingerprints from People in the Field
December 8th, 2010Here’s a glimpse at the future of the U.S.: Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded. And here’s what the opening phase looks like. Via: McClatchy: Next month, 13 law enforcement agencies in the region will begin using a new handheld device that lets an officer scan a person’s fingerprints and seek a […]
Food Stamp Rolls Continue to Rise
December 8th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: More people tapped food stamps to pay for groceries in September as the recession and lackluster recovery have prompted more Americans to turn to government safety net programs to make ends meet. Some 42.9 million people collected food stamps last month, up 1.2% from the prior month and 16.2% higher than […]
Tax Appeals Swamp U.S. Cities, Towns as Property Prices Plunge
December 8th, 2010Via: Reuters: A fiscal flood that threatens to swamp local government budgets across the U.S. overflows from file cabinets in the office of Patty Halm, chair of the Michigan Tax Tribunal. The backlog of cases from taxpayers seeking to lower property-tax bills of more than $100,000 shot up to 14,236 this year from an annual […]
Haiti Cholera: UN Peacekeepers to Blame
December 8th, 2010Wow. I actually didn’t think much of a cholera outbreak in Haiti. Thousands of people, packed close together in camps without proper sanitation—it’s not much of a stretch to think that cholera could result. Weirdly, though, my dad was cryptically trying to tell me something about cholera on the phone a few weeks ago, but […]
Unverified: Swiss Bank Finally Handed Over Client’s Physical Gold After a Month Delay and Legal Threats
December 8th, 2010WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Update: More Similar Anecdotes —End Update— According to the story, which cannot be verified, and is mentioned here for entertainment purposes only, the client kept a ton of gold in an unnamed Swiss bank. In terms of dumb moves, that would […]
Rogers: U.S. Government Inflation Data Is a ‘Sham’
December 8th, 2010Via: Reuters: U.S. government inflation data is “a sham” and is causing the Federal Reserve to vastly understate price pressures in the economy, influential U.S. investor Jim Rogers said on Tuesday. The U.S. central bank uses inflation data that relies too heavily on housing prices, Rogers told the Reuters 2011 Investment Outlook Summit, and he […]
