Archive for December, 2010
Bank of America to Pay $137 Million in State Fraud Cases
December 8th, 2010Bum change. Via: Washington Post: Bank of America will pay $137.3 million to settle allegations that it defrauded schools, hospitals and dozens of other state and local government organizations, federal officials said Tuesday. The settlement stems from a long-running investigation into misconduct in the municipal bond business that raises money for localities to pay for […]
Explosive-Laden California Home To Be Destroyed
December 7th, 2010I don’t know what category to use here. Via: AP: Neighbors gasped when authorities showed them photos of the inside of the Southern California ranch-style home: Crates of grenades, mason jars of white, explosive powder and jugs of volatile chemicals that are normally the domain of suicide bombers. Prosecutors say Serbian-born George Jakubec quietly packed […]
Walmart Public Service Announcement
December 7th, 2010Via: YouTube / U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
Deadly Medicine: Lethal Profit Machine
December 7th, 2010Via: Vanity Fair: Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of […]
Gold: Fresh Record High
December 6th, 2010Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Intraday break higher out of previous range. Via: Bloomberg: Gold futures jumped to a record $1,429.40 an ounce on concern the U.S. will pump more cash into the economy and Europe’s debt woes will spread, boosting the appeal of the metal […]
20 Statistics
December 6th, 2010Via: Economic Collapse Blog: Today global wealth is more highly concentrated in the hands of the elite than it ever has been at any other point in modern history. Once upon a time, the vast majority of the people in the world knew how to grow their own food, raise their own animals and take […]
List of Facilities Vital to U.S. Security Leaked
December 6th, 2010If you look at the State Department document, notice how many times the phrase, “undersea cable landing,” appears? I stopped counting after 50. This goes all the way back to one of my core assumptions on here: If “The Terrorists” were real, this show would have been down long ago. It would take no special […]
Spooks at the Cup
December 6th, 2010Via: New Zealand Herald: Laws allowing spies to intercept text messages, snoop on computers and track people online will be pushed through Parliament before next year’s Rugby World Cup. The move has brought accusations that the Government is passing laws behind closed doors. But Prime Minister John Key says the bill must be passed before […]
A Billion New $100 Bills Quarantined in Huge Vaults in Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, DC
December 6th, 2010Your what hurts? Who needs to be a conspiracy theorist with mainstream news like this? “Officials don’t know exactly what caused the problem…” “Officials don’t know how many of the 1.1 billion bills include the flaw…” “The defective bills – which could number into the tens of millions, potentially representing billions of dollars in face […]
U.S. Gets In on Censorship Action
December 6th, 2010Via: Info/Law: The U.S. government is grabbing domain names to prevent users from reaching content it views as illegal. Not content that has been adjudicated illegal, as far as we know – content that is alleged to be illegal. To content owners, and probably to ICE, it looks only natural that we’d prevent people from […]
