Archive for December, 2010
No More Unemployment Checks for Two Million Americans by End of December
December 2nd, 2010Via: USA Today: About 2 million Americans stand to lose their unemployment checks by the end of December after Congress failed to extend benefits Tuesday, threatening to crimp consumer spending in a fragile recovery and critical holiday shopping season. A motion by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., to pass an extension on a voice vote fell […]
Pedophile Cult Urges Support for Dangerous FrankenpHood Crops
December 2nd, 2010Update: Pedophile Cult Leadership: Pro-GM Statement “Cannot be Considered an Official Position of the Holy See” Via: Catholic News Service: The Vatican did not endorse an 11-page final statement in favor of easing restrictions on and allowing more widespread use of genetically modified crops, especially in poorer nations, said a Vatican official. “The statement is […]
Fed Aid Went Beyond U.S. Banks to Industry, Foreign Firms
December 2nd, 2010Via: Washington Post: The financial crisis stretched even farther across the economy than many had realized, as new disclosures show the Federal Reserve rushed trillions of dollars in emergency aid not just to Wall Street but also to motorcycle makers, telecom firms and foreign-owned banks in 2008 and 2009. The Fed’s efforts to prop up […]
TSA Frisks Groom Children to Cooperate with Sex Predators, Abuse Expert Says
December 2nd, 2010Via: Raw Story: An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a “game”. Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA’s recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a […]
Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe
December 2nd, 2010Via: Mother Jones: A WikiLeaks cable shows that when Spain considered a criminal case against ex-Bush officials, the Obama White House and Republicans got really bipartisan. In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations […]
Madison County to Evict Man Living in Camper on His Own Land
December 2nd, 2010Via: WISH: Thompson faces eviction from his 38 acres in Madison County. The county lawyer tells 24-Hour News 8 it’s because Thompson is breaking too many rules, laws and ordinances; Thompson has no water, no sewer and no electricity in his recreational trailer that he calls home.
Swedish Royal Family Hit by Fresh Nazi Allegations
December 2nd, 2010Via: Independent: Sweden’s royal family has been rocked by a new scandal which has exposed the hidden Nazi past of the Queen’s father, only weeks after its reputation was shattered by lurid disclosures about the king’s secret sex life. The latest revelations concern Walther Sommerlath, the late father of Sweden’s German-born Queen Silvia. He has […]
Russia as Mafia State and Pot Calls Kettle Black
December 2nd, 2010I consider the following depiction of Russia to be middle-road, uncontroversial and obvious. What struck me, though, is how similar it sounds to the U.S. Just change some of the proper names to American ones and instead of mafia, use corporations. Sound familiar? Also, this isn’t just the State Department’s assessment. This topic represents an […]
$9 Trillion?
December 2nd, 2010Via: CNN: The Federal Reserve made $9 trillion in overnight loans to major banks and Wall Street firms during the financial crisis, according to newly revealed data released Wednesday. The loans were made through a special loan program set up by the Fed in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse in March 2008 to […]
Will U.S. Bailout Europe (Again)?
December 2nd, 2010Why not? It already happened once: Foreign banks were among the biggest beneficiaries of the $3,300bn in emergency credit provided by the Federal Reserve during the crisis, according to new data on the extraordinary efforts of the US authorities to save the global financial system. The revelation of the scale of overseas lenders’ borrowing underlines […]
