Archive for December, 2010
Police Investigate Cause of Illinois Mayor’s Death
December 15th, 2010Via: Reuters: The mayor of Springfield, Illinois, was found dead in his home on Tuesday and police said they have launched an investigation. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday and police declined to confirm reports that Timothy Davlin, mayor of the Illinois state capital since 2003, had shot himself. … Davlin, 53, was involved in […]
Nigeria Considering $250 Million Halliburton Offer to Keep Cheney Out of Prison
December 14th, 2010Maybe Halliburton said they could have him for $500 million? Via: Reuters: Nigeria’s anti-corruption police said on Tuesday it may drop bribery charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and oil services firm Halliburton after the company offered to pay a fine. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it met with officials […]
Sunscreen Chemicals Absorbed Into Body, Found in 85 Percent of Human Milk Samples
December 14th, 2010Via: Natural News: …the investigation, conducted by a Swiss National Research Program called Endocrine Disrupters: Relevance to Humans, Animals and Ecosystems, found UV filters, which are common in cosmetics and sunscreens, were present in 85 percent of human milk samples tested. What does this mean for adults, much less babies taking in this contaminated milk? […]
Ireland: Safe Sales Soar as Worried Bank Customers Keep Money at Home
December 14th, 2010Via: Independent: SAFE sales are soaring as more and more worried bank customers stash their cash at home. AIB said last month that the amount of money on deposit at the bank has fallen by €13bn since the start of the year — although it blamed most of the reduction on withdrawals by companies and […]
British Household Debts Reach Record High
December 14th, 2010Via: Independent: More than half of households are struggling to repay credit cards and loans, a Bank of England survey suggested today. A total of 51% of respondents reported that their unsecured debts were a “burden” – a record high for the annual study. Illustrating the financial pressures faced by millions, one in two households […]
Afghanistan: Petraeus Triples Air War
December 14th, 2010Via: Wired: November is ordinarily the month when the air war in Afghanistan — and really, the whole American-led campaign — ratchets down for the winter. This November, with Gen. David Petraeus in charge of the war effort, things have been different. Radically different. NATO fighter jets and attack planes launched their bombs and missiles […]
Next House Finance Chairman Declares: Regulators Exist to Serve the Banks
December 14th, 2010Via: Raw Story: Alabama Republican Spencer Bachus, the incoming chairman of the House banking committee, suggested Congress and federal regulators should play a subservient role with banks. “In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks,” Bachus […]
Grand Compromise or Great Conspiracy?
December 14th, 2010Via: Money and Markets: When Americans went to the polls last month, many thought they were voting for a return of fiscal sanity in Washington. And with fiscal sanity, we’d have far better assurance of bond-market stability. Instead, three houses of ill repute — two on Capitol Hill and one on Pennsylvania Avenue — are […]
Scientist Warns of Dire Consequences with Widespread Use of Glyphosate (RoundUp)
December 14th, 2010Grim. Via: Organic Consumers: In a paper published in the European Journal of Agronomy in October 2009, Huber and co-author G.S. Johal, from Purdue’s department of botany and plant pathology, state that the widespread use of glyphosate that we see today in agriculture in the United States can “significantly increase the severity of various plant […]
Stallman Continues to Warn Against Cloud Computing as Google Gets Ready to Push ChromeOS
December 14th, 2010Via: Guardian: Google’s new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan “to push people into careless computing” by forcing them to store their data in the cloud rather than on machines directly under their control, warns Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the operating system GNU. Two years ago Stallman, […]
