Archive for January, 2011
The Fed’s QE2 Traders Are Buying Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Worth of U.S. Debt
January 11th, 2011Via: New York Times: Deep inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the $600 billion man is fast at work. In a spare, government-issue office in Lower Manhattan, behind a bank of cubicles and a scruffy copy machine, Josh Frost and a band of market specialists are making the Fed’s ultimate Wall Street trade. […]
Ashley W. Turton: Energy Lobbyist, Wife of Key White House Aide, Dies in Fire
January 10th, 2011Update: Grandmother Uses Toy Horse to Fend Off Burglar Via: KSDK: A grandmother used a toy horse to fend off a robber in her Washington, DC home Tuesday. Catherine Turton moved there to take care of three grandchildren last year after their mother, lobbyist Ashley Turton, died in a bizarre garage fire. One of the […]
Australia: Severe Flooding Continues
January 10th, 2011Update: Toowoomba Flood —End Update— Via: BBC: Flash floods have hit Queensland, killing at least four people with several more missing, as heavy rains continue to pound the Australian state. A massive deluge overwhelmed Toowoomba, a city west of the state capital Brisbane, without warning. Cars were swept away by the torrent of water. State […]
Portugal Might Be Next
January 10th, 2011Via: AP: Europe’s debt crisis flared up once again Monday, as Portugal’s borrowing rates briefly spiked to euro-era highs amid reports Germany and France are pushing it to accept outside help to avoid contagion to other countries. The yield on Portuguese 10-year bonds — a key gauge of investor sentiment — touched a potentially unsustainable […]
CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Blows the Whistle on 9/11, Iraq
January 10th, 2011Via: Truth Jihad: Susan Lindauer, author of Extreme Prejudice, is the first CIA asset to have spoken out, under her own name and for the record, on Israeli complicity in 9/11, the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, and the specific, detailed foreknowledge of the time, target, and means of the 9/11 attacks held […]
China Leads List of Biggest U.S. Creditors
January 10th, 2011Via: Reuters: President Barack Obama will host Chinese President Hu Jintao for a state visit on January 19, and the leaders of the two economic powerhouses are expected to discuss thorny issues such as China’s trade surplus and its currency policies. The United States will tread carefully as Beijing is the country’s largest creditor, holding […]
Britain: Trial Collapses After Undercover Officer Changes Sides
January 10th, 2011Woops. Via: BBC: The trial of six green campaigners has collapsed after an undercover policeman who had infiltrated their group offered to give evidence on their behalf. The six were charged with conspiring to shut down the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottingham in 2009. The case was due to start on Monday, but was abandoned […]
Britain: Royal Family Granted New Right of Secrecy
January 10th, 2011Via: Independent: The Royal Family is to be granted absolute protection from public scrutiny in a controversial legal reform designed to draw a veil of secrecy over the affairs of the Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William. Letters, emails and documents relating to the monarch, her heir and the second in line to the throne […]
The Uncomfortable Truth About Mind Control: Is Free Will Simply a Myth?
January 10th, 2011Decades old, basic information, but just in case… Via: Independent: We have vain brains; we see ourselves as better than we really are. We like to think that we exercise free will, that put into a situation where we were challenged to do something we thought unacceptable then we’d refuse. But, if you believe that, […]
Georgia Man Fined for Growing Vegetables
January 10th, 2011Via: Eat Drink Better: An Atlanta-area man is facing fines of up to $5000 for growing too many vegetables on his land. Steve Miller (not Steve Miller of classic rock fame), has had an organic vegetable garden on his property for years. He grows food for himself and has even sold some of his bounty […]
