Archive for April, 2011
Florida: State Investigates Campaign to Provide Superhero Capes to Jobless People
April 19th, 2011Via: Orlando Sentinel: State labor officials asked their inspector general Monday to investigate why a Central Florida agency wants to spend public money to furnish the unemployed with capes. Dubbed the “Cape-A-Bility Challenge,” a $73,000 public-relations campaign by Workforce Central Florida features a cartoon character named “Dr. Evil Unemployment” and includes handing out about 6,000 […]
JFK Directives Regarding Sensitive UFO Information Ten Days Before Assassination
April 19th, 2011Even as complex as the JFK assassination milieu is, over about 25 years of personal interest and investigation into the event, I never thought it would go there. Click through for the source documents. Via: AOL News: Do you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here’s one for you. And it’s ongoing, so we […]
Britain: Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil Firms and Invasion of Iraq
April 19th, 2011Via: Independent: Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain’s involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair’s […]
U.S. Government Printing Office Needs 350,934 National Detainee Handbooks Printed by 29 April 2011
April 19th, 2011Update: U.S. Government Printing Office Deletes Solicitation Page and “Jacket Number” Specification Document I thought that might happen, but not after just a few minutes. So: Here’s a screenshot of www.gpo.gov/gpo/bidopps/bidopps.action?region=chicago before it was taken down: It’s also still visible in Google cache as of this writing. And here’s a Cryptogon mirror of the Jacket […]
British Ministry of Defense on Killer Robots: ‘Incremental and Involuntary Journey Towards a Terminator-Like Reality’
April 18th, 2011Via: Guardian: The growing use of unmanned aircraft in combat situations raises huge moral and legal issues, and threatens to make war more likely as armed robots take over from human beings, according to an internal study by the Ministry of Defence. The report warns of the dangers of an “incremental and involuntary journey towards […]
S&P Lowers U.S. Credit Rating Outlook to Negative
April 18th, 2011Thanks, Captain Obvious: National Debt Clock Via: CNN: Standard & Poor’s lowered its outlook for the nation’s long-term debt Monday, even as it reaffirmed the agency’s top-tier rating for the U.S. economy. S&P maintained its ‘AAA/A-1+’ credit rating on U.S. sovereign debt, saying the nation’s “highly diversified” economy and “effective monetary policies” have helped support […]
U.S. Secretly Backed Syrian Opposition
April 18th, 2011Via: Reuters: The State Department has secretly funded Syrian opposition groups, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The cables show that the State Department has funneled as much as $6 million since 2006 to a group of Syrian exiles to operate a London-based satellite channel, Barada TV, and […]
The True Finns: Finnish Anti-Euro Party Sees Large Gains in Recent Election
April 18th, 2011Via: Reuters: The True Finns, the anti-euro party voted into a powerful role in the Helsinki parliament at the weekend, expect the European Union to change plans for a bailout of Portugal, its leader said on Monday. “Of course there will have to be changes,” Timo Soini told reporters a day after his party more […]
Texas University Takes Delivery of Nearly $1 Billion in Gold Bars; Vaulting it in New York
April 17th, 2011That’s a lot of shiny. Which other funds are going to ask COMEX to cough it up? Via: Bloomberg: The University of Texas Investment Management Co., the second-largest U.S. academic endowment, took delivery of almost $1 billion in gold bullion and is storing the bars in a New York vault, according to the fund’s board. […]
7 Million Afghans Will Go Hungry Without Aid
April 17th, 2011In other news: Afghanistan: U.S. Spends $20 Billion Per Year for Air Conditioning in Tents Via: Reuters: The United Nations warned on Friday of a looming food aid shortage in Afghanistan that could leave more than 7 million people hungry unless it received urgent cash donations of over $250 million to buy more supplies. Most […]
