Archive for June, 2011
‘Homeland-Security Business Still Booming Ten Years Later’
June 2nd, 2011Via: CNBC: A decade after the 9/11 terror attacks, homeland security is still a growth business. The niche—that includes James Bond-like tools such as infrared cameras, explosive detectors and body scanners—is expected to grow 12 percent annually through 2013, according to Morgan Keegan. “Homeland security is reactive,” says Tim Quillen, a senior equity analyst at […]
Nigel Farage: Trapped Inside an Economic Prison
June 2nd, 2011Fukushima Residents Will Be Checked For Internal Radiation Exposure
June 2nd, 2011Via: NHK: Fukushima Prefecture has decided to check the internal radiation exposure of residents near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and adjacent areas with high radiation levels. … A device called a “whole-body counter” will be used to precisely measure radiation. But the prefecture currently has only one device and can screen just […]
E. Coli in European Outbreak Never Seen Before
June 2nd, 2011Via: USA Today: The E. coli bacteria responsible for a deadly outbreak that has left 18 dead and sickened hundreds in Europe is a new strain that has never been seen before, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Preliminary genetic sequencing suggests the strain is a mutant form of two different E. coli bacteria, with […]
Moody’s May Cut BofA, Citi, Wells Ratings
June 2nd, 2011Via: Reuters: Moody’s Investors Service said it may downgrade the debt ratings of Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), Citigroup Inc (C.N) and Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N), citing concerns about the regulatory environment facing the largest U.S. banks. The ratings agency said on Thursday it placed the deposit, senior debt, and senior subordinated debt ratings […]
Largest Banks Profited by Borrowing From Federal Reserve, Lending to Federal Government
June 2nd, 2011Via: Huffington Post: A newly-released study from the Congressional Research Service bolsters claims that the nation’s largest banks profited off the Federal Reserve’s financial crisis-era programs by borrowing cash for next to nothing, then lending it back to the federal government at substantially higher rates. The report reinforces long-held beliefs that the banking system in […]
Recovery: ‘Double-Dip’ in Housing Prices Even Worse Than Expected
June 2nd, 2011Via: CNBC / Reuters: U.S. single-family home prices dropped in March, dipping below their 2009 low, as the housing market remained bogged down by inventory and weak demand, a closely watched survey said Tuesday. The S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas declined 0.2 percent in March from February on a seasonally adjusted basis, […]
Park Police Arrest People for Dancing at Jefferson Memorial
June 2nd, 2011Ok, please stop submitting this. Yes, it’s stupid that these people were arrested, but these types of tactics are a total waste of time. If you want to protest, do it as a general strike that shuts down the Ponzi scheme economy, make a lot less taxable income, produce your own food, participate in local, […]
The Heavy Cost of the Bush-Obama Murder Rampage
June 1st, 2011Via: Lew Rokwell: In every election cycle, the politicians love to pretend there is a difference among them on the foreign policy questions. Yet on these issues of unsurpassed importance, we see the Democrats and Republicans are all part of the same bloodthirsty gang. On the superficial level of presidential politics, Obama and Bush appeared […]
Local Food Makes Strange Dining Companions
June 1st, 2011Via: The Freeman: The litany of abuses by centralized power against the individual is long and predictable. But centralization in agriculture, that hazy realm from which our food spontaneously appears, poses its own set of dangers to individual aspirations. Now that fewer than 2 percent of the population is directly engaged in food production (down […]
