Archive for October, 2011
Solution to Real Estate Mess: Burn Down Homes
October 12th, 2011AIG Will Offer Reputation Insurance
October 12th, 2011Hilarious. Via: New York Times: Insurance providers are constantly coming up with new products to sell to policyholders. But the American International Group has hit upon one of the more unusual new services we’ve heard of in some time: reputation insurance. Chartis, A.I.G.’s property and casualty insurance arm, said Tuesday that it would begin selling […]
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll
October 12th, 2011Via: CounterPunch: If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below the public’s radar was started by the Rudy Giuliani administration in New York City in 1998. It’s called the […]
U.S. Claims to Have Disrupted Iranian Terror Plot
October 12th, 2011Oh, well, if Tom Kean is on board, there should be no doubts at all about the veracity of these claims. *chortle* Via: CNN: The FBI and the DEA have disrupted a plot involving Iran to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and commit other attacks, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Two […]
Afghan Opium Production Rises by 61% Compared with 2010
October 11th, 2011Via: BBC: Opium production in Afghanistan rose by 61% this year compared with 2010, according to a UN report. The increase has been attributed to rising opium prices that have driven farmers to expand cultivation of the illicit opium poppy by 7% in 2011. Last year opium production halved largely due to a plant infection […]
Canada: Mass Graves Discovered at Closed Mohawk Institute Residential School
October 11th, 2011Via: Examiner: Mass graves of Mohawk children have been uncovered by ground-penetrating radar at the Mohawk Institute, a residential school for Mohawk operated by the Church of England and the Vatican before its closure in 1970. According to Rev. Kevin Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and States (www.itccs.org), the Mohawk […]
VeriSign Demands Website Takedown Powers, No Court Order Necessary
October 11th, 2011Via: Register: VeriSign, which manages the database of all .com internet addresses, wants powers to shut down “non-legitimate” domain names when asked to by law enforcement. The company said today it wants to be able to enforce the “denial, cancellation or transfer of any registration” in any of a laundry list of scenarios where a […]
With Ongoing Nuclear Disaster Hurting Tourism, Japan Will Offer 10,000 Foreigners Free Airfares to Visit the Country
October 11th, 2011Via: Telegraph: The Japan Tourism Agency plans to ask would-be travellers to submit online applications for the free flights, detailing which areas of the country they would like to visit, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said. The agency will select the successful entrants and ask them to write a report about their trip which will be […]
Romney Unfurls
October 11th, 2011WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: Here’s a video that all Romney supporters should see. In fact, go ahead and send that to anyone you know who supports America’s wars. Do you know any young people who want to sign up to serve the American empire? Go ahead and CC them too. While we’re at it… Are there […]
Adobe Photoshop Upcoming Feature: Unblur
October 11th, 2011*Gasp*
