Archive for January, 2012
Value Afghan Opium Yield Rose 133 Percent from 2010
January 14th, 2012Via: AFP: Production of opium and the illicit crop’s value soared in Afghanistan last year, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday. According to the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime, farmer income derived from Afghanistan’s opium crop in 2011 was $1.4 billion (1.09 billion euros), representing nine percent of GDP. “Opium is […]
Mossad Operatives Posed as CIA Operatives
January 14th, 2012Via: AFP: Agents with Israel’s Mossad agency posed as American CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani militant group Jundallah, a report in Foreign Policy magazine said Friday. Using American dollars and US passports, the agents passed themselves off as members of the Central Intelligence Agency in the operations, notably in London, […]
S&P Cuts Credit Ratings for France, Italy, Spain
January 14th, 2012Via: Los Angeles Times: Standard & Poor’s swept the debt-ridden European continent with punishing credit downgrades Friday, stripping France of its coveted AAA status and dropping Italy even lower. Germany retained its top-notch rating, but Portugal’s debt was consigned to junk. In all, S&P, which took away the United States’ AAA rating last summer, lowered […]
Disclosure: I’m Long Natural Gas (UNG)
January 13th, 2012Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Update: Stopped Out, No Position in UNG —End Update— I bought a small amount of UNG near the lows this morning. Tight stop on this one. Up or out.
Haiti: Two Years After the Earthquake, Where Did the Money Go?
January 13th, 2012Via: Global Post: Where those billions went following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that left a government-estimated figure of 220,000 people dead — and at least 1.6 million more homeless — remains a confounding mystery. … “In the end,” says Robert Fatton Jr., professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and a son […]
QE3?
January 13th, 2012Via: CNBC: Federal Reserve officials are seriously considering giving the US economy—and especially the housing market—an added jolt with more quantitative easing.
Radioactive Metal Tissue Box Holders Pulled from NY Stores
January 13th, 2012Via: NBC: Health officials said they’ve removed a dozen metal box tissue holders containing small amounts of radioactive material from four Bed, Bath and Beyond stores in New York. None of the boxes were sold to the public, said the company. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission notified state health officials Tuesday that a shipment of metal […]
U.S. Marines Urinating on Afghan Corpses
January 13th, 2012Via: Washington Post: Top U.S. officials moved swiftly Thursday to try to prevent diplomatic damage and contain public disgust from the release of a video that appeared to show Marines urinating on three Afghan corpses — images that spread quickly around the globe. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said he had viewed the video and […]
NASA Senior Research Scientist on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (Cold Fusion): “It has the demonstrated ability to produce excess amounts of energy, cleanly, without hazardous ionizing radiation, without producing nasty waste.”
January 13th, 2012Via: PESN: Dr. Zawodny: “It has the demonstrated ability to produce excess amounts of energy, cleanly, without hazardous ionizing radiation, without producing nasty waste.” Narrator: “This clean form of energy is also power, able to support everything from transportation systems to infrastructure.” Dr. Zawodny: “The easiest implementation of this would be for the home. You […]
Principal Charged After Hypnotizing Students Who Committed Suicide
January 13th, 2012Via: CBS: North Port police have charged the town’s high school principal with two counts of second-degree criminal misdemeanors after students he hypnotized ended up committing suicide. Over six months, the North Port Police Department conducted around 70 interviews with students claiming to have been hypnotized by Dr. George Kenney and 100 adults either from […]
