Archive for January, 2012
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul Detained by TSA; Refused Pat Down
January 23rd, 2012Via: WLWT: GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul said his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, has been detained by security at the Nashville airport. “My son Rand is currently being detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport. I’ll share more details as the situation unfolds,” the elder Paul posted on his Facebook page. Sen. Paul’s […]
Top 100 U.S. Zip Codes Hit Hardest by Foreclosures
January 23rd, 2012Via: CNN: The housing collapse has dramatically changed the nation’s foreclosure landscape. Neighborhoods boasting modern homes, cul-de-sacs and tree-lined streets in and around Western cities now dominate the list of the top 100 U.S. zip codes hit hardest by foreclosures and claim and comprise all of the top 10 spots, according to data generated for […]
EU Will Impose Oil Embargo on Iran
January 23rd, 2012Via: Guardian: The long-running standoff between Iran and the west over Tehran’s nuclear programme has shifted into a more unpredictable phase after Europe decided to impose an oil embargo on the Islamic republic. The decision by EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels raised the stakes dramatically in the war of wits between Iran […]
The Age of Transitions
January 23rd, 2012Via: The Age of Transitions:
Is There a Single U.S. Mainstream News Story About the Mass Burial of 30 People Outside Chicago Last Wednesday?
January 23rd, 2012Unfortunately, the source of this story is the Daily Mail. What’s worse is that I’m not able to find any other source that doesn’t reference the Daily Mail piece. It says that the mass burial took place on Wednesday (January 18, 2011). This is not a new practice. I found this, from last year: After […]
Iraq Becoming ‘Police State’, Says Rights Group
January 23rd, 2012Meet the new boss… Via: AFP: Iraq is falling back into authoritarianism and headed towards becoming a police state, despite US claims that it has helped establish democracy in the country, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. The criticism from the New York-based HRW, which the government quickly disputed, comes less than a year after […]
Alaska: Man Accused of Illegally Trading Moose Meat for Firewood
January 23rd, 2012Via: News Miner: The Fairbanks man who is accused of illegally trading moose meat for firewood is taking his case to court. Chad Gerondale, 41, has hired well-known Fairbanks attorney Bill Satterberg to represent him in the “meat for heat” case, as it has been dubbed by online spectators. “I’ve got a lot to say […]
Video from Inside Underground Government Food Storage Facility [???]
January 22nd, 2012Update: It’s Probably Springfield Underground Cryptogon reader goldenmudd posted a link to Springfield Underground. Case closed, as far as I’m concerned. —End Update— Update: SubTropolis? Several people are emailing to say that this is SubTropolis. And, yes, the video title mentions SubTropolis. But if you look at the Wikipedia entry for SubTropolis, you’ll find this: […]
Why High Tech Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back to the U.S.
January 22nd, 2012Via: New York Times: Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly […]
Britain: Undercover Police Had Children with Activists
January 22nd, 2012Via: Guardian: Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from the lives of their offspring, the Guardian can reveal. In both cases, the children have grown up not knowing that their biological fathers – whom they have not seen in decades […]
