Archive for May, 2012
230,000 Unemployed Lost Benefits Over Weekend
May 14th, 2012Vi: The Hill: More than 230,000 unemployed workers will lose their jobless benefits this weekend as portions of federal programs expire across several states. All told, 409,300 long-term unemployed Americans in 27 states will have lost upward of 20 weeks of federal unemployment benefits by this past Saturday, even as the many state jobless rates […]
Forty-Nine Headless Corpses Found Along Highway in Northern Mexico
May 14th, 2012Via: Reuters: Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst atrocities in recent years. The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway […]
‘Greece is screwed, there are no jobs and it has been run by crooks.’
May 14th, 2012They’re shifting assets to pound denominated British real estate in an attempt to hide from the euro wreck. Via: Reuters: Worsening financial and political turmoil in southern Europe caused a surge of interest in London property last month with buyers from Greece and Spain showing strongly among investors seeking a safe haven for their money. […]
Euro Officials Begin to Weigh Greek Exit
May 14th, 2012Via: Reuters: Greece’s possible exit from the euro area moved to the center of Europe’s debt-crisis debate, with officials beginning to weigh the fallout of a withdrawal even as authorities in Athens struggled to form a government. Meetings brokered by Greek President Karolos Papoulias are set to continue today after Syriza, the largest anti-bailout party, […]
Violent Criminal on Federal Payroll as Informant
May 14th, 2012Via: Seattle Times: Despite a history of abusing women and violent behavior in prison, Joshua Allan Jackson managed to become a federal informant, trigger a citywide Seattle police alert and hold a 18-year-old woman as his sexual prisoner. … For all of this, the 34-year-old Jackson would be just another habitual criminal except for one […]
California: Large Search for FBI Agent Who Worked in ‘National Security Affairs’
May 13th, 2012Update: Body of Missing FBI Agent Found in Burbank Obviously, temperature and humidity will affect this, but if the hikers smelled the corpse, what does that say about when Ivens died? Via: KABC: The body of missing FBI agent Stephen Ivens has been found in a wooded area in Burbank, police confirmed on Tuesday. Authorities […]
Navy Commander Halts SPAWAR LENR Research
May 13th, 2012I had a total of zero on-the-record submissions on the NANOR presentation and data, but some people who have been involved with U.S. Government research into LENR did communicate with me. One of the issues that came up was that the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has inexplicably halted research into […]
Shortfall in California’s Budget Swells to $16 Billion
May 13th, 2012Via: New York Times: The state budget shortfall in California has increased dramatically in the last six months, forcing state officials to assemble a series of new spending cuts that are likely to mean further reductions to schools, health care and other social programs already battered by nearly five years of budget retrenchment, state officials […]
Italy: Senior Executive of Nuclear Engineering Group Ansaldo Nucleare Shot in Genoa
May 13th, 2012Via: BBC: An Italian anarchist group has said it carried out an attack last Monday on a senior executive of nuclear engineering group Ansaldo Nucleare. Roberto Adinolfi, 53, was shot in the leg by a gunman on a motorbike in the northern Italian city of Genoa. He has undergone surgery and colleagues have said his […]
British Military to Have Sonic Weapon at Olympics
May 13th, 2012Via: Reuters: Britain’s military will be armed with a sonic device that can be used as a high-volume loudspeaker or a non-lethal weapon to disperse crowds at this summer’s Olympic Games in London, the defence ministry said on Friday. The equipment, which can project a piercing sound over hundreds of metres causing physical pain, has […]
