Archive for August, 2007
“Green Confessions” to Help Eco-Sinners Find Forgiveness
August 31st, 2007Will the Church sell carbon offset indulgences? Hmm. Saint Gore? Via: Times Online: Forgotten to recycle any newspapers or tin cans recently? Feeling guilty because you neglected to carbon offset your flight to somewhere, anywhere, outside England this summer? The Roman Catholic Church is at hand with a new line in “green confessions†to help […]
Iraq: Most Goals for “Surge” Missed
August 30th, 2007The primary goal of the war is to keep the multi billion dollar give-a-way to criminal corporations going. That goal is being met. Via: Yahoo / AP: The Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush’s Iraq war strategy, congressional auditors […]
7/7 Victims Launch Legal Action Against Government
August 30th, 2007Via: The Lawyer: A group of survivors and relatives of victims of London’s 7 July 2005 bombings are to take legal action against the government to force an inquiry into the events of that day. The group is being represented on a pro bono basis by London’s Oury Clark Solicitors, a 20-lawyer white collar crime […]
Zombie Breeding Program in Britain
August 30th, 2007Via: Daily Mail: Jobless Britain: One in five homes relies entirely on benefits The number of households in which nobody works for a living rose to more than three million this summer, official figures revealed yesterday. Among them were a growing number of lone parent families – the first increase in the figure for single […]
Zombie Breeding Program in New York
August 30th, 2007Via: MSNBC: Paying kids for good grades is a popular (if questionable) parenting tactic. But when school starts next week, New York City will try to use the same enticement to get parents in low-income neighborhoods more involved in their children’s education and overall health. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has raised more than $40 million (much […]
Joel Salatin and Polyface Farms
August 30th, 2007For me, comprehension of the way industrial scale (including “Organic”) food worked was the last straw. Many aspects of politics and society are disturbing, but toxic—and or long distance—food isn’t some theoretical, far out, future threat. The wolf is at the door. It’s right here, right now. The food issue, more than anything else, drove […]
Point, Click, Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
August 30th, 2007Via: Wired: The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act. The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled […]
Bush: Iran’s Nuclear ‘Holocaust’
August 29th, 2007What will explode first? A false flag nuke, or the bullshit meter? Via: Times Online: President Bush gave warning last night that Iran’s pursuit of the atomic bomb could lead to a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East, and promised to confront Tehran “before it is too lateâ€. Mr Bush’s remarks, the starkest warning that […]
Home Prices: Steepest Decline in Twenty Years
August 29th, 2007Via: Yahoo / AP: U.S. home prices fell 3.2 percent in the second quarter, the steepest rate of decline since Standard & Poor’s began its nationwide housing index in 1987, the research group said Tuesday. The decline in home prices around the nation shows no evidence of a market recovery anytime soon, one of the […]
China and Asymmetric Warfare
August 29th, 2007Cut the fiber, turn out the lights and the monster will die. China knows this. Actually, anyone who takes an objective look at America’s astonishing dependence on undefended electricity and data communications infrastructures knows this. But there’s lots of other treachery afoot. Via: Tribune Democrat: All eyes in Washington are focused on the Middle East […]
