Archive for January, 2009
U.S. 2009 Deficit: $1.2 Trillion and DOES NOT INCLUDE Bailouts or Obama’s Stimulus Plan
January 7th, 2009Via: AP: The federal budget deficit will hit an unparalleled $1.2 trillion for the 2009 budget year, according to a Capitol Hill aide briefed on new Congressional Budget office figures. The aide says the CBO also sees a $703 billion deficit for 2010. The dismal figures come a day after President-elect Barack Obama warned of […]
A Peek at Homeland Security’s Files on Travelers
January 7th, 2009HAHA This guy was surprised that his DHS file noted the IPs from which his ticket purchasing sessions occurred??? * Pfft! * He should ask Them to send over his MAIN CORE file and see how well that goes. Via: Newsweek: The oversize white envelope bore the blue logo of the Department of Homeland Security. […]
Air Force Releases ‘Counter-Blog’ Marching Orders
January 7th, 2009Via: Wired: Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don’t be surprised. They’re just following the service’s new “counter-blogging” flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force’s public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to […]
Real-Estate Executive Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
January 7th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: Real-estate executive Steven L. Good was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday in his Jaguar in a forest preserve outside Chicago, said the Kane County Sheriff’s Department. Mr. Good, 52 years old, was chief executive of Sheldon Good & Co., one of the nation’s largest real-estate auction firms. […]
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority
January 7th, 2009This is an outstanding documentary. Please pass it along. Official Site: occupation101.com
German Billionaire Adolf Merckle Commits Suicide
January 6th, 2009Via: Reuters: German billionaire Adolf Merckle, assailed by financial turmoil and struggling to salvage his business empire, has killed himself, his family said on Tuesday. “The desperate situation of his companies caused by the financial crisis, the uncertainties of the last few weeks and his powerlessness to act, have broken the passionate family entrepreneur and […]
Israeli Tank Fires at School, Kills At Least 40 Palestinian Civilians
January 6th, 2009Via: Reuters: Israeli tank shells killed at least 40 Palestinians on Tuesday at a U.N. school where civilians had taken shelter, medical officials said, in carnage likely to boost international calls for a halt to Israel’s Gaza offensive. An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was looking into information on the incident at al-Fakhora school in […]
Kissinger on Obama: “A New World Order Can Be Created”
January 6th, 2009Change we can believe in.
BART Police Execute Unarmed Man in Public; Shot in Back
January 6th, 2009Via: Mercury News: A BART police officer struggling to handcuff a 22-year-old man, stood up over the facedown Hayward resident and fired a single shot into his back while a handful of officers watched, a video taken by a train passenger apparently shows. The attorney for the family of Oscar Grant III, fatally shot by […]
China Seen Facing Wave of Unrest in 2009
January 6th, 2009Via: Reuters: China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent, a state-run magazine said in a blunt warning of the hazards to Communist Party control from a sharp economic downturn. The unusually stark report in this week’s Outlook (Liaowang) Magazine, issued by the official Xinhua news agency, said faltering growth […]
