Archive for January, 2009
Gordon Brown: The Financial Crisis Represents ‘Difficult Birth-Pangs of a New Global Order’
January 26th, 2009Via: AFP: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday the financial crisis must not be an excuse to retreat into protectionism and instead be viewed as the “difficult birth-pangs of a new global order”. In a speech, he will urge countries to avoid “muddling through as pessimists” and “make the necessary adjustment to a better future […]
EMERGENCY: BRITISH ECONOMIC CRISIS; STERLING COULD MOVE SHARPLY LOWER
January 26th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. We’re looking at a strategic downside breach on the British Pound vs the Dollar. If the pound doesn’t bounce now, the next good support is GBP/USD 1. The Bank of England is going to get bloody trying to touch off a […]
Iraq to Reopen Notorious Abu Ghraib Prison
January 26th, 2009Via: USA Today / AP: Iraq will reopen the notorious Abu Ghraib prison next month, but it’s getting a facelift and a new name, a senior justice official said. The heavily fortified compound of gray, stonewalled buildings and watchtowers has come to symbolize American abuse of some prisoners captured in Iraq after photos were released […]
UK Education Authorities: Homeschooling Could be a Cover for Abuse
January 25th, 2009Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto (UK): John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorization drills. Gatto’s earlier book, Dumbing […]
Toxic Chinese Drywall Making People and Pets Ill, Corroding Wires, Destroying Electronics
January 25th, 2009Always low prices. Via: Herald Tribune: As the investigation into toxic Chinese drywall continues, a single street in Manatee County appears to be ground zero for the largest cluster of problem homes. Within the Lighthouse Cove subdivision of Lennar’s Heritage Harbour development, sits a quaint street of two-story homes called Montauk Point Crossing. Today, it […]
Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case
January 25th, 2009Via: Wired: The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants. In a filing in San Francisco federal […]
UK FACES RETURN OF THREE-DAY WORK WEEK
January 25th, 2009Well, more time to get those gardens going this Spring! Via: Independent: The prospect of the three-day week returned to haunt Britain yesterday as it emerged that ministers are considering paying firms to cut hours in order to survive the recession. Tens of thousands of businesses are already planning to scale back working hours this […]
Afghanistan’s ‘Guantanamo’ Poses New Prison Problem for Barack Obama
January 24th, 2009One countertrend crank doesn’t mean a reversal of the larger trend. —Obama Orders Closure of CIA’s Secret Prisons Mmm hmm. Via: Telegraph: As Guantanamo Bay prepares to close, President Barack Obama will have to deal with a new problem with suspected terrorist detainees, this time at Bagram in Afghanistan. Every Monday, at a Red Cross […]
Nazi Angel of Death Josef Mengele ‘Created Twin Town in Brazil’
January 24th, 2009You almost certainly know about Josef Mengele, but have you ever heard of Dr. Peter Neubauer and the “research” he conducted on twins? See: Twins Reunited, After 35 Years Apart Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein Neubauer’s “research” on twins is sealed at the Yale University […]
Operation Blackjack Part 2 is Up
January 24th, 2009The ultimate challenge is to shape the common concern of most countries and all major ones regarding the economic crisis, together with a common fear of jihadist terrorism, into a strategy reinforced by the realisation that the new issues like proliferation, energy and climate change permit no national or regional solution. —Henry Kissinger: The World […]
