Archive for January, 2009
Obama Orders Closure of CIA’s Secret Prisons
January 23rd, 2009When I read Obama’s executive order to close the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, I just laughed the thing off as window dressing on a network of an unknown number of secret CIA prisons and torture facilities. In short, I felt that it was so ridiculous that I didn’t even bother mentioning it. Now, however, we […]
Tijuana Off-Limits to U.S. Marines
January 22nd, 2009Via: USA Today: For tens of thousands of U.S. Marines in Southern California, new orders from the brass amount to: Baghdad si, Tijuana no. Citing a wave of violence and murder in Mexico, the commanding officer of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force based at Camp Pendleton has made the popular military “R&R” destinations of Tijuana […]
Whistleblower: NSA Spied on Everyone, Targeted Journalists
January 22nd, 2009Via: Rawstory: Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists. “The […]
Japan Exports Plummet Record 35%, Signaling Job Cuts
January 22nd, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Japan’s exports plunged by a record in December, signaling companies will be forced to shut factory lines and fire more workers, driving the economy deeper into recession. Exports plummeted 35 percent from a year earlier, the sharpest decline since 1980, the earliest year for which there is comparable data, the Finance Ministry said […]
Growing Stocks of Unsold Cars Around the World (13 Pictures)
January 22nd, 2009Man oh man, this is chilling. Guardian
Foreign Workers Abandoning Vehicles by the Thousands at Dubai Airport as They Flee the Country
January 22nd, 2009Via: Daijiworld.com: It’s the great escape by Indians who’ve hit the dead-end in Dubai. Local police have found at least 3,000 automobiles — sedans, SUVs, regulars — abandoned outside Dubai International Airport in the last four months. Police say most of the vehicles had keys in the ignition, a clear sign they were left behind […]
Microsoft Laying Off 5000 Employees
January 22nd, 2009Via: Seattle PI: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an e-mail to all Microsoft employees this morning at 6:07 am, explaining the company’s cost cutting measures, including the slashing of 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months.
Ex-K.G.B. Agent Buying London Tabloid
January 22nd, 2009HA. Oh well, what’s better? The CIA bribing American “journalists” to constantly look the other way, or a former Soviet spook simply owning the paper? Via: New York Times: Yet the fact that Moscow-based Mr. Lebedev is presumably the first former Soviet spy to own a major British daily “adds a different dimension,” said Roy […]
UK Cabinet Minister: ‘The banks are fucked, we’re fucked, the country’s fucked.’
January 22nd, 2009Via: Guardian: As the Treasury last night finalised its second sweeping banking revival package in three months, Downing Street was preparing to go on the offensive, justifying the package not as a bail-out for the banks, but an attempt to protect companies and families trying to secure a mortgage. The £200bn insurance scheme is not […]
Oil Is Steady as Demand May Climb on Obama Bank-Rescue Plan
January 22nd, 2009Another factor which could lead to higher oil prices is Obama’s upcoming trillion dollar clusterf*ck orgy of government spending on “recovery.” I don’t know what that’s going to entail, but it will, by definition, require a hell of a lot of oil. —Oil Via: Bloomberg: Crude oil was little changed after rising on speculation a […]
