Archive for April, 2010
Spain Jobless Rate Tops 20%
April 30th, 2010Via AFP: Spain’s jobless rate topped 20 percent in the first quarter, national statistics institute INE said Friday, fueling fears over the country’s public finances which have rattled global financial markets. The number of unemployed jumped by 280,200 to 4.61 million, more than in Germany which has nearly twice Spain’s population, for a jobless rate […]
Doctors Sterilise Uzbek Women by Stealth
April 30th, 2010Via: Times Online: WHEN her baby died soon after delivery, Gulbahor Zavidova, 28, a poor farmer’s wife, longed to be pregnant again. After months of trying she and her husband visited a doctor who told her she could never have another child because she had been sterilised. The procedure had been performed immediately after she […]
Sophisticated Counterfeiting Operation Run Out of Apartment Facing Federal Reserve Building in Los Angeles
April 30th, 2010Update: Brian Alexik Walks Free Yep, you read that right. Via: Los Angeles Downtown News: Brian Alexik, the former fugitive who was arrested last year for drugs, weapons and counterfeiting charges, was sentenced today to five years probation as part of a plea deal and released from custody. Alexik, who was arrested on June 3, […]
Fuld’s Perjury
April 30th, 2010Via: Reuters: Dick Fuld said under oath that he was paid less than $310 million from 2000 through 2007, and that he held, rather than sold, the “vast majority” of his shares, if not all of them. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that he was lying. The latest bombshells come from former Lehman lawyer Oliver […]
Goldman May Face Justice Department Review
April 30th, 2010Mmm hmm. See: “Lehman Was the Leading Purveyor of Liar’s Loans in the World” — Incidents of Fraud at 90% — “Lehman Sold This to the World” How many criminal cases have been brought in that situation? None. Via: Washington Post: The Securities and Exchange Commission has referred its investigation of Goldman Sachs to the […]
Six in Ten Americans Breathe Dangerously Polluted Air
April 29th, 2010Via: CBC: Six in 10 Americans — about 175 million people — are living in places where air pollution often reaches dangerous levels, despite progress in reducing particle pollution, the American Lung Association said in a report released this week. The Los Angeles area had the nation’s worst ozone pollution. The report examined fine particulate […]
Guatemala: Unearthing a Massacre
April 29th, 2010Via: Global Post: Archeologists this month meticulously unearthed the brittle, bare bones of what are thought to be at least 162 men, women and children killed by the Guatemalan army in 1982. Stoic old folks watched intently for signs of brothers and sisters; kids asked about the heaps of femurs and broken craniums. There were […]
Globe Trotting High School for Budding iZombies Costs $88,000 Per Year, iPhone Included
April 29th, 2010Global competence? *chuckle* To me, this sounds more like, “How to wind up dead from a heart attack by age 25 and go broke while you’re at it.” Lots of airline food, security screenings, polluted cities. Is part of global competence having to learn what the Chinese fascist regime doesn’t want people reading on the […]
U.S. Subpoenas New York Times Reporter Over Book on CIA
April 29th, 2010Via: New York Times: The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The author, James Risen, who is a reporter for The New York Times, received […]
Soviet Moon Rover Found After Four Decades
April 29th, 2010Via: Register: A long-lost Soviet solar/nuclear robot buggy – mislaid in the early 1970s – has been found on the moon by a NASA survey satellite. The vehicle in question is the Lunokhod 1 rover, which landed in the Mare Imbrium aboard the Luna 17 lander in 1970. During the fortnight-long lunar days the machine […]
