Archive for June, 2012
Germany: Religious Circumcisions Are Crimes
June 26th, 2012Via: The Local: Non-medical circumcision is a “serious and irreversible interference in the integrity of the human body,” the Cologne district court ruled. This criminalises religious circumcisions performed by Jews and Muslims, the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper said on Tuesday. It says circumcision should be considered a crime of bodily harm. Thousands of very young […]
Mexico City Airport Shooting Suspects Are Police
June 26th, 2012Via: MSNBC: Three policemen died in a shootout with two other officers suspected of drug trafficking at Mexico City’s airport on Monday, as panicked travelers scrambled for cover in the busy facility. The shootout occurred when three federal officers approached the two suspects in the airport’s Terminal 2, which handles international and domestic flights. Two […]
The American War Racket
June 26th, 2012Via: Daily Reckoning: Our president is a portrait of failure and homicide… According to The New York Times he personally approves the list of unfortunates his drones will assassinate. And for what? Philip Giraldi does the “Terrorism Arithmetic”: Only three American citizens were kidnapped by overseas terrorists in 2011 (in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, all […]
CNBC: We’re All Slaves to Central Banks
June 26th, 2012Via: CNBC Reposted on YouTube:
Spain Requests Bailout
June 25th, 2012Via: Reuters: Spain formally requested euro zone rescue loans on Monday to recapitalize banks that are laden with bad debts as the euro and shares fell due to investors’ skepticism that a European Union summit this week will act decisively on the bloc’s debt crisis. Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos asked for up to […]
RBS Still Facing Crisis After ‘Software Upgrade’
June 25th, 2012Via: Guardian: Royal Bank of Scotland is facing calls to make payments as soon as possible to customers affected by its long-running computer crisis, as it admitted NatWest branches would again be opened for extended hours on Monday. The bank, whose NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster branches have all been hit by the […]
Wikipedia Is An Editorial Warzone
June 24th, 2012Via: MSNBC: The Internet is a wonderland for sociologists, and one of the richest areas of study is Wikipedia, with its years of open collaboration and communication archived for posterity. But with collaboration comes conflict, and the “edit wars” that embroil hot Wikipedia topics are dissected in detail in a new paper by researchers in […]
Hybrid Grass Produces Cyanide Gas, Kills Herd of Cattle
June 24th, 2012The article states that Tifton 85 is a genetically modified grass, but it’s actually a hybrid: Tifton 85 is the best of many F1 hybrids between PI 290884 from South Africa and Tifton 68, a highly digestible but cold susceptible hybrid that was released in 1983. Via: KEYE TV: A mysterious mass death of a […]
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
June 23rd, 2012“Yes, they even dress like mobsters, and wear the pinky rings.” —Unloading Toxic Waste Mortgage Backed Securities: “We Americans Were Very Clever” Via: Rolling Stone: The defendants in the case – Dominick Carollo, Steven Goldberg and Peter Grimm – worked for GE Capital, the finance arm of General Electric. Along with virtually every major bank […]
From Milk to Peas, a Chinese Food-Safety Mess
June 23rd, 2012Via: New York Times: There’s mercury in the baby formula. Cabbages are sprayed with formaldehyde. Gelatin capsules for pills, tens of millions of them, are laced with chromium. Used cooking oil is scooped out of gutters for recycling, right along with the sewage. Accounts of dubious or unsafe food in China are as mesmerizing as […]
