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Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies
Seeded on Tue Apr 7, 2009 10:37 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.
Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing
Seeded on Tue Apr 7, 2009 8:56 PM EDT (USA Today)
A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money. Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses.
Economist: US collapse driven by 'fraud,' Geithner covering up bank insolvency
Seeded on Sat Apr 4, 2009 8:48 PM EDT (Raw Story)
In an explosive interview on PBS' Bill Moyers Journal, William K.
Special Alert: U.S. Currency Exchange Controls
Seeded on Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:31 PM EDT (The August Review)
Could President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner suddenly impose currency exchange controls on the United States and the U.S. dollar? This report will explore this notion and its possible consequences.
Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects
Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:45 PM EDT (astro-ph updates on arXiv.org)
An excellent scientific paper from physicists as to why there is no "greenhouse" effects used in climate models. It simply isn't true.
Wagoner Steps Down as GM CEO
Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:28 AM EDT (AOL)
DETROIT (March 30) - Time and time again, General Motors Corp.'s board of directors reaffirmed its support for Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner , even as the company piled up billions of dollars in losses and begged for government loans to stay alive.
Global warming skeptics score a few points
Seeded on Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:05 PM EDT (CANOE -- CNEWS)
In the rising hysteria over the global warming issue, a kind of race against time appears to be developing. The question is: What will happen first?
The Big Takeover: How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution (by Taibbi)
Seeded on Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:47 PM EDT (Rolling Stone)
It's over — we're officially, royally @!$%#ed.
Iconic U.S. firms crumbling under recession
Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 9:25 AM EST (msnbc.com)
WASHINGTON - The truisms have been familiar to generations of Americans: As General Motors goes, so goes the nation; Citigroup is too big to fail; General Electric, one of the 12 original companies in the Dow Jones industrial average in 1896, brings good things to life.
Repower America
Seeded on Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:45 AM EST (Repower America)
American jobs; American citizens fighting against Oil and Coal lobbies; a new era on green sustainable energy.
Financial Times Editorial Admits Agenda For Dictatorial World Government
Seeded on Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:56 PM EST (Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com)
The Financial Times, one of the most respected and widely read newspapers on the planet, features an editorial today that openly admits the agenda to create a world government based on anti-democratic principles and concedes that the term "global governance" is merely a euphe …
Wall Street Powerhouses Invested Alongside Madoff
Seeded on Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:59 AM EST (CounterPunch.org)
One man with a briefcase and a computer can steal more than 100 armed with guns; this look at the "complete story" on what Marten's calls "Primex Trading's Dark Pool Operations" give the term "organized crime" a new high water mark.
Obama's Marijuana Prohibition Acid Test
Seeded on Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:33 AM EST (CounterPunch)
The parallels between the 1933 coming of Franklin Roosevelt and the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama must include the issue of Prohibition: alcohol in 1933, and marijuana today.
Why lenders might forgive your debt
Seeded on Mon Dec 1, 2008 12:08 PM EST (MSN)
There was a time when lenders didn't want to work with you if you couldn't pay. Now they want to avoid foreclosure, lawsuits or repossession almost as much as you do.
'Frightened' David Frum Leaves Seething National Review
Seeded on Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:08 PM EST (Gawker)
After seeing a fellow National Review columnist told off by her editor ("embarrassing and outrageous") and readers ("my mother should have aborted me ...
Overworked, Vacation-Starved America Ranks #1 in Depression, Mental Health Problems
Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:36 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson's character in the 1980 film The Shining, should get credit for popularizing (and making terrifying) a proverb that dates as far back as the mid-1600s: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
A cool way to celebrate death
Seeded on Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:00 PM EST (Wallet Pop)
LifeGem, promises to take your loved one's ashes (which are primarily carbon, at this point,) and form them into a diamond. The man-made gem is a genuine diamond, with all the sparkle and durability of the original.
Global economy depends on China
Seeded on Tue Nov 4, 2008 9:55 AM EST (MSN)
don't know if China will travel down this road or how far the Beijing leadership will go. We're talking about venturing into unknown territory, and no one knows exactly how these changes would play out.
Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee
Seeded on Sat Nov 1, 2008 4:51 PM EDT (extragood@!$%#.phlap.net)
Title says it all plus some great old pics of Joplin
Tuesday's Choice
Seeded on Sat Nov 1, 2008 4:25 PM EDT (National Review Online)
This Tuesday Americans will cast their vote for the all important office, The President of the United States of America; will the result be: More freedom and prosperity, or less?
MasterCard to issue diamond-studded cards
Seeded on Sat Nov 1, 2008 9:26 AM EDT (FT.com)
Markets are plunging, banks are collapsing and talk of recession is all about, but the global gloom is not stopping the launch of a MasterCard credit card inlaid with a diamond and laced with gold.
Taxpayer Swindle Revealed
Seeded on Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:00 PM EDT (The Nation)
The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election.
Does GOP Ad Presume Obama Victory?
Seeded on Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:11 AM EDT (AOL)
Oct. 23) -- A new Republican ad appears to suggest that Barack Obama has all but won the presidential race, an argument several vulnerable Senate Republicans may have to reluctantly embrace with only days until Election Day, an expert in campaign advertising said.
After years of winning the kinds of cases that can afford him a private jet, White Plains litigator David Worby is now investing millions fighting for thousands of 9/11 victims.
Seeded on Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:09 AM EDT (Westchester)
This is a very intresting article and refreshingly so; I am amazed at the amount of money the City of New York (NYC) has paid in legal fees to defense litigation firms in addition to the number of city employees working on this case; the cost must be double the amount spent in 20 …
Obama's New Tax Welfare
Seeded on Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:54 AM EDT (National Review Online)
Barack Obama says he plans to cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers. That sounds terrific, but there are three problems. One, it is meant to draw attention from the real core of the Obama tax plan: proposed increases in every major federal tax.
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