Old News by digby In another example of angry, vitriolic, hate-filled left wing blogging, a number of us were writing and discussing, ... between unsavory characters involved in Iran-Contra, the Office of Special Plans, AEI --- the whole shoddy ... of the White House. The many interconnecting webs seem to lead to and through the forged Niger [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 18:31:06

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DrumBeat: July 20, 2008

To Save Gas, Shoppers Stay Home and Click To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard. Online shopping is gaining at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree. A number of retailers — including Gap, Victoria’s Secret and J. C [more...]

Date: 2008-07-20 13:14:15

Declining

Link: Household spending and investment in big-ticket items plummeted in October in the United States, as major world economies announced new plans to try to boost demand to fight a deepening economic ... to lower home loan mortgage rates and ensure households and small businesses have access to adequate [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 19:31:16

What’s Happening With The Religion Of Peace Today?

Hey, don’t worry about Iran, cause Obama will take care of it through his one-on-one chats with Ahmadenijad Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, ... of Australia Plans for building a Muslim cemetery in the ground of a historic Anglican graveyard ... into Western European culture: As they become wealthier and more assimilated, Muslims will shed [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 20:12:26

Ohio airports guard against bird strikes

Wildlife and airport officials use fireworks and noise makers to scare seagulls, starlings and geese from runways in Ohio, ... colliding with about 400 European starlings soon after takeoff _ the last major incident there involving ... wildlife management plans, required by the Federal Aviation Administration, are always being evaluated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 12:00:10

DrumBeat: September 12, 2008

Kazakh Oil: A War of Nerves - Russian brinkmanship could imperil the flow of oil and money across the Caspian to Europe ASTANA - On the scorching, ... and export more through that route. The plans for the corridor, though, were drawn before Russia's ... the Georgia events will cause transportation problems. But already Kazakhstan has canceled plans [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 13:05:16

Concentrating the Wealth, Pt. 2

(See Part 1.) A funny thing happened on the way to the bailout. A number of the members of the bucket brigade - that's us, taxpayers - realized that for all the billions of dollars worth of bailing we're doing, we still appear to be sinking. Our task seems to be keeping things afloat long enough for first class passengers to fill the lifeboats [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 20:39:26

Prepping Printcasting for Mass Adoption

I've spent the last couple weeks with my head in the wires, so to speak, thinking about things like technology platforms. And lest you hear that term and begin to tune out, stay with me. The reality is that in today's media, all of us are need to be a little semi-geek (to quote Amy Gahran from last year's News Challenge contest) [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 23:13:06

EU asks Italy to stop fingerprinting Gypsies

When I visited Eastern Europe about a decade ago, I was shocked at how much outspoken prejudice there was against the Gypsies ... Italian administration announced plans to carry out a national registration of all the country’ ... hysterical rhetoric about crime and security. The European parliament has asked Italy to stop [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 18:46:49

Will gas prices stop us from driving?

A few years ago, many were screaming ‘the day it reaches $1 a gallon is the day I start walking” but $1 a gallon is already just a fond memory, some story you will be able to tell your grandchildren about in a few years. The highly respected financial analysts’ CIBC World Markets believe that $200 a barrel is less than two years away, [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 00:39:28

On The Tube: College World Series or US Open?

miami-hurricanes-cheerleaders-3.jpg The ‘Canes cheerleaders somehow were left out of the Omaha travel plans Today’s Can’t Miss: Umemployed? A sports blogger who never leaves the house? Work 3rd shift? If you are any of these it shouldn’ ... at Philadelphia (ESPN, 7 p.m.) Soccer: European Championship, group phase, Austria vs. Germany [more...]

Date: 2008-06-16 12:55:21

Maroma Homes / Dave Hill - do business with them by all means, BUT

Prospective purchasers of property in Morocco or Spain might like to be aware of an experience I had with Maroma Homes and Dave Hill, ... ) so that I could build a holiday home on it. I also agreed to pay him a deposit. Returned to UK ... to my solicitors, and even sent them plans/sale documents for a completely different piece of land [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 20:50:29

Reinventing the Evil Empire by Stephen Lendman

Dandelion Salad by Stephen Lendman Global Research, August 25, 2008 For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more resolute Russian leader took over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else little different [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 03:15:50

More Good News. UK Government has Access to All Your Emails for a Year. Goodbye Privacy.

All Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will by law keep information about every e-mail sent or received in the UK for a year. As part of a European Commission directive, from March of this year, the government will pay ... peer on the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, said it meant anyone’s movements could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 08:35:35

Economist Versus Idiot: Bastard In A Basket

The World Last Week -Bill Richardson won't be America's next commerce secretary--he's under investigation for possibly giving one of his donors a state contract. -That wasn't the only stumble for Barack Obama's relatively smooth selection process, as Joe Biden called the secretive nature of the nomination of Leon Panetta ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 08:54:33

Tory Controlled Lincolnshire Council Seeks to Import Eastern European Gypsies Rather Than Employ Brits

The Tory controlled Lincolnshire County Council intends to invite Romany gypsies from Romania and Bulgaria to Lincolnshire to take jobs previously ... European migrant workers from Poland and so forth, it’s my personal view we could get replacements ... returning home. “The main problem, of course, whether we like it or not, is that gypsies and [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:52:06

Economic Potpourri December 13, 2008

Once again news is flying out of every corner at record speeds. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.Mazama Capital assets fall 75%, but optimism holds steadyIn a year of devastating investment losses, it may comfort amateur stock pickers to know that even the pros are suffering [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 22:34:00

DrumBeat: December 28, 2008

With gas falling, trucks come back NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After nearly a year of flagging sales, low gas prices and fat incentives are reigniting America's taste for big vehicles. Trucks and SUVs will outsell cars in December, according to researchers at the automotive Website Edmunds.com, something that hasn't happened since February [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 14:31:34

Crisis roundtable: Wake up, Europe

IF YOU have been wondering why European economists and French leaders are urging closer cooperation at a continental level to address the financial ... plans. In a political environment like the European Union, where institution building ... something like 6-7% of American GDP, other European firms have grown well beyond the financial means [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 06:04:04

Friday morning links

TOP STORIES Single-Family Home Starts in U.S. Fall to 26-Year Low - Bloomberg Buffett says he's buying U.S ... ? - Reuters Home Builder Confidence Sets Record Low in October - HousingWire FED/TREASURY/BANKING Rate ... Tight to Bailout Money - NY Times INTERNATIONAL Pension plans show worst quarterly drop in decade [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:51:00

Taxpayers’ Alliance Launches “Brown Miscalculator”

On the eve of the Labour Party Conference, and with the City in turmoil, an explosive report from the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) ... that will employ new media, social networking sites and Web 2.0 to drive home the message of low taxes ... has outperformed our European neighbours, all other English-speaking wealthy countries have seen faster growth [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 08:00:08

OPEC War Against America’s Economic Independence

Yeah they are - along with the internal American Socialists who believe everything from a vacation to a home and expensive sports car is a God given right, just because your American, rather then something you WORK (oh that 4 letter word) for. I have been talking about this for months… [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 05:44:33

House Democrats Introduce National Feed-in Tariff for Renewable Energy Projects

U.S. Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA), Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Jim McDermott (D-WA), and Mike Honda (D-CA) introduced landmark legislation ... have been passed into law. The International Energy Agency, the European Commission and the United Kingdom’s Stern Review have determined that feed-in tariff policies in Germany, Spain, France and other E [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 21:49:37

A-Rod Is Not Cheating on His Wife, Just Wants a Cool Red Bracelet

maybe they're just friends. And Cynthia Rodriguez is so totally doing it with Lenny Kravitz! Or not! Who really knows? Who really cares? ... football cards, and he and his wife are now becoming collectors and sellers: At home with hundreds ... : SuperSonics, Seattle, Featured Stories So the Sonics will play home games in Oklahoma City next year [more...]

Date: 2008-07-02 20:06:00

Hong Kong leader's popularity slumps as economic woes deepen

Hong Kong leader's popularity slumps as economic woes deepen » Rescue for US car industry making progress » Wall Street declines on ... of construction firms working on 2012 Olympics going bust more » Technology News ... Nehalem chip hit markets » Mind-mapping software opens up organization possibilities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 03:36:06

Obama’s Socialization Europeanizing of America

I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before, although tonight I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen, a proud citizen of the United States and a fellow citizen of the world. ~~~ This is the moment when every nation in Europe must have the chance to choose its own tomorrow free from the shadows of [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 21:42:34

No More Investment Banks - Turn Them Into Public Utilities By Mike Whitney

Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney October 18, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse“ “If you made it past the credit crisis, you are not making it past the economic carnage.” Meredith A. Whitney, market analyst at Oppenheimer & Company It worked. So far. The credit markets have begun to thaw. Overnight Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 00:38:25

A Not-So Modest Proposal

Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York.” > In our sparsely populated office – a beacon of both waste and hope – hangs a framed poster of Albert Einstein and his quote: “imagination is more important than knowledge [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 12:00:28

DrumBeat: December 29, 2008

Gazprom, Once Mighty, Is Reeling MOSCOW — A year ago, Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, aspired to be the largest corporation in the world. Buoyed by high oil prices and political backing from the Kremlin, it had already achieved third place judging by market capitalization, behind Exxon Mobil and General Electric [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 14:06:30

Retire your carbon, offset your guilt

By Joseph Romm Carbon Retirement -- you read it here first (or maybe second). I don't normally endorse individual companies. But I have long thought European allowances were the best alternative to offsets and am delighted ... renewable power for your superefficient home that uses a geothermal heating and cooling system [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 23:53:56

DrumBeat: November 18, 2008

Credit crisis dims the lights for power industry GREAT FALLS, Montana: As workers scramble to build an $800 million coal-fired power plant on a patch of farmland here, a crisis that began on faraway Wall Street threatens to stretch America's power supplies to the brink — driving up prices and laying the stage for future shortages [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 13:23:42

90% of Israeli Homes Solar Hot Water Equipped

392232273_aebdccd321 Last week I reported on a story that saw a new bill passed in Hawaii making it mandatory for every new home to have their ... the following year anyone who intended to build a new home would have to include solar panels in their plans. Already Spain is the fourth largest manufacturer of solar power technology, exporting 80 [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 17:56:27

EU Usurping British Law Once Again

In yet another example of how the unelected EU Superstate bureaucrats in Brussels are steadily usurping British law, ... plans by the Home Office UK Borders Agency to expand immigration detention facilities which, Mr ... including Home Office Minister Liam Byrne. Their report, just issued, declared: “Improvements must [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 08:15:00

Square Today, Octagon Tomorrow

Orson Squire Fowler was determined to be a preacher. At the tender age of 17 he walked 400 miles from his small town of Cohocton, New York to Massachusetts so that he might be tutored in the ways of the ministry. When Fowler enrolled in Amherst he made fast friends with another minister-to-be, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 04:45:17

Whole Lotta Stimlatin' Goin' On

The push to stimulate is underway globally. No one stopped to figure out we are in this mess because of prior pushes to stimulate ... that the package will be between five and $700 billion. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer ... of historic proportions.”House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said any stimulus package must be several hundred [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 21:20:00

Divide and Conquer: The Anglo-American Imperial Project

by Andrew G. Marshall featured writer Dandelion Salad July 11, 2008 Establishing an “Arc of Crisis” Many would be skeptical that the Anglo-Americans would be behind terrorist acts in Iraq, such as with the British in Basra, when two British SAS soldiers were caught dressed as Arabs, with explosives and massive arsenal of weapons. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 08:19:31

Putin’s Winning Hand By Mike Whitney + video

Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 08/16/08 “ICH” Once the Atlantic Alliance is shattered, America’s lifeline to the world is kaput There are no military installations in the city of Tskhinvali. In fact, there are no military targets at all. It is an industrial center consisting of lumber mills, manufacturing plants and residential areas [more...]

Date: 2008-08-16 20:52:06

DrumBeat: December 13, 2008

Greed, hatred, warfare and the race for fossil fuels NEITHER an optimistic nor a pessimistic prophet on energy, the author of "A Thousand Barrels a Second" states a simple fact: "civilization" makes us silly and greedy. Although Peter Tertzakian does not mean it, his vivid historical account of mankind's thirst for energy to pump up " [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 14:32:05

DrumBeat: October 23, 2008

The Peak Oil Crisis: In the Eye of the Storm So where does all this leave the world's oil supply - the life blood of our civilization? ... -- can do much about it. Farmers, our best spokesmen The one message that needs to be driven home ... has done in lawfully eliminating modern livestock farms and implied that we should follow suit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 13:14:59

Why We All Need To Keep A Watchful Eye On What Is Happening In Greece

In view of Greece’s EMU membership, the availability of external financing is not a concern, but the correction of cumulating indebtedness could weigh appreciably on growth going forward. While the risk of transmitting vulnerabilities to the euro area is very small reflecting Greece’s small relative size, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 15:01:19

Prateek Group scales operations in Tier II Markets, to invest Rs 350 crore

/India PRwire/ - After the successful launch of its discounted retail mall ‘Coupon’ in Bangalore, Raipur, Hyderabad and Calicut, Prateek Lifestyle ( ... over 150 of the best brands at unsurpassed discounts in apparels, home decor, footwear and accessories ... 2 cities,” he added. The group plans to open Coupon stores in markets like Jallandhar in the near [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 10:19:00

Cambridge 2008

After an always exhausting and worrisome trip over the ‘Pond,’ I arrived in London with three friends on August 16 (or, as the Brits say, 16 August). Exhausting? Yes, because I choose not to go to sleep the night before flights to Europe so that I can sleep on the plane. OK, maybe ‘choose’ is too strong of a word [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 16:47:36

Dante's Hell is Alive and Well in Gaza

~ Dante Alighieri could never have imagined circles as hellish as the wards of the damned in Jabalia's hospitals ... Aviv hasn't even granted him a pension, only a series of missiles from land and air onto his house. He suffers from shrapnel wounds all over his body. I ask him where he plans to go after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:20:00

Academy snubs Captain abu Raed, Gomorra; industry upset

Last year, the Academy's foreign language "phase 1 committee" -- which consists of several hundred Los Angeles-based members who divide up and screen the foreign entries, with minimal attendance requirements and a bizarre vote-tabulation process -- created an uproar by failing to include two critically-acclaimed films, "4 Months, 3 Weeks, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 01:43:06

Deals of the Day: McCain and Obama Duke It Out on the Financial Crisis

By Stephen Grocer and Heidi N. Moore Deals of the Day includes all the major news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions and financing ... . Russia plans to inject about $36 billion into banks. WSJ Related: Spain became the latest European country last night to announce a unilateral rescue package, while Iceland received a €4 billion [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 12:10:36

November 20, 2008

rites of passages for boys where they became men over their fresh kill. These days, that rarely happens in a suburban cul-de-sac, but you do have the opportunity to grant your son responsibility in front of a family gathering. When you decide the time is right for your son to carve the turkey – and that may come because of age, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 05:37:45

Daily Dose: 12/29/08

» AsianWeek Market Report » Manju Ganeriwala Named Virginia State Treasurer » New York Governor’s Budget Proposal Will Hurt APA Children and Families » Judy Chu to Run for Congress » Controller Chiang Calls for Federal Guarantee to Restart Public Works Projects » Free DVD on History of SF Japantown » Tia Carrere Nominated for 2009 Grammy » [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 20:54:06

DrumBeat: July 17, 2008

Oil futures: Know when to hold 'em NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In the last three days oil prices have fallen by roughly $10 a barrel ... deliveries by about 40 percent. House rejects bill to require drilling on leases WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives failed to approve legislation on Thursday that would have pushed oil [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 13:02:18

Obama visits Berlin

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama arrived in Germany Thursday on the latest leg of an international trip intended to bolster his foreign policy credentials.Obama also plans to visit France and Britain before heading home. He met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday morning and plans [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 10:52:31

Green Business Wrap-up

We end this week looking expectantly to the start of what is hopefully a new beginning in government, green business, and sustainability ... recently returned home from too many years in the Windows wilderness) and I hope that Apple ... MTA Considering Green Metrocard Program The New York Metropolitan Authority has green plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 11:39:18

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