At the age of 92 and responsible for steering the entire planet (especially the North American part) into any direction he was told; "Uncle Walter" finally gives up the ghost! As a 'journalist', or rather government-owned mouth piece he was extrodinarilly gifted at convincing the populace that whatever he said, was fact. This was usually supported by partial truth (BEFORE THE INTERNET) and was stamped with his "and that's the way that it is" signature sign off.
Cash machines
offer an ever-growing menu of services beyond merely dispensing money.
For tampering criminals, this now includes a squirt of pepper spray in
the face .
The Senate on Thursday approved the most sweeping expansion of federal
hate crimes law since Congress responded four decades ago to the
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Goldman principal PT shares transacted increased by over 40% from the prior week: 550 million to 765 million, clocking at near 50% of total NYSE principal volume. - This information will disappear next week...
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It captivated millions of people around the world for eight days in the
summer of 1969. It brought glory to the embattled U.S. space program
and inspired beliefs that anything was possible.
It's arguably the greatest technological feat of the 20th century. And to some, it was all a lie.
Forty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon,
a small cult of conspiracy theorists maintains the historic event --
and the five subsequent Apollo moon landings -- were staged. These
people believe NASA fabricated the landings to trump their Soviet
rivals and fulfill President Kennedy's goal of ferrying humans safely
to and from the moon by the end of the 1960s.
"I do know the
moon landings were faked," said crusading filmmaker Bart Sibrel, whose
aggressive interview tactics once provoked Aldrin to punch him in the
face. "I'd bet my life on it."
Sibrel may seem crazy, but he has
company. A 1999 Gall
The Swine flu is worse than we thought, and is inching ever closer to becoming a 1918 pandemic.
The federal government is silently moving forward to force vaccinations upon the public.
Are there any answers? What are some of our options?
The new debt binge might buy a little time, maybe even a spell of economic growth. But once the gears churn up the lube and sawdust, the old jalopy will grind to a stop.
Now is the payback time. We should be expecting growth to be below trend for the next seven years, with a few outliers tossed in for good measure to keep everyone excessively optimistic.
World Affairs Brief, July 17, 2009 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief (
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.
com )
THIS WEEK'S ANALYSIS:
Government Covert/Illegal Actions
Acquittal No Guarantee of Release From Prison
Hate Legislation Linked to Defense Appropriations Bill
Hypocrisy of Universal Health Insurance
Cover-up of 1976 Flu Vaccine Damage
New Regulation of Derivatives a Sham
Audit of the Fed Shot Down in the Senate
New Restrictions on Immigration Enforcement
Gingrich Demands Covert Action on Iran
Construction of new U.S. homes rose in June to the highest level in
7 months as builders rushed to pour foundations for homes that must
be completed by the end of November for first-time buyers to take
advantage of a special tax break.
The American Conservative Union asked FedEx
for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group’s
endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then the group’s president
flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.
For the $2 million plus, ACU offered a range of services that
included: “Producing op-eds and articles written by ACU’s Chairman David Keene and/or other members of the ACU’s board of directors.
A former Air Force general violated rules and regulations when he gave
a Pennsylvania military contractor preferential treatment on a $50
million bid to promote the Thunderbirds Air Show, a Department of Defense investigation has found.
Tiger moths can thwart attacks from bats by effectively jamming the
bats' sonar, doing so by emitting sudden bursts of ultrasound.
Past research had revealed that many night-flying moths have evolved the ability to hear bat sonar. A number were even seen responding with clicks of ultrasound.
A bill to overhaul the safety of the nation's food supply is
confusingly written and must not go forward until the Food and Drug
Administration power over grain and livestock is removed, food industry
representatives and members of Congress said Thursday.
Industry representatives from the American Meat Institute, the National
Farmers Union, and other groups, as well as some lawmakers, don't think
the FDA has enough experience or people to regulate grain and
livestock, a job that traditionally has fallen to the Agriculture
Department.
No one knows exactly how much Earth's climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study this week suggests scientists' best predictions about global warming might be incorrect.
The study, which appears in Nature Geoscience, found that climate models
explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well-documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past. The study, which was published online today, contains an analysis of published records from a period of rapid climatic warming about 55 million years ago known as the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM.
Ayman Abu Aita knew there was something odd about the Austrian
TV reporter who asked to be kidnapped last year, showed risque
video clips of himself stripping and suggested that Osama Bin
Laden shave his beard so he wouldn't look like a "dirty wizard."
The works of Ayn Rand include Atlas Shrugged, a popular novel on the
evils of government regulations, The Fountainhead, the story of
rebellious architect Howard Roark struggling to maintain his integrity,
and Anthem, which I didn't read because you only need the first two to
be trendy.
Bank of America joined other major banks in reporting
better-than-expected second quarter income, earning $2.42
billion even as losses from failed loans continued to rise. "But big consumer banks, and Bank of America is the biggest, they are
the ones who have the most to lose in a prolonged consumer-oriented
recession."
Citigroup Inc. surprised Wall Street, reporting a $3 billion
second-quarter profit instead of the big loss analysts expected. Citigroup became the fourth big bank to report strong results for the quarter.
You thought you were safe, now that George W. Bush is out of the White House, and the neoconservatives have gone back to their well-subsidized holes – but you were wrong.
Thousands of jumbo flying squid — aggressive 5-foot-long sea monsters
with razor-sharp beaks and toothy tentacles — have invaded the shallow
waters off San Diego....known to attack humans and are nicknamed "red devils" for their
rust-red coloring and mean streak. Those who dive with them there chum
the water with bait and sometimes get in a metal cage or wear chain
mail to avoid being lashed by tentacles.
On one overseas trip, the state appears to have spent more than $12,000
for the GOP governor’s business-class tickets for a September 2007 trade mission to China, while his aides flew in economy class for airfares as low as $1,900.
We live in interesting times. But we're not necessaily cursed. Longtime readers know my standard response to questions
about the severity of the Greater Depression: it’s going to be worse
than even I think it’s going to be. “Coming Collapse” books will
undoubtedly accumulate into an entire genre in the next few years, as
they did a generation ago. This time it’s not just fearmongering,
although things won’t get as bad as in James Kunstler’s book “The Long
Emergency” and certainly not as rough as in the movies “Road Warrior”
or “I Am Legend.” But it’s a good bet that a lot more is going to
change than just some features of the financial system. Let’s engage in
a little speculation as to the shape of things to come.
I’ve long believed that this depression would not only
be much different but much worse than the unpleasantness of the ’30s
an
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