The Whale that Exploded
• National Geographic (video)A noxious chemical reaction leads to a whale of a problem for this Taiwan community. [quick Ma, fetch a bucket] [Terrible narration -- reminds me of those films they'd show in government school.]
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To those brave souls who wander out into the night with video cameras
• Youtube[wait for it] With all the weather taking place around the country I thought some might appreciate this minute long close call.
Male Police Stripping Woman Completely Naked
• Youtube[worth revisiting] Woman called for help, and ended up being stripped by police. Male deputies are forbidden to strip search female inmates. Her husband, Greg Steffey, said his wife felt as if she had been “raped without penetration”.
John Lennon Happy Xmas (War is Over)
• John Lennon - YouTube3 minutes and 32 seconds
The Federal Reserve Bank is the Reason for America's Downfall
• marketoracle.co.ukThose who rule America today have subverted the principles enumerated in the US Constitution; principles the Founding Father hoped would guide those who followed them through the crises yet to come.
Israelis unearth Byzantine gold hoard from seventh century
• news.yahoo.com/s/ap/The coins bear the image of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, who ruled between 610 and 641 A.D. He is depicted wearing military dress and holding a cross in his right hand
Iceland ‘Like Chernobyl’ as Meltdown Shows Anger Can Boil Over
• Bloomberg.com“Now you have protesters kicking down doors at police stations, and respectable elderly people saying ‘Well, they’re young and full of enthusiasm, and anyway, they’re right!’” he said.
Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find nixes Allied claims it was passenger ship
• Daily MailDivers revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in 1915. Munitions found in the hold suggest the Germans were right in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.
New Home Sales Post Worst Month Since 1982
• CalculatedRisk.blogspot.comAnd one more long term graph - this one for New Home Months of Supply."Months of supply" is at 11.5 months. The months of supply for October was revised up to 11.8 months - the ALL TIME RECORD!
U.S. Home Resales Fall; Prices Drop by Record 13.2%
• Bloomberg.comSales of previously owned homes in the U.S. fell more than forecast in November and prices dropped by the most on record, indicating the real estate slump will extend into a fourth year and worsen the recession.
OH Election Fraud Attorney Reacts to the Death of Mike Connell
• Brad blog (h/t John Brakey)The lead attorney in the growing federal election conspiracy case tells The BRAD BLOG the loss of a key witness will not deter his pursuit of justice. DOJ ignored months-long effort to protect GOP 'IT guru' following threats from Karl Rove
To Our Government: You Must Act Now - Arrest those who committed fraud
• Market-ticker.denninger.net/The allegation is that Mr. Dochow was partially responsible for the collapse of the Lincoln Savings and Loan during the S&L crisis, and 20 year later he is alleged to have been involved in a conspiracy to falsely state IndyMac's capital position
FDNY Lieutenant Admitted Plan To ‘Take Down’ WTC 7
• PrisonPlanet.comNewly uncovered video from 9/11 featuring an interview with FDNY lieutenant David Rastuccio on MSNBC confirms that there was a plan to deliberately demolish WTC Building 7, as was originally indicated in Larry Silverstein’s infamous statement on the
U.S. Army Ready If The Downturn Gets Out Of Hand
• nypost.com/Are you afraid that the economic downturn could get out of hand? I mean, really out of hand? Well, don't worry.
Joe Biden Wants to Help America by Becoming the 'Working Family Czar'
• digitaljournal.com/The Vice-President-elect even got more than what he bargained for, because he was given a specific assignment and that is to be the working family’s czar come inauguration day.
Official says Calif. could be broke in 2 months
• breitbart.com/State Controller John Chiang said Monday that his office could be forced to defer billions of dollars in payments or issue IOUs.
Bank Regulators Allowed Banks to Lie on Massive Scale Shortly Before Failing
• WashingtonPost.comThe OTS "blessed a fiction," in the words of one congressional staffer, renews questions about the agency's relationship with the companies it regulates and about its complicity in the collapse this year of several of the nation's l
We no longer have a civilian-led government.
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/articWe no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a str
Census Bureau releases population estimates
• USA TodayThe Census Bureau just released population estimates for the United States & State by State
Why is Social Coercion Wrong?
Brock LorberAdam Knott answers in his monograph, A Praxeology of Coercion. I'll release your arm if you read it.
Regulator Let IndyMac Bank Falsify Report
• Washington PostA senior federal banking regulator approved a plan by IndyMac Bank to exaggerate its financial health in a May federal filing, allowing the company to avoid regulatory restrictions only 2 months before it collapsed, a federal inquiry has found.
Secret Tapes Helped Build Graft Cases In Illinois
• Washington PostThe wide-ranging public corruption probe that led to the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich got its first big break when a grandmother of six walked into a breakfast meeting with shakedown artists wearing an FBI wire.
Plunge in Exports Reverberates Across Asia
• Washington PostJapan reported yesterday that its exports plunged a record 27 percent in November, signaling a dramatic deterioration in the world's second-largest economy and the collapse of the export-led boom that had lifted many Asian nations.
Afghan Farmer Helps Convict Taliban Member In U.S. Court
• Washington PostThe focus of the investigation was at first on rockets but soon changed to opium and heroin, lucrative narcotics that U.S. officials say help finance the Taliban's insurgency.
National Bureau of Economic Research: 50% chance of depression in US
• gulfnews.com/business/"There's a significant probability things will get worse," Farmer, 53, said during a phone interview Friday. "We're certainly not at the end of the recession and things are getting worse."
Families Who Sued Libya See Their Victory Voided
• Washington Post[Bush protecting terrorists again.] Family members of the American victims made history by becoming the first and only group to successfully sue Libya in federal court found Libya responsible for the attack and awarded $6 billion
US warns Russia against selling missiles to Iran
• APU.S. officials said Monday that they want answers from Russia on whether it is selling advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran, a move the U.S. insists could threaten American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iraqis hope to sue U.S. troops under new accord
• McClatchy NewsThe families of three men who were killed last week during a search of a grain warehouse want to press charges against American soldiers under the terms of a new security agreement between the U.S. and Iraq.
Decapitated soldiers new blow to Mexico in drug war
• ReutersThe heads were stuffed in a black plastic bag and tossed outside a shopping center with a note saying, "For every one of us you kill, we are going to kill 10." An ex-police commander, also without a head, was found with the soldiers.
NY Times 'Gross negligence' for claiming Bush had anything to do with economy
• PoliticoThe White House issued a blistering 500-word response to a scathing 5,000-word article on the front page of New York Times that says President Bush and his style and philosophy of governing played a direct role in the mortgage meltdown
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