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The riots have begun. Civil protest is breaking out in cities across Russia, China, and beyond. Greece has been in turmoil for 11 days. The mood seems to have turned “pre-insurrectionary” in parts of Athens - to borrow from the Marxist handbook. T
General Motors Corp., days from receiving its first installment of at least $9.4 billion in U.S. aid, won another victory with the Federal Reserve’s approval of lender GMAC LLC’s bid to become a bank holding company.
The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to 4 younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag
The bubble pops. Stock markets tumble. Investors flee. It is the narrative of nearly every economic boom and bust, as investors scramble to find other places -- besides underneath mattresses -- to park their money. Investors pulled $10.5 billio
The problem, he said, was not that Americans spend too much, but that foreigners save too much. The Chinese have piled up so much excess savings that they lend money to the United States at low rates, underwriting American consumption.
The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence assessment.
Japan's contracting economy got more bad news Friday when figures showed that industrial production plunged by its biggest margin ever in November, the jobless rate jumped and household spending fell.
Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of scientific knowledge available online, these hobbyists are trying to create new life forms through genetic engineering - a field long dominated by Ph.D.s toiling in university and corporate laboratories.
In the United States, credit swap derivatives created national debt totals of over one quadrillion dollars. That is one thousand trillion dollars! The entire GDP of the planet is estimated at $66 trillion dollars.
America got screwed-over by the Bankers (sing to tune of Grandma got run over by a reindeer) open the link below in another tab ,start music and sing along http://www.hamienet.com/midi661.html
Read Letter
Personal reflections on this past year; a Merry Christmas message.
CEO Edward Liddy now defending -- 400 million dollar package. Of bonuses for his top executives executive who ran a company that would have failed. Without the federal bailout
The most accurate account of [Little Boy's] inner workings—an unnervingly detailed reconstruction, based on old photographs and documents—has been written by a truck driver from Waukesha, Wisconsin, named John Coster-Mullen.
The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) has dropped 93% as a result of the economic conditions world-wide. Very important information that is not being made public in the United States! (You Should know this stuff)
It is time to move from "many sorrows" to many blessings.
While 99.8% believed excessive force is used, almost as many (98%) reported that they had managed cases that they suspected or that the patient stated had involved excessive use of force by law enforcement officers.
The pardons President George W. Bush granted this week couldn't have been better Christmas gifts if Santa himself had delivered them. But a Brooklyn, N.Y., man, Isaac Robert Toussie, received the legal equivalent of a lump of coal.
As a probe intensifies into Bernard Madoff, doubts are growing on whether the now-infamous Wall Street investment manager could have committed a record fraud of $50 billion on his own.
"We are writing to inform you that the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity had $15.2 million under management with Bernard Madoff Investment Securities," said the foundation. "This represented substantially all of the foundation's
In a unanimous ruling on Tuesday, the Arizona Court of Appeals struck down the city of Phoenix's $97 million subsidy for the CityNorth shopping mall.
Security Video catches Angel in the act of healing
No. The key participants in the Ponzi scheme are continuing to take their gains out, in dividends and bonuses, front running the final collapse and admission that "its all gone, we're bankrupt."
Roughly $10 Trillion in household wealth will be vaporized in little over a year. And looking ahead, there is no reason to believe the stock market, the housing market, or the economy will show signs of recovery anytime soon.
The military contractor Kellogg Brown and Root, known as KBR, has won more than $28 billion in U.S. military contracts since the beginning of the Iraq war. KBR may be facing a new scandal. First, accusations its then-parent company [Cheney's] Hal
CONNECTING THE DOTS
How would you like to be riding your bicycle at 40 below zero through the snow and ice in Antarctica and meet up with a family of penguins? Read on and you will. Merry Christmas America!
Members of the Jewish community, who adorned his father's funeral with blue and white flowers symbolic of the Israeli flag, filled in details. His obituary in The Miami Herald read, "Charles Winters, 71, aided birth of Israel."
In the week ending Dec. 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 586,000, an increase of 30,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 556,000.
The US Army War College is on the case - ready to handle “unforeseen economic collapse” and the “rapid dissolution of public order in all or significant parts of the US.”
...only five or six global banks have enough funds to survive comfortably throughout 2009. “The rest of the banks, and that means a thousand other banks, don’t have enough money to get themselves through 2009,” added Silva.
LONDON (AFP) — Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched a stinging attack on South Africa Wednesday, accusing it of failing to stand up to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and betraying its apartheid legacy.
