Obama: Gaffes and Palin Have Obama Playing Defense
• Nancy MorganEven the Mainstream Media is beginning to whisper, “Obama has lost his mojo”. What’s to blame? A gaggle of gaffes and Sarah Palin.
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Australians on Sarah Palin: A Hit Down Under
• patHow do Australians perceive Sarah Palin? Our man, pat, returns from the Land Down Under to report his impressions.
Video: Is Illegal Immigration the Only Truly Bi-Partisan Issue?
• MondorebThis week’s Blogs4Borders’ video report examines “Taxpayer funded Latino only healthcare? We take a look.” Also: “Bi-partisan? Is illegal immigration the one true bi-partisan issue?” [video length: 9:07]
Traffic Cameras To Track Everyone, Everywhere
• CameraFRAUD.comWith the open admission from Redflex regarding optical character recognition upgrades, it has become blatently obvious that Redflex will stop at nothing short of becoming a full-fledged quasi-police/government agency, right in the footsteps of Blackw
Asian, European markets continue slide on Lehman, Merrill woes
• APWorld stock markets swooned again Tuesday as global financial crisis make investors worry that asset prices had yet to hit rock bottom. At midday, Paris' benchmark CAC-40 index was down 0.5 percent to 4,150.24, Germany's DAX 30 index of blue
Wall Street in Worst Loss Since 2001
• NY TimesTrading opened sharply down Monday morning, and the mood later turned even gloomier, despite efforts by President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson to reassure markets that Wall Street’s deepening problems would not weaken an already anemi
Crisis Prompts Calls for Federal Rescue Entity
• Washington PostKey Democratic lawmakers said the government may need to create a federal entity to manage the assets of insolvent institutions, much as the Resolution Trust Corp. liquidated failed thrifts during the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s.
Lawmakers Are Seeking Answers in Anthrax Case
• Washington PostPressed FBI officials to say when the anthrax case will be closed and why investigators had fixed on Ivins six months after notifying him in April 2007 that he was not a target. Investigators told congressional aides that they are still pursuing lead
Shanghai Cliff Diving: Composite Index Off Two-Thirds in One Year
• CalculatedRisk.blogspot.comThis is a stunning stock market crash, and it's not just the Shanghai composite - it's an Asian market rout:
Fed Adds Most Reserves Since 9/11 as Banks Hoard Cash
• Bloomberg.comThe Federal Reserve added $70 billion in reserves to the banking system, the most since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, to reverse a surge in borrowing costs sparked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Meredith Whitney Scares the Hell Out of Everyone - The Market is Imploding
• MrMortgage.ml-implode.comMeredith Whitney stated "Futures indicate a 33% peak to trough housing price decline…I think well north of 40-45%" Watch the video of Meredith on CNBC.
Time to Throw in the Towel, Bob
Mike RenzulliWith Bob Barr's campaign being a flop, Mike Renzulli comments on Bob Barr's campaign and its affect on the Libertarian Party.
Xprize for the creative rest of us
• PC MagazineThe X Prize Foundation has recently launched a YouTube search for people's "crazy green ideas." Called the Energy and Environment X PRIZE, it's on a much smaller scale compared to the other two contests above worth
Experiment Boosts Hopes for Space Solar Power
• LiveScienceA former NASA scientist has used radio waves to transmit solar power a distance of 92 miles between two Hawaiian islands, an achievement that he says proves the technology exists to beam solar power from satellites back to Earth.
Did 'Spore' copy protections backfire on EA?
• cNet NewsEnraged by what they call "draconian" copyright protections, thousands of people flooded Amazon.com to give the game a one-star rating. What's the fuss about? Electronic Arts imposed copyright protections that limited the number of time
CONNECTING THE DOTS
CAUSE AND EFFECT: WHY SCIENTISTS SUCCUMB TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Frosty WooldridgeLet's get down to brass tacks! Let's deal with what we're facing. Let's get real! Let's talk about the least talked about crisis facing America.
Wilbur Ross: Sees about 1,000 bank closures in the coming months
• Reuters.comWilbur Ross, founder of private equity firm WL Ross & Co LLC, expects as many as a thousand U.S. bank closures in the coming months, CNBC said on its website on Monday.
State of California is going to fool the MSM that foreclosures are down
• MrMortgage.ml-implode.comThe bill went into effect with recordings on or after 9/8/2008. The CA foreclosure process is managed by a trustee, and they were already processing volumes well above their capacity.
Nouriel Roubini: Americans should worry about their bank deposits
• finance.yahoo.comThe intent here isn't to add to people's anxieties, but Roubini is one of the few market watchers to correctly predict the severity of this ongoing credit crisis. video
Eating veggies shrinks the brain
• Times of IndiaScientists [undoubtedly meat eating] have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient [duh]
UK’s first official sharia courts
• London TimesISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to thos
WaMu Slides on Concern Capital, Buyers Are Limited
• BloombergWashington Mutual, the biggest US savings and loan, fell 21% in New York trading on concern it won't be able to find new capital or a buyer to keep the lender in business. "There's a very good chance that they are the next one to fail,**
The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth
• www.bostondynamics.comBigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. (
September Clues Pt.1
• YouTubeDissection of the Live Footage taken on 9/11 from Fox and CNN... more questions to ask.
Lehman's outstanding debts total $600 billion
• Financial Times.comThe largest unsecured creditors include Citigroup and Bank of New York Mellon, who have around $138bn of exposure to Lehman’s bond debt as indenture trustees.
Google search finds seafaring solution
• London TimesThe company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles offshore [maybe further, outside of territorial waters, away from governments].
Constitution More Than a Piece of Paper
Howard BlitzWhen the United States Constitution was signed on this date 221 years ago it marked a real change in the relationship between government officials and the citizenry. For most of history citizens were ruled by rulers. Now for the first time, the rul
In Government We Trust? Part 3<br>by Ron Paul
Powell GammillWhat is stopping people from simply trading with each other in gold and silver? Why are you still being paid in fiat dollars, and why can't you pay in gold? Answer: Government has enacted policies that provide considerable stumbling blocks
World markets tumble on Lehman news
• APStock markets tumbled in Europe and Asia on Monday after the double-fisted blow from Wall Street news that Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch would be sold to a large U.S. bank.
Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 protection
• APLehman Brothers, a 158-year-old investment bank choked by the credit crisis and falling real estate values, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors on Monday and said it was trying to sell off key business units.
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