Archive for December, 2008
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Monday, December 15th, 2008IEA sees peak oil in 2020
Global oil output could peak by 2020 - much earlier than expected - amid a collapse in investment due to the financial crisis, the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) chief economist Fatih Birol claimed.
In an interview published today Birol told London-based newspaper the Guardian that conventional crude output could plateau in [...]
Shoegate Thrower Charged
Monday, December 15th, 2008Muntader Al-Zaidi, the journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference is being charged for not throwing shoes at Bush but for throwing shoes in the presence of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (which is Iraq is a no-no).
CNN’s Baghad reporter Michael Ware reports that Al-Zaidi “is being investigated for possible [...]
US DOT Report Confirms Speed Not Major Accident Cause
Monday, December 15th, 2008US DOT Report Confirms Speed Not Major Accident Cause
As lawmakers around the country continue to consider speed limit enforcement as the primary traffic safety measure, the most comprehensive examination of accident causation in thirty years suggests this focus on speed may be misplaced.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigated 5,471 injury crashes that took place [...]
Google’s ‘Treat All Rich Companies the Same’ Vision of Net Neutrality
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/googles-treat-all-rich-companies-the-same-vision-of-net-neutrality/
Let’s not lose sight of this: There really is a war going on between the phone companies and Google over the way Internet traffic will be priced. And both sides want their self interest to appear to be morally superior. The blogosphere has been in a tizzy all day about an article in the Wall [...]
Bailout for the People: “The Cook Plan”
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11397
The lack of individual and family income security in the midst of a highly-developed economy is a travesty under any circumstances, but the basic contradiction of “poverty in the midst of plenty” that has plagued the world since the start of the Industrial Revolution is becoming much worse in the early years of the 21st [...]
The High Scientific Crimes of Global Warming Propagandists Continue: Selective Focus on Artic Ice Shelf Ignores MASSIVE Increase in Anarctic Ice Since 1979
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://www.prisonplanet.com/global-sea-ice-trend-since-1979-surprising.html
Much importance has been ascribed to tracking the change in Arctic sea ice, but what about the global trend? That doesn’t seem to get much press. However there is some important information that needs to be presented related to the global trend of sea ice as measured by satellite since 1979. The results are surprising…
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U.S. Economy : The Philosopher’s Stone
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PIEGK0IbA4
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“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.”
- Congressman Ron Paul M.D.
The Benevolent Student Genius Facade of Larry Page and Sergey Brin Begins to Evaporate at Google and the Corporate Fascist Gauntlet of Eric Schmidt is Thrown Down
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://www.infowars.com/?p=6571#
Google Inc is lobbying internet providers and phone companies to establish a separate internet traffic lane in order to prioritize the search engine giant’s content, according to a leading report today. Google has for years been one of the loudest advocates of internet neutrality, the practice of giving all internet data traffic the same level [...]
Federal Reserve sets the Stage for Weimar Republic Style Hyperinflation
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11401
The Federal Reserve has bluntly refused a request by a major US financial news service to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from US taxpayers and to reveal the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Their lawyers resorted to the bizarre argument that they did so to protect [...]
The sinking of Lusitania to ravage British and American treasuries
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://english.pravda.ru/world/europe/15-12-2008/106830-lusitania-0
Divers made a sensational discovery during the examination of the Lusitania ocean liner which sank in 1915. They confirmed the version, according to which Britain and the USA used civil passenger vessels to smuggle arms, jeopardizing the lives of thousands of civilians. The passengers of the liner were virtually used as the human shield in [...]
National Debt from 1940 to Present
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/history.gif
Chinese mainland, Taiwan start directlinks after 59 years
Monday, December 15th, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/15/content_10504688.htm
BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) — The Chinese mainland and Taiwan started direct air and sea transport and postal services on Monday amid warming ties, ending a 59-year ban on such links.
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Sock Puppet Gordon Brown Propagandizes 20 MI5/MI6 Terror Plots to be Execute by UK Pakistani Patsies (with Mossad front ICTS manning the “security” aspects of each plot like usual)
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/3757357/Terrorists-in-Pakistan-planning-over-20-attacks-on-Britain-says-Gordon-Brown.html
The Prime Minister named Pakistan as a haven for terrorists planning attacks in Britain, revealing that around three quarters of the most advanced plots monitored by MI5 are have Pakistani links.
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Bush Shoe Throwing: Responses From Around The Web
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/15/orldbush-shoe-throwing-re_n_151129.html
EU Tries to Cram the Lisbon Treaty Down Ireland’s Throat Again While Sabotaging the Irish Meat Supply with Dioxin
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://www.infowars.com/?p=6534
Terror Profiteer Larry Silverstein tries to Loot Billions More from American Airlines
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://911blogger.com/node/18820
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - A judge says developer Larry Silverstein cannot recover more from the aviation industry than the $2.8 billion value of the World Trade Center if his lawsuits succeed.
…perhaps American Airlines can countersue or force the Federal Government to release all footage of what hit the Pentagon UNDOCTORED as evidence (see the [...]
While the Bailout Gives the IRS Dictatorial Powers to Monitor Every Credit Card Transaction Former Chair of the Nasdaq Exchange Loots Billions in 50 Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/15/news/newsmakers/Madoff_exposure/index.htm?postversion=2008121508
LONDON (CNN) — Some of the biggest and best-known names in global finance are calculating they may have lost nearly $3 billion in an alleged $50 billion “pyramid scheme” that led to the arrest of a New York financier last week. HSBC, one of the world’s largest banking groups, could lose $1 billion, it announced [...]
Infamous Reston, VA Ebola Strain Found in Philippines Hogs
Monday, December 15th, 2008http://www.infowars.com/?p=6504
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Obama Poised to Move Fast on Global Warming
Monday, December 15th, 2008WASHINGTON — When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid. http://www.newsmax.com
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Homes Lose $2 Trillion in Value in 2008
Monday, December 15th, 2008NEW YORK — Homes in the United States have lost trillions of dollars in value during 2008, with nearly 11.7 million American households now owing more on their mortgage than their homes are worth, real estate website Zillow.com said on Monday. http://www.newsmax.com
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