Saturday, April 28, 2007

All the world is a financial bubble

The Street

A poisoned bubble of famine and war.

PFOS found in virtually all newborns studied

New Science



But the nonstick effect should make childbirth easier on the mother. Right wing policies saving the unborn from murdering mothers again.

Life is hanging by a thread

MiamiHerald

That doesn't mean there are no investment opportunities in a mass extinction.

UK transfers 3rd army base to Iraq

Press TV

Removes troops from the path of the Iran fallout.

UK supermarket bans aspartame soft drinks

Clinton says US might have to confront Iran

Jerusalem Post



We're just redeploying troops from Iraq to Afghanistan by the overland route.

House panel votes to subpoena Rice on Iraq

China to force rain ahead of Olympics

Yahoo! News

The Chinese admit to (at least some of) their weather modification.

Dow tops 13000 for first time ever

CNNMoney

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Human bird flu deaths in Egypt and Cambodia



Proof of Republican election rigging in 2004

Worst drop in existing home sales in 18 yrs

CNNMoney



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Honey bee die-off alarms beekeepers

Toyota tops GM in 1Q sales for first time

Yahoo! Finance

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Algae kill CA sea animals

Monday, April 23, 2007

Dow streak among longest in history

USATODAY.com

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Orlando motorists first to pay $4 gallon of gas

WKMG

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Marijuana does not dent IQ permanently

New Scientist

How about cell phone microwaves?

Cannabis smoking more harmful than tobacco

Cannabis compound slows lung cancer in mice

KPMG claims fraud at Fannie Mae

Boston Globe

Felony Mae and Fraudy Mac.

Training Iraqi troops no longer US policy

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Just when the fighter pilots were gonna graduate from boot camp. Draft alert.

US orders 3 million doses of bird flu vaccine

MSNBC

Saving 1 percent is their standard of success.

Qinghai H5N1 acquisitions via recombination

Friday, April 20, 2007

Dow hits record again

CNNMoney



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Worst drought in Oz on record

Independent UK

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Chinese make first artificial snowfall

Telegraph

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Bloodiest day since US troop surge began

Breitbart



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Dow closes above 12800 for first time

Breitbart



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Most opium produced in Afghanistan ever

WSWS

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Mortgage defaults in CA near decade high

Reuters

Another (near) superlative for the Bush era.

Worst mass shooting in modern American history

ABC News



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Storm cuts power to 300000 in northeast

CNN

S&P 500 highest since Sep 2000

Bloomberg

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Record daily max rainfall set at Central Park

"A record rainfall of 7.57 inches was set at Central Park yesterday. This breaks the old record of 1.82 inches set in 1906... and is the second highest daily rainfall on record for the park dating back to
1869. The highest daily rainfall at Central Park occurred on September 23rd 1882... when 8.28 inches of rain fell."

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Another losing entry to the caption contest

New Yorker


They usually get bored with the hole-in-ones, and they never volunteer to go down for charcoal.

Friday, April 06, 2007

12000 more Guard may go to Iraq

MSNBC



Draft alert.

Spring snow dumps on upper Northeast

Climate change threatens new US dust bowl

Australian to live underwater for two weeks

Breitbart



Gives new meaning to "down under."

Strong possibility that gas will rise to $4

ABC News



It's very volatile.

No more GWOT House committee decrees

Military Times

"Also banned is the phrase the 'long war' ... the 2008 bill ... should be specific about military operations and 'avoid using colloquialisms.'"

Except "to support the troops," I assume. But if congress undeclares an undeclared war, haven't they just declared it?

Pope says rich nations plundered third world

Reuters



They could hardly claim that Constantine donated the land to them.

Talking London street cameras scold offenders

BBC NEWS



Oy! You! Yeah you! You know what you did. Cut it out.

Republicans to investigate of UN climate agency

The Hill

The UN to be designated a Terraist organization.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

On a fast track to bad trade policy

CNN

"Lou Dobbs says more economists are starting to question the benefits of unfettered free trade."

Arid west no longer waits for rain

New York Times

Mainstream admits to ten year drought.

Stretched army sends troops back to Iraq

kansascity.com



Draft alert.

Europe tops US in market value for first time

Financial Times

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Corporate profits at all time high

Financial Times

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Snow and widespread cold hits northeast

Very active hurricane season predicted

CNN

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Next 48 hours critical says Blair

CNN

Cheapest stocks in twenty years signal bull market

Bloomberg

Slowing economy signals bull market.

New Century files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

CNNMoney



Forecloses on itself.

Nimitz to deploy to Persian Gulf

Uruk Net

Carrier group number three. "The new battle group will be in position by late April, but there will be no overlap with the Eisenhower, and the number of U.S. carriers in the area would stay at two, a navy official said on condition of anonymity. "If anything, there would be a point where there is only one in the region," the official said, on condition of anonymity."

I wouldn't want anyone to know I gave out such routine information to the press either.

Iran and Hizbullah preparing for US strike

War with Iran augurs a global conflict

Antiwar.com

World war I said.

US ready to attack Iran says Russian military intel

Israel press reports US will strike Iran on Good Friday

Iran accuses US jet fighters of violating airspace

Kissinger says military victory not possible in Iraq

International Herald Tribune

See "Kissinger says withdrawal is not an option" below and tell me what it adds up to.

Powerful earthquake strikes Afghanistan

Tsunami hits South Pacific Solomons

LA suffers longest dry spell in 130 years

Breitbart



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Teens playing with lighters started Hollywood fire

KNBC

Teens playing with lighters?

Cole bombing suspect confessed under torture

CNN



See, torture, I mean aggressive interrogation, works.

Gunmen kill two migrants on Mexico border

Reuters

Domestic death squads.

Mortgage crisis hits million dollar homes

Reuters



No thanks, already got one.

Giuliani faces questions about 911

Washington Post

But not the Guantanamo Bay kind.

Deadly tornados in CO and OK

Theater Iran Near Term (TIRANNT)

WTC blueprints leaked by whistleblower

Infowars



"...the official reports into the collapse of the towers misrepresented their construction."

Richardson says nuclear 911 is possible

Breitbart



Don't you mean nucular?

Widest income gap since 1929

New York Times

According to Marx, we should have a depression and a world war.

Twister kills CO woman

CNN