Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit
Studies show that they’re raking in the bucks at the expense of public safety
Studies show that they’re raking in the bucks at the expense of public safety
A record increase that would permit the national debt to reach $14.3 trillion
No other defense consulting firm employs more “senior mentors” than Durango.
An internal audit by the U.S. Energy Department showed some Energy Star products fell short of meeting the requirements to gain the label. The media look at what needs to be done.
Motorists should pay higher taxes in the form of a national road-pricing system to cut carbon dioxide emissions, according to the Government’s climate change advisory body.
The whole point of cap and trade is to hike the price of electricity and gas so that Americans will use less.
~Wall Street Journal
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may get a full vote as early as Friday. It looks as if the [...]
Energy police to carry out home inspections under invasive and tyrannical new measures
By Paul Joseph Watson~Prison Planet
Climate cops in Scotland have been handed new powers to fine “wasteful†homeowners and businesses who use too much energy or too many plastic bags under new legislation that represents the first wave of invasive tyranny under the pretext [...]
By F. William Engdahl~Global Research
Buried amid news stories about World Breastfeeding Week, World Suicide Prevention Day and World Rabies Day, the WHO has a small item giving the latest supposed count of ‘laboratory confirmed H1N1 cases. It is something on the order of 55,000 persons worldwide since this April at a factory pig farm in [...]
By ERIC DASH~New York Times
After all those losses and bailouts, rank-and-file employees of Citigroup are getting some good news: their salaries are going up.
The troubled banking giant, which to many symbolizes the troubles in the nation’s financial industry, intends to raise workers’ base salaries by as much as 50 percent this year to offset smaller [...]
~LEAP/E2020
As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 as early as October 2008, on the eve of summer 2009, the question of the US and UK capacity to finance their unbridled public deficits has become the central question of international debates, thus paving the way for these two countries to default on their debt by the end of this [...]
~AFP
President Barack Obama painted a bleak picture Tuesday of the economy, warning unemployment will get worse, and vowed to act on climate change and health care as long-term solutions.
In a wide-ranging White House news conference, Obama also said he had no plans for a fresh stimulus package, hoping to give time to see the impact [...]
~Hat Tip Don Paul
By Ellen Brown~Web of Debt
Buried on page 83 of the 89-page Report on Financial Regulatory Reform issued by the U.S. Administration on June 17 is a recommendation that the new Financial Stability Board strengthen and institutionalize its mandate to promote global financial stability. Financial stability is a worthy goal, but the devil [...]
By Ron Paul~Texas Straight Talk
Last week Congress passed the war supplemental appropriations bill. In an affront to all those who thought they voted for a peace candidate, the current president will be sending another $106 billion we don’t have to continue the bloodshed in Afghanistan and Iraq, without a hint of a plan [...]
~Business Week
The housing crisis is creating ghost towns of once-bustling communities like Merced. In largely abandoned neighborhoods, paved sidewalks and driveways lead to empty lots strewn with utility coils. Unfinished frames with rotting rafters and rusted hinges sit alongside occupied homes. Roughly 40% of the homes in Merced are considered distressed, meaning owners are [...]
The NSA’s new data-mining facility is one component of a growing local surveillance industry
By Greg Schwartz~SA Current
Surrounded by barbwire fencing, the anonymous yet massive building on West Military Drive near San Antonio’s Loop 410 freeway looms mysteriously with no identifying signs of any kind. Surveillance is tight, with security cameras surrounding the under-construction building. Readers [...]
Surviving banks accused of undermining stability
By Phillip Inman~London Guardian
Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm’s 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year, sparking concern that the big investment banks which survived the credit crunch will derail financial regulation reforms.
A lack of competition and [...]
By Margaret Chadbourn and Ari Levy~Bloomberg
Banks in Georgia, North Carolina and Kansas with total assets of $1.5 billion were closed yesterday, bringing this year’s tally of failures in the U.S. to 40 amid the highest unemployment in a quarter century.
State regulators shut Southern Community bank of Fayetteville, Georgia and Cooperative Bank in Wilmington, North Carolina. [...]
By SONYA HUBBARD~Bailout Slueth
Executives, politicians, economists, investors, and the average Joe and Jane on the street may never look at Troubled Asset Relief Program investments in exactly the same way.
Were banks “patriotic” to take the government aid? Should the loans crimp executives’ compensation and their style of entertaining, assuming they repay the money with interest [...]
By Tim Higgins~Toledo Free Press
Some in this country today (yours truly included) are concerned about a number of the things that seem to be going on in this county. Their concern, justified or not, is that increasing government bureaucracy and the increased level of government control in the private sector is leading us down the [...]
~AFP
The dollar drifted lower Friday as investors showed more confidence in world economic prospects, moving away from the safe-haven US currency.
The euro rose to 1.3934 at 2100 GMT from 1.3901 dollars late Thursday in New York.
The dollar edged down to 96.31 yen against 96.55.
With little in the way of market-moving data, currency traders took a [...]
