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China Crushes our Mythical Domestic Green Jobs
• President Barack Obama is spending $2.1 million to help Suntech Power Holdings Co. build a solar- panel plant in Arizona. It will hire 70 Americans to assemble components made by ...
Even Liberals Are Giving Up on President Obama
• Wow. Paul Krugman (The Conscience of a Liberal at the New York Times) writes: He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For And across the great and mighty pond, the Germans proclaim: Read More →
The Thin Veneer of Civility
• James Wesley, Rawles wrote up a great article titled: America is More LIke Haiti than We'd Like to Think. It's about how Haiti illustrates the fragility of all societies. When ...
Carbon Traders Charged in Fraud Case
• Who would have guessed? Oh! You mean "carbon trading" is fraudulent on more than it's base level? You better believe it. It's just that this time, carbon trading ran afoul of ...Iranianian Mamas: Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Nuclear Scientists
• Now is probably not a good time to be working on "Nuclear Projects" in Iran. You see, Iran's top nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed outside his home on his ...
A Bolivar of Broken Dreams
3 Hugo Chavez rolls up his pants, takes off his shoes, and runs helter skelter into the surf of failure. In case you haven't heard, Chavez has devalued the Venezuelan Bolivar by ...Another Melamine-Tainted Milk Scandal in China
• New Tang Dynasty Television just reported that: A new milk safety scandal has broken out in China. Authorities in Shanghai have closed a dairy company and arrested three executives, after milk ...
Bring The Guard Home! It’s the law.
• Did you know about the campaign to: Bring the Guard Home! It's the law? Their website states that this is a national movement of state campaigns to end the unlawful overseas ...
New Zealanders: Lenin (and UK Councils) Would Be Proud!
• As reported by Stuff.co.NZ: New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced giving police and Security Intelligence Service officers the power to monitor all aspects of someone's online life. The measures are the ...
New York Times finally mentions Obama’s Interpol Order
2 Their take: There's nothing here. Move along. Resist Tyranny wrote up an interesting piece about this subject. Check it out.
United Nations World Currency Coin
% Written by Dwight Jones: The announcement by the United Nations this week that it will license the minting of silver and gold bullion coins bearing the UN logo may be ...You Think Wall Street is Rough?
% Remember the story of Hermitage Capital? You know, the hedge fund that had its whole operations seized and shut down by the federal government? The same company that was looted ...
War Games: Iran 1 – Israel 0
% Iran comes out on top in secret simulated war games. Iran has emerged as the victor in secret war games that simulated an Israeli attack on one of its nuclear ...
Australia plans Chinese-style internet filtering
3 The Australian government has announced controversial plans for Chinese-style compulsory filtering of the internet, rejecting criticism the measures will strangle free speech. Stephen Conroy, the communications minister, was accused ...
Hugo Chavez Closes Dozens of Radio Stations as Oliver Stone Defends
% What's a fascist to do without Hollywood support? Seems that Hugo Chavez has plenty of friends in Tinseltown. As American Director Oliver Stone tries to convince us (with ...
Hugo Chavez is no Mr. Coffee
4 Venezuela used to be one of the world’s top coffee exporters. But for the first time last month the country was forced to import coffee from ...
Ireland’s new blasphemy law labeled return to Middle Ages
4 The Irish government plans to bring into force a new law in October that critics say is a return to medieval justice. The legislation, aimed at providing judges with clear direction ...