Monday, April 13, 2009

Radioactive waste was dumped off Somali coast:
www.sfbayview.com/2009/you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/

$3.4 billion for 'clean coal', $2.5 billion for energy efficiency and all other renewables:
www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/index.php/the-dirty-truth-behind-obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cclean-coal%E2%80%9D-stimulus/
energyoutlook.blogspot.com/2009/02/energy-cornucopia.html

Sunday, April 12, 2009

*by 2006 top 1% were receiving 23% of pre-tax income. More than double since 1970's.

Kucinich on the Osama card (4/10/09 MSNBC The Ed Show):
earth2obama.org/?p=218#more-218

Lawrence Summers protested 4/9/09 on CSPAN:
video.google.com/videosearch?q=WE+WANT+OUR+MONEY+BACK%21+Dir+Economic+Council+Lawrence+Summers+Protested%21&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

Palin and ethic complaints:
www.adn.com/palin/story/731157.html

Ron Paul on U.S. using North Korea missile test to fund MIC:
earth2obama.org/?p=168

Office of Strategic Initiatives:
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Office_of_Strategic_Initiatives

Is Obama's OSI, et al working hand in glove with 501c3's to push his agenda?
The list:
1. www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/sustainable_afghanistan.html

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Since 2001, 330 people have died from tasers:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090411/METRO03/904110353/Teen+dies+after+Warren+Police+use+Taser

Friday, April 10, 2009

UAW members at GM 1970's: 450,000
UAW members at GM today: 45,000
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21133

Top 400 taxpayers in 1955 paid three times more of their income in taxes compared to now:
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21130

Some banks backing out of bailout money:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/economy/11bank.html

Coast Savings to miss capital requirements (1990):
www.thefreelibrary.com/Coast+Savings+to+miss+capital+requirements.-a09853543

The Pentagon's $1 trillion prob:
www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/04/14/Pentagons-Accounting-Mess

186 institutions have publicly turned down bailout money*:
www.startribune.com/business/42288087.html

*Also: "Treasury's standard agreement included a section allowing Congress to impose conditions retroactively." So was this not applied to bailout money to AIG, for example, as such would've allowed gov't to retake the money because of the exec bonus payments?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Federal judge in Stevens case responds in opposite fashion to Don Siegelman, eliciting evidence of deep-seated partisan corruption:
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-stevens_web_apr08,0,786881.story

Websites/text messages connecting protesters:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html

The logic of financialisation (the global value of financial assets (which means: debt) in the whole world by September 2008 was $160 trillion: three-and-a-half times larger than the value of global GDP):
www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21096