Washington’s Blog
2/28/10
Bernanke is now joining Rosenberg, Ferguson and Faber, Edwards, Grice and many others in warning that the debt crisis rearing its head in Greece may spread to America, causing U.S. interest rates to climb.
As the Washington Times wrote yesterday:
With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the...
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The Indepdent
2/28/10
By Margareta Pagano
America’s top bankers quashed attempts by their British counterparts to persuade the industry to bring down salaries in response to public outrage after the world’s governments spent billions rescuing the system.
Chief executives from the world’s banks discussed the plans at a secret dinner held at Claridge’s, the London hotel, last October,...
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WSWS
2/28/10
By Jeff Lassahn
On Thursday, the two chambers of Virginia’s General Assembly, the House and Senate, passed competing two-year budget proposals that will pose massive cuts to social spending in order to meet a $4 billion deficit caused by a sharp decline in state tax revenue.
Both versions contain draconian cuts to state spending on health,...
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Las Vegas Sun
2/26/10
By David McGrath
CARSON CITY — Most of Nevada’s government will soon transition to a four-day workweek. But the reasons for it go beyond filling the state’s $887 million deficit.
The plan, proposed by Gov. Jim Gibbons and broadly supported by legislators, will save $600,000 on energy costs, make it easier to implement...
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Campaing for Liberty
2/28/10
By Tom Woods
No supporter of the market economy could have been surprised when the recent financial crisis was inevitably blamed on “capitalism” and “deregulation.” The free market, we were told, was a recipe for financial instability. “Advocates of the free market must confront the fact that both the Great Depression and the...
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Project Censored
2/28/10
Sources:
After Downing Street, July 6, 2007
Title: “Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?”
Author: Michael Schwartz
AlterNet, September 17, 2007
Title: “Iraq death toll rivals Rwanda genocide, Cambodian killing fields”
Author: Joshua Holland
Reuters (via AlterNet), January 7, 2008
Title: “Iraq conflict has killed a million, says survey”
Author: Luke Baker
Inter Press Service, March...
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9/11 Blogger
2/28/10
During a round-table discussion at the French Senate January 29, 2010, on the topic of “Where are we at with Al Qaeda?”, Alain Chouet — former head of the Security Intelligence Service of the DGSE (Directorate-General for External Security: the French equivalent of the CIA or MI6) — demystified the concept of “Al...
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Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act, the nation’s main counterterrorism law
AP
2/27/10
President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation’s main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act.
Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama’s signature Saturday.
The act, which was adopted in the weeks after the Sept. 11,...
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AP
2/28/10
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister is defending a decision to ban hundreds of candidates from the upcoming election, saying that it would not hurt Sunni turnout for next Sunday’s vote.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told The Associated Press Sunday that the decision was made because the candidates were “blatantly propagating Baath Party ideas.”
The decision to...
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Federal Jack / Tampa Bay.com
2/25/10
By Kim Wilmath
An 18-year-old Tampa man was jailed Tuesday afternoon, charged with wearing a clown mask on a public road.
Deputies say Matthew David Lopez, of 7003 Ponderosa Drive, was seen with two other people walking south on N 58th Street, just north of E Fowler Avenue. What caught a deputy’s...
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