Europe Going Under

Buckling Europe fears protests may spark a new revolution 29 Jan 2009 The French are revolting. Teachers, television employees, postal workers, students and masses of other public-sector workers will today be united in a hugely popular strike with car workers, supermarket staff, journalists and thousands of others in the private sector. One poll said that 75 [...]

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Exxon Mobil shatters US record for annual profit

HOUSTON – Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago.
The previous record for annual profit was $40.6 billion, which the world’s largest publicly traded oil company set in 2007.
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Corrupt Cops of the Week

Another jail guard gets caught, a Michigan narc cops a plea, so does an Arizona cop, and a North Carolina deputy is going to prison. Let’s get to it:
In Boston, Texas, a Bowie County jail guard was arrested last Friday after she got caught trying to smuggle marijuana into the jail. Bowie County Correctional Officer [...]

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Wife says Haggard told her of struggles years ago

It is now evident that Teds wife is bought and paid for as she vomits about the same kind of lies Ted has been giving us. This is not just your average lying, cheating stupid man. This guy admits that he has issues with being gay early on in his marriage (supposedly), then preaches fire and [...]

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No pink slips for bailed-out bank execs

George Bush’s economic policies are still pounding like a loud drum. And for middle and working class people, the bailout is defined as share the pain, take a pay cut or loose your job. For these bank executives it is another cash bonanza to spend on frills and bonus’s in their never ending show of [...]

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93-year-old froze to death, owed big utility bill

‘Let the free market decide who gets what’ the pundits on right-wing nut job radio and TV say. The US Government can use taxpayer funds to make already rich people richer (did you see Citi’s new jet) and send billions of dollars and billions of dollars worth of weapons to Israel, while Americans freeze to [...]

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Ted Haggard faces more gay sex accusations

I covered this story in 2006 on another blog when it broke. I knew there was more coming from this evangelical nut job.
Tom
Revelation comes ahead of HBO documentary
Disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard’s former church disclosed Friday that the gay sex scandal that caused his downfall extends to a young male church volunteer who reported having [...]

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Bad news: we’re back to 1931. Good news: it’s not 1933 yet

Barack Obama inherits an economy already contracting at an annual rate of 6pc, much like the mid-Depression year of 1931 (-6.4pc), thanks to George W.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
This may beat Germany (-7pc) Japan (-12pc) and Korea (-22pc) over the fourth quarter. But that merely underlines the dangers ahead as the collapse of global trade chokes the [...]

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In Final Legal Act, Bush Appeals Spy Ruling

By David Kravets
With a mere 64 minutes left in its last full day in office, the Bush administration asked a federal judge to stay enforcement of a  ruling that would keep alive a lawsuit which tests whether the president can bypass the Congress and eavesdrop on Americans without warrants.
The request was lodged with [...]

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Three dead, 10 wounded in Belgium daycare stabbings

BAN GUNS, BAN GUNS, AHHH WAIT A MINUTE. NO GUNS. Too bad the people at the day care center didn’t have guns either.   Tom
By The Associated Press
DENDERMONDE, Belgium – An unidentified man entered a daycare centre in Belgium and went on stabbing rampage Friday, killing two young children and a female worker and sending 10 [...]

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