Archives for: November 2008
11/30/08
09:52:48 am, Categories: WAR! The destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has accelerated for the first time in four years, Brazilian officials say.
11/29/08
01:27:41 pm, Categories: US NEWS Statement from the Steering Committee for the Prosecution for War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates
01:08:13 pm, Categories: HEALTH The writer and activist Michael Pollan has no interest in becoming Barack Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture, thank you very much, even though there are a lot of people who think he’d be perfect for the job.
11/28/08
At some point in the not-too-distant future, a moth may take flight in the hills of northern Pakistan, and flap towards a suspected terrorist training camp.
But this will be no ordinary moth.
For all its sophistication and power, your brain is built from unreliable components - one neuron can successfully provoke a signal in another only 40% of the time.
03:03:16 pm, Categories: WAR! The US State Department announced plans on Monday to promote online youth groups as a new and powerful way to fight crime, political oppression and terrorism.
11/26/08
Citibank was the biggest, and was considered one of the most stable, banks a little while ago. But its derivatives exposure killed it.
08:18:24 am, Categories: US ECONOMY US consumer spending fell by 1% in October, the largest decline since September 2001, in a further sign of the deepening economic downturn.
08:04:31 am, Categories: ELECTION UPDATE In a quiet side street not far from where the Texas freeway system knits the sprawling suburbs of Houston into something like a city centre, business is booming at the Top Gun shooting range.
11/22/08
03:55:14 pm, Categories: ELECTION UPDATE US shares have risen sharply, following a report that US President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his treasury secretary, reassuring investors.
IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains.
11/21/08
(WMR) – Intelligence agencies in China and Japan are focusing on the role of a successor entity of Salomon Brothers as being behind a fraud against Japanese banks by the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and Wall Street to bail out unscrupulous Wall Street bankers and mega-investors.
11:07:39 am, Categories: WAR! Dems Target Private Retirement Accounts
Democratic leaders in the U.S. House discuss confiscating 401(k)s, IRAs
RALEIGH — Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.
11/18/08
04:16:38 pm, Categories: HEALTH (NaturalNews story) Heavy users of mobile phones are 50 percent more likely to develop cancer of the salivary glands, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Tel Aviv University and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
11/17/08
11:25:14 am, Categories: WORLD ECONOMY Japan’s economy has entered its first recession since 2001 after shrinking by 0.1% in the third quarter.
11/16/08
01:08:22 pm, Categories: SCIENCE A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people’s heads.
12:56:56 pm, Categories: WORLD ECONOMY Pakistan has asked for a loan package from the International Monetary Fund worth at least $7.6bn (£5.1bn), its top economic adviser has said.
11/15/08
08:51:50 am, Categories: ELECTION UPDATE As Detroit’s crumbling auto industry asks Congress for a bailout, Chrysler is in the awkward position of paying about $30 million in retention bonuses to keep top executives while the company cuts thousands of jobs.
11/13/08
02:15:36 pm, Categories: WAR! by Daniel Dombey and Michael MacKenzie
The World Bank is set to provide up to $100bn in new aid to developing countries, amid fears that the spreading effects of the financial crisis could devastate poorer and middle-income states.
10:03:41 am, Categories: WORLD NEWS 
BBC STORY
Evidence is increasing that foreign forces are being drawn into the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
09:09:36 am, Categories: WORLD NEWS There have been calls by the European Union for greater United Nations “peacekeeping” involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the collapse of government control in Goma, a strategic city located in the eastern region of the country.
08:58:28 am, Categories: WORLD ECONOMY Germany has entered a recession after government figures showed that Europe’s largest economy contracted by 0.5% in the third quarter.
08:48:34 am, Categories: WORLD NEWS Mitch Mitchell, the British drummer in the seminal 1960s band the Jimi Hendrix Experience, has been found dead in his US hotel room, authorities say.
08:13:39 am, Categories: WORLD ECONOMY The Kuwait’s stock exchange has been closed until 17 November following an unprecedented court order.
07:55:43 am, Categories: WORLD ECONOMY Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says the effect of the global financial crisis on China is “worse than expected", according to reports.
07:53:35 am, Categories: US NEWS BBC STORY
Residents across southern California are set to take part in what organisers say will be America’s biggest-ever earthquake drill.
11/08/08
03:46:50 pm, Categories: US ECONOMY BBC STORY
US carmaker GM has reported a third quarter operating loss of $4.2bn (£2.66bn) after Ford announced it lost $2.98bn during the same period.
12:38:09 pm, Categories: US ECONOMY BBC STORY
The US jobless rate rose to 6.5% in October, official figures have shown, the highest rate since March 1994.
11/06/08
02:40:18 pm, Categories: WORLD NEWS Jacqui Smith says public demand means people will be able to pre-register for an ID card within the next few months.
11/05/08
BBC STORY
Kenya has declared Thursday a public holiday to celebrate the election of Barack Obama to the US presidency.
01:17:19 pm, Categories: WAR! BBC STORY
Hamas has fired multiple rockets into Israel hours after six fighters died during Israel’s first major incursion into the Gaza Strip since June’s truce.
01:07:34 pm, Categories: WAR! American officials in Afghanistan have confirmed that a number of civilians have been killed in an air strike.
FCC ADOPTS RULES FOR UNLICENSED USE OF TELEVISION WHITE SPACES
08:27:27 am, Categories: TECH NEWS In its continuing efforts to promote efficient use of spectrum and to extend the benefits of such use to the public, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today adopted a Second Report and Order (Second R&O) that establishes rules to allow new, sophisticated wireless devices to operate in broadcast television spectrum on a secondary basis at locations where that spectrum is open. (This unused TV spectrum is now commonly referred to as television “white spaces”). The rules adopted today will allow for the use of these new and innovative types of unlicensed devices in the unused spectrum to provide broadband data and other services for consumers and businesses.
11/02/08
Ryanair set for £8 flights to US
01:13:22 pm, Categories: WORLD ECONOMY Budget airline Ryanair is to offer flights to the US for eight pounds, by buying planes from struggling rivals.
11/01/08
NEWS UPDATE ONLINE
10:33:38 pm, Categories: ELECTION UPDATE Be sure to check out the new News Update Election Special. Below is a link to the list of Propositions on the ballot. If you do not have time to read all of them be sure to vote NO on the ones you haven’t read. Its your money, know where it goes.
http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/2007-04-19-pet-food-usat_N.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7701477.stm
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