The Great American Bubble Machine (0)
7/03/09 •
Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression
In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on "the Wall Street Bubble Mafia" — investment bank Goldman Sachs. The piece has generated controversy, with Goldman Sachs firing back that Taibbi’s piece is "an hysterical compilation of conspiracy theories" and [...]
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Officials: 17 die in US missile strike in Pakistan (0)
7/03/09 •
ISLAMABAD (AP) - U.S. missiles struck a training facility operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant communication center Friday, killing 17 people and wounding 27 others, intelligence officials said.
The two attacks by drone aircraft took place in South Waziristan, a Mehsud stronghold close to the Afghan border where Pakistani troops are gearing [...]
NSA to monitor private networks for cyberattacks (0)
7/03/09 •
The Obama administration is going ahead with a controversial plan to have the National Security Agency screen government email and other official computer traffic passing over private networks.
The plan is part of a cybersecurity initiative launched by the Bush administration in 2008 and known as Einstein 3. The purpose of the program is to protect [...]
Troops gather on Georgian border (0)
7/03/09 •
Less than a year after the enclave of South Ossetia erupted in war, this tinder box of the Caucasus is primed to flare up again, writes Shaun Walker
It’s easy to see how things could spiral out of control: the two sides are braced for combat. At Ergneti on Georgia’s border with South Ossetia, Georgian military [...]
Los Angeles Sales Tax Raised To 9.75% (0)
7/02/09 •
The transportation initiative passed by voters in November pushes L.A. County’s rate up to 9.75%, one of the highest in California.
A new half-cent sales tax to build transportation projects in Los Angeles County goes into effect today, raising the county’s rate to 9.75%. But the measure passed by voters in November might generate about $1.8 [...]
Rolling Stone expose: Goldman Sachs behind every market crash since 1920s (0)
7/02/09 •
Goldman Sachs has played a crucial role in creating every market bubble since the 1920s — and has profited from not only the bubbles, but from the crash that followed as well, says a new expose in Rolling Stone magazine.
An article in the July 9-23 issue of the magazine, written by Matt Taibbi, lists five [...]
Number of civilians killed in Iraq jumps in June (0)
7/02/09 •
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of civilians killed in Iraq jumped to 373 in June, the Health Ministry said, up from a record low of 134 in May because of a spate of deadly bombings in Baghdad and northern Iraq.
The number of U.S. troops killed in combat fell marginally to 10, from 12 in May, [...]
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