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November 10, 2008 |
GM shares hit 62-year lows after broker downgrades
Reuters
Shares of General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) tumbled 24 percent to 62-year lows on Monday after analysts downgraded the automaker, citing cash levels that may fall below the minimum needed in the first quarter of 2009. |
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November 10, 2008 |
America the Illiterate
Miscellaneous
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. |
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November 09, 2008 |
UK's Brown: Now is the time to build global society
Reuters
The international financial crisis has given world leaders a unique opportunity to create a truly global society, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown will say in a keynote foreign policy speech on Monday. |
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September 11, 2008 |
Brussels in 'frightening' grab for personal information
Telegraph (UK)
Civil liberties watchdog Statewatch criticised the EU's post-9/11 security strategy as a "frightening" grab for every aspect of individual information. |
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June 06, 2008 |
Aiding and abetting
Washington Times
The export of sensitive equipment and security expertise to Communist China's military and police in advance of the 2008 Olympics is the latest sign of a new and troubling acquiescence in recent Bush administration policy toward Beijing. |
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June 05, 2008 |
Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US control
The Independent (UK)
A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November. |
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May 31, 2008 |
US threat: China's cyber-militia
Miscellaneous
Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of U.S. companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information from American executives in advance of their business meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to electric power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to U.S. government officials and computer-security experts. |
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May 18, 2008 |
Iraq's Babylon hoping to become World Heritage site
Breitbnart.com
The last outsiders to visit the ruins of the once-mighty city of Babylon in Iraq came in tanks and helicopters, leaving a blight on its historic and fragile landscape, archaeologists say. |
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May 01, 2008 |
National DNA database gets kickstart from feds
Worldnet Daily
With virtually no fanfare, President Bush signed into law a plan ordering the government to take no more than six months to set up a "national contingency plan" to screen newborns' DNA in case of a "public health emergency." |
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April 17, 2008 |
Chinese vent anti-western fury online
Christian Science Monitor
A violent storm of nationalist indignation is roiling the Chinese internet, as bloggers vent their anger at perceived Western insults in the wake of the Tibetan uprising last month. |
