Wednesday
Oct122011
COMEDY - Obama's Jobs Speech - Before The Rewrite
Video - Funny or Die Does the Obama Jobs Speech
In honor of today's Senate vote that killed the $250K per job Obama stimulus.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/china-retaliates-to-currency-bill-2011-10
The naysayers of a European turnaround have become so overwhelming that it is stunning Europe hasn’t submerged into the Atlantic Ocean yet.
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/SubmissionsArticle.aspx?submissionid=129036.xml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111010/04043716279/nytimes-sues-federal-government-refusing-to-reveal-its-secret-interpretation-patriot-act.shtml
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/10/08/occupytrenton-at-point-of-failure-urgently-support-stay-alive-occupywallstreet-76941/
Supporters of the Eurozone measure, which is seen as crucial for Europe to rein in its debt crisis, are hopeful that the Slovak parliament will approve it on a second vote.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-slovakia-bailout-vote-20111012,0,4055211.story
Romney rejected any cuts in the Pentagon budget. Military spending, he said, must increase. He decried President Obama's foreign policy as "feckless," and took a thinly veiled shot at his less interventionist primary opponents. "This is America's moment," he said. "We should embrace the challenge, not shrink from it, not crawl into an isolationist shell, not wave the white flag of surrender, nor give in to those who assert America's time has passed."
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/10/10/mitt-romneys-american-century
http://www.newson6.com/story/15661744/occupy-wall-street-movement-sparks-camp-out-in-okc
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Market Slumps After European Banks Admit They Can't/Won't Raise Capital; Will Proceed With Asset Liquidations Instead
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/market-slumps-after-european-banks-admit-they-cantwont-raise-capital-will-proceed-asset-liquida
OTTAWA — Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush, saying the former U.S. president authorized “torture” when he directed the U.S.-led war on terror.
Bush is expected to attend an economic summit in Surrey in Canada’s westernmost British Columbia province on October 20.
http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/amnesty-canada-required-to-arrest-george-w-bush?xg_source=activity
Greece and France hit by new wave of strikes as governments battled bitter public discontent over cuts in benefits
http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=155746
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French trade unions have staged a string of strikes to protest the government's austerity measures, leaving school and public transport services disrupted.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/203988.html
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/story.htm?id=44497
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/12/boston-time-to-call-them-pigs-again/
http://www.guillotine.dk/Pages/History.html
Very interesting...
http://www.presstv.com/usdetail/204231.html
http://presstv.com/usdetail/204245.html
The Black Death plague killed an estimated 50 million Europeans between 1347 and 1351 — about half of the population in five years. It's thought that the bacterium Yersinia pestis was the cause.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/12/black-death-genome.html
http://www.king5.com/news/cities/seattle/Hundreds-of-students-could-join-Occupy-Seattle-protest-131588473.html