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Headline News 3-10-10
Tuesday: 2 US Soldiers, 12 Iraqis Killed; 5 Iraqis Wounded
In Iraq Tuesday 12 Iraqis were killed and five wounded. Two U.S. soldiers were also killed in a vehicle accident. In the UK, authorities opened an inquiry into allegations British troops tortured and killed Iraqi civilians. Read more
Attack on British aid agency in Pakistan
In Pakistan five people were killed after militants attacked the office of a British aid agency. The fighters who stormed the World Vision agency about 40 miles north of Islamabad, opened fire and exploded hand grenades. Read more
Seven Muslims arrested over 'plot to kill cartoonist'
Seven people have been arrested in Ireland over a suspected plot to kill a Swedish artist who portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a dog and had a $100,000 al-Qaeda bounty on his head. The seven include Algerian, Libyan, Croatian, US, Palestinian and Irish citizens. The artist, Lars Vilks, was forced to go into hiding after his depictions of the Prophet were printed in a Swedish newspaper in 2007. Read more
Stage set for Kandahar, McChrystal says
U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal says NATO and Afghan forces will "absolutely" gain control over the province of Kandahar. McChrystal said the Helmand offensive showed Afghans that counterinsurgency operations could develop with a light footprint,
adding: "We want the Afghan people to see the approach of security does not necessarily mean there will be a set-piece battle in their neighborhood." Read more
Utah plans to take US land through eminent domain
The Utah Senate has approved the use of eminent domain to take federal land in the state. More than 60 percent of Utah is owned by the U.S. government and policy makers have long complained federal ownership hinders their ability to generate tax revenue and adequately fund public schools. The goal of a bill approved Tuesday is to spark a U.S. Supreme Court battle that legislators' own attorneys acknowledge has little chance of success. Read more
One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people
One-quarter of all maize and other grain crops grown in the US-- enough to feed 330 million people for one year--now ends up as biofuel in cars. 2009 figures from the US Department of Agriculture show ethanol production rising to record levels, driven by farm subsidies and laws that require vehicles to use increasing amounts of biofuels. Read more
U.S.-Supported Afghan Chief Served Prison Time in Germany
After U.S. forces pushed the Taliban out of the Afghanistan town of Marja, Afghan officials installed Abdul Zahir Aryan to serve as the local government representative. Before returning to Afghanistan, Zahir lived in Germany, during which time he served four years in prison for attempted murder. Read more
ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
Lawmakers are proposing a new biometric ID card that would be required of all U.S. workers. Under the controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all U.S. citizens and legal immigrants would be issued a card with embedded information, such as fingerprints. The bill’s co-sponsor Sen. Chuck Schumer said: "It's the nub of solving the immigration dilemma politically speaking." Read more
Citibank exposes 600,000 customers' Social Security numbers
In late January, Citibank mailed year-end tax statements to 600,000 customers that included the customers' Social Security numbers on the outside of the envelope. Citi later apologized for the error, saying it believed the error produced little or no risk to its customers.
Kucinich willing to cast the vote that kills health reform
Domestic
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:31
Facing razor-thin margins in the House, Rep Denis Kucinich says he is willing to cast the vote that kills health reform. Kucinich Monday defended his opposition to the proposal on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann, saying: "This bill represents a giveaway to the insurance industry of $70 billion dollars a year with no guarantees of any control over premiums, forcing people to buy private insurance,” adding: “It’s five consecutive years of double-digit premium increases." An ardent proponent of a Medicare-for-all system, Kucinich said the current template offers private insurers "a version of a bailout" and predicted they'll continue "socking it to consumers." Kucinich added: "I told the president I couldn't support the bill if it didn't have a robust public option and at least if it didn't have something that was going to protect consumers from these rampant premium increases."
The Justice Department has sued Election Systems & Software to force the company to divest itself of voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year.
The department’s antitrust division, along with nine states attorney general, filed the civil antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court, charging that the acquisition threatened competition. The department proposed a settlement that, if accepted, would force ES&S to sell its Premier business to a buyer approved by the Justice Department. Last September, Premier (formerly Diebold Election Systems) announced ES&S had bought the company. Even before the sale, ES&S was the nation’s largest voting-machine maker, with machines in 43 states, counting roughly 50 percent of votes cast in the last four major U.S. elections. Its acquisition of Premier gave it a near monopoly and would have given the company 70 percent of voting equipment in the country.
Barton Biggs: Stock A Safe Haven With Food And Firearms To Protect Against Doomsday Pillagers
Domestic
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 19:22
Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson has warned: "We're running out of time ... to prevent a true depression." Johnson says unless we break Wall Street's "stranglehold" we will be unable prevent the Great Depression 2. Morgan Stanley research guru and hedge fund manager Barton Biggs advises people to buy a farm a good distance away from a city. He advises that doomsday safe-havens be self-sufficient, capable of growing food and also be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine and clothes. Biggs also advises getting a gun because "a few rounds over the approaching brigands' heads would probably be a compelling persuader that there are easier farms to pillage." Mark "Gloom Boom Doom" Faber says: "Once a society becomes successful it becomes arrogant…corrupt,... overspends on... costly wars ... and .. enters a secular decline."
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