I mean look at these headlines. All in one page I have to deal with unrest in Iran (which needs to be supported - this dictatorship needs to be overtaken - the people don't want war - the crazy leader does), N. Korea getting loco, Afghanistan violence, Swine flu fear mongering, Acorn and their garbage (how and why are they still operational?)
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The Smuggle of all Smuggles: Alarmism or Legit Worry?
If you missed the $134 BILLION in US bonds that were almost smuggled to Switzerland - this is a great read. That's more than the gross domestic product of Singapore by the way!
Border guards in Chiasso see plenty of smugglers and plenty of false-bottomed suitcases, but no one in the town, which straddles the Italian-Swiss frontier, had ever seen anything like this. Trussed up in front of the police in the train station were two Japanese men, and beside them a suitcase with a booty unlike any other. Concealed at the bottom of the bag were some rather incredible sheets of paper. The documents were apparently dollar-denominated US government bonds with a face value of a staggering $134bn (£81bn).
How on earth did these two men, who at first refused to identify themselves, come to be there, trying to ride the train into Switzerland carrying bonds worth more than the gross domestic product of Singapore? If the bonds were genuine, the pair would have been America's fourth-biggest creditor, ahead of the UK and just behind Russia. No sooner had the story leaked out from the Italian lakes region last week than it sparked a panoply of conspiracy tales. But one resounded more than any other: that the men were agents of the Japanese finance ministry, in the country for the G8 meeting, making a surreptitious journey into Switzerland to sell off one small chunk of the massive mountain of US bonds stacked up in the Japanese Treasury vaults.Continue reading....
David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mr. Rohde was part of The Times’s reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize this spring for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan last year. Until now, the kidnapping has been kept quiet by The Times and other media organizations out of concern for the men’s safety. Link: NY Times
New Mexico breaks ground on commercial spaceport.
I first looked over this headline but soon found that it was pretty monumental stuff i was glancing at.Flights for Virgin Galactic will start in 2 years. That's nuts. Society is advancing way to fast, ahhh watch out for the singularity!
Link: Reuters
Swine Flu Wedding.
Are you F'ing kidding me! Why I ask?
In this photo taken Sunday, June 14, 2009 provided by Duhon Studio Photography in Skokie, Ill., Ilana Jackson, left, and Jeremy Fierstien wear surgical masks during their wedding in Highland Park, Ill. The couple wore masks and latex gloves after finding out less than 48 hours before the wedding that they had swine flu. They decided to go ahead with the ceremony after doctors assured them guests wouldn't be put at serious risk. Continue reading...
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