Oct 29 2010

Obama Meets with American Team Involved in Chilean Mine Rescue

A team of engineers and scientists who helped orchestrate the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners this month were all smiles after their meeting with President Obama on Thursday afternoon. “We’re very happy to be here,” said James Stepanic of the Layne Christensen Group — the company responsible for drilling the hole that eventually [...]


Oct 28 2010

A.I.G. Sets Possible C.E.O. Backup Plan

The American International Group said on Wednesday that its chairman, Robert S. Miller, would step in as interim chief executive if the firm’s current chief, Robert H. Benmosche, is unable or unwilling to stay in that role. The decision, made at a board meeting on Wednesday, follows the insurer’s disclosure on Monday that Mr. Benmosche [...]


Oct 28 2010

‘American Idol’ Owner CKX Ends Buyout Talks

“American Idol” is not heading into the hands of private equity after all. The owner of the hit entertainment TV show, CKX, said Wednesday that it had broken off talks to sell itself after not finding a satisfactory deal.  The announcement comes seven months after CKX confirmed reports that it was entertaining buyout offers. Since [...]


Oct 10 2010

Is 2010 the Year American Voters Turn Polls on Their Heads?

As connoisseurs of presidential primaries know well, New Hampshire voters are notoriously contrarian – mischievously rewriting the media’s story line by voting for Hillary Clinton (2008), John McCain (in a 2000 landslide), Pat Buchanan (1996) and Gary Hart (1984). Cosseted by the candidates and pampered by the pundits, these first-in-the-nation primary voters rebel against being [...]


Oct 7 2010

Times Square Bomber Gets Life, But Defiantly Spars With Judge

A Pakistani-American who tried and failed to set off a bomb in the heart of Times Square last May was sentenced to life in prison in New York Tuesday, but he remained defiant, threatening to “keep terrorizing you.” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called 31-year-old Faisal Shahzad a “remorseless terrorist who betrayed his adopted country.” U.S. [...]


Sep 19 2010

United States Economy Collapsing

Over 90% of America did not want to passage of HR3997. The US Congress was held at “Executive Gun Point” and told: “you either pass this bill or we will declare martial law.” The most painful part of HR3997 is the shift in the final bill. What was the shift? Unbeknownst to the American people, however, is that since September 20th, the 0 billion bailout bill signed into law by their President yesterday was expanded from its original 3 pages to a 451 page virtual novel of new laws virtually enslaving them to the foreign holders of their debt. In addition, there are reports circulating in the Kremlin today are stating that the first deployment of Chinas elite People’s Armed Police (PAP) under an agreement signed between the United States and China, and US Homeowners Soon To Be Evicted By Chinese Police Under New Law HR3997. Even more disturbing, these reports continue, are that these new laws not only give Chinese and European banks control over the mortgage debt of the American people, they now include their credit card balances, and which virtually the entire US populace have indebtedness to. To how utterly chilling this new US law for the American people, titled the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Russian legal experts point out in these reports that: Section 101 (a)(1) establishes what is termed the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to which substantial portions of what the American people currently owe to their banks and financial institutions is to