2008-06-26

On Wednesday, a United States federal appeals court upheld convictions of fraud and obstruction of justice against media mogul Conrad Black, along with three other executives from his former press corporation Hollinger International.
Black, a Canadian-born who holds the title Baron Black of Crossharbour in the United Kingdom, was found guilty in July 2007 of three [...]

2008-06-22

Betty Jefferson, age 70, an elected tax assessor in New Orleans, along with her brother Mose Jefferson, age 66, and her daughter, Angela Coleman, age 53 — all residents of New Orleans, Louisiana — were charged via a 31 count-indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with conspiracy to commit mail fraud; and federal program [...]

The lamestream media told you:
Recession raised its ugly head again, and global economy faces disaster, as oil hit a record high, unemployment rose, food prices are skyrocketing and the stock market dipped against a backdrop of a weak dollar, home foreclosures, growth in China and global warming.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Defying incessant gloomy reports [...]

2008-06-21

Author’s Note: This article was published several years ago so it is likely some things have changed. I think it is relevant to this website because it shows the good people, in this case CEOs, have done for other people.
The Buckhead Coalition has been working on behalf of the community for eleven years. It [...]

2008-06-20

The lamestream media told you:
Recession raised its ugly head again, and global economy faces disaster, as oil hit a record high, unemployment rose, food prices are skyrocketing and the stock market dipped against a backdrop of a weak dollar, home foreclosures, growth in China and global warming.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Defying incessant gloomy reports [...]

2008-06-19

Imperial Tobacco, a United Kingdom-based tobacco company, has announced that it will cut 2,440 jobs as part of a restructuring plan. This move comes after the Imperial’s takeover of Spain-based Altadis.
The job cuts were made as part of the process of moving the production of tobacco products to Northern Spain. In the United Kingdom, the [...]

2008-06-17

Summary: Inflation predicted over the next year, expect rate hikes over the next 12 - 18 months, failures pile up, failed measures to save the economy to have a cumulative effect, orgy of Wall Street fraud causes credit crunch, a worldwide disaster in the making, commodities rigging has a golden lining
The acceleration of inflation is [...]

2008-06-16

Australian economic growth forecast for 2008/09 have been reduced by 2.75% as the impact of the gas crisis ripples through the economy.
Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson said today that disruption to economic activity is expected as Western Australian companies layoff thousands of works with mining and industrial companies forced to cut back production.
BHP Billington has [...]

A Lost Opportunity
Gas in central California is right at $4.50 a gallon. Those who are hurt most are the poorer who don’t drive Priuses and Civics, but who pull into the rural service station not far away from my home with second- and third-hand SUVs, Crown Victorias, and F-150s. Most are either Hispanic or poor [...]

2008-06-13

British drivers have been urged not to panic buy fuel because of the 4-day walkout by delivery drivers working for companies delivering to Shell petrol stations. The 600 workers have walked out over pay disagreements, wanting an increase to their current pay of £36,500, however their union Unite turned down a last-minute offer of £41,500.
Hoyer [...]

2008-06-07

The Dow Jones industrials lost more than 400 points on the day today after news of record high oil prices and an increase in unemployment.
Friday’s nearly US$11 per barrel increase in the July contract for crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is the largest singe-day increase in oil price history. The July [...]

2008-06-06

This week a new milestone was set for the aggregated mens/marriage/shared parenting reform movements.
WorldNetDaily.com, which has one of the highest readerships on the internet, published three powerful articles going directly after feminist forces that have been destroying marriage since the 1960’s. This is the first time that a major conservative/libertarian publication has devoted so [...]

One of the chief arguments against a constitutional convention is that “they” will take away the pensions. In fact, there are some proponents (chiefly business groups) that advocate scrapping the pension system because it is a large part of the state’s debt. To be fair, in about 10 years, the state’s pension obligations [...]

2008-05-27

Google, the owners of YouTube, have claimed that the one billion dollar lawsuit against the company “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information.”
Viacom are suing Google over 150,000 videos, copyrighted by Viacom, that were allegedly being shown on YouTube. Google has responded by saying that they followed the Digital Millennium Copyright [...]

2008-05-24

The end of civilization as we know it, is not at hand. Dire warnings on climate change issued by Al Gore, based on an extreme set of computer predictions, are a dead issue. So is the credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); the UN committee that tried to bring credibility to the [...]

2008-05-23

INCONVENIENT TRUTHS ABOUT OIL
Before my recent retirement after a career of almost 40 years, I had the unique opportunity to work in the technology areas for a major oil company, an international financial operation, and one of the world’s largest international banks. As a result, although not an expert in either exploration or production of [...]

People, the news media and pundits like to throw around the word “crisis.” The mainstream media and their ilk tell us that we are currently experiencing a crisis in the sub-prime mortgage market, an economic crisis, a crisis with the environment, a crisis in race relations and with oil prices. There is a crisis with [...]

2008-05-13

As prolongation of the 1930s Depression and stagflation in the 1970s demonstrated, Senator Obama’s announced policies are a prescription for economic disaster.
Keynesian economic doctrine, not under that name, but in substance, is back in the news in a truly menacing way. Senator Obama proposes to repeat the policies of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal that [...]

-By Warner Todd Huston
How about I ask you if you “feel” like you make enough money each year? Let’s say you make $48,000 a year, OK? (That’s the median household income in the US) You’ll likely tell me, then that you “feel” you need more. Now, from this, can I conclude that you are “struggling [...]

2008-05-12

Tax Rebates Are a Losing Proposition Part 1
(2008-05-12) by David John Marotta
Beginning this month until July, the government will issue over $100 billion in tax-stimulus checks, the equivalent of about 1% of annual consumer spending and some 70% of the country’s $14 trillion gross domestic product (GDP). The assumption is that we can spend our [...]