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Suitcase With $134 Billion Puts Dollar on Edge

June 17 (Bloomberg) -- It’s a plot better suited for a John Le Carre novel.

Two Japanese men are detained in Italy after allegedly attempting to take $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds over the border into Switzerland. Details are maddeningly sketchy, so naturally the global rumor mill is kicking into high gear.

Are these would-be smugglers agents of Kim Jong Il stashing North Korea’s cash in a Swiss vault? Bagmen for Nigerian Internet scammers? Was the money meant for… Continue

Added by Jeff on June 17, 2009 at 10:54pm — 3 Comments

Autopsies suggest Air France jet broke up in sky

SAO PAULO – Autopsies have revealed fractures in the legs, hips and arms of Air France disaster victims, injuries that — coupled with the large pieces of wreckage pulled from the Atlantic — strongly suggest the plane broke up in the air, experts said Wednesday.

With more than 400 bits of debris recovered from the ocean's surface, the top French investigator expressed optimism about discovering what brought down Flight 447, but he also called the conditions — far from land in very deep… Continue

Added by truth on June 17, 2009 at 5:24pm — 1 Comment

WTRH-AM - GCC Radio Broadcast Engineering Blog

Disclamer: This blog will now be shared with friends only and GCC Engineering staff

and members only! Google has been leaking things out that should not be leaked out.

The station that was on AM 1620 kHz as an experiment using the same transmitter which did have problems with harmonics started to reside on 540 kHz the oldest frequency after Cybor 515 on 515 kHz. There is… Continue

Added by WTRH-AM-AE on June 17, 2009 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

WHO probes report of bubonic plague in Libyan town

WHO probes report of bubonic plague in Libyan town

Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:20am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+]

CAIRO (Reuters) - Libyan authorities have reported an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Mediterranean coastal town of Tubruq, and the World Health Organization was sending a team to investigate, a WHO official said on Tuesday.

The cases -- approximately 16 to 18 have been reported -- would be the first in more than two decades in Libya… Continue

Added by Dandy Andy aka flmkrdano on June 17, 2009 at 2:40pm — No Comments

U.S. tells Zicam maker to stop selling some products

U.S. tells Zicam maker to stop selling some products

Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:43pm EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+]

By Lisa Richwine and Bill Berkrot

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators warned Matrixx Initiativesto stop selling intranasal versions of its zinc-containing Zicam cold remedy after more than 130 reports of people losing their sense of smell after using the products, sending Matrixx shares into a tailspin.

The U.S.… Continue

Added by Dandy Andy aka flmkrdano on June 17, 2009 at 2:39pm — No Comments

Passengers cheat flu scan with fever reducers

Passengers cheat flu scan with fever reducers

Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:45am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+]

HANOI (Reuters) - Many sick passengers who flew to Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam took fever reducers to cheat temperature scanners at the airport, leading to the discovery of several infected cases later, state media reported at the weekend.

Nguyen Van Chau, head of Ho Chi Minh City's Health Department, was quoted in… Continue

Added by Dandy Andy aka flmkrdano on June 17, 2009 at 2:21pm — No Comments

Goldman Could Shed ’Commercial Bank’ Charter

Goldman Could Shed ’Commercial Bank’ Charter

Freed from the grip of the U.S. Treasury’s bailout program, Goldman Sachs Group might seek to shed its commercial bank holding company status and reclaim its role as Wall Street’s iconic investment bank, some investors believe.

By Reuters

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June 11, 2009

* Rescinding would loosen regulation, trading constraints

* '08 charter change signaled safety to investors

* Goldman… Continue

Added by Dandy Andy aka flmkrdano on June 17, 2009 at 2:19pm — No Comments

Pictures From Iran June 15, 16 and 17, 2009

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Added by Jeff on June 17, 2009 at 1:31pm — 2 Comments

Call into the Glen Beck Show Today !! Luke from We Are Change calls on all 9/11 truthers to call

This week on we are change live Luke calls on all 9/11 truthers to call the Glen Beck show on Wednesday!

The number is 1-888-727-2325

To get past the people screening the callers your probably going to have to pretend you love Glen Beck and think he's a patriot. You may also have to listen to the show so you can pretend you want to talk about the topic he's on.

Added by truth on June 17, 2009 at 11:54am — 18 Comments

Campaign to stop IMF and war funding

Added by Tara on June 17, 2009 at 11:49am — No Comments

Israeli Robot Snake - High Tech slinky or parable?

Added by Marklar on June 17, 2009 at 8:08am — No Comments

Brazil finds new strain of H1N1 virus

Brazil finds new strain of H1N1 virus

Jun 16 01:11 PM US/Eastern

Brazilian scientists have identified a new strain of the H1N1 virus after examining samples from a patient in Sao Paulo, their institute said Tuesday.

The variant has been called A/Sao Paulo/1454/H1N1 by the Adolfo Lutz Bacteriological Institute, which compared it with samples of the A(H1N1)… Continue

Added by TheLasersShadow on June 17, 2009 at 6:33am — No Comments

Aldous Huxley vs George Orwel

Added by Maas on June 17, 2009 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

The Harry Thomas Show - week in review 06/16/09

We are all Terrorists Now says DOD training manual , CIA Mind Control Manipulation,

HR 1207 A Ron Paul Update, Gangster Government , Corrupt Bankers

de-population through eugenics , The Elite Bloodlines, Media Propaganda,

Weaponized Education , Mandatory National Servitude = Self Inflicted Tyranny

MP3 http://harrythomas.info/HTS/HTS061609Final.mp3

WMA… Continue

Added by Harry Thomas on June 16, 2009 at 8:20pm — 1 Comment

just a link to a news story re current events

heres a recent vid from channell 9 here in N.S.W that may interest alll yas' we gotta stop these emues peckin our dunnies down ...

This video appears in news.ninemsn.com.au and I thought you should see it. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/video.aspx?videoid=d7b3ea03-8b52-4770-8536-b651539ae5c1

If you cannot click on the link above, copy and paste the entire address below into your web… Continue

Added by peter b dunn on June 16, 2009 at 8:10pm — No Comments

Indigenous 'genocide' in battle for oilfields

IT HAS been called the world's second "oil war" but the only similarity between Iraq and events in the jungles of northern Peru over the past few weeks has been the mismatch of force. On one side have been police armed with automatic weapons, tear gas, helicopter gunships and armoured cars. On the other are several thousand Awajun and Wambis Indians, many of them in war paint and armed with bows and arrows, and spears.

In some of the… Continue

Added by Jeff on June 16, 2009 at 7:29pm — No Comments

what american president's wife????????

what american presidents wife stepped into office when he died i beleive i heard it was one of the earlier pres. plzz help me out on this ppl thx n enjoy alex

Added by joeph berry on June 16, 2009 at 7:27pm — 1 Comment

Carter 'holds back tears' on Gaza

Former US president Jimmy Carter expresses extreme dismay over the damage inflicted by Israeli forces using state-of-the-art US made weaponry on Gaza.

While touring the war-ravaged strip, Carter said Tuesday that he was deeply concerned about the damage Israeli war planes deliberately inflicted on the people of Gaza using US bombs.

"I have to hold back tears when I see the deliberate destruction that has been wracked against your people," Carter said.

Carter… Continue

Added by Tara on June 16, 2009 at 12:23pm — 5 Comments

Audit Finds That U.S. Overpaid Blackwater by tens of millions of dollars

By YOCHI J. DREAZEN

WASHINGTON -- A government audit found that the State Department overpaid the contract-security firm once known as Blackwater Worldwide by tens of millions of dollars because the company failed to properly staff its teams in Iraq.

The report didn't identify any specific security breaches, but it said the State Department should have withheld at least $55…

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