Strauss-Kahn case near collapse

Apparently the maid has lied repeatedly to investigators

According to the two law enforcement officials, the woman had a phone conversation with an incarcerated man within a day of her encounter with Mr. Strauss Kahn in which she discussed the possible benefits of pursuing the charges against him. The conversation was recorded.

Further, she has [...]

WikiLeaks’ brilliant Mastercard commercial parody

Hybrid wind and solar power for rooftop use

The SolAir combines wind and solar power with a small footprint making it ideal to install on residential roof tops.

Greece and the US are kleptocracies

Charles Hugh Smith explains how both countries are being looted by their elites.

Greece

Strip away the bailouts and the bogus austerity plans, and the truth is revealed: Greece is a kleptocracy, and the banks and the ECB Eurocrats are both complicit.

The recent austerity measures in Greece, passed against the wishes of 80% [...]

California’s new budget. Pretend and extend

Jerry Brown promised no gimmicks or bogus accounting on the budget. Instead, that’s precisely what California got.

From my latest on CAIVN.

Apparently, $4 billion in unexpected new revenue for the State of California materialized out of thin air right in time to be counted for the budget that just passed. But Gov. Brown and [...]

Warpaint performs Undertow at Glastonbury 2011

http://youtu.be/-t-JU96sJ50

Gay babies

Via Bee Jay Robinson on Facebook

Kofi Annan blasts hedge funds for acquiring so much African land

“It is very disturbing that a recent report found that agricultural land that adds up to the size of France was bought in Africa in 2009 alone by hedge funds and other speculators.”

I’m sure the speculators have the long-term interests of Africans uppermost in their twisted little cold hearts.

Liberals in denial over Obama economic policy

Is any of this getting through to you, son?

Talk Left

Is is too late to alter course? I fear it is. Listening to Tim Geithner has clearly been the President’s biggest mistake and it is what imperils his reelection.

Hello? Obama appointed Geithner as well as most of the other architects of [...]

1000 millisievert water leaking from Fukushima

Full body radiation checks begin across prefecture while TEPCO, as always, says everything is fine, just fine

Meanwhile, in the US, authorities assure us there is no cause for alarm at the flooded nuclear plant in Nebraska, the fire-threatened Los Alamos laboratory, or at the Salem 2 nuclear plant, which is in hot shutdown [...]