Month: March 2014

Philly.com – by Andrew M. Seaman

CenturyLink

HOUSTON (AP) — A house overflowing with more than 100 people presumed to be in the U.S. illegally was uncovered just outside Houston on Wednesday, a police spokesman said.

The suspected stash house was found during a search for a 24-year-old woman and her two children, a 7-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, that were reported missing by relatives late Tuesday after a man failed to meet them as planned at an undisclosed location on the city’s north side, said John Cannon, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department. Many of the people in home that authorities said appeared to be part of a human smuggling operation were dressed only in undergarments and they were sitting in in filthy conditions and surrounded by trash bags full of old clothing, Cannon said.   Continue reading “More than 100 people found in house in Houston”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

One of the primary drivers of the real estate bubble in the past several years, particularly in the ultra-luxury segment, were megawealthy Chinese buyers, seeking to park their cash into the safety of offshore real estate where it was deemed inaccessible to mainland regulators and overseers, tracking just where the Chinese record credit bubble would end up. Some, such as us, called it “hot money laundering”, and together with foreclosure stuffing and institutional flipping (of rental units and otherwise), we said this was the third leg of the recent US housing bubble. However, while the impact of Chinese buying in the US has been tangible, it has paled in comparison with the epic Chinese buying frenzy in other offshore metropolitan centers like London and Hong Kong. This is understandable: after all as Chuck Prince famously said in 2007, just before the first US mega-bubble burst, “as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance.” In China, the music just ended.   Continue reading “The Music Just Ended: “Wealthy” Chinese Are Liquidating Offshore Luxury Homes In Scramble For Cash”

Wall Street Journal – by ROSS KELLY and JAMES GLYNN

SYDNEY—An Australian-led operation is under way to determine whether objects located by satellite imagery in the southern Indian Ocean belong to missing Malaysia Airlines3786.KU -2.08% Flight 370.

“New and credible information has come to light in relation to the search,” Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott during a regular sitting of Parliament.   Continue reading “Satellites Spot Possible Debris From Malaysia Airlines Flight”

TechLila – by Rajesh Namase

Before discussing how web servers work, it is first necessary to understand what a server is and how it affects the way your website or blog works. Fundamentally, a web server passes the information and data needed for you to run your website or blog onto your terminal, whether that is a PC, a Mac or a portable device such as a cell phone or tablet.   Continue reading “How Web Servers Work and the Importance of Location”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Wall Street has built a Pyramid of Greed. It is upside down with very few people down below supporting the many above them. At Giza the Egyptian architects built a pyramid with all the weight on the bottom supporting a small capstone on the top. That is because they were builders and not Bankers. I wrote 6 Levels Of The American Government. Level F is where people who work and pay taxes are. F literally stands for those who must be Flogged to get them to pay taxes to support those who appointed themselves to rule.   Continue reading “Wall Street’s Pyramid Of Greed. You Are On The Bottom.”

Global Economic Intersection – by Larry Doyle, Sense on Cents

Highlights:

• U.S. ranks 19th out of 99 countries
• Weakest areas (increasing from the weakest):   Continue reading “Rule of Law: U.S. Ranks 19th in the World”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law offered a rare glimpse of the al-Qaida leader in the hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, recounting during surprise testimony Wednesday in a Manhattan courtroom how the two met that night in a cave in Afghanistan.

“Did you learn about what happened … the attacks on the United States?” the son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, recalled bin Laden asking him. “We are the ones who did it.” The testimony came as Abu Ghaith’s trial on charges he conspired to kill Americans and aid al-Qaida as a spokesman for the terrorist group took a dramatic turn. His decision to take the witness stand was announced by his lawyer, Stanley Cohen, who surprised a nearly empty courtroom that quickly filled with spectators as word spread.    Continue reading “Ex-al-Qaida spokesman recalls 9/11 with bin Laden”

Mail.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday urged state officials to follow through on Common Core education standards despite what he called an “avalanche” of criticism from those who oppose them.

Bush said at an education forum with Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., that the standards are key to improving educational achievement around the country. “This is a real-world, grown-up approach to a real crisis that we have,” said Bush, who later brushed off reporters’ questions about his presidential aspirations. “And it’s been mired in politics.   Continue reading “Jeb Bush: Follow through on Common Core standards”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Strauss could work with anybody — Democrats and Republicans, Americans and Soviets, Israelis and Arabs. Playing the game and making the deal made his day.

Of Strauss’ many accomplishments — earning a fortune in postwar investments, co-founding an international law firm, leading the Democratic Party, running one successful presidential campaign and surviving the loss of another — being welcome on either side of the political street might have been the achievement he most treasured.   Continue reading “Ex-Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss dies at 95”

Tales from the Clothesline

Wall Street Journal – by Joe Palazzolo

Encouraging someone to commit suicide is not a crime, Minnesota’s high court ruled Wednesday, reversing the conviction of a nurse who urged people to hang themselves and let him watch via webcam.

William Francis Melchert-Dinkel had been found guilty under a law that made it illegal to “advise, encourage, or assist” in a suicide.   Continue reading “Minnesota’s High Court Rules Encouraging Suicide Isn’t a Crime”

RT News

The USS Truxtun destroyer started a one-day military exercise with the Bulgarian and Romanian navies in the Black Sea.

The US military has described the exercise as a “routine” mission scheduled ahead of the Ukraine crisis, which witnessed the Ukrainian opposition forcing the democratically elected president, Victor Yanukovich, to flee the capital Kiev on February 22, a US Naval official told Reuters on Wednesday.    Continue reading “US warship Truxtun begins naval exercise in Black Sea”

Disinfo – by Matt Staggs

It looks like New Hampshire police will get their BEARCAT (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck – sounds like a mid-eighties GI Joe toy.) armored vehicles. You know – for “the terrorists.” Wondering who the terrorists du jour are today? Well, on a grant application to Uncle Sugar, Concord Police Chief John Duval identified C.O.B.R.A.,  the New Hampshire Free State Project and Occupy New Hampshire. Don’t worry – he’s really sorry, though, and promised he didn’t mean it.   Continue reading “New Hampshire Lawmaker Tries and Fails to Pass Bill to Keep Police From Buying Tanks”