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Obama plans new $ 50 billion Pork Bonanza!

USA - It seems that Barack Obama has been reading his history books and read all about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal for the unemployed during the great depression.

Having read about the new deal, and thinking that it is a good idea, wants to implement a new deal of his own. To this end he is planning a $50 billion program to revamp US transport infrastructure in a bid to kickstart the country's ailing economy ahead of forthcoming mid-term congressional elections.

All

Asda Hatfield

UK - The New chief executive at Asda, Andy Clarke, has confirmed, in a Gerald Ratner moment, what its shoppers all know. That the food for sale in its superstores 'is not up to scratch.'

Mr Clarke, who started in May, was trying to explain falling sales over the past three months, when Asda lost market share to rivals Sainsbury's and Morrison's.

Now dropping a bollock on this sort of scale is not that unusual, but when it is your first

It might sound very positive for government to subsidise to subsidise the expansion of broadband to rural areas, but in regards to individual liberty it’s a very bad idea to have government involved with the infrastructure of the internet.

Firstly having government subsidise the roll out of broadband infrastructure is a corporatist ploy; basically the government subsidises the roll out of broadband & then the internet service providers profit

Workers take a rest while they wait to load computer stocks into a truck in Beijing, China.

China now world's 2nd largest economy

China - After three decades of impressive growth, China has finally overtaken Japan to become the world's second largest economy behind the United States.

As anticipated,

The 20 April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon led to an oil spill that has spread across all five US Gulf states.

BP hopes to kill the spill 'by Tuesday'

USA - Research vessels have conducted acoustic and seismic tests near the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well as engineers prepare to permanently seal it.

The tests

The Akouedo dump in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where toxic waste was dumped in March 2006 by the Probo Koala

Trafigura guilty of illegally exporting toxic waste

Netherlands - A Dutch court has found multinational Trafigura guilty of illegally exporting toxic waste from Amsterdam and concealing the nature of

BP oil leak threatens to bust bedrock

USA - The US government has ordered oil giant BP to offer a plan for opening the capped oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, after a seep was found threatening to leak into

BP using underwater robots to carry out the tests

BP 'encouraged' by capping results

USA - BP says the replacement of the new cap on its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico has yielded encouraging results with the US assessing the new development as "good news."

Busted: Wyeth Used Ghostwriters To Place Over 40 "Scientific" Articles In Medical Journals

USA - Documents unsealed as part of a lawsuit against drug giant Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

Railways, Asda, Tesco's and Banks Discriminate against European Customers

UK - Despite the passing into law of the discrimination acts and the provision of goods and services acts, there

Oil and gas platforms off the coast of Louisiana

US closes 2 offshore platforms

USA - The US government has shut down two offshore production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico amid increasing concerns over the growing oil slick.

The country's Minerals Management

An environmental catastrophe looms on Louisiana’s coast.

2nd oil rig overturns on Gulf Coast

USA - A second oil drilling rig has overturned near Morgan City, Louisiana, after the oil slick from the first accident in the Gulf of Mexico washed ashore.

No injuries

Weathered oil from a leaking pipeline that resulted from last week's explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico .

US plans burning huge oil spill

USA - An oil spill burning operation has been launched to stop a giant oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico from washing up on the ecologically fragile coasts.

A fleet of vessels

UK - Today we were treated to tabloid outrage about a padded bikini for 7 year old girls. The headline screamed Paedo Bikini. Are the clothing manufacturers sexualising

You would have more influence on the Government if you had shares in Sainsbury’s

UK - We in the UK are in the midst of a much needed general election. We have hopefully coming to the

Kraft: Looting and Asset Stripping is back!

UK - The recent acquisition of Cadbury's by Kraft foods has shown us that the greed of share holders is greater than their responsibility to the people who work

GM to sell SAAB to Spyker

USA - The tiny Dutch sports carmaker Spyker has clinched a last-minute deal to buy Sweden's Saab, which just days ago had appeared to be heading for oblivion.

General Motors sold the

Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy

Japan - Japan Airlines (JAL) has filed for bankruptcy protection, in one of the country's biggest-ever corporate failures.

A state-backed corporate turnaround agency said

JAL shares fall on bankruptcy fears

Japan - Shares of Japan Airlines (JAL) have plunged by 81 percent to a new record low amid fears of the company's bankruptcy and its removal from the stock exchange.

The

Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. (JAL) is expected to slash more than 15,000 jobs, a third of its work force, in three years to save the troubled company from total

China becomes biggest exporter

China - China has overtaken Germany as the world's biggest exporter of goods after exports rose for the first time in 14 months, data has shown.

In the last month of 2009 Chinese

JAL set to file for bankruptcy within weeks

Japan - Japan Airlines (JAL) is preparing to file for bankruptcy as early as January 19 under a government plan to protect Asia's leading carrier from total collapse.

I know there are questions to surround whether Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi in fact was the Lockerbie bomber. But if he were no matter what al-Megrahi should of not

SFO to investigate MG Rover Collapse!

UK - The Serious Fraud Office has been called in to investigate the £1.4bn demise of MG Rover, the Birmingham-based excuse for a car maker that collapsed in April 2005

Bernard Madoff Gets 150 Years in Jail

USA - The $65 billion swindler and former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff has been finally been sentenced to a well deserved 150 years in Jail.

But this is not the

Germany - Time is running out for German retail group Arcandor after Berlin rejected two separate requests for state aid on Monday, pushing it closer

Over A Thousand Cops Are Convicted Criminals!

While back I remember cringing when Dr Sean Gabb the director of the Libertarian Alliance went on BBC radio stating that all the police were good for was giving each

Michael Jackson to abuse kids at London shows!

UK - Michael Jackson's tour promoter has done a secret deal with licenced ticket touts, to re sell tickets with a face value of £50-00 and

Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street	26/02/2009 12:10
Barratt losses £ 592m	25/02/2009 14:36
Big Pharma Quietly Hikes Drug Prices 100 Percent or More!	22/02/2009 09:13
M&S boss Sir Stuart Rose says the Government should support retailers	02/02/2009 15:22
Microsoft shed 5000 jobs!	22/01/2009 18:27
Spain Loses AAA rating are the UK and USA Next?	22/01/2009 16:59
Zavvi closes 22 branches	09/01/2009 06:21
M&S to Close 27 Stores and Sack 1230 Staff	07/01/2009 06:04
Three More Retailers in Administration	05/01/2009 05:00
Rip Off Zavvi refuses to honour Zavvi Vouchers!	29/12/2008 18:44

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