Archive for August, 2008

29
Aug
08

Dallas JKF Conspiracies

Dallas News is Crowdsourcing JFK conspiracy theories!

22 November, 1963 – John F Kennedy, one of the most inspirational, hope-bringing figures ever to grace American politics, was assassinated during a motorcade through Dallas. The official story charges Lee Harvey Oswald of the murder (though he too was killed, before being brought to trial). That has never satisfied many conspiracy theorists, who have brought many alternative explanations of the events that day, across a whole spectrum of crazy.

45 years on, the Dallas News is releasing a cartload of documents relating to the affair, and asking THE PUBLIC to go through them and piece together possible ’stories’ (read: new conspiracy theories). Now, that amazingly clever – there are probably ’special’ individuals out there with a much bigger passion for this stuff than the DN’s own staff, who are better reporting on current events or poorly covered stories – but the output of these ’special’ individuals is bound to be rather readable, almost compulsive, and bound to prompt quite a lot of taxi pool chatter. Translating into more content and more buzz around the DN. Win-win! Well done them for thinking outside the box, at such a tricky time in the history of the printed press.

via Buzzmachine

14
Aug
08

Housing Crisis ~ It’s only just the beginning..

One dollar can get you a large soda at McDonald’s, a used VHS movie at 7-Eleven or a house in Detroit. The fact that a home on the city’s east side was listed for $1 recently shows how depressed the real estate market has become in one of America’s poorest big cities.

Foreign Buyers Flocking to U.S. Housing Market (Consumer Action

May 23, 2008 Get News Alerts Add this column to your News Alerts. Print Print …. You Are Viewing: Foreign Buyers Flocking to U.S. Housing Market

Foreign investors veto Fed rescue – Telegraph

Mar 17, 2008 US housing has another 50% to drop, on top of 20-40% it already …..

Housing Crash Continues, Bubble Pops

mail news links to p@patrick.net patrick.net is the top Google result for “housing market” and …. US housing slump ‘worst since 1930s’ (guardian.co.uk)
14
Aug
08

The U.S. Deported Mexican Children…. who knew?

The U.S. Deported
90,000 Mexican Children
This Year
It is estimated that 15 percent of these children live in the border strip without any governmental protection.

Translated By Ashley Bell

August 10, 2008



Mexico – La Jornada – Original Article (Spanish)

In the first seven months of 2008, at least ninety thousand Mexican children were deported by the government of the United States, in the frame of its anti-immigration policy, with the consequent separation of thousands of families.

A report of the Task Force on Immigration Matters of the PRI in the Chamber of Deputies estimates that 15 percent of these minors, that is to say 13,500, live in the Mexican border strip, without any government protection.

The coordinator of that working group and federal deputy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Edmundo Ramirez Martinez, said that during the first seven months of 2008, three hundred thousand Mexican adults were also deported.

The document indicates that in addition to the abandonment of thousands of children on the Mexican side of the border, it is estimated that for every three adults that are deported from the United States, a child of Mexican origin remains homeless in that nation.

“The minors are encharged to coyotes or to human traffickers to be brought to the United States with their parents and in this attempt are practically abandoned at the Mexican border since their family, in fear of deportation, doesn’t reclaim them,” he stated.

Only from January to July, he estimated, ninety thousand minors born in Mexico, but who accompanied their parents in search of better opportunities in the United States, were thrown out by the United States government as a result of the massive deportation.

He stressed that of the 13,500 children stationed on the northern border, some stay in shelters of the DIF, or civil or religious organizations, but another percentage is abandoned and devotes itself to begging in order to survive and try to return to that country.

[Martinez], who is also secretary of the Commission on Population, Borders and Migration Affairs, explained that the said deportation of children has greater impact on entities with high migration flow such as Michoacán, Jalisco, Zacatecas and Guanajuato.

14
Aug
08

Whoa! Russia….is pissed!

So you have the colossal audacity, Mr. Bush, to “warn” Russia to pull back? As the wanton, perverse war criminal under whose watch the world saw the crime known as “shock and awe” committed, I’d say you were well out of your mind to suggest that Russia should pull back.
Does anyone read the international news from other countries? We are disliked and it’s not really in ‘our’ news streams….



 

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