Daily Mail: One of the world’s last uncontacted tribes has gone missing after drug traffickers overran Brazilian guards posted to protect its lands. No trace of the Indian tribe has been found after heavily armed men destroyed a guard post in western Brazil around 32 miles from the Peruvian border. Workers from FUNAI, the government [...]
Zero Hedge: With Bank of America investors finally realizing it is game over for the company as a going concern, at this point there are just two options for Brian Moynihan: the spin off of CFC as a bad bank, backstopped by the Fed, or, well, Chapter 11, which for a bank is essentially liquidation [...]
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MacIver Institute: National and state liberal groups, led primarily by public employee labor unions, have pumped well in excess of $14,000,000 into the Wisconsin state senate recall elections. MacIver News’ staff complied this graphic of this unprecedented spending using official reports on file with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (Totals are accurate as of 8/8/11). [...]
The Cutline: Another Newsweek cover controversy is brewing–and once again, it involves women. A month after editor-in-chief Tina Brown Photoshopped the late Princess Diana walking alongside Kate Middleton onto the cover of Newsweek, sparking outrage among fans, Brown is drawing the ire of the tea party for selecting a photo of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) [...]
Daily Mail: This is the shocking moment a young man is apparently forced to hand over all of his clothes after appearing to be stripped naked during lawless riots overnight. Internet rumours last night claimed that on top of the widespread destruction across London and Birmingham, people were having their clothes removed by looters as [...]
Politico: by Kevin Madden Candidate Obama, who promised our nation big things, has now shriveled into a weak, small-minded president reduced to ugly character attacks to save one job – his own – while failing the millions of Americans now without a job of their own under his watch. President Obama is presiding over an [...]
Fox News: “I’d say that we ought to come back to work, but I’m afraid they’d just downgrade us again.” – House Republican leadership aide joking with Power Play about the prospects of lawmakers cutting short their August recesses After a brutal legislative month surrounding the federal debt limit, House conservatives want lawmakers to return [...]
Financial Times: The US Federal Reserve’s meeting on Tuesday is likely to be one of its most difficult and divisive since, well, last August. Sharply weaker economic data in recent weeks, a new peak in the eurozone debt crisis, and a downgrade to the triple A credit rating of the US have shaken confidence in [...]
NATO-led ISAF said at a press briefing on Monday that the helicopter crash that killed 38 people, including 30 US troops last Friday represented “a tragic loss.” The ISAF spokesman also played down the suggestion that the Taliban had used new types of weapons to down the helicopter. (AFP) – The Taliban lured US forces [...]
CNN: A young boy in Kansas was among millions in America who watched the horrifying news this past weekend about the Chinook that went down in Afghanistan’s Wardak province. That boy in Kansas soon found out that his father, a U.S. Army pilot, was aboard the doomed helicopter. In the midst of his world shattering, [...]
NewsOK: NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures rose Tuesday, but only after swinging wildly in overnight trading following the worst day for stocks since 2008. The Federal Reserve plans to meet Tuesday on interest-rate policy. The central bank already has kept its key interest rate at a record low of nearly zero since 2008. [...]
