No Agenda 2010.02.25

Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak

# Financial

* THE PRAGMATIC CAPITALIST » » INSIDER SELLING SOARS TO 2010 HIGH
* Nathan Lewis: The IMF Destroys Iceland and Latvia
* Banks to collect $38.5B in overdraft fees in ‘09 – report – Aug. 10, 2009
* Update: Citigroup Says Feds Ordered 7 Day Restriction On Bank Withdrawals
* VIDEO: Owner Describes Surviving Out Of Control Lexus – The Consumerist
* The Euro’s Final Battleground: Spain – WSJ.com
* detnews.com | The Detroit News

# Gitmo Nation

* Ashton ‘has lost control of EU foreign policy’ – Telegraph
* The Government Can Monitor Your Location All Day Every Day Without Implicating Your Fourth Amendment Rights
* School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre: Student In Question Was Disciplined For Eating Candy | Techdirt
* Najibullah Zazi pleads guilty in New York terrorism plot – CNN.com
* Four Corners – 22/02/2010: The Warlords Tune
* NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly
* » Can This Possibly Be True? New Obama Missile Defense Logo Includes A Crescent – Big Government
* Police escort student out of class after refusal to recite Pledge of Allegiance | Raw Story
* Obama Official Applauds Rhode Island Teacher Firings – Political Hotsheet – CBS News
* SF Parking meter info
* Photographer films his own ‘anti-terror’ arrest | UK news | The Guardian
* High Crimes: White House Accused of Using Bribery to Preserve Senate Majority
* Global treaty may make your ISP spy on you – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist
* Stepping down brings sorry chapter to a close – The Irish Times – Fri, Feb 19, 2010
* To The Point News – THE ELECTRONIC POLICE STATE
* FREE PLANET: REPORT: Russian Satellite Imaging Reveals Huge Military Buildup Inside the U.S.

# Ministry Of Truth

* Australia under threat from enemy within: Rudd – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
* Najibullah Zazi pleads guilty in New York terrorism plot – CNN.com
* YouTube – Nigel Farage harangues EU President Herman van Rompuy
* Child Rapists Protected By The State « The UK Column
* Reddit,
this man has amassed evidence that a pedophile ring is being protected
by the Scottish state. He was arrested and handed a gagging order
silenced last week. Please help get the story out. : reddit.com

# Media Assassination

* Top Fed Official Warns Jobs Will Be Scarce As ‘Paradigm Shift’ Slows Hiring
* YouTube – Weiner Clarifies His Calling The GOP An Insurance Subsidiary
* Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer: Pierce Brosnan on the ghosts that haunt him – Times Online
* xkcd: Devotion to Duty
* Italië: Televisieverbod voor actualiteitenprogramma’s

# CIA Wars

* Blackwater Took Hundreds of Guns From U.S. Military, Afghan Police « The Washington Independent
* Amazon.com: Danish Flag Afghan Poppy 250 Seeds – Papaver somniferum: Patio, Lawn & Garden
* BBC News – Nato strike kills 27 Afghanistan civilians
* Hustler Reports-’Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us’ – BlackListed News
* When things go boom in the night, Pakistanis blame Blackwater / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com
* Iraq war to be rebranded ‘Operation New Dawn’ – Yahoo! Singapore News

# Two2DaHead

* COMMERCE
BANK EXPANDS PUBLIC FINANCE SERVICES AS INVESTMENT BANKING VETERAN
DONALD A. ESTELL IS NAMED DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC FINANCE | PressReleasePoint
* Former Mo. official killed in Ill. plane crash – washingtonpost.com
* Government climbdown over David Kelly post-mortem report | Mail Online

# Out There

* Darpa Plans Test for Hypersonic Weapon | Danger Room | Wired.com
* theufologynetwork.freeforum.ca • View topic – Leaked UFO CRASH PIC, From The Mongolian Capital Ulaanbaatar
* YouTube – Hollie Greig Scandal – talk by Robert Green 1 of 5.flv

# Sysadmins

* Pranksters hack into illuminated road sign to declare ‘Kevin Rudd sucks’ | Perth Now

# Atlas Shrugged

* CEO’s dienen wereldwijd massaal ontslag in

# Haiti

* Bill Clinton outlines Haiti relief efforts in Las Vegas speech – Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 | 10:24 p.m. – Las Vegas Sun

# Real News

* YouTube – Jennifer Love Hewitt talks about Vajazzling on Lopez Tonight
* Olympian Sex? Athletes To Use 100,000 Condoms | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet
* » Hillary Duff Teaches All Girls How To Handle Getting Engaged Boston.BarstoolSports.com
* Auto-Tune the News #10: Turtles. – TechnicallyPolitical
* Attention BFFs! Angelina’s Freaky Face is NOT Photoshopped — New Pic! « Hollywood Life

# Not Good 4 U

* Kangaroos poisoned by fluoride – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
* Mass screening of all Aids sufferers could wipe out the disease within 40 years, claims researcher | Mail Online
* Dope smoker reports psychedelic hash to police – The Local
* Looking at a curvy women ‘gives men same high as drugs’ – Telegraph
* Aids: is the end in sight? – Science, News – The Independent
* YouTube – Godfrey Reggio – “Evidence”
* dailygleaner.com
- Vaccine to prevent genital warts approved for young males | The
Canadian Press – Breaking News, New Brunswick, Canada
* Besmettelijke varianten van menselijke vogelgriep gecreëerd | nu.nl/wetenschap | Het laatste nieuws het eerst op nu.nl
* France goes from burkas to burgers in latest Muslim row – Times Online
* The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. – By Deborah Blum – Slate Magazine

# ClimateGate

* Planetary Skin
* Czechgate: Climate scientists dump world’s second oldest ‘cold’ climate record | CLIMATEGATE
* C-SPAN Video Player – Senate Environment Cmte. Hearing on EPA Fiscal 2011 Budget
* Debunking Lomborg, the Climate-Change Skeptic – Sharon Begley – Newsweek.com
* Google gets go-ahead to buy, sell energy | Green Tech – CNET News
* warmlist

# False Flag

* TaxProf Blog: The Austin Pilot Had a Valid Tax Beef About § 1706
* Lucky concidence may have saved lives
* Landings: Aviation’s Databases

# Books

* A million library books to be sent down the mines – Manchester Evening News

# We told you so

* dailygleaner.com
- Vaccine to prevent genital warts approved for young males | The
Canadian Press – Breaking News, New Brunswick, Canada

# Swine Flu

* Bloomberg.com
* Virulent Bird-Human Flu Hybrid Made in Lab | Wired Science | Wired.com