The Secret Service reports a spike in death threats to the Obama family corresponding with Palin's incendiary rhetoric attacking Obama's patriotism in her speeches.
The Kuwaiti central bank puts together a bailout package for one of that country's biggest financial institutions, and in Abu Dhabi, real estate prices have suddenly begun to soften. The article names widespread, heavily-leveraged currency trades as the primary culprit
You can't make this stuff up. If elected, Obama will "hire rapper Ludacris to 'paint [the White House] black... Mandatory Black Liberation Theolgy courses taught in all churches... Change [the National Anthem] to the 'Black National Anthem' by James Weldon Johnson." And more.
"Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson"
A California-based company is developing a prototype of a new generation of zeppelin. It has a range of several thousand miles, can be powered by fuel-cell-generated electricity, flies at 8000 feet, and can traverse the continental U.S. in eighteen hours. The passenger deck is an acre in size.
Bizarre story... And, in case you were in doubt, the animal is dead now.
Worrisome signs of escalating conflict over South Ossetia after reports that Georgian bombing raids caused Russian casualties; Russian bombers allegedly have retaliated with attacks on Georgian territory.
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