Archive for January, 2009

Obama readies road map for new bailout spending (AP)

Written by on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 in Latest News.

AP – President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to lower mortgage costs, offer job-making loans for small businesses, get credit flowing and rein in free-spending executives as he readies a new road map for spending billions from the second installment of the financial rescue plot.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

Crisis summit signals era of big government (AFP)

Written by on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 in Latest News.

The puppet of an anti-WEF activist organisation is surrounded by police forces during a demonstration on January 31 in Geneva. The world is entering an era of big government with only state muscle powerful enough to fight the economic crisis, top leaders signalled at the Davos summit.(AFP/Nicholas Ratzenboeck)AFP – The world is entering an era of huge government with only state muscle powerful enough to fight the economic crisis, top leaders signalled at the Davos summit.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

Police Confuse Living Man as Dead, Send to Autopsy

Written by on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 in Latest News.

In a bizarre turn of events that seem straight out of an ancient Twilight Zone episode, police in Khajekalam, India, mistakenly declared a man dead who was found in a semi-conscious state, and sent him off for an autopsy while he was still alive! Abdul Raza, a road roller driver for the state Public Works Department, [...]

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