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| How many Pakistani civilians have US drones killed in the past nine years? No one really knows, it's in the thousands. |
- While the prime rates are low and static, the 340 million credit card holders in the US have seen their interest rates go in only one direction. Can you guess which direction that is? Since the new so-called financial reform law is going place limits on the outrageous service and late charges the banks can stick us with, they have simply raised interest rates by about an average of nine percent. Read.
- Latest toll of innocent people killed in Pakistan by an errant strike by a US drone: 20 killed (including 4 women & 3 children), another 13 wounded (several more children). My understanding is that counter-insurgency, the vaunted Petraeus strategy that's going to "win" our war in Afghanistan--eventually, if I understand what the administration and the Pentagon are setting us all up to hear. Read.
- Up to 15,000 dead fish have turned up at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Tests are underway to determine if the kill was caused by the oil spill. What do you think? Drum, crab, red fish, eel, sting rays, speckled trout are among the victims. Read.
Happy Monday!
3 comments:
Do you recall that the buildings destroyed by 1999 terrorism in Fight Club were credit card company buildings?
The Gulf is the New Salton Sea, baby!
And New Orleans will be the new Bombay Beach!
The cost of the spill in professions sacrificed and in livelihoods crippled for people living down there . . . well, who knows what an astronomical figure that is? I read that there's been a huge upsurge in psychological problems, marital troubles, domestic violence, etc., etc. since the spill. Nobody can put a price on any of this.
And no, I didn't recall that about the buildings in "Fight Club". Appropriate, no?
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