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Memory Booster

deadmanscurve wrote 8 months ago: Mr. Potato Head it ain’t—all the more reason we need a few good nuclear engineers to step forw … more →

Tags: fogbank, GAO, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, nuclear bomb, nuclear weapons maintenance, Nuclear Weapons Systems, Trident, US Government Accountability Office

China's Problem Child

deadmanscurve wrote 8 months ago: There is much to be said of China’s growth into a major economic force and position as an emer … more →

Tags: Balance of Power, Beijing, China, Japan, John Kennedy, kim il jong, Kim Il-jung, Kim Jong-Il, Korean Peninsula

Hostage Capital USA

deadmanscurve wrote 8 months ago: Phoenix in recent years has become home to a variety of symbols of excess:  sprawling, homogeneous h … more →

Tags: Economic Curves, Abduction, Air Pollution, arizona, Border, Chandler, Community Policing, coyotes, drug cartels

Good Night and Good Luck

deadmanscurve wrote 9 months ago: The print division of the Fourth Estate is in a terminal decline. There will be survivors, but the o … more →

Tags: Arizona Republic, Bernstein, Cleveland Plain Dealer, corruption, Detroit Free Press, fourth estate, governance, Los Angeles Times, Newspaper

Billions and Billions Served1 comment

deadmanscurve wrote 9 months ago: The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that almost $50 billion of the $173 billion that the U.S. … more →

Tags: Economic Curves, AiG, American International Group, Bailout, Banco Santander, Bank of America, Barclays Plc, Calyon, Danske

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

deadmanscurve wrote 9 months ago: In Kenya, civil society suffered a grave loss as two leaders of the Oscar Foundation were gunned dow … more →

Tags: Kenya, luo, Kikuyu, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Oscar Foundation, King'ara, oulu, Philip Alston

Crematorium Plans Up In Smoke

deadmanscurve wrote 10 months ago: A zoning variance application for a new crematorium that raised eyebrows in Cleveland’s Ohio C … more →

Tags: Hometown Curves, airborn pollution, bodnar, boza, British Columbia, burial, Cleveland, cremation, Crematoria

Straw Houses

deadmanscurve wrote 10 months ago: Cleveland City Council President Martin Sweeney can’t keep his house in order, literally. Accu … more →

Tags: Hometown Curves, Cleveland, Cleveland City Council, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Scene, council president, Doan Pyramid, Frank Russo, house addition

Iraq's Anti-Corruption Heroes1 comment

deadmanscurve wrote 10 months ago: Every country should be so fortunate. They are symbols of a newly emerging Iraq—a regional economic … more →

Tags: Economic Curves, petroleum, corruption, iraq, Anti-Corruption, Oil, Bayji, Ali al-Obaidi, Adil al-Jamali

The Sleeper Awakens1 comment

deadmanscurve wrote 10 months ago: Cuyahoga County Bill Mason has initiated a special investigation of Sheriff Gerald McFaul for possib … more →

Tags: Hometown Curves, cuyahoga county, Bill Mason, Gerald McFaul, Sheriff McFaul, Special Prosecutor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Lorain County, Michael Duff

Collective Responsibility

deadmanscurve wrote 11 months ago: There was much discussion in the 1960s and 1970s about technological advances outpacing the politica … more →

Tags: Economic Curves, Economics, global financial crisis, Davos, Unemployment, Spain, food riots, consumer spending, united states

Al Capone's Moscow

deadmanscurve wrote 11 months ago: The tragic killings of lawyer-activist Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova have cas … more →

Tags: Kenya, México, Russia, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Buburova, Moscow, barak obama, Execution, Anna Politkovskaya

No Equity In Phoenix Employee Givebacks

deadmanscurve wrote 11 months ago: Mayor Phil Gordon has asked city workers to voluntarily take a monthly vacation day without pay to h … more →

Tags: Economic Curves, Hometown Curves, phoenix, Phil Gordon, Mayor Gordon, Phoenix budget deficit, Phoenix politics, Job Creation, economic stimulus

Banks Won't Say How They're Spending TARP Funds

deadmanscurve wrote 1 year ago: “Thanks for the cash Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, security will see you to the door,” is what … more →

Tags: Economic Curves, tarp, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bailout, Elizabeth Warren, Bank of New York, mellon, Chase, j.p. morgan

Pending Law Crushes Kenya Media Freedoms 1 comment

deadmanscurve wrote 1 year ago: After a slow blossoming of liberty in recent years, the Kenyan press and media have come under renew … more →

Tags: Africa, Kenya, Kibaki, Media Freedom, freedom of the press, Media Bill, Media legislation, free speech, Kenyan law

Trouble Up North

deadmanscurve wrote 1 year ago: What is our kinder, gentler Canadian neighbor up to with its Kuwaiti-style muzzling of Parliament Th … more →

Tags: George W. Bush, Canada, Stephen Harper, Heather Mallick, Michaelle Jean, the guardian, Parliament, prorogation, Canadian Politics

Languages Help Pull Kenya Apart

deadmanscurve wrote 1 year ago: Language may be finishing what guns and pangas couldn’t in the aftermath of post-election viol … more →

Tags: Kenya, luo, Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Kibaki, post-election violence, Molo ;], Nandi, idp

More Outrage at TARP-Funded National City Purchase

deadmanscurve wrote 1 year ago: Ohio Republican Congressman Steve LaTourette has uncovered another bizarre insult to taxpayers in th … more →

Tags: Economic Curves, Hometown Curves, Congress, Cleveland, Republican, pnc, National City, tarp, Troubled Asset Relief Program

Phoenix Turns Deaf Ear To Night-Time Noise

deadmanscurve wrote 1 year ago: Councilman Michael Johnson’s website insists “I Luv District 8.” Apparently not en … more →

Tags: Hometown Curves, phoenix, noise, Councilman Michael Johnson, Alta Phoenix, City of Phoenix, Adora Lewis, ward 8, Michael Johnson


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