Daily Archives: April 9, 2009

RBS May Cut 9K Jobs Because Of Bailout

A view of things to come? Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, the biggest bank controlled by the U.K. Treasury, plans to eliminate as many as 9,000 more jobs worldwide as it seeks to repay a government bailout. The cuts, which total about 5 percent of RBS’s global workforce, include 4,500 jobs in Britain. The […]

Aside: Marisa Miller Bikini

Totally Crap has some hot Marisa Miller bikini photos

Aside: Director Blue On MSM

Director Blue: The curious case of 200 nearly identical MSM headlines

Al Qaeda Plot Broken Up In England

But, MI-5 almost hosed it badly A huge MI5 and police counterterrorist operation against al-Qaeda suspects had to be brought forward at short notice last night after Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism chief accidentally revealed a briefing document. Twelve people were arrested, ten of them born in Pakistan, at eight separate addresses after a long covert surveillance […]

DU Today: Obama Worse Then Bush On Wiretapping

It’s been quite some time since we visited the Democratic Underground, but, hey, considering all the funny business coming from Obama and the Donkeys, all the gaffes, all the annoying of our allies and pandering to our enemies (speaking of which, Mahmoud says he will meet with Obamaif Obama offers an “honest hand” with “honesty […]

Aside: iTunes Terrorists

Hey, you, no using iTunes to make nuclear weapons. Gizmodo

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