The Wall Street Journal noted last week:Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday ruled out a central bank bailout of state and local governments strapped with big municipal debt burdens, saying the Fed had limited legal authority to help and l…
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Government Says No to Helping States and Main Street, While Continuing to Throw Trillions at the Giant Banks
January 13th, 2011 |
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New York Sues Accounting Giant Ernst & Young for Fraud in Connection with Lehman’s Repo 105, But the ENTIRE American Economy is a Ponzi Scheme
December 20th, 2010 |
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New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo is about to charge Lehman’s accountants, Ernst & Young, with fraud for allowing Lehman to cook its books using the infamous “Repo 105″ shell game. This comes only weeks after a Lehman retirement fund sued Leh…
Instead of Actually Stabilizing the Economy By Reining In the Giant Banks, Governments Just Launching More Faux Stress Tests as a P.R. Stunt
November 30th, 2010 |
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The big banks caused the financial crisis, and are continuing to drag the world economy down the into a black hole. So what are the governments of the world doing to address this core problem? Breaking up the giant banks? Nationalizing them? Holding …
Pietersen’s inability to handle left-arm spin, not giant ego his Achilles heel
November 19th, 2010 |
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England batsman Kevin Pietersen’s inability to handle left-arm spin bowling with confidence has strengthened Xavier Doherty’s chances of playing in the first Ashes Test in Brisbane. Australia A’s left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe troubled Pietersen in a tour match at the Bellerive Oval, reminding the talented batsman of his one real weakness. Critics say that Pietersen’s [...]
Welcome to the Age of Permanent Bailouts for the Giant Banks
November 16th, 2010 |
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NY Fed president William Dudley said today, when asked when the Fed would stop quantitative easing:This exit could be several years away.Too bad that quantitative easing won’t help Main Street or the average American. It will only help big banks, gian…
Graphic Illustration of Why Superficial Financial Fixes Will Fail In An Environment Where Giant Banks Are Allowed to Hide Massive Debt
October 7th, 2010 |
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I’ve written a lot about why superficial fixes will fail as long as the giant banks are allowed to hide their massive debts. See this, this and this.I’ve also repeatedly noted that the size of the derivatives market dwarfs the global economy – and fo…
Brazil’s mining giant: Valuable Vale
September 23rd, 2010 |
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Few firms have achieved so much with so little fanfare. But can Vale mine anything other than iron ore?
IT IS perhaps the biggest firm you have never heard of. The Boston Consulting Group says it has created more value than any other large firm in the world over the past decade. Yet few people know how to pronounce Vale’s name (it’s “vah-lay”).
This giant Brazilian miner has stayed out of the spotlight even as ravenous demand from China has propelled it from insignificance ten years ago to a market capitalisation of $147 billion. It is now the world’s second-largest miner: smaller than BHP Billiton, but bigger than Rio Tinto and other better-known rivals. …
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad West Coast Tour In Progress
September 22nd, 2010 |
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SOPHISTICATED ROOTS/SOUL/REGGAE OUTFIT IN CALI
New York’s Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad just launched their own live music website on September 2. The site offers fresh live recordings for purchase and free downloads. LIVE UP!! Volume II is the first LivePanda.com release, consisting of ten tracks recorded during March and April 2010. Special guest Mike Tallman of Euforquestra plays guitar on “Ok.”
GPGDS kicked off a West Coast tour with Australia’s The Beautiful Girls on September 20 in Seattle.
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad Tour Dates
Sept 22 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
Sept 24 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
Sept 25 – Santa Barbara, CA – West Beach Festival
Sept 26 – San Juan Capistrano, CA – Coach House
Sept 28 – San Luis Obispo, CA – Downtown Brewing Co
Sept 29 – Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst Atrium
Sept 30 – West Hollywood, CA – Roxy Theatre
Oct 01 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up
Oct 02 – Hermosa Beach, CA – Saint Rocke
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad-”Change You” in HD from Hope Alive Media on Vimeo.
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad Tour Dates :: Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad News :: Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad Concert Reviews
Giant new drill joins Chile mine rescue
September 20th, 2010 |
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Engineers trying to rescue 33 miners trapped underground in Chile for more than six weeks have begun drilling a third escape tunnel. A huge drill borrowed from an oil company has joined two others digging through the 630 meters of rock separating the miners from the surface.
Google at 12: 10 IT Lessons the Search Engine Giant Has Taught Us
September 11th, 2010 |
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News Analysis: Google is now 12-years-old and over that period, the search engine company has taught the tech space quite a bit about what Google is all about. – Google is now 12-years-old. And over the past dozen years, the search
engine company has grown from a small startup with big hopes to the company
that has single-handedly changed every facet of the technology industry.
Whether its online or in the software space, Google has found a way to carve
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Bobby Bare Jr: Blue Giant Tour
August 24th, 2010 |
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TOUR STARTS THURSDAY AUGUST 24 IN MEMPHIS, TN; NEW ALBUM OUT AUGUST
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Bobby Bare Jr. and Blue Giant kick off the “Carpool
America” tour tomorrow in Memphis, TN. Blue Giant will open the shows and serve as his back up band along with
Bare’s drummer Matt Martin. The 24-city tour will kick start in Memphis, TN on August 24 and end in
Minneapolis on October 9. Bare also has dates wtih Justin Townes Earle and Drive-By Truckers. Bare will release his new album A Storm-A Tree-My Mother’s
Head on
August 31, 2010.
8/24: Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone – with BLUE GIANT
8/25: Oklahoma City, OK @ VZD’s – with BLUE GIANT
8/26: Austin, TX @ Continental Club – with BLUE GIANT
8/27: San Antonio, TX @ Casbeers – with BLUE GIANT
8/28: Marfa, TX @ Padres
8/30: Tucson, AZ @ Hotel Congress Patio
8/31: Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo- with BLUE GIANT
9/1: San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord- with BLUE GIANT
9/2: Reno, NV @ The Underground- with BLUE GIANT
9/4: Eugene, OR @ Sam Bonds Garage- with BLUE GIANT
9/6: Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot Festival
9/6: Vancouver, BC Canada @ The Biltmore with Justin Townes Earle
9/7: Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo with Justin Townes Earle
9/10: Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom with Okkervil River
9/13: Missoula, MT @ The Palace – with BLUE GIANT
9/15: Denver, CO @ Hi Dive – with BLUE GIANT
9/16: Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar – with BLUE GIANT
9/17: St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway – with BLUE GIANT
9/18: Nashville, TN @ The Basement – with BLUE GIANT
9/21: Atlanta, GA @ The Earl – with BLUE GIANT
9/22: Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 – with BLUE GIANT
9/23: Arlington, VA @ IOTA – with BLUE GIANT
9/24: Philadelphia, PA @ North Star Bar
9/25: Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells
9/27: New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge – with BLUE GIANT
9/28: Cambridge, MA @ Middle East – with BLUE GIANT
9/30: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom – with BLUE GIANT
10/01: Maumee, OH @ Village Idiot – with BLUE GIANT
10/02: Lexington, KY @ COSMIC CHARLIES
10/05: Pontiac, MI @ THE CROWFOOT – with BLUE GIANT
10/06-10/07: Chicago, IL – SCHUBAS – with BLUE GIANT
10/8: Madison, WI – The Frequency – with BLUE GIANT
10/09: Minneapolis, MN @ 400 BAR – with BLUE GIANT
10/28: Boone, NC @ Legends of Appalachian State – with Drive-By Truckers
10/29 & 10/30 Ricmond, VA @ The National – with Drive-By Truckers
10/31 Charlotte, NC @ The Filmore Charlotte – with Drive-By Truckers
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Mexican airlines: A clumsy giant stumbles
August 12th, 2010 |
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Mexicana’s bankruptcy will bring welcome turbulence to Mexican skies
AFTER 89 years in the skies, North America’s oldest airline seems ready to ditch. Compania Mexicana de Aviacion filed for bankruptcy protection on August 2nd and has been in a tailspin ever since: ticket sales were stopped on August 4th and a third of its routes were suspended a few days later. The airline says it has lost $350m since 2007 and now owes nearly $800m.
These are difficult times for airlines everywhere. But despite the entry of several low-cost carriers since 2005, fares in Mexico have remained old-fashionedly high: an hour’s flight from the capital’s main airport to Guadalajara, Mexico’s second city, cannot be had next month for much less than $175 return. Sao Paulo to Rio, a similar hop, can be done for $100. Partly because of this, middle-class Brazilians fly three times more often than their Mexican counterparts. …
Cloud Awakens Microsoft’s Server and Tools Giant
July 29th, 2010 |
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Has the cloud awakened a sleeping giant at Microsoft? The cloud is the future of IT, and Microsoft’s Server and Tools business has the company poised to cash in on that opportunity. Server and Tools is now Microsoft’s third-largest unit, approaching parity with Windows and Office. – REDMOND,
Wash. Has the cloud awakened a sleeping
giant at Microsoft?
Well,
as quiet at it is kept, Microsoft’s strong, steady and increasingly effective
Server and Tools Business has crept into the limelight as one of the company’s
major sources of income. It is beginning to challenge long-t…
Blue Giant: Tour Dates & Album
July 22nd, 2010 |
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SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW
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Blue Giant, led by
Kevin and Anita Robinson of Viva Voce, will be hitting the road this August in support of their newly released debut
album, Blue Giant. The band will be sharing the stage with Bobby Bare Jr. beginning in Memphis
on August 24 with additional stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York. See full tour dates
below.
The twelve tracks on the album, written by Kevin and Anita, combine the traditional sounds of American music –
country, bluegrass, and folk with driving, straight-ahead rock from the classic country feel of “Lonely Girl,” to the
melodic guitars in “Clean The Clock,” to the mellow, deceptively simple “Gone For Good” which features Sleater-
Kinney’s Corin Tucker.
Click here to listen to “Clean The Clock.”
Blue Giant with Bobby Bare Jr. Tour Dates:
8/24/2010 Memphis, TN – High Tone Cafe
8/25/2010 Oklahoma City, OK – VZD
8/26/2010 Austin, TX – Continental Club
8/27/2010 San Antonio, TX – Casbeers
8/31/2010 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
9/01/2010 San Francisco, CA – Cafe Du Nord
9/02/2010 Reno, NV – The Underground
9/04/2010 Eugene, OR – Sam Bonds Garage
9/11/2010 Portland, OR – MusicFestNW (w/ The Decemberists & Laura Viers)
9/13/2010 Missoula, MT – The Palace
9/15/2010 Denver, CO – Hi Dive
9/16/2010 Kansas City, MO – Record Bar
9/17/2010 St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
9/21/2010 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
9/22/2010 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
9/23/2010 Arlington, VA – IOTA Club
9/27/2010 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
9/28/2010 Cambridge, MA – Middle East
9/30/2010 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
10/01/2010 Maumee, OH – The Village Idiot
10/05/2010 Pontiac, MI – Pike Room
10/06/2010 Chicago, IL – Schubas
10/07/2010 Chicago, IL – Schubas
10/09/2010 Minneapolis, MN – 400 Bar
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Boustead unit plans acquisition of 1% redeemable Bio-treat convertible notes from Giant Delight
June 15th, 2010 |
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Boustead Singapore, the infrastructure-related engineering services and geo-spatial technology group, says wholly-owned subsidiary Boustead Knowledge has agreed to buy part of Giant Delight Holdings’ Bio-Treat Technology notes for $42,709,017. The notes can be converted into 854,180,330 Bio-Treat shares.
Google to employees: Switch to Apple, Linux
June 2nd, 2010 |
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Software giant Microsoft, whose Windows operating system dominates the desktop market, could be banished from desktop computers at another giant – Google. According to a report published on the Financial Times website last weekend, Google has told its employees that security vulnerabilities present in Microsoft’s products have become too much of a liability.
Third Giant Underwater Oil Plume Discovered
May 28th, 2010 |
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The New York Times reported on May 15th:Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the …
The Giant Banks, Federal Reserve and Treasury Have All Blackmailed America
May 22nd, 2010 |
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As I wrote last October: Congressmen Brad Sherman and Paul Kanjorski and Senator James Inhofe all say that the government warned of martial law if Tarp wasn’t passed. And Rahm Emanuel famously said: Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I…
Giant inflatable castle on Lake Garda?
May 17th, 2010 |
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Things that make you go ‘eh?’ No, I’m not talking about The General being back in the black. I was on Honda’s media site this evening and I came across some bizarre looking pics and a video. A trio of young men from London were paddling an inflatable castle – the kind of thing that five-year-olds bounce around on – across Lake Garda. The young trio undertook the challenge as part of their participation in the Live Every Litre project by Honda (www.liveeverylitre.com).
The giant red and yellow castle set off at 9am across the lake, making ‘good progress with a combination of paddles and the wind’. They still managed to gate-crash an international sailing regatta. After successfully navigating their way through the melee of Lazer class sailing dinghies, the group came ashore in Riva Del Garda, where ‘astonished tourists formed an unofficial welcoming committee’.
Self-appointed group leader and mentor, Chris, was delighted to have made history, commenting: “Great Britain has such a great tradition as a sea fairing nation and we really feel we have played no role at all in adding to this. That said it was possibly the most fun we have ever had and we really never believed this most frivolous of dreams would ever be realised.”
Well, fair enough. They had some fun. I could just ask this: er, what was the point? I don’t want to sound curmudgeonly, but could they have put their energy into something more sort of, well, socially useful? Maybe I’m getting old…
Have a look at the website liveeverylitre and see if you can work out what on earth is going on and also ponder what Honda is up to…clearly the kids will all want a Jazz or a Civic.