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POPSYes Men Pull Off Chamber Of Commerce Hoax On Climate Change It turns out, that an email press release was just one component of the hoax. In addition, the fake group managed to secure space at the prestigious National Press Club to host a "press conference" announcing its change in climate change position, according to the real Chamber. Several reporters were in attendance, I'm told, unaware that this was all a big joke. The event would have gone off without a hitch except for the fact that an actual Chamber spokesman was tipped off to the shenanigans and moved quickly to break it up. A reporter interested in covering what she thought was a real event inadvertently showed up at the Chamber's office on H Street instead of the press club. UPDATE: A source close to the infamous pranksters, The Yes Men, claims that the group was behind today's hoax and will be sending along a press release and video shortly. Stay tuned!
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POPSCommercial Real Estate Next Big ‘Shoe to Drop’ Below are the highlights " or, in reality, the lowlights " that lie ahead, according to Celente: The commercial real estate market will collapse; People will be unable to pay their credit cards; Crime will increase as people who feel they have nothing left to lose will begin to commit acts of violence; People will begin to revolt against taxes; and We’re going into a depression, not a recession. Buckle up, America! Looks like we’re in for a bumpy ride. Bob McCarty
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POPSPalm Oil: It profits a man nothing to give his soul The play recounts the story of Henry VIII and his succession of wives in his search for one who could give him a male heir. When the Catholic Church would not dissolve his "present" marriage in order to legitimize the next union, Henry pulled his country out of the Roman Church and made himself the head of the Church of England, a condition that exists today.
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POPSPassing unread laws and a Useless Pledge By passing legislation without having read it congress is falling victim to the old bait and switch scam. What they end up voting on is someone else’s interpretation, i.e., synopsis of the legislation before them without being informed of everything that is in the bill. An awful lot of pork can be passed into law by the unscrupulous author of a bill who can be bought by lobbyists to include enticements for themselves into a bill that doesn’t get read by the signer. As far as this ‘pledge’ goes, it is the highly naïve person who thinks signing it will have any positive impact. The ethics and common sense of their position already dictates that they know what it is they are voting on.
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POPS Watchdog Out. Lapdog In.
required that all Amtrak documents be "pre-screened" (and in some cases redacted) before being turned over to the inspector general's office; and taken control of the inspector general's $5 million portion of federal stimulus spending. Moreover, the report revealed, Amtrak regularly retained outside law firms shielded from IG reach. In another case, Amtrak's Law Department appeared to meddle in an inspector general investigation of an outside financial adviser suspected of inflating fees. The consultant ran to the Law Department when the IG demanded documents, and the Law Department repudiated the IG's instructions on complying with a subpoena. These interventions (ongoing since 2007) have "systematically violated the letter and spirit of the Inspector General Act," according to Grassley. IG staffers now fear retaliation -- and with good reason. (Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold "retired", dismissal of Gerald Walpin, financial shenanigans by Obama cronies)
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POPSThe Best Switch-Pitcher in Baseball Crazy right? its true though, this kid throws both left and right handed coming out of the bull pen...and he's killing it. Unfortunately, he's more of a side - left or right ;) - show than a real prospect and its likely he'll never see a big league game. That said, with guys like Rick Ankiel making the jump from pitcher to slugging outfielder I suppose it will happen in the majors one day.
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POPSHow Car Companies Are Financed & What Obama Has Done To Them The dealer has, in effect, bought 200 cars and the manufacturer keeps him supplied with another 100 cars per month. In a year the dealership has bought (paid for) 100 cars/month x 12 months + 100 cars = 1300 cars. Does the dealership get stuck with leftover cars? Yes, that’s why you can cut such good deals on last year’s model. Why would the dealership put up with such a lousy bit of financial shenanigans? Because the largest percentage of the dealership’s money comes from the sale of repair services. They also make a huge amount on used cars; which are a separate, yet dependant business. As Lonsberry pointed out, if GM and Chrysler wanted to improve business they would get more dealers not fewer. But, dealers are granted territories so they won’t be eating out of each other’s repair business. Also, there are specialized instruments and tools required to fix various cars. GM and Chrysler design, build and (in the case of software) maintain these tools.
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POPSendgame for gramm? this is very interesting- this article also states his wife Wendy helped pull of the Enron shenanigans as well
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POPSTime to find corporate billions kept offshore
Tax evasion is basically theft and can be secondarily considered treason. The tax system is set up to benefit the general population through maintenance of infrastructure, paying the military, paying our politicians, etc. American corporations making a profit from doing business in the U.S. and conducting their business through overseas subsidiaries to avoid U.S. tax laws are in effect stealing from the American public. This leaves the bill for these government supported services to be footed by honest tax payers. This is also an issue of morality and ethics. Corporations take and use all the benefits of living and working in America but don’t pay for the privilege. These corporations need to step up and pay their fair share of being allowed to do business in America. Politicians will never force the issue because they are benefiting from these corporations doing business here. We all need to raise our voices high and boycott those corporations that are stealing from
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POPSRecipe For Hope, Stacy Peterson Are you sick and tired of seeing the shenanigans of Drew Peterson and his merry band of pranksters constantly in the news and on your TV? Have you had about enough of this constant barrage of disrespect for the mothers of his children? What can you do about it? What can you do to bring back the respect and dignity to this three ring circus?
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POPSAuto rescue bill in peril, opposed by GOP senators What truly bothers me about fast-tracking a vote on this deal is what Sen. Mitch McConnell, the GOP leader, said Wednesday afternoon "Everybody is still kind of poring through it, trying to figure out exactly what it does." This sounds to me as though the vote has more of an emotional basis rather than the actual wording of the measure, Scary stuff. Yet Bush says he is supporting it. Deputy Chief of Staff Joel Kaplan told reporters at a late-morning briefing that the administration had yet to read the fine print of its "conceptual agreement" with congressional Democrats How can anyone who hasn't read this thing be for or against it? Another problem I have with this, and I know it is common pracitce, is that included in the bill is an unrelated pay-raise for federal judges. Why is this part of this vote? What does this have to do with the Big 3 bailout? Someone please explain.
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POPSDoes the Full Moon Really Make People Crazy? "So if you're feeling a little mischievous tonight, it might be the full moon. Or it might just be the fact that you read some sensationalistic articles about how the full moon affects people's behavior." ;-)
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POPSSEO Firm Sued These guys deserve it, I hate hearing about these shady Web/SEO firms that rip off small business owners. I am a Web SEO and it's assholes like this that screw it up for the rest of us ethical Search Specialists.
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POPSInvestigating where Lehman’s money went This sounds awfully shady. I hope that someday we can get a clear understanding of all the shenanigans that are going on. Seems that the government and major banks are writing the rules as they play the game...and we all just can't keep up with all the noise.
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