Arise ye workers from your slumbers. Arise ye criminals of want.

Shanghai - that Extra Mile…

First you need to go for a health check, then 4 days prior your visit to the "free-hand-job-then-get-paid-paradise" you must abstain from sex and masturbation. You can go 4-5 times a month, and each time you will get maximum 3 hand jobs.

Exposing The Rightwing PR Machine: Is CNBC's Rick Santelli Sucking Koch?

What we discovered is that Santelli's "rant" was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign.

50 facts that should change the world

44. There are 27 million slaves in the world today. 45. Americans discard 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. That's enough bottles to reach all the way to the moon every three weeks. 46. The average urban Briton is caught on camera up to 300 times a day.

Turkey/Iran: Gas Deal Marks New Stage In Energy Cooperation

The preliminary agreement has caused ripples in Washington, which seeks to isolate Iran internationally because of the nuclear and Iraq issues.

Sudan and Africa: What Nobody is Talking About

Sudan is China's largest overseas oil suppliers and China is also partnered with Iran in a major oil deal. In addition, they may partner with Pakistan and Iran if India backs out of their part in the deal.

American and Britsh passport Holders taken Hostage in Mumbai

Gunmen have opened fire at a number of sites in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay), killing at least 78 people and injuring about 200 more. Police said shooting was continuing and that the incidents were co-ordinated terrorist attacks.

The Undiagnosed "Cancer" that Has Killed Capitalism

Think about this.

Royal Navy in firefight with Somali pirate

Funny how half of these Somali Pirates were Yemenites, ??

Ford and GM Blacklisted by Credit Insurers

Troubled US carmakers General Motors (NYSE:GM) and Ford Motor (NYSE:F) have been given a potentially devastating vote of no confidence by three big European credit insurers, which have removed cover from their suppliers.

Time to pull the plug on AIG?

AIG, the walking-dead insurance giant, is reported to have gone through $81 bn or so of the $122.5bn worth of financial facilities provided by the Fed since September 2008, first through an expensive (850 basis points over 3-month Libor) 2-year $85 bn facility and soon after thro …

Will the Arab world take issue Rahm's pro-Israeli views?

Rahm Emanuel, a presidential assistant named by his Irgun father for the last Israeli soldier to fall in the 1948 battle for Jerusalem. Irgun were responsible for the worst terrorist atrocities committed by Israel.

Taiwan implicitly questions credit-worthiness of US government

This will only be reported sporadically, but it represents one of the most dangerous turns yet in the credit crisis: a major sovereign holder of US debt and an ally of the US is questioning the viability of US government guarantee.

US debt clock runs out of digits

The US government's debts have ballooned so badly the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits to record the spiralling figure. The digital counter marks the national debt level, but when that passed the $10 trillion point last month, the sign could not display the  …

What all Americans need to know about the future of their food

What does concentrated power look like? In agriculture, it is — to pick one example — three giant corporations controlling most of the world's grain trade; in food, just ten corporations controlling half the products on supermarket shelves.

Ukraine involved in illegal arms trade

The statement came after conflicting reports about the final destination of 'Faina', the cargo ship that was transporting Ukrainian T-72 tanks to either Kenya or Sudan when it was captured by pirates. Shady deals and awkward questions

Argentina and Brazil Dump the US $

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez announced Thursday that Brazil and Argentina will no longer require bilateral trade to be in U.S. dollars, saying trade in their national currencies will increase regional integration and boost economic growth.

Chavez eyes Russia nuclear help

"Brazil has various nuclear reactors, as does Argentina. We will have ours and Vladimir told the media: Russia is ready to help Venezuela develop nuclear energy for peaceful ends," he said, adding that a commission was already working on the issue.

EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney to Stop Illegal Surveillance

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing dragnet surveillance of their communications and communications r …

Paulson America's Lenin and the fall of Capitalism

Martin, the Chinese must be laughing up their ideological sleeves over this. What do they make of the fact that it looks like - and you've written about this yourself, I know - it looks like the Americans are having to use socialist techniques to bail out the free market economy.

Ukraine; Orange Bloc collapses

With only 22% of Ukrainians wanting to join the EU, and most of them come from the west, the east and south of the country look like turning into a secessionist movement. Russia has already been issuing passports to peoples in the South Crimea.

Confessions of a porn addict pastor

The alarm is understood to have been raised by the Hillsong Church in Sydney which revealed the pastor's hoax in an email.

U.S.A. DoD praises Hezbollah

A defense analyst, who advises American ground forces, said to rebuild the Georgian military along conventional lines might be the wrong approach. Instead he suggested a different force model, that of Hezbollah.

Sex, drugs and oil: corruption scandal rocks US agency

The report drafted by the department's inspector general Earl Devaney deplored "a culture of ethical failure" in which regulators received gifts including ski junkets and golf outings. The investigation uncovered a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity," Devaney said in a  …

America's Housing Crisis

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they've got to be the two most cartoon names in corporate history, but the US Treasury clearly believes their fall to earth last week could send a wrecking ball through the entire global financial system.

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