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At Least 274 American Soldiers Remains Discarded In Trash Dump

SENATOR MULLS CRACKDOWN ON CRUISE SHIPS

Taxpayers footed the bill after a sewage-filled cruise needed to be rescued. Sen. Rockefeller thinks that’s not fair.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller thinks there’s something gross about Carnival Cruises.

But it’s not, in the senator’s words, the “squalid feces and trash and junk and stuff sloshing all over” the Carnival Triumph a few months ago. It’s this: American taxpayers—and not the cruise line—will have to pick up the tab for the U.S. Coast Guard coming [...]

Police restrain crowd from taking food after supermarket eviction

AUGUSTA, GA (WFXG) -

Law enforcement officials pushed back hundreds of people who were crowding around a large pile of merchandise outside an Augusta grocery store Tuesday afternoon.

But the goods sitting in the parking lot of the Laney Supermarket didn’t make into anyone’s hands.

Instead, the food people hoped to take home was tossed into the trash.

“People have children out here that are hungry, thirsty, could be anything. Why throw it away [...]

Turn trash to gasoline at home

This is the best home made refinery I have ever seen.
This guy is producing syn-gas cracking and producing bio crude all at the same time.
Making gasoline, diesel and paraffin with wood and cow pies but waste oil, plastic, food, algae or any other hydrocarbon works the same way with slight adjustments to catalysts for optimization.

25 “Why Questions” For You To Ponder As We Enter 2013

By Michael

Why does it seem like America is getting crazier with each passing year?  It has become glaringly apparent that very deep corruption has taken root in our society from the lowest levels of society all the way up to the highest levels of society.  In fact, some of the worst behavior of all is being exhibited by those that are supposed to be “examples” for our young people – [...]

Barry Ritholtz: ‘Cash Is Trash. Bernanke’s Inflation Call Is Nonsense.’

Ritholtz with Tom Keene earlier today.

 

In the US, figures released this year suggest that the average American family throws away 40% of the food they purchase

Bread That Lasts For 60 Days Could Cut Food Waste

Food waste is a massive problem in most developed countries. In the US, figures released this year suggest that the average American family throws away 40% of the food they purchase – which adds up to $165bn (£102bn) annually.

READ MORE @ BBC

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That’s insane. But there was no source for the figure quoted in this article, so I did some research. Here’s where [...]

VIDEO: 3 Men Brawl Over Pair Of Shoes In Middle Of Mall On Black Friday

ROSEVILLE (CBS13) – Fists flew during a Black Friday fight at the Roseville Galleria as three men trade blows, knocking down a display. They were possibly fighting over a pair of shoes.

It happened in the middle of the mall, as families watched in horror.

The sea of chaos was the last thing Lawrence Corpus thought he’d see while Black Friday shopping with his family at the Westfield Galleria.

“It could have easily become a riot,” said Corpus.

But when [...]

Business fined $4,000 over missing trashcan lid

According to conventional progressive wisdom, regulation is the means by which a compassionate government protects the weak and innocent from the strong and malevolent.

Try telling that to Brad Jones.

Jones is one of the owners of Buckingham Slate, a Virginia business a little over an hour’s drive west of Richmond. The company is distinguished by the quality of the highly valued Arvonia slate it produces. And by the fact that its [...]

World Markets Are Down

Latest International News

SPAIN’S ECONOMY WEAKENS
Dow tumbles 240 points to seven-week low
China’s manufacturing sector shows improvement
Facebook stock pops 12% as ad sales surge
Netflix plunges as subscriber totals disappoint
Dow Chemical cuts 2,400 jobs
Apple unveils smaller iPad mini
Apple’s iPad Mini event in 90 seconds
China slowdown may be overstated
Is China a friend or foe to the U/S.?
The five best stocks in Asia
Opinion: Earnings stink like a big pile of trash

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks/world-indexes/

Food fight as kids trash USDA fruit, vegetable guidelines

House Republicans say new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines aimed at forcing students to eat fruits and vegetables are a failure because students across the country are simply tossing the healthy fare into the trash.

“[T]here remains great concern with the amount of food waste generated at school cafeterias, much of it brought on by requiring students to take fruits and vegetables rather than simply offer them,” Reps. John Kline [...]

Chinese Restaurant Shut Down: Witnesses Saw Employees Wheeling Road Kill Into Kitchen

Customers at the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant in Williamsburg, Ky., alerted authorities after they spotted something they probably wish they hadn’t: restaurant employees wheeling roadkill back to the kitchen.

Local CBS affiliate WYMT interviewed the witnesses. The roadkill was apparently a deer stuffed into a trash can. “There was actually a blood trail they were mopping up behind the garbage can,” customer Katie Hopkins said. “There was like a tail, and like [...]

Are you serious? Businessman spends $20,000 to clean eyesore lot in Philly and city threatens legal action?

Real estate developer Ori Feibush has tried for years to acquire the city-owned lot near where he planned to open a new business, he says.  An eyesore filled with trash, weeds, broken glass and other dangerous substances, it was undeniably a deterrent to potential customers.

“Feibush…submitted seven written requests for either owning or leasing the parcel, has called the [redevelopment] authority 24 times and has visited its office four times,” according to the [...]

Athens Municipality Runs Out Of Cash; Suspends All Operations

Remember when we said cash flow is always more important than diluting the M2 (the Fed is great at the latter, powerless at the former)? Here’s why: The municipality of Acharnes in northern Athenshas decided to suspend all of its operations after running out of money. The municipal council met on Thursday night and voted to stop providing anything other than basic services because of its inability to pay employees’ wages and regular expenses. In [...]

VIDEO: U.S. Military Orders – Soldiers: MUST Burn Bibles – MUST Treat Qu’ran Like Delicate Art

This is an amazingly done video with full documentation. This just blew me away and I’ve never seen it presented on GLP before. The author shows how soldiers MUST burn their bibles in war zones and when around muslim enemies because according to the military the bible is part of the soldier’s trash. However, exact, detailed, specific instructions are given to soldiers when handling th qu’ran…instructions to treat the qu’ran [...]

STUDY: Americans trash as much as 40% of food

Americans are throwing out nearly every other bite of food, wasting up to 40% of the country’s supply each year – a mass of uneaten provisions worth $165 billion, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

An average family of four squanders $2,275 in food each year, or 20 pounds per person per month, according to the nonprofit and nonpartisan environmental advocacy group.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-food-waste-nrdc-20120821,0,7810321.story

Parking trouble 240 miles above the earth: Automatic docking test on the International Space Station fails

A hi-tech automatic parking system for spacecraft arriving at the International Space Station has failed.

US and Russian space agencies had hoped the technology would make it far easier to send crew and supply ships to the station.

A test carried out with a Russian cargo craft this morning was supposed to prove the system worked.

However, the failure now puts the entire project in doubt.

 

The space agencies said a new docking attempt [...]

Why do smokers find it ok to throw cigarette butts anywhere, when they wouldn’t litter “normal” trash.

Do smokers not know that filters are not cotton, and not easily biodegradable? They are trash, yet most smokers I know/see throw them wherever they are when they finish smoking. Driving down the road, into the water, on the sidewalk. It’s especially gross finding them in the sand at the beach. It’s no different from crumbling up trash and tossing it at your feet.

Edit: I don’t mean to insinuate that [...]

Nothing was stolen: Woman ‘breaks into house, cleans it and leaves bill for $75′

The Ohio Cleaning Fairy: Susan Warren allegedly broke into a home to clean it

A woman has been accused of breaking into a house, washing the dishes, tidying and vacuuming before leaving a bill with her name on it for $75.

When police confronted Susan Warren, 53, about the alleged early-morning break in, she told them she ‘does it all the time’.

Warren allegedly broke into the home in Westlake, Ohio after picking [...]

Hoarder Evicted For 6th Time After Leaving Tons Of Trash, Human Waste In Apartment

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A man labeled as a hoarder by authorities is out of his apartment in Friendship.

Ken Goldsmith grabbed three bags and walked out Friday. He had refused to leave for 10 months.

“You’re gonna make a media circus out of this,” Goldsmith said to the sheriff’s deputy.

“The last thing I want is to see you hurt,” the deputy said.

The apartment has approximately six tons of trash inside, including possible [...]

Stockton, CA next to face bankruptcy?

Harrisburg, Pa. to skip two debt payments

Pennsylvania’s distressed capital city, Harrisburg, will skip $5.3 million of debt payments due next week, the first time the city has defaulted on its general obligation bonds, to ensure there is enough cash to fund vital services.

Pennsylvania’s capital of 50,000 people is mired in $326 million of debt due to the expensive retrofits and repairs of its troubled trash incinerator.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/10/pennsylvania-harrisburg-idUSL2E8E9DMS20120310

 

Stockton residents watch their port [...]

Silver – Is the Party Over?

 A couple of weeks ago, we compared the Bull market of Silver to the Nasdaq Bubble…

We  wrote that Silver could go as high as $38, but that that might be an inflection point.
Silver reached a high of $37.22 last night, and has thus reached its goal.

Below, you can see an updated version of the chart we posted a couple of weeks ago:

Chart courtesy Prorealtime.com

Sentiment is also getting (too?) bullish, as [...]

Bernanke’s Failed CNBC Predictions

http://dailybail.com/home/a-movement-by-the-people-to-prevent-the-reappointment-of-the.html

Eliot Spitzer: “The Federal Reserve Is A Ponzi Scheme” (Inside The Fed’s Secret Pile Of Trash With Ratigan, Spitzer & Toure

http://dailybail.com/home/eliot-spitzer-the-federal-reserve-is-a-ponzi-scheme-inside-t.html

Marvin Barth Says QE2 Won’t Fix `Underlying Problems’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYkvuqHXD-U

9 Reasons Why Quantitative Easing Is Bad For The U.S. Economy

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/9-reasons-why-quantitative-easing-is-bad-for-the-u-s-economy

The Hammer Gets Hit By A Tree

http://dailybail.com/home/the-hammer-gets-hit-by-a-tree.html

Quantitative Easing Explained

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k

Housing, the most manipulated market in the world

http://www.newworldparty.org/2011/04/housing-most-manipulated-market-in.html

The American Dream By The Provocateur Network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWH5TlbloU

U.S. National Debt Clock

http://www.usdebtclock.org
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Arson Investigators Probe Dozens of Christmas Tree Fires in Long Beach

(credit: CBS)

LONG BEACH (CBS) — Fire investigators have had their hands full with dozens of intentionally set Christmas tree fires.

Officials say as many as 60 fires have been set in the past several days involving Christmas trees that have been left on the curb for trash pick up, KNX 1070?s Ron Killgore reports.

 

“The risk of the public being hurt, victims being burned in these fires from the fire venturing into their home [...]

Woman Furious After Police Trash House Looking For Suspect, Then Leave

STOCKTON (CBS13) — The San Jose Police Department stormed into a Stockton home searching for an accused killer, but they left without him, and left behind a complete mess.

“I feel like a war was taken on here, and we lost,” homeowner Joann Rice said told CBS13 on

Almost all of the windows are smashed in, there are holes in the wall, and there’s a layer of tear gas in the air [...]

Groupon is nothing but a garbage pump and dump to transfer more wealth to connected insiders

I read a pretty critical article of Groupon yesterday telling how they brought in about $800 million in venture funding and didn’t use any of it to grow the company. $268 million of that money went right into the pockets of one of the Groupon executives. The article also stated how Groupon has been overstating revenues since its inception and how many merchants are turning against the company.

I just went [...]

Town Chooses Bankrupcy Rather Than Government Stimulus

NJ:

Pennsylvania’s capital city voted to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday as it faced a state takeover, according to media reports.

The City Council voted 4-3 to seek bankruptcy protection for Harrisburg, which has a debt burden five times its general-fund budget “because of an overhaul and expansion of a trash-to-energy incinerator that doesn’t generate enough revenue,” Bloomberg reported.

The bankruptcy means the city will [...]

Hundreds of dirty diapers dumped along city streets

LAKE MARY, Fla. — People in Lake Mary, an Orlando suburb, say someone has been throwing hundreds of dirty diapers along their streets for months, possibly years.Spotting the diapers is easy. Nestled between common trash, they appear along roadsides, one by one, spaced apart is if someone threw each one out of a moving car. And they can be found in the hundreds.Police think [...]

NEW SPACE PICS SHOW FOOTPRINTS, TRASH LEFT ON MOON

WASHINGTON (WLS) – A spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from 1969 to 1972.

Images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 13 to 15 miles up show the astronauts’ paths when they walked on the moon, as well as ruts left by a moon buggy. Experts could even identify the backpacks astronauts pitched [...]