Thursday, 16 July 2009

Foreclosures Rise 15% in First Half of 2009
The number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes soared by nearly 15 percent in the first half of the year as more people lost their jobs and were unable to pay their monthly mortgage bills.

• Verleger Predicts $20 Oil This Year on ‘Devastating’ Crude Glut 
 Head of $25 Billion Templeton Fund: Derivatives Will Cause Another Crisis

Obama’s Science Czar: Traditional family is obsolete, punish large families
Holdren, with a blithe “of course,” encourages government to wage an effective war on the family in America.

• More Examples Of Holdren’s Spectacularly Wrong Alarmist Rhetoric

Germany’s BND denies report on Iran bomb timing
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency BND denied a report in a magazine on Wednesday that its experts believe Iran is capable of producing and testing an atomic bomb within six months.

• Israel soldiers reveal ’shoot first’ policy in Gaza