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Jan 16th, 2008 by ravi

More mortgage haemorrhage…

Forget all the damage control about this thing being significant but small, with localised effect… a quick tally of the chart at BBC, of losses declared thus far, comes up with about $80 billion. While that’s not in the Bush league of screw-ups (he being the genius who is spending upward of a billion dollars a week to kill Iraqis) but it sure is beginning to look like real money. And that’s not just me… read below on what Herr Wheeldon, one of the moneybag insiders (a.k.a “senior strategist”) has to say.

Let’s see if the road leads to the sort of numbers posted by Dubya’s brother.

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Jan 14th, 2008 by ravi

More on the mortgage crisis…

In late October, a Cleveland judge halted foreclosures due to the inability of the banks to prove their ownership (that’s my summary — click the link for the legalese). Now Cleveland is suing them (the banks):

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Nov 29th, 2006 by ravi

Ex-Lesbian born again guilty of kidnapping?

The below is a positive turn to a custody fight that I have been following with some sadness and anger:

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Oct 11th, 2006 by ravi

From Gandhi to Geisha

Forget non-alignment and socialism! It’s East India Co Shining baby!

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Oct 7th, 2006 by ravi

$11 million judgement against Spamhaus

A bit of slightly old news: A judge in Illionois awarded [default] $11 million to a person/entity listed as a spammer in Spamhaus’ block list. There are many interesting issues here, primary of which is that of jurisdiction. Below is Spamhaus’ response:

Below is ArsTechnica‘s report on the affair:

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Aug 23rd, 2006 by ravi

Israeli buffoonery continues

How do you get from the image of the most advanced and successful fighting force in the world to a pathetic joke, in the period of one month?

It would all be hilarious if the IDF silliness did not involve the death of others (15 people in this case).

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Aug 19th, 2006 by ravi

Anti-NSA ruling: technical problems?

The experts don’t like the technicalities of the decision against the NSA illegal snooping programme:

I am not sure I buy into this entirely. Jonathan Turley seemed to think well of the trial/judgement in his appearance on Keith Olberman’s Countdown.

Update: Laurence Tribedoesn’t agree with the criticism of Judge Taylor’s judgement, either.

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Aug 16th, 2006 by ravi

Cheney/Rove forced to testify?

Tom Nadelhoffer points to a Reuters news item regarding the Plame civil lawsuit against Cheney et al:

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Aug 14th, 2006 by ravi

Bees do it, birds do it too…

Guess who’s blogging?

http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/

Currently down with error:

Some info is available at BBC.