No Agenda - NA-159-2009-12-24

#159 No Agenda For Thursday December 24th 2009
Health Care Doublecross

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• Financial
  • Senate approves health care reform bill – CNN.com
  • U.S. Treasury – Office of Foreign Assets Control
  • Examiner Editorial: The impudent tyranny of Sen. Harry Reid | San Francisco Examiner
• Gitmo Nation
  • We
    Are No Longer a Nation of Laws. Senate Sets Up Requirement for
    Super-Majority to Ever Repeal Obamacare – Erick’s blog – RedState
  • The Rag Blog: Supremes : ‘Suspected Enemy Combatant’ no Longer a ‘Person’
  • Obama Orders All On US ‘Red List’ Disappeared By March 1st
  • US To Begin Drugging Water Supplies To Pacify Restless Population
  • The Real Drug Lords
  • Obama gave INTERPOL immunity from the Constitution on Dec 16! IMPORTANT – Liberty Forest
  • YouTube – DC Cop Waves Gun at Snowball Fight!
  • VeriChip’s Merger With Credit Monitoring Firm Worries Privacy Activists | Threat Level | Wired.com
  • Print Whaddaya Mean Obama Hasn’t Done Anything?
  • YouTube – The rfiddler – the rfid warfare hast just begun
  • YouTube – Viral video suggests Berlusconi attack was faked
  • Executive Order — Amending Executive Order 12425, page 1
  • Only Hearsay – D.U.M.B explodes under San Diego, news sources, military dumbfounded
  • http://www.10news.com/news/22030565/detail.html
• Swine Flu/Vaccines
  • SF Residents Line Up For Mass H1N1 Vaccine Clinic – News Story – KTVU San Francisco
  • Experts say pandemic could have a silver lining if it knocks out other viruses | Sympatico.ca Health & Fitness
  • P122009PS-0001 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
  • Anti-sunburn drug protects fair skinned people from UV rays – Telegraph
• Out There
  • Majority of U.S. Cocaine Supply Cut with Veterinary Deworming Drug | Popular Science
• Climate Change
  • Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man’s best friend – Yahoo! News
  • Big Government » Blog Archive » Build-A-Climate-Scare: Why You Should Boycott Build-A-Bear
  • Climate concern ripped as ‘religion’ – Washington Times
  • Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor – Full Comment
  • How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room | Mark Lynas | Environment | The Guardian
  • YouTube – Climate sceptics against me: Pachauri
• Media Distraction Of The Week
  • BBC News – Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts
  • Story of Tiger Woods’ Parking Lot Liaison Reportedly Killed with Law Firm’s Help – News – ABA Journal
  • Madoff moved to medical wing of U.S. prison | Reuters
  
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Teapots from Space: Attack of the Space Junk

The first episode of 'Teapots from Space'. How much space junk is there and how did it get into space? Watch the space teapots and teapot-abducted astronomers talk about space junk and space telescopes.

Dollar Rally !

Dollar Rally !

by Barry Ritholtz

We know that “Short the US Dollar” has been a crowded trade for soem time now. And, after falling 41% from 2001 to 2008, the fat part of the collapse has already happened.
Will it continue? That’s what today’s chart looks at.
How likely is it that the rest of the world will stand idly by and allow:  a) US manufacturing competitiveness a huge advantage via weak currency?;  2) Massive US debt to be inflated away through dollar weakness?
Quite possibly not, as other currencies engage in a race to the bottom. The chart below suggests a dollar rally is in the offing:
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US Dollar Index Weekly with MACD

Courtesy of Ron Griess of The Chart Store