Occupy Wall Street: Where did all the money go? | GlobalPost

In New York, protesters doled out $3,000 for supplies to make Halloween puppets, $1,100 for herbs — the legal variety — and $19,200 for tents. Other expenses included bagels, women’s underwear, metro cards, cleaning supplies, tobacco, and a lot of walkie-talkies.

The Chevy Trabant? « LewRockwell.com Blog

Rather than repeat previous comments on the atrocity that is the Chevy Trabant, see my blog from October 2010: "Chevy Volt: The Government's Car" where I wrote about the assorted subsidies, buyer's tax credits, and the global warming (oops, climate change) scam that is behind the government-corporate state, centrally-planning mechanism that creates jobs in strategic sectors with strategic corporate partners to produce subsidized products that no one wants to buy on the market so the green industry can be well-funded via redistribution schemes, and people can be propagandized into "going green" to prop up these highly-profitable and fascist state-corporate partnerships.

EU airline carbon move could spark trade war-China | Reuters

"This is a trade barrier in the name of environmental protection and will strike a wide blow to passenger benefits and the international airline industry," the state-run Xinhua News Agency said in a commentary.

 "It will be difficult to avoid a trade war focused on an aviation 'carbon tax'," said Xinhua, whose editorials generally reflect the official government position.