* Under the Barack Obama presidency, the U.S. Treasury Department has given the People's Bank of China a direct computer link to its auction system. That's right; Communist China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government. Here's the scary story from Reuters.
* And speaking of China, that country's Dalian Wanda Group announced yesterday that it had paid $2.6 billion to buy up AMC Entertainment thereby creating (along with its extensive real estate holdings, luxury hotels, etc.) the world's largest cinema chain.
* Was it from the schoolyard of his youth or from CNN where he was a bigwig executive for a long time, that Bob Furnad learned such nasty tricks as leaving dog feces in his neighbor's mailbox? It's hard to say. At any rate, Furnad's escalation of a quarrel with his neighbors was caught on videotape and he was busted by the cops.
* The trend of"homosexual chic" continues in super-hero comic books.
* A gang of 20 young blacks, dressed in in hoodies and armed with knives and clubs, stormed a London pub and killed a 25-year old white man who was watching a football match on TV. They also stabbed and critically injured his father who had thrown his body over his son in a vain attempt to protect him.
