The acting chief financial officer of mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac, David Kellermann, was found dead Wednesday morning, police said.

The death "may have been an apparent suicide," said Lucy Caldwell, a spokeswoman for police in Fairfax County, Va.

Authorities said there were no signs of foul play when officers were called to Kellermann's home in Vienna shortly before 5 a.m. ET, Caldwell said. A source familiar with the investigation said Kellerman apparently hanged himself.

Following up on our conversation of Gorbachev the other day, Iast night Charlie Rose interviewed him and George Schultz.  Unfortunately the video is not up yet.  A few interesting tidbits:  I don't remember if it was at Geneva or Reykjavik, but Reagan apparently asked Gorby what Russia would do if America were attacked from outerspace, by aliens. Sounds apocryphal until you remember Reagan.  The two countries agreed that if such a thing were to occur, they would defend each other.  This was a turning point in their negotiations.  LOL.  Also, Gorby talked about the need to expand freedom of the press, freedom of information in the Soviet Union, not because of US pressure to do so, not as a human rights measure, but because there was a lot of resistance to Gorby's reforms, and he felt the only way he get wide support was if people actually knew the facts.  Only then would they understand why he felt it was necessary to make these changes.  And the only way to ensure people had the facts was to open up the press and allow a public dialogue.  Interesting.

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky

WASHINGTON-- The Interior Department has finalized sweeping rules that clear the way for the first offshore wind turbines to be erected along the Atlantic Coast, the most aggressive move yet from an administration that hopes to shift the nation's offshore energy goals from oil to wind power.

The rules will set long-awaited guidelines for offshore leases, easements and royalty payments, which the Bush administration worked on for years but did not complete. Without the guidelines, potential wind projects in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and several other coastal states could not begin construction.

The department will announce the rules Wednesday, Interior Department officials said, and President Barack Obama will mention them in his Earth Day appearance at an Iowa wind turbine factory.

Offshore wind power is currently used to generate electricity in Europe, where land for traditional onshore turbines is hard to come by. But there are no offshore wind farms operating in the U.S.

So Citigroup is profitable because investors think it's failing, while Morgan Stanley is losing money because investors think it will survive. I am not making this up.

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The European open internet is under imminent threat

URGENT - VOTING IN EU PARLIAMENT 5th of MAY 2009
Don't let the EU parliament lock up the Internet! There will be no way back!

is it Eurosceptic nonsense? or should we be taking it seriously?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

And I still have a couple of these to look forward to:


In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes