By John M.
Don’t Be Evil ™
Happy 25th, George.
I slept through this one, but there’s still lots to be seen sifting through the debris. Twist, and a lot of other people, were transfixed last night by a headline flying around Bloomberg’s ticker: "Anything-But-Treasuries Gains as Credit Rebounds After AIG Death in China"
Indeed, I recently found it floating here at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/worldwide/

But when twist clicked on the link last night, the story wasn’t there. Indeed when I first tried the link this morning, this is what I got too, …

… although most recently I got the official1 8/8 version of the story with that revised headline "Anything-But-Treasuries Credit Gaining After AIG Ruin"
Hat tip to the commenter redhatty here for pointing me at what looks like a saved version of the 9/7 [corrected from 8/8 -- where did August go anyway? - jm] version here. Curiously, the old text seems to be nearly identical to the new text.
… however, on reflection I can see a problem with the 9/7 headline. This text is from deep in the story.
AIG has announced sales of some $9.8 billion of assets, including an auto insurer, an equipment guarantor and a Japanese office tower, to help repay Fed loans extended as part of the firm’s $182.5 billion bailout. AIG is soliciting bids for its Taiwan unit, Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. The company is the island’s second-biggest life insurer, with 4 million policyholders.
So the original 9/7 headline was conflating China with the R.o.C., a huge no-no.
But the really disturbing part of this affair is the suppression within Google News of a recent headline, in the face of Bloomberg continuing to circulate it around their ticker for many hours, although BL was modifying the story in that period. It makes one wonder what other things have quietly gone down the online memory hole in ways less likely to be noticed.
LATER: Sorry, forgot to include this image (captured just about exactly 1000 Zulu this morning) of a Google News Search on "Anything-But-Treasuries Gains as Credit Rebounds After AIG Death in China" — repeating the experiment at 1454 Zulu still yields an empty result, but if you hit "web" you’ll likely see over 2,100 hits.

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When I did hit web just now this post was about #4 in Google rank, but of more interest for us conspiracy buffs is this CRisk comment from late last night at #8.
1 currency now -yogi (profile) wrote on Mon, 9/7/2009 - 10:28 pm
Bberg headline:
"Anything-But-Treasuries Gains as Credit Rebounds After AIG Death in China"
Leads to:
"Anything-But-Treasuries Credit Gaining After AIG Ruin"
I don’t have a clue. Did that $500 million deal fall through?
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