Katrina: The crime that shocked the world

Katrina: The crime that shocked the world - Americas, World - The Independent: "The alleged crimes occurred one week after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The lasting shame may be that it has taken almost five years for federal charges to be filed. But their unveiling by the US Attorney General Eric Holder had the power and ominous shock of a thunderclap. The defendants, if found guilty, could spend the rest of their lives in prison – or they could face the death penalty."

Crisis Awaits World’s Banks as Trillions Come Due

Crisis Awaits World’s Banks as Trillions Come Due - NYTimes.com: "The sovereign debt crisis would seem to create worry enough for European banks, but there is another gathering threat that has not garnered as much notice: the trillions of dollars in short-term borrowing that institutions around the world must repay or roll over in the next two years.

As the United States Collapses, Media Worships LeBron James

As the United States Collapses, Media Worships LeBron James: "Here are people by the tens of thousands begging LeBron James to stay on their team, yet these same people won’t go out and protest the looting of the Federal government, the banker-bailout or even the BP oil spill.
Yes, modern bread and circuses– endless ballgames, television and gossip about celeb birthday parties– has driven our culture to embrace the meaningless, while reducing our consciousness to mindless drivel. America– once the greatest cradle of imagination and wealth has fallen to a land of virtual morons who look up to decadent system-icons instead of leaders who could drive our future to greatness once again"

U.S. marks 3rd-largest, single-day debt increase

U.S. marks 3rd-largest, single-day debt increase - Washington Times: "The nation's debt leapt $166 billion in a single day last week, the third-largest increase in U.S. history, and it comes at a time when Congress is balking over higher spending and debt has become a key policy battleground.
The one-day increase for June 30 totaled $165,931,038,264.30 - bigger than the entire annual deficit for fiscal year 2007 and larger than the $140 billion in savings the new health care bill will produce over its first 10 years. The figure works out to nearly $1,500 for every U.S. household, or more than 10 times the median daily household income."

Is the IMF about Ready to Muscle U.S. Taxpayers?

EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Is the IMF about Ready to Muscle U.S. Taxpayers?: "The IMF has long been a bought, and paid for, muscle arm of the U.S. government and the banking elite.

The play goes like this. Banks loan money to third world countries that have no chance in hell of paying the money back. The IMF comes in with 'austerity' programs that include heavy new tax burdens on the working class. The revenue from the new taxes will, of course, go to payoff the banking elite. It's a sick game, but the elite seem to get their jollies by pulling this scam in country after country.

It appears the elite appear to want to up the ante. It appears they are getting set to turn the guns inward and go after the hard earned money of Americans."

Louisiana Gov. Jindal to Feds: No Is Not A Plan, Lead Or Get Out Of The Way

Louisiana Gov. Jindal to Feds: No Is Not A Plan, Lead Or Get Out Of The Way Before It's News: "On July 6, Governor Bobby Jindal blasted the federal government for again denying a defense plan proposed by local and state officials that would block oil from further damaging Louisiana’s fragile marshlands. Over the past weekend, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied a plan to place rocks in the water that would stop oil from hitting the coast near Grand Isle – which leaves the area nearly unprotected from further oil impact."

Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells — and no one at all is checking to see if they are leaking

Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells — and no one at all is checking to see if they are leaking | Raw Story: "More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one — not industry, not government — is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows.

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BP Collapse Potentially More Devastating than Lehman! :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website

SULTANS OF SWAP: BP Collapse Potentially More Devastating than Lehman! :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website: "As horrific as the gulf environmental catastrophe is, an even more intractable and cataclysmic disaster may be looming. The yet unknowable costs associated with clean-up, litigation and compensation damages due to arguably the world’s worst environmental tragedy, may be in the process of triggering a credit event by British Petroleum (BP) that will be equally devastating to global over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. The potential contagion may eventually show that Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns were simply early warning signals of the devastation lurking and continuing to grow unchecked in the $615T OTC Derivatives market.

Americans may be slammed by shocking tax hike

Americans may be slammed by shocking tax hike - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "After nearly a decade of federal tax cuts, Americans could awaken New Year's Day with a whopper of a hangover.

Breaks covering everything from child tax credits to the death tax are set to expire that day, less than six months from now, bringing higher payments for nearly every American who pays taxes.

'We've never in history seen anything quite like this, where such a major portion of the tax code is set to expire on a single date and affect so many Americans all at once,' said Scott Hodge, president of The Tax Foundation, a Washington nonprofit that tracks tax policies.

MONEY = DEBT = SLAVERY Prt 2

U.S. Shopping Center Vacancies Approach Record High, Reis Says

U.S. Shopping Center Vacancies Approach Record High, Reis Says - BusinessWeek: "Vacancies at U.S. neighborhood and community shopping centers moved closer to the highest on record in the second quarter amid signs the economic recovery is losing steam and consumer confidence remains subdued, Reis Inc. said.

The vacancy rate at shopping centers rose to 10.9 percent from 10 percent a year earlier and 10.8 percent in the first quarter, the New York-based real estate research firm said in a report today. It was the highest since 1991’s 11 percent. The record for shopping center vacancies since Reis began tracking the data 30 years ago was 11.1 percent in 1990.

The G-20 Agreed to Strangle Us With Debt

savethemales.ca - The G-20 Agreed to Strangle Us With Debt: "'Ever angelic' and in distant pre-1989 times ,committed Marxist-Leninist, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has assumed the leading role in advancing this new formula of de-facto-communist world government, said 'We are going to [stop] our economic stimulus policies, through which we used to run into even more debt, and will as industrial nations halve our new debts until 2013.'

And in a second step, from 2013 to 2016, the G20 agreed to gradually reach zero new debt - which means, of course, even more 'economic contraction'.

But after 2016 comes the real thing: paying back all national debt, as ever with interest and compound interest!!!

New York National Guard Units Scan Vehicles For Gun Confiscations

New York National Guard Units Scan Vehicles For Gun Confiscations: "The New York National Guard is working with local law enforcement authorities to perform sophisticated scans of vehicles entering the New York area looking for guns and drugs in the latest alarming example of how America is under a state of de facto martial law.

The BP/Government police state

The BP/Government police state :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-5]: "Last week, I interviewed Mother Jones' Mac McClelland, who has been covering the BP oil spill in the Gulf since the first day it happened. She detailed how local police and federal officials work with BP to harass, impede, interrogate and even detain journalists who are covering the impact of the spill and the clean-up efforts. She documented one incident which was particularly chilling of an activist who -- after being told by a local police officer to stop filming a BP facility because 'BP didn't want him filming' -- was then pulled over after he left by that officer so he could be interrogated by a BP security official.

Food Thieves Prove Tough Times are Already Here

Food Thieves Prove Tough Times are Already Here - 12160.org: "Normally we hear about thieves breaking into a house to steal a flat screen TV, or jacking someone’s car.

But, with the economy falling apart and millions out of work, stories like these will become much more common, as TV’s, computers, cell
phones and home furnishings start taking a back seat to essential goods like food:

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Activist Post: Madhouse Medical Tyranny: When Health Becomes Sickness

Activist Post: Madhouse Medical Tyranny: When Health Becomes Sickness: "Dictatorships know that the battle for complete control is ultimately won or lost in the minds of the target population. As the oppression advances, it tends to move from propaganda mind control to the direct intervention into the mind via pharmaceuticals. We are now seeing the overt global coordination of the psychiatry profession to convince every resident of planet Earth that all clear thinking, healthy living, and wholesome innocence is some kind of disorder that needs to be corrected (suppressed) with drugs to render zombie-like those whose instincts afford them the ability of discernment.

poor richard's blog: The Lights Are Going Out For Free Speech On The Internet

poor richard's blog: The Lights Are Going Out For Free Speech On The Internet: "Type the keywords “Internet censorship” into Google News and you will immediately understand to what degree the world wide web is under assault from attempts by governments globally to regulate and stifle free speech. From Australia to Belarus, from Turkey to Vietnam, from Pakistan to Egypt, from Afghanistan to Iran, huge chunks of the Internet are going dark as the Chinese model of Internet regulation is adopted worldwide.

Forget Pot Smokers; What Does It Take to Lock Up Drug Company Execs?

Forget Pot Smokers; What Does It Take to Lock Up Drug Company Execs? - 12160.org: "After reading 'The Neurontin Legacy -- Marketing through Misinformation and Manipulation' in the January 8, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, one may conclude that (1) America's prisons would be put to better use incarcerating drug company executives instead of pot smokers, and (2) society may need a return of public scorn via the pillory for those doctors who are essentially drug-company shills.

Mike Rivero: BP Gulf Oil Crisis is America's Chernobyl 1/4

More bad news for BP as arsenic levels rise in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico | News.com.au

More bad news for BP as arsenic levels rise in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico | News.com.au: "BELEAGUERED energy giant BP was hit with further bad news this morning as it emerged dangerous arsenic levels have been found in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico.

British scientists warned that the oil spill is increasing the level of arsenic in the ocean, and could further add to the devastating impact on the already sensitive environment.

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Barack Obama: The great jobs killer - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Barack Obama: The great jobs killer - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com: "It's time to call Obama what he is: The Great Jobs Killer. With his massive spending and tax hikes -- rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owners -- Obama has killed jobs, he has killed motivation to create new jobs, he has killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Obama should be given the top spot on the FBI's Most Wanted List.