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Katrina: The crime that shocked the world

2010-07-15T21:08:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-12T21:03:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-09T18:40:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-09T18:12:00.001-03:00

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?

2010-07-09T18:01:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-08T19:18:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-07T19:52:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-07T19:15:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-07T19:12:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-07T19:11:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-07T18:54:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-07T18:51:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-07T18:40:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-07T18:19:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-07T18:15:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-06T21:08:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-06T20:06:00.001-03:00

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?

2010-07-06T20:04:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-06T19:45:00.000-03:00

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

2010-07-05T19:33:00.001-03:00

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

2010-07-05T19:32:00.000-03:00

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.

Activist Post: Sheep For Slaughter: Is the Elite really trying to KILL us?

2010-07-04T21:41:00.000-03:00

Activist Post: Sheep For Slaughter: Is the Elite really trying to KILL us?: "There has been much in the mainstream news recently about population control. In fact, there seems to be a concerted effort by the Elite to introduce the idea as a legitimate debate about dealing with the “problem” of over-population. It appears the elite are trying to legitimize these claims using the global warming argument that CO2, which humans exhale, must be minimized at all costs.

Dangerous Crossroads in World History: Obama’s New Iran Sanctions: An Act of War

2010-07-03T19:45:00.000-03:00

Dangerous Crossroads in World History: Obama’s New Iran Sanctions: An Act of War: "When the UN refused to agree to the severe sanctions that the U.S. wanted, Obama responded with typical Bush flair and went solo. The new U.S. sanctions against Iran — signed into law by Obama on July 1st — are an unmistakable act of war.

If fully enforced, Iran’s economy will be potentially destroyed.

California budget nightmare

2010-07-03T19:44:00.000-03:00

California budget nightmare – in 1970 California took in 28 percent of state revenues from personal income taxes. Today, the state pulls in 52 percent from personal income taxes. Massive shift to service oriented state. | Finance my Money:

The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order

2010-07-02T20:43:00.000-03:00

The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order: "The ‘Technological Revolution’ (or ‘Technetronic’ Revolution, as Brzezinski termed it in 1970) involves two major geopolitical developments. The first is that as technology advances, systems of mass communication rapidly accelerate, and the world’s people are able to engage in instant communication with one another and gain access to information from around the world. In it, lies the potential – and ultimately a central source – of a massive global political awakening. Simultaneously, the Technological Revolution has allowed elites to redirect and control society in ways never before imagined, ultimately culminating in a global scientific dictatorship, as many have warned of since the early decades of the 20th century. The potential for controlling the masses has never been so great, as science unleashes the power of genetics, biometrics, surveillance, and new forms of modern eugenics; implemented by a scientific elite equipped with systems of psycho-social control (the use of psychology in controlling the masses).

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Banks Continued Failure To Realise Commercial Real Estate Losses

2010-07-02T18:16:00.000-03:00

Banks Continued Failure To Realise Commercial Real Estate Losses | Elliott Wave Global Market Service: "The massive commercial real estate market is already plaguing the weak balance sheets of banks. It is the case that each Friday, we are likely to see one U.S. bank fail because due to high levels of commercial real estate (CRE) debt on their books. This market is likely to cause the failure of hundreds of banks and put the economy down into another real estate funk. The amount of commercial real estate transactions shows no sign of recovery in this market. And why would there be any recovery? This is an area for hotels, strip malls, condos, and other projects that usually reflect a healthy and growing economy. We do not have that and the problems embedded in CRE are going to stifle any growth for years to come.

25 Signs That Almost Everyone Is Expecting An Economic Collapse In 2010

2010-06-30T18:36:00.000-03:00

25 Signs That Almost Everyone Is Expecting An Economic Collapse In 2010

At times like these, it is hardly going out on a limb to say that we are headed for hard economic times. In fact, it seems like almost everyone in the financial world is either declaring that a recession is coming or is busy preparing for one. The truth is that bad economic signs are everywhere. Consumer confidence is plummeting, big banks are hoarding cash, top financial experts are issuing recession warnings and it seems like almost everyone is trying to accumulate as much gold as possible. Now that the G20 nations have all pledged to dramatically cut government spending in an effort to get debt under control, worries about a double-dip recession have reached a fever pitch.

Top scientist: Only one ship testing methane levels in Gulf, NOAA hiding results; Amount is “just startlingly high” | Florida Oil Spill Law

2010-06-30T18:06:00.000-03:00

Top scientist: Only one ship testing methane levels in Gulf, NOAA hiding results; Amount is “just startlingly high” | Florida Oil Spill Law

[UGA marine scientist Samantha Joye] notes “I have read the reports from NOAA and I have yet to see methane measurements.”

She says “the biggest hole [in research on the disaster] is the gas data.” …

Joye says the amount of methane that’s getting into the air is unknown because only one ship is actually doing any measuring of gases in the air.

Who Will Pay - Wall Street Or Main Street?

2010-06-30T18:05:00.000-03:00

Who Will Pay - Wall Street Or Main Street?

Wall Street banks have been saved from bankruptcy by governments that are now going bankrupt themselves; but the banks are not returning the favor. Instead, they are engaged in a class war, insisting that the squeezed middle class be even further squeezed to balance over-stressed government budgets. All the perks are going to Wall Street, while Main Street slips into debt slavery. Wall Street needs to be made to pay its fair share, but how?

An Open Letter to Politicians by Mark R. Crovelli

2010-06-28T18:26:00.000-03:00

An Open Letter to Politicians by Mark R. Crovelli

It is important for these police officers to quickly recognize that the United States is no longer populated primarily with happy, rich people unconcerned with the world outside their new houses and cars. All of that was washed away in the explosion of the Federal Reserve’s credit bubbles, beginning in 2007. Now, Americans have been finally forced to recognize that they are not even close to being as rich or as happy as they thought they were. Many have lost their homes, and still more will lose their homes. Many have lost their jobs, and still more will lose their jobs. Many have found that their college educations are worthless, and still more will learn this lesson. Many have lost a son or a brother or a husband in a pointless war, and still more will lose their husbands, fathers, and sons. Many have lost their life savings, and so will many more. In other words, a huge and growing number of Americans are homeless, jobless, fatherless, poor, and angry. They have a lot less to lose than they did before. These are not people amenable to being humiliated, bullied, assaulted, tasered, or shot.

Americans are not in the mood for this kind of shit right now.

Gulf Crisis: Bad to Worse

2010-06-28T17:47:00.000-03:00

ah, mephistophelis.: Gulf Crisis: Bad to Worse

Sit down. Get ready. Your life has begun to change. It will never be the same again. This gulf disaster is changing everything. Call your legislators. Tell them that they are now on notice. There are the constituents and there are planet killing corporations, ready to wipe out life on the planet for a profit. Those legislators have to choose whose side they are on. No more bullshit. No more lobbyists getting favors. This is not life or death.

N. Korea: U.S. bringing 'heavy weapons' to border

2010-06-28T17:42:00.000-03:00

N. Korea: U.S. bringing 'heavy weapons' to border - CNN.com

North Korean officials are criticizing the U.S. for bringing heavy weapons into a border village in the demilitarized zone that divides the Korean peninsula, state media reported Monday.

State-run KCNA claims U.S. forces brought weapons into the Panmunjom area Saturday morning. A U.S. military spokesperson did not immediately return a call requesting comment.

The Third Depression

2010-06-28T17:41:00.000-03:00

Op-Ed Columnist - The Third Depression - NYTimes.com

We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. It will probably look more like the Long Depression than the much more severe Great Depression. But the cost — to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives blighted by the absence of jobs — will nonetheless be immense.

And this third depression will be primarily a failure of policy. Around the world — most recently at last weekend’s deeply discouraging G-20 meeting — governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending.

America is a state of mind

2010-06-27T19:27:00.001-03:00

America is a state of mind | My Catbird Seat: "Now, I am battling the impulse to generalize my anger at to “be prejudiced” against all Americans in general.

How can that be? I definitely know that most Americans are decent, good hearted, peaceful people who, while gullible perhaps, do not generally advocate the mass murder of others in the name of war on terror or war on anything. But in my emotions they are and my heart aches and I am angry at “Americans”.

If I, who has not directly suffered the loss of loved ones or the wanton destruction of her homeland, can feel such emotions, what about those closer to the conflict?

Suiting Up for a Post-Dollar World

2010-06-27T19:24:00.000-03:00

Suiting Up for a Post-Dollar World by John Browne: "The global financial crisis is playing out like a slow-moving, highly predicable stage play. In the current scene, Western governments are caught between the demands of entitled welfare beneficiaries and the anxiety of bondholders who fear they will be stuck with the bill. As the crisis reaches an apex, prime ministers and presidents are forced into a Sophie's choice between social unrest and bankruptcy. But with the 'Club Med' economies set to fall like dominoes, the US Treasury market is not yet acting the role we would have anticipated.

Gulf Coast Toxicity Syndrome IMVA Emergency Alert

2010-06-27T18:46:00.001-03:00

Gulf Coast Toxicity Syndrome IMVA Emergency Alert :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-5]: "There are effects from the oil spill that you can see, like oil washing ashore, and those that you can’t, like when oil compounds break down and go airborne. What is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico is truly a nightmare of epic proportions. And it’s going to be a health disaster whose dimensions are growing exponentially behind curtains erected by the federal government. Few people are grasping the magnitude of the Gulf oil tragedy, not grasping the grave consequences for many millions of people and eventually the entire world. It is going to affect not only the livelihoods and employment of locals but will also contribute to the health failure of millions of people. It is so profoundly sad – like watching a loved one with a gunshot to the belly witnessing the blood coming out, but in this case it’s the planet belching up black blood and poison gas in huge and very possibly unending quantities.

Extreme Measures: Arming the Zealotocracy, Serving the Elite

2010-06-27T18:45:00.000-03:00

Extreme Measures: Arming the Zealotocracy, Serving the Elite :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-5]: "For the last 50 years, in country after country, ruling elites -- those factions which hold a disproportionate and thus illegitimate sway over society -- have fostered the growth of religious extremism for two main reasons: to distract the populace from the way their lives are unjustly diminished by the elitist agenda -- and to throttle and demonize any popular movement that might threaten the elite's hegemony.

The Coming Gulf Coast Firestorm: How the BP oil catastrophe could destroy a major U.S. city

2010-06-26T18:54:00.000-03:00

poor richard's blog: The Coming Gulf Coast Firestorm: How the BP oil catastrophe could destroy a major U.S. city: "This would not be an ordinary city on fire, either: It would be a city doused with volatile fuels that soaked it to the core. The sewers would explode like massive terrorist bombs, ripping to shred any underground infrastructure (fiber optics, water delivery, electrical infrastructure, etc.). The pavement itself would be on fire, as would parks, grasslands and forests. The city would burn from top to bottom, and there would be no point even trying to put out the flames. All we could do is evacuate and watch it all burn to the ground.

VIDEO: The BP "Gulf Syndrome": Benzene and Corexit Poisoning

2010-06-26T14:21:00.001-03:00

VIDEO: The BP "Gulf Syndrome": Benzene and Corexit Poisoning: "Human suffering in the Gulf is increasing from the world's latest and largest toxic oil kill as BP lies and government remains silent about the human health risks. Most immediately damaging of the operation's withheld information pertains to toxins breathed since the explosion.

Southerners reporting illnesses with symptoms reflecting Benzene and Corexit poisoning have had to face some leaders suggesting the cause to be mental illness, 'stress', while others, such as BP chief Tony Hayward, blamed the illness on rotten food.

The First OILCANE Will Be Worse Than Anything We've Seen

2010-06-26T14:17:00.001-03:00

The First OILCANE Will Be Worse Than Anything We've Seen: "The recovery period after a hurricane can take years. It was 10 years until some communities fully recovered from Hurricane Andrew in South Florida, some never recovered at all. The New Orleans area is still putting itself back together after Katrina in 2005. The recovery period after an oil-soaked hurricane -- or what could be called an Oilicane – is impossible to forecast but it could take years and many billions of dollars. One wonders if BP has the money to survive such a unique disaster. The human and natural losses from such an event could be historic.

USF scientists find long line of oil 6 inches under the sand at Pensacola Beach

2010-06-26T11:31:00.000-03:00

poor richard's blog: USF scientists find long line of oil 6 inches under the sand at Pensacola Beach: "Ping Wang, 43, who has studied beaches for 20 years, dug a narrow trench perpendicular to the shoreline, about a foot deep and 5 feet long. A dark, contiguous vein of oil ran horizontally along the walls of the trench, about 6 inches beneath the surface of the sand.

The sheet of oil which was deposited on the beach at high tide Wednesday and stretched some 8 miles was covered by as much as a foot of sand at high tide Thursday, Wang explained.

BP buys Google, Yahoo search words:Is it to keep people from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster?

2010-06-26T11:26:00.000-03:00

BP buys Google, Yahoo search words:Is it to keep people from real news on Gulf oil spill disaster?: "In their most tenacious effort to control the ‘spin’ on the worst oil spill disaster in the history, BP has purchased top internet search engine words so they can re-direct people away from real news on the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

Tropical weather could be latest blow to containing massive Gulf spill

2010-06-26T11:20:00.000-03:00

Tropical weather could be latest blow to containing massive Gulf spill - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca: "A tropical storm gathering strength in the Caribbean is the latest bad news for BP crews trying to contain and clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf, an effort that has been plagued by setbacks for more than two months.

Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers

2010-06-26T10:07:00.001-03:00

Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers: "President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor.

The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which is being pushed hard by Senator Joe Lieberman, would hand absolute power to the federal government to close down networks, and block incoming Internet traffic from certain countries under a declared national emergency.

Apple's Al Gore Problem

2010-06-26T10:03:00.000-03:00

EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Apple's Al Gore Problem: "Now Apple is in the situation of having on its Board of Directors, Al Gore, who has been accused of sexual assault. Not only has he been accused of the assault, but the accuser alleges that Gore asked her to enter the bedroom of his hotel room to listen to a song on an iPod, while he bragged about his affiliation with Apple.

ECRI Leading Economic Index Plunges At -6.9% Rate, Back To December 2007 Levels When Recession Officially Started | zero hedge

2010-06-26T09:58:00.000-03:00

ECRI Leading Economic Index Plunges At -6.9% Rate, Back To December 2007 Levels When Recession Officially Started | zero hedge: "The ECRI is now at December 2007 levels, the time when the last recession officially started. The index dropped from an annualized revised -5.8% (previously -5.7%) to -6.9%. As a reminder, from Rosie, 'It is one thing to slip to or fractionally below the zero line, but a -3.5% reading has only sent off two head-fakes in the past, while accurately foreshadowing seven recessions — with a three month lag.

Disturbing Footage! The US Army Doesn't Want You To See THIS!

2010-06-24T19:06:00.000-03:00

America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town -- Signs of the Times News

2010-06-24T18:52:00.000-03:00

America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town

The United States can no longer engage effectively in "nation-building" in the one place on Earth it has a right and duty to do so: at home. These are the lessons of the 2010 Gulf oil catastrophe, the 2008 financial meltdown and the 2005 Katrina horror - disasters that history will rightfully conflate as symptomatic of the fundamental crisis of the rule of Capital. The U.S. has become a company town of speculative and extraction enterprises whose social and physical geography the rulers relentlessly appropriate, monetize and despoil - all with obscene abandon.

Central Banking in Crisis: Some Twenty Countries on the Verge of Insolvency

2010-06-24T18:50:00.000-03:00

Central Banking in Crisis: Some Twenty Countries on the Verge of Insolvency

This time the damage is so bad that the Fed has been forced to monetize trillions of dollars of debt. The disease this time has spread to Europe with the ECB, using, quantitative easing by simply creating money out of thin air. That is something they said they would never do. The only real liquidity in Europe is emanating from the ECB and the Fed. We believe that eventually countries will fail, as Iceland has. You know all the possible victims. There are presently 20 of them including the US and UK . Three-card Monte games do not last forever. If liquidity is that scarce then where is the money coming from? The only place it could be coming from is the Fed. Not only is a $2 trillion bailout in process, but also as banks and thrift institutions fail stress tests some will be bailed out by being absorbed by other supposedly solvent institutions. When that option is gone then governments must bail them out. When the monetization hits the entire system collapses. After 50 or more years in this business we believe the system is definitely going to fold.

Gulf Oil Catastrophe - Epic Lies And Deceit

2010-06-22T21:33:00.000-03:00

Gulf Oil Catastrophe - Epic Lies And Deceit: "I write this as a catastrophe survivor. I write this knowing that with every US catastrophe, there is not one single person in charge, in ANY capacity, who will tell us the truth, who will step up to the plate, be honest, look out for our well being and safety. It is NOT the way corporate business is run. It is not the way this wrecked government runs, because government (on local, state, and federal levels) is run today as a corporate concern. They have corporate 'personhood' a legal fiction that has destroyed so much of our environment. 'We, the people' do not figure into this. What does figure into this are greed, lies, and massive deceit. A corporation's bottom line (be it Big Pharma, chemical companies, or the banksters who are looting everything we have) is profit --at all costs. We are all expendable for their bottom line. Our well being or our safety are not part of this equation."

talking about a revolution (tracy chapman)

2010-06-22T20:59:00.000-03:00

The oil blowout will mean more subsidies for the ethanol industry. That's bad news for consumers.

2010-06-22T20:34:00.000-03:00

The oil blowout will mean more subsidies for the ethanol industry. That's bad news for consumers. - By Robert Bryce - Slate Magazine: "The most disgusting aspect of the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico isn't the video images of oil-soaked birds or the incessant blather from pundits about what BP or the Obama administration should be doing to stem the flow of oil. Instead, it's the ugly spectacle of the corn-ethanol scammers doing all they can to capitalize on the disaster so that they can justify an expansion of the longest-running robbery of taxpayers in U.S. history."

Over 2,000 Skimmers Available In US That Obama Refuses To Use

2010-06-22T20:21:00.000-03:00

Over 2,000 Skimmers Available In US That Obama Refuses To Use: "Senator Lemieux says, “I think it is outrageous that we only have 20 skimmers off the coast of Florida. There are 2000 skimmers in the United States and we haven’t even asked as a federal government for those skimmers to come into the gulf….the federal government who wants to take over every other aspect of our life can’t get this one thing right…”

President Obama’s response about the skimmers not being used was, “We can’t take these skimmers from other places in the country because they might have an oil spill!” What?!?"

Amid crises, Obama declares war -- on Arizona

2010-06-22T20:20:00.000-03:00

Amid crises, Obama declares war -- on Arizona | Washington Examiner: "The Obama administration has a lot of fights on its hands. Putting aside real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there's the battle against leaking oil in the Gulf, the struggle against 9.7 percent unemployment across the country, and clashes over the president's agenda on Capitol Hill. Despite all that, the White House has found time to issue a new declaration of war, this time against an unlikely enemy: the state of Arizona."

Judge who overturned drilling moratorium reported owning stock in drilling companies - Yahoo! News

2010-06-22T20:18:00.000-03:00

Judge who overturned drilling moratorium reported owning stock in drilling companies - Yahoo! News: "The federal judge who overturned Barack Obama's offshore drilling moratorium reported owning stock in numerous companies involved in the offshore oil industry — including Transocean, which leased the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to BP prior to its April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico — according to 2008 financial disclosure reports."

The New World Order Government Take-Over is Well Underway | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

2010-06-22T19:41:00.000-03:00

The New World Order Government Take-Over is Well Underway | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED: "The New World Order Banker Cartel takeover starts with the destruction of the economic might of the United States. To accomplish this task as follows:

1) Creation of the private Federal Reserve Bank in 1913. He who prints the money controls the government. Prior to this period, whenever congress over spent, it lead to inflation or devaluation of the currency. The people reacted by voting out big spending congressmen. The Federal Reserve Bank allowed congress to spend while shielding them from voter retaliation by the people."

Denninger: How Long Before You Wake Up, Politicos?

2010-02-24T19:04:00.000-04:00

Western Rifle Shooters Association: Denninger: How Long Before You Wake Up, Politicos?: "So let's cut the crap - we are in a Depression right now. We are pretending we are not, just like you can pretend you didn't really lose your job so long as your credit card does not reach its limit. We have been in that depression for about 18 months and there is no evidence that we will exit it, as we have yet to find a way to pull back the deficit spending without an instantaneous collapse in the economy.

Yet at some point we must and will stop. We will either do so of our own volition, or we will do so when the cost of borrowing skyrockets, as others get tired of funding our profligacy. If we attempt to 'print' our way out of it the cost of petroleum products will shoot the moon and destroy our economy anyway."

Monetary reform: reclaiming $1 trillion every year through public creation of money

2010-02-18T17:55:00.000-04:00

Monetary reform: reclaiming $1 trillion every year through public creation of money: "Without knowing how money is created and managed, all other topics concerning money are out of context. This is crucial: regarding trillions of dollars of economic power, you have no idea where money comes from. It’s time for you to learn. When people don’t know how money is created and managed, the only thing between them and tyranny is trust in ethical government. American democracy is founded upon cautious distrust of government. To compensate for temptations of power and personal profit in government, the US Constitution is designed with checks and balances. However, because checks and balances can be thwarted if politicians are unethical, the only real protection of liberty is citizen responsibility. American democracy is dependent upon our taking personal responsibility for understanding our most important economic and political issues. This is one of them."

Fourth Amendment Trashed As Airport Tyranny Hits The Streets

2010-02-18T17:51:00.000-04:00

Fourth Amendment Trashed As Airport Tyranny Hits The Streets: "Tampa police, TSA and Homeland Security agents are teaming up “to keep your family safe,” according to ABC News, by implementing random searches at bus depots, in yet another example of how airport tyranny is being rolled out onto the streets.

“Bomb sniffing dogs, pat-downs and metal detector wanding, gloved inspections of hand-held bags” are all now going to become a routine part of everyday life as the Fourth Amendment is completely trashed in the name of “security”."

The Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle Class

2010-02-18T17:18:00.000-04:00

The Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle Class: "It has now become evident to a critical mass that the Republican and Democratic parties, along with all three branches of our government, have been bought off by a well-organized Economic Elite who are tactically destroying our way of life. The harsh truth is that 99 percent of the U.S. population no longer has political representation. The U.S. economy, government and tax system is now blatantly rigged against us."

The Future of the Dollar

2010-02-18T17:11:00.000-04:00

The Future of the Dollar: "The World is concerned that the dollar cannot play the role of the main reserve currency any longer after the financial crisis sparked by the collapse of the U.S. mortgage market led to the worst global recession since the 1930s. The Government’s stimulus packages, financial bailouts, the need to support liquidity in Treasuries, keeping interest rates at the lowest level under the circumstances of low economic growth, high unemployment and low tax collection make it print more dollars. This leads to a high risk of substantial inflation, or hyperinflation in a long-run."

Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well.

2010-02-18T17:09:00.000-04:00

Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well.: "If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures."

Summer of Rage

2010-02-18T16:53:00.000-04:00

Busted World: Summer of Rage: "Seems Joe Stack got tired of the overreach of the government. Breaking news is the Austin IRS/CIA/FBI building just got slammed by Joe after he burned the house down and went all kamikaze on Big Brother. Would it be wrong to call this person a freedom loving patriot? Now we get to watch the the media spin about how horrible of a person to do such a terrible thing to our benevolent handlers."

Martin Luther King's plan for peace compared with Bush, Obama hypocrisy for endless wars

2010-02-09T19:11:00.000-04:00

Martin Luther King's plan for peace compared with Bush, Obama hypocrisy for endless wars: "The only trial on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King found the US government guilty of his murder. Corporate media did not headline this news, and history textbooks excise this essential understanding of Dr. King’s life; providing an excellent case study of what the US Senate Church Committee disclosed as an active US propaganda program to disinform the American public. For comparison, please consider the corporate media coverage to inform in every detail of O.J. Simpson’s trials."

Tony Blair attacks 'conspiracy theories' | Mail Online

2010-02-09T19:09:00.001-04:00

Iraq War Inquiry: Tony Blair attacks 'conspiracy theories' | Mail Online: "Tony Blair yesterday launched an extraordinary attack on the Iraq inquiry - as the chairman warned that he and others could be recalled over 'gaps' in their evidence.

In an outspoken interview in the U.S., the former prime minister dismissed the inquiry as part of a ' continual desire to sort of uncover some great conspiracy'."

Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies

2010-02-09T17:47:00.000-04:00

OpEdNews - Article: Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies: "Globalists/corporatists/conservative 'free market' and 'flat earth' advocates say this is a great opportunity to cut benefits for the old folks (and for the young folks in the future), thus bringing the countries budgets back into balance, and this story is the main corporate media storyline.

But it overlooks the real issue (and the real solution): how globalization is killing these nations' economies and what can be done about it."

Obama effectively ends U.S.-manned space flight

2010-02-09T17:45:00.000-04:00

Obama effectively ends U.S.-manned space flight | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment: "Unfortunately, with the stroke of the budgetary pen, President Barack Obama has gutted NASA’s budget, ending the nascent moon mission and pounding a major nail into the coffin of U.S.-manned space exploration. The space shuttle program has only five more missions before its retirement. After that, Americans will reach the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz capsules until 2020. Beyond that, there are no plans for Americans to return to space. Don’t worry, though, Obama assures us that NASA will have enough cash to keep doing research into the bogus science of man-made global warming."

Colbert: ‘Sarah Palin is a f**king retard’

2010-02-09T17:38:00.001-04:00

Colbert: ‘Sarah Palin is a f**king retard’ | Raw Story: "'Sarah Palin knows that it's okay to call someone a retard if like rush you clearly don't mean it which is why we should all come to her defense and say: Sarah Palin is a fucking retard,' Colbert quipped."

Goldman Sachs Wants You to Pay-by-the-Mile to Drive on U.S. Roadways

2010-02-09T17:24:00.000-04:00

U.S. Roadways 207: "“Yes, large Wall Street investment banks, led by Goldman, started advising states across the nation on how to raise fast money by diverting the most necessary publicly owned assets—roads—into private ownership,” wrote Wallace. “You have to admit, it’s brilliant, because it’s a forced and guaranteed market: Americans can’t get out of driving.”"

Wars Sending U.S. Into Ruin

2010-02-09T17:21:00.000-04:00

Wars Sending U.S. Into Ruin: "U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America’s economic health.

In fact, it’s another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug — debt.

More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spent itself into ruin by buying tanks."

I Want My Country Back! - Prof. Russ Roberts Testifies Before House Oversight Committee!

2010-02-08T19:00:00.000-04:00

Sarah Palin READS CHEAT NOTES on her HAND

2010-02-08T18:41:00.001-04:00

License to Kill? Intelligence Chief Says U.S. Can Take Out American Terrorists

2010-02-08T18:37:00.000-04:00

License to Kill? Intelligence Chief Says U.S. Can Take Out American Terrorists - ABC News: "The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target American citizens for assassination if they present a direct terrorist threat to the United States."

A Decade of Enormous Deficits May Alter American Politics and Power

2010-02-08T17:58:00.000-04:00

News Analysis - A Decade of Enormous Deficits May Alter American Politics and Power - NYTimes.com: "For Mr. Obama and his successors, the effect of those projections is clear: Unless miraculous growth, or miraculous political compromises, creates some unforeseen change over the next decade, there is virtually no room for new domestic initiatives for Mr. Obama or his successors. Beyond that lies the possibility that the United States could begin to suffer the same disease that has afflicted Japan over the past decade. As debt grew more rapidly than income, that country’s influence around the world eroded."

America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels

2010-02-08T17:29:00.000-04:00

America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels - Telegraph: "The labour force contracted by 661,000. This did not show up in the headline jobless rate because so many Americans dropped out of the system. The broad U6 category of unemployment rose to 17.3pc. That is the one that matters.

Wall Street rallied. Bulls hope that weak jobs data will postpone monetary tightening: a silver lining in every catastrophe, or perhaps a further exhibit of market infantilism."

Alonso ends Valencia test on top

2010-02-07T16:57:00.001-04:00

Alonso ends Valencia test on top - F1 | ITV Sport: "Fernando Alonso made the perfect start to his Ferrari career by setting comfortably the fastest time of the week as Formula 1’s first pre-season test drew to a close at Valencia on Wednesday.

On his first day in the cockpit the Spaniard kept the Maranello squad at the top of the timesheet following team-mate Felipe Massa’s chart-topping performances on Monday and Tuesday, confirming the impressive potential of the new F10."

Time Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan

2010-02-04T19:29:00.001-04:00

Time Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan: "Time Magazine has enthusiastically jumped on the bandwagon to back Microsoft executive Craig Mundie’s call for Internet licensing, as authorities push for a system even more stifling than in Communist China, where only people with government permission would be allowed to express free speech.

As we reported earlier this week, during a recent conference at the Davos Economic Forum, Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, told fellow globalists at the summit that the Internet needed to be policed by means of introducing licenses similar to drivers licenses – in other words government permission to use the web."

NYT: No help in sight, more homeowners walk away

2010-02-04T19:10:00.000-04:00

NYT: No help in sight, more homeowners walk away - The New York Times- msnbc.com: "In 2006, Benjamin Koellmann bought a condominium in Miami Beach. By his calculation, it will be about the year 2025 before he can sell his modest home for what he paid. Or maybe 2040.

“People like me are beginning to feel like suckers,” Mr. Koellmann said. “Why not let it go in default and rent a better place for less?”"

US Military Nowhere To Be Found In Port-au-Prince

2010-02-04T19:07:00.001-04:00

US Military Nowhere To Be Found In Port-au-Prince | NEWS JUNKIE POST: "I have been driving all week around Port-au-Prince taking photos of the destroyed homes and buildings and as I’ve gone from one end of this city to the other, the US is military is only found at the airport — nice and secured behind those gates.

Meanwhile, the UN and its white Jeeps are driving all around this city, but I haven’t seen them stop at any particular location to give food or water. Where is all the aid going, if any?

Michel David Stephan is a 22-year-old Haitian university student who has not been able to continue his studies because the campus has been badly damaged. I asked him what he thought of the UN.

“We call them ‘tourists’ because they don’t do nothing,” Stephan told me."

Why Didn't the Nanny State Protect Us From Toyota?

2010-02-04T19:04:00.000-04:00

Campaign For Liberty — Why Didn't the Nanny State Protect Us From Toyota? | by Jacob Hornberger: "As we libertarians have been pointing out for decades, the paternalistic state is nothing more than a big fraud and sham, one designed to convince people to fund a gigantic, bureaucratic, parasitic state that will keep them safe from the vicissitudes of life. Yet, as people once again learn, all those beloved regulations and regulators don’t keep people safe at all. Bad things continue to happen in life, as they always will. The nanny society can’t stop that.

Unfortunately, the problem doesn’t just involve parasitic bureaucrats sucking hard-earned money out of people’s pockets under the pretense that they’re keeping them safe. It’s much worse than that. The nanny state lulls lots of people into a peaceful state of innocent bliss in which they think they’re being kept safe from the hazards of ordinary life. Thus, people become less cautious and more gullible, and thus, are less safe than they otherwise would be."

911: Would Government?

2010-02-04T18:59:00.000-04:00

911: Would Government?: "When you grasp the WHY of 911 you will have less emotional resistance to discovering who murdered over 3,000 of our citizens. The late Aaron Russo's documentary videos offer a broad theory of the WHY. They need to be seen, although it seems unrealistic that a controlling oligarchy would risk employing technical expertise to execute 911. A more plausible theory, starting from CUI BONO, (Who Benefits? - the Latin starting argument in determining guilt) was propounded at the end of 2003 by Professor Paul J. Balles. Motive and benefit may be shared by both the guilty and the innocent. To accomplish as sophisticated an event as 911 requires means and opportunity, as well as motive (benefit)."

Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber

2010-02-04T18:55:00.000-04:00

Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber: "A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The Nigerian student, whom US officials suspected of being affiliated with the Yemeni terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, attempted to set off a bomb on Northwest Flight 253 into Detroit on Christmas Day. Revocation of Abdulmutallab’s visa would have prevented him from boarding the airplane."

Moody’s warns US of credit rating fears

2010-02-04T17:52:00.000-04:00

FT.com / Companies / Financial Services - Moody’s warns US of credit rating fears: "Moody’s Investors Service fired off a warning on Wednesday that the triple A sovereign credit rating of the US would come under pressure unless economic growth was more robust than expected or tougher actions were taken to tackle the country’s budget deficit.

In a move that follows intensifying concern among investors over the US deficit, Moody’s said the country faced a trajectory of debt growth that was “clearly continuously upward”."

US says it may kill Americans abroad

2010-02-04T17:41:00.000-04:00

US says it may kill Americans abroad | Raw Story: "In a striking admission from the Obama Administration's top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced Wednesday that the United States may target its own citizens abroad for death if it believes they are associated with terrorist groups.

'We take direct action against terrorists in the intelligence community,' Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee. He said US counter-terrorism officials may try to kill American citizens embroiled in extremist groups overseas with 'specific permission' from higher up."

Our debt time bomb is ready to go ka-boom

2010-02-04T17:40:00.000-04:00

Our debt time bomb is ready to go ka-boom Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch: "Retire? You can fuggetaboutit if the new Global Debt Time Bomb is detonated by any one of 20 made-in-America trigger mechanisms.

Yes, 20. And yes, any one can destroy your retirement because all 20 are inexorably linked, a house-of-cards, a circular firing squad destined to self-destruct, triggering the third great Wall Street meltdown of the 21st century, igniting the Great Depression II that George W. Bush, Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson and now President Obama have simply delayed with their endless knee-jerk, debt-laden wars, stimulus bonanzas and bailouts."

Grand Theft Taxes - AIG On Top, Taxpayers Left Behind

2010-02-04T17:34:00.000-04:00

News: Grand Theft Taxes - AIG On Top, Taxpayers Left Behind | Wake Up From Your Slumber: "AIG still owes the U.S. government $124 billion from its record-setting $182 billion bailout. Today it will pay approximately $100 million in bonuses to the financial products division, the same unit that brought AIG to the brink of failure in 2008."

Sherwood Ross: WHY IS AMERICA IN SO MANY WARS?

2010-02-04T17:33:00.000-04:00

UNObserver & International Report: "Given all the wars the United States has waged, 'It is preposterous but true that we do not see ourselves as a nation that seeks war,' writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. 'We see ourselves as a peace loving nation' and that message is constantly drummed into the public by government and media.

Since World War Two, an indisputably necessary conflict, Velvel points out the U.S. has fought the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, secret wars in Laos and Cambodia, the First Gulf War, Afghanistan, and the Second Gulf War in Iraq. It has also invaded, bombed or 'quarantined' Panama, Grenada, Cuba, Haiti, Somalia, the Sudan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia and Libya, and has 'declared' a global war on terrorists."

Global Military Spending ‘Recession-Proof’

2010-02-04T17:19:00.000-04:00

Global Military Spending ‘Recession-Proof’ -- News from Antiwar.com: "“The economic crisis hasn’t had a dramatic impact on defense spending in the past 18 months,” one of the IISS economists, Mark Stoker, noted. In fact worldwide the report showed that military spending actually grew markedly over the past few years, from $1.3 trillion worldwide in 2006, to $1.55 trillion in 2008.

The trend shows no sign of reversing, with the United States, responsible for nearly half of that spending by itself, looking at record war budgets moving forward according to the Obama Administration. The IISS report said only Russia was anticipating a reduction in spending among major nations."

State Farm cancels thousands of Fla. policies

2010-02-04T17:16:00.001-04:00

State Farm cancels thousands of Fla. policies - Personal finance- msnbc.com: "The largest homeowners insurer in Florida is canceling the policies of 125,000 of its most vulnerable customers beginning Aug. 1, halfway through the 2010 hurricane season."

Investigation Chief: Swine Flu Pandemic Was A Hoax

2010-02-04T16:56:00.000-04:00

Investigation Chief: Swine Flu Pandemic Was A Hoax: "Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe’s Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg said that his panel’s investigation into the 2009 swine flu outbreak has found that the pandemic was a fake hoax manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in league with the WHO to make vast profits while endangering public health."

The Silence and the Shield: Depraved Indifference to the Atrocities of Power

2010-01-27T17:56:00.001-04:00

The Silence and the Shield: Depraved Indifference to the Atrocities of Power: "The men were evidently killed during 'strenuous interrogation' -- i.e., they had rags stuffed down their throat while being beaten. When they died, a ludicrous story of a mutual suicide pact -- under impossible physical conditions -- was concocted by American authorities, complete with outright lies about the men being 'hardcore' terrorists who killed themselves as an act of 'asymmetrical warfare.' The cover-up of these killings goes up to the highest levels of the U.S. government – and it continues most forcefully to this day under the Obama Administration. It is a sickening -- but most instructive -- story."

Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination

2010-01-27T17:56:00.000-04:00

Vatican Bank Claims: "According to one global source, the Vatican is the main destination for over $55 billion in illegal Italian money laundering and the number 8 destination worldwide for laundered money, ranked well ahead of such offshore havens as the Bahamas, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein."

Stimulus price tag soars; jobless rate rises

2010-01-27T17:54:00.000-04:00

Stimulus price tag soars; jobless rate rises - Washington Times: "The economic stimulus bill's price tag has risen to $862 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday — a $75 billion jump that's a result in part to the fact that, despite the spending, joblessness has risen and the government is paying out more than expected on unemployment benefits."

Price of US Wars: $1 Trillion and Rising

2010-01-27T17:50:00.001-04:00

Price of US Wars: $1 Trillion and Rising -- News from Antiwar.com: "The Congressional Budget Office’s newly released budget outlook notes that Congress has approved over $1 trillion in direct spending on wars and war-related activities since 2001, and that price tag is only getting higher as the wars drag on."

Capt. Bernanke sinks the U.S.S. Titanic

2010-01-27T17:40:00.000-04:00

Capt. Bernanke sinks the U.S.S. Titanic Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch: "Let's call it 'Titanic II,' a classic remake. The Fed's the new Titanic. Bernanke, the egomaniacal captain.

His character reminds me of Bogart playing the paranoid, obsessive Captain Queeg in 'The Caine Mutiny.' Remember that threatened Navy captain who navigates into a fog, panics, nearly rams a battleship? That's 'Capt. Ben' in 'Titanic II.' And given his handling of our banking system and the global economy, he'll sink the Titanic. Capt. Ben's a tragic figure."

West Coast Wasteland

2010-01-27T17:29:00.000-04:00

West Coast Wasteland: "There's a Mad Max feel to daily life in many neighborhoods. The Central Valley has a swath of cities whose home foreclosure rates rank in the top ten in the country. Friends looking to buy a home in a poor part of Sacramento tell me of foreclosed houses stripped of their copper wires, their toilets, their pipes, even their drywall. An ex-student reports visiting homes in which furious foreclosed owners and evicted tenants have urinated and defecated on the carpeting, abandoned pets to starve, left kitchens filled with rotting food. Sure, you can buy these properties for next to nothing, but you'll have to bring in the biohazard squads before you can safely occupy them."

Rule by the Rich

2010-01-27T17:26:00.000-04:00

Rule by the Rich: "How can President Obama restart an economy that has been moved offshore? Millions of manufacturing jobs are gone, as are millions of jobs for college graduates, such as software engineering, Information Technology--indeed, any intellectual skill the product of which can be conveyed via the Internet. Even those intellectual skill jobs that do remain in the U.S. are filled increasingly by foreigners brought in on work visas."

Congratulations! You’re Donating $2,000 per Family to Wall Street’s Bonuses

2010-01-27T17:15:00.000-04:00

Congratulations! You’re Donating $2,000 per Family to Wall Street’s Bonuses « SpeakEasy: "President Obama won’t tell us in his State of the Union address. The deficit hawks won’t crow about it. Don’t expect the Tea Party or Rush and Beck to highlight our generosity either. But the sad fact is this: During the worst year since the Great Depression, with 30 million people out of work or forced into part-time jobs, Wall Street is awarding itself $150 billion in bonus money…..and it comes from us!"

Two Dozen States’ Unemployment Funds in the Red, Nine More Within Six Months

2010-01-26T19:40:00.000-04:00

Two Dozen States’ Unemployment Funds in the Red, Nine More Within Six Months - ProPublica: "In a series last summer with public radio’s Marketplace, we reported that only a handful of states had built up reserves sufficient to weather the Great Recession [1] – and forecast a spate of borrowing by states where reserves ran out.

Half a year later, the direst predictions seem to be coming true: So far 25 states have borrowed more than $25 billion to keep benefits flowing after their trust funds ran dry. In many other states the situation is deteriorating fast."

Anyone Against 'Audit The Fed' Is The Enemy

2010-01-26T19:15:00.000-04:00

Anyone Against 'Audit The Fed' Is The Enemy: "The Democratic leadership of Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd, and many others remains steadfast in their support of some kind of draconian healthcare deformity, while recent polls show only 34 percent of those polled still support the latest version of Obamacare."