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Alex talks with Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author and columnist Wayne Madsen about the mysterious missile that appeared off the coast of California. Madsen is a U.S. Navy veteran. He worked for RCA as a government consultant on contracts for the National Security Agency and later worked for the Navy’s Naval Data Automation Command as a civilian employee and at the State Department. Since 2005, he has worked as a freelance journalist and blogger and currently edits the Wayne Madsen Report. Read the rest of this entry »
(MadsenReport) – China flexed its military muscle Monday evening in the skies west of Los Angeles when a Chinese Navy Jin class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, deployed secretly from its underground home base on the south coast of Hainan island, launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from international waters off the southern California coast. WMR’s intelligence sources in Asia, including Japan, say the belief by the military commands in Asia and the intelligence services is that the Chinese decided to demonstrate to the United States its capabilities on the eve of the G-20 Summit in Seoul and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Tokyo, where President Obama is scheduled to attend during his ten-day trip to Asia. Read the rest of this entry »
(AP) – A father who organized a support group for other parents whose children were sickened in one of China’s worst food safety scandals was convicted and sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for inciting social disorder, his lawyer said. Read More Here
It’s not yet clear whether the Renminbi, gold, SDR, Bancor or something else eventually take the throne of the new world’s reserve currency. See this and this.
And many settlements are still, obviously, being made in dollars.
But there is at least an argument that the dollar has already lost its status as world reserve currency, even if there is no ready replacement to jump into the breach. – Source: Washington’s Blog
(DailyMail) – An eight-months pregnant woman was dragged from her home and forced to have an abortion because she had broken China’s one-child-per-family law.
Twelve government officials entered Xiao Aiying’s house where they hit and kicked her in the stomach, before taking her kicking and screaming to hospital.
There, the 36-year-old was restrained as doctors injected her with a drug to kill the unborn baby. Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – US-based global corporations have been shifting their business to China and off-shoring millions of jobs to the region due to their extremely low worker wages. Americans are already pre-disposed to blaming China because of the media and political jargon. US politicians have been conveniently been shifting blame for unemployment from themselves to China with political ads during the current midterm election season. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Former Reagan Administration official Paul Craig Roberts writes, “now that a few Democrats and the remnants of the AFL-CIO are waking up to the destructive impact of jobs off shoring on the US economy and millions of American lives�?. China’s economic dominance has the US looking to retaliate to gain back some of its global economic supremacy. Does this mean that the new boogieman for US job growth is China? Read the rest of this entry »
(Wake-UpCall) – They call it “mad soy disease�? in Brazil, where it has been spreading from the north, causing yield losses of up to 40 percent, most notably in the states of Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Goias.
Like its namesake, mad cow disease, it is incurable
This is the latest GMO fiasco to surface since our report on the meltdown in the USA, China, and Argentina Read More Here
(Cryptogon) – Desmarais said while soluble sodium fluoride has traditionally proved easy to dissolve and add to the water supply, in recent years he’s found that 40 percent of the product they’ve been buying will not dissolve, and he doesn’t know why. Desmarais has sent the material out for testing on two separate occasions, but had no luck in determining what it contained. He has sent it back to the supplier and had a better quality product delivered following the complaint. But the next delivery presents with the same problem, he said. Read the rest of this entry »
(ZeroHedge) – After taking heat from the White House for nearly a year for its currency peg, a fact that in itself will never get China to loosen its regime as it would be perceived as yielding to pressure from D.C., China has once again gone on the offensive, this time via its commerce minister who earlier today said that dollar issuance in the U.S. is “out of control�? which in turn is leading to an inflation assault on China. Of course, one simple way to deal with said assault would be to revalue the currency, but why do so if the world’s biggest export economy benefits from the stupidity of the Federal Reserve. Read the rest of this entry »
(EndoftheAmericanDream) – On Tuesday, Ford Motor Company reported a record breaking profit for the third quarter. Ford earned 1.7 billion dollars during the quarter, which was way up from a profit of $997 million a year ago during the same time period. Ford CEO Alan Mulally is being hailed as a miracle worker, and investors are giddy about the future of the company. So is all of this success by Ford translating into good jobs for American workers? No. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – China’s rate of development on a global scale is moving faster and more consistently the other nations. Should the world take note of the Chinese economic system? Many Americans and US politicians are blaming China for the recession and for taking American jobs, while others say we should look to chain and immolate their system. Pepe Escobar, a correspondent for the Asia Times said China is not to blame; instead the US itself is to blame. Nations like Great Britain choose to cut spending and jobs to rise from a deficit, the US simply prints more money. Read the rest of this entry »
(AmericanDream) – Most Americans have no idea why rare earth elements are important or why the Chinese monopoly on them is so dangerous. But now that China is enforcing strict new quotas on the export of these metals a lot more people are going to start learning about them. So just exactly what are they? Well, “rare earth elements�? is a name that has been given to 17 metals from the middle of the Periodic Table with nearly unpronounceable names such as lanthanum, cerium, tantalum, neodymium and europium. These metals are used in an increasing number of high technology products. Everything from iPods to wind turbines to missile-guidance systems use these metals. Unfortunately, today China controls over 90 percent of the world supply of rare earth elements. This puts China in an incredibly powerful position. Read the rest of this entry »
Inflation fears are heating up this week as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a speech in Boston on Friday, causing further frantic flight into gold by those fearful of the coming “quantitative easing” the Fed is set to deliver in November. Others who view gold as a short term investment engaged in immediate profit-taking after Bernanke’s speech. Read the rest of this entry »
(DailyBell) – Retiring CFTC Judge: We Covered Up Market Manipulation – Read More Here
(CNBC) – Fedspeak: More Bond Buying ($100B a Month?) Ahead – Read More Here
(NYTimes) – Fed Wants Banks to Buy Back Some Bad Mortgages – Read More Here
(MailOnline) – 500,000 public sector jobs to go: Danny Alexander lets the cat out of the bag on spending cuts – Read More Here
(EconomicPolicyJournal) – Why California is About to Fall Off Into an Ocean of Unpayable Debt – Read More Here
(AP) – UK’s Cameron announces military austerity plan
Britain will lose thousands of troops, build new aircraft carriers – without new fighter jets – and delay a multibillion pound (dollar) upgrade to its nuclear deterrent under sweeping defense cuts being announced Tuesday following the first major military review in more than a decade. Read More Here
(DailyBail) – CBO Releases Official Numbers On Obama’s Spending Record: In Two Years, An Increase of 21% – Read More Here
(DailyTribune) – Friends skeptical that Bank CEO Widlak killed himself – Read More Here
(RealeconTV) – It’s as simple as ABC
It should be obvious, but the government goons and their friends on Wall Street can’t bear to let the cat out of the bag. The US real estate market which drove the world economy is not only a weak it’s on the verge of a truly massive collapse.
EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about corrupt pension spiking to boost retirement pay.
The details are pretty disgusting so be prepared. Read More Here
(WashingtonTimes) – Crystal Cathedral files for bankruptcy
Crystal Cathedral, the megachurch birthplace of the televangelist show “Hour of Power,” has filed for bankruptcy in Southern California after struggling to emerge from debt that exceeds $43 million. Read More Here
(WPost) – Task force probing whether banks broke federal laws during home seizures – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – KABOOM: Citigroup Could Face A $22 Billion Loss On Put Back Mortgage Bonds – Read More Here
(SherrieBlog) – RULING BY THE LAW! SUPREME COURT Judge In New York, Dismisses WACHOVIA BANK Foreclosure Attempt with Prejudice! No Right to Foreclose – No Note or Debt – Lacks Standing to Foreclose! – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – BREAKING: Feds Open Criminal Investigation Into Bank Foreclosure Fraud – Read More Here
(DailyBail) – Former Goldman Sachs CEO and NJ Governor Jon Corzine IS A CRIMINAL And Chris Christie Proves It – Read More Here
(BusinessInsider) – Bank Of America Getting Crushed As NY Fed And PIMCO Are Suing Over Mortgage Putbacks – Read More Here
(NYTimes) – Surprise Move by China on Interest Rates Rattles Markets
China’s central bank unexpectedly announced Tuesday that it would raise interest rates for the first time in nearly three years, apparently in the hopes of dampening inflation and cooling off this country’s hot property market. Read More Here
(ProPublica) – Who’s Who in the Foreclosure Scandal: A Primer on the Players
The unfolding foreclosure scandal just keeps expanding. Scrutiny first fell on the “robo-signers�? who rubber-stamped banks’ foreclosure paperwork, but they’re one of the many players who may have contributed to the mess.
To help sort it all out, we’ve drawn up a cast of characters. Let’s start with the basics: Read More Here
(TheIntelHub) – Bombshell: Industry Price Guide for Fabricated Foreclosure Documents
A foreclosure lawyer sent sent this little beauty by email last night. I had no idea the market was so robust for missing mortgage documents. And apparently there is inflation within the foreclosure fabrication circles. Prices to replace missing documents keep going up… Read More Here
(TheIntelHub) – ‘Foreclosure Mill’ Gave Employees Jewelry, Cars, Houses to Forge Documents – Read More Here
(PoorRichard) – Foreclosure Moratorium Is Only Sane Response to Shocking Wall Street Mortgage Scams – Read More Here
(Yahoo) – Is the US system rigged for the rich?
Everybody knows the rich are getting richer, but why they’re getting richer remains something of a mystery. Is the system biased? Read More Here
Climategate
(MSNBC) – 800 reasons to question Global Warming
“The science is settled!” That’s the slogan used by the pro-Global Warming crowd. but is it really? Below is a list of 800 papers by respected and awarded scientists that question or contradict the Man-Made Global Warming Theory (AGW). The science is NOT settled… This list was compiled by Andrew over at PopularTechnology.net. This is worth sifting through! Read More Here
(CSMonitor) – Climate change ‘fraud’ letter: a Martin Luther moment in science history
Esteemed physicist Harold Lewis is calling global warming the ‘most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen.’ His resignation letter could mark the unraveling of one of the great scientific mistakes in history and the beginning of a needed reformation of the scientific community. Read More Here
(NYTimes) – In Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Cleaner Energy
“Don’t mention global warming,�? warned Nancy Jackson, chairwoman of the Climate and Energy Project, a small nonprofit group that aims to get people to rein in the fossil fuel emissions that contribute to climate change. “And don’t mention Al Gore. People out here just hate him.�? Read More Here
(OilPrice) – The Global Warming Scam Hit by More Scandal
For the scientifically adept and honest people global warming is a huge embarrassment. Not only have the main base perpetrators been caught but also the institutions that house their activities have gone deep into the coverup. It’s just too much money to let integrity rule their actions. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Climate change is no threat-Czech president
“Global warming in the last 150 years was modest and future warming and its consequences will not be dangerous or catastrophic. It doesn’t look like a threat we should respond to,�? he told a lecture in London on Tuesday. Read More Here
(ZeroHedge) – You didn’t think China was just going to do the rockaway and lean back, lean back, lean back. Nope – China Daily says: “A currency war is spreading as the dollar’s value against major world currencies has continued to decline in recent days�? and calmly confirms what everyone esle knows: “It is the dollar that triggered the currency war. Seemingly a market move, the depreciation of the dollar is actually active.�? Check to you, Tim Geithner and your currency manipulation report. What is remarkable, is how simply and accurately CD writer Li Xiangyang captures absolutely everything that Bernanke is trying to achieve.Read the rest of this entry »
(EconomicCollapse) – Historians tell us that by the very end of the Roman Empire, goods were pouring into Rome from all over the known world, but about the only thing being sent out of Rome was human waste and garbage. America has not yet reached that point, but we are certainly well on our way. In 2010, the number one U.S. export to China is “scrap and trash�?. Yes, you read the correctly. The number one thing that China buys from us is our garbage. According to author Clyde Prestowitz, China’s number one export to the U.S. is computer equipment (nearly $50 billion) while our number one export to them is waste paper and scrap metal (approximately $8 billion). Read the rest of this entry »
(RiaNovosti) – Russia and America are doomed to Remain Political Enemies – Interview with Alexei Fenenko – Read More Here
(PressTV) – Italy ponders bombing Afghan targets
Italy’s Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa says he wants to allow Italian jets to bomb positions in Afghanistan following the killing of four Italian soldiers in the Asian country. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Blunt US warnings to Pakistan prompted by terrorism fear – Read More Here
(VoiceOfRussia) – “Reset�? in US russian Relaitons and “Missile Defence” – Read More Here
(CubanNewsAgency) – Nuclear Weapons and the Survival of the Homo Sapiens (Part II) – Michel Chossudovsky’s presentation at the University of Havana – Read More Here
(PressTV) – Iran to release Israel nuke documents
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili has questioned nuclear weapons of Israel, saying Iran will release documents on Tel Aviv’s nuclear program. Read More Here
The Syrian president has sharply blasted Israel for a new law that forces non-Jewish people to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a “Jewish state.” Read More Here
(Guardian) – Aid worker Linda Norgrove may have been killed by US troops
David Cameron reveals General David Petraeus has contacted him to say British hostage may not have died at hands of her captors as thought Read More Here
(NYTimes) – U.S. Alarmed by Harsh Tone of China’s Military
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met his Chinese counterpart, Liang Guanglie, in Vietnam on Monday for the first time since the two militaries suspended talks with each other last winter, calling for the two countries to prevent “mistrust, miscalculations and mistakes.�? Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Israeli Vice Premier: No chance of peace with Palestinians in near future
Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Tuesday that he saw “no chance of reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians in the near future�?. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Globalist loan sharks feign worry. Unemployment is so bad in the United States, the government is thinking about slapping tariffs on cheap Chinese slave labor products.
China is a lead player in the so-called currency war now underway. It has kept the value of its currency low in order to game the system and gain trade advantages. China refuses to follow the rules and this concerns the loan shark boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Little Timmy Geithner, the latest Wall Street and Federal Reserve insider to run our Treasury. Read the rest of this entry »
China
(WashingtonsBlog) – Congress and American economists are blaming China for America’s economic woes.
But as I’ve previously pointed out, while China’s weak Yuan policy is hurting the U.S. to some extent, America’s economic problems are largely of its own making.
As I have previously documented, America’s too big to fail banks and government have destroyed our economy by: Read the rest of this entry »
(PressTV) – The Islamic Republic of Iran has reportedly opened its airspace to Chinese warplanes taking part in joint military maneuvers with Turkey. Read the rest of this entry »
(WashingtonsBlog) – There is a currency war ranging world-wide.
Japan, Brazil, Peru and countries all over the world are trying to beggar thy neighbor (just as happened during the 1930s) and gain a leg up for their exports by cheapening their currencies.
If you take a step back, it really is an odd situation. As Joe Weisenthal writes:
Just think for a moment about the screwy times we live in when central banks are trying to hurt their rivals by buying up their rivals’ bonds — essentially lending them money.
Such is the state of things in a world where every country wants to weaken their currencies to boost their own exporters.
And the House has passed legislation saying China is a currency manipulator and has to raise the value of the Yuan.
(IND) – China is pouring another $7bn (£4.4bn) into Brazil’s oil industry, reigniting fears of a global “land grab�? of natural resources. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the hilarious case of Swiss dried beef, China demolishing buildings in the name of perpetual bubbles, and a group that doesn’t exist but meets in order to save the euro. In the second half of the show, Max goes to North Carolina to talk to Republican congressional candidate William “B.J.”Lawson about the economy, the Fed and China. Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) – The fight against genetic modification (GM) seems like a never-ending, uphill battle. But Lord Melchett, former director of Greenpeace and current policy director at the Soil Association, says that, despite what the biotechnology giants would have you believe, most nations of the world are rejecting GMs and thus preventing their takeover of the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
(RedactedNews) – Mr Dikötter, who has been studying Chinese rural history from 1958 to 1962, when the nation was facing a famine, compared the systematic torture, brutality, starvation and killing of Chinese peasants to the Second World War in its magnitude. At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China over these four years; the worldwide death toll of the Second World War was 55 million. Read More Here
(JurriaanMaessen) – Steven Mosher, founder and president of the Population Research Institute put out a video recently, exposing the UN-endorsed depopulation policies in China that, as Mosher explains, “continue to this day.�? Read the rest of this entry »
(WarIsCrime) – War Criminals Rewarded for their Contribution to World Peace: Only in America Can Tony Blair Go Out in Public – David Swanson – Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Gunning for Islam
Three people are dead because US “pastor” Terry Jones, in collaboration with the American media, staged (or threatened to stage) an anti-Muslim Koran-burning exhibition, which predictably stoked anti-American protests in Afghanistan: also predictably, US troops fired on demonstrators. The result: yet more “collateral damage.” Read More Here
(AOLNews) – Blair receives human rights award – Read More Here
(NewStatesman) – The NS Interview: Noam Chomsky – “President Obama is involved in war crimes right now�? – Read More Here
(LoonWatch) – The Connection Between Zionism & Organized Islamophobia – The Facts – Read More Here
Afghanistan
(Telegraph) – The West has made even more mistakes in Afghanistan than us, says Russian envoy to Kabul – Read More Here
(AlterNet) – For the People of Afghanistan, Things Have Gone from Bad to Worse
For years, American leaders have hailed the way Afghans are supposedly benefiting from the U.S. role in their country. They’re not. – Read More Here
(AFP) – Canada denies troops involved in Afghan drug smuggling – Read More Here
Iran
(TheVarsity) – Double standards: The United States and its allies should look at their own nuclear policy before criticizing Iran – Read More Here
(VeteransToday) – CASMII: Fact Sheet on US-Iran Standoff
The current U.S. standoff against Iran, like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was instigated by the neoconservatives of the Bush Administration based on their doctrine of “maintaining U.S. pre-eminence, thwarting rival powers and shaping the global security system according to U.S. interests�?. Read More Here
(RawStory) – US plans massive arms sale to Saudi to counter Iran threat – Read More Here
(Bloomberg) – Iran Ayatollahs Issue Fatwas Calling for Killing Those Who Burn the Koran – Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Ahmadinejad: Koran burning will bring about Israel’s annihilation – Read More Here
(Xinhuanet) – Ahmadinejad: Israel is decaying, cannot attack Iran – Read More Here
Palestine
(SouthLebanon) – Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Children
“Damning (September 9) CNN report cites uncorroborated sexual abuse charges of Palestinian children detained by IDF.” Military officials refused to “respond to abuse charges as no details (were) provided,” a spokesman saying “We cannot address general claims on the subject in the absence of a specific complaint.” Read More Here
(Intifada) – The Black Heart Over Palestine – Thirty Pieces of Silver – Read More Here
China
(Reuters) – Beware starting trade war, China economist tells U.S. – Read More Here
Video
(MoVLog) – Video: Islam must be good if the bad guys hate it
Are we all being driven to Islam? By megalomaniac war criminals. Is Islam turning out to be the last refuge.
(LonIND) – China’s one-child policy, probably the most audacious exercise in social engineering the world has ever seen, could be up for review, as Beijing policymakers worry about the effects of a population ageing fast, with insufficient numbers of youngsters to support them. Read the rest of this entry »
(InterForecaster) – Claims of Recovery But Results Nowhere To Be Found – Bob Chapman – Read More Here
(RevPol) – Video: Gerald Celente on the financial crisis – RegularGuys Radio – View Video Here
(WPost) – One quarter of Lockheed executives take buyout offer
Bethesda-based contracting giant Lockheed Martin announced Wednesday that more than 600 executives have taken the company up on an early-exit program that provides financial incentives in exchange for leaving.
The total represents about 25 percent of all company executives and follows Lockheed’s move to cut its workforce nationally by about 10,000 since the beginning of last year. Read More Here
(DrHousingBubble) – American households have lost $6.8 trillion in residential real estate values while mortgage debt has increased. The banking Stockholm Syndrome. Read More Here
(Alternet) – The Great American Stickup: How the Political Class Mugged America and Handed the Money Over to Wall St. – Read More Here
(IntelHub) – Globalism Destroys America: 10 Reasons Why The World Trade Organization Is Bad For The United States Economy – Read More Here
(WPost) – Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas – Read More Here
(CounterPunch) – The Market is Rigged High Frequency Chicanery – Read More Here
(Truthout) – Ellen Brown: Time for Helicopter Ben to Drop Some Money on Main Street
The Federal Reserve is proposing another round of “quantitative easing,” although the first round failed to reverse deflation. It failed because the money went to banks, which failed to lend it on. To reverse deflation, the money needs to be funneled directly to state and local economies. The Fed may not be authorized to “monetize” state bonds, but it COULD buy bonds issued by state-owned banks. Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Tarpley – ‘US Tries to Destroy Euro’
‘China’s ownership of the United States government debt has dropped to the lowest level in at least a year, Treasury data showed, in a sign Beijing is increasingly keen to diversify out of US bonds. Webster Tarpley says that China is diversifying and has moved onto the Euro and Yen. He adds that the US was trying to shift the depression onto Europe, trying to destroy the Euro with a speculative attack on Greece, Spain, Portugal, etc.’ View Video Here
(TheAge) – Welcome to the “Green Economy�?: Carbon cuts leave Chinese factories in chaos – Read More Here
(BusinessInsider) – Here Are 13 Signs That We’re Actually In A Depression Right Now – Read More Here
(BusinessInsider) – The Financial Industry Is A ‘Gigantic Parasite’ We Don’t Need Anymore – Read More Here
(JurriaanMaessen) – It’s the eugenicist in the Discover Channel building multiplied by a million. Not simply a lone eco-terrorist saying “parasitic human infants�? must die, but one of the largest international financial institutions demanding it. To make the contrast even more remarkable, James J. Lee scared the living daylights out of some Discovery Channel employees, the IMF & World Bank take hostage entire nations. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Millions of Americans remain unemployed, US bankruptcies have reached a five year high, China slashed US bond holdings by the largest amount to date and US home sales have plummeted to the lowest level on record.
What does this mean for America? Roger Hanwehr, the managing director of ArcXeon Investments argued that the US is in the midst of a double digit recession.
“We have a jobless, growthless, synthetic recovery characterized by uncertainty of the markets and no improvement in the underlying macroeconomic weaknesses that lead to the crisis of 2008,�? said Hanwehr. Read the rest of this entry »
This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at post anti-Americanism and crouching assets, hidden wealth in China. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Jon Thorisson in Iceland about his campaign against Magma Energy and about the resistance of the Icelandic people to IMF measures. Read the rest of this entry »
(Bloomberg) – China Drains Obama Stimulus Meant for U.S. Economy – The global economy is like fried ice cream: If you don’t act fast, it turns into a mess – Read More Here
(Breitbart) – Video: Chaos Erupts in California as Over-Taxed Residents Express Outrage
The city of Bell, CA has recently been exposed for having corrupt and overpaid city officials receiving salaries larger than the President of the United States. Residents who have recently learned they were over-taxed to pay for the government workers took control of a City Council meeting and demanded resignations. View Video Here
(GoldSeek) – US Prepares For Gold Standard – Read More Here
(NeithercorpPress) – The Purpose Behind Engineered Economic Collapse – “From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.�? — Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. , 1913 – Read More Here
(McClatchy) – Thousands apply for jobs at California McDonalds restaurants – Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Deceptive Economic Statistics – While the economists lied the US economy died – Paul Craig Roberts – Read More Here
(USAToday) – Communities print their own currency to keep cash flowing – Read More Here
(Reuters) – US Says Bankruptcies Reach Nearly 5-Year High
U.S. bankruptcy filings have reached the highest level since 2005, government data released on Tuesday show, as the economy slows and the unemployment rate hovers just below double digits. Read More Here
(Spiegel) – Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire
The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece’s problems are dragging down the country’s economy. Stores are closing, tax revenues are falling and unemployment has hit an unbelievable 70 percent in some places. Frustrated workers are threatening to strike back. Read More Here
(CommonDreams) – Death and Joblessness: How Suicide Dogs the Long-Term Unemployed – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Accountability and Transparency in the World of Big Money: Banks too Big to Fail and too Big to Jail – Danny Schechter
AS BANKS SETTLE FRAUD COMPLAINTS, WHAT HAS REALLY BEEN SETTLED IN THE CONFLICT WITH THE BANKSTERS? Read More Here
(WebOfDebt) – Axing the Bankers’ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street – Ellen Brown
Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure Read More Here
(MailOnline) – Green taxes could treble by 2020, costing taxpayers more than £16billion a year – Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Former US envoy to the United Nations says Israel has until August 21st to attack Iran’s nuclear sites. This is before Russia finalizes its shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran. So is an Israeli attack forthcoming? Wayne Madsen says that if there is an attack, multiple nations would join and there could be a major war ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
(PrisonPlanet) – “They (the Gods) all want me to give them something to drink. They have worked well for me. They have helped me. Now they are all hot. They’re thirsty. They want to drink. They want to drink blood. Then I drink blood. I swallow it. I give it to them. And that quiets them. That calms them. That refreshes them...�?
From La Psychologie religieuse des Achumawi: Description of an ancient sacrificial rite performed by an Achomawi-shaman.
In their June, 2010 magazine-issue, the Dutch Central Bank portrayed mass-murderer Mao Zedong arrogantly on the cover. By blatantly depicting the mass-murderer’s face the Bankers not only dance on the graves of the dictator’s victims, they’re dancing on the graves of their own victims- asMao was directly put in power by the global bankers. Besides being directly responsible for the murder of at least 20 million people, Mao was also in the habit of kidnapping, raping en murdering young women for his royal pleasure. These historical facts have not deterred the Dutch Central Bank.
This is just one example of the unbridled hubris with which the banks throw their blood-lust in your face. But the blood-lust is more than lust. It’s a belief-system, a cult, that has infiltrated politics, economics, military and, last but not least, science. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the latest scandals of box office manipulation in China, $9 billion missing in Iraq and contango in commodities. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Internet sensation George Hemminger about his experience with financial collapse in America. Read the rest of this entry »
(AlJazeera) – Gated villages in China have always been symbols of affluence; spaces where the rich protected themselves from criminals and other undesirables.
But between eleven at night and dawn, the poor in Beijing are being locked inside their neighbourhoods at night.
Chinese officials calls the project “sealed management” and claim the measure helps reduce crime. Read the rest of this entry »
(ActivistPost) – The boat is leaving for China. Disney, Kraft Foods, and four more Fortune 500 companies are on board to move their Headquarters to Shanghai.
The mass exodus of American companies which will surely take thousands of jobs with them, is now commencing with mind-twisting irony. Apparently, America is no longer capitalistic enough to invest in, even for U.S-based companies. Read the rest of this entry »
In this special video report for Prison Planet.tv members, Paul Joseph Watson explains why the real agenda behind cybersecurity is political oppression and the death of free speech on the Internet, and how the entire globe is now implementing Chinese style censorship policies to change the nature of the world wide web as we know it forever. Read the rest of this entry »
(CNTN) – 24 multinational companies, have decided to move their regional headquarters to Shanghai, including 6 Fortune 500 companies such as Vale, Walt Disney and Kraft Foods.
This will push the total number of companies with regional headquarters in Shanghai to nearly 300. Nearly 500 have regional research and development centers there. Read entire article
(PaulWatson) – When Senator Joe Lieberman attempted to justify draconian legislation that would provide President Obama with a figurative kill switch to shut down parts of the Internet, he cited the Chinese system of Internet policing as model which America should move towards. Read the rest of this entry »
(Infowars) – Via news outlet the Global Times, the Chinese State laments the “issue of unauthorized births�? in light of the UN’s stated goal of “efficient population control.�?
The UN’s World population Day, July 11, was originally set up in 1989 by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programma to “raise awareness of global population issues.�?
“The theme of this year’s 21st World Population Day�?, mentions the article, “is “Everyone Counts�?, and the activities in China will focus on the 2010 population census and emphasize the right to life.�?
“In China�?, the article goes on to say, “the issue of unauthorized births is at the forefront of its efforts to control the growth of its population as it undermines the country’s family planning policy, or “one-child policy�?, which was implemented in 1980.�? Read the rest of this entry »
(BusinessInsider) – This bit of multimedia art showing nuclear explosions around the world from 1945-1998 is like something from the Farm Film Report on SCTV, with things blowing up “real good�?. Incredible and unnerving, especially in years like 1958 and 1962. Video Link Here
(InternationalForecaster) – Central Banking in Crisis: Some Twenty Countries on the Verge of Insolvency – Bob Chapman
Market Volatility as the Debt Implosion Continues Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Financial Crisis Conducive to Instability of Asia’s Currency Markets: South Korea Imposes Currency Controls – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – “Dying Detroit”:: The Impacts of Globalization. Social Decay and Destruction of an Entire Urban Area – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – The Gold Market: When Will the SEC Prosecute for Market Rigging? – Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Lord Rothschild fund joins World Gold Council to put £12.5m into BullionVault
Tim Levene of Augmentum Capital, a fund backed by Lord Rothschild’s RIT Capital Partners, said the investment was not a bet on the gold price but on “the future growth of the BullionVault platform”, which stores physical gold for private clients in London, New York and Zurich. RIT currently has 9pc of its assets in physical gold. Read More Here
(FoxBusiness) – New Home Sales Fall 33% in May to Record Low
The U.S. housing market is in crisis.
A day after a disappointing read on the market for existing homes, the government said Wednesday that sales of new homes fell to their lowest level on record last month, a potentially crushing blow for an economy that is still looking for its footing. Read More Here
(PragCap) – Russell: This is One of the Largest Tops in Stock Market History
Mr. Russell thinks we might be on the verge of a terrible collapse:
“We’re now in the process of building one of the largest tops in stock market history. The result, I think, will be the most disastrous bear market since the ‘30s, and maybe worse. Read More Here
(VoiceInTheWilderness) – Is America Destined to Starve?
Americans are no longer prepared to take care of their basic needs without the involvement of the federal government. The majority of Americans have relinquished the responsibility of their future survival to bureaucrats. How and when did we, as an intelligent and formerly self-reliant populace, decide to become wards of the state? Read More Here
REPOST – (LATimes) – Video: California city to lay off all city employees, dismantle Police Department – Video Link Here
A stock market rebound helped the world’s ranks of millionaires climb 17 percent to 10 million, while their collective wealth surged 19 percent to $39 trillion, nearly recouping losses from the financial crisis, according to the latest Merrill Lynch-Capgemini world wealth report. Read More Here
(DealBook) – Despite U.S. Plea, European Bank Pushes Austerity – Read More Here
Climategate
(RoySpencer) – The Global Warming Inquisition Has Begun – Read More Here
(FinancialTimes) – Obama to push climate change on back of BP spill
Barack Obama will on Wednesday make a renewed push to spur the US Senate into action on climate change, saying the BP oil spill underlines the urgency for the country to lessen its dependence on fossil fuels. Read More Here
(TimeMagazine) – The concept of government-backed web censorship is usually associated with nations where human rights and freedom of speech are routinely curtailed. But if Canberra’s plans for a mandatory Internet filter go ahead, Australia may soon become the first Western democracy to join the ranks of Iran, China and a handful of other nations where access to the Internet is restricted by the state.
Plans for a mandatory Internet filter have been a long-term subject of controversy since they were first announced by Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, in May 2008 as part of an $106 million “cybersafety plan.�? The plan’s stated purpose is to protect children when they go online by preventing them from stumbling on illegal material like child pornography. To do this, Conroy’s Ministry has recommended blacking out about 10,000 websites deemed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to be so offensive that they are categorized as ‘RC,’ or Refused Classification. Read the rest of this entry »
(CounterPunch) – Did the IDF Execute Mavi Marmara Victims?
You want to know why we need independent journalism, and why those of you who are reading this article need to support the publication in which it is appearing and the article in which it originally appeared? Because if you rely for your news on the US corporate media, whether ad-supported or underwriter-supported, you won’t learn that Furkan Dogan, the 19-year-old American citizen slain by Israeli commandos in the raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla May 31, was shot in the back and in the back of the head, as well as multiple times in the face. Read More Here
(NYTimes) – U.S. Soldier Arrested in WikiLeaks Inquiry After Tip From Former Hacker – Read More Here
(Azvsas) – Israel’s Crude Forgery of Tape Backfires
Have a listen to what is very evidently a doctored tape. It is a mark of Netanyahu’s desperation. Leaving aside that Israel had already issued a previous tape of such exchanges without the Auschwitz remark, they now add a ‘go back to Auschwitz’ in a European voice. Read More Here
(VOANews) – IAEA Chief: Iran’s Nuclear Program is ‘Special Case’ – Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Israel Renews Claim Flotilla Activists Linked to al-Qaeda
The Israel Defense Forces revealed on Sunday that five of the pro-Palestinian activists aboard the Turkish-flagged ship it intercepted last week en route to the Gaza Strip have links to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements. Read More Here
(DeutschePresse-Agentur) – US says North Korean defiance is obstacle to effective sanctions – Read More Here
(Independent) – Kidnapped by Israel and abandoned by Britain
A British-born al-Jazeera producer recalls his ordeal on the Gaza flotilla
On either side there was tear gas being thrown in from the boats, canisters which they were firing from a sort of gun. One man was shot in the top of the head from the helicopter. He collapsed on the ground. I snatched a microphone from one of the Turkish reporters to say one man had been killed. As I did that another man was shot. Those people died instantly. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – The IAEA: From UN Nuclear Watchdog to US Lapdog – Finian Cunningham
As the United Nations’ nuclear inspections body, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), meets in Vienna later this week to discuss its latest report on Iran, there are signs that Washington is now writing the IAEA’s script. Read More Here
(IrishTimes) – POEM: “What Is Not Allowed” – View Poem Here
(VoiceOfRussia) – Drugs for Europe: Protected by Powerful Western Interests, Afghanistan Heroin Transits Through Kosovo
A Serbian military analyst and an authoritative expert on the situation in Kosovo, Milovan Drecun says that, according to the Europol and Interpol, the largest amount of heroin is delivered to Europe from Afghanistan via Kosovo. According to some estimates, some 65% of all the world’s heroin is channeled through the former Serbian province; while 90% of all drugs that reach Europe are shipped via Kosovo.
According to the Canadian detective Stewart Kellock, the Albanian drug mafia operates with the connivance of the United States. Mr. Kellock said in an interview that US diplomats prevent the detention in Kosovo of notorious drug traffickers. Read More Here
(DailyFinance) – Chinese Invasion: ‘Red Dawn’ Remake Has Cultural Critics Up in Arms
On the surface, the new Red Dawn is a close remake of the original, with Chinese and Russian soldiers standing in for the original Soviet and Cuban villains. The characters’ names are the same and, for the most part, so are their biographies. The main difference lies with Jed Eckert, the Patrick Swayze character. This time around, he’s an Afghanistan war veteran who goes from fighting an insurgency to leading one. Read More Here
(ZeroHedge) – North Korea Parliament To Hold Rare Second Annual Session Monday, Major Announcement Expected
Adding to the already tense and riskoffish environment heading into Monday, is the news from Reuters that North Korea’s parliament will hold a “rare second annual session on Monday.�? While the reason for the extra session is unknown, “analysts said the North could use the extra session of the Supreme People’s Assembly to make a major announcement on personnel changes or power succession, or to issue a hardline response to sanctions imposed by the South over the ship sinking.�? Read More Here
(LondonTimes) – Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers
NATO is considering the use of military force against enemies who launch cyber attacks on its member states.
The move follows a series of Russian-linked hacking against Nato members and warnings from intelligence services of the growing threat from China. Read More Here
(KurtNimmo) – Iran Pledges Revolutionary Guard Units to Escort Gaza Aid Convoys
Press TV reports today that two Iranian aid ships carrying humanitarian relief and medical supplies for the people of Gaza have departed from Iran. The nation’s Red Crescent announced Monday the cargo includes food, medicine and appliances and will be accompanied by a group of Iranian doctors and relief workers. Read the rest of this entry »
Why is Chris Matthews attacking the Tea Party? Are the recent events in China, Israel, and Korea signs of the next World War? Why are Los Angeles Police officers attacking bike riders? Are you holding a “Don’t Tread On Me” movie screening? Are biometrics soon going to be used in your child school? Join us on this weeks edition to help us answer these questions. Plus, Gary sits down with Liberty Pulse founder, Kurt Wallace, to discuss how the media is manipulating the Tea Party. We also have a clip from Gary’s guest appearance on “Declare Your Independence” with Ernest Hancock. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – May 27 – This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of guillotines and conspiracy theories, Fed rackets and capital flows. In the second half of the show, Max interviews Dr. Joern Berninger about the European “debt crisis”, when France was “technically bankrupt” on May 7, and about the China bubble debate. Read the rest of this entry »
(DesertPeace) – Eye on Palestine – Video’s of Resistance – Video Link Here
(RawStory) – Oops! MSNBC graphic suggests Taliban set fire to Bangkok
People watching MSNBC Wednesday morning could be forgiven for believing that the Taliban had invaded Bangkok. As NBC’s Ian Williams reported on violent protests in the capital city of Thailand, a graphic on the lower third of MSNBC’s screen read: “NEW TALIBAN ATTACKS, BANGKOK BURNS.” View Picture Here
(SouthLebanon) – Israel’s Exclusion and Restriction of Goods to Gaza – Stephen Lendman
After Hamas was overwhelmingly elected in January 2006, Israel, Washington and the West ended all outside aid, imposed an economic embargo and sanctions, and politically isolated the new government. Read More Here
(AlethoNews) – Official: Israeli forces destroy pipelines in Hebron village
Israeli army bulldozers reportedly destroyed several water pipes as they attempted to block the main road from the Adh-Dhahiriya village to Hebron on Wednesday, effectively cutting off the village’s water supply, an official said. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – Baghdad to enclose city with 15ft wall
Baghdad is to resort to one of the oldest forms of defence by building a massive wall around the capital to keep out insurgents, The Times has learnt. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Israel ‘mulling reoccupation of Gaza’ – Read More Here
(WPost) – NATO says night raid killed Afghan insurgents; residents say it killed civilians
District police chief Abdul Ghafour woke to a cellphone call after 1 a.m. Friday: There was gunfire at Rafiuddin Kushkaki’s home. Ghafour put on his uniform, sent two police trucks ahead and followed in a third. Read More Here
(AP) – Video: Raw Video – Thai Troops Open Fire at Encampment
Thai troops opened fire at a fortified encampment of anti-government protesters in central Bangkok Wednesday. It came amid reports of a final assault on the area the protesters have occupied for weeks. – Video Link Here
(TheGlobalReport) – Video: Afghanistan Runs On Drugs, Corruption & Aid – U.N. – View Video Here
(AlethoNews) – Remarkable Urgency
“It’s quite remarkable,�? says Adie, one of us accompanying the farmers. “It’s unbelievable that the Israeli army would fire on a scene like this. It’s one of the most tranquil things you could be doing, this hand-harvesting.�? Read More Here
(MorningStarr) – ‘Gorilla Baby’ Born In Gaza
The births of deformed babies in Gaza has increased since the Israeli offensive which took place last year, Palestinian doctors claim.
Most recently a woman gave birth to a child at the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip which was severely deformed, the baby boy’s face was malformed, his nose is flattened, there is reddish-brownish skin discoloration and the limbs are short with the feet curling in, a similar shape to a gorilla’s. Read More Here
(WRH) – The Maps Tell The True Story
The truth is that far from being the poor victim it likes to portray itself as, Israel is in fact the most aggressive and belligerent nation in the region, having invaded pretty much everyone it shares a border with.
The following maps show what Israel has actually done. View Maps Here
(WashPost) – South Korea: North responsible for torpedo attack on warship
South Korea will formally blame North Korea on Thursday for launching a torpedo at one of its warships in March, causing an explosion that killed 46 sailors and heightened tensions in one of the world’s most perilous regions, U.S. and East Asian officials said. Read More Here
(CNN) – Reluctant Russia, China have agreed on Iran sanctions, Clinton says
She said they forged “a strong draft with the cooperation of Russia and China,” the two countries that have been reluctant to impose strong sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program. Read More Here
(BBC) – North Korea calls rare second parliamentary session
The North’s official news agency said the Supreme People’s Assembly would meet on 7 June but did not say why.
The assembly usually meets just once a year to approve proposals from the governing party. It has not held a second annual session since 2003. Read More Here
(WPost) – CIA director, national security adviser to meet with officials in Pakistan
President Obama’s national security adviser, James L. Jones, and CIA Director Leon Panetta were set to travel to Pakistan on Monday night for meetings with top government, military and intelligence officials on progress in the Times Square car bomb investigation and concerns about future terrorist attacks. Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Chossudovsky – Obama, not Osama, is threat No.1 to global security
Barack Obama is masking the real issues over nuclear weapons by presenting the idea that nuclear terrorism is a major threat, says Michel Chossudovsky, Director of the Canadian Centre for Research on Globalization. Read the rest of this entry »
Zbigniew Brzezinski giving the CFR branch in Montreal a presentation discussing world government and his fears of the mass global awakening that has taken place. Read the rest of this entry »
(HuffingtonPost) – Caught On Video: Moments Before Afghan Massacre, A Family Celebrates
The video is haunting: Three Afghan men are dancing in joy, whirling, clapping, throwing their arms in the air. One has just had a baby boy. There is music in the air. The whole extended family has gathered to celebrate.
Hours later, two of the men lie dead, shot and killed by U.S. troops, the victims of a deeply disturbing massacre and cover-up that the White House, Congress and the United Nations continue to ignore. Video Link Here
BREAKING NEWS: (PJTV) – Video: Former US General Warns of Chemical Attacks Against Israel
Potential Hezbollah offensive includes chemically armed SCUD missiles with a 450 km range, preemptive strikes on air fields, and a wave of tunnel attacks that cross from Lebanon into Israel. Full Video Here(extra 2+ minutes)
(WSWS) – Afghans protest over US massacre of civilians
At least two people were killed Friday when several hundred Afghan villagers clashed with security forces while attempting to march to the eastern city of Jalalabad to protest the latest massacre of civilians by US military forces. Read More Here
(HuffingtonPost) – AP Bombshell: “US Drug War Has Met None of Its Goals”
Using Freedom of Information Act requests, archival records, federal budgets, and interviews with leaders and analysts, the AP tracked where that money went — and found that the U.S. repeatedly increased budgets for programs that did nothing to stop the flow of drugs. The AP article states that in 40 years taxpayers spent more than: Read More Here
(AntiWar) – How US Weapons Grade Uranium was Diverted to Israel
Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations Read More Here
(TheNews) – ‘Mini-3rd world war’ being fought on Pakhtun soil
PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti said that an undeclared mini-Third World War was being fought on the soil of Pakhtuns for the last many years.
“The US, China, Russia, Iran, India and other big powers are involved in this war being fought in the Pakhtun belt of Pakistan and Afghanistan,�? he told The News in an interview. He said the world powers needed to sit together to find a negotiated political solution to the conflict in this region. He said these countries had chosen to fight each other on Pakhtun soil.Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – US funds ‘apartheid’ road network in Israel
The construction of sections of a controversial segregated road network in the West Bank planned by Israel for Palestinians – leaving the main roads for exclusive use by settlers – is being financed by a US government aid agency, a map prepared by Palestinian researchers has revealed. Read More Here
(PressTV) – S Korea fires shots at North’s ships
South Korea says its navy has fired warning shots to drive away North Korean patrol ships that had crossed the western maritime border between the two countries.
The two North Korean vessels violated a disputed inter-Korean border in the Yellow Sea, known as the ‘Northern Limit Line’, on Saturday night, South Korea’s military said. Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘US attack on Iran highly unlikely’
In an exclusive interview conducted by the Al Jazeera network on Friday, Ahmadinejad stated that no country has the power to confront Iran, and added that Tehran advocates diplomacy as the ideal way to deal with international issues, the Fars news agency reported. Read More Here
(IsraelNationalNews) – IDF Prepares Public for Nationwide Home Front Exercise
The IDF Home Front Command has launched a media campaign in preparation for the national Home Front exercise known in Hebrew as Nekudat Mifneh 4 Read More Here
(TimesOnline) – Essex home raided over Iran dirty bomb threat
A BRITISH chemicals firm is involved in a secret MI5 inquiry into the illegal export to Iran of material that could make a radioactive “dirty bomb�?. Read More Here
(Guardian) – Redshirts warn of civil war as Thai troops told to shoot on sight
International leaders appeal for calm amid escalating violence on streets of Bangkok Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Obama’s plan to fund £140m Israeli rocket defense
President Barack Obama will ask Congress to provide $205 million (£140 million) to Israel to spur production and deployment of a new short-range rocket defense system.
The “Iron Dome�? defense system uses small radar-guided missiles to blow up rockets and mortar bombs in mid-air. Read More Here
(911Blogger) – The Evening of 9/11/01: The U.S. Was Already Bombing Afghanistan
Video from FOX News, evening of 9/11/2001:
“We understand the US government is now bombing Afghanistan…”
Maybe this is common knowledge among the 9/11 Truth community. But it sure is news to me. – Source: 911 Blogger
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Turkish Air Defense System Deployed to “Defend Syria, Iran against Israel Raids�?
High-ranking sources in the Israeli Foreign Ministry expressed displeasure with Turkey over deploying anti-aircraft batteries along the Syrian border in the Iskenderun district.
The Turkish daily Hurriyet meanwhile, quoted a military source as saying that “this move aims at repelling a US or Israeli attack against Iran or Syria.�? Read More Here
(CampaignIran) – Incoming British FM Won’t Rule Out Attacking Iran
In an interview aimed at cementing his reputation as a “friend of Israel,�? incoming British Foreign Secretary William Hague vowed to see British law changed so as to hold Israeli officials immune from war crimes charges, and promised to take a tough line against Iran’s civilian nuclear program, calling it the “most urgent thing�? for him to tackle. Read More Here
(Uruknet) – New weapons experimented in Gaza: population risks genetic mutations
Toxic and carcinogenic metals, able to produce genetic mutations, have been found in the tissues of people wounded in Gaza during Israeli military operations of 2006 and 2009. The research has been carried out on wounds provoked by weapons that did not leave fragments in the bodies of the victims, a peculiarity that was pointed out repeatedly by doctors in Gaza. This shows that experimental weapons, whose effects are still to be assessed, were used. Read More Here
Audio: The Ugly Truth On Zionism/9-11 attacks with Dr. Alan Sabrosky
One of the brightest minds on the planet, Dr. Alan Sabrosky, comes on board along with co-host Phil Tourney to discuss Dr. Sabrosky’s most recent article “The Dark Face Of Jewish Nationalism�? Audio Link Here
(RupeeNews) – Chinese Naval power to rule the seas
While the United States has the forward-deployed USS George Washington on a short tether, oftentimes Washington has no other carrier in theater, meaning that even two or three Chinese carriers operating in the area likely will exceed the number of US flattops. The Chinese fleet is about 260 vessels, including 75 major warships and more than 60 submarines, and the entire force is complemented by hundreds of fast cruise-missiles shooting offshore patrol vessels and land-based aircraft Read More Here
(PressTV) – Ahmadinejad advises US to leave region
Amid concerns about the continuing presence of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Iranian president advises the White House to withdraw its troops from the region.
Addressing a large crowd in Iran’s southwestern city of Yasuj on Wednesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the era of occupation and plundering other nation’s national resources is over. Read More Here
(TheRealNews) – Video: Training That Makes Killing Civilians Acceptable
Josh Stieber: In boot camp we trained with songs that joked about killing women and children
One can imagine that were US soldiers to open fire with live ammunition on American protesters, this would not be acceptable. Likewise for Canada and most democratic nations.
Yet somehow there is a void, a gaping hole in the media into which fall most potential reports on Israeli soldiers shooting with live ammunition on visibly unarmed demonstraters. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Pentagon Report: Still Not Enough Troops in Afghanistan
After 15 months in office President Obama has increased the number of troops in Afghanistan by an almost impossible amount, going from 30,000 (itself the product of an end-of-term escalation by President Bush) to 86,000… with the troop level pushing 100,000 by the end of the summer. Read More Here
(BBC) – US youngsters are too fat to fight, warn generals
Rising rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, two retired generals have warned. Read More Here
(TheStatesman) – Demonizing Ahmadinejad – Hillary Clinton Calls Ahmadinejad Anti-semitic President
“Iran, with its anti-Semitic president and hostile nuclear ambitions, continues to threaten Israel, but it also threatens the region and it sponsors terrorism,�? Mrs Clinton said at the American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner here. Read More Here
(CounterCurrents) – Can You Pass The Iran Quiz
What can possibly justify the relentless U.S. diplomatic (and mainstream media) assault on Iran ? Read More Here
(Pravda) – What’s At Stake in the Issue of Iran – Noam Chomsky
In an interview with the German publication, Freitag, Noam Chomsky talks about U.S. pressure on Israel and Iran and its geopolitical significance. “Iran is perceived as a threat because they did not obey the orders of the United States. Militarily this threat is irrelevant. This country has not behaved aggressively beyond its borders for centuries. Israel invaded Lebanon with the blessing and help of the U.S. five times in thirty years. Iran has not done anything like this,” he says.´ Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – How Wars Are Born: China versus the U.S. – Shamus Cooke
The corporate controlled New York Times published a revealing article about how U.S. foreign policy really works, and why. The motive behind the sincerity is that China’s foreign policy was being attacked. However, the article soon made it clear that China’s policy is the same as the U.S.’s : dominating regions that are of “economic (corporate) interest�? — raw materials, cheap labor, shipping lanes, markets, etc. — through military buildup. Read More Here
(LewRockwell) – The CIA Coup That Kept America on the Road of Militarism – Read More Here
USS LIBERTY: The Fifth Fleet Sacrifice – Why did it happen?
A review of the USS Liberty story explains a lot of how and why we have arrived at the state and conditions in which we currently find America and its governance! Vis: Read More Here
(DesertPeace) – Playing Peace to Target Iran
Obama needs Palestine merely to pursue his scheme to isolate Iran, says Khalid Amayreh cynically in occupied Jerusalem Read More Here
(Guardian) – Afghanistan forces face four more years of combat, warns Nato official
Nato’s top civilian official in Afghanistan warns of further deaths in ‘very tough year’ for British and other foreign troops Read More Here
(AFP) – Iran warns Israel against attacking Syria
Iran will “cut off Israel’s feet” if the Jewish state attacks Damascus, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Rida Rahimi vowed on Friday at the end of a two-day visit to key regional ally Syria. Read More Here
(Guardian) – Turmoil in Iraq threatens US withdrawal plans
Iraq continues to be embroiled in its messy post-election coalition-building process. It has become so messy that the US may well be rethinking its withdrawal plans, and particularly its withdrawal of all combat troops at the end of August. Read More Here
(Aletho) – US: We stand by Israel at UN
Washington has invariably invoked the veto power to block the UN resolutions against the Israeli aggression on the Palestinians and the regime’s building up the occupied lands. Read More Here
(SacramentoPress) – Editor’s note: Recall what the last Pearl harbor event shilled by the neocons resulted in — more than a million dead Iraqis.
Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next “Pearl Harbor�? is likely to be an attack on the United States’ power, financial, military and other Internet systems. Read the rest of this entry »
(DailyMail) – Showing Chinese sweatshop workers slumped over their desks with exhaustion, it is an image that Microsoft won’t want the world to see.
Employed for gruelling 15-hour shifts, in appalling conditions and 86f heat, many fall asleep on their stations during their meagre ten-minute breaks. Read the rest of this entry »
(PaulWatson) – Despite past controversies, Obama still eager to prove fealty to his global elite bosses by bowing to Communist leader Hu Jintao Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – Treasury Secretary Geithner is on his way to Beijing, where he will meet with Chinese Vice Prime Minister Wang. The trip is in relation to US demands for a massive up valuation of the Chinese currency, the renminbi or yuan. This announcement has unleashed much gloating at the Associated Press and other pro-Wall Street news outlets, so it is important to issue a caveat at the very beginning: trips do not equal agreements. Obama made a personal visit to Afghanistan last month, and bilateral US relations with that country have been deteriorating in an alarming way ever since. Read the rest of this entry »
(RawStory) – UK troops trained by firing at ‘replica mosques’
A political and religious uproar has erupted in Great Britain over news that the British Army trained troops for the Afghanistan mission by having them fire on replica mosques. Read More Here
(WSWS) – Killings of Civilians in Afghanistan: US Special Forces Covered Up Massacre – Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia – Rick Rozoff – Read More Here
Breaking News
(PressTV) – Israel launches ground incursion into Gaza Strip
Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its troops entering the south of the long-blockaded coastal sliver.
Israeli tanks and bulldozers advanced about 500 meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday, Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported. Read More Here
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(PressTV) – Ahmadinejad: US bogged down, doomed to fail in region
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the United States is doomed to crumple as it is mired in a swamp in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read More Here
(AP) – Video: Top-secret Journey to Keep Nukes From Terrorists – View Video Here
(Xinhua) – China ‘deeply concerned’ over Kyrgyz situations – Read More Here
(BBC) – The day Kyrgyzstan’s anger boiled over
Scores of people lost their lives. More than 400 were injured. This is the day that changed the course of history in this small, mountainous former Soviet state. Read More Here
(ABC) – Kyrgyzstan: Coup in a U.S.-Allied Country?
Key Ally in Afghanistan War May Have Been Overthrown by Opposition Protestors Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘If Israel attacks, Iran’s response instantaneous’
A senior Iranian official warns of immediate retaliation against Israel, should it dare to launch an attack on Iran. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Iran upset over Russia’s S-300 delivery delay
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman expresses Tehran’s disappointment with continued delay in the delivery of the S-300 air defense missile system from Russia. Read More Here
(PressTV) – General says Israel too weak to launch Iran war
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says Israel is too weak to launch a war against Iran.
“They (Israelis) themselves have stressed on the fact that they could not enter into a war with Iran,�? Vahidi told reporters in northeastern city of Orumieh on Wednesday.
He added “the Zionist regime is too weak to launch a war against Iran.�? Read More Here
(RFERL) – UN Chief Calls For Total Nuclear Disarmament
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged world leaders to follow the example of Kazakhstan and “to realize the aspiration and dream of a world free of nuclear weapons.�?
(DW-World) – Easter marchers call for Afghanistan withdrawal after soldier deaths
Peace demonstrators took to the streets across Germany in traditional Easter marches against war. A theme of the rallies has been fighting in Afghanistan and the deaths of German and Afghan soldiers on Friday. Read More Here
(PressTV) – ‘Russia ready for nuclear cooperation with Venezuela’
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has pledged to help Venezuela draw up plans for a nuclear power plant. Read More Here
(Antiwar) – North Korea claims South fires toward its border
North Korea is accusing South Korea of opening fire in the military buffer zone that separates the two countries. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – SlayStation – Cindy Sheehan
Don’t get me wrong, I am not in favor of “Manned Aircraft Systems�? raining down bombs on civilians, but the idea of Murder by Joystick with the “Unmanned Aircraft Systems�? (UAS,) is especially sickening to me. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Time For Another War, Folks? – 59% of America Says YOU BETCHA!!!!
I caught part of a podcast of Meet the Press. A part where David Gregory sets up Senator Joe Lieberman to “war monger” once again for war with Iran. That part begins at 30:25 if you access the podcast link for Meet the Press before next Sunday 4/11/10. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – U.S. Takeover of Haiti: The centerpieces of the US, UN, and World Bank Plan for Haiti are Sweatshops and Tourisim
When this article appears on the morning of March 31, the much ballyhooed “International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti�? will be getting underway at UN Headquarters in Manhattan.
While demonstrators in the street outside protest the continuing US and UN military occupation of Haiti, now over six years old, and the Haitian people’s exclusion from deliberations on the country’s reconstruction, dignitaries inside like UN Special Envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and Haitian President René Préval will unveil a plan with lots of pomp and ceremony but which boils down to just one thing: Washington’s take-over of the “new�? Haiti. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Calm before the Storm? The Dollar versus the Yuan: America and China Engage in a “Currency War”
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s recent announcement that the US is postponing its official report on China’s currency is being hailed in the mainstream western media as a diplomatic reprieve to entice Beijing to revalue its yuan (renminbi) and normalise bilateral trade. Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Human Rights – Homelessness Or No Free Press
A 2006 BBC poll showed the United States as the “biggest global peace threat.�? Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – China will remain committed to further talks aimed at resolving the Iran nuclear issue. So says the country’s Foreign Ministry following U.S. reports that Beijing is willing to back sanctions against Tehran. A veto-holding member of the Security Council, China backed three previous UN sanctions resolutions, but had been opposed to a fourth round hoping for a diplomatic settlement. To talk about what could lie ahead here is investigative journalist Webster Tarlpey. Read the rest of this entry »
(Alternet) – Shocking Admission on Killing Civilians by Top US General Almost Completely Ignored by Corporate Media
“We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat,” says Afghan commander McChrystal. – Read More Here
(Aletho) – “Reporting�? on Iran should seem familiar – Read More Here
(PBS) – Video: MLK – A Call to Conscience
The second episode of Tavis Smiley Reports examines Martin Luther King, Jr.’s stand against the Vietnam War and the influence of his legacy today. Tavis speaks with scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West, Vincent Harding and Susannah Heschel. View Video Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Our Government Is Planning to Stay at War for the Next 80 Years – Anyone Got a Problem with That? – Read More Here
(FinancialTimes) – Nukes? Now Iran is Threat to World Economy, Says Obama
Barack Obama on Tuesday warned that a conflict in the Middle East set off by Iran’s nuclear programme could destabilise the world economy as he and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, stepped up their push for sanctions on Tehran. Read More Here
(GeorgianDaily) – Russia Tries to Find ‘Georgia Link’ in the Moscow Metro Blasts – Read More Here
(WorldJewishCongress) – Obama, Sarkozy want new Iran sanctions in place “within weeks�? – Read More Here
(Haaretz) – Palestinians: IDF drops leaflets over Gaza warning of imminent attack
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday denied Palestinian reports that its troops had disseminated notices over a residential area of the Gaza Strip warning of an upcoming military strike. Read More Here
(ABCNews) – EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA ‘Intelligence Coup’ – Read More Here
(VoiceofRussia) – Behind the Talks: US-NATO Prepare Confrontation in the Arctic
Moscow regards as inadmissible the prospects for a military presence in the Arctic region. It’s no secret at all that in recent years quite a number of states in the West, including the USA, have unveiled their plans to build at least 66 warships to be used for conducting hostilities in the Arctic region. Read More Here
Breaking News: Gaza War
(AlJazeera) – Israel pounds Gaza with missiles
Three children have been reported injured in eastern Gaza City after Israeli aircraft carried out a series of missile strikes across the Palestinian territory. Read More Here
(BBC) – Thirteen Israeli air strikes hit Gaza Strip
Israeli planes have carried out 13 air strikes on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources have told the BBC. Read More Here
(Reuters) – Israeli planes and helicopters mount Gaza attacks
Israeli planes and helicopters mounted at least seven missile attacks on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday, destroying what a military spokesman described as Palestinian munitions sites. Four air strikes blew up two caravans near the town of Khan Younis, witnesses and Hamas officials said. There were no casualties. Read More Here
(PoliticalTheatrics) – Video: Hamas Releases Footage Of ‘Gaza Clashes’ – Video Link Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Another Mossad Assassination?
RT Contributor Wayne Madsen investigates an assassination in Hungary that is eerily similar to the January killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai Video Link Here
(GlobalResearch) – ‘At war’ US justifies drone attacks in Pak as act of ‘self-defence’
Amid growing discontent in Pakistan over the continuous drone attacks in the ungoverned tribal regions near the Afghan-Pak border, the United States has justified the Central Investigation Agency (CIA) operated missile hits against Al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists citing the right to “self-defence” under international law. Read More Here
(PressTV) – India test-fires two nuclear-capable missiles – Read More Here
(PressTV) – Japanese rally against US base – Read More Here
(XinhuaNet) – UN chief says Israeli settlement activities illegal
UN Secretary General Ban Ki- moon said Israeli settlement activities are illegal and against the international law, stressing that they should come to an end. Read More Here
(LAHT) – Ecuador, Venezuela Discuss Military Cooperation – Read More Here
(CBN) – U.N. Suspects Iran of Planning More Nuke Sites
Western intelligence officials and United Nations inspectors said they suspect Iran is planning to build more nuclear sites, according to The New York Times. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Erdogan: Nuclear armed countries urge Iran sanctions
‘Erdogan then wondered why the international community refused to impose sanctions against the Middle East’s sole nuclear weapons power, in an apparent allusion to Israel.’ Read More Here
(WAPost) – Tens of thousands protest Israel in Syria
Tens of thousands of Syrians and Palestinians have gathered in a Damascus square in a government-orchestrated “march of anger” against Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem. Read More Here
(DW) – German foreign minister backs tough G8 stance on nuclear Iran
Germany’s foreign minister has called for a hard line on Iran as G8 leaders met in Canada. The question of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions was a key one on the opening day of talks among foreign ministers. Read More Here
(Retuers) – Europe unlikely to join any new yuan offensive – Read More Here
(AP) – SKorean president orders military on alert – Read More Here
(WSWS) – Is a US attack on Iran imminent?
In recent weeks there has been a series of press reports as well as statements by military experts that strongly indicate that either the Obama administration or the Israeli government, or both, may be moving toward an attack on Iran. Read More Here
(Breitbart) – Canada tells Clinton troops are leaving
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan will end in 2011. Read More Here
(ETravel) – Medvedev vows to “destroy” Moscow metro masterminds – Read More Here
(RiaNov) – Lavrov sees foreign backing in Moscow metro blasts – Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Pacified
If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan, over the past ten months, we would see ourselves as people who have collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed against innocent civilians who meant us no harm. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – 100 Million Americans Question or Find Fault with the Official 9/11 Story – Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – US-NATO Atrocities Committed in Afghanistan: How Did We Become this Pacified to War?
If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan, over the past ten months, we would see ourselves as people who have collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed against innocent civilians who meant us no harm. Read More Here
(TheHindu) – Beijing Challenges the US-NATO-Israel Military Agenda: China’s Stance Boosts Iran
Yang Jiechi, Foreign Minister of China, a veto-wielding member, spelt out clearly his country’s opposition to fresh sanctions in early February. Later in March, at a press conference, he said pressure and sanctions are not the fundamental way forward to resolving the Iran nuclear issue. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Media Disinformation regarding America’s Afghan War – Prof. Marc Herold – Read More Here
(InfoClearingHouse) – Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran, American missiles have been placed in four Persian Gulf states, and “bunker-buster�? bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Read the rest of this entry »
(Salon) – A stark truth: Israeli arms, U.S. dollars
One does not normally see this truth stated so starkly in places like Time Magazine — from Michael Scherer’s interesting article on AIPAC’s current strategy to “storm Congress”: Read More Here
(MotherJones) – Sen. Lindsey Graham: Any Attack on Iran Must Be Full-Scale
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) laid it on thick at AIPAC’s annual gala banquet on Monday. Referring to the pro-Israel lobby, Graham declared, “The Congress has your back.” (What other lobby would he say that to?) He declared that Israel is “our best friend in the world.” (Does that tick off Canadians?) But Graham went especially far when he endorsed the idea of a military strike against Iran. Read More Here
(AntiWar) – Iran forcing us to impose sanctions: Kouchner
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday there was “no other choice” but to impose fresh sanctions on Iran as its nuclear programme is suspect. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – U.S. Interceptors Will Target Russian Nuclear Capability: Commander
Russia says no arms reduction deal without missile defense clause Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Obama the Cold Warrior? Hostile Relations with Russia and China
After observing recent pronouncements from Hillary Clinton that Venezuela start ‘playing by the rules’ and revert to free market capitalism, it’s starting to look like we might be heading into an era of deja vu once more. Provocations from Obama against China and Russia, are making the current climate look a lot like the recent past. One would have thought in a world where the United States only has the courage to attack much lesser third world ‘powers’, that Obama wouldn’t be ginning up a great deal of antagonism with much more evenly matched states; but that’s precisely what seems to be occurring under team Obama’s charge. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Iran: US ‘works on’ China to Isolate Iran
Among the many inadvertent insights into the twisted US logic and policy towards the Middle East revealed in Hillary Clinton’s barnstorming speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee this week was her fatwa of “biting sanctions�? on Iran. Read More Here
(WSJ) – U.S. Is Riskier Than Euro Zone; So Says CDS Market
Something troubling has occurred in the market for default protection on the debt of the world’s biggest borrower. Read More Here
(WSJ) – Treasurys Sink After Poor Sale
Treasury prices fell hard after a poor five-year auction that escalated concerns about the government’s ability to sell its massive amounts of debt. Read More Here
(KCTV5) – Folger’s To Close KC Coffee Plant
The J.M. Smucker Company announced Wednesday it will close its Kansas City Folger’s Coffee plant in the summer of 2012. Read More Here
(RussiaToday) – Video: Lehman Brothers: Warehouse for junk loans – View Video Here
(TheSun) – CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling has delivered his last crucial budget — and plunged the country further into debt. – Read More Here
(BusinessInsider) – JP Morgan Paid $1.9 Billion For Washington Mutual And Now It Wants A $1.4 Billion Tax Refund
JPMorgan Chase is negotiating with the FDIC for a tax refund related to its acquisition of Washington Mutual that could amount to $1.4 billion, The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning Read More Here
(DailyTelegraph) – Gordon Brown told to explain why he sold Britain’s gold reserves
Gordon Brown has been ordered to release information before the general election about his controversial decision to sell Britain’s gold reserves. Read More Here
(Bloomberg) – Poll Reveals Americans Hate Wall Street
Americans are leery about creating a new federal agency to make consumer-protection rules for mortgages and credit cards and would prefer to enhance the existing powers of banking regulators. Read More Here
(Bloomberg) – States Sue Over Overhaul That Will Bust State Budgets
President Barack Obama faces a fight over the health-care overhaul from states that sued today because the legislation’s expansion of Medicaid imposes a fiscal strain on their cash-strapped budgets. Read More Here
(WallStreetJournal) – Economic Stimulus Bill May Give J.P. Morgan a Tax Refund of $1.4 Billion
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is nearing a deal that would allow it to benefit from a tax refund of as much as $1.4 billion, becoming the latest company to tap a little-noticed plank in an economic stimulus bill. Read More Here
(GlobalResearch) – Social Inequality in America: Widening Income Disparities
The “aristocracy of our moneyed incorporations” has never conceded a thing, not even to suppress a revolt. This “opulent minority” does not “give” what it does not intend to begin to claw back with its cold, non-living corporate “hand” before the ink is dry on the signatures on treaties, the Fourteenth Amendment, even the New Deal, perhaps the greatest bowl of gruel ever cooked up by an oligarchy. Read More Here
(EpochTimes) – Most Japanese Airports in Debt, Face Closure
The majority of Japanese airports are facing serious financial problems and may be forced to close unless they attract more passengers, according to a Japanese Ministry of Transport survey, reports the Japan Times. Read More Here
(FinancialArmageddon) – Is the stock market being manipulated?
Larry Doyle, a long-time Wall Street veteran and publisher of the Sense on Cents blog, hosts a Sunday night show, “No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle,” on Blog Talk Radio. In this week’s edition, which features an interview with Phil Davis of Phil’s Stock World, Larry raises a question that a few of us, who are amazed at and unsettled by the willingness of investors to throw caution to the wind and repeat the mistakes of the past (see “Back Buying the Same Kind of Crap” for one example), have occasionally wondered about ourselves: Read More Here
(MyBudget360) – How the Middle Class Slowly Evaporated in the Last 40 Years
Loss of Manufacturing, Bank Deregulation, Hyper Consumption, and Short-term Profit Seeking from Wall Street Read More Here
(DailyBell) – Global Economy Spins Out of Control? – Read More Here
(Spiegel) – German Shipping Faces Wave of Financing Problems
As recently as 2008, container ships were transporting record amounts of products across the world’s oceans. Now, many German shipping companies are struggling to pay for the vessels they ordered during the boom. Their banks could be in trouble, too. Read More Here
(CSPAN) – Video: Ron Paul Vs Tiny Tim Geithner-You Got Us In A Bigger Mess – View Video Here
According to the latest CNN opinion poll, only 19% of the booboisie like the idea of Obama’s Soviet-style nationalization of the health care industry. The Democrats spat on the Constitution, as they always do, and shoved the thing down our throats. A lot of people are mighty, mighty pi__ed off at this, and will undoubtedly vent by voting a lot of Democrats out of office in November.
So what can we expect the Marxist in the White House to do to prevent a GOP takeover of Congress? Don’t rule out the most tried and true tactic of all — war. The booboisie always rally around the prez when the bombs are dropping from the sky, even if they’re falling on innocent foreign civilians.
(CNN) – Video: Taliban fighters training in Iran, U.S. officials say
Iran is helping train Taliban fighters within its borders, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials. Video Link Here
(ForeignPolicy) – Get Yer Anti-Ballistic Missile Shield Here
Where do sheikhs go shopping? Facing the rising threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, they go to weapons shows like the International Defence Exhibition and Conference, where leaders from Cairo to Riyadh are stocking up. Read More Here
(AFP) – ‘Only rumours’ that Iran making nuclear weapons: Turkish PM
Turkey’s prime minister said Tuesday it was “only rumours” that Iran was making nuclear weapons, stressing the Islamic republic’s right to develop civilian atomic power. Read More Here
(PressTV) – Israel has nukes, but Iran is pressured: Erdogan
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Iran’s nuclear rights should be respected and it is only a rumor that Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons. Read More Here
(TimesOnline) – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejects new Obama offer of dialogue as a ‘plot’
Iran’s Supreme Leader yesterday rejected a renewed offer of dialogue with Washington from President Obama, and accused the US of continuing to plot against Tehran while offering peace. Read More Here
(NYTimes) – Iran Unlikely to Develop a Nuclear Weapon This Year, Petraeus Says
Gen. David H. Petraeus said Tuesday that Iran would not develop a nuclear weapon this year, but that the country still remained the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East and Central Asia. Read More Here
(OpenDemocracy) – Venezuela obtains Chinese warplanes for ‘anti-drugs fight’
Chinese J-8 attack jets delivered in Venezuela. Sri Lankan general goes on military trial while supporters protest. Nigerian militants attack city with car bombs. South African youth leader found guilty of hate speech. All this and much more, in today’s security briefing. Read More Here
(PressTV) – US may try Sheehan for anti-war campaign
US authorities have arrested a number of anti-war protesters, including high-profile activist Cindy Sheehan, during a demonstration in Washington DC. Read More Here
Video: Hilary Clinton Threatens Iran With ‘Painful Consequences’
Stating that a nuclear-armed Iran would touch off an arms race in the Middle East and embolden Iran’s “terrorist clientele�? to take new actions, Clinton said, “This … is unacceptable to the United States. It is unacceptable to Israel. It is unacceptable to the region and the international community.�? Read the rest of this entry »
(Examiner) – The time for partisan bickering just ended. This is as serious as a heart attack. Obama is going to spend so much money, which he intends to get from China via the sale of government backed bonds, that the Chinese apparently don’t think he’ll be able to make good on them.
So President Obama gave the Chinese eminent domain rights to American land and businesses as collateral – i.e. we don’t pay, they now own America. Read the rest of this entry »
(CBCNews) – European fraudsters steal $7B in carbon credit scam
Fraud within Europe’s carbon credit trading system has cost taxpayers more than $7 billion in the last 18 months, European police said Friday. Read More Here
(Bloomberg) – Yuan Poised to Become Reserve Currency, Goldman’s O’Neill Says
China’s yuan is destined to become a global reserve currency rivaling the dollar and the euro, as the nation’s economic power increases the currency’s allure, said Jim O’Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Quarter of adults out of work, official figures show
More than one in four adults in Britain are not working, after a record number left the workforce in recent months, official figures indicated. Read More Here
(MyBudget360) – The Anti-Savings Model – Offer 0.1% APY on Savings Accounts and Charge 15% on Credit Cards. A System Designed to Punish Savers and Encourage Extravagant Spending via Usury. Read More Here
(Reuters) – NY Atty Gen seeks probe of public retiree payments
New York authorities, agencies, and local governments that pay public workers some of the highest salaries and benefits in the state must explain how they are calculated, the attorney general said on Thursday in a new bid to root out abuses. Read More Here
(Yahoo) – Bernanke Wants to Eliminate Reserve Requirements Completely Read More Here
(Telegraph) – Latvia government collapses amid economic crisis
Latvia’s coalition government has collapsed after failing to tackle a crippling economic crisis. Read More Here
(NPR) – U.S. Bank Auditors Got Bonuses Before Crisis
Banks weren’t the only ones giving big bonuses in the boom years before the worst financial crisis in generations. The government also was handing out millions of dollars to bank regulators, rewarding “superior” work even as an avalanche of risky mortgages helped create the meltdown. Read More Here
(SilverBearCafe) – Idaho’s plan to downgrade the dollar
A bill to allow citizens to pay their taxes with silver medallions gains support. Goldbugs are watching closely.Read More Here
Expose Transgressions and Set Boundaries on Stimulus Packages
AIG dragged onto the carpet for publishing falsified debt ratings, fines called for when fraud charges should be laid, white collar crime knows no end, books cooked, real estate downside points to deflationary depression, debt continues to grow, borrowing in the debt market again. stimulus packages knowing now boundaries. Read More Here
(AlterNet) – How the IRS Helps H&R Block Scam Taxpayers
Tax preparation giants are making a killing on short-term, high-interest, fee-laden loans on tax returns. Read More Here
(WCBSTV) – New York State Tax Refunds Put On Hold
Gov. Paterson Freezes $500 Million, Says Financial Situation The Case, Won’t Start Sending Again Until April 1 Read More Here
(WND) – YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE … Census threat: $5,000 fines
U.S. congressman slams ‘Big Brother’ questions Read More Here
(AuctionBytes) – IRS to Track Online Sellers’ Payment Transactions Beginning Next Year – Read More Here
(DailyMail) – £1,000 fine for using wrong bin: Families face new crackdown over household waste
Householders could be fined up to £1,000 if they fail to comply with complex new rules on refuse sorting. Read More Here
