Archive for January, 2009

The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era. The origins of these policies do not lie uniquely in neoconservative ideology. While the election of President Obama may offer new opportunities for progressive forces to delimit the damage, their space for movement will ultimately be constrained by deep-seated structural pressures that will attempt to exploit Obama to rehabilitate American imperial hegemony, rather than transform it. Read the rest of this entry »

“A sickening attempt at glorifying war during a time when many young citizens are desperate for a paycheck” Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Ron Paul discussing the gold standard and competing currency on Fox News Read the rest of this entry »

Initial figures suggest that the United States’ GDP contracted 3.8% in the final quarter of 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

With great sorrow, at the age of 82, I have seen our America descend spiritually, socially and economically into nothing – a nation now despised worldwide. As a Jew who is familiar with The Harold Wallace Rosenthal Interview (1), and The Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion (2), I was hoping our Jewish community would divorce itself from the Zionists who highjacked our religion years ago and uses it as a shield to operate behind. Unfortunately, now it’s too late, we are heading towards WW3 and probable annihilation of our ‘civilization.’ Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) Bottled water is typically considered to be a healthy alternative to drinking plain tap water. In fact, Americans drink approximately eight million gallons of bottled water every year. While bottled water is definitely a better choice than soft drinks or sports drinks that contain high fructose corn syrup, bottled water is not a good choice for the wellbeing of the earth. Here are some of the health and environmental issues associated with consuming bottled water. Read the rest of this entry »

The FDA has adopted new rules allowing companies to sell genetically modified animals and their products on the market, and affirming that the DNA of such animals is private property that can be held under patent. Read the rest of this entry »

“A Bunch Of Idiots Up On Wall Street! Kicking Sand In The Faces Of Americans!” – January 30, 2009 Read the rest of this entry »

John Williams, Founder of Shadow Government Statistics, calculates that the jobless rate is a full l0 percent higher than the government is reporting. He also discusses the news Monday morning that American companies (including Sprint, Home Depot) are cutting about 43,000 jobs. Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON – Just a month after President-elect Barack Obama takes office, he must tell the Supreme Court where he stands on one of the most aggressive legal claims made by the Bush administration — that the president may order the military to seize legal residents of the United States and hold them indefinitely without charging them with a crime. Read the rest of this entry »

One-time preserve of anti-establishment loners, cultists and gun nuts has gone mainstream

Sick of worrying about the future? Then spare a thought for Jim Rawles.

Rawles, 48, is one of a rising number of “survivalists” — Americans hunkering down for what they predict will be a nightmare of economic failure, mass terrorism, pandemics and social chaos. Read the rest of this entry »

One-time preserve of anti-establishment loners, cultists and gun nuts has gone mainstream

Sick of worrying about the future? Then spare a thought for Jim Rawles.

Rawles, 48, is one of a rising number of “survivalists” — Americans hunkering down for what they predict will be a nightmare of economic failure, mass terrorism, pandemics and social chaos. Read the rest of this entry »

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was revealed that Forty Percent of the World’s Wealth has been destroyed by the financial crisis so far. Read the rest of this entry »

What is wrong with the world and why is it this way? This is from 1994! 14 years ago.. based on the book “The Robots Rebellion.” Read the rest of this entry »

There is a high chance a majority of the States within the United States of America could file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. There are currently 46 states with high budget deficits, Arizona being one of them.

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Within days of taking power, the Obama administration has made clear that it will escalate the war to subjugate the Afghan people, intensify US military strikes on targets inside Pakistan and continue the occupation of Iraq indefinitely. What is being prepared is a brutal escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan and a widening of the conflagration in the region. Read the rest of this entry »

The so-called democracy of the powerful U.S. elite continues to live up to its legacy of hypocrisy and deceit.

Now that the spectacle of the Barack Obama coronation as the “American” Empire’s first African-American emperor has run its course, and many, many millions of dollars have been spent on self-adulation by the power elite of this nation, the huddled masses will necessarily be compelled to return to a system of no universal, single-payer health care, increasing joblessness, insatiable corporate / military greed, homelessness, de facto racial disparity & discord, police brutality, a burgeoning U.S. prison population, and endless U.S. wars abroad. For yet again, this nation will have done what it all too often does: perverted its promise, including the dream of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., into a hypocritical nightmare of gigantic and historic proportions. Read the rest of this entry »

Americanization as a controversial subject in the francophone world, granted, is not new. Jean-Luc Godard was obsessed with the subject treating it heavily in his films in the 1960s. The film ‘Two or Three Things I Know About Her,’ for example, revolves around criticism of the American capitalist invasion and its effect on the speed and color of life. More directly, ‘Made in the U.S.A.,’ an early imitation of the American conspiritorial thriller that took off most notably after Watergate, creatively blurs the boundaries between the two societies showing an Americanized world in France where car horns, planes and gun shots interrupt actors; money, blood and politics are equated; American corporate labels and consumerist images are rife, relative to the period; and the death of liberty and the left are represented side by side with the hunting and killing of communists. For Godard this was a combat against an imperialism waged by foreign corporations intending to spread their advertisements everywhere in the public space, denegrate ideas and access to them, box people up in cars on big highways, and separate the political from the everyday.

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Americanization as a controversial subject in the francophone world, granted, is not new. Jean-Luc Godard was obsessed with the subject treating it heavily in his films in the 1960s. The film ‘Two or Three Things I Know About Her,’ for example, revolves around criticism of the American capitalist invasion and its effect on the speed and color of life. More directly, ‘Made in the U.S.A.,’ an early imitation of the American conspiritorial thriller that took off most notably after Watergate, creatively blurs the boundaries between the two societies showing an Americanized world in France where car horns, planes and gun shots interrupt actors; money, blood and politics are equated; American corporate labels and consumerist images are rife, relative to the period; and the death of liberty and the left are represented side by side with the hunting and killing of communists. For Godard this was a combat against an imperialism waged by foreign corporations intending to spread their advertisements everywhere in the public space, denegrate ideas and access to them, box people up in cars on big highways, and separate the political from the everyday.

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In of the most monumental and sweeping, though frequently overlooked, efforts by the former Bush administration to project worldwide military dominance and in so doing further vitiate international relations is what its initiator, John Bolton, in his capacity of Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the time called the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

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In of the most monumental and sweeping, though frequently overlooked, efforts by the former Bush administration to project worldwide military dominance and in so doing further vitiate international relations is what its initiator, John Bolton, in his capacity of Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the time called the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has become the latest, and perhaps most prominent, public figure to express support for a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks. Read the rest of this entry »

The Defense Department has established a “civilian expeditionary workforce” that will see American civilians trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions. Read the rest of this entry »

Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Japan could be heading for its worst recession since the second world war after figures released today showed industrial output fell almost 10% last month and unemployment rose at its fastest pace for more than 40 years. Read the rest of this entry »

The amount of U.S. dollars in circulation is skyrocketing. What does it mean for you? Watch then share this video! Read the rest of this entry »

For most people, vaccinating themselves and their children seems like a good idea. Vaccines are safe, effective and are supposed to protect us against dangerous infectious diseases – Right? Wrong! What you dont know can harm you or kill you! In this groundbreaking film, you will: * See the truth about the dangers of vaccines and their direct relationship to autoimmune diseases, infections, allergies and a massive increase of developmental learning and behavioral disorders in children, such as Autism. * Discover the truth about the history of vaccines and how they have NEVER been proven to be safe and effective for anyone. * Witness the legacy of governmental deception and cover-ups associated with vaccines. * Learn about the corruption within the scientific community and how vaccine studies are seriously flawed. * Youll also follow heart-wrenching, real life stories of the parents and children devastated by the effects of vaccines. Read the rest of this entry »

A routine I have always kept to is listening to market news on the radio every morning. Recently it has felt as if the morning market news has morphed into the morning job losses report. It is no longer tracked on a monthly or weekly basis but rather the consortium of job cut announcements have been a routine part of the morning news. This Thursday morning, we were confronted with 12,000 jobs cuts lead by Eastman Kodak, Wednesday brought us 15,000, Tuesday 11,500 and kicking off the week on Monday we recorded 71,000 jobs losses. At this rate we are on track to lose about half a million jobs per month, adding to the already 2.6 million lost last year. I cannot remember a point in time when were faced with such an onslaught of daily negative news regarding the real economy. It is both breathtaking and heart wrenching, the number of people losing their jobs on a daily basis.

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Workers demonstrated in Paris Thursday as 8 national unions banded for general strike – 01-29-2009 Read the rest of this entry »

President Barack Obama wants diplomacy with Iran but preserves “all his options,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has said.

“The president hasn’t changed his viewpoint that he should preserve all his options,” Gibbs told reporters, Thursday when asked if military strikes were an option. Read the rest of this entry »

More prominent economists have declared that the U.S. is facing a depression that may be even worse than that of the 1930s.

Noting that current efforts to rescue the mortgage industry are less successful than those used during the 30s, Edward J. Pinto, former chief credit officer at Fannie Mae has warned that the current crisis could be worse.

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Communist North Korea has said it is scrapping all military and political agreements signed with the South, accusing Seoul of hostile intent.

The South’s government had pushed relations “to the brink of a war”, the North’s cross-border relations body said on state media. Read the rest of this entry »

WARNING – Explicit Content

World Economic Mafia/Forum meets in Davos to fix the games in favor of the house.
Obama’ stimulus package passed by congress..
In the U.K. the BBC refuses to broadcast anything Israel doesn’t like, just in case.. Read the rest of this entry »

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland January 28, 2009 Read the rest of this entry »

The cuts include the 4,500 redundancies recently announced at its commercial plane unit, and are equivalent to 6pc of its 162,200-strong workforce. Read the rest of this entry »

“If you have CDs or funds in banks that exceed six months of operating expenses remove them immediately.”

The following are some snippets from the most recent issue of the International Forecaster. For the full 37 page issue, please see subscription information below. Read the rest of this entry »

Starbucks Corp. said yesterday that it will eliminate about 6,700 jobs because of the difficult economy.

The company becomes the latest to announce job losses and joined major employers such as AOL and Boeing yesterday in detailing layoffs to cope with the current recession. Read the rest of this entry »

Current rates of deforestation suggest there will hardly be any tropical forests left in 20 years. Sixty percent of the rainforests, which survived for 50 million consecutive years, are already gone. Read the rest of this entry »

Hundreds of thousands of French workers staged a nationwide strike today to try to force President Nicolas Sarkozy and business leaders to do more to protect jobs and wages during the economic crisis.

Public transport was snarled in many cities, scores of flights were cancelled, and schools, banks, hospitals, the post office, law courts and state broadcasters were also expected to be hit by the protest. Read the rest of this entry »

New Rule: neomercantilists, neoconservatives, and statists are no longer allowed to call themselves “free marketers.” People who call themselves free marketers such as Bush, Paulson, Greenspan, and Bernanke are the primary threat capitalism faces. These false prophets of capitalism are the greatest friends that proponents of socialism have.

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New Rule: neomercantilists, neoconservatives, and statists are no longer allowed to call themselves “free marketers.” People who call themselves free marketers such as Bush, Paulson, Greenspan, and Bernanke are the primary threat capitalism faces. These false prophets of capitalism are the greatest friends that proponents of socialism have.

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Influenza vaccination has no significant effect on death rates among the elderly, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Alberta, Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Influenza vaccination has no significant effect on death rates among the elderly, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Alberta, Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Dennis Kucinich States His Intention To Put The Federal Reserve Under Government Control Read the rest of this entry »

The Iraqi government has informed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that it will not issue a new operating license to Blackwater Worldwide, the embassy’s primary security company, which has come under scrutiny for allegedly using excessive force while protecting American diplomats, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »