Archive for February, 2009

Timothy Geithner is putting the finishing touches on a plan that will dump $1 trillion of toxic assets onto the US taxpayer. Read the rest of this entry »

Timothy Geithner is putting the finishing touches on a plan that will dump $1 trillion of toxic assets onto the US taxpayer. Read the rest of this entry »

Antidepressant drugs, already known to cause sexual side effects, may also suppress the basic human emotions of love and romance. Read the rest of this entry »

David Omand’s national security strategy report shows us we have a very short time to save society from tyranny. Read the rest of this entry »

It is common knowledge that Afghanistan remains the primary source of the world’s supply of opium and heroin. A recent United Nations’ report claims that three quarters of the world’s heroin comes from the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar. But there is also recognition that poppies are grown in almost all of the country’s 34 provinces. Read the rest of this entry »

A Democratic Senator from Connecticut has introduced four bills aimed at establishing a groundwork for a system of comprehensive national service. Read the rest of this entry »

“You must glorify war in order to get the public to accept the fact that your going to send their sons and daughters to die.”

Never let the absurdities of history get in the way of a box-office blockbuster.
The inside story of the cozy relationship between big box office American war movies and the Pentagon Read the rest of this entry »

Congressman Mike Pence gave the following floor speech during general debate of the omnibus spending bill. Read the rest of this entry »

The Vietnam war is a war of colonial conquest. The US took over the french. Instructed the south Vietnam leader to boycott the elected democratic north Vietnam leader. This inevitably leads to a false flag Gulf of Tonkin and a 20 years worthless war and the destruction of Cambodia and Laos. This clip is excerpted from the full length video called “Nuclear weapon and international disorder”. Read the rest of this entry »

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Hassan Qashqavi, has said that Hollywood film makers have thirty anti-Iranian movies in the offing. Read the rest of this entry »

The media takes a beating for not reporting on the positive aspects of war; it is a notion that most people who have spent time in a combat theater find ridiculous. Read the rest of this entry »

Hot on the heels of the banking crisis, the employment crisis, and the mortgage/foreclosure crisis, the country is on the verge of experiencing a credit card crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – San Francisco may lose its main newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, as owner Hearst Corp cuts a “significant” number of jobs and decides whether to shut or sell the money-losing daily. Read the rest of this entry »

9/11 Blogger – Wednesday, Feb 25, 2009

Alan Miller told me about this new group.

Here’s the press release: http://www.mp911truth.org/Announcement_2_24_2009.pdf Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – A fund of hedge funds run by two members of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s family was marketed exclusively by firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion (5.5 billion pound) fraud, the Wall Street Journal said. Read the rest of this entry »

From his youtube video channel – http://www.youtube.com/peterschiffchannel Read the rest of this entry »

Please watch the video below from the classic “World at War” series produced by the BBC. Pay special attention to the map of Europe at time = 3:49. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex Jones, evangelist of Freedom, is one of the most important public figures in America today. Let me just say that first. I’ve been a listener of his for a couple of years now. Even though the mainstream media, and our current oligarchy, wish that folks like him would just go away he’s growing more and more in popularity daily. Read the rest of this entry »

Ron Paul was on the Glenn Beck show discussing one world government. It’s funny how fast Glenn Beck has jumped on the bandwagon about one world government. If my memory recalls it was about a year ago or so that Glenn Beck had Ron Paul on his show and was basically disagreeing with almost everything Ron Paul had to say. Read the rest of this entry »

What is really happening with all our money? How can the People really understand all that is happening with all of this “money” and where it ends up? From Bernard Madoff, to the Iraq reconstruction and Army charity scams, hundreds of billions are missing. I won’t even get into the economic stimulus bills, where Members of Congress are only allowed 48 hours to read a 1,000+ page bill, with hand written notes along its sides. Why are these bills passed under immense pressure, threats even? Well…let’s take just one example. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a story to keep an eye on. This will not be over soon. And it could take the Constitution down quicker than two Bushes and a Cheney. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a story to keep an eye on. This will not be over soon. And it could take the Constitution down quicker than two Bushes and a Cheney. Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to economics, many Americans need an education, and if not, at least an explanation of current problems, trends, and just plain what’s going on.

Christine Bowman writes a comprehensive pre-State of the Union Analysis of what’s going on, what Americans are thinking, but perhaps are afraid to ask, namely, “Will someone please just tell us what happened, what’s coming, and what we have to do now?” She says the President would not have to be the Econ Professor in Chief if the Business Media had done a decent job, but it seems to her that only Paul Krugman has been trying to describe today’s problems in real terms. Read the rest of this entry »

This conclusion has been made by the United Nations (UN). Read the rest of this entry »

Santelli, a former Chicago trader and financial executive, talks about President Barack Obama’s economic bailout plans, in particular Obama’s plan for the government to subsidize millions of people’s mortgages. Santelli talks about how he feels Obama’s plans go against what America represents. Read the rest of this entry »

Santelli, a former Chicago trader and financial executive, talks about President Barack Obama’s economic bailout plans, in particular Obama’s plan for the government to subsidize millions of people’s mortgages. Santelli talks about how he feels Obama’s plans go against what America represents. Read the rest of this entry »

“Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism”

Lenin enumerated the following five features characteristic of the epoch of imperialism: Read the rest of this entry »

The American economy has gone away. It is not coming back until free trade myths are buried six feet under.

America’s 20th century economic success was based on two things. Free trade was not one of them. America’s economic success was based on protectionism, which was ensured by the union victory in the Civil War, and on British indebtedness, which destroyed the British pound as world reserve currency. Following World War II, the US dollar took the role as reserve currency, a privilege that allows the US to pay its international bills in its own currency. Read the rest of this entry »

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities declined 18.5 percent in December from a year earlier, the fastest drop on record, as foreclosures climbed and sales sank. Read the rest of this entry »

Our greatest founding father and first president, George Washington, probably wouldn’t be ready to celebrate his birthday on Feb. 22 if he were alive today. Having led the 13 colonies to independence from the British Empire in 1783, following the course of a difficult eight-year struggle by those freedom-loving American colonists who followed him, Washington (who lived from 1732 to 1799) would most assuredly be appalled to see that the liberties achieved from the American Revolution are now being flagrantly defied by a number of figures who populate the upper ranks of the administration of Barack Obama. Read the rest of this entry »

William Isaac – the former head of the FDIC – nationalized Continental Illinois Bank, then the seventh-biggest bank in the U.S.

The Continental nationalization went very well. So you would assume that Isaac would be pro-nationalization, right? Read the rest of this entry »

William Isaac – the former head of the FDIC – nationalized Continental Illinois Bank, then the seventh-biggest bank in the U.S.

The Continental nationalization went very well. So you would assume that Isaac would be pro-nationalization, right? Read the rest of this entry »

It looks like those who said the Obama Administration would strike while the iron is hot may have been correct, and the Administration may be doing it in a way that does not require them to even get a vote in Congress. In this morning’s edition of the Shooting Wire, Jim Shepherd writes that Canadian officials have it on “good authority” our State Department may be on the verge of cutting off all imports of certain calibers of ammunition. Read the rest of this entry »

White phosphorus bombs used by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip were produced and supplied by American arms manufacturers, according to an Amnesty International report that called for a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel. Read the rest of this entry »

An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis – that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This brand new feature documentary from Italian production company Telemaco explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the US Government’s account.

Featuring presentations from intellectual heavy weights; Gore Vidal, and Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, the film challenges assumptions surrounding the attacks. In the words of the Italian daily newspaper, Il Corriere de da Sera, “What results is a sequence of contradictions, gaps, and omissions of stunning gravity.” Read the rest of this entry »

If California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has his way, the Golden State might become known as the Green State to pot smokers around the country. Read the rest of this entry »

World governments have agreed to crack down on mercury pollution. Read the rest of this entry »

World governments have agreed to crack down on mercury pollution. Read the rest of this entry »

Now-famous Chicago exchange floor reporter says state intervention in banking system is a drag on taxpayer money. Read the rest of this entry »

The directors of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) some 3,000 county level Public Security Bureaus are set to go through a training course on quashing mass dissent. Read the rest of this entry »

Much hay was made late last week over the allegation that the Iranian government had underreported the amount of uranium it had enriched through November. The White House accused Iran of reneging on its international obligations, and called the nation an “urgent problem that has to be addressed.” Read the rest of this entry »

Film investigates theory’s on pearl harbor and possible conspiracy(s) there has been much debate as to how and why the United States had been caught unaware, and how much and when American officials knew of Japanese plans and related topics. Some argue that various parties knew of the attack in advance and may even have let it happen or encouraged it in order to force America into war. Read the rest of this entry »

A recent scientific study carried out by Navdanya, compared the soil of fields where Bt-cotton had been planted for 3 years with adjoining fields with non GMO cotton or other crops. The region covered included Nagpur, Amravati and Wardha of Vidharbha which accounts for highest GMO cotton planting in India, and the highest rate of farmers suicides (4000 per year). Read the rest of this entry »

A recent scientific study carried out by Navdanya, compared the soil of fields where Bt-cotton had been planted for 3 years with adjoining fields with non GMO cotton or other crops. The region covered included Nagpur, Amravati and Wardha of Vidharbha which accounts for highest GMO cotton planting in India, and the highest rate of farmers suicides (4000 per year). Read the rest of this entry »

The Cleanser

Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military analyst from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has published a “strategic analysis” of the Gaza massacre.(1) He reaches the remarkable conclusion that “Israel did not violate the laws of war.”  The report is based on “briefings in Israeli [sic] during and immediately after the fighting made possible by a visit sponsored by Project Interchange, and using day-to-day reporting issued by the Israeli Defense Spokesman.”  Cordesman omits mention that Project Interchange is funded by the American Jewish Committee. Read the rest of this entry »

The Cleanser

Anthony H. Cordesman, a leading military analyst from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has published a “strategic analysis” of the Gaza massacre.(1) He reaches the remarkable conclusion that “Israel did not violate the laws of war.”  The report is based on “briefings in Israeli [sic] during and immediately after the fighting made possible by a visit sponsored by Project Interchange, and using day-to-day reporting issued by the Israeli Defense Spokesman.”  Cordesman omits mention that Project Interchange is funded by the American Jewish Committee. Read the rest of this entry »

The following article was first written in 1998. I am relinking it here not so much as to say “I told you so”, but to point out that the long term economic future of the United States was obvious, or should have been obvious, to the people who are awarded lofty degrees and paid huge salaries to comprehend such things. Instead, the economists persisted in explaining away the visible signs of gathering troubles and earned their salaries by justifying why the policies that robbed the poor to give to the rich should continue unabated. Read the rest of this entry »

Increasing the European Parliament’s powers won’t solve EU’s democratic deficit, since the bloc’s legislature does not represent any nation and allows for no political alternatives opposed to EU integration, Czech President Vaclav Klaus told MEPs on Thursday Read the rest of this entry »

EU’s judicial cooperation agency Eurojust will take the lead in finding ways to help police and prosecutors across Europe to wiretap computer-to-computer phone conversations enabled by programs such as Skype. Read the rest of this entry »