Archive for March, 2009

Timothy Geithner refuses to take underwater banks into receivership and resolve them, but has no problem transforming the FDIC into a hedge fund. Go figure? Here’s what everyone needs to know: The US government (you) will provide up to 94 percent of the financing (low interest, of course) for dodgy mortgage-backed assets that no one in their right mind would ever buy so that wealthy and politically-connected banksters can scrub up to $1 trillion of red ink from their balance sheets. Ugh! Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. government plan to rid banks of toxic assets will rob American taxpayers by exposing them to too much risk and is unlikely to work as long as the economy remains weak, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

The Senate last night rubber stamped a nightmare domestic draft bill that legislates mandatory national service and creates an “army” of at least 7 million civilian enforcers working at the the behest of the government, while also containing language that threatens to ban free speech and the right to protest. Read the rest of this entry »

We are having trouble figuring out why Monsanto made Percy Schmeiser a hero for the growing movement against GMOs, but we don’t have to look very far to find out why Monsanto director of public affairs Brad Mitchell is debating Linn Cohen-Cole, a Grandmother on Opednews. Read the rest of this entry »

Protest (American, definitely not a verb): Wait for UFPJ or ANSWER to stage a parade (I mean, demonstration) on a weekend afternoon so no one misses work or school or in any way disrupts the flow of commerce. Don’t make a sign; the organizers will make one for you. March in an orderly fashion, be polite to the occupying army (I mean, cops), Read the rest of this entry »

Protest (American, definitely not a verb): Wait for UFPJ or ANSWER to stage a parade (I mean, demonstration) on a weekend afternoon so no one misses work or school or in any way disrupts the flow of commerce. Don’t make a sign; the organizers will make one for you. March in an orderly fashion, be polite to the occupying army (I mean, cops), Read the rest of this entry »

Whether he deserves it or not, Timothy Geithner has become the poster boy for everything that’s wrong with the government’s scatterbrain financial rescue plan. Read the rest of this entry »

The choice of Eric Holder for attorney general sends an alarming signal to gun owners about how the Obama administration will view individual gun rights, as affirmed this year by the Supreme Court. Read the rest of this entry »

President Barack Obama’s army of canvassers fanned out across the nation over the weekend to drum up support for his $3.55 trillion budget, but they had no noticeable impact on members of Congress, who on Monday said they were largely unaware of the effort. Read the rest of this entry »

President Barack Obama’s army of canvassers fanned out across the nation over the weekend to drum up support for his $3.55 trillion budget, but they had no noticeable impact on members of Congress, who on Monday said they were largely unaware of the effort. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers at a US Navy laboratory have unveiled what they say is “significant” evidence of cold fusion, a potential energy source that has many skeptics in the scientific community. Read the rest of this entry »

‘You are fighting a religious war against gentiles’: What rabbis told Israeli soldiers in Gaza war Read the rest of this entry »

‘You are fighting a religious war against gentiles’: What rabbis told Israeli soldiers in Gaza war Read the rest of this entry »

China’s central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund. Read the rest of this entry »

More aggressive, concerted efforts are needed by key economies to quell financial market stresses if the world is to avoid an even sharper and longer recession, the International Monetary Fund urged today. Read the rest of this entry »

Hannity found it preferable to terrorize viewers with inflammatory rhetoric – something he decries in others but calculates, apparently, that it’s a better tool than facts and reason. With video. Read the rest of this entry »

Hannity found it preferable to terrorize viewers with inflammatory rhetoric – something he decries in others but calculates, apparently, that it’s a better tool than facts and reason. With video. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you like Ron Paul or oppose abortion? You may be a member of a militia, according to a new report by a government information collection agency. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you like Ron Paul or oppose abortion? You may be a member of a militia, according to a new report by a government information collection agency. Read the rest of this entry »

The distraction on Capitol Hill this week has to do with the jackpot bonuses that executives at AIG recently received. The argument is over a relative drop in the bucket. The total amount of bonuses given out was $165 million. The government has put $170 billion into AIG so far. Many now are demanding we get this money back. Read the rest of this entry »

Israel is preparing for all-out war on multiple fronts that include Iran, Syria and Lebanon, a senior military commander claims. Read the rest of this entry »

Federal Reserve policies making the problem worse, leading to super inflation around the corner Read the rest of this entry »

Passed by the House of Representatives with a 321-105 margin, HR 1388: the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, dubbed the “GIVE” act, would require the US government to develop a plan to implement a “mandatory service requirement for all able young people”. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week on the Alex Jones Show, former presidential candidate and Baptist minister Chuck Baldwin said he would co-author with former presidential candidate and House member Ron Paul and former federal prosecutor, former member of the United States House of Representatives and presidential candidate Bob Barr a letter ( see PDF) to the Governor of Missouri, Jeremiah Nixon, protesting the Missouri Information Analysis Center’s document designating Baldwin and his co-authors as terrorists. Read the rest of this entry »

Once again, YouTube has engaged in now classic censorship. On YouTube’s “Most Viewed” page, we see a number of popular videos. The number one most viewed video comes in a 364,715 views, the second most viewed at just over 200,000. Read the rest of this entry »

The late President Milosevic’s secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States’ top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92. Read the rest of this entry »

A bill being considered in the Montana Legislature blasts the Federal Reserve’s role in America’s money policy and permits the state to conduct business in gold and silver instead of the Fed’s legal tender notes. Read the rest of this entry »

China has expressed support for Russia’s proposal to hand the IMF the power to create a new supra-national global currency in response to the call for an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency.

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The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, has described his US counterpart Barack Obama as a “poor ignoramus” during a television show. Read the rest of this entry »

The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, has described his US counterpart Barack Obama as a “poor ignoramus” during a television show. Read the rest of this entry »

The United States needs an exit strategy in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said, even as America expands its military, diplomatic and economic efforts against a Taliban insurgency. Read the rest of this entry »

Jonathon Porritt, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society. Read the rest of this entry »

Destruction of the human psyche continues throughout his or her lifetime. When does an individual realize that they had led themselves into misery, is a question that never seems to be asked by an individual. The world we live in now is full of greed and power. Who controls that power? Read the rest of this entry »

Here are few scenes from the “March on the Pentagon” rally held on Saturday, March 21, 2009, in Washington, D.C. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are few scenes from the “March on the Pentagon” rally held on Saturday, March 21, 2009, in Washington, D.C. Read the rest of this entry »

CNN – Ten U.S. Muslim organizations threatened this week to cease working with the FBI, citing “McCarthy-era tactics” by the agency, including efforts to covertly infiltrate California mosques. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently moved to Ecuador. Not for a vacation. Not for a month or two. I moved to Ecuador for good, as a permanent resident. Upon hearing my plans for living in South America, many people who knew me in the States asked things like, “Well what about the stability of Ecuador as a nation?” To which I would respond, “Oh, you mean the stability of banks that don’t make loans and don’t invest in derivatives? You mean the stability of a nation where the population still has the courage to march in the streets and throw corrupt officials out of its capitol?” Read the rest of this entry »

Any prospect that China could be the growth engine to pull the world economy out of deep recession has been laid to rest by the latest World Bank forecast. Read the rest of this entry »

He’s back and in denial in a March 11 Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined: “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble.” He lied, the way he did throughout his career and for 18.5 years as Fed chairman. How else could he have kept the job, be knighted in the UK for his “contribution to global economic stability, wisdom and skill,” then afterwards be extolled by the Money Trust he enriched. Read the rest of this entry »

He’s back and in denial in a March 11 Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined: “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble.” He lied, the way he did throughout his career and for 18.5 years as Fed chairman. How else could he have kept the job, be knighted in the UK for his “contribution to global economic stability, wisdom and skill,” then afterwards be extolled by the Money Trust he enriched. Read the rest of this entry »

The fed is planning moves that would more than double its balance-sheet assets by September to $4.5 trillion from $1.9 trillion. Whether expressing approval or concern over the fed’s intentions, most commentators fail to understand the real magnitude of the projected expansion of the US monetary base because they don’t take into account the amount of dollars circulating abroad. in US monetary baseThis 15-Fold Increase will be impossible to reverse
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This is unbelievable rhetoric from Senator Jay Rockefeller as he claims that an attack through the Internet is the biggest threat to U.S. National Security. The fact of the matter is the Illuminati of which he is a member are petrified of the new Alternative Media which has grown from strength to strength in recent years. People actually have access to accurate reports of globalists meetings and agendas – that scares them. Read the rest of this entry »

Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose previous film ‘Why We Fight’ won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »

Olbermann calls for the firing of bank executives and more stringent bank regulation. Read the rest of this entry »

Olbermann calls for the firing of bank executives and more stringent bank regulation. Read the rest of this entry »