Archive for October, 2009

Israeli officials are right to worry. Gazans too. Yet Americans should worry even more. Israel’s “legitimacy” will not last. Read the rest of this entry »

It has been more than 100 days since Honduras underwent only the second coup in Central America since the end of the Cold War. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week it was announced that George Soros (the man who helped bring us Obama) had pledged $1.1 billion to fund “Climate Change initiatives”. Read the rest of this entry »

(JPost) – If world powers are not successful in efforts to contain the Iranian nuclear threat, an Israeli strike on Iran could become a reality, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said during a visit to Beirut, the Daily Telegraph reported Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

(WAPost) – Two people have been executed in China for their involvement in deadly riots in Tibet last year, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, the first officially confirmed to have been carried out. Read the rest of this entry »

I was sent the now notorious “police spotter card” through the post. It’s an official laminated card for “police eyes only” and labelled as coming from “CO11 Public Order Intelligence Unit”. The card contained the photographs of 24 anti-arms trade protesters, unnamed but lettered A to X. My picture appeared as photo H. You can imagine my reaction at finding I was the subject of a secret police surveillance process … Read the rest of this entry »

We have previously discussed the dangers of increasing taxation in places like New York city. Now it appears that the city is facing a tax-version of the China Syndrome where over-taxation may be causing wealthier families to flee, which increases the need for higher taxes on those remaining. Read the rest of this entry »

The seven new bank failures on Friday, October 23, 2009 brings the total for the year up to 106 – the most bank failures since the savings and loan crisis in 1992. 106 is still small compared to the 416 unnamed banks on the FDIC’s watch list. Which way is the trend going? Where are the bank failures taking place? See below. Read the rest of this entry »

Tim Graney of Katy, Texas, has announced a bid to unseat Ron Paul in the 14th congressional district of Texas. According to FortBendNow, a news website in Houston, Graney is a small business owner and this is his first political campaign. Graney told FortBendNow the district needs a new voice in Congress, particularly in the area of foreign policy. Read the rest of this entry »

Barney Frank goes head to head with Ralph Nader, and lets it slip. The agenda is to increase the role of Government. On EVERY front. Read the rest of this entry »

Iran will continue to progress in its nuclear program as long as Israel continues to have nuclear weapons, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. Read the rest of this entry »

(BBC) – Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says. Read the rest of this entry »

(BBC) – Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says. Read the rest of this entry »

President Obamas declaration that the H1N1 outbreak represents a national emergency seems to be little more than a public relations stunt aimed at intimidating reticent Americans into taking a vaccine that is becoming increasingly unpopular and unnecessary. Read the rest of this entry »

(Google) – Most of the developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during the global economic slowdown, with 200 million people joining the ranks of the hungry in the past two years, the U.N. World Food Program said Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

Having lost over eight hundred September 11th first responders since that horrific day, we must act now as many, many more of our Nation’s Heroes are sick and dying due to the time they spent at the World Trade Center site. Read the rest of this entry »

Having lost over eight hundred September 11th first responders since that horrific day, we must act now as many, many more of our Nation’s Heroes are sick and dying due to the time they spent at the World Trade Center site. Read the rest of this entry »

Why did airplanes fly around for an hour and a half without interceptors being scrambled from Andrews [Air Force Base] … right next to the capital? – Paul Hellyer, Canadian minister of national defense, 1963-1967 Read the rest of this entry »

(NYT) – Every day, the critical December summit in Copenhagen grows closer. All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind. Yet agreement on what to do still eludes us. Read the rest of this entry »

(Fox) – Don Imus tries his darndest to prevent Dietl from talking about Copenhagen and world government. Read the rest of this entry »

[NewswithViews.com participated in a "Bloggers Roundtable" with the Department of Defense. The following report is based on that teleconference.]
In a report released to the US Congress recently, analysts assessed what they termed “preparedness tests” between the US military and government agencies at the federal, state and local levels. Read the rest of this entry »

Even as the cataclysmic events of last year fade into memory and most pundits are convinced that the government alone can push the country into prosperity, if it only wasn’t for that pesky unemployment number that just refuses to cooperate, yet another comparison with the Great Depression emerges, Read the rest of this entry »

The Federal Reserve is unlawfully withholding information from Congress.
Says who?
Says noted economist James Galbraith: – Read the rest of this entry »

(ABC) – Not there yet, but the roundtable seemed to think that the legalization of marijuana is coming. John Podesta even suggested (in jest?) taxing marijuana could be a way to pay for health care. The times they are a-changin’ Read the rest of this entry »

(C4L) – Congressman Paul’s Texas straight talk – October 26, 2009 Read the rest of this entry »

Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Salvatore Calvanese, the treasurer of Springfield, Massachusetts, for four years, had a ready defense for why he risked $14 million of taxpayer money on collateralized-debt obligations laden with subprime mortgages in 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

Are vaccines today more dangerous, in some cases, than the diseases? Has something gone wrong with the system or the companies making them? Filmed at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccinations (sponsored by the Nat’l Vaccine Information Center) in October, 2009, listen to what these health professionals have to say! Read the rest of this entry »

Even more evidence has come to light regarding the desperation and disregard for human rights of the Honduran coup regime and its elite backers. On Friday, October 9 a United Nations human rights panel issued a warning concerning the presence of contracted foreign paramilitary forces operating inside the troubled country. Read the rest of this entry »

(BobChapman) – The G-20 finance ministers meet in Scotland on November 6th and 7th, and they will all be bleating about the fall in the dollar. France started this week, and the others will follow. Their currencies are rising in value and they do not like it. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Amnesty International, some 1,400 Palestinians were killed in the 22-day Israeli offensive between 27 December 2008 and 17 January 2009, which agrees broadly with Palestinian figures. More than 900 of these were civilians, including 300 children and 115 women. Read the rest of this entry »

Michael Hudson on Max Keiser – What happens when a country goes broke? Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, I showed you the most shocking numbers I’ve seen in my lifetime: Read the rest of this entry »

The beginning of the American “Imperial Rome” and Eisenhower’s warning

This talk by Larry Wilkerson was the keynote speech given at an event sponsored by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, American University History Department, American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute on Oct 21,2009 at American University in Washington DC. Read the rest of this entry »

Evidence that the US is a failed state is piling up faster than I can record it.
One conclusive hallmark of a failed state is that the crooks are inside the government, using government to protect and to advance their private interests. Read the rest of this entry »

The Obama administration plans to unveil on Monday a new plan for dealing with troubled financial giants, said a senior U.S. lawmaker, who also mentioned potentially big changes for the insurance industry. Read the rest of this entry »

The Obama administration plans to unveil on Monday a new plan for dealing with troubled financial giants, said a senior U.S. lawmaker, who also mentioned potentially big changes for the insurance industry. Read the rest of this entry »

(LATimes) – The average circulation at about 400 daily newspapers falls more than 10% in the last six months as compared to a year ago. Smaller newspapers fare better. Read the rest of this entry »

Infowars noted that Obama’s “national emergency” is likely a scare tactic designed to stampede people into getting the vaccine. The National Emergencies Act, however, is part of a larger framework designed specifically for the implementation of martial law. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – Using the codename “Donna,” the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked undercover for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s, helping opponents of their communist rule escape execution and imprisonment, she said in memoirs published in exile on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama’s declaration that the H1N1 outbreak represents a “national emergency” seems to be little more than a public relations stunt aimed at intimidating reticent Americans into taking a vaccine that is becoming increasingly unpopular and unnecessary. Read the rest of this entry »

No, no mention of 9/11. Just a reminder that for the mainstream press you can talk about Bush’s “abuses of power,” but you can’t cross the imaginary line that protects the 9/11 Commission. Read the rest of this entry »

No, no mention of 9/11. Just a reminder that for the mainstream press you can talk about Bush’s “abuses of power,” but you can’t cross the imaginary line that protects the 9/11 Commission. Read the rest of this entry »

IRAN is Not the Problem is a feature length film responding to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the standoff between the US and Iran, as happened before with the lead up to the invasion of Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

(C4L) – “The H1N1 “swine” flu is an extraordinarily deadly virus. You need to get the vaccine or you could suffer the consequences. So-and-so has died in your neighborhood. Do you want to be next?”
The above statements are typical of the lines that have been fed to the people of the world from the controlled media. In fact, the drum beat has been so deafening that you would think that people were dropping like flies. Read the rest of this entry »