Archive for January, 2010

(Reuters) – The cost to U.S. taxpayers of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 has topped $1 trillion, and President Barack Obama is expected to request another $33 billion to fund more U.S. troops this year. Read the rest of this entry »

(CBSNews) – The Obama administration is preparing to circulate proposed tough new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program as early as this week at the United Nations, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

(HuffingtonPost) – A key question at the heart of the controversial bailout of AIG is just how much money the government lost. The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department have worked to keep that number secret and to conceal who was on the winning end.
An unredacted document obtained by the Huffington Post shows the damage in detail. Read More Here

The controversy that followed the publication on our website of an article entertaining the possibility that the earthquake in Haiti was caused artificially, calls for clarification. Yes, seismic weapons do exist and the United States, among others, have them. Yes, the U.S. military forces were pre-positionned to be deployed to the island. These facts are not conclusive in themselves but they certainly warrant heightened scrutiny into this matter. Read More Here

(DrMercola) – What if you were to learn that every day, 25 percent of your calories came from a poison, disguised as a food?
And what if you discovered that this chemical imposter was responsible for your insulin resistance and weight gain?
And elevated blood pressure …
And elevated triglycerides and LDL …
And depletion of vitamins and minerals …
And even gout, heart disease and liver damage? Read the rest of this entry »

In a previous article of Dec, 2009 U.S. Wars and the Opium Trade, I gave the broad outlines of how the opium trade was used as a power lever and revenue generator by the U.S. during the occupation of Vietnam, as is the case today in Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »

FLASHBACK – (Guardian) – Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today’s president Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – North and South Korea have engaged in a short artillery duel along their disputed western sea border as efforts continue to restart the stalled six-party talks on Pyongyang’s nuclear disarmament. Read the rest of this entry »

(AlterNet) – President Obama won’t tell us in his State of the Union address. The deficit hawks won’t crow about it. Don’t expect the Tea Party or Rush and Beck to highlight our generosity either. But the sad fact is this: During the worst year since the Great Depression, with 30 million people out of work or forced into part-time jobs, Wall Street is awarding itself $150 billion in bonus money…..and it comes from us! Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s denial that he played any role in the AIG cover-up is contradicted by emails which confirm that both Geithner and the New York Federal Reserve were both intimately involved in keeping details about payments to banks including Goldman Sachs from the public. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Rep. Darrell Issa, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has the goods on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. Earlier this month, Issa received emails proving without a shadow of a doubt that the New York Fed under Geithner’s leadership withheld documents and delayed disclosures on AIG’s swindle operation with Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and other international bankster criminal organizations. Read the rest of this entry »

(RickRozoff) – 2010 is proceeding in a manner more befitting the third month of the year, named after the Roman god of war, than the first whose name is derived from a pacific deity. Read the rest of this entry »

A Monsanto official told the New York Times that the corporation should not have to take responsibility for the safety of its food products.
“Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food,” said Phil Angell, Monsanto’s director of corporate communications. “Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.”
The ‘war on terror’ has become nameless since our administration changed. But it is the same war, it has the same goals and it is as unwinnable as it always was. But certainly there are other ways of conquering the planet, says Washington. Read More Here

(Fox) – Congressman Ron Paul appeared on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business show last night to discuss the news that Obama intends to enact a spending freeze, a policy the president previously admitted would amount to a “hatchet job”. Read the rest of this entry »

The bloggers are all over the UN IPCC 2007 report, the bible of global warming, which predicted all manner of dire outcomes for our planet unless we got a grip on rising temperatures — and it seems to be crumbling in some pretty significant areas. Read the rest of this entry »

Naked Emperor News “A big chunk of that work is going to be done in 2013, 2014.” – Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 – Video Link Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – The big news today is Obama’s proposed “spending freeze”.
Fiscal liberals say this cuts spending at the exact time that we most need to increase it. See this and this. Read the rest of this entry »

The election of Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate by Democratic voters in Massachusetts sends President Obama a message. Voters perceive that Obama’s administration has morphed into a Bush-Cheney government. Obama has reneged on every promise he made, from ending wars, to closing Gitmo, to providing health care for Americans, to curtailing the domestic police state, to putting the interests of dispossessed Americans ahead of the interests of the rich banksters who robbed Americans of their homes and pensions.

But what can Obama do other then spout more rhetoric? Read the rest of this entry »

(Wired) – The Defense Department needs to get better at lying and fooling people about its intentions. That’s the conclusion from an influential Pentagon panel, the Defense Science Board (DSB), which recommends that the military and intelligence communities join in a new agency devoted to “strategic surprise/deception.” Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyMail) – Scientists have exaggerated the impact of climate change and need to be more honest about how difficult it is to predict, the Government’s chief scientific adviser said today. Read the rest of this entry »

“We are at war, and we’re going to make sure our troops are funded adequately,” one of the senior officials said.
(CNN) – President Obama will announce in Wednesday’s State of the Union address that he’s proposing to save $250 billion by freezing all nonsecurity federal discretionary spending for three years, according to two senior administration officials. Read the rest of this entry »

(MetropoleHaiti) – Haiti’s oil reserves are larger than Venezuela’s, Haiti also has huge resources of Gold & Minerals like Iridium Read the rest of this entry »

(HuffingtonPost) – A Republican senator said Tuesday that documents showing Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernake covered up the fact that his staff recommended he not bailout AIG are being kept from the public. And a House Republican charged that a whistleblower had alerted Congress to specific documents provide “troubling details” of Bernanke’s role in the AIG bailout. Read the rest of this entry »

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(RadioLiberty) – It is the brotherhood of darkness explain Bob Chapman , the bankers have owned the government , by the American marines will never shoot at American people , if the foreign troops are brought to America they won’t leave alive says the international forecaster Bob Chapman , there will be a revolution if we cannot change things in a peaceful manner , and audit the FED , …the Goldman Sachs people know this very well , in fact they are all buying arms to their teeth and getting ready for the worst… Video Link Here

(IsraelNationalNews) – A secret intelligence dossier currently being reviewed by US, Israeli, German, and Austrian governments reveals secret Iranian tests and hierarchies of power dedicated to the successful development of a nuclear bomb, and predicts that Iran will have a primitive nuclear bomb by year’s end. Read the rest of this entry »

(Haaretz) – Iran is the world’s “center of terror” which seeks to impose its will on the Middle East, President Shimon Peres said Tuesday during a historic visit to Berlin. Read the rest of this entry »

(Sky) – Two of the Government’s most senior lawyers at the time of the Iraq war have said they believed it was illegal without a second UN resolution. Read More Here

(Fox) – Gerald Celente predicts the Greatest Depression and War. “War, regrettably, is the health of the state” – Judge Read the rest of this entry »

Alex talks with contrarian investment analyst and entrepreneur Marc Faber. Faber publishes the monthly investment newsletter The Gloom Boom & Doom Report. On March 9 2009, he correctly predicted a U.S. stock market bottom. Read the rest of this entry »

People of goodwill everywhere are rightly sympathetic to the plight of hundreds of thousands of innocent Haitians in the aftermath of the terrible earthquake that rocked the island country. Private donations and volunteer efforts are pouring into Haiti from all over the globe–especially from the United States. This is a good thing, right? So, why am I troubled? Read the rest of this entry »

While South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer has had a reputation for his obnoxious and irresponsible behavior for at least a few years, it appears his latest display has rivaled, if not topped, his previous endeavors. As the South Carolina Governor’s race begins to pick up steam, Bauer spoke at a town hall meeting last Thursday where his remarks have drawn a significant amount of criticism. This is due to the fact that during the course of his speech he likened welfare recipients to stray animals and suggested that they breed too much. (AP) Read the rest of this entry »

(CanadianPress) – Adolf Hitler was a psychopath and a monster but rose to power thanks to big business leaders and other supporters who appreciated his vow to destroy communism and control workers, Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone said Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

(HuffingtonPost) – The U.S. auto industry is gone. Small parts of Ford survive, but pieces of G.M. and Chrysler are being picked over by people speaking German, Japanese, and Korean. The vast parts supplier network is also gone and with it hundreds of thousands of jobs. AIG collapsed many months ago, shortly after the inaugural, and then J.P. Morgan, Citicorp, and Chase. Wall Street has gone dim, almost dark. Don’t mention Broadway. It is dark. And New York City’s appeal for financial support has been rejected by the U.S. Government. Congress has cut Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac adrift to the glee of the Tea Party. Foreclosures are sky-rocketing nationwide and tent cities have sprung up across the country. The unemployment rate is officially fifteen percent, but the real number is over twenty. Bank failures nationwide are in the thousands. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Filmmaker Oliver Stone has told The Canadian Press that international bankers “enabled” Hitler and the Nazis. “Adolf Hitler was a psychopath and a monster but rose to power thanks to big business leaders and other supporters who appreciated his vow to destroy communism and control workers, Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone said Monday,” in Bangkok, Thailand, writes Michael Casey. – Read the rest of this entry »

(Bloomberg) – Verizon Communications Inc., coping with subscriber losses at its fixed-line phone business, plans to cut about 13,000 jobs at the division this year after posting fourth-quarter revenue that missed analysts’ estimates. Read the rest of this entry »

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Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost. The ruling is one more judicial effort to streamline mechanisms for corporate control. It exposes the myth of a functioning democracy and the triumph of corporate power. But it does not significantly alter the political landscape. The corporate state is firmly cemented in place. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is expected to face intense questioning on Capitol Hill later this week as more information comes to light on the US government’s bailout of AIG. Will heads roll over the controversy, or is it just another example of how nothing has changed between the Bush and Obama Administrations? Read the rest of this entry »

(HeraldSun) – The billion-dollar hoax

ONCE global warming was the “great moral challenge of our generation”. Or so claimed the Prime Minister.
But suddenly it’s the great con that’s falling to bits around Kevin Rudd’s ears. Read More Here

(Examiner) – New chapter in Climategate scandal

We now know beyond reasonable doubt that ‘global warming’ was a hoax perpetrated by dirty scientists who cooked the books to make the temperature readings appear higher than they actually were. Read More Here

The New Climategate Scandal

No, it’s not the purloined emails I’m talking about here, the ones that showed just how far activists scientists will go in pursuit of achieving political ends. No, the new “climategate” scandal involves the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the institution that won the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore. Read More Here

(HeraldSun) – Now the IPCC sexed up the Amazonian danger, too

First it was the bogus claim that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. Then it was the false claim of rising damage costs allegedly caused by global warming, the myth of the vanishing water supplies and the largely unsupported assertion that African agriculture.faced decimation. Read More Here

Australian IPCC Author Prof Andy “Hide the Funding” Pitman cries “No Fair”

So we now have Andy “Hide the Funding” Pitman failing to be able to discuss facts and instead resorting to describing his own absurd version of reality in an ABC interview. He claims scientists for the IPCC receive no funding. Did $63,400 in funding somehow slip your mind Andy during the publicly broadcast interview with the ABC? Read More Here

(AmericanSolutions) – U.N. Climate Chief Enriches Himself with Bogus Scientific Report

The Sunday Times (U.K.) reports that the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, won millions of dollars in grants to research a scientific claim about glaciers in the Himalayas that was known to be bogus. Read More Here

(CBSNews) – Congress Went to Denmark, You Got the Bill

Thanks to recently filed Congressional expense reports there’s new light shed on the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Denmark and how much it cost taxpayers. Read More Here

(ABC) – Florida manatees die in record numbers from cold

More than 100 manatees have been found dead in Florida waters since the beginning of the year, mostly victims of a nearly two-week cold snap. Read More Here

Pew Poll: global warming dead last, down from last year

It seems that the public just doesn’t share the worry some of the activists have. Read More Here

(Times) – There is fundamental uncertainty in climate change, science tsar says

The impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists and there is an urgent need for more honest disclosure of the uncertainty of predictions about the rate of climate change, according to the Government’s chief scientific adviser. Read More Here

(ScienceDaily) – Cave Reveals Southwest’s Abrupt Climate Swings During Ice Age

Ice Age climate records from an Arizona stalagmite link the Southwest’s winter precipitation to temperatures in the North Atlantic, according to new research. Read More Here

Climategators on Parade – honest climatologist Christy exposes inside of UN IPCC scam

Thanks to the great site Climategate.com, we now find an honest UN IPCC-exposed climatologist – Dr. John Christy of U of Alabama. Great story here – The Edifice Crumbles, indeed! Read More Here

(RawStory) – Cold weather claims more lives in Europe

A deep freeze gripping Europe claimed more lives Tuesday as record low temperatures combined with snow and ice to disrupt travel, close schools and trigger emergency measures. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released yet another report indicting the nation’s drinking water supplies are being highly contaminated with pollutants. An analysis of 20 million water quality tests performed between 2004 and 2009 revealed that many local and regional water supplies are tainted with up to 316 different toxic chemicals, many of which are unregulated by current federal standards. Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) – More starvation and death guaranteed by blocking poorer countries from building coal-fired power plants Read the rest of this entry »

In a patently absurd follow-up to the made-over Osama by the Justice Department (using the face of an Italian communist), the CIA and Defense Department linked propaganda unit IntelCenter has released yet another Osama audio tape. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex calls upon all Texans to call for an end to Austin’s Police Dept’s harassment of law biding gun owners in Texas! Alex will be giving out phone numbers and people to call on this matter, so please make the most of this and stand up for your 2nd amendment right to own guns!! Read the rest of this entry »

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(C4L) – Much has been made recently about the supposed economic recovery. A few blips in a few statistics and many believe our troubles are all over. Of course, they have to redefine recovery as “jobless” to account for the lack of improvement on Main Street. But the banks have money, Wall Street is chugging along, and the administration would like to get on with other agenda. Read the rest of this entry »