(SteveWatson) – Royal Society’s initiative will provide textbook for population control agenda Read the rest of this entry »

(LondonIndependent) – A growing number of scientists are going where politicians fear to tread by calling for a wider public debate on the sensitive issue of the global human population, which is set to rise from the present 6.8 billion to perhaps 9 billion by 2050.

Lord Rees, the president of the Royal Society, brought the subject up in his excellent Reith Lectures; Sir David Attenborough has become a champion of those who believe population has been relegated as an environmental issue; and more recently Professor Aubrey Manning, presenter of the BBC’s Earth Story, has stated that the sheer number of humans on the planet is the greatest menace the world faces. Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court, helped protect the Saudi royal family from lawsuits that sought to hold al Qaeda financiers responsible in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The suits were filed by thousands family members and others affected by the Sept. 11 attacks. In court papers, they provided evidence that members of the Saudi royal family had channeled millions to al Qaeda prior to the bombings, often in contravention of direct guidance from the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – Video: Gulf of Mexico oil slick hits wildlife reserve beaches

The first tentacles of the giant Gulf of Mexico oil slick have washed up on beaches that are part of a wildlife refuge off the Louisiana coast. Read More Here

(Guardian) – Shell reports record oil spillages in Nigeria

Royal Dutch Shell plc spilled nearly 14,000 tons of crude oil into the creeks of the Niger Delta last year, the company has announced, blaming thieves and militants for the environmental damage.

The amount of oil spilled by Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary was more than double the amount poured into the delta in 2008, and quadruple what was spilled in 2007 – highlighting the worsening situation the oil company faces in Nigeria. Read More Here

(Rense) – Deepwater Horizon – Capturing The Planet! – Jim Kirwan

The day has finally come for the literal confrontation with the Corporation-States of the planet. When the Deepwater-Horizon project did what it was supposed to do in order to make all that much more money for the criminals; by massively failing to bring in their well in the Gulf of Mexico-the final chapter in relations between the hostile elites and the rest of us took center stage.

“New York: In what is looming as another public-relations predicament for Goldman Sachs, the banking giant admitted that “it made a substantial financial bet against the Gulf of Mexico” one day before the sinking of an oil rig in that body of water.

The new revelations came to light after government investigators turned up new emails from Goldman employee Fabrice “Fabulous Fab” Tourre in which he bragged to a girlfriend that the firm was taking a ‘big short’ position on the Gulf. Read the rest of this entry »

(CNN) – Jobless claims up 12% in past 2 weeks

The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance surged to just below the 500,000 level last week, and have climbed more than 12% over the past two weeks, the government said Thursday. Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – The IMF Destroys Iceland and Latvia

The International Monetary Fund operates primarily as a banker bailout machine. They cajole and tempt and confuse and threaten the leaders of governments worldwide to pay off the failed bets of the big bankers using the taxpayer funds of their countries. This has been going on a long time, at least since the early 1980s. Read More Here

(Fox) – New Jobless Claims Jumped to 496,000 as Heavy Snow Caused Rise in Layoffs

In addition, many state agencies in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions that process the claims were closed due to the storms and are now clearing out backlogs, a Labor Department analyst said. Read More Here

(SeekingAlpha) – Something Very Strange Is Happening With Treasuries

There are times in life when one witnesses something so outside the scope of normal experience, that at first you don’t see it. Read More Here

(SydneyMorningHerald) – British lender RBS plans huge bonuses despite losses

Losses at Royal Bank of Scotland narrowed sharply last year, the state-rescued lender said Thursday as it prepared to dish out bonuses reportedly totalling 1.6 billion pounds (1.8 billion euros, 2.4 billion US dollars). Read More Here

(Reuters) – EMU could collapse if one member defaults -Germany

A debt default by one euro zone member could end the single currency union but this is unlikely, the head of the German debt management agency said on Thursday. Read More Here

(Reuters) – Tax officials caught over unpaid fines

There were some embarrassed faces at Bulgaria’s tax office on Thursday after an investigation found more than 400 tax inspectors had failed to pay their traffic fines. Read More Here

(Bloomberg) — The U.K.’s Royal Mint, established in the 13th century, more than doubled gold-coin production last year as investors sought to diversify their assets and hedge against a weaker dollar and accelerating inflation. Read the rest of this entry »

(TimesOnline) – Four of Wall Street’s biggest banks will this week reveal plans to pay their staff a total of close to $100 billion (£62 billion), reigniting the row over bankers’ bonuses. Read the rest of this entry »

The awarding of development rights over the huge West Qurna oilfield in southern Iraq to Exxon-Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell last Thursday once again underscores the criminal character of the continuing US-led occupation. As the direct result of the Iraq war, major American and other transnational energy conglomerates are now gaining control over some the largest oilfields in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – The Chancellor confirmed that the Government would pump an extra £25.5 billion into Royal Bank of Scotland, and declared that it was the only way to keep the business alive. Read the rest of this entry »

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Debt is Recovery In light of the ever-present and unyieldingly persistent exclamations of ‘an end’ to the recession, a ‘solution’ to the crisis, and a ‘recovery’ of the economy; we must remember that we are being told this by the very same people and institutions which told us, in years past, that there was ‘nothing to worry about,’ that ‘the fundamentals are fine,’ and that there was ‘no danger’ of an economic crisis.

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“The credit belongs to those people who are actually in the arena…who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions to a worthy cause; who at best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, fail while daring greatly…so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt Read the rest of this entry »

We have learned from an intelligence source from a NATO country that elements of the CIA have coordinated their activities with top Gulf state officials who have been connected to “Al Qaeda” networks that have planned and financed various terrorist attacks. Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) – Almost a third of nurses will refuse the offer of immunisation against swine flu because they have fears about the vaccine’s safety, according to a new survey. Read the rest of this entry »

“On my last day in Iraq,” veteran McClatchy News correspondent Leila Fadel wrote August 9th, “as on my first day in Iraq, I couldn’t see what the United States and its allies had accomplished. …I couldn’t understand what thousands of American soldiers had died for and why hundreds of thousands of Iraqis had been killed.” Read the rest of this entry »

(AFP) – Canada said Sunday that it would increase training by its Mounted Police for Mexican officers as part of a new, 15-million-dollar security program for the Americas. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex talks with author and GCN host Webster Griffin Tarpley. Webster’s most recent book is Surviving the Cataclysm, a book that calls for a return to the American System of political economy as exemplified by such figures as Hamilton, Clay, Lincoln, FDR, and JFK. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – In an attempt to force Tehran to halt its enrichment program, the US Senate has voted to put pressure on companies selling gasoline to Iran. Read the rest of this entry »

(Times) – The British are becoming increasingly reliant on medication, figures show today, with the number of prescriptions to combat allergies, diabetes and obesity all increasing last year. Read the rest of this entry »

National Public Radio notes that Professor John Oxford at St. Bart’s and the Royal London Hospital says that the 1957 H1N1 pandemic probably started when it escaped from a lab: Read the rest of this entry »

(FinancialTimes) – Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed. Read the rest of this entry »

(Bloomberg) – Executives at U.S. companies are taking advantage of the biggest stock-market rally in 71 years to sell their shares at the fastest pace since credit markets started to seize up two years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm’s 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year, sparking concern that the big investment banks which survived the credit crunch will derail financial regulation reforms. Read the rest of this entry »

In this exclusive report, we examine how international companies and politicians ran Africa ’s biggest corruption scandal on the back of a $6bn gas export project Read the rest of this entry »

In this exclusive report, we examine how international companies and politicians ran Africa ’s biggest corruption scandal on the back of a $6bn gas export project Read the rest of this entry »

Royal Society calls for CO2′s effect on seas to be included in climate change talks in Copenhagen Read the rest of this entry »

Royal Society calls for CO2′s effect on seas to be included in climate change talks in Copenhagen Read the rest of this entry »

The Obama administration is supporting efforts by the Saudi royal family to defeat a long-running lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Read the rest of this entry »

If the Finance Minister really wants to know the depth of this “global economic firestorm”, all he has to do is to ask the people who created it. Read the rest of this entry »

A summit of Asian leaders in Thailand has been cancelled after anti-government protesters breeched security and swarmed into the complex where it is being held. Read the rest of this entry »