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American Terror Suspect Worked for D.E.A.
An American charged with helping plan the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, moved effortlessly between the United States, Pakistan and India for nearly seven years, training at a militant camp in Pakistan on five occasions, according to a plea agreement released by the Justice Department last week.
Sources: Iran-Contra operative linked to questionable spy program
Duane "Dewey" Clarridge — who was pardoned for his alleged role in the Reagan-era scandal by President George H. W. Bush in the waning hours of his presidency in 1992 — is using contacts in Afghanistan and Pakistan to obtain information for the Pentagon, according to former government officials familiar with the current program.
N. Korea suspected in ship sinking
N. Korea vows ‘nuclear strikes’ in latest threat
SKorean ship sinks, deaths among sailors
FLASHBACK – March 10 – US and S Korea begin war gamesThe coming of an American Reichstag?
According to this source, who agreed to speak to this writer under the strict condition of anonymity, “a ‘watch list’ has already been created that specifically names and turns their focus on various pro-life and tea-party organizations and individuals who are considered a threat to domestic security, continuity of government operations, and to the lives of lawmakers and their families.”
EU draws up plans for single ‘economic government’ to prevent crisis
Officials are concerned that the language calling for an "economic government" could be another attempt at a power-grab in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty.
Russian ‘Nuke’ Bombers Invade UK Airspace…Again
The unwelcome guests spent four hours flying over the Isle of Lewis despite being intercepted by two RAF jets.
Medical Companies: Taxes In Healthcare Bill Will Kill Jobs, Businesses
Personal Income Drops Across the Country
Personal income in 42 states fell in 2009, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
Whistleblower Exposes JP Morgan’s Silver Manipulation Scheme
Earlier today the CFTC held a sham hearing in which, among other thing, the organization discussed position limits in PM speculation, because, you know, it’s the mom and pop speculators that destroy the precious metal market (not JP Morgan or the New York Fed mind you).
Engdahl: Wall Street pulled Greek plug to distract from dollar disaster
Eurozone bags Greek rescue deal to involve IMF
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brokered agreement from all 16 eurozone countries at a summit of European Union leaders to bring in the International Monetary Fund alongside bilateral loans.
Video: George W Bush ‘wiped hand’ after shaking with Haitian
The gesture, whether intentional or accidental, was criticised as insulting to the disaster-stricken country. Then, as the shirt belonged to Bill Clinton, it was suggested that Bush was demeaning him.
DARPA Radar System Will Track Cars Anywhere
This is something they will love over at “24” and its fictitious and nearly omnipotent Counter Terrorist Unit. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing a radar system that can track suspects or vehicles around corners and “down into urban canyons”— essentially anywhere in a city.
US Seeks to Destabilize Nicaragua
Nicaragua is under a destabilizing strategy similar to that aimed at other member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), said an article published in Managua
East Asia launches $US120b currency swap pact
East Asian nations officially launched a $US120 billion ($A130.58 billion) regional currency swap agreement, giving them a safety net against future liquidity shortages.
Airport security guard John Laker ogled woman colleague in body scanner
Jo Margetson, 29, reported John Laker, 25, after he took her picture with the X-ray gadget and made a lewd comment.
Mock shooting of teacher at British school left young students terrified
Young students at a British school were terrified as they saw their science teacher gunned down before their eyes.
House passes last of the health reforms, completing massive overhaul
Britain: Teacher ‘Shot Dead’ In School Science Stunt
A school has been forced to apologise after faking the murder of a teacher that terrified pupils thought was real.
55% Favor Repeal of Health Care Bill
Just before the House of Representatives passed sweeping health care legislation last Sunday, 41% of voters nationwide favored the legislation while 54% were opposed. Now that President Obama has signed the legislation into law, most voters want to see it repealed.
Nano-Foods Coming to a Store Near You
Though it’s a word that has probably never been printed on any menu, and probably never will, there was so much interest in the potential uses of nanotechnology for food that a separate daylong session focused just on that subject was packed to overflowing.
U.S. Military Contractors Move into Africa
With the establishment of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) in 2007, the U.S. government decided to make security a key foreign policy objective for a continent that has long been plagued by civil war and other conflicts
China Seeks Russia Alliance to Counter US Dominance
Looking to form a counterbalance to the power of the US, Beijing called on Moscow, as one of the emerging market economies, to enter into an alliance with China seeking to increase their leverage in global affairs.
Nearly 300 Congress members declare commitment to ‘unbreakable’ U.S.-Israel bond
Nearly 300 members of Congress have signed on to a declaration reaffirming their commitment to "the unbreakable bond that exists between [U.S.] and the State of Israel", in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Violations: Health bill to face fresh House vote
Republicans forced a new vote on fixes to historic US health care reform legislation by finding two procedural "violations," a spokesman for a top Democratic senator said on Thursday.
Pope implicated in sex abuse cover-up
Church files suggest failure to act on abuse of 200 deaf Wisconsin boys.
Prisoners forced to submit to radiation experiments for private foreign companies
In Illinois, federal judges have allowed at least two lawsuits to proceed against correctional officials for using full body scanners to reveal the anatomy of both prisoners and visitors without removing their clothing. This is the very same device that airports are seeking to implement on some inbound flights to the United States.
Navy laser weapon goes through early tests
A new laser weapon designed for naval deployment has gone through initial design tests as one of the first steps before it is adopted for active service, most likely by the U.S. Navy before any other force.
91% Of Americans Use Cell Phones
Even in the face of the largest economic recession since the Great Depression, results show that the wireless industry continues to grow as a vast majority of the US population is using a mobile phone.
Debt Saturation: Each Dollar of New Debt Now Subtracts 45 Cents from GDP
The SPLC, 3 Percenters & Broken Windows
Corporate Media Fears Competition from Social Networking Sites
When the president of CNN in the U.S. looks over his shoulder, it’s not his rivals at Fox News that makes him anxious. It’s Facebook.
WikiLeaks Monitored by U.S., Icelandic Authorities Over Pentagon Murder Video
Colorado Taxi Drivers to Spy for Cops
Making our community safer; that’s the goal of a new partnership starting today with a local business and Colorado Springs police. The drivers of Yellow Cabs will now be an extra set of roving eyes and ears to help police catch criminals.
Gordon Brown told to explain why he sold Britain’s gold reserves
Gordon Brown has been ordered to release information before the general election about his controversial decision to sell Britain’s gold reserves.
Economic Stimulus Bill May Give J.P. Morgan a Tax Refund of $1.4 Billion
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is nearing a deal that would allow it to benefit from a tax refund of as much as $1.4 billion, becoming the latest company to tap a little-noticed plank in an economic stimulus bill.
France Ditches Carbon Tax as Strikes, Mass Protests Threaten to Shut Down Country
What has become of our beloved America? Since Christmas Eve, 1913 our standard of living and quality of life has made a death spiral towards complete and utter despotism.
CatholicTV rolls out shows in 3-D to attract youth
CatholicTV debuted 3-D programs Tuesday in an effort to reach younger people and to make the faith message more vivid. The network posted several 3-D shows on the Internet, released its monthly magazine in 3-D – complete with glasses – and said it will eventually broadcast some programs in 3-D.
What in the World Are They Spraying? Part II
Could Aluminum, Barium and Other Substances from Stratospheric Aerosol Geo-Engineering Programs be Destroying Eco-Systems around the World?
TSA nominee wants more ‘behavior detection’
Is that the model where intelligence operatives clone the passports of unsuspecting travelers and then carry out assassinations with their identities?
Airport device follows fliers’ phones
Today’s smartphones and PDAs could have a new use in the nation’s airports: helping passengers avoid long lines at security checkpoints
Fourteen US states sue to block health reform
In a sign of political battles to come, 14 US states filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of health care reform just moments after President Barack Obama signed it into law.
Gene-specific pesticides kill off individual species
Bugs beware: we’re gunning for your genes
“Green” shoppers more likely to lie, cheat and steal
Green consumers sometimes take the moral high ground – but it’s all too easy to slide back down. New research suggests that those who make “green” purchases are subsequently more likely to behave selfishly, cheat and steal.
The influence of the Israeli Lobby on America’s Iran policy
‘America’s Pro-Israel Lobby’, as AIPAC calls itself, holds the biggest conference in its history today, yesterday and the day before in Washington. ‘This year, the lobby has built its annual conference, and its entire lobbying agenda around the issue of Iran’, writes Haaretz
House Democrat: "There Are No Rules Here…We Make Them Up As We Go Along"
Harris poll: 24% of Republicans think Obama "may be the Antichrist"
A team of researchers have found that the brain may be able to be ‘re-programmed’ to overcome some of our most basic fears.
Rio Tinto exec facing commercial secrets charges
The trial of four employees from Australian mining giant Rio Tinto was set to end Wednesday as a Shanghai court wrapped up closed sessions on industrial espionage charges.
Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card
Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they’re calling “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards” — that would be required for all employees in the United States.
The well funded, well organized, global skeptic network laid bare /sarc
Obamacare Winners: Big Pharma / Hospitals / MDs / Insurance Companies … The People: Who Knows ?
Over the past ten years the shining city has become the ultimate rogue nation, pumped up with power and hubris in spite of the clearly visible signs of decline and moving inexorably towards a catastrophic fall.
SEC Employees Were Getting Off To Porn While Your Economy Tanked
British Officials Chop Down 6,000 Trees to Stop Sex in Woods
Six thousand trees were chopped down at a British beauty spot, partly to discourage strangers who were regularly having sex in the woods, it emerged Tuesday.
US may try Sheehan for anti-war campaign
Eight peace activists were detained after laying coffins near a fence outside the White House during a Saturday rally in which thousands of anti-war protesters gathered at a park in the area to mark the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq .
Health Care Mandate to Be Enforced by IRS ‘Bounty Hunters’
“When most people think of health care reform they think of more doctors exams, not more IRS exams,” says U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee. “Isn’t the federal government already intruding enough into our lives? We need thousands of new doctors and nurses in America, not thousands more IRS agents.”
Dallas-Fort Worth commercial foreclosure filings top $1 billion
Commercial property foreclosure filings in the Dallas-Fort Worth area top $1 billion for the upcoming April sales.
30 Million Kids Got Rotarix Vaccine Tainted With Pig Virus
Rotarix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, was approved by the FDA in 2008. The contaminant material is DNA from porcine circovirus 1, a virus from pigs that is not known to cause disease in humans or animals, Hamburg said.
Unions Want to Take Over Your 401(k)
One of the nation’s largest labor unions, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), is promoting a plan that will centralize all retirement plans for American workers, including private 401(k) plans, under one new "retirement system" for the United States.
Graham proposes framework for handling terrorism suspects, rules governing indefinite detention
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) has submitted draft legislation to the White House in an effort to create a broad framework for handling terrorism suspects, mapping out proposals that appeal to the administration and others that do not, officials said.
Puke: China recycles cooking oil… from raw sewage
Chinese cooking oil siphoned from restaurants’ waste tanks and stripped out of raw sewage is being resold on the cheap and has for years tainted approximately one out of every ten meals cooked in the eastern nation, according to a recent study.
Nano-based RFID tag, you’re it
The technology reported in the March issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices is based on a carbon-nanotube-infused ink for ink-jet printers first developed in the Rice lab of James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of computer science
Collective Intelligence is the New Measure of Smart
Collective intelligence can include distributed computing. We’ve seen how a complex problem can be solved by using millions of connected computers working in tandem. So too can any task be divided among a set of human peers.
15 New Taxes The Democrats Just Foisted On The American People
A 40% tax on health insurance plans exceeding determined levels. Those levels are projected for 2013 to be $8,500 for self only and $23,000 for any other level.
New Taxes for Health Care Help Obama ‘Spread the Wealth Around’
If the final version of the legislation passes the Senate, high-income investors will pay higher Medicare taxes, tax breaks for out-of-pocket medical deductions will be curtailed, and it will cost insurance companies more to pay executives millions of dollars.
Silvio Berlusconi to push for change to Italian constitution for greater powers
The Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is proposing to change the constitution by referendum to give him greater powers as a “directly elected president”.
CIA chief authorizes every drone strike
CIA Chief Leon Panetta has said the US counter terrorism polices in Pakistan are legal and highly effective and that he is acutely aware of the gravity of some of the decisions thrust upon him.
U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Opium in Afghan Town
The effort to win over Afghans on former Taliban turf in Marja has put American and NATO commanders in the unusual position of arguing against opium eradication, pitting them against some Afghan officials who are pushing to destroy the harvest.
Lebanese army fires on Israeli jets
The Lebanese army says it has opened fire on two Israeli warplanes that were violating the country’s airspace at medium altitude.
160 plastic policemen charged with crimes
Supporters say they offer a reassuring uniformed presence on the streets, but critics – including many regular officers – have branded them “plastic policemen” or “CHIMPS”, which stands for “completely hopeless in most policing situations
Has Germany just killed the dream of a European superstate?
Health-Care Stocks Up After House OK’s Obamacare
Health-care stocks led the stock market higher Monday after the U.S. House Sunday approved a historic health-care overhaul designed to bring health insurance to 32 million more Americas while subjecting U.S. industries to a dramatically redrawn and newly regulated marketplace
Underemployment At Record 20% According To Gallup
Just in case anyone needed confirmation that the DOL data is just a little, how should we say it, cooked, here comes Gallup with their March 15 undermployment number, which just hit a 2010, and series, high of 20%
Data mining project benefits investigators, scares privacy experts
Chinese Media: Google Is Tied to U.S. Intelligenc
Chinese media organs lashed out at Google (GOOG) in an apparently coordinated assault on Saturday — with one paper suggesting Google is linked to the U.S. intelligence agencies — just days before the Web giant may announce plans to close its Chinese-language search engine
Reasons to be pissed about the health insurance bill
The health insurance bill passed, and it’s one more triumph of the federal government over individual rights. All statists, rejoice! You’ve managed to succeed in having Big Brother intrude into one more aspect of your life.
Bank For International Settlements (BIS): How The Rothschilds Control And Dictate To The World
What’s the significance of having a central bank within a country and why should you concern yourself, your family and colleagues?
The bond market is saying that it’s safer to lend to Warren Buffett than Barack Obama.
Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill
As Marcy Wheeler noted in an important post entitled “Health Care on the Road to NeoFeudalism,” we stand on the precipice of doing something truly radical in our government, by demanding that Americans pay almost as much money to private insurance companies as they do in federal taxes:
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