Posts Tagged ‘administration’
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
US Homeland Security to Expand ‘Secure Communities’ Nationwide
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to broaden its Secure Communities program nationwide by 2013, according to a DHS release. Administered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative agency within DHS, Secure Communities aims to identify and possibly remove illegal immigrants with criminal histories from the United States.
Karzai: Private contractors ‘looting and stealing,’ working with terrorists
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday defended his decision to ban private security contractors from operating in public in Afghanistan, saying many of the organizations tasked with providing security are engaging in terrorist activities, working with “Mafia-like” organizations and “looting and stealing from the Afghan people.”
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah ‘worse than Hiroshima’
Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.
UN board could rein in $2.7 billion carbon market
An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam.
Predicting space weather in real time
Getting more accurate forecasts about space weather may not help you decide whether to water your garden, but it could soon clue you in better to when events in the solar system may be putting a damper on your electronic activities.
Italian PM launches "Freedom Teams" to increase consensus
The "Freedom Teams" will be composed of volunteers who will travel to inform citizens on everything the government has accomplished in the past two years.
Indian Techie Exposes Fraudulent Voting System Gets Arrested For It
Today, at wee hours Maharashtra police landed up at the residence of Hari Prasad in Hyderabad, a technologist and Technical coordinator of VeTA to arrest him. The arrest was made on the flimsy charge of ‘theft of EVM’ used for vulnerability demonstration by Hari Prasad
Is engineered ‘Frankenfish’ coming to the nation’s table?
With a global population pressing against food supplies and vast areas of the ocean swept clean of fish, tiny AquaBounty Technologies Inc. of Waltham, Mass., says it can help feed the world.
Officials unveil high-tech ray gun to be installed in county jail
CASTAIC – A high-tech ray gun built for the military that fires an invisible heat beam capable of causing unbearable pain will be tested on unruly inmates in the sheriff’s detention facility in Castaic
Currency printers in Germany fear for their futures
The Bundesbank’s decision to have most of its euro notes printed abroad has sparked protests by German currency printers, who fear large financial losses. Now the federal antitrust agency is investigating.
DARPA Testing New Advanced Nanotech a.k.a. “Nano-Enhanced” Hybrid Armor (Body Armor and Vehicle Armor): Armor Nanotechnology Takes Another Step Forward
Water meter reading goes high-tech with 3G equipped drones
The era of the door-to-door meter reader may soon come to an end, if an aerial monitoring system now being used in Israel catches on.
Virus-Busting Chips! Why Intel Paid Billions for McAfee.
The news of Intel’s very expensive McAfee purchase raises one obvious question: why is security software worth over $7 billion to a chip maker? Intel has been short on specifics, but it’s becoming clear that virus-killing silicon is coming.
Scientists Hack Into Cars’ Computers — Control Brakes, Engine
It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In seconds the target car’s engine, brakes, and door locks are under their nefarious control.
Texas cops say a man hacked into GPS systems and disabled more than 100 cars.
India Tries Using Cash Bonuses to Slow Birthrates
Babies with breasts shock China
Once again, China’s most vulnerable citizens – its babies – are the central figures in a food-safety scandal. Two years ago, milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine killed six infants and left 300,000 more suffering from kidney stones. Now, some Chinese babies are growing breasts, and their parents are blaming the Nasdaq-listed company that produces the baby formula they were drinking.
Childless British couple builds a robot child companion
The couple runs a robotics company called Conceptioneering out of their house, and made their fortune with a game called Cube World.
Coca Cola Village uses real life "Like" buttons that fed real world "likes" to Facebook
Publicis E-dologic figured out a way to embed user data in IDF bracelets, and thus allow people to "Like" real world objects, places and events spreading the word about it on their facebook accounts.
‘Orange-Style’ Revolution Could Take Place In Tuva
Tuva, a republic in “the center of Asia” which once produced remarkable diamond-shaped stamps and attracted the attention of the American physicist Richard Feynman, is now attracting attention for another reason: the balance between the government and opposition is such that upcoming elections could lead to an Orange-style revolution there.
Mexican Police Help Murder Their Own Mayor
Yummy: Artificial meat ‘made in a giant vat’ could solve global food shortage
Artificial meat “made in a giant vat” could be the best solution to the problems of feeding the world’s growing population, scientists said.
Crime lab helped falsely convict about 200 people by purposely reporting false DNA results.
Policy Elite Acting Like The Priests of Some Ancient Cult
FDA uses massive egg recall to push for egg pasteurization
Amid the massive egg recall currently underway over potential salmonella poisoning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been working hard to push its pasteurization agenda. The agency recently made an announcement recommending that all grocery stores and restaurants begin stocking pasteurized eggs instead of raw ones.
Cloned Meat May Already Have Invaded Our Food Supply, Posing Alarming Health Risks
The NATO Money to Ensure Taliban Security
It is quite open a secret now that for months, British and the US diplomats and intelligence officers had been approaching those Taliban commanders whom they considered “soft and approachable”.
Americans ‘rethinking homeownership’
After real estate collapse, many question if home’s debt burden is worth it.
Software Predicts Criminal Behavior
Developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software is already used in Baltimore and Philadelphia to predict which individuals on probation or parole are most likely to murder and to be murdered.
IRAN UNVEILS bomber drone.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday unveiled a long-range bomber drone called the Karar, designed to operate at high speed, state television reported.
Globalized Business Cares Little About Left or Right
Here’s the good news about China’s emergence as the world’s second largest economy — US business has figured it out. And here’s the bad news — while US companies can go global, most US citizens can’t.
Florida mosque bombed; FBI calls for help; national media mute
Hmmm?
Why the Wars can’t be Won
Philadelphia bloggers told they owe $300 for a privilege license
After dutifully reporting even the smallest profits on their tax filings this year, a number — though no one knows exactly what that number is — of Philadelphia bloggers were dispatched letters informing them that they owe $300 for a privilege license, plus taxes on any profits they made.
Salmonella Egg Recall Now Reaches 480 Million Eggs; 2,000 Report Illness
All the more reason to support your local farmers and ranchers!
BP accused of withholding ‘critical’ spill data
The company that owned the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico is accusing BP of withholding critical evidence needed to investigate the cause of the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, according to a confidential document obtained by The Associated Press. BP called the claims a publicity stunt.
Blackwater/Xe mercs to pay $42mn fine
The company will pay $42 million for violations that include illegal weapons export to Afghanistan and making unauthorized proposals to train troops in southern Sudan, The New York Times reported on Friday.
SEC Charges New Jersey with Securities Fraud
You’ll love the penalty: “The state was not required to pay any civil fines or penalties, but ordered to cease and desist from future violations.”
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Iran Joins Nuclear Power Club as Russia Starts Reactor Under UN’s Watch
Health Insurance Companies Are Dramatically Increasing Premiums Due To The New Health Care Law And There Is Not Much We Can Do About It
Nearly 50 Percent Leave Obama Mortgage-Aid Program
The report suggests foreclosures could rise in the second half of the year and weaken the ailing housing market, analysts say.
The age of nations is over. The new urban age has begun.
The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not — and will not be — one global village, so much as a network of different ones.
APPLE Patents Security Invention That Recognizes Users Heartbeat…
Future iPhones, iPads could recognize, adjust for individual users
High-tech carts will tell on Cleveland residents who don’t recycle … and they face $100 fine
Geopolitical Chessboard: U.S. Global Strategy: Defeating Potential Challengers In Eurasia
Gulf of Mexico: Continuous Oil Plume Over 35KM in Length, at Approximately 1100M Depth
Video: Austin Activists Fight To Remove Neuro-Toxin Fluoride From Drinking Water
America Won the Cold War But Now Is Turning Into the USSR, Gerald Celente Says
There’s a lot of talk these days about America being an empire in decline. Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute, goes a step further, arguing America is following a similar path as the former Soviet Union.
The richest people that you’ve never heard of
White House-created commission is considering proposals to raise the Social Security retirement age
More evidence links pesticides to hyperactivity
Many experts believe its incidence has increase sharply in recent decades, but critics attribute the increased incidence to over-diagnosis. Some attribute the increase to the greater use of pesticides.
Declassified Senate Investigation Files Reveal Clandestine Israeli PR Campaign in America
Seasonal, H1N1 flu vaccine to be combined this fall
“The 2010-2011 seasonal flu vaccine will include the H1N1 strain that was responsible for the 2009 pandemic,” said Vicki Monks, media spokesperson for the Oklahoma City-County Health Department.
Senior NOAA Scientist Admits He Lied That Gulf Spill Oil Is Gone, Puts Administration’s Spill-Disclosure “Credibility” In Question
The Purpose Behind Engineered Economic Collapse
“From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.” — Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. , 1913
Pregnant women should avoid ‘diet’ soft drinks: researchers
Research carried out on almost 60,000 pregnant women in Denmark found that those who drank artificially sweetened soft drinks, whether fizzy or still, were more likely to give birth early.
U.S. to Double Mercenary Forces in Iraq After 2011 Military Pullout
As the United States military prepares to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, the Obama administration is planning a remarkable civilian effort, buttressed by a small army of contractors, to fill the void.
Who’s blowing up Iran’s gas pipelines?
In the past few weeks Iran’s gas infrastructure, which is central to the country’s energy requirements, has been hit by a series of unexplained explosions.
Health Dept: Speed Drug and Vaccine Approvals For Biological Threats
The U.S. government proposed big changes on Thursday to the way it works with companies to fight new disease threats such as flu, including reform at the Food and Drug Administration and setting up centers to make vaccines quickly.
Study to test gas effects at subway stops
Researchers working for the US Department of Homeland Security will release odorless, nontoxic gases in more than 20 MBTA subway stations for a week, beginning tomorrow, to study the possible effects if airborne contaminants were to be released there, officials said.
Negotiators confirm ACTA not really a “counterfeiting” treaty
What’s in a name? Not much, when it comes to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. As Luc Devigne, the top EU negotiator on ACTA made clear today, he has no intention of limiting ACTA to, you know, its name.
Remember Obama Youth Corps, And Boy Scouts Training To Become Homeland Gestapo, Well Spain has Gone A Step Further With The Kiddie Police (Video)
Poll: ‘No’ to US wars at all time high
A new opinion poll says the number of Americans opposed to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is at an all time high.
US-Vietnam Military Drills Crank Up Tensions With China
The U.S. Navy just began military exercises with Vietnam in the South China Sea and China, which had in the past been more accepting of the U.S.’ naval power in the region, is now showing its anger, according to The Asia Times.
Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother
We’ve all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian future, where the public is tracked everywhere they go, from shopping malls to work to mass transit to the privacy of their own homes. The technology is here. I’ve seen it myself. It’s seen me, too, and scanned my irises.
HR 1553 Authorizing ‘Use of Force’ Against Iran is Based on Pure Propaganda
This entire resolution is loaded with war mongering propaganda reported in the New York Times and others — not based on actions, or even concrete intelligence gathering.
Blackwater founder Erik Prince takes ‘break from America’ in his new home — Abu Dhabi
The Age of Treason: 1958 Book Exposes Chemical Attack on Humanity
The book is appropriately subtitled; "Food and Liquids Used as a Medium in Deliberately and Carefully Planned Methods Developed by the Vicious Element of Humanity, for the Mental Deterioration and Moral Debasement of the Mass, as a Means Toward Their Enslavement."
SPECIAL REPORT: The Story of Obama All in the Company – Wayne Madsen
WMR previously reported on the CIA links of President Obama’s mother, father, step-father, grandmother to the CIA. Not much is known about Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, who Obama mistakenly referred to as “his father” in two speeches, one recently to the Disabled American Veterans.
Voyeurism And Television: Feeding our ravenous appetite for murder and destruction
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. ~Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun
Young will have to change names to escape ‘cyber past’ warns Google’s Eric Schmidt
The private lives of young people are now so well documented on the internet that many will have to change their names on reaching adulthood, Google’s CEO has claimed.
Fidel Castro Fascinated By Book On Bilderberg Club
The 84-year-old former Cuban president published an article Wednesday that used three of the only eight pages in the Communist Party newspaper Granma to quote – largely verbatim – from a 2006 book by Lithuanian-born writer Daniel Estulin.
When Police Videos Go Missing
U.S.-China Crisis: From "Gunboat Diplomacy" to Confrontation
The UN Security Council Regime of Tribunals and Sanctions: A Smokescreen for Military Seizure of Regions and Resources
Genetically Manipulated Crops:
The GMO Catastrophe in the USA. A Lesson for the World
US says it is not illegal for schools to spy on students at home
IT LOOKS LIKE PROSECUTORS are not going to get involved in the bizarre case of the school which switched on laptops to spy on students while they were in their own bedrooms.
Judge balks at SEC’s settlement with Citigroup
A federal judge refused on Monday to accept a $75 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup, marking the second time this year that a judge has questioned whether the agency had exacted the proper sanction from a major bank.
US-Colombia pact "unconstitutional"
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a controversial agreement which gives US troops access to Colombian military bases is unlawful.
Nearly 80pc of Gulf spill oil still in water: experts
"The oil is still out there and it will likely take years to completely degrade. We are still far from a complete understanding of what its impacts are."
Now it’s ‘Obama’s War’: President sees same number of U.S. troops – 575 – die in Afghanistan as during Bush years
US Says Bankruptcies Reach Nearly 5-Year High
U.S. bankruptcy filings have reached the highest level since 2005, government data released on Tuesday show, as the economy slows and the unemployment rate hovers just below double digits.
Dock Owners Asking Fishermen to Sign Waiver Stating That They Would be Responsible for Contaminated Fish?
22 cities in danger of a double-dip recession
A new report from Moody’s Economy.com singled out 22 cities that are at risk of slipping back into a recession in as early as three months.
States of Paralysis: America’s Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror
As the link between the media and corporate power becomes more integrated, the visual theater of terror mimics the politics of the "official" war on terror.
Pie thrower facing felony charge for ‘stalking’ Senator Levin
The 23-year-old woman who police say hit the senator with the pie is charged with assault. And because she was arrested last year during an anti war sit-in at Senator Levin’s office, she may also face felony stalking charges.
Wal-Mart Quietly Raises Prices
Some Prices Hiked Over 60%
Venezuela ready to sell petrol to Iran
The Venezuelan ambassador to Tehran says his country is ready to sell gasoline to Iran despite US and EU unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
White House Directive: Erect Signs at All Stimulus Projects as ‘Symbol of President Obama’s Commitment to American People’
More of that Change You Can Believe In!
Sugar Beets- Monsanto Wins Again
Last Friday a federal judge imposed a nationwide ban on GMO sugar beets and it was overturned the next business day. Sugar beets comprise 50% of the sugar used in US food, and 95% of the sugar beets grown in the US are GMO.
Junk Food-Addicted Rats Chose to Starve Themselves Rather Than Eat Healthy Food
Israel has ’8 days’ to hit Iran nuclear site: Bolton
Israel has "eight days" to launch a military strike against Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said.
Iran To Unveil An Array Of Weapons Next Week
Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Tuesday that Iran will unveil next week an array of weapons, including missiles, speedboats and a long range drone, the ISNA news agency reported.
Obama Administration Spending $63 Billion On “Global Health Care” Program
The Obama administration is focused not just on health-care reform in the United States – but also on improving health care systems around the world, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Monday.
China, U.S. playing risky game on the high seas
The game of military bluff that China and the United States are playing off the Chinese coast could erupt in full-fledged crisis hitting the arteries of global trade if Pentagon worries about missteps ever come true.
China targets U.S. troops with arms buildup
China is aggressively building up military forces to strike U.S. forces in the western Pacific and elsewhere as part of what the Pentagon calls an array of high-tech “anti-access” missiles, submarines and warplanes in its latest annual report.
China Slashes U.S. Government Bond Holdings By The Largest Amount Ever
18 Signs That America Is Rotting Right In Front Of Our Eyes
Sometimes it isn’t necessary to quote facts and figures about government debt, unemployment and the trade deficit in order to convey how badly America is decaying. The truth is that millions of Americans can watch America rotting right in front of their eyes by stepping out on their front porches.
The Return Of Civil Disobedience
It’s good to see civil disobedience making a comeback.
Illegal Immigrants Account for 8% of U.S. Newborns
As many as 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S. in 2008 had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant, according to a Pew Hispanic Center study of Census Bureau data.
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
McCain applauds Raytheon’s ‘wonderful missiles’
The comment was reminiscent of remarks McCain made at a campaign stop in 2007 when he sang "bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of of a popular Beach Boys song.
President of the Council on Foreign Relations on Afghanistan: ‘It’s not worth it’
In an article published in the most recent edition of Newsweek, Richard Haass called Afghanistan "very much Barack Obama’s war of choice." Haass seemed to be echoing the words of RNC Chairman Michael Steele when he said Afghanistan was a "war of Obama’s choosing."
Report: Afghan, Iraq wars teaching US gang members military combat
Gang members in the US military are returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan armed with knowledge of military tactics, a fact that could threaten the lives of law enforcement officers in the US and worsen the gang problem, according to a new report from the Chicago Sun-Times.
Stress-testing Europe’s banks won’t stave off a deflationary vortex
Euroland’s authorities are inflicting a triple shock of fiscal, monetary, and currency tightening on a broken economy.
‘NHS doesn’t care about cost of medicine’: Drugs firms accused of profiteering by raising prices by ONE THOUSAND per cent
Drugs companies making everyday medicines for the NHS are facing claims of profiteering after imposing huge price rises for commonly prescribed drugs.
Ahmadinejad: US behind terror attacks
Iran’s president says US and NATO forces offer financial and material support to terrorists, yet US President Barack Obama, ironically enough, sends a condolence message on the recent deadly terrorist attacks in southeast Iran.
Report: Israel convinces Obama to plan for Iran strike
According to a report in Time magazine Israel has managed to convince Washington to put the option of a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities back on the table.
Seep Detected Near Capped US Oil Well
The US government has ordered BP to provide plans to remove the containment cap after a seep was detected near the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Intelligence Industrial Complex Prepares for War
Revealed: brutal guide to punishing jailed UK youths
Shocking details of techniques used to inflict pain deliberately on children in privately run jails have been revealed for the first time in a government document obtained by the Observer.
VIDEO: "Top Secret America"
"Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Pay-Per-Cop
Whatever the future has in store for the law enforcement community, you can be sure that your welfare is the last thing on their list of priorities. I guess we can all say goodbye to Sheriff Andy Taylor’s Mayberry and hello to the Robo-Cop world of Detroit.
Food dyes linked to cancer: Report
Many artificial food dyes that colour everything from breakfast cereal to ice cream should be banned because they pose cancer risks, a new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest says
Only One of Three Americans Know that Bush, Not Obama, Signed Bank Bailout
America’s short-term memory troubles have been both a blessing and a curse for President Barack Obama.
Gold Transactions with Dealers Over $600 Will Require IRS Filing Effective January 1, 2012
BRITS RAID ‘DORMANT’ BANK ACCOUNTS TO PAY FOR PROJECTS
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to use “hundreds of millions of pounds” from dormant bank accounts to fund community projects, while Business Secretary Vince Cable said lenders “ripped off” customers.
Lost in Taxation
The IRS’s vast new ObamaCare powers.
Ireland’s Credit Rating Downgraded by Moody’s
Credit agency Moody’s has downgraded Ireland’s government bond ratings to Aa2, blaming banking liabilities, weak growth prospects and a substantial increase in the debt to GDP ratio.
Cities Rent Police, Janitors to Save Cash
Faced with a $118 million budget deficit, the city of San Jose, Calif., recently decided it could no longer afford its own janitors. So the city’s budget called for dropping its custodial staff and hiring outside contractors to clean its city hall and airport, saving about $4 million.
Cops electrocute pastor to death
Busted for paraphernalia, pastor dies after being shocked repeatedly.
Big Pharma Makes Another Killing
The latest outrage against the health of humanity is the paltry fine levied against GlaxoSmithKline by our protectors, the Food and Drug Administration. The drug, Avandia, which was cited in 2007 as a potential danger, has indeed become one at the rate of around 500 heart attacks and 300 cases of heart failure per month. The fine of $2.1 billion after taxes — which may seem large to most — is less than a third of Glaxo’s annual profit.
Obama Plays Phony Populist Card: Says GOP ‘Party of the Rich’
Study: Hundreds of Contractor Deaths in Afghanistan Unreported
Congress Finds Private Contractors Dying at Enormous Rate
G20 Toronto Riots perpetrated by Agents Provocateurs of the Police
The corporate media are complicit in this model and, as one would expect the result of implementing it is that protestors are demonized in the mainstream and legitimate dissent is therefore delegitimized.
Suicide bomber kills 45 Sahwa militiamen in former Iraq hotspot
A suicide bomber targeting anti-Qaeda militiamen being paid their wages killed at least 45 people west of Baghdad on Sunday, in Iraq’s deadliest single attack in more than two months.
Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
The contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass not only Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister but also the US administration of Barack Obama.
Congressman introduces resolution to protect citizens who videotape cops
Edolphus Towns, a Democrat from New York, introduced the resolution on Thursday, the same day USA Today wrote a scathing editorial denouncing these types of arrests.
Columbia University Brain Imaging Center Routinely Injected Mental Patients with Drugs that Contained Potentially Dangerous Impurities
Insurers Push Plans Limiting Patient Choice of Doctors
As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country’s biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or hospitals.
Brzezinski Senses “Malaise” With Obama
Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski: “I think we’re now going through a phase in which there is a sense of pervasive malaise, which affects different groups in society in different ways.”
SHOCK: Water “sample exploded” when chemist tested for oil; “Most likely” methane or Corexit (VIDEO)
The Jobless Effect: Is the Real Unemployment Rate 16.5%, 22%, or. . .?
Video Game CEO cheers Digital Tyranny and Technological Enslavement
U.S. Risks Military Clash With China In Yellow Sea
The Global Double Dip Has Arrived
The global economy, artificially boosted since the recession of 2008-2009 by massive monetary and fiscal stimulus and financial bailouts, is headed towards a sharp slowdown this year as the effect of these measures wanes.
Dollar Weakens Most in 14 Months Versus Euro on Signs of Economic Slowdown
The dollar fell the most against the euro in 14 months and dropped to the lowest level this year versus the yen as economic reports added to evidence that the U.S. recovery is losing momentum.
VIDEO: Pain Pill Abuse Up 400% In 10 Years!
Car bomb in Mexican border town signals new peak of drug war violence
Mexican drug traffickers’ first car-bomb attack against police has revealed a new level of cold-blooded planning that is forcing this border city and security forces to change the way they confront violence.
DC’s spy establishment in panic mode over Washington Post expose
Washington’s intelligence establishment appears to be in panic mode over an upcoming Washington Post series about runaway growth in defense and intelligence spending.
Blame Central Banking Not Banks
U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs
BP buys up Gulf scientists for legal defense, roiling academic community
For the last few weeks, BP has been offering signing bonuses and lucrative pay to prominent scientists from public universities around the Gulf Coast to aid its defense against spill litigation.
Underground tunnel complexes FOUND ON MOON
Space boffins believe they may be on the verge of discovering a vast, hidden network of tunnels beneath the surface of the Moon.
Pilot in DC9 5.5 Ton Cocaine Bust “Escaped” Custody in Three Separate Countries
Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014
All Americans, by 2014 will be required to have an individual obesity rating electronically recorded. It has been determined that under the new health stimulus law passed by President Barack Obama recently, that all Americans, by 2014, will be required to have electronic health records which will include their height, weight and body mass index (BMI).
EU reaches out for new powers at United Nations
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy will in future be able to address the UN chamber no differently from US President Barack Obama or Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmedinejad under draft reforms agreed by member states.
Carbon trading used as money-laundering front: experts
Bank of America to Sell Countrywide Insurance Unit
Biggest expansion of government power over banking, markets since Depression
Congress approved a rewrite of rules touching every corner of finance, from ATM cards to Wall Street traders, in the biggest expansion of government power over banking and markets since the Depression.
Classified documents reveal UK’s role in torture of its own citizens
Previously secret papers show true extent of involvement in abduction and torture following al-Qaida attacks of 2001 Read the torture documents in full
Goldman Sachs Mafia Pays Hush Money to the S.E.C. Police
22 Statistics That Prove The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America
June sets Army suicides record
More US troops killed themselves last month than in recent Army history.
NSA Falsified Intercepted Communications in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Previously classified transcripts show senators of the time questioning whether the White House and the Pentagon had deceived them over the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.
S.E.C. Settling Its Complaints With Goldman
Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550 million to settle federal claims that it misled investors in a subprime mortgage product as the housing market began to collapse, officials said Thursday.
Pentagon warns Congress: accounts running dry
The Pentagon said on Wednesday it may be forced to take extreme measures — like not paying salaries — if the Democratic-led Congress fails to pass a $37 billion defense spending bill before lawmakers begin an August recess.
America Plunging to Bankruptcy While DC Plays Politics as Usual
John Taylor: “Cash Is Now King, Worthless Or Not, So Buy Dollars.”
JPMorgan profit leaps nearly 80%
US banking giant JPMorgan Chase on Thursday announced a net profit of 4.8 billion dollars in the second quarter, up nearly 80 percent from the same period last year.
India: ISI behind Mumbai attacks
A senior Indian official has accused Pakistani intelligence of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Thermal Energy Storage Device for Directed Energy Weapons Tested
General Atomics’ Advanced Power Systems Division has announced that it has completed testing of an advanced thermal energy storage device capable of cooling directed energy weapons (DEW).
First spacecraft to land on an asteroid due back on Earth
The first spacecraft to land on an asteroid and collect samples from its surface is limping back to earth more than seven years after setting off on its epic journey.
You Couldn’t Make This Up Dept.: "There’s a Monolith on Mars’ Moon, Phobos"
Clam boat pulls up canisters off NY, crew sickened
A doctor treating a commercial fisherman who was sickened after his clamming boat pulled up munitions tainted with chemicals says tests show he was exposed to mustard gas.
‘The Rig’s on Fire! I Told You This Was Gonna Happen!’
Whoever was on the other end of the line was apparently trying to calm Harrell down. "I am fucking calm," he went on, according to Buzbee. "You realize the rig is burning?"
Decorative eggs prompt Atlanta federal building evacuation
A harmless package of decorative eggs prompted a grenade scare and the evacuation of an Atlanta federal building on Tuesday, according to law enforcement officials.
New Health law could ban low-cost plans
Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama’s reforms.
U.S. Confirms Underwater Oil Plumes
The government said water tests have confirmed underwater oil plumes dozens of miles from the broken wellhead off Louisiana
Reports at BP over years find systemic history of problems
Allegations that BP or its contractors falsified safety and inspection reports are a recurring theme. Similar allegations were attributed to workers in 2001 and 2004 internal reports on Alaska, but the internal auditors did not confirm that fraud had occurred.
NORAD leader pledges support for G8, G20
Gen. Walt Natynczyk welcomed the new NORAD commander, U.S. Admiral James Winnefeld, who pledged the Americans’ full military support during the upcoming G8 and G20 summits in Toronto.
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Israeli forces board the Rachel Corrie
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, May 17, 2010
Antifascist Calling
When Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen and 30-year-old son of a retired senior Pakistani Air Force officer was arrested in the failed plot to detonate a car-bomb in Times Square May 1, U.S. counterterrorism officials and their stenographers in the corporate media proclaimed a "connection" between Shahzad and the far-right jihadi outfit, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Never mind that such "evidence" relies on the thinnest of reeds: that Shahzad had recently traveled to Pakistan, was allegedly in "contact" with the TTP and had even received "training" from a sectarian, clan- and tribal-based organization wary of outsiders who nevertheless, allegedly "approved" of an ill-conceived plan to kill hundreds of New Yorkers.
Last week on NBC’s "Meet the Press," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder claimed, "We know that they [TTP] helped facilitate it. We know that they helped direct it. And I suspect that we are going to come up with evidence which shows that they helped to finance it. They were intimately involved in this plot."
Holder’s "evidence"? Why statements by former CIA torture-enabler and current Obama counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, "confirming" the administration’s threadbare assertions.
The New York Times reported that Brennan "appeared to say even more definitively than Mr. Holder did that the Taliban in Pakistan had provided money as well as training and direction."
"He was trained by them," the former CEO of The Analysis Corporation (TAC) and Chairman of the security industry lobby shop, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) said. "He received funding from them. He was basically directed here to the United States to carry out this attack."
According to media reports however, Shahzad’s motivation for attempting to murder citizens of his adopted country was the cold-blooded killing of his former countrymen by the United States–specifically, the CIA’s escalating drone war that has killed nearly a thousand Pakistanis since 2006.
The New York Times reported May 16, that one relative told reporters that "he was always very upset about the fabrication of the W.M.D. stunt to attack Iraq and killing noncombatants such as the sons and grandson of Saddam Hussein." The torture of Guantánamo Bay and other prisoners by the former and current administration was also a source of anger; a message on a Google Groups e-mail list bearing the photos of handcuffed and crouching detainees bore the words, "Shame on you, Bush. Shame on You."
In other words, the catalyst for the aborted attack was not our "freedom" but American policies, specifically the invasion and occupation of Central Asian and Middle Eastern states to secure strategic resources that inconveniently belong to other people.
Despite a new round of drone attacks in Waziristan May 11, that killed 14 alleged militants in a barrage of 18 missiles fired by CIA Predator and Reaper drones, the third since the attempted bombing, Pakistani officials dismissed the notion that the TTP were capable of reaching the "next level."
McClatchy Washington Bureau investigative journalist Saeed Shah reported May 11, the same day of the drone barrage, that "the inept construction of the failed bomb also raised doubts over whether the Pakistani Taliban could have trained Shahzad. They have expertise in explosives and were connected to the devastating strike on a CIA base in Afghanistan at the end of last year."
In an earlier report, McClatchy disclosed that "six U.S. officials had said there was no credible evidence that Shahzad received serious terrorist training from the Pakistani Taliban or another radical Islamic group."
In all likelihood, the insular TTP would not have viewed Shahzad as a potential recruit but rather as an American or Pakistani spy and he probably would have shared the fate of former ISI officer and Taliban supporter, Khalid Khawaja, who was gunned down in May by a militant faction despite close ties to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar.
Even within the murky world of America’s public-private secret state, not everyone is buying the administration’s "TTP trained Shahzad" tale.
McClatchy reported that the private intelligence outfit, Stratfor, said that "the lack of tradecraft in Shahzad’s device is compelling evidence that whatever ‘contacts’ or ‘training’ he might have received in northern Pakistan was largely confined to physical training and weapons handling, not the far more sophisticated skill set of fashioning improvised explosive devices."
But with Obama’s "AfPak" adventure going off the rails, perhaps the most compelling question not being asked by the media is this: was the failed May 1 attack, like the Christmas Day plot to blow up Flight 253 over Detroit, a "product" to be exploited by the administration and their allies in Congress for whollydomestic purposes, one having very little to do with the specter of international terrorism?
Bring in the Clowns
Even before the smoke cleared in Times Square, congressional Democrats and Republicans were calling for a new round of repressive measures to "keep us safe."
Senators Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) and former nude pin-up boy, Scott Brown (R-MA), introduced the Terrorist Expatriation Actthat would allow the State Department to revoke the citizenship of people suspected of providing support to terrorist groups.
Lieberman told a May 6 press conference, "If the president can authorize the killing of a United State’s citizens because he is fighting for a foreign terrorist organization, in this case Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, that is involved in attacking America and killing Americans, we can also have a law that allows the U.S. government to revoke a locked-in citizenship."
The grammar-challenged senator from Massachusetts told the press, "This isn’t a knee-jerk reaction. It reflects the changing nature of war in recent events. War has moved into a new dimension. Individuals who pick up arms, this is what I believe, have effectively denounced their citizenship. This legislation simply memorializes that effort."
In keeping with the repressive tenor of the times, House Speaker Nancy "impeachment is off the table" Pelosi (D-CA), said she supported the "spirit" of the bill.
But while we may dismiss the political theatrics of these clowns, more attacks on our rights and liberties are on the way.
During last week’s appearance on "Meet the Press," Holder claimed that Justice Department interrogators "needed greater flexibility" to question terrorism suspects and that the administration now seeks to "carve out a broad new exemption to the Miranda rights established in a landmark 1966 Supreme Court ruling."
According to that precedent, prosecutors are barred from using statements made by suspects before they have been warned that they have a right to remain silent and to consult with an attorney.
That ruling was based on decades of evidence that police, including federal gumshoes, had coerced false confessions from suspects and then used their tainted statements in order to secure convictions and prison sentences–whether or not the individual was actually guilty of a crime.
Investigative journalist Charlie Savage reported May 10 in The New York Times that the "change" regime, providing a new, Orwellian twist to the meaning of the word, will ask Congress to loosen Miranda requirements against a "backdrop of criticism by Republicans who have argued that terrorism suspects–including United States citizens like Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the Times Square case–should be imprisoned and interrogated as military detainees, rather than handled as ordinary criminal defendants."
In other words, far from being a proposal that will "keep us safe," the administration’s tinkering with constitutional protections is a cynical political calculation by spineless Democrats, caricatured by their Republican colleagues as "soft on terrorism," to deflect criticism in an election year.
While the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) questioned Holder’s move saying that "gradually dismantling the Constitution will make us less free, but it will not make us more safe," Saloncolumnist and constitutional law scholar Glenn Greenwald, was far less circumspect in his criticism of the administration. Greenwald wrote May 13:
What’s most amazing about all of this is that even 9 years after the 9/11 attacks and even after the radical reduction of basic rights during the Bush/Cheney years, the reaction is still exactly the same to every Terrorist attack, whether a success or failure, large- or small-scale. Apparently, 8 years of the Bush assault on basic liberties was insufficient; there are still many remaining rights in need of severe abridgment. Even now, every new attempted attack causes the Government to devise a new proposal for increasing its own powers still further and reducing rights even more, while the media cheer it on. It never goes in the other direction. Apparently, as "extremist" as the Bush administration was, there are still new rights to erode each time the word Terrorism is uttered. Each new incident, no matter how minor, prompts new, exotic proposals which the "Constitution-shredding" Bush/Cheney team neglected to pursue: an assassination program aimed at U.S. citizens, formal codification of Miranda dilutions, citizenship-stripping laws, a statute to deny all legal rights to Americans arrested on U.S. soil. …
It really is the case that every new Terrorist incident reflexively produces a single-minded focus on one question:which rights should we take away now/which new powers should we give the Government? (Glenn Greenwald, "New targets of rights erosions: U.S. citizens," Salon, May 13, 2010)
As if this weren’t bad enough, the administration will soon propose new legislation to Congress "to allow the government to detain terrorism suspects longer after their arrests before presenting them to a judge for an initial hearing," The New York Times reported May 15.
"If approved," the Times disclosed, "the idea to delay hearings would be attached to broader legislation to allow interrogators to withhold Miranda warnings from terrorism suspects for lengthy periods, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. proposed last week."
It was unclear how long a "delay" the regime is seeking but in order to circumvent Supreme Court rulings barring the indefinite detention of suspects, "several legal specialists" according to theTimes said that the "court might be more willing to approve modifications if lawmakers and the executive branch agreed that the changes were necessary in the fight against terrorism."
One such "specialist," Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution said that while the Miranda proposals were generating publicity, a "presentment" hearing "is even more likely to disrupt an interrogation because it involves transporting a suspect to a courtroom for a formal proceeding."
In a May 14 Washington Post op-ed, Wittes argued that "the presidency badly needs more political and legal latitude when authorities capture a suspect in an ongoing plot." All the more relevant when that "plot" is one hatched in the shadows to destroy the constitutional rights of the American people.
As a "safeguard" Wittes told the Times, "Congress could require a high-level Justice Department official to certify that delaying the suspect’s initial appearance in court was necessary for national-security reasons."
But as with administration assertions of the "state secrets privilege" to derail lawsuits challenging the government’s imperial right to illegally spy on their citizens, such Justice Department avowals wouldn’t be worth the paper their written on.
In testimony Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee, Holder claimed that administration proposals would effect only a minute number of "terrorism" cases.
Holder told the Committee: "We now find ourselves in 2010 dealing with very complicated terrorism matters. Those are certainly the things that have occupied much of my time. And we think that with regard to that small sliver–only terrorism-related matters, not in any other way, just terrorism cases–that modernizing, clarifying, making more flexible the use of the public safety exception would be something beneficial."
Really?
Would the "public safety exception" only apply to "terrorism" cases that involved the Afghan-Arab database of disposable Western intelligence assets known as al-Qaeda?
Or, as is likely, would a more expansive reading of the statute be viewed as a splendid means by this, or future administrations, to subject domestic dissidents, rebranded as "terrorists," to citizenship-stripping administrative detention, which after all is just another day at the office for that "beacon of democracy," America’s stationary aircraft carrier in the Middle East, Israel?
What with preemptive policing that already targets antiwar, antiglobalization and environmental activists for "special handling" by federal, state and local "counterterrorism" agencies, fusion centers and various Pentagon spy shops, it’s a sure bet that "what happens in Vegas" won’t stay there.
As Patrick Martin pointed out May 10 on the World Socialist Web Site, "In practical terms, the Obama administration no longer distinguishes between citizens and non-citizens in its counterterrorism policies. Both alike can be targeted for surveillance, arrest, indefinite detention, even assassination."
Martin writes that the introduction of an expanded "public safety exemption" when coupled with the administration’s indefinite detention proposal "would go far beyond the Bush administration, translating what were measures to be taken on executive authority, supposedly in emergency conditions, into the standard operating procedures of the US government and police agencies at every level."
What was it again the terrorists hated us for?
Tom Burghardt is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Tom Burghardt
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
May 05 13:14
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An Ohio man who spent nearly 30 years in prison is being released after new DNA tests showed he didn’t rape an 11-year-old girl.
Raymond Towler had been serving a life sentence for the rape of a girl in a Cleveland park in 1981. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Eileen Gallagher choked back tears as she vacated the conviction on Wednesday and left the bench to shake Towler’s hand at the defense table.
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Well, that’s gonna make it ALLLLLLLL better now!
Back in the 1990s, when militant feminists hijacked the equity feminist movement and turned it into the male-bash "All men are rapists" so let’s ship them off to war hate fest, NOW fought against using DNA tests in rape trials on the theory that such a test was insulting to the victims because it implied they might be mistaken, or worse, lying.
Of course, there were mistakes, and a great deal of lying. The FBI reported that rape was the second most common falsely-reported crime in America. Then as the false charges began to surface, the feminists tried to counter the damage by claiming that a rape charge against a male competitor was a legitimate tool of feminine empowerment. Catherine Commins at Vassar was quoted in TIME magazine as saying that a false rape charge was actually a good thing for a man to have to go through.
The lesson here is that the willingness to throw innocent people under a train for personal gain knows no gender. Far from the much-touted claim that women are the more civilized gender, the actions of the feminist leaders of the 1990s proved they were every bit as ruthless and immoral as their male counterparts!
I wonder how many more innocent men still languish in prison for crimes they did not commit; sacrifices to the wealth and influence of feminist leaders.
May 05 12:57
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Israeli author Shelly Elkayam on Wednesday said she is suing the family of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit for plagiarism over a book he wrote when he was 11-years-old, published after his abduction, Army Radio reported.
Elkayam told Army Radio that the Shalit family was holding her story "hostage."
"The story that Gilad Shalit wrote in a book called ‘When the Shark and the Fish First Met,’ was written by me," Elkayam said.
May 05 12:31
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7680557/Osam…
If this doesnt tip the Bovine Excrement meter, I dont know what does. Wave that Flag!!!! Gotta go gets that Osama Bin Landen. More Booga Booga, Nudge Nudge Wink Wink, Yeah hes in Iran now!!!
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May 05 12:30
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GOP and FOX NEWS Campaign Continues to Stamp Israeli Brand On Time Square Bomber
Watching the news on the arrest of the Time Square bomber, or as we will call him, “the Time Square Fizzler,” and the flood of political attacks on the president and news reports condemning Pakistan and Islam make it all clear as a bell. The ‘highly trained’ terrorist, supposedly schooled in explosives and ’secret agent stuff’ is another patsy.
Think “Mumbai” and the recent trial. All our suspect could say, over and over, knowing he is doomed is that he was ’set up.’
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May 05 12:30
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… because if anyone is going to bugger the people, by rights it should be the government!
May 05 12:26
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A program about one of America’s darkest stories.
The U.S.S. Liberty was attacked during the Six Day War in 1967, Tim King discusses this important event and others with Phil Tourney and Mark Glenn on The Liberty Hour Radio Program.
(COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho) – One of the most disturbing stories in contemporary military history is the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, an American Navy ship in international waters, monitoring the Six Day War. It was a politically divisive act of aggression of Israel and neighboring nations.
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May 05 12:07
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I love the way Ahmadinejad turns US foreign policy back on itself!
May 05 11:52
By: Khephra
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The Popes ‘Benedict’ from the fourth to the ninth inclusive (IV-IX) belong to the darkest period of papal history… Benedict VI (973) was thrown into prison by the anti-pope Boniface VII, and strangled by his orders in 974. Benedict VII was a layman and became pope by force, and drove out Boniface VII. Pope Benedict IX had long caused scandal to the Church by his disorderly life. His immediate successor, Pope Gregory VI (1044-46), had persuaded Benedict IX to resign the Chair of Peter, and to do so bestowed valuable possessions on him.
May 05 11:32
By: KevinE
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The deployment began two or three years ago and seven 7,000-strong divisions are now in place, an unidentified senior government official told Yonhap news agency.
"The threat that North Korea may infiltrate special forces for limited warfare has become real," the agency quoted a separate senior defence ministry official as saying.
May 05 11:27
By: Jnoubiyeh
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Now with the Palestinians officially banning settlement products just as proximity talks are to be launched, Israel is fretting over what kind of publicity this issue will receive. Israel doesn’t want to talk seriously about dismantling settlements. That became clear during all the futile years of negotiations behind us. It would rather nip this little Palestinian scheme in the bud before it spins out of control and the illegality of settlements and their damaging repercussions on any prospects of peace are finally exposed in broad daylight.
May 05 11:23
By: KevinE
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May 05 11:04
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Last year, members of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) learned that the author of a critical study on diesel engine soot impacts, Hien Tran, had falsified his academic credentials. Tran admitted the deception, and accepted a Board demotion. However, Tran’s analyses remained the basis for highly controversial and costly regulations imposed upon operators of trucks, buses and other diesel-powered machinery.
May 05 11:04
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A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted May 1-2 shows that 9 out of 10 Americans say it is moderately to extremely important to them for the federal government to take steps this year to secure the border against illegal immigration.
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May 05 11:03
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This article is not nice reading. It is going to expose and demonstrate just how a fake activist gets debunked, how smear campaigns are unraveled, and how Internet is Big Brother who never closes his eye and leaves bread crumbs tracing everything to the source. It is a shocking story of sex, lies and madness. That it involves Palestine, unfortunately has once again influenced us to speak out. We insist upon the separation of the Palestinian cause from some disturbed persons involved who use the cause for their own ends. By their own words and deeds, they shall be exposed. Welcome to the Emperor’s New Clothes.
May 05 10:58
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Time to go take another look at cold fusion?
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May 05 10:46
By: malterwitty
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‘Independent’ reporter Jerome Taylor relives his bloody experience on the trail of voting fraud in east London
May 05 10:44
By: malterwitty
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Police are looking into up to 50 allegations of election "irregularities" amid fears bogus names have been used to apply for postal votes.
May 05 10:42
By: malterwitty
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Children as young as 18 months old have received polling cards for the general election — prompting further fears of voting fraud.
The Standard has learned of dozens of cases of youngsters being registered to vote although they are not 18. Councils have put the incidents down to registration errors.
Voters are not required to prove their identity at polling stations.
May 05 10:33
By: TheParadigmShift
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Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.
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May 05 10:01
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This is being reported in the foreign press. No mention at ABCNNBBCBS!
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May 05 09:54
By: disinter
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Thanks to a friend (who works for the government), who notes that we now know that “an FBI agent provocateur fired the first shots at National Guard soldiers, who then killed four students, according to newly declassified FBI records. Remember, belief in conspiracy theories is always a mark of insanity.”
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May 05 09:51
By: suman
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9/11 FEMA Videographer at Ground Zero (200 Pics)
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May 05 09:44
By: PoliticalTheatrics
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There’s more war in America’s future — a great deal more, judging by the Obama Administration’s reports, pronouncements and actions in recent months.
May 05 09:41
By: Jnoubiyeh
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Major General Alberto Asarta Cuevas of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, said on Wednesday that he has no evidence of any Scud missiles in southern Lebanon, after Israel accused Syria of transferring the missiles to Hezbollah.
May 05 09:39
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The field of psychological warfare has developed dramatically the last few years due to various factors including the development of the media in Israel and worldwide. Terror organizations increasingly photograph and film attacks on IDF forces and publish them on television stations.
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So now, all pro-peace, humanitarian organizations in and around Israel, documenting abuses of Palestinians, are to be considered "terrorists"?!?
May 05 09:39
By: Carl_Herman
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*hyperlinks and videos live at source*
The “emperor has no clothes” fact is that the new face of unlawful global imperialism is the old face of 20th Century imperialists. As critical mass of public recognition builds, this time, the public will reject their loveless and mass-murderous empire-building.
The two paper-thin lies the 21st Century fascists use to promote unlawful war is that Iran threatens to destroy Israel and Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Both are quickly proven as lies.
As documented in the links here (and from other viewpoints here, here, and here), Iran’s President Ahmadinejad never physically threatened Israel and all inspections of Iran’s legal nuclear energy and medicine has verified all nuclear material is accounted for.
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May 05 09:30
By: Jnoubiyeh
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Incredibly, just as the Bush-Cheney administration did in order to launch a war against Iraq in 2003 by (falsely) alleging that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Obama-Biden administration, in 2010, is arguing for unilateral sanctions against Iran and even beating the drums of war against Iran, alleging that its program to enrich uranium and operate nuclear power plants is posing an existential threat to Israel, to Europe and to the United States.
May 05 09:20
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The detainees were from the northern region of Mosul and Nineveh province and were captured between September and December 2009. At that time the Iraqi army was conducting sweeps throughout the area in response to militant Sunni opposition, according the HRW report.
The New York Times states that the arrests were made by the Baghdad Brigade. The security group is controlled by Maliki’s office, bypassing the military and the police, and has been criticized in the past for its unconstitutionality. In turn, the secret prison—a military barracks converted into a detention facility hidden from view by concrete blast walls—was run by the Baghdad Operations Command, one of several regional security commands set up by Maliki that answer directly to him, according to several news sources.
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Welcome to "democracy" in Iraq, 2010!
May 05 09:16
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Ever since the provincial elections in January 2009, Iran has worked steadfastly [PDF] to revive the then-defunct United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), the sectarian Shiite alliance that was created back in 2004 and that largely collapsed in 2007. After Ahmad Chalabi played an initial role in bringing the Sadrists and ISCI back together in the first part of 2009, the final reunification took place Tuesday night in Baghdad when the State of Law list headed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki joined the other Shiites to form a single parliamentary bloc.
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So, please let me take a moment to wrap my head around this; the largest beneficiary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq is….IRAN?!?!?!?!?
May 05 09:11
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Allegations that Britain was complicit in the use of chemical weapons linked to an upsurge in child deformity cases in Iraq, are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.
Lawyers for the Iraqis have sent a letter before action to the MoD asking the Government to disclose what it knows about the Army’s role in the offensive, the presence of prohibited weapons and the legal advice given to Tony Blair, Prime Minister at the time.
Legal actions against America are blocked by US federal immunity laws and the US government’s boycott of the International Criminal Court.
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As reported in 2005 in:
http://www.alternativesmagazine.com/32/bowman.html
"By now most people know that DU has damaged tens of thousands of our own troops and caused soaring cancer rates in target populations, including the people of Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Over 130,000 veterans of the first Gulf War have been declared “unfit for service” because of medical conditions which independent scientists and physicians connect to exposure to depleted uranium.
What is less well known is the staggering rate of birth defects in the children of the veterans of these wars. The British are reporting rates as high as 65%. It seems that breathing in the radioactive dust from exploded DU shells not only causes decapacitating illnesses, but massive genetic damage as well.
The use of DU was started by the first President Bush and continued by Clinton. Both could plead ignorance. But now the data is in. We know better. The continued use of over 2,000 tons of this toxic and highly radioactive substance in the current Iraq War is inexcusable."
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May 05 09:01
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is invoking a state anti-fraud law to demand the University of Virginia turn over years worth of documents related to climate scientist Michael Mann, targeting about $500,000 in grants that funded Mann’s studies.
May 05 08:58
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In this, the ninth year of the thoroughly Edwardian invasion of Afghanistan, more than two-thirds of the home populations of the invaders want their troops to get out of where they have no right to be. This is true of Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada and Germany. What this says is that, behind the media façade of politicised ritual – such as the parade of coffins through Wootton Bassett – millions of people are trusting their own critical and moral intelligence and ignoring propaganda that has militarised contemporary history, journalism and parliamentary politics -
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So, how many more years, here in the US, will it take before this country is going to speak with one voice to stop these wars without end, and demand that Congress stops funding them?
May 05 08:55
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Every day, but especially on days like today, Palestinians and all other peoples that are living under foreign oppression ask when their day will come. ‘El Cinco de Mayo’ is a special day celebrating FREEDOM.
May 05 08:55
By: Jnoubiyeh
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Encouraged by government flaccidity and leniency, Jewish settler terrorists in the West Bank are planning to carry out more arson attacks against Islamic houses of worship for the purpose of forcing millions of Palestinians to flee their homes and land in order to enable Jews to create an ethnically and religiously pure Jewish state in accordance with Talmudic teachings.
May 05 08:51
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The smallest (by far) of the three leaks has been closed off, but that may not really mean anything as the system is under pressure from below, and closing off one hole may just increase pressure and flow at the others.
May 05 08:50
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The Greek financial bail-out comes with an usurious price that will be paid for by ordinary working people, the unemployed, pensioners and the poor. In return for the €110 billion to stave off international investors and creditors, the Greek government knows full well that the quid pro quo is an all-out attack to slash wages, social welfare, pensions and public services.
The new euphemism for this broadside assault on people’s livelihoods is “fiscal consolidation”. And, as one commentator noted grimly in the Financial Times, “the consolidation will have to be coordinated”. In other words, what we are seeing in Greece is but the opening act of a much bigger theatre of class war to be waged on Europe, North America and elsewhere.
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Watch for this to hit the US soon, courtesy of a spending-mad, broke US government.
May 05 08:46
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The first casualty of state terror is the corruption of language, the invention of euphemisms, where words mean their opposite and slogans cover great crimes: There is no longer a world consensus that condemns crimes against humanity. This is because mass murder and assassinations secure investor ‘confidence’, because Indians are dispossessed so the mines can be exploited; oil workers disappear so the petroleum will flow; and the international financial press praises the success of el Presidente for “pacifying the country”.
When narco-presidents are embraced by the leaders of North America and Europe, it is evident that criminals have become respectable the respectable have become criminals.
May 05 08:44
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There is a new technological trend in the United States that promises to use advances in Internet, GPS, and chemical detection technology to manage states’ surging prison and parolee populations. Several states, particularly those with massive budget deficits like California and Michigan, are unable to shoulder the burden of housing more inmates in their dangerously overcrowded prisons.
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We may well see "techno-creep" on the way these devices are used, to the point where innocent citizens, who have done nothing wrong, will be expected to wear these as a condition of employment.
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May 05 08:42
By: Jnoubiyeh
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George Stephanopoulos Interviews Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
May 05 08:38
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New York City police investigating a botched car bombing in Times Square say the bomb contained fertilizer that was incapable of exploding.
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This case just gets weirder and weirder.
May 05 08:37
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In March 2004, when Alan Greenspan was Fed chairman, he suppressed the opinions of those Fed officials who knew that there was a housing bubble.
Congressman Alan Grayson points out that – because the Fed unilaterally decided to hand out half a trillion to foreigners without any Congressional oversight, and that Bernanke testified that he didn’t know who got the loot – the Fed must be subject to an audit.
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Audited, my astrolabe!
The Fed needs to be abolished, period, end of discussion.
May 05 08:36
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The chief suspect in the case of the failed Times Square car bombing is Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, who has confessed to the plot. Much of the media has latched onto Shahzad’s Muslim faith and his Pakistani identity, making inflammatory remarks and suggestions about Muslims and Pakistanis.
Yet one fact being ignored in the American media’s sensationalist narrative about the failed bombing is that the man who was responsible for police finding the bomb was Muslim. The UK’s Times Online reports that Aliou Niasse, a Senagalese Muslim immigrant who works as a photograph vendor on Times Square, was the first to bring the smoking car to the police’s attention:
May 05 08:31
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Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.
May 05 08:29
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The FBI will assist in the investigation of a suspicious envelope addressed to Gov. Jan Brewer that an employee at the Capitol opened Tuesday, sending the Executive Tower into one-hour lockdown after a white powder spilled from the envelope onto a computer.
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