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Evacuations may be ordered for Hurricane Earl

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

 

FEMA: Evacuations may be ordered for Hurricane Earl

Vivian Tyson
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal officials say evacuations may be required in the U.S. if Hurricane Earl tracks too close to the East Coast.
Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate said Tuesday that people along the eastern seaboard should be prepared in case evacuations are necessary later this week.
Officials will be closely monitoring the movement of the Category 4 storm to determine which parts of the coast will face the greatest impact. It’s too early to tell right now what those might be.
Earl is forecast to potentially brush North Carolina late Thursday before running parallel to land up the East Coast on Friday and Saturday.
FEMA already has teams deployed in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and North Carolina. It has advance teams prepared to work with other states up the coast.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) – Islanders wary of a possible blow from powerful Hurricane Earl pulled boats ashore and packed supermarkets on the Turks and Caicos on Tuesday as the Category 4 storm howled over open seas toward the eastern United States.
The hurricane, with winds of 135 mph (215 kilometers), was expected to remain over the open ocean east of this British territory before turning north and running parallel to the U.S. coast, potentially reaching the North Carolina coastal region by Friday. It was projected then to curve back out to sea, perhaps swiping New England or far-eastern Canada.
"There is still considerable uncertainty as to how close the hurricane will come to the U.S. East Coast," the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said in a bulletin Tuesday.
Earl delivered a glancing blow to several small Caribbean islands on Monday, tearing roofs off homes and cutting electricity to people in Anguilla, Antigua, and St. Maarten. Cruise ships were diverted and flights canceled across the region. But there were no reports of death or injury.
In Providenciales, Benson Capron was among several fishermen tying their boats to trees lining a beach.
"I hear it is going to pass, but I will not take any chances," Capron said. "Today I will not go out to fish."
The Hurricane Center said it was too early to say what effect Earl would have in the U.S., but warned it could at least kick up dangerous rip currents. A surfer died in Florida and a Maryland swimmer had been missing since Saturday in waves spawned by former Hurricane Danielle, which weakened to a tropical storm Monday far out in the north Atlantic.
Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Earl’s approach ought to serve as a reminder for Atlantic coastal states to update their evacuation plans.
"It wouldn’t take much to have the storm come ashore somewhere on the coast," Fugate said. "The message is for everyone to pay attention."
The storm’s center passed just north of the British Virgin Islands on Monday afternoon. Despite a few lost fishing boats and several uprooted trees in Tortola and Anegada, there were no reports of major damage or injuries, said Sharleen DaBreo, disaster management agency director.
Early Tuesday, Earl’s center was about 230 miles (370 kilometers) east of Grand Turk island as it headed west-northwest at 13 mph (30 kph), according to the hurricane center. Hurricane strength winds extended up to 70 miles (110 kilometers) from the center, it said.
Tropical storm conditions were expected to spread into the Turks and Caicos by Tuesday afternoon, with a potential for above normal tides and dangerous tides. The territory was under a tropical warning and a tropical storm watch was in effect for the southeastern Bahamas.
Close on Earl’s heels, Tropical Storm Fiona formed Monday afternoon in the open Atlantic. The storm, with maximum winds of 40 mph (65 kph), was projected to pass just north of the Leeward Islands by Wednesday and stay farther out in the Atlantic than Earl’s northward path. Fiona wasn’t expected to reach hurricane strength over the next several days.
The rapid development of Earl, which only became a hurricane Sunday, took some islanders and tourists by surprise.
In Anguilla, several utility poles were down and a couple of roofs had blown away, but it was still too dangerous to go out and assess the full extent of damage, said Martin Gussie, a police officer.
At El Conquistador Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, people lined up at the reception desk, the lights occasionally flickering, to check out and head to the airport. There, more delays awaited.
John and Linda Helton of Boulder, Colo., opted to ride out the storm. The couple, celebrating their 41st wedding anniversary, finished a cruise Sunday and planned to spend three days in Puerto Rico.
"There was a huge line of people checking out as we were coming in, and I thought it was just that summer vacation must be over," said John Helton, a real estate appraiser. "But we paid for the room, so we might as well stick it out."
"I don’t think we could get a flight even if we wanted to leave," Linda Helton added.
In St. Maarten, sand and debris littered the streets, and winds knocked down trees and electricity poles and damaged roofs. But police spokesman Ricardo Henson said there was no extensive damage to property.
In Antigua, at least one home was destroyed but there were no reports of serious injuries. Governor General Dame Louise Agnetha Lake-Tack declared Monday a public holiday to keep islanders off the road and give them a chance to clean up.
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Associated Press writers Ben Fox in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Anika Kentish in St. John’s, Antigua, Judy Fitzpatrick in Philipsburg, St. Maarten, and David McFadden, Mike Melia and Danica Coto in San Juan and contributed to this report

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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

 

Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium

By: kdtroxel
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If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years.

Dr Rubbia says a tonne of the silvery metal – named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor’s day or Thursday – produces as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium, or 3,500,000 tonnes of coal. A mere fistful would light London for a week.

Thorium eats its own hazardous waste. It can even scavenge the plutonium left by uranium reactors, acting as an eco-cleaner. "It’s the Big One," said Kirk Sorensen, a former NASA rocket engineer and now chief nuclear technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering.

"Once you start looking more closely, it blows your mind away. You can run civilisation on thorium for hundreds of thousands of years, and it’s essentially free. You don’t have to deal with uranium cartels," he said.

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Sep 01 10:53

Do You Support the Constitution? YOU’RE A TERRORIST SUSPECT!

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From those same lovable folks who brought you the crimes and abuses of COINTELPRO comes the following brochure, printed at taxpayer expense by the FBI and intended to be issued to law enforcement, requesting that the Joint Terrorism Task Force be called in the event suspicious behavior is witnessed.

And what is "suspicious behavior"? Defending the Constitution!

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Sep 01 10:37

BP Workers Orderded Not To Clean Up Oil; Dispersants Sprayed At Night To Sink Oil Instead

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BP Vessel of Opportunity Workers Allege that Oil Is Not Being Cleaned Up During the Day … Instead, Corexit Is Being Sprayed at Night

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Sep 01 10:37

Uncovering Lies About Disappearing Oil And Toxic Dispersants Found In BP Gulf Oil Spill Waters Opened For Fishing

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The rampant use of toxic dispersants, out-of-state private contractors being brought in to spray them and US Coast Guard complicity are common stories now in the four states most affected by BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

While the government denies these reports and even denies using military aircraft to spray dispersants altogether there is plenty of evidence proving they are lying.

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Sep 01 10:35

Three great waves … IRS

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This will really make your blood boil – *at least it ought to*!!!

*In just **four months**, on January 1, 2011, the largest tax hikes
in the history of America will take effect. *

They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves. *

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Sep 01 10:35

A.C. Thompson Discusses Disorder in New Orleans(Martial Law?)

By: Alex2245
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Last week, the ongoing, joint investigation by ProPublica, Frontline and the New Orleans Times-Picayune revealed that after Hurricane Katrina an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot looters [1]. The following day, we reported that federal agents had begun an inquiry [2] into the allegations.

To date, sixteen current and former New Orleans police officers have been charged with crimes related to post-Katrina shootings. And there are nine separate civil rights investigations of the department underway.

Sep 01 10:30

American Government’s Response to Conspiracy Theories

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"You’re all sick. Really SICK! You oughta be locked up already!" — Official White Horse Souse

Sep 01 10:15

33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know…

By: kdtroxel
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Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy. However, it has come almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning. To conspire means "to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end. "The term "conspiracy theory" is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at stealing power, money, or freedom, from "the people".

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Sep 01 10:13

Marc Faber on the state of silver, gold, and commodities

By: denmason
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Sep 01 09:54

TROLLING FOR JEWS ON THE NET

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I have always maintained that a day without hate mail is a day we didn’t do something right. Better yet is when we find a blog posting about us… as I did last night. I noticed quite a few visitors to my Blog via THIS vile site.

It made me feel like the cream cheese on a toasted bagel, being a part of such a vicious smear campaign…

Webmaster’s Commentary:

As for Adam at subvertednation, I think he is just as manufactured as Adam Gadahn and Youssef Al Khattab. Subvertednation.net is registered through domains by proxy, a known cutout for intelligence operations, and is only slightly more than a year old. His site may well be used to justify draconian “hate” controls to protect Israel on the net.

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Sep 01 09:52

10 CANDIDATES FILE LAWSUIT OVER MASSIVE ELECTION IRREGULARITIES IN SHELBY COUNTY

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Before we retro-actively justify the war in Iraq on the basis of bringing them democracy, we ought to make sure it works here!

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Sep 01 09:50

IRAQ’S WMDS – THE LIE OF THE CENTURY

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Another piece of evidence consists of documents which President Bush referenced as in his 2003 State of the Union Speech. According to Bush, these documents proved that Iraq was buying tons of uranium oxide, called "Yellow Cake" from Niger.

Since Israel had bombed Iraq’s nuclear power plant years before, it was claimed that the only reason Saddam would have for buying uranium oxide was to build bombs.

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Contrary to the blaring of ABCNNBBCBS, we were not sold this war to bring Democracy to Iraq.

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Sep 01 09:48

The Iraq Debacle: The Legacy of Seven Years of War

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The U.S. occupation of Iraq continues and the reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq can at best be called only a rebranded occupation. While the number of U.S. troops in Iraq will be reduced from a high of 165,000, there will still be 50,000 troops left behind, some 75,000 contractors, five huge "enduring bases" and an Embassy the size of Vatican City.

Sep 01 09:47

Hot it was not… farewell to coldest August for 17 years

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The UK has just endured its coldest August for 17 years, which was marked, say forecasters, by a complete absence of ‘hot days’.

The month also saw the lowest single-day August temperature for 23 years, with it falling to 55f (12.8c) in Edgbaston, Birmingham, last Thursday.

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Where I live in Hawaii, the car thermometer only got into the 90s one day in August. Rest of the time it was mid-80s. As a side note I was at the used DVD store yesterday and there is literally a whole pile of Al Gore’s "Inconvenient Truth" collecting dust on the shelves.

Sep 01 09:38

REALITY REPORT #59 – DOJ Defines Constitutionalists as Terrorists

By: kdtroxel
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In this edition of the Reality Report, Gary exposes the propaganda campaign initiated by one Missouri High School and asks you to take action. Nina breaks down this week’s headlines including how preschool students in one California County are now being tracked by RFID and who mainstream media employees give their donations too. She also discloses who the Department of Justice defines as extremists by reviewing their new leaked document. Is your group mentioned? Two very special guests join Gary this week including Richard Gage, the founder of Architects and engineers for 9/11 truth who discusses his 9/11 investigation, and the co-founder of the Constitutional Alliance, Mark Lerner who comes to talk about his new book, "Your Body is Your ID."

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Sep 01 09:35

Hate Moves Upstate: Mosque Near Rochester Targeted by Bigots

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"Hate the Muslims!"

"Hate the Muslims!"

"Hate the Muslims!"

We are losing what it means to be America.

"Hate the Muslims!"

"Hate the Muslims!"

"Hate the Muslims!"

We are being turned into Israel!

"Hate the Muslims!"

"Hate the Muslims!"

"Hate the Muslims!"

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Sep 01 09:34

Navy Survivor of Israeli Attack on USS Liberty: Punished, Silenced

By: Saladin
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Ernest A. Gallo, former CTM2, Palm Coast, FL

I am a loyal American and a survivor of the June 8, 1967 deliberate and vicious Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, the most decorated Navy ship since WWII. The Presidential Unit Citation and 246 metals were awarded to include the skipper who received the Medal of Honor. Unbelievably, the Israeli and U.S. government lied indicating that the attack was an accident. Some senior U.S. government officials and the Liberty crew know differently.

Sep 01 09:24

Obama Calls on The UN to Govern Arizona

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The words, that are below, are found in
The Declaration of Independence of July 4,1776:

“He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:”

Sep 01 09:19

Oregon’s Tax On The Rich Came In Short, While Unions Just Got A Pay Raise

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Oregon’s Tax On The Rich Came In Short, While Unions Just Got A Pay Raise

Sep 01 09:11

Economy changing the face of homelessness in US

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Sep 01 09:10

Defenseless: New Orleans ‘Gun Grab’ & Violation of Rights

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Residents in the U.S. state of Lousiana are fighting for their right to defend themselves. Police confiscated their guns after hurricane Katrina struck five years ago. It was an attempt to keep order amid the looting and violence which followed. But as Priya Sridhar has been finding out, many in the state are still angry over what THEY believe was a violation of the constitution.

Sep 01 09:08

Military officers cancel trip after humiliation at US airport

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A Pakistani military delegation became the latest victim of the paranoia permeating US airports on Monday night, when US security officials detained a brigadier at Washington’s Dulles airport on a complaint by a passenger who said he did not feel safe sharing the flight with the delegation.

Sep 01 09:07

Israeli settlers to resume building on West Bank after Hebron killings

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West Bank settlers to defy freeze on construction, putting further strain on contentious issue in this week’s peace talks

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How wonderfully lucky for the land-thieves that those four got shot by HAMAS (nudge nudge wink wink) just when most convenient!!!!

Sep 01 09:02

America’s Healthcare Insanity

By: Saladin
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Bravo Democrats . . . you took your one chance to finally fix the nation’s healthcare system, and forced every citizen to become a paying customer of the insurance agencies you’ve been vilifying throughout this charade.

This "overhaul" ended up being one more way to track and control the public, which makes me think this was probably the goal all along.

Sep 01 09:00

Problem bank list climbs to 829

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The government’s list of troubled banks hit its highest level since 1993 during the second quarter, although the pace of growth continued to slow, according to a government report released Tuesday.

Sep 01 08:59

Combat troops on Iraq pullout: ‘I’m going home’

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In a single burst of jubilance, one soldier shouted out the back of his Stryker vehicle, “We won, we’re going home! We won! Its over! America, we brought democracy to Iraq!”

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Does anyone recall that we were sold this war to get Saddam’s "Nookular" bombs? (He didn’t have any) Does anyone recall that we were sold this war to avenge 9-11? (Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11). Does anyone recall that we were sold this war to stop Iraq from supporting Al Qaeda? (They weren’t). And before we start exporting Democracy to other nations, maybe we need to get it working smoothly here in the US. In any event, Americans kids are still dying in Iraq, officially of "indirect" fire, but they are still dying in Iraq. Not since the the USSR has a government lied so openly and blatantly to its own people.

Sep 01 08:48

Benjamin Netanyahu: Shooting Means "No Compromise" In Talks

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Which is exactly why Israel staged the shooting! By way of deception…

Sep 01 08:47

Half of Your Taxes Will Go for Interest Under Obama

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Congressional Budget Office forecasts of government deficits and debt are supposed to be authoritative. But Congress forces the CBO to make unrealistic assumptions when issuing those estimates.

The latest assumptions include that the alternative minimum tax will not be adjusted annually for inflation and that discretionary spending unrelated to war will increase no faster than inflation.

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"Oooooh, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money!!!" — Federal Reserve

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Sep 01 08:43

EXCLUSIVE: New Video of World Trade Center 7 Released Showing Michael Hess Calling Down For Help While He is Stuck in the Building

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Take a look for yourself. Michael Hess, clearly visible, is stuck in the building. This corroborates the story they told that on the way down trying to evacuate the building, an explosion occurred inside of the building which trapped them. The stairway, where the explosion occurred, blew out the last floors in the stairwell. Barry Jennings gave an exclusive interview with Loose Change creator Dylan Avery where Barry stated that when he was finally found by firefighters, they stepped over dead bodies in the lobby on their way out. After the video publicly aired, Barry Jennings mysteriously died just before the BBC aired a piece about World Trade Center Building 7.

Sep 01 08:40

Final Vote Set on Silverstein’s Towers at Ground Zero

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expected to convene Thursday to formally ratify a plan that would allow the developer Larry A. Silverstein to build two office towers at ground zero with up to $1.6 billion in public financing and subsidies, according to Port Authority and real estate executives.

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(Reader comment) While there is too much noise has been made over the Islamic Center in NY,nothing has been said about the real Ground Zero,where Silversein is ready to put his new buildings right where these noise makers called a ‘ ‘ hallowed place ‘.

Silverstein collected his insurance money on the buildings,after a short time lease before 9/11, but again no coverage of him trying to use over a billion dollar of State’s public funds to rebuild his towers.

Now where is Silverstein sensitivity to victims of 9/11..?

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Sep 01 08:35

Slashing jobs pays off … if you’re sitting in the executive suite.

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A new report may add salt to the wounds of America’s jobless. It seems many of their former bosses are profiting at their losses.

According to the report "CEO Pay and the Great Recession," chief executive officers of the 50 firms that laid off the most workers since the start of the economic crisis earned nearly $12 million on average in 2009. That’s 42 percent more than the average pay of CEOs at S&P 500 firms as a whole.

Sep 01 08:35

A trillion-dollar catastrophe. Yes, Iraq was a headline war

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today the Iraq war was declared over by Barack Obama. As his troops return home, Iraqis are marginally freer than in 2003, and considerably less secure. Two million remain abroad as refugees from seven years of anarchy, with another 2 million internally displaced. Ironically, almost all Iraqi Christians have had to flee. Under western rule, production of oil – Iraq’s staple product – is still below its pre-invasion level, and homes enjoy fewer hours of electricity. This is dreadful.

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"The Iraq war is over, and this time, I really, really, REALLY, mean it!!!" — Official White Horse Souse

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Sep 01 08:32

NEW INTERNET LAW FOR 2010!

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Just wanted to let you know that the New Homeland Security Bill has passed. Things will be different now and Internet surfing as you know it will be tracked by what the FBI calls a ‘non-intrusive method.’ The FBI says you will hardly notice anything different.

Sep 01 08:32

Problem bank list climbs to 829

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The government’s list of troubled banks hit its highest level since 1993 during the second quarter, although the pace of growth continued to slow, according to a government report released Tuesday.

The number of banks at risk of failing rose by 53 to 829, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said in its quarterly survey of the nation’s banking system. That increase marks the smallest rise since the first quarter of 2009.

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Any slight hiccup in this economy could have a domino effect on these at-risk banks.

Sep 01 08:28

Fed lets China firm buy Morgan Stanley shares

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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday approved a proposal by Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. to buy up to 10 percent of the voting shares of Morgan Stanley.

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Chinese business professionals are masters at horizontal integration into other countries’ financial markets.

This is very significant, but why does the Fed – a private bank no more "Federal than "Federal Express" – have to approve such a deal?!?

Sep 01 08:22

ISRAELI CONTROL OF AMERICA: A VETERANS TODAY READER COMMENTS

By: Saladin
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Some say Obama is Muslim, but why would a Muslim surround himself with so many Jewish Czars? We now have more czars than imperial Russia. Let’s consider Obama’s czars: Economic Czars – Larry Summers & Paul Volker, Regulatory Czar – Cass Sunstein, Pay Czar – Kenneth Feinberg, Military Jails Czar – Daniel Fried, Car Czars – Steven Rattner and Ron Bloom, Border Czar – Alan Bersin, Health Rationing Czar – Dr.

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Sep 01 08:22

Barack or Bust! Perry Shuns White House Offer

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After not snaring time with the president, Gov. Rick Perry has turned down an offer to meet with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and a top adviser to President Barack Obama on border issues.

Perry was one of the first people the president saw when he stepped from Air Force One during an Austin visit on Aug. 9. On that occasion, Perry hand-delivered a letter to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, warning about the "dire threat" from drug violence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Perry didn’t want the "consolation prize" of face time with Napolitano, and I frankly don’t blame him.

She remains consistently clueless about how drug violence is negatively impacting ordinary citizens living in the border states, and the alleged "unprecedented resources" the Obama administration has provided has not at all provided any significant respite from the problem.

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Sep 01 08:15

Obama Tiptoes Into The Israel-Palestine Crisis

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As direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leadership commence, the Obama administration finds itself in perhaps the most delicate diplomatic position it has yet assumed on the international stage.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas set to participate in bilateral meetings at the White House on Wednesday. In advance of those talks, Obama has taken on a posture that experts say could result in anything from (not wholly unexpected) failure to the most fruitful set of such discussions to date.

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These talks are, ultimately, doomed to failure for several huge reasons, and chief among them are:

1. Hamas is not represented at all, and this is a huge stumbling block to peace.

2. Israel is not really interested in peace; it is only interested in acquiring territory, by any means necessary.

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Sep 01 08:12

Dow Surges Over 2% After Manufacturing Gains

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Those gains were extended after data showed U.S. factory activity appeared to expand further in August, even in the wake of a labor market report showing the first private payroll decline since January.

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So even though people don’t have money to buy things, the DOW goes up because the factories are busy, even though there are fewer workers. So unless we have automated factories making bombs and bullets, this story doesn’t make much sense at all.

Sep 01 08:09

Midwest survey suggests major recession fears

By: ActivistPost
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OMAHA, Neb. — More than a third of supply managers in nine Midwest and Plains states surveyed for a regional business index expect a recession in 2011.

As part of the Mid-America report released Wednesday, supply managers were asked their expectations for 2011, and 35 percent said a recession was likely or very likely.

Sep 01 08:08

Citigroup to Hire Up to 7, 500 In China: Report

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Citigroup Inc plans to almost triple its workforce in China by hiring up to 7,500 people in the next three years, an executive told Bloomberg in an interview published on Tuesday.

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Meanwhile, Citigroup has been cutting staff here in the US, despite a taxpayer bailout, and shifted 50,000 IT jobs to India; a most telling sign of the economic realities!

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Sep 01 08:07

US does not see Hamas joining peace talks yet

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US negotiators do not believe Palestinian militants Hamas will join direct Middle East peace talks set to resume this week, US envoy George Mitchell said Tuesday.

"We do not expect Hamas to play a role in this immediate process," Mitchell told journalists Tuesday amid a flurry of diplomatic activity in Washington to breathe fresh impetus into the negotiations after a 20-month hiatus.

But he added the United States would "welcome the full participation by Hamas and all relevant parties once they comply with the basic requirements of democracy and non-violence that are, of course, a prerequisite to engage in these serious types of discussions."

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Translation: Israel is hell-bent for these talks with Abbas to fail, and therefore will not allow Hamas any representation here.

And about that statement "…the United States would "welcome the full participation by Hamas and all relevant parties once they comply with the basic requirements of democracy and non-violence that are, of course, a prerequisite to engage in these serious types of discussions"; the election which put Hamas in control was characterized as "free and fair"by former US President Jimmy Carter. It was just not the political faction that Israel wanted to see in control.

And as to complying "…with the basic requirements of democracy and non-violence,,,": when has Israel ever truly complied with those values toward the Palestinians?!?

Sep 01 08:00

Tax Cuts Weighed to Spur Economy

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The Obama administration is considering a range of new measures to boost economic growth, including tax cuts and a new nationwide infrastructure program, according to people familiar with the discussions.

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Unfortunately, none of these suggestions ever mentions ending these immoral and illegal wars in which the US is still enmeshed, with no real exit strategy from either.

And although yesterday Obama made the statement that "combat operations" in Iraq have ceased, we still have 50,000 troops there, with more coming, and a virtual army of private mercenary and support contractors on their way.

Sep 01 07:57

From Shas to Hamas – The South Park Hate Preacher Group

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This video underscores the reality that all the "Muslims" creating bad press to sell Americans on the virtues of Islamophobia are all Jewish fakers!

Sep 01 07:50

Not Guilty. The Israeli Captain who Emptied his Rifle into a Palestinian Schoolgirl

By: Elias
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Abdul Hamid Abdul Latif Sa’id Abu Haniyeh was beaten up severely before being hit hard by a large jolt of electricity.

Sep 01 07:45

Excuse to Expand the War?: US adds Pakistani Taliban to terrorism blacklist

By: ActivistPost
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday added the Pakistani Taliban to its international terrorism blacklist, targeting the group blamed for the failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square and its leaders with financial and travel sanctions.

Sep 01 06:57

Can Legalizing Marijuana Save California, Our Republic?

By: ActivistPost
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Eric Blair
Activist Post

America, and especially California, are in dire economic straits. Their day of fiscal reckoning is coming and it’s not going to be pretty. Consequently, it is has been suggested that something dramatic will have to happen for Congress to pass any form of relief because the American public was bitterly against the TARP and the Stimulus bill. I’m not advocating another massive bailout for the states, but it seems that if something meaningful is not done soon to restore economic viability to the United States, it will shatter into a million pieces.

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Sep 01 06:43

Is The Fed Bad for U.S. Economy? – Judge Napolitano VS Gasparino(defends fed)

By: portos
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Sep 01 06:42

Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

By: portos
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In times of crisis people seek strong leaders and simple solutions. But what if their solutions are identical to the mistakes that caused the very crisis? This is the story of the greatest economic crisis of our age, the one that awaits us.

Sep 01 06:42

2010-2012 deepening Banking Crisis – second wave of $1.5 trillion home loan defaults

By: portos
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Sep 01 06:34

15 Economic Statistics That Just Keep Getting Worse

By: poorrichard
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It is the private sector that actually creates wealth. But unfortunately, over the last several decades we have allowed that wealth to become highly concentrated. Now the giant global predator corporations have decided that American workers aren’t really that desirable after all. They are slowly taking away their factories and their offices and they are moving them to where people are willing to work for one-tenth the pay.

So where does that leave middle class American "consumers"?

Well, it leaves us in a world of hurt.

The following are 15 key economic statistics that just keep getting worse and which reveal the horrific economic plight in which we now find ourselves….

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Sep 01 06:16

With Neighbors Unaware, Toxic Spill at a BP Plant

By: suman
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While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery here released huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the air that went unnoticed by residents until many saw their children come down with respiratory problems.

For 40 days after a piece of equipment critical to the refinery’s operation broke down, a total of 538,000 pounds of toxic chemicals, including the carcinogen benzene, poured out of the refinery.

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Sep 01 06:12

Death By Globalism Economists haven’t a clue

By: poorrichard
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Then what finances the deficit? Don’t look for an answer from either side of The Great Stimulus Debate. They haven’t a clue despite the fact that the answer is obvious.

The Federal Reserve will monetize the federal government deficit. The result will be high inflation, possibly hyper-inflation and high unemployment simultaneously.

The no-think economics establishment has no policy response for economic armageddon, assuming they are even capable of recognizing it.

Economists who have spent their professional lives rationalizing “globalism” as good for America have no idea of the disaster that they have wrought.

Sep 01 06:05

JUSTIFICATION FOR KILLING NON JEWS

By: poorrichard
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“There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults.”

Sep 01 05:25

Ex-FBI Agent Don Adams Reveals Evidence of Multiple Shooters in JFK Assassination

By: 911insidejob
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Alex welcomes to the show Don Adams, the former FBI agent who has presented compelling evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate president John F. Kennedy.

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Sep 01 05:21

Not Guilty. The Israeli Captain who Emptied his Rifle into a Palestinian Schoolgirl

By: Elias
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Palestinian witnesses said they saw the captain shoot Iman twice in the head, walk away, turn back and fire a stream of bullets into her body. On the tape, Capt R then “clarifies” to the soldiers under his command why he killed Iman: “This is commander. Anything that’s mobile, that moves in the [security] zone, even if it’s a three-year-old, needs to be killed.”

Sep 01 04:44

9-11: The "Pod People" And The Plane That Crashed Into the Pentagon

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But if you think about it, common sense tells you their claims are just plain silly. After all, if the passenger jet didn’t hit the Pentagon, then where did it go? And since the people behind 9-11 had to get rid of the passenger jet and its contents anyway, there was no reason for them NOT to ram it into the Pentagon. Why risk a swap? Why complicate matters even further?

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Sep 01 04:23

Sami Moubayed: Abu Mazen’s Mission Impossible

By: Elias
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Uri Avnery, an Israeli peace activist and Arafat friend, once wrote: "If you are a Palestinian in Jenin [in the West Bank] with a rifle, and you hear their names [Abbas and his team], your reaction is: ‘Who are these guys anyway? Who are they to tell me what to do?’ Their authority will be superficial."

Sep 01 03:56

A moment of reckoning but for whom? America or Zionism?

By: My Catbird Seat
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By Alan Hart — My Catbird Seat

I never thought a day could come when I would agree with anything stated by Moshe Arens (three times an Israeli minister of defense, a one-time foreign minister, a former ambassador to the U.S. and, in my opinion, Zionism’s in-Israel equivalent of Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle in America). But the day came.

On 31 August, in article for Ha’aretz with the headline Blame game on the horizon. Arens wrote the following about the nakedness of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as he was making his final preparations for the start of direct negotiations in Washington DC.

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Sep 01 03:27

Control Of Food Supply To Be Handed Over To Department Of Homeland Security

By: poorrichard
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The bill opens opens the door to even more federal control over the everyday lives of American citizens. Since they are already engaging in organic raw milk raids without the increased powers of S. 510, the question is going to be how many more guns-drawn raids are we to expect after the bill becomes law? It gets worse. Not only does the bill grant the FDA more power, Michael R. Taylor was named deputy commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2010. Michael R. Taylor also worked for Monsanto, was a lobbyist for them, according to Wikipedia. And all of this activity is happening at a time when a flourishing self-sufficiency movement is taking hold in this country, at a time when demand for fresh, local, and organic food is at an all time high.

August 31, 2010

Aug 31 22:30

Full-Body Scanners Installed at Lindbergh Field

By: Alex2245
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Workers at Lindbergh Field have begun installing the full-body scanners inside Terminal One.

The scanners, which are being placed in 11 airports across the country by the end of the year, are funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Transportation officials will be demonstrating the technology in San Diego on Tuesday….

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Aug 31 21:29

JAMES PETRAS — The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America

By: My Catbird Seat
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Any serious effort to understand the extraordinary influence of the Zionist power configuration over US foreign policy must examine the presence of key operatives in strategic positions in the government andlocal Zionist organizations affiliated with mainstream Jewish organizations and religious orders.

There are at least 52 major American Jewish organizations actively engaged in promoting Israel’s foreign policy, economic and technological agenda in the US (see the appendix).

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Aug 31 17:49

VIEW VIDEO: How to foster Islamophobia in America

By: My Catbird Seat
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A YouTube video of Maidhc Ó Cathail’s article on the “radical Muslims” behind the South Park controversy shows just how easy it is to foster Islamophobia in America…

Like the contrived Danish cartoon controversy, the much-hyped Times Square car bomb incident provided an ideal opportunity for those who seek to make Islam look bad in the eyes of the world.

Before the arrest of Faisal “The Fizzler”…

Go here to view and read the the full article:

http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/09/view-video-how-to-foster-islamophobia…

Aug 31 17:30

Report: “Miles of dead fish in lower Plaquemines” in Louisiana — “Many types” floating at Garden Island

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Aug 31 17:29

MURDER IS NOT RESISTANCE

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you can read a bit about Sami Abu Zuhri… to me he sounds either like a PA or an Israeli ‘plant’ in Hamas…. possibly on both payrolls…. but definitely NOT working in the interests of Hamas or Palestine…. just my two cents.

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Use your common sense, people; why would HAMAS commit such an outrageous act, just when world sympathy is starting to turn towards Palestine?

Who benefits?

Isn’t it more like that this is just another Israeli "by way of deception" stunt to trick the world back into hating who Israel wants us all to hate?

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Aug 31 17:15

Instructions for installing WRH iPhone app (beta 0.3)!

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Aug 31 16:43

Gallup: GOP Has Largest Poll Lead Ever

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Aug 31 16:43

Four Israelis shot dead in West Bank

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A spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Use your common sense, people; why would HAMAS commit such an outrageous act, just when world sympathy is starting to turn towards Palestine?

Who benefits?

Isn’t it more like that this is just another Israeli "by way of deception" stunt to trick the world back into hating who Israel wants us all to hate?

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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

 

Aug 23 14:41

US Drone Strike Destroys House Full of Children in Pakistan

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The Obama Administration’s policy of escalating drone strikes took another hit today, after the explosion from a drone attack against the house of “suspected militants” in North Waziristan also destroyed a neighboring house full of women and children.

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Winning the hearts and minds.

Aug 23 14:40

Ankara tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions on Iran

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Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic’s contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons.

Aug 23 14:40

Countdown to Zero – or to War on Iran?

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A country like Iran, which has been placed on the executioner’s list known as the “axis of evil,” may have only one option if it is to survive: get a nuclear deterrent (and notice Mearsheimer’s carefully chosen word is “deterrent”). The nukes need never be used, but they must be in one’s hand to keep one’s neck out of the Empire’s noose. Given the fate of bloodied, ravaged, and occupied Iraq, which did not get a nuke, and North Korea which did, the lesson is clear.

Aug 23 14:39

Dispersants Cause Gulf Fish to Absorb More Toxins and then Make It Harder for the Fish to Get Rid of the the Pollutants Once Exposed

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Louisiana State University fish toxicologist Kevin Kleinow has found that the dispersants used in the Gulf increase the amount of toxins the fish absorb and then, once exposed, makes it harder for the fish to get rid of the toxins through normal biological processes.

Aug 23 14:36

And Now We’re Headed For The GREATEST Depression, Says Gerald Celente

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The fake "recovery" was nice while it lasted, says famous apocalyptic forecaster Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute. But now the fun’s over, and we’re headed for what Celente describes as the "Greatest Depression."

Specifically, the always startling Celente says the country is headed for rising unemployment, poverty, and violent class warfare as the government efforts to keep the economy going begin to fail.

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Aug 23 14:35

The troop levels haven’t changed. The troop labels have changed.

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Aug 23 14:30

Money as debt

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Aug 23 13:07

The Afghanistan War was Planned Months Before the 9/11 Attacks

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Aug 23 11:31

Iowa Day of Action!! August 19 2010, part 1

By: kdtroxel
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Democracy in action today in my hometown of Des Moines! Members of Iowa C.C.I. (Citizens for Community Improvement) Demanding Pat Boddy, interim director of the DNR (Dept. of Natural Resources), enforce stricter restrictions on the spreading of liquid manure on frozen fields. Massive loop holes exist in current law making it still legal to use this practice. Iowa’s water ways are some of the worst in the nation because of it. Part three shows the delivery of the petition to Ms. Boddy.

part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZ-DajN7ac

part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL-GUMd-dqo

part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc33LubkT0Q

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Aug 23 11:10

US Said Preparing New Laws To Seize Americans Retirement Accounts

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Next They Steal Your Private Retirement Benefits – Just as with the Obama Administration plans eventual nationalization of healthcare, the tremendous amount of funds in private retirement plans and IRA accounts are also being targeted to meet future revenue needs. Bills have just been introduced in both the House and Senate to create the new Auto IRA accounts which will at first be voluntary but later will become mandatory like Social Security and I expect the early 3% employee after tax contribution levels to eventually rise to 10 to 15% of compensation rising even more than Social Security has increased over the years. Read this August 17th article in Investment News at for more information.

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Aug 23 10:53

Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil, Dispersants

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The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of its fishing areas. The problem is that commercial shrimpers refuse to trawl because they fear the toxicity of the waters and marine life due to the BP oil disaster.

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Aug 23 10:41

Thousands strain Fort Hood’s mental health system

By: kdtroxel
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About every fourth soldier here, where 48,000 troops and their families are based, has been in counseling during the past year, according to the service’s medical statistics. And the number of soldiers seeking help for combat stress, substance abuse, broken marriages or other emotional problems keeps increasing.

A common refrain by the Army’s vice chief of staff, Gen. Peter Chiarelli, is that far more soldiers suffer mental health issues than the Army anticipated. Nowhere is this more evident than at Fort Hood, where emotional problems among the soldiers threaten to overwhelm the system in place to help them.

Counselors are booked. The 12-bed inpatient psychiatric ward is full more often than not. Overflow patient-soldiers are sent to private local clinics that stay open for 10 hours a day, six days a week to meet the demand.

"We are full to the brim," says Col. Steve Braverman, commander of the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center on the post.

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Aug 23 10:34

Benjamin Netanyahu rejects demands to continue settlement freeze

By: kdtroxel
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, threw hopes for a smooth resumption of Middle East peace talks into turmoil by rejecting demands to continue a freeze on settlement building in the West Bank.

Mr Netanyahu said any deal must provide real security for Israel, provide a solution to the refugee problem within a future demilitarised Palestinian state, and must include Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and an ‘end of conflict’ clause.

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Let me get this straight, Netenyahu wants Palestinians’ to recognize the state of Israel’s ownership of stolen lands and not to retaliate when they kill or blow-up Palestinian homes and other public buildings. Recall that Israel has never defined its boarders, which allows them to annex adjacent lands. Coupled with the blockade around the remaining Palestinian territory that is slowly starving them to death. This kind of gall can only be encouraged with American tax dollars; lets change that and defund Israel. American tax money should benefit Americans – first, second, and third. – kdtroxel

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Aug 23 10:15

POVERTY CAUSING 5 SUICIDES A WEEK IN JUST ONE TOWN.

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Hansen also said there are 50 delivered eviction notices in Pahrump each day.

“Yes, we need jobs here. However, we are averaging five suicides a week. I don’t care about corporations — I care about the people we save.”

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Aug 23 10:04

A ‘habitual offender’ unleashes nearly half a billion salmonella-tainted eggs

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration last month fined Mr. DeCoster $3.6 million for violations in the workplace and at workers’ housing. Federal investigators said they found workers, many of whom are immigrants from Latin America, handling manure and dead chickens with their bare hands, and living amid rats and cockroaches in the company’s trailer park.

Robert B. Reich, the then-Labor Secretary, denounced DeCoster Egg Farms as "an agricultural sweatshop,” where "the workers are treated like animals," the Times reported.

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Where were the FDA and USDA? Were they jerking off to internet porn on their taxpayer-funded computers, the way the SEC did while Bernie Madoff-with-the-loot screwed his investors for $65 billion, and like the MMS did while British Petroleum engaged in reckless drilling practices that unleashed the world’s worst environmental disaster?

Has the entire Federal Government ceased to be of any benefit at all to the people of the United States?

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Aug 23 09:39

Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers

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Aug 23 09:29

HATE MAKES HEADLINES IN NEW YORK

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The campaign of slander against the “Ground Zero Mosque” was first mainstreamed in the Murdoch-owned New York Post and has been trumpeted relentlessly by Fox News, as well as by Neocon operatives like Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney.

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Anyone opposed to the NY Mosque can no longer claim "They hate us for our freedoms."

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Aug 23 09:27

Four Reasons Why Americans Should Oppose Zionism

By: Jnoubiyeh
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Americans now have all the evidence they need for a reasonable and morally-sound conclusion, that Zionism produces a cruelty and truculence that they bankroll with their taxes and legitimize with either silence or consent. As a result, I am not arguing that Americans should reassess their level of support for Israel. I am arguing that Americans should oppose Zionism altogether. Perhaps in this way we might begin the long and difficult process of redeeming our own nation of its imperial sins.

Aug 23 09:22

Video: Man Mistaken for Muslim Harassed at NY Anti-Mosque Rally

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Aug 23 09:17

Canadian Boat to Gaza to break siege, overcome "aid traps"

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In partnership with the Free Gaza Movement (the group behind numerous boats to the Gaza Strip), the Canadian Boat to Gaza initiative, headed in part by Canadian activist Sandra Ruch, seeks to also take goods out of Gaza. In this way, the Canadian activists hope to assist Palestinians in Gaza by helping them, as declared in their mission statement, "assert their right to export, trade and provide for themselves rather than be at the mercy of international aid." It is often forgotten that the siege of Gaza, intensified after the Hamas elections victory in 2006, prohibits all exporting from the Strip. This is the other half of the siege, which helps to corrode the economic independence of the Palestinian people.

Aug 23 09:10

A Vision For State-Owned Banking in Wisconsin

By: ActivistPost
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David Redick
Activist Post

State-owned banks are finally being seen as a step in the right direction away from dependency on, and control by, the Federal government and its cohort, the private Federal Reserve. State-banking initiatives have now been undertaken in 14 states, with Wisconsin being a recent addition.

The long-term goal of state-run banks is to end inflation, and reduce wars and business cycles by abolishing the Federal Reserve (and its unlimited supply of fake money), while allowing private mints to issue real gold currency, and "representative" paper certificates and token coins, redeemable for gold to bearer on demand, for convenience. The short-term goal is to keep the profits and lending in the state to enhance local economic development.

Aug 23 08:56

Fox News co-owner funded ‘Ground Zero mosque’ imam: report

By: Saladin
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The second largest shareholder in News Corp. — the parent company of Fox News — has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes linked to the imam planning to build a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, says a report from Yahoo!News.

Aug 23 08:54

Autumn in New York

By: SamuelB
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To retire, your savings must grow, and the traditional way of doing this was by compound interest. But when the New Deal abolished the gold standard, it started to print paper money at a rate just about equal to the rate of interest. This, of course, means that you have been getting 0 real interest rate for the past 77 years. But at 0% interest money cannot grow, and this means that you cannot accumulate money for retirement.

Americans have responded by trying to make money for retirement by speculating in stocks. This is like making up for a cut in pay by beating your buddies in the Saturday night poker game. Speculating is a zero-sum game. Some may win, but an equal amount must be lost.

Aug 23 08:48

GORDON DUFF: 9/11 PLANNERS CONFESS ON NETWORK TELEVISION

By: My Catbird Seat
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FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO STILL DON’T GET IT

How can a nation like the United States be duped into two wars and total bankruptcy? It would be one thing if the “truth” about 9/11 was internet conspiracy theory. This isn’t the case. It was all right there in everyone’s living room. They fooled us once and then fooled us again and again. Yes, America has some tail to kick but this time, maybe we should make sure our boot goes up the right rear end for a change.

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Aug 23 08:33

Watch Former Fed Governor Fred "Napoleon Dynamite" Mishkin In Dire Need Of A Diaper Change

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Yet continuing with the Duderino references, today, new shit has come to light, which once again confirms that not only is the Fed populated by the most intellectually incapable and corrupt people, but that anything coming out of Columbia University (and the Ivy League in general) is not worth the paper it is printed on. Watch the attached clip to see a former Fed director go from comfortable, to fidgety, to stuttering, to thoroughly discredited, to in dire need of diaper change, in under 2 minutes.

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Aug 23 08:31

Billion dollar loans for climate change ‘unjust’

By: SamuelB
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“We are victimized by these loans twice or thrice over, eh. Parang sinunogan na tayo ng bahay, at pagkatapos, yung nagsunog ng ating bahay magpapa-utang sa atin ng pera para ibili natin ng bigas at damit” (It’s like our houses were burned. Then those who burned our house will lend us money to buy rice and clothes), Constantino said.

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Aug 23 08:30

Support builds for boycotts against Israel, activists say

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Aug 23 08:30

It’s Official: NOAA Finds That Russian Heat Wave Was 100% Natural – CO2 Warming Not Even A Factor

By: Saladin
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Of course, an actual scientific finding like this crushes the hopes of liberal-left politicians, celebrities and the MSM reporters/pundits everywhere. They are so enamored with the global-warming meme, they literally blame any (every?) earthly condition on it.

Aug 23 08:19

Oil is here to stay Gulf park estates Ocean Springs Ms

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Aug 23 08:19

Oil in Oyster Bayou

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Aug 23 08:18

DNA – Hitler was Jewish?!?!?!?

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Aug 23 08:13

flashback: peter schiff on fannie mae 9/8/08

By: coastnsea
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Suppose I could have worded the title a bit better, but, Peter Schiff talks about the Fannie Mae bailout Sept 2008.

Aug 23 08:12

We’re alive! TV images of Chilean miners 18 DAYS after being trapped… but it will be months until they are rescued

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Aug 23 08:10

Government urged to reveal ‘true’ national debt of £4.8 trillion

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The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has calculated that the national debt is £4.8 trillion once state and public sector pension liabilities are included, or £78,000 for every person in the UK.

Aug 23 08:09

THE MENACING WAVE OF McCARTHYISM IN ISRAEL

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Israeli society is on the verge of being consumed by a menacing wave of McCarthyism stoked by nationalist movements and publicity-hungry legislators.

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Aug 23 08:09

Israeli abuse pictures ‘common’

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Israeli soldiers are routinely taking degrading photographs of dead and captured Palestinians and posting them on the internet, human rights groups have said.

Aug 23 08:08

PHOTO ESSAY ~~ THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY AT GROUND ZERO

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To build or not to build…. that is no longer the question! The question now is who opposes the proposed Islamic Centre near Ground Zero…. is it only Islamophobes, or has it become an anti Obama movement that was sparked when the President indicated his support of the project?

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Aug 23 08:07

Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire

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The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece’s problems are dragging down the country’s economy. Stores are closing, tax revenues are falling and unemployment has hit an unbelievable 70 percent in some places. Frustrated workers are threatening to strike back.

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Any "solution" to the economic problems that involves looting the poor to give to the rich is doomed to fail. Economies are built from the bottom up, and the only real way to get any economy moving again is to get wealth back into the hands of the working and middle class it was taken from. If the high paying jobs do not come back, the economy of [insert name of failed state here] is doomed.

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Aug 23 08:02

BP Spill Oil Already Entering the Gulf Food Chain

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The recent discovery of trace amounts of oil in blue crab larvae has left experts forecasting dire news for the Gulf ecosystem. It’s evidence that the oil from the spill loosed from the Deepwater Horizon explosion has already begun working its way up the food chain — where it could be fatal to animals who ingest it.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn!

BlackListed News

Monday, August 16th, 2010

 

Porno for Pessimists

The very fact that you are reading this may indicate that you suffer from a psychosis characterized by delusions of grandeur, coupled with feelings of euphoric bliss, at the prospect of being clued in to terrible events and conspiracies that may be contributing to the end of civilization as we know it.

President goes for a swim in the Gulf – or does he?

The official picture was intended to provide evidence that the region’s beaches are back to normal. Yet it soon emerged that the private beach on which it was taken, off Alligator Point in St Andrew Bay, north-west Florida, isn’t technically in the gulf.

In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity

No more than 25% say they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in either

Russia ban on grain export begins

Russia is one of the world’s biggest producers of wheat, barley and rye, and the ban is likely to see bread prices rise in places like the Middle East.

Gulf Shrimpers Find Oil In Reopened Fishing Areas. Governnment Says "Shut Up". Sierra Club Alleges Areas Were Solely Reopened to Limit BP’s Liability

War Preparations? Biggest U.S.-Israeli Joint Infantry Exercise Ever

TV footage also showed U.S. marines participating in the drills with their Israeli counterparts.

FBI issues more top secret clearance for state and local law enforcement officers in terrorism cases

China Favors Euro Over Dollar as Bernanke Alters Path

China, whose $2.45 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves are the world’s largest, is turning bullish on Europe and Japan at the expense of the U.S.

UAE Imports Five Tons of Fake Gold

Gold imported into the UAE by traders and investors turned out to be fake on closer inspection

10 Signs The U.S. is Becoming a Third World Country

The United States by every measure is hanging on by a thread to its First World status.  Saddled by debt, engaged in wars on multiple fronts with a rising police state at home, declining economic productivity, and wild currency fluctuations all threaten America’s future.

Food for Thought: Taking a stand against genetically modified organisms

‘Fructose-Slurping’ Cancer Could Sour the Soda Business

Soda and processed-food manufacturers have long insisted that all sugars are essentially the same. Yet, simultaneously they’re delicately backing away from high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as one study after another links the corn-based sweetener to obesity and diabetes.

MASS DELUSION – AMERICAN STYLE

The American public thinks they are rugged individualists, who come to conclusions based upon sound reason and a rational thought process. The truth is that the vast majority of Americans act like a herd of cattle or a horde of lemmings.

23 people slain along US-Mexico border in 24 hours

Between late Friday and Saturday 13 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez, across from the US city of El Paso, Texas, Chihuahua state prosecutors said.

Tales from Stasiland: The letter that makes you disappear

One of the creepier weapons in the arsenal of the national-security state is the “national-security letter” or NSL. It’s no ordinary letter, and it travels postage-free, but at enormous expense to the taxpayers. The FBI issues roughly 50,000 of them a year, and the Justice Department’s own internal review in 2007 concluded that many of them were issued abusively, skirting the law and internal rules.

Presence of U.S. troops on Pakistani soils brings controversy

Round-the-clock diligent relief and rescue efforts have further enhanced U.S. military’s image in the country, though the entry of 1,000 U.S. marines to join hands in relief operations have presented a scenario with both repercussions and opportunities, local analysts say.

U.S.- China Conflict: From War Of Words To Talk Of War

Part I

N.Korea warns of ‘severest punishment’ over war games

The North’s army and people will "deal a merciless counterblow" to the allies "as it had already resolved and declared at home and abroad", a spokesman for the country’s army General Staff said in a statement published by state media.

Cattle ‘cloned from dead animals’

Yummy!!!

Protestors Show Up At Google HQ To Demand Net Neutrality

Polish soldiers blow up Afghan house ‘for fun’

Three Polish soldiers serving in the NATO mission in Afghanistan are facing up to eight years in prison after a newspaper obtained video of them blowing up an abandoned Afghan house “for fun.”

The Trade Deficit Nightmare

The U.S. Commerce Department recently announced that the U.S. trade deficit increased by 18.8 percent in June to $49.9 billion.  Most analysts had expected the figure to be somewhere around 41 to 43 billion dollars.

Fed Official Admits the Fed Starts Boom/Bust Cycles

S Korea, US to begin fresh drills

South Korea and the United States are to launch a fresh large-scale joint military exercise this week amid growing tension with North Korea.

Genetically engineered salmon under FDA consideration

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.

Lawsuit: Disney, others spied on children’s Web surfing habits

Profiles of computer users ‘bought and sold on stock-market-like exchanges’

‘Junk’ Bonds Hit Record

Companies Rush to Issue Riskier Debt as Investors Look for Higher Returns

Army Report: AWOLs Up 234%

Tucked into this massive Army report on suicide is an interesting fact: Since 2004, the number of soldiers going AWOL, deserting, and "missing movement" — that is failing to deploy when they’re supposed to — has gone up a shocking 234 percent.

Wealth of today’s sports stars is ‘no match for the fortunes of Rome’s chariot racers’

While golfer Tiger Woods was heralded last year as the first athlete to earn over $1 billion, the figure would apparently have been small beer for the fearless entertainers of the Circus Maximus.

Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents

While the stealth war began in the Bush administration, it has expanded under President Obama, who rose to prominence in part for his early opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Virtually none of the newly aggressive steps undertaken by the United States government have been publicly acknowledged.

Afghanistan says it found 1.8 billion barrel oilfield

Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the war-ravaged country, where U.S. and other foreign forces are trying to tame a Taliban-led insurgency.

Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many

Obama declares Gulf Coast ‘open for business’

Yummy!

More college students mentally ill

The number of college students who are afflicted with a serious mental illness is rising, according to data presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Assn. in San Diego

FBI’s racist shock jock Hal Turner convicted, faces 10 years

A US Internet radio host was convicted Friday of threatening to assault and kill three judges who upheld a ban on handguns in Chicago, the US Justice Department said.

FED OFFICIAL WARNS OF ‘DANGEROUS GAMBLE’

Keeping Rates Too Low ‘Dangerous Gamble’: The Federal Reserve is undertaking a "dangerous gamble" by keeping rates at near zero for so long, and must start raising rates or risk damaging the nascent U.S. recovery, a top Federal Reserve official said on Friday.

Obama Signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance

President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border.

Fed’s Effort to Bolster U.S. Recovery Fails to Calm Investors

The Federal Reserve’s first attempt to bolster the flagging U.S. recovery shows no sign of dispelling investor concerns the world’s largest economy may slide back into a recession.

Lady Gaga IS poisoning children’s minds

What was once rebellious is now mainstream and inescapable; what was once suggestive is now graphically explicit — and, most worryingly of all, it’s being aimed at a fan base that is getting younger and younger.

Using Local Organic Cooperatives to Defeat Globalists

U.S. Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia Said to Reach $60 Billion

A proposed U.S. weapons sale to Saudi Arabia of Boeing Co. F-15 fighter jets also includes as many as 132 Boeing Apache attack helicopters and United Technologies Corp. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters that bring the total value of the package to around $60 billion, according to a government official familiar with the plan.

Jobs for middle class expansion are long gone – The struggles to create jobs that will create a vibrant middle class have vanished under the foot of banking dominance.

Iraq: NATO Assists In Building New Middle East Proxy Army

U.S., Israel Build Military Cooperation

The intensified partnership is part of the Obama administration’s broader policy of boosting military support for American allies in the Mideast amid heightened tensions with Iran and its allies such as Hezbollah and Hamas, according to U.S. officials. The Obama administration believes it may also help induce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make concessions in talks with Palestinians, these officials said.

Former Homeland Security Adviser Explains Why He Admires the UAE’s Dictators

Thousands of patient health records ended up in a pile at public dump…

Hospital executives and pathologists said they are distraught about the violation of patient privacy and, as required by law, are developing plans to notify the thousands of patients whose records may have been left at the dump.

US Military Brass Urge Soldiers To Kill Indiscriminately

A third former Army specialist, Ethan McCord, said his battalion commander gave orders to shoot indiscriminately after attacks by improvised explosive devices. "Anytime someone in your line gets hit by an IED…you kill every motherfucker in the street," McCord quotes him as saying.

Who Owns You? 20% of the Genes in Your Body are Patented

Pat Tillman’s Father To Army Investigator: ‘F— You… And Yours’

There always was a dark cinematic thread to the story of Pat Tillman: the football star imbued with post-9/11 patriotism who was killed in a friendly-fire incident in the Afghan mountains and the allegations of a massive bureaucratic cover-up involving the highest levels of the U.S. Army in the wake of the tragedy.

11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is Bad

The following are 11 reasons why the Federal Reserve is not good for the United States….

Will Quantitative Easing By The Federal Reserve Unleash Economic Hell?

What we will concern ourselves with in this article are the negative effects that could be unleashed as the Federal Reserve further abuses this power.

US food crops absorb toxic pharmaceuticals and personal care products from treated wastewater

Several major reports have come out in recent years about the dangers of pharmaceutical drug residues being found in the nation’s water supplies. But a new study has shown that major American food crops like soybeans are also absorbing these chemicals, and others, from the treated wastewater that farmers are applying to them.

FCC Using Cybersecurity To Regulate Internet

Yet another federal agency envisions a possible broader role for itself in securing private sector Internet infrastructure. The Federal Communications Commission issued on August 9 a notice (.pdf) soliciting public comment on an anticipated FCC plan to address vulnerabilities to core Internet protocols, as well as cybersecurity threats to all end users.

Turkey Accused of Using Chemical Weapons against PKK

German experts have confirmed the authenticity of photographs that purport to show PKK fighters killed by chemical weapons. The evidence puts increasing pressure on the Turkish government, which has long been suspected of using such weapons against Kurdish rebels. German politicians are demanding an investigation.

NEW WORLD ORDER: BAILOUTS HELPED FOREIGN FIRMS…

Ratifying U.N. Children’s Rights Treaty Would Turn Parental Rights ‘Over to International Community’

Is this finally the economic collapse?

CNN Money / Fortune – Now that the US can’t cut interest rates any lower, the only option left on the table is what the Fed just announced it would start doing — buying Treasury debt. And that could lead the country to the brink of collapse

Connecticut GOP elects Wrestling Mogul over the guy who predicted the Financial Meltdown

Not a shocker… just a disappointment that once again illustrates the reality of politics in America.

15 Economic Statistics That Just Keep Getting Worse

A little over a week ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner penned an article for the New York Times entitled "Welcome To The Recovery" in which he touted the great strides that the U.S. economy was making.

Zombie bank to cost Irish taxpayers billions more

Zombie bank Anglo Irish may cost the Irish taxpayer far more than the $30 billion so far set aside.

Insidious, Risky Strategy: U.S. Builds Asian NATO Against China

Just as it appeared that long-standing spats between Beijing and Washington over such issues as trade imbalances, the valuation of China’s currency, and sanctions against Iran and North Korea might be fading, a new set of squabbles arises immediately afterwards, with tensions building and mounting in recent weeks over events in the Yellow Sea and the South China Sea, and with the signs that the US is trying to meddle and dominate issues involving China.

Central Asia: U.S. Military Buildup On Chinese, Iranian And Russian Borders

The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA’s Experiments on Children

US Judge OKs confession extracted by threatening suspect with rape

In one of the first military commissions held under the Obama administration, a US military judge has ruled that confessions obtained by threatening the subject with rape are admissible in court.

Economy Teeters On The Brink and Market Manipulation Continues

It’s just the same old, same old, business as usual in America. 

Anderson Cooper Apologizes For Media Complicity In Tillman Cover-Up

Interview with Pat Tillman’s father about new documentary exposing how the government with help from the media used Pat Tillman’s death to promote the war.

China PLA warns U.S. over fresh military drill in region

China’s People Liberation Army demanded a tough response to U.S. plans to send an aircraft carrier to naval exercises near its coast, saying that "respect" was at stake

More Foreclosures, More Bank Failures, Big Trouble for the FDIC

The U.S. housing market continues to send mix signals.  More homes continue to enter foreclosure but the number of homeowners carrying so-called “under water mortgages,” declined in the second quarter, Zillow.com reported Monday.

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30,000 line up for housing vouchers, some get rowdy

Antibiotics’ efficiency wanes due to global spread of drug-resistant bacteria

Gene giving high levels of resistance to drugs found in increasingly prevalent intestinal bacteria

Oil spill: BP nears deal to continue drilling in Gulf of Mexico

The deal with the White House would allow BP to guarantee its $20bn (£13bn) clean-up fund against revenues from its operations in the Gulf, which account for approximately 10pc of its oil and gas business.

Google CEO Schmidt: No Anonymity Is The Future Of Web

Schmidt’s message at the Techonomy Conference was that anonymity is a dangerous thing and governments will demand an end to it.

GeoEye, DigitalGlobe Get $7 Billion from Intelligence Agency to Implement Next-Gen Satellite Imaging

The next generation of hi-res satellite imaging technology is on the way, at least if the United States government has anything to say about it.

Former Blackwater workers face new slaying indictment

A federal grand jury issued a new murder indictment against two former Blackwater security workers, charging one defendant with using a machine gun but reducing an attempted murder charge against both.

British government pays US lobbying firm to improve transatlantic relations

British taxpayers are paying a secretive lobbying firm $10,000 (£6,354) a month to push American politicians to award contracts to British defence companies and to improve transatlantic relations, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Student-Loan Debt Surpasses Credit Cards

Americans owe some $826.5 billion in revolving credit, according to June 2010 figures from the Federal Reserve. (Most of revolving credit is credit-card debt.) Student loans outstanding today — both federal and private — total some $829.785 billion, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and FastWeb.com.

Google’s Secret Internal Vision Statement Reveals Struggle With Privacy

A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. “vision statement” shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question: How far should it go in profiting from its crown jewels—the vast trove of data it possesses about people’s activities?

Russia deploys air defence missiles in Abkhazia

Russia has deployed sophisticated air defence missiles in Georgia’s pro-Moscow rebel region of Abkhazia, the air force commander said Wednesday, in a move that risks stoking tensions with Tbilisi.

Bloomberg: U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It

Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.

BP oil spill evidence to be collected by suspects

Key evidence on one of the world’s worst oil spills could soon be in the hands of the leading suspects as BP and partner contractors are set to start salvaging the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

Vending Machines Of The Future

Your thumbprint might soon be the key to an afternoon candy bar. A Massachusetts based vending machine company is joining the growing ranks of companies that are field-testing new technologies.

UK Business facing a wave of green taxes

Those that do participate in the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) initiative by declaring their energy use will face charges for every ton of greenhouse gas they produce.

Glass houses in the Liberty Movement: Sovereignty for me but not for you

IMF Report Promotes World Currency

An April report from the International Monetary Fund promoting a world central bank and a global fiat currency went totally undetected by the global press for months, but after a blog post earlier this month on the Financial Times’ website, it is now in the media spotlight.

Fed to Buy More of Its Own Debt

Federal Reserve officials decided to reinvest principal payments on mortgage holdings into long-term Treasury securities, making their first attempt to bolster growth since March 2009 to keep the slowing U.S. economy from relapsing into recession.

‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years

The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family. He can now identify himself and discuss the case, although he still can’t reveal what information the FBI sought.

Cops love iPhone data trail

Detective Josh Fazio of the Will County Sheriff’s Department loves it when an iPhone turns up as evidence in a criminal case.

The Dark Side of Vitamin Water

Now here’s something you wouldn’t expect. Coca-Cola is being sued by a non-profit public interest group, on the grounds that the company’s vitaminwater products make unwarranted health claims. No surprise there. But how do you think the company is defending itself?

Iran says to drop trade in ‘filthy’ dollar, euro

Iran is to stop all trade and oil exports in dollars and euros in retaliation against Western sanctions over its nuclear programme, a top official was quoted as saying Tuesday.

Is Time Magazine Part of CIA Strategy to Gain Support for Afghan War?

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, George Tenet, the director of the CIA, created a “Red Cell” “that would think unconventionally about the full range of relevant analytic issues.”

Proposed Law Would Put Video Cameras In Cars

Lawmakers are considering controversial new legislation this week that would allow vehicles to be equipped with dashboard cameras to record the moments leading up to accidents.

DeVos-ed From Reality

I write about DeVos’s own history as a founding member of an organization called the Council for National Policy (CNP). The CNP is a secret organization that makes the Masons look like paparazzi-hungry starlets.

Google, Verizon say no ‘net neutrality’ for wireless

Recommending that wireless Internet connections be exempt from net neutrality rules played into fears that Google is changing allegiance in the battle to stop Internet service providers (ISPs) from giving preferential treatment to those that pay.

Dollar Will Weaken, 3 Sectors Will Rule: Strategists

Stocks slipped Friday after the US government report showed more jobs were lost last month than expected. Quincy Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial, and David Spika, vice president and investment strategist at WHG Funds, discussed their insights.

GAO: Border Security Technology Program ‘Has Not Produced Expected Results’

Many Girls Now Begin Puberty at Age 7, 8

Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fueling the obesity crisis.

Matt Simmons “apparently” drowned at his home Sunday night

Simmons was a leading investment banker for the energy industry and had recently retired to work full time on the new Ocean Energy Institute.

How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age

Pentagon to shut military command, cut jobs

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the shakeup would show Congress that the Pentagon would spend tax dollars wisely during tough economic times and address long-standing concerns about wasteful expenditure.

Appeals Court Rules Against Secret Police GPS Tracking

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the police can’t covertly track a suspect’s car using a GPS device for an extended period of time without getting a warrant.

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Michael Moore Defends the “Professional Left” Against Obama and the Banksters

Following Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs’ ungracious comments about the “professional left,” the usual suspects mounted the corporate media and began venting about the Obama administration.

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Florida GOP candidate urges internment camps for undocumented immigrants

A Republican state house candidate from northern Florida is standing by her proposal to build internment camps for undocumented immigrants that would “collect enough illegal aliens until you have enough to ship them back.”

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Dr David Kelly was on a hitlist, says UN weapons expert as calls grow for full inquest

A leading UN weapons inspector last night added his voice to the growing clamour for a full inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly.

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In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity

Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either.

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Obama Strongly Backs Islam Center Near 9/11 Site

President Obama delivered a strong defense on Friday night of a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, using a White House dinner celebrating Ramadan to proclaim that “as a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country.”

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‘Rand Paul Hoax’ Number 1 Search Term

During the show Friday, Alex Jones made a call for listeners to Google search the term “Rand Paul hoax” and “latest desperate hoax”. One hour later, listeners and readers responded, sending the search term straight to the top of Google trends. This is the tenth time listeners have responded to news covered on the show have sent search terms to the top of this incredibly important list.

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Iran Warns Against Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

Iran warns that if Israel were to invade Lebanon, it would be counter-attacked by several countries in the region. Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that Ramin Mehman-Parast, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, issued the warning yesterday, saying that while it’s unlike Israel will invade Lebanon, the “Zionist regime would be slapped hard in the face by the regional states if it dares to attack Lebanon again.”

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Israeli generals, intel officials oppose attack on Iran

Pro-Israeli journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in The Atlantic magazine was evidently aimed at showing why the Barack Obama administration should worry that it risks an attack by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran in the coming months unless it takes a much more menacing line toward Iran’s nuclear program.

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Russia to start Iran’s first nuclear plant next week

Russia says it will launch Iran’s first nuclear power plant next week. The Russian nuclear state corporation, which is building the Bushehr plant, announced the reactor will be loaded with nuclear fuel on August 21.

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Chinese admiral says U.S. drill courts confrontation

A senior Chinese military strategist called planned U.S. naval exercises in the region a provocation and accused the Obama administration of seeking to encircle China and pursuing a “chaotic” approach toward Beijing.

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Crop Stop: Food crisis fears as heat hits wheat

A quarter of Russia’s grain crops have been destroyed by the unprecedented heatwave and wildfires. The government is planning to spend more than a billion U.S dollars to help producers.

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Fed Official Admits the Fed Starts Boom/Bust Cycles

There are all kinds of things awry with this article…

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Fed’s Hoenig: Keeping Rates Too Low ‘Dangerous Gamble’

The Federal Reserve is undertaking a “dangerous gamble” by keeping rates at near zero for so long, and must start raising rates or risk damaging the nascent U.S. recovery, a top Federal Reserve official said on Friday.

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Fed’s Effort to Bolster U.S. Recovery Fails to Calm Investors

The Federal Reserve’s first attempt to bolster the flagging U.S. recovery shows no sign of dispelling investor concerns the world’s largest economy may slide back into a recession.

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Roubini: Even If The Economy Doesn’t Technically Double Dip, It’s Still Going To Be Awful

If you haven’t seen it already, I highly recommend this interview with Nouriel Roubini. Particularly he raises the point that while the U.S. may not technically double-dip into a new recession, it’s going to feel like it is.

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Protestors Show Up At Google HQ To Demand Net Neutrality

Protest organizers — with 300,000 signed petitions in hand — were only able to briefly meet with a Google spokesperson who directed protesters to their blog to leave comments.

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Lady Gaga IS poisoning children’s minds

Bad Romance contains bondage and grotesque sexual violence; Paparazzi is particularly tasteless with its references to death and disability; while Alejandro is full of jackboots, bondage and menace — culminating in a hideous gang-attack/rape on a nun-type figure.

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FCC Using Cybersecurity To Regulate Internet

Yet another federal agency envisions a possible broader role for itself in securing private sector Internet infrastructure.

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Sen. Harry Reid key player in Big Pharma’s control over Washington

Corruption in Washington is nothing new. Lobbyists for special interests have been padding the pockets of amoral politicians for longer than most of us have been alive, and they’ve been doing so with the help of a controlled media that rarely presents the facts without shrouding them in terms of “left” or “right” in order to confuse people.

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Will BP Skip the Relief Well, Declare Mission Accomplished, and Abandon Ship Without Permanently Killing the Oil Leak?

Yesterday, I pointed out that – while everyone is claiming that the oil well has been capped – it hasn’t really been capped.

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Shilling for War on Iran

I guess I was naïve in thinking that The Atlantic and its American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg might shy away from arguing for yet another war — this one with Iran — while the cauldrons are still boiling in Afghanistan and Iraq. Even world-class chutzpah must have its limits, I had thought.

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BP Will Go Ahead with Relief Wells … But Admiral Allen Warns That There is a “Weak Link”

A day after saying that relief wells may not be needed, the government has decided that they are.

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Obama’s economic tragedy: U.S. fiscal gap makes Greece look responsible

America appears to be in worse long-term financial health than Greece, Europe’s poster child for govermental mismanagement.

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“A Sustainable Level of Bank Profits Appears to be About 1% of GDP”. Higher Bank Profits Lead to a Ponzi Economy and a Depression

I’ve previously noted that concentration of all the poker chips in a couple of hands ends the poker game.

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The Alex Jones Show Video – August 13th With Bob Chapman

Alex talks about the economy with regular Friday guest, Bob Chapman. Bob became a stockbroker in 1960 and retired in 1988. He currently is owner and editor of The International Forecaster, a compendium of information on business, finance, economics and social and political issues worldwide, which reaches 10,000 investors and brokers monthly directly.

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The Alex Jones Show – August 12th Hosted By Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet editor and journalist Paul Joseph Watson sits in for Alex. to discuss the worsening economic picture with today’s jobs report and the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it is set to embark on “QE2″ – a fresh looting of the American taxpayer. Interviews with Max Kesier, Ray McGovern, and Phil Berg are re-broadcast in the final two hours.

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The Alex Jones Show – August 11th With Alan Watt

Alex welcomes back to the show New World Order researcher, author, and radio talk show host Alan Watt. With historical documentation, he shows how cultures are created and altered by those in control, always to lead the people like sheep into the next pasture. Watt twas born in Scotland, where he watched the subtleties of politics and media as they guided the population of the U.K. covertly into a European Amalgamation.

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Arizona Sheriff: Border Patrol Has Retreated from Parts of Border Because It’s ‘Too Dangerous’

Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, Ariz., one of four Arizona counties contiguous with the U.S-Mexico border, said Friday that the U.S. Border Patrol has pulled back from parts of the border in his and neighboring counties because manning those areas has become too dangerous.

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Patients’ files left at public dump

Four Massachusetts community hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up in a pile at a public dump.

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Only 29 Percent of Americans Approve of Obama’s Handling of Immigration, Says Gallup

As the Senate reconvened on Thursday, taking a rare break from its August recess to pass a $600-million bill to fund border security provisions that had passed in a specially-reconvened-session of the House on Tuesday, new numbers from the Gallup Poll showed that only 29 percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling the immigration issue.

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Ice Capades – New Iceberg Not What It is “Cracked Up” To Be

Professor Andreas Muenchow became a media celebrity this week with his quote about an iceberg in Greenland being “four times the size of Manhattan.” This iceberg has become a poster child for global warming, even though a much larger one broke off the same glacier 50 years ago.

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Michael Tomasky admits that he’s cheering for more natural disasters, because he thinks that’ll convince us to swallow climate hoax legislation

I sometimes imagine what it would take, weather-wise, for people to see that we have to do something about this.

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US food crops absorb toxic pharmaceuticals and personal care products from treated wastewater

Several major reports have come out in recent years about the dangers of pharmaceutical drug residues being found in the nation’s water supplies.

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