Police State Canada 2010 and the G20 Summit
he secretive meetings will be attended by world leaders, finance ministers, central bank governors, along with thousands of other delegates. It will be the largest security event in Canadian history exceeding the Vancouver Winter Olympics
America Is Losing Its Imperial Status, And Global Institutions Such As The IMF, G20 And BIS Are Filling The Void
Greek, Portuguese Bonds Drop as Downgrades Escalate Debt Crisis
Government bonds of the euro region’s most indebted nations slumped, led by the biggest drop for Greek two-year notes since at least 1998, as credit downgrades escalated Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis.
Chavez accuses US plane of `electronic warfare’
A day after saying he hopes to eventually cool tensions with Colombia, President Hugo Chavez charged that his neighbor recently allowed a U.S. military plane to carry out "electronic warfare" operations against Venezuela.
Chavez accuses US plane of `electronic warfare’
A day after saying he hopes to eventually cool tensions with Colombia, President Hugo Chavez charged that his neighbor recently allowed a U.S. military plane to carry out "electronic warfare" operations against Venezuela.
Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections
In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as ‘Consequence Management Response Force’ will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President.
Police seize Gizmodo’s computers in iPhone probe
Police have seized computers and servers belonging to an editor of Gizmodo in an investigation that appears to stem from the gadget blog’s purchase of a lost Apple iPhone prototype.
Remember that ash cloud? It didn’t exist, says new evidence
Britain’s airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country.
GM Crops Go to US High Court, Environmental Laws on the Line
The case, Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, revolves around an herbicide-resistant alfalfa, the planting of which has been banned in the U.S. since a federal court prohibited the multinational Monsanto from selling the seeds in 2007.
Hyperfast Missile to Hit Anywhere in an Hour
Obama’s interest in Prompt Global Strike (PGS), a nonnuclear weapons programme, has alarmed China and Russia and complicated nuclear arms reduction negotiations.
CIA Director Says Cyber Attack Could Be Next “Pearl Harbor”
Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next “Pearl Harbor” is likely to be an attack on the United States’ power, financial, military and other Internet systems.
Lawsuits Involving Local Police Working For DHS Highlighted By The Identity Project
In an article titled, DHS accomplices face legal liability, Checkpoint USA’s seven year lawsuit against several tribal police officers was recently mentioned on the Identity Project’s website. The article also references several other pending cases involving local police acting on behalf of Department of Homeland Security agencies such as the TSA.
Greek meltdown in danger of spreading
The Instruments of Worldwide Domination: Obama Administration Spending Billions on New Global Strike Weapons
Illinois Lawmakers Say Military Must be Deployed in Chicago Due to Violence
Two Illinois lawmakers say violence has become so rampant in Chicago that the National Guard must be called in to help.
Cyberwar and Repression: Corporatist Synergy Made in Hell
Unfailingly, defense industry boosters and corporate media acolytes promote the disturbing hypothesis annunciated by former Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, that the nation is in peril.
S 510 is hissing in the grass
S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.
Lucifer Instrument Helps Astronomers See Through Darkness to Most Distant Observable Objects
And yes, it’s named for the Devil, whose name itself means "morning star." But it wasn’t meant to evoke him, according to a spokesman for the University of Arizona, where it is housed.
Greek meltdown in danger of spreading
GERMANY, France and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must act quickly to bail out Greece to prevent a slide in confidence in financial markets, Alistair Darling said yesterday.
China’s Population Control Program to Begin Sterilization
Health authorities are planning to sterilise nearly 10,000 people in southern China over the next four days as part of a population control programme.
US prepares to push for global capital rules
The US is preparing to pivot from domestic regulatory reform to a push for a tough new international capital regime after the weekend’s G20 and International Monetary Fund meetings glossed over differences between leading economies.
Chavez: Colombian election could trigger regional war
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who for years has had tense relations with neighboring Colombia, has warned of worse ties and even possible military hostilities if Bogota’s ex-defense chief Juan Manuel Santos wins the presidency.
More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship
Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of renouncing their citizenship.
Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses
Google’s roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it’s got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users’ unique Mac (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along.
For nations living the good life, the party’s over, IMF says
Failed German Bond Auction: An Evil Portent?
The Wall Street Journal attributed the shortfall in demand to a combination of the bonds’ pricing and heavy supplies of new issues in the European bond markets
Food in the U.S. Is Still Tainted with Chemicals That Were Banned Decades Ago
Thirty-eight years after DDT was banned, Americans still consume trace amounts of the infamous insecticide every day, along with more than 20 other banned chemicals.
Is the Bank Tax a Major Step Toward World Government?
Finance ministers and central bank governors are in Washington D.C. this weekend for a G-20 meeting, in preparation for the G-20 Summit to held in November in South Korea.
"Mafianomics": From “Trickle-down Economics” to outright Financial Fraud
Today’s version of "Reaganomics” is a much more cancerous form of grotesque greed. Let’s call this disease “Mafianomics”, or an economic policy designed to enrich the richest of the rich, while impoverishing the middle class and the rest of us not so “well connected” to the centers of power.
As Russia Reclaims Its Sphere of Influence, the U.S. Doesn’t Object
Report: 18 vets kill themselves every day
The suicide rate among war veterans is extraordinary, new data reveals.
Mega-Banks Which Received Bailouts Slashed Lending More, Gave Higher Bonuses, and Reduced Costs Less Than Banks Which Didn’t Get Bailed Out
Five Israelis charged with organ trafficking
The indictment says that the ring exploited the desperate condition of sick people and called it a "form of modern slavery." The traffickers allegedly offered up to $100,000 per kidney but in at least two cases did not pay the donors, who were sought through advertisements and then flown from Israel to Europe, South America or Southeast Asia, where the organs were extracted in illegal procedures.
Insights Into America’s Disneyland And Our "Neo-Feudalistic, Gulag Casino Economy" From Mike Krieger
Galbraith: Economists Should Move into Background, and “Criminologists to the Forefront”
“Lehman Was the Leading Purveyor of Liar’s Loans in the World” — Incidents of Fraud at 90% — “Lehman Sold This to the World”
Facebook Steps Up Lobbying, Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencies, FTC
Disclosures released a few days ago show that, on top of lobbying the usual suspects Internet companies reach out to like the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. senators and representatives, the fast-growing social network has also been busy deepening ties to government intelligence and homeland security agencies.
Star Wars 2010? U.S. military launch space plane on maiden voyage… but its mission is top secret
‘We don’t know when it’s coming back’…
What? Why?
Mission: Classified…
Is X-37B start of war in space?
ADL Calls For Major Law Enforcement Operation To Deal With Obamacare Critics
The global banking elite are preparing to assault Americans with two huge new tax increases as President Obama contradicts the assurances of White House aides and his own campaign trail promise by asserting that a VAT tax is still on the table, as the IMF outlines a new tax on financial transactions that is being hailed as a blow to the banks yet represents another stealth tax on the people.