BlackListed News
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Gates Foundation Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
Well, well, well. It’s about time. Kind of like when Fox News gave $1 million in campaign contributions to Republicans. It wasn’t exactly a secret before, but now it’s official. The Gates Foundation just bought a whopping 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock.
Two Non-GMO farming innovations that show great promise
New York Lawmakers Push for Salmonella Vaccinations
Two state legislators want to require farmers in New York to vaccinate their chickens against salmonella.
DOJ Demonizes Constitutionalists As Extremist Criminals
Secret services ‘must be made more transparent’ to halt the spread of damaging conspiracy theories
All Over The World Governments Are Banning Large Cash Transactions
Pentagon may apply preemptive warfare policy to the Internet
Grappling with matters of law and policy governing the United States military’s cyber-warfare capabilities, Pentagon planners are eying ways of making preemptive strikes across the Internet part of America’s toolbox.
Mexico says it is planning to tighten the noose around big-ticket cash purchases to curtail the flow of smuggled dollars and fight money laundering.
The military-industrial complex, debt, and unemployment: the only things growing in the economy
The Taliban granted journalist Paul Refsdal unprecedented access. This exclusive documentary shows us a side of the Taliban that we have never seen before.
SCO: Russia opens China pipeline for Siberian oil
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, on Sunday opened a new pipeline to export east Siberian oil to China that will help Russia reorientate its oil trade towards the east.
Electricity Could Be Pulled from Air, Research Claims
The study has already raised some debate, not just over its feasibility, but as to whether or not the mechanics at work truly represent "pulling electricity out of the air."
Colorado Police Using Biometric Iris Scan Technology
Congress may sneak through Internet ‘kill switch’ in defense bill
A federal cybersecurity bill that critics say creates a presidential "kill switch" for the Internet could be added on to a defense spending bill and passed without much debate, technology news sources report.
No BP investigation, the Senate blocked it.
Canada Opens Arctic To NATO, Plans Massive Weapons Buildup
Ben Bernanke calls for help to revive the stuttering US economy
What did the chairman of the Federal Reserve say in Jackson Hole? According to much of the reaction, Ben Bernanke said the "Fed stands by to boost US growth" (FT), or that the "Fed is ready to prop up economy" (NYT) or even that the "Fed stands ready to support recovery" (WSJ).
Statin drugs may soon be given to fast food customers with meals
A new study out of Imperial College London suggests that fast food chains start giving out free statin drugs to customers in order to help balance out the negative effects of the junk food on their bodies.
Confirmed: Corexit Still Being Sprayed in the Gulf
Veteran chemist Bob Naman says that Corexit is still being sprayed in the Gulf, and that he found 13.3 parts per million in Cotton Bayou, Alabama.
India Halts Vaccine Programs After Deaths of Four Children
Vaccine programmes grind to a halt in India once more, when four children died after they received the measles vaccination in Lucknow. The four children were reported to have fainted soon after they were vaccinated and witnesses reported seeing the children’s eyes roll back as they began to have seizures.
Family win 18 year fight over MMR vaccine damage to son
California students get tracking devices
The system was introduced Tuesday. When at the school, students will wear a jersey that has a small radio frequency tag. The tag will send signals to sensors that help track children’s whereabouts, attendance and even whether they’ve eaten or not.
Obama’s new tax on…Rainwater!?
Would President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on "rainwater runoff" from homes and small businesses?
Schools ‘groom kids for surveillance state’?
Schools are increasingly invading student privacy both in school and outside of school. Are schools grooming youth to passively accept a surveillance state where they have no expectation of privacy anywhere? A PogoWasRight.org commentary.
This Economy Is Ripping The Dignity Of Millions Of Unemployed Americans To Shreds
New Documentary Blows The Doors Off Wall Street
Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
Bernanke promises ‘unconventional’ stimulus steps…
Treasury yields rose after Mr Bernanke spoke, as the market had expected an indication of more bond buying or quantitative easing by the central bank.
"Monetary Shock and Awe": The Fed prepared to launch most Radical Intervention in History
CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration
Another Western Puppet Regime!
U.S. military wants to exert influence over private cyber infrastructure
The U.S. military wants to exert more influence over the protection of power grids, transportation networks and financial network systems, a Pentagon official says in a broad-ranging essay published in Foreign Affairs.
Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War
Russian submarines are hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War tactics not seen for 25 years, Navy chiefs have warned.
The US Government Matches Every Dollar In Tax Revenue With A Dollar In New Debt
Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops
An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s.
FDA: Obamacare’s Calorie-Count Mandate Now In Effect—But Not Enforcable
Fidel Castro Claims Osama bin Laden is a US Spy
Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar.
Analyst: Citigroup Is Cooking the Books
An all-out war has broken out between Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit and a prominent securities analyst who is saying that the big bank may be cooking the books by inflating its earnings through an accounting gimmick, FOX Business Network has learned.
Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America’s Military Strategy in the Muslim World
The truth that many Americans find hard to take is that that mass U.S. assassination on a scale unequaled in world history lies at the heart of America’s military strategy in the Muslim world, a policy both illegal and never seriously debated by Congress or the American people.
Man Sentenced to Join Military After Threat
A judge sentenced a former Faulkner University student to join the military and perform community service for a post he made on Facebook that led to a campus lockdown.
Our terrifyingly crowded solar system: New video reveals just how many asteroids are out there
Neocons resurfacing in Obama administration
US President Barack Obama campaigned on ending the wars and ending Neocon policies in the Middle East. But, Neocon Frederick Kagan has been brought onboard to work with General David Petraeus in Afghanistan.
The European Commission says fewer than half of voters across Europe are in favour of the union.
WikiLeaks war logs posting ‘will lead to free speech ruling’
US supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor has said the court is likely to have to rule on the issue of balancing national security and freedom of speech due to WikiLeaks posting a cache of US military records about the Afghan war.
Thousands seeking help with mortgages jam Palm Beach County Convention Center
Recession may have pushed US birth rate to new low
The birth rate, which takes into account changes in the population, fell to 13.5 births for every 1,000 people last year. That’s down from 14.3 in 2007 and way down from 30 in 1909, when it was common for people to have big families.
Mullen: National Debt is a Security Threat
The national debt is the single biggest threat to national security, according to Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Tax payers will be paying around $600 billion in interest on the national debt by 2012, the chairman told students and local leaders in Detroit.
Burn, Witch, Burn!: America Rages Against Islam
Just when the time was ripe for the people of this nation to unite in opposition to the established government, we are now beginning to see them part ways… and herded back into their respective corners.
The Internet as you know it is in serious, serious danger. Some of the most powerful communications companies in the world have been involved in negotiations and have been making agreements that would throw net neutrality out the window and would move us toward a two-tier Internet.
Video: How Technological Advancements Are Changing the World
Fantastic video on the progression of information technology, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman, remixed
A number of the world’s biggest banks back switch to Renminbi for trade
HSBC, which recently moved its chief executive from London to Hong Kong, and Standard Chartered, are offering discounted transaction fees and other financial incentives to companies that choose to settle trade in the Chinese currency.
Are we the last generation of humans as God made them?
Strange things are afoot at this moment in the world of biological science. The intrigues are made more mystifying by quantum leaps in artificial intelligence.
Self-described CIA assassin dies in gun accident
Roland W. Haas, a senior intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve who claimed in a 2007 memoir that he was a CIA assassin, died over the weekend when he accidentally shot himself, police in Georgia said.
22-mile-long oily plume mapped near BP well site
Scientists on Thursday reported results from the first detailed study of a giant plume of oily water near the blown-out BP well — stating that it measured at least 22 miles long, more than a mile wide and 650 feet tall.
Top economists: The second Great Depression has arrived
David Rosenberg, market guru, has officially declared that the US economy is in a state of depression, and he sees the economic superpowers woes worsening.
VIDEO: Cramer Predicts “Mass Panic” In Markets, “Shocker” GDP Figure
We won’t have to wait long to find out. GDP figures are likely to be announced just before 10am EST this morning. The outcome will go a long way to defining exactly how wrong the happy-clappy “recovery” crowd were all along.





























































