Iran sends first home-built satellite into orbit
Iran said on Tuesday it has launched its first home-built satellite into orbit, raising fresh concerns among world powers already at odds with Tehran over its nuclear drive.
Reports: NKorea preparing long-range missile test
North Korea's apparent preparations for a ballistic missile test, reportedly detected by South Korean officials monitoring a train headed to a launch site, appear to be the country's latest attempt to get President Barack Obama's attention.
Israel warns Lebanon over Hezbollah man's memorial
Bracing for reprisals a year after the assassination of Hezbollah's military mastermind, Israel said on Tuesday it would hold Lebanon responsible for any such attacks by the guerrilla group.
Congress opens secrets to local first responders
Terrorists could be lurking in some American town but the local sheriff or fire chief might be left in the dark about the threat because he can't easily access information classified by the Feds in Washington.
That scenario could change under legislation passed by the House Tuesday to reduce over-classification of threat information.
"Classifying information for the wrong reasons - to protect turf or to avoid embarrassment - is wrong," said Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., sponsor of the bill that passed on a voice vote. She said that in her eight years on the House Intelligence committee, "I become incredibly frustrated with this practice - which the Bush administration elevated to an art form."
The legislation would require the Homeland Security Department to produce a declassified version of threat information for state and local first responders who don't have the security clearance to view classified material. Rep. Jane Harman also sponsored the Orwellian "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007"
Sprott Says U.S. Depression Will Boost Gold Price
Eric Sprott, the Canadian money manager who last year predicted banking stocks would collapse, said the U.S. is at the beginning of an economic depression that will help gold prices more than double.
Cures for Our Economic Disease
By Ron Paul
I have recently had several opportunities on various news programs to discuss the economy and what is wrong with the so-called economic stimulus package. I have said over and over what we shouldn’t be doing, and now I’d like to explain what we should be doing.
Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings
Follow the journey of secret societies from England to the New World and learn of their ancient hope: to rebuild the lost empire of Atlantis.
BILL COOPER - MYSTERY BABYLON SERIES - AMERICA'S ASSIGNMENT
Mystery Babylon is a series of shortwave radio broadcasts made by former naval intelligence officer and author Milton William Cooper, which originally aired on his show, The Hour of the Time, on WWCR in 1993-1994. The title refers to mystery religions, and the biblical figure the Whore of Babylon. The series, a culmination of over 30 years of research into the history of the Mystery Schools, Freemasonry, and the New World Order. Note: If you click on the link it will take you to BILL COOPER's - MYSTERY BABYLON SERIES on Google video.
Obama’s Foreclosure Plan May Back Rewritten Loans
The Obama administration is considering government guarantees for home loans modified by their servicers, seeking to stem the record surge of foreclosures that’s hammering U.S. property values.
Australia launches massive stimulus package
The Australian government launched a 42 billion dollar (26 billion US dollar) stimulus package Tuesday as the global financial crisis dragged the economy towards recession.
Palestinians move for Gaza war-crimes probe
The Palestinian Authority has recognized the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in a move aimed at allowing an investigation of possible war crimes during the recent Gaza conflict, the court said Tuesday.
New Israeli raids looming over Gaza
Israel threatens to launch new airstrikes on Gaza two days after the Israeli premier vowed a 'disproportionate' response to Palestinian rocket attacks.
IAEA defends Iran against misinformation
Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei says the world should not hype the issue of Iran's nuclear enrichment.
US supply routes in Afghanistan squeezed 2 ways
U.S. troops in Afghanistan saw their supply lines squeezed from the north and east Tuesday after militants blew up a bridge in Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan's government said it would end American use of a key air base following Russia's announcement of new aid.
Japan on the Edge of the Abyss
Japanese manufacturers cut production an unprecedented 9.6 percent last month, deepening a recession that’s expected to be the worst in the postwar era.
GM sales plunge 49 percent
General Motors Corp (GM.N) reported a 49 percent drop in January sales on Tuesday, a steeper-than-expected plunge that came as overall U.S. auto sales tumbled to their lowest level since 1982.
Father Coughlin Speaks Against the Federal Reserve
He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as more than forty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s.
New Hampshire Reclaims State Supremacy
Leading by example the people of New Hampshire have boldly put the federal government on notice with HCR 6 - A Resolution affirming States' rights based on Jeffersonian principles.
Can you imagine any state in today's economic turmoil putting the federal government on notice? Well, that is exactly what New Hampshire has done and all other states should follow their example. With their House Concurrent Resolution they've spelled out exactly what violations will no longer be tolerated. More over the resolution doesn't stop at a mere legislative warning but carries it to the executive and judicial realms as well. Listen to the language from the resolution; hear it echo in your mind.
Google and Nasa back new school for futurists
A technology-focused school called Singularity University will open on the Moffett Field campus of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration this summer.
Crisis heightens danger of global social unrest
World leaders in Davos, well aware of recent riots and spreading political discontent, vowed to do more to prevent the financial crisis causing deeper economic damage and making global poverty worse.
Did Israeli officials help U.S. firms win security tenders?
A secret seven-year investigation at the Defense Ministry has raised concerns that senior ministry officials used inside information to help certain American companies win more than $100 million in security-equipment tenders advertised in the United States.
However, the state prosecution closed the investigation in late 2007, citing insufficient evidence, after the ministry stalled the probe due to fears it would harm Israel-U.S. ties.
13 killed in Mexico cartel violence
Drug-linked violence has taken the lives of 13 people, including a police officer, in northern Mexico near the border with the US.
Obama More Deadly for Afghan Civilians than Bush
Simple arithmetic reveals that the eleven days under the Obama clock were 18-50% more deadly for Afghan civilians than the twenty days under the Bush regime
Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision
By Gareth Porter
CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months at an Oval Office meeting Jan. 21.
Obama: Hope, Change and Tax Cheats
When has Obama ever shown any backbone when it comes to his shady associations? So much for his “new era of responsibility.”
Tax Problems For Another Nominee
Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.
Daschle pushed Hindery for Obama job
Tom Daschle backed the patron who paid him a million-dollar salary and supplied him with a free car and driver for a job inside the Obama administration, two Democrats said Monday.
But the news that Daschle did not pay taxes on the imputed income for the car and driver has put the spotlight on Hindery, a blustery, left-leaning mogul with an office in Chrysler Building, a table at the Four Seasons, and a passion for race cars, who has styled himself as organized labor’s Robert Rubin.
Beijing rocked by 26 million lost jobs
An estimated 26 million poor rural Chinese are now without jobs after pinning their hopes on the once-booming manufacturing sector, where work has dried up due to the global economic slowdown, a government advisory body said.
Jailed – judge who refused to say sorry
Birtukan Mideksa has been sentenced to life in prison. She spends her days and nights in solitary confinement in a two-metre by two-metre cell. She cannot leave it to see daylight or even to receive visitors. Previous inmates say the prison is often unbearably hot.
Her crime: refusing to say sorry. The judge, aged 34, is the head of Ethiopia's most popular political party, the only female leader of a main opposition party in Africa.
Schwab announces Global Redesign Initiative, says G20 not enough
The World Economic Forum will launch in the upcoming weeks an initiative to focus on reshaping the global financial systems, its founder Klaus Schwab announced Sunday in the closing hours of this year's Davos meeting.
'We will start a Global Redesign Initiative in next few weeks,' Schwab said in an impromptu statement.
German troops to be sent to France for first time in 65 years
France and Germany are expected to give details this weekend of an agreement to station hundreds of German troops on French soil for the first time since the second world war, in a region the countries have squabbled over for centuries.
The historic move for troops in either Alsace or Lorraine is part of a 20-year joint military project to encourage reconciliation between the two countries.
African Union creates new 'authority'
THE African Union Commission will be transformed into a new AU Authority, as a compromise step toward eventually forming a continent-wide government, the bloc announced today.
Too much television can make children 'mentally ill'
The report claims that some advertisers "explicitly exploit the mechanism of peer pressure, while painting parents as buffoons" and that in its most extreme form, advertising persuades children that "you are what you own".
Big Pharma's Drugs to be Weaponized to Fight "Mind Wars" on Future Battlefields
Pharmaceutical products could be employed to boost the performance of one army's soldiers while undermining the minds of those on the other, according to a National Research Council report drafted for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
The Death of American Leadership
By Paul Craig Roberts
Vast numbers of people in the United States and abroad are hoping that President Obama will end America’s illegal wars, halt America’s support for Israel’s massacre of Lebanese and Palestinians, and punish, instead of reward, the shyster banksters whose fraudulent financial instruments have destroyed economics and imposed massive sufferings on people all over the world. If Obama’s appointments are an indication, all of these hopeful people are going to be disappointed.
AG Nominee Holder Suggests Secret Memos May Be Released
Last week, we published the first comprehensive list of the Bush administration's still-secret legal memos on torture, detention and warrantless wiretapping. There are far more secret memos than had been previously understood.
Glasnost In London – War Fever In Washington
By Eric Margolis
What used to be called "Cool London" looks more like "Crash London" these days. Of all the leading industrial nations, Britain has so far suffered more than any other nation, even the United States.
SCENARIOS-Will North Korea launch a war?
North Korea appears to be preparing to test-launch its longest range ballistic missile, media reports said on Tuesday, just days after Pyongyang warned that the Korean peninsula was on the brink of war.
Detainee-Informer Presents Quandary for Government
An admitted Taliban fighter being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, fingered a fellow detainee for meeting regularly with Osama bin Laden. He identified another detainee for fighting at Tora Bora, along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and a third for manning an antiaircraft weapon in Afghanistan. He claimed that a fellow Yemeni was one of bin Laden's bodyguards.
Chinese now spending more money overseas
Some Chinese are so eager to turn their yuan into other assets that when an online real estate brokerage organised a tour of foreclosure auctions in the United States, it received so many applications that it had to turn away nearly 400 people.
2 of 2 NYPD pockets cash confiscated in bar raid
The New York City Police Department has launched an internal probe to investigate a raid on a Staten Island bar. In a video posted on YouTube, cops can be seen smashing gambling machines and putting confiscated cash into their pockets. This video is from New York Post, broadcast Feb. 2, 2009.
Networking site cashes in on friends
Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by creating one of the world's largest market research databases.
N.Korea preparing for ballistic missile launch
North Korea appears to be preparing to test-launch its longest range ballistic missile, media reports said on Tuesday, stoking tensions just days after the reclusive state warned that the Korean peninsula was on the brink of war.
Holder confirmed as attorney general
The U.S. Senate confirmed Eric Holder as attorney general Monday, voting 75-21 to place him in charge of the Department of Justice.
Lobbyists Raise Stimulus Price Tag
Lobbyists for industry and labor are gearing up to add costly proposals Tuesday to the Senate's nearly $890 billion economic stimulus plan.
Deadly Force
What a SWAT team did to Cheye Calvo's family may seem extreme. But decades into America's war on drugs, it's business as usual.
Call for pope to step down over Holocaust denier
Attacks on Pope Benedict XVI's decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust denier escalated Monday, with one theologian calling on him to step down as the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
RIGHTS: Call to Try Bush
Now that former U.S. president George W. Bush is an ordinary citizen again, many legal and human rights activists in Europe are demanding that he and high-ranking members of his government be brought before justice for crimes against humanity committed in the so-called war on terror.
The Political Suspicions of 9/11
A coming episode of the acclaimed FX drama “Rescue Me” will tackle what may sound like a far-fetched plot line: that the attacks of Sept. 11 were an “inside job.” The actor who espouses the theories on camera, it turns out, also subscribes to them in real life.
Ex-ISI chief: Nuke India if necessary
Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Hamid Gul says Islamabad should not hesitate to use nuclear weapons against New Delhi.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Civil Rights
By Howard Nemerov
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence hailed the 2008 presidential election as “a decisive victory for common sense gun laws.” Sarah Brady said: “There is no indication that any candidate, at any level, lost their election because of their support for reasonable gun measures.”
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Meanwhile, the financial system did not collapse and while a few banks were failing, there were no runs on them, and martial law wasn’t invoked. One reason things didn’t fall apart when Congress didn’t immediately act as Paulson and Bernanke demanded, may be that there wasn’t any danger of a meltdown in the first place. So say three senior economists working at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, who in October examined the Fed’s own data, and concluded in an article titled Facts and Myths About the Financial Crisis of 2008 that the claims that interbank lending and commercial lending had seized up were simply not true.
U.S. partner, not Hamas, firing rockets into Israel...
With Hamas signaling it is willing to enter a cease-fire with Israel, it was the U.S.-backed Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas whose so-called military wing took responsibility for a barrage of rockets and mortars fired from the Gaza Strip today.
Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree
Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses.
African Union creates new 'authority'
THE African Union Commission will be transformed into a new AU Authority, as a compromise step toward eventually forming a continent-wide government, the bloc announced today.
U.S. Economy: Manufacturing Shrinks, Spending Falls
Manufacturing in the U.S. shrank again last month and consumer spending recorded an unprecedented sixth monthly decline in December, offering no sign the economy has hit bottom.
Daschle apologizes for failing to pay taxes
Trying to salvage his nomination, Tom Daschle apologized Monday for delinquent tax payments as President Barack Obama and a top Senate chairman stood by him as the choice to lead the Health and Human Services Department.
Mullen: Fiscal Crisis Is Security Threat
By Tom Philpott
Though he's a warrior, not an economist, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, ranks the financial crisis as a higher priority and greater risk to security than current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bailed Out Bank of America Sponsors Super Bowl Fun Fest
Despite a near collapse that required $45 billion in federal taxpayer bailout funds, Bank of America sponsored a five day carnival-like affair just outside the Super Bowl stadium this past week as President Obama decried wasteful spending on Wall St.
RCMP agent concedes key role in set-up, running of terrorist training camp
But Mitchell Chernovsky, the lawyer for the defendant, now 21, plans to argue that the police agent committed more illegal acts than his client, found guilty of participating in terrorist training led by Mr. Shaikh. The lawyer is arguing that police agents cannot commit crimes to unfurl wider conspiracies – at least not unless special strictures are followed.
Economists who study fiscal-policy history divide the world’s governments into two categories. There are the so-called Ricardian governments, which wisely plan their taxes and spending so that they balance over time. Then there are the Nonricardian governments, which spend and borrow until they collapse.
Iceland's Warning to the World
First came the financial crisis, then the uproar: Iceland is the first European country to suffer the full effects of the global financial crisis. Is this a taste of what's in store for the rest of the world? To a very large degree, this economic collapse is an indictment of the two party system and the failed U.S. policies promoted by both controlling political parties over the years. But on the other hand it's working out quite well for the bootlicking politicians and their friends that wanted to turn this country into a nation of debt slaves.
Investing In Liberty for Fun and Profit
By Michael Gaddy
At this point in history, I believe the opportunity presently exists for investing in the tools of liberty in combination with the ability to profit from the exchange. To any discerning, educated mind, the ability to purchase firearms and ammo could be rapidly coming to an end.
Rahm Emanuel, if you are on No Fly List, No Gun!
Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) speaking at DC's annual Stand Up For a Safe America event sponsored by the Brady Center says if your name is on the terrorist no fly list you should not be allowed to own a gun.
Chinese military chief vows nuclear, conventional build-up
China will accelerate the build-up of its nuclear and conventional arsenal to form a credible deterrent, the general in charge of the country's strategic missile force said.
FDA Approves 18 Drugs from Pharma Company Accused of Conspiracy, Fraud
The FDA has approved 18 products for market from generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories, even though the company is currently being investigated by Congress for making substandard products and conspiring to fraudulently cover it up.
Israeli warlord vows face-off with Iran
Israeli election frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu says his first mission if elected prime minister would be to 'thwart the Iranian threat'.
Humans 'Will Be Implanted With Microchips'
All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says.
Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong's School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term "uberveillance" to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance.
Uberveillance is not on the outside looking down, but on the inside looking out through a microchip that is embedded in our bodies," Dr Michael told ninemsn.
Microchips are commonly implanted into animals to reveal identification details when scanned and similar devices have been used with Alzheimers patients.
But Dr Michael said the technology behind uberveillance would eventually lead to a black box small enough to fit on a tiny microchip and implanted in our bodies.
This could also allow someone to be located in an emergency or for the identification of corpses after a large scale disaster or terrorist attack.
"This black box will then be a witness to our actual movements, words — perhaps even our thoughts. It's time to wake-up! This shit is real! If they ever figure out a way sneak up on the American people with these types of devices, it may very well be all over! That's why this is so important. I've been trying to warn people about this for years. At times it doesn't seem like many people out there believe. That's what I was trying to point out the other day when I wrote, "The crooks and occultists engineered this financial crisis to help put the final touches on their NEW World Order. I was listening to Jordan Maxwell today on the radio and that's basically what he also thought. I guess it's ok if someone of his stature talks about things like that and how the occultists want to turn us into cyborg's and how all that ties in together, but let someone like me write and warn others about something like that, and their marginalized or put down."
Rather those types of people know it or not, their a danger to themselves and the cause the claim to champion and no one wins in a situation like that other than The New World Order.
General Wants to Scan More U.S. Irises, Fingerprint
Air Force Gen. Victor Renuart, the Pentagon's homeland security commander, thinks one of the tools the military uses to combat insurgents in Iraq -- the collection of biometric data -- is needed here at home.
Obama: Trilateral Commission Endgame
By Patrick Wood
As previously noted in Pawns of the Global Elite, Barack Obama was groomed for the presidency by key members of the Trilateral Commission. Most notably, it was Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller in 1973, who was Obama's principal foreign policy advisor.
Nests In Hell
By Pakistan Daily
American leadership has turned our government into a special-interest Hydra owned and ruled by financial gangsters, the industrial military complex, and the American Israeli Public Awareness Committee (AIPAC).
Hamas 'would recognise' pre-1967 Israel
Hamas would recognise Israel if it withdraws to its pre-1967 borders, a French Jewish writer said this week after meeting the exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Khaled Meshaal.
"He told me that Hamas was prepared to recognise Israel on the lines of June 4, 1967. He told me so several times," Marek Halter told AFP on Monday.
Banks sought foreign workers
Banks collecting billions of dollars in federal bailout money sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers to the U.S. for high-paying jobs, according to an Associated Press review of visa applications.
Iraqi voter turnout lower than expected
Just ove r half of Iraq's voters turned out for provincial elections that were hailed as a political milestone for the future of the war-torn nation, officials said on Sunday.
End the Fed
Presented by Ron Paul at "Our Enemy, Inflation," the Mises Circle in Houston, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded Saturday, 24 January 2009.
A sewage treatment facility in central Japan has recorded a higher gold yield from sludge than can be found at some of the world's best mines. An official in Nagano prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, said the high percentage of gold found at the Suwa facility was probably due to the large number of precision equipment manufacturers in the vicinity that use the yellow metal. The facility recently recorded finding 1,890 grammes of gold per tonne of ash from incinerated sludge.
Two children should be limit, says green guru
COUPLES who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating an unbearable burden on the environment, the government’s green adviser has warned.
Obama: Regime Rotation
By Nafeez Ahmed
The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era.
Israeli warlord vows face-off with Iran
Israeli election frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu says his first mission if elected prime minister would be to 'thwart the Iranian threat'.
Local Police Want Right to Jam Wireless Signals
As President Obama's motorcade rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, federal authorities deployed a closely held law enforcement tool: equipment that can jam cellphones and other wireless devices to foil remote-controlled bombs, sources said.
BBC abandons 'impartiality' on warming
Again and again the BBC has been eager to promote every new scare raised by the advocates of man-made global warming, says Christopher Booker.
Plight of the humble bee
Native British bees are dying out — and with them will go flora, fauna and one-third of our diet. We may have less than a decade to save them and avert catastrophe. So why is nothing being done?
Obama Stands By Daschle Pick Despite Tax Problem
U.S. President Barack Obama sought Saturday to rally support for his emerging economic rescue package, as he stood by his latest cabinet nominee to run into tax problems that could impede Senate confirmation.
Afghans threaten troops over civilian deaths
Three recent U.S. Special Forces operations killed 50 people — the vast majority civilians, Afghan officials say — raising the ire of villagers and President Hamid Karzai, who set a one-month deadline for his demand that Afghan soldiers play a bigger role in military operations
Former Interior Official Pleads Guilty to Accepting Kickbacks
A former Interior Department official pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting $15,000 in kickbacks from an insurance company in exchange for arranging meetings with government officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Davos Delegates in ‘Denial’ as $25 Trillion of Wealth Vanishes
Regret is cheap for some delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Redemption for their role in the worst economic wreck since the Great Depression comes at a steeper cost.
“Nobody in Davos wants to get near a negative like redemption,” said Robert Dilenschneider, chief executive officer of the Dilenschneider Group, a public relations firm in New York. “But the truth is that everyone here is part of the problem, and the public will soon begin demanding a pound of flesh.”
