Sarkozy goes prime-time after mass protests
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to take to the airwaves Thursday in a bid to take the steam out of mounting public anger over layoffs and his strategy to battle the global downturn.
Investigators are not sure whether the bomb was placed on or near Pierce's Lexus hybrid SUV, police said.
Medical pot backers say LA raids betray Obama vow
Several recent federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in California have betrayed President Barack Obama's campaign pledge to halt such busts if elected, medicinal cannabis advocates said on Wednesday.
Rothschilds and Geography
Was Hitler a secret agent of the Rothschilds? Reportedly, some members of the Warburg banking family were given a Nazi escort out of Holland in a sealed train.
Senate seeks to Revise Stimulus Bill
Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they do not have the votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said that to gain bipartisan support, they will seek to cut provisions that would not provide an immediate boost to the economy.
The War on Terror is a Hoax
By Paul Craig Roberts
According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on all Americans and violate most other constitutional protections. Among President Bush’s last words as he left office was the warning that America would soon be struck again by Muslim terrorists.
State may compensate juveniles sentenced by judges in Luzerne
State lawmakers are seeking ways to compensate children sent to detention centers by a pair of Luzerne County judges charged with taking kickbacks for sending juvenile defendants to facilities in Luzerne and Butler counties.
So a planned casino junket for employees of Wells Fargo, New Mexico's largest bank, has been canceled under a storm of criticism.
Are the states really broke or hiding assets?
By Devvy Kidd
Are all these governors stupid? Have they never heard of the 'national debt'? Where do they think this "money" will come from? This worthless fiat currency will have to be borrowed by CON-gress from the "FED."
Foreclosures Now One in Five Home Sales
Home values in the United States fell for the eighth consecutive quarter, declining 11.6 percent during 2008 to a Zillow Home Value Index of $192,119, according to the fourth quarter Zillow Real Estate Market Reports, which encompass 161 metropolitan areas.
City police sued over strip search
A Baltimore man filed a $210 million civil lawsuit yesterday against the city Police Department, a former commissioner and several officers in connection with a 2006 incident during which he says a band of rogue cops held him at gunpoint in the street, stripped him and searched his rectum in front of about 30 onlookers.
UK and US put Iran at heart of the agenda
Iran dominated Hillary Clinton's first meeting as Secretary of State with another foreign minister, as she and David Miliband discussed ways of curbing its nuclear ambitions.
Time seen running out for attack on Iran
Israel has a year in which to attack Iran's nuclear facilities pre-emptively, an Israeli legislator and weapons expert said on Wednesday.
Israeli Spokesman Says We Control Stupid Americans
"Another Israeli spokeswoman, Tzipora Menache, stated that she was not worried about negative ramifications the Israeli onslaught on Gaza might have on the way the Obama administration would view Israel. She said 'You know very well, and the stupid Americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the White House.
Madoff whistleblower to slate 'inept' SEC regulators
The man who repeatedly tried to blow the whistle on Bernard Madoff's $50bn (£34.7bn) fraud will this morning brand regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission as "inept" and "financially illiterate".
Vatican: Bishop must recant Holocaust denial
The Vatican says it has ordered a controversial bishop who denies the Holocaust to "distance himself" from his views "in an absolutely unequivocal and public manner."
Cheney Warns Of New Attacks
Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.
Obama seeks to recover after 'screw up'
President Barack Obama sought to recover on Wednesday from his toughest day in office yet after admitting he "screwed up" in a storm over taxes that forced his pick to lead health reform to withdraw.
Obama: Enough Of This Crap
This is FOUR people who you've appointed that can't pay their damn taxes, including your Treasury Secretary?
I'll tell you what would be change. Since it appears that a huge percentage of the current and former Congressional delegation has cheated on its taxes - after all, what are the odds you only picked the tax cheats, if you want me to believe in your idea of CHANGE you will immediately order all member of Congress in both Houses to undergo full IRS audits all the way back to the Statute of Limitations (three years), along with all of their staff.
Victims of the Tax Code? Not So Fast.
The tax system is complicated. It is, according to many lawyers and tax preparers, in need of sweeping reform.
But the tax code can hardly be blamed for the recent problems of Obama administration appointees who came up short in what they owed the government, several tax experts said yesterday.
How public sector informers are creating Stasi Britain
Sometimes you have to pinch yourself to remember that Britain has historically always been the cradle of liberty. For today we seem to be sliding inexorably into a culture of control which would have been very familiar to the Stasi or the KGB.
Iraq investigating serious vote fraud allegations
Electoral officials are examining serious complaints of vote fraud in Iraq's western Anbar province, where Sunni Arab tribal leaders are disputing provincial election results.
Find may revolutionize computers
Scientists at Edmonton's National Institute for Nanotechnology have made a significant breakthrough that could help pave the way for new generations of smaller, more energy-efficient computers.
North Korea may test-fire missile toward Japan-media
North Korea may be preparing to use the site of its previous ballistic missile launches on the east coast to fire its longest range missile, possibly toward Japan, news reports said on Wednesday.
Arctic Sea Ice Increases at Record Rate
Something I’ve been interested in for the last several months is sea ice data. What makes it interesting is that as I understand it, models demonstrate the poles should be most sensitive to global warming leading the planet temp, especially in the Arctic. Recently I have been able to process the monthly and daily gridded arctic data as provided by NSIDC. The daily values allow a better analysis of trend than can be provided by the monthly data.
Watching Our Rulers Destroy Our World
By Robert Higgs
Our rulers are destroying the economy. Not little by little, as they usually do, but in huge swaths. Each great assault on the free market, whether it be denominated a bailout, a stimulus, or some other species of purported salvation, brings us visibly closer to the complete ruin of an economic order that required centuries to build.
Barack Obama’s strange new political bedfellows
By Wayne Madsen
On the evening of January 31, Washington’s political and business elite met under the aegis of the annual dinner of the Alfalfa Club, billed by the Washington corporate media as one of the nation’s capital’s most secretive and elite groups.
More examples of your STIMULUS programs!
$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film. Their playing us for fools!
U.S. Sold Phosphorus Shells Used in Gaza to Israel
The United States sold phosphorus artillery shells made at the Pine Bluff Arsenal to Israel — the same kind of rounds allegedly used against civilians during the recent fighting in Gaza.
Get to know your American police state, one victim at a time
My brother, who lives and tends bar in Pittsburgh, called last night to inform me that Pennsylvania taxpayers apparently are getting quite the value out of their "homeland security" dollars. Not only was the Southside area of the Steel City militarized with police in riot gear, but a couple of his buddies were treated to the full wrath of the police state on Sunday night after the Super Bowl.
Even left now laughing at global warming
So-called "global warming" has shrunk from problem to punch line. And now, Leftists are laughing, too. It's hard not to chuckle at the idea of Earth boiling in a carbon cauldron when the news won't cooperate
City Workers Accidentally Dump Hydrochloric Acid into Ohio Water Supply Instead of Toxic Fluoride
When you dump the wrong chemical into the public water supply, it makes people nervous. Yesterday, chemical treatment plant workers in Bellaire, Ohio, accidentally dumped 40 pounds of hydrochloric acid into the public water supply instead of 40 pounds of toxic fluoride chemicals they were supposed to dump.
109 Journalists Killed in 2008
A total of 109 journalists and support workers died worldwide covering the news in 2008, according to a count of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) on Tuesday.
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.
