Twin bombs kill 23 in Pakistan's Karachi
Two suicide bombers on motorcycles struck a bus and hospital in Karachi on Friday, killing 23 people and targeting Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's financial capital for the second time in six weeks.

Mysterious Danish group builds exotic compound on Baja Coast
“We don’t yet understand what the purpose of Tvind is,” offers Danish reporter Jakob Rubin, quoted in the Miami New Times story. “Yes, Mr. Petersen is trying to collect millions, but that [simple answer] is not satisfying. We believe they were trying to create an alternative economic world order.”

Climate emails: were they really hacked or just sitting in cyberspace?
More than two months after the moment that thousands of confidential emails, documents and computer code from the University of East Anglia (UEA) was released online it remains a mystery who was behind the hack.

Dubai: We Will Go After Netanyahu If Mossad Killed Member Of Hamas
We will issue a warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's arrest if it turns out Israeli intelligence was behind last month's killing of a Hamas strongman, Army Radio quoted Dubai's police commissioner on Thursday.

Israel stole 2 billion dollars from Palestinian workers: 40-year deception exposed
Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than two billion US dollars by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were never entitled, Israeli economists have revealed.

Women Paid 10 Cents to Sew $80 NFL Peyton Manning Jerseys
Forced overtime, cheated of wages, constant harassment, trapped in abject poverty in a Salvadoran sweatshop.

EU: hackers broke into cap-and-trade system
Hackers stole user passwords, pollution permits worth $4.15 million

'Russia guarantees delivery of S-300 system to Iran'
Iran's ambassador to Russia says Moscow has guaranteed that it will deliver the S-300 missile defense system to Iran.

The Expanding US War in Pakistan
Three US special forces soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan this week, confirming that the US military is more deeply engaged on the ground in Pakistan than previously acknowledged by the White House and Pentagon.

US Baptists charged with Haiti child abduction face 15 years in jail
Ten American missionaries arrested as they tried to take 33 Haitian children across the border to the Dominican Republic were charged last night with child abduction and criminal conspiracy.

India forms new climate change body
The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group headed by its own Nobel prize-winning scientist Dr R.K Pachauri.

Discussing Iran sanctions hinders diplomacy: China
China told other world powers on Thursday that discussing broader sanctions against Iran was counterproductive, striking a blow to a Western push to rein in Tehran's nuclear program.

Iraq condemns lifting candidate ban, MPs to meet
Iraq's government called on Thursday for a special session of parliament and branded as illegal an appeals panel decision to suspend a ban on candidates suspected of ties to an outlawed party until after an election.

India offers to resume talks with Pakistan
India has offered to resume official talks with Pakistan that were suspended after the bomb attacks on Mumbai (Bombay) in 2008.

New Iraqi media rules raise specter of muzzled past
Battling what it says are broadcasts that incite sectarian violence, Iraq wants to impose new restrictions on the media that critics say could bring back draconian censorship last seen under Saddam Hussein.

Video shows fighter jets shooting down US missionaries
A video has emerged showing a bungled CIA operation that led to the shooting down of a light plane carrying American missionaries in Peru.

New Balkan Wars Loom on the Horizon
The contours of the Kosovo separatists' plan to suppress the Serbian resistance in the northern part of the province with the help of the US and the EU are getting increasingly visible.

U.S., Haiti holding talks on detained missionaries
The U.S. and Haitian governments are holding talks on the fate of 10 American missionaries accused of illegally trying to take children out of the quake-hit Caribbean country, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.

FAO Raises the Red Flag over Food Situation
An estimated 3.8 million Kenyans will require emergency food aid this month amid a relentless rally in prices of key cereals.

Shocking stories of US tortures in Afghanistan
An ever increasing number of U.S. troops are fighting for peace in Afghanistan. But an investigative journalist claims to have revealed the shocking truth about surprise night raids by American forces and secret prisons where detainees are routinely tortured. In an exclusive interview to RT, Anand Gopal says Obama's mission in Afghanistan is not much different from Bush's in Iraq.

Forget Polls, Here’s Tangible Proof the Obama Honeymoon is Over
One sign that Washington, D.C., had been home to Obama Mania was the number of independent retailers selling all sorts of Obama merchandise.

GA Senate Passes Bill Opposing Involuntary Microchips
A bill that prohibits microchips from being involuntarily implanted in humans overwhelmingly passed the State Senate today.

Shakeup in the Texas Governor's Race?
The conventional wisdom has generally held that Debra Medina's presence in the primary race would have effect of forcing a runoff between Governor Perry and Senator Hutchison--but that assumes Senator Hutchison comes in second on election day. Given Medina's recent rise in the polls, that's no longer a valid assumption.

Pennsylvania State Capital Mulls Bankruptcy as a Budget Option
Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, will consider Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection along with tax increases and asset sales as options to address $68 million in debt service payments due this year, the chairwoman of a City Council committee said last night.

Treasury expects to hit debt limit in February
The Treasury Department said Wednesday that it expects to reach the government's limit on borrowing, known as the debt ceiling, by the end of this month.

Intel Chief: U.S. at Risk of Crippling Cyber Attack
The United States is at risk of a crippling cyber attack that could "wreak havoc" on the country, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said.

Obama Submits Largest Budget in History, But Portrayed as Fiscal Conservative by Networks
ABC, CBS and NBC reports on federal budget give the president pass on spending, ignore critical liberal and conservative economists who argue it is 'unsustainable.'

Next in line for a bailout: Social Security
Don't look now. But even as the bank bailout is winding down, another huge bailout is starting, this time for the Social Security system. A report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that for the first time in 25 years, Social Security is taking in less in taxes than it is spending on benefits.

Study: Hunger in America jumps ‘unprecedented’ 46 percent
It was not long ago when President Barack Obama’s new drug czar, former Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske, swept into Washington, D.C. and declared the “drug war” a public policy relic.

Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power
In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and American power.

MET Office Relying On Amateur Computer
A COMPUTER that cost £30million was supposed to improve weather forecasting at the Met Office.

Israeli study shows variable sea level in past 2500 years
“Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today is in fact nothing new,” explains Dr. Dorit Sivan, who supervised the research.

Patient in a vegetative state ‘talks’ to scientists
British scientists are hailing a world-first ‘ conversation’ with a man diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state.

NASA Still Spreading Antarctic Worries
NASA themselves appear very confused about Antarctic temperature trends.

Climategate spreads like an ozone hole
Scientists at the heart of the Climategate controversy face new allegations which cast further doubt about global warming. Analysis shows researchers had tried to suppress key details of their findings for twenty years.

Dentist puts tell-all microchip in tooth
Dr. Kevin Brunski wants to chip your tooth. More specifically, the Crown Point dentist, who has a patent pending on his invention, I-Denti-Fied, hopes to one day see every person in the United States wearing the device -- a chip about the size of a grain of rice that stores a person's unique identification number linked to his or her entire medical history.

Leaked climate change emails scientist ‘hid’ data flaws
Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.

824,000 Jobs Will Disappear on Feburary 5th
When the government releases Friday's employment report, nearly a million jobs could be erased. The change won't show up in the monthly report Rather, the expected drop will show up in the government's revised job losses from April 2008 to March 2009, showing the labor market was in much worse shape than we knew at the time.

Global markets rout hits Asia
Mounting fears about parlous government finances in Europe hammered stock markets across Asia on Friday following New York's worst finish since November.

Fears Rise of Euro Government Default
Financial markets swooned Thursday amid rising fears of a government debt default in Europe, highlighting the seriousness of the challenges facing the euro currency as fiscally challenged countries like Greece, Portugal and Spain dig themselves out of debt.

Portugal near political crisis over debt
Portugal moved towards a political crisis on Thursday night as its finance minister appealed to opposition parties not to defeat the minority Socialist government over a regional finance bill that he said would undermine the country’s international credibility.

Euro Bludgeoned As Portuguese Government Debt Disaster Sparks Credit Default Swap Panic
The Eurozone has become a cluster of sovereign financial explosions lately. The latest burst comes from Portugal.

Poof: Another 800,000 jobs disappear
As bad as the government's jobs readings numbers have been during the Great Recession, we'll soon find out the real situation likely was worse.

NY Fed chief worries about recovery's strength
A top Federal Reserve official says he's worried about the weakness of the economic recovery but doesn't think it will slip into another recession.

New York AG filing civil charges against BofA
The New York Attorney General's office said Thursday it is filing civil charges against Bank of America and its former CEO Ken Lewis, saying the bank misled investors about Merrill Lynch when it acquired the Wall Street bank in late 2008.

U.S. business bankruptcies rose 7 pct in January
U.S. business bankruptcy filings rose 7 percent in January from a year ago, according to a bankruptcy data provider on Wednesday, as the sluggish economy hurt sales and hindered businesses' ability to
refinance heavy debt obligations.

Retailers Likely to Close More U.S. Stores: Analysis
Retailers are likely to close more U.S. stores to cut costs in the months ahead after expanding during the recession, an analysis shows.

Loan repurchases are a $10 billion problem for big banks
Just when they thought the worst of the mortgage crisis was behind them, billions of dollars in bad loans from the debacle may be rising from the dead and creeping back on the balance sheets of the largest U.S. banks.

The Bankruptcy of the United States is Now Certain
It's one of those numbers that's so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while... Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And that's not counting any additional deficit spending, which is estimated to be around $1.5 trillion.

U.S. May Lose 824,000 Jobs as Employment Data Revised: Analysis
The U.S. may lose 824,000 jobs when the government releases its annual revision to employment data on Feb. 5, showing the labor market was in worse shape during the recession than known at the time.

The Fort Knox Conundrum: Chinese say they received bogus bars of gold traced to U.S.
Could over 1 million bars of gold, much of which is still held in Fort Knox, Ky., be counterfeit?

Patriot Act - Eight Years Later
By William Fisher
After 2009 - a year when federal prosecutors charged more suspects with terrorism than in any year since the attacks of September 11, 2001 - and in today's atmosphere of heightened fear triggered by the aborted plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, Congress will begin again this month to consider reauthorization of key parts of the USA Patriot Act.

When the Military Serves as Police
By Jacob Hornberger
What happens when the military is used in a police capacity? You get a "war on terrorism," one in which people think that the laws of war now apply to the situation.

IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks
By Marc Sheppard
Unquestionably the world’s final authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s findings and recommendations have formed the bedrock of literally every climate-related initiative worldwide for more than a decade.

Ron Paul on Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano
Ron Paul discusses the corrupt Treasury Department and lots more.

It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt
The truth is that the U.S. government now owes more dollars than actually exist.

The crisis is not over
By Paul Craig Roberts
The threats to the U.S. economy are extreme. Yet, neither the Obama administration, the Republican opposition, economists, Wall Street, nor the media show any awareness.

The Great Global Arms Bazaar
By Michael Werbowski
Currently, “the military industrial complex” seems to be thriving even in these hard times.

20 reasons Global Debt Time Bomb explodes soon
By Paul B. Farrell
Retire? You can fuggetaboutit if the new Global Debt Time Bomb is detonated by any one of 20 made-in-America trigger mechanisms.

Ron Paul On The Tea Party Movement
Warning voters about the dangers of an overstretched and overcommitted government, Paul provided today’s Tea Partiers with a blueprint for grassroots success.

The True State of the Union: We Have No Rights Whatsoever
It has been almost a week since President Obama gave his first State of the Union address, and it has been analyzed from the left, right, center, front, and back. Of course, the speech is really about the performance of the federal government, particularly its wonderful accomplishments under the leadership of the sitting president.

The lessons of Iraq have been ignored. The target is now Iran
The US military buildup in the Gulf and Blair's promotion of war against Tehran are a warning of yet another catastrophe

Michael Mann as innocent as OJ – possibly more so – finds internal Penn State investigation
Penn State University has completed its internal investigation into potential wrongdoing by its star professor Michael Mann, creator of the most discredited graph in scientific history – the incredible, completely made-up Hockey Stick.

Penn State report on Mann: new investigation to convene
Excerpts from the report are below, where they considered 4 allegations. They say only one had merit. That will be the subject of the upcoming investigation.

Taking the ‘Neo’ Out of ‘Conservative’
By Jack Hunter
Neoconservatives care about one thing—war (and where they can wage it).

A CIA Propaganda Apparatus Aimed At The American People
If we remember these mistakes from the Iran-contra era, we might avoid repeating them as we face the era defined by the war on terrorism.

The government has your baby's DNA
When Annie Brown's daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.

NYPD repeatedly arrests wrong man
A New York man repeatedly mistaken by police for a fugitive with the same name said legal action against the department has not stopped the arrests.

Intelligence chief acknowledges U.S. may target Americans involved in terrorism
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair acknowledged Wednesday that government agencies may kill U.S. citizens abroad who are involved in terrorist activities if they are "taking action that threatens Americans."

Justice Minister reluctant to store data
The European Court of Justice has told Sweden that it must implement a 2006 measure requiring telecom operators to store information about their customers’ phone calls and emails.

Google Boondoggle With No Such Agency
The descent down the slippery slope picks up a little more speed.

US doing 'scientific research' to boost interrogations
An elite US interrogation unit will conduct "scientific research" to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.

Does safer flying mean a risk of radiation?
So-called “naked” body- scanning machines at airports, the latest defence against would-be plane bombers, have already raised concern for breaching flyers’ privacy and, potentially, feeding the voyeurism of security officials. But could being screened also pose a health risk?