Pope to meet Irish bishops on child abuse scandal
Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops are preparing for an unprecedented meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. They have been invited by the Pope to discuss the Irish Church's response to the child sex abuse scandal.

America's deadly robots rewrite the rules
Consider: for the first time ever, a civilian intelligence agency is manipulating robots from halfway around the world in a program of extrajudicial executions in a country with which Washington is not at war.

The new McCarthyism sweeping Israel
To disagree with the state is to 'delegitimise' the state: that is the increasingly strident response of the country's political and military establishment to those who dare to criticise its conduct

Pakistan's top court strikes down presidential order, raising fears of instability
Pakistan's Supreme Court suspended the presidential appointment of two top judges in an emergency ruling late Saturday that could cause a destabilizing clash between the judiciary and the unpopular, Western-backed government.

Ahmadinejad: Iran doesn't need nukes, they haven't helped Israel
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country does not need nuclear weapons and is capable of defending itself without them.

What the New 9-11 Photos Show
There is certainly a great deal of evidence contained in these hundreds of photographs, which will take some time to analyze, but one thing is very clear. The Twin Towers were turned into dust.

Government climbdown over David Kelly post-mortem report
The Government has backed down over a move which threatened to delay the release of the post-mortem of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly.

US troops kill 12 Afghan civilians
The US and British led offensive in Helmand province, Afghanistan, has claimed the lives of 12 civilians.

New blow to election credibility
Any lingering hope that Iraq can hold a credible and peaceful election suffered a further blow yesterday when the leading secular nationalist bloc suspended its participation.

Israel not able to attack Iran, ex-IDF chief says
Former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Dan Halutz says Tel Aviv is not able to launch a preemptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.

Goldman Sachs accused of rigging tax vote
A BANK has been accused of rigging a public vote on whether the City should pay a levy on its wheeler-dealing.

Suit: Prostitute, strippers part of Blackwater fraud
Two ex-Blackwater Worldwide employees allege the company charged the government for a prostitute and strippers and kept incompetent personnel for financial reasons, part of what they call a systematic pattern to defraud authorities.

Utah delivers vote of no confidence for 'climate alarmists'
The US's most Republican state passes bill disputing science of climate change, claiming emissions are 'essentially harmless'

USA accidentally admits that Iran has no nuclear weapons program
The White House on Thursday said Iran's declaration of producing first stock of enriched uranium for a research reactor was based "on politics", and "not on physics."

U.S. in talks with Bulgaria on missile shield
The United States is holding informal talks with Bulgaria on hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield on its soil, the U.S. ambassador to the Balkan country said Friday.

PA official: Israel's anti-terror campaign going too far
Israel overstepping boundaries with covert assassination campaign, Senior Palestinian source tells London-based newspaper; Egyptian official says Israel has stepped up anti-terror activity across Mideast

US Launches Massive Attack On Taliban Despite Olympic Truce
In ancient Greece, the Olympics festival were a sacred time of truce. For the duration of the games, the conflicts between cities such as Sparta and Athens were resolved within the Stadiums, not on the battlefields. When the founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre De Coubertin, organized the 1896 Olympics in Athens he had the very same intention.

Yemen rebels carry out ceasefire terms
Shi'ite rebels say they've pulled out of an occupied airport in northern Yemen and are preparing to release Saudi prisoners in line with a truce agreed with the Sanaa government.

New 9/11 photos ‘prove WTC exploded from inside’
New picture releases are shedding light on September 11th, some say they prove that the assault on America proves a homegrown attack.

Iran envoy reminds France of skeleton in closet
Iran’s Ambassador to France Mehdi Mir Abu Talebi has called on French officials to be even-handed in their dealings with Iran.
Speaking to Press TV on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Mir Abu Talebi reminded France of its secret role in helping Israel develop its nuclear program in 1950s.

Israel is accused of waging covert war across the Middle East
Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities.

Major Operation Against Taliban Under Way
British troops are engaged in fierce fighting with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan as Operation Moshtarak gets under way.

New tax bombshell: 20% VAT
A rise in VAT is looming whichever party wins the general election, as Labour and the Conservatives draw up plans to balance Britain’s books.

Twitter diplomacy: Envoy says Russia will 'kick ass' of US
Russia's ambassador to NATO said Wednesday in a post on his Twitter feed that the proverbial Russian bear would "kick the ass" of the United States and its allies if cornered by a new US missile shield.

'US to expand military centers in Pakistan'
A senior US official says the American military plans to expand new training centers inside Pakistan in a bid to boost its so-called war on terror.

Who Wants to Bomb Iran?
They’re back! The “Bomb Iran” crowd is making a big return to the political center stage after months of puzzlement over what to do about developments in the Islamic Republic.

Bishop Suspect In Newton Mail Bomb Attempt
Woman Accused Of Killing 3 Alabama Professors Was Suspect In 1993 Attack On Harvard Professor

Professor accused in Ala. slayings shot her brother in Mass. 24 years ago
The University of Alabama biology professor accused of opening fire and killing three colleagues at a faculty meeting Friday shot and killed her teenage brother more than two decades ago in Massachusetts, according to authorities. But a local police chief and the district attorney’s office gave differing accounts today of the 1986 shooting, which occurred at the siblings’ home in Braintree, raising questions about the handling of that case.
(Kills her brother but doesn't go to Jail?)

Obama Poised to Use Executive Power to Muscle Through Domestic Agenda
Faced with a resurgent GOP and a largely stalled legislative agenda, President Obama is planning to use his executive powers to forge ahead with his domestic initiatives, including on energy, the environment and the economy, The New York Times reported

UAHuntsville Shooting Suspect, Dr. Amy Bishop, in Custody
She remarked, "It didn't happen. There's no way." WHNT NEWS 19'S Nick Banaszak asked her, "What about the people who died?" Bishop replied, "There's no way. They're still alive."

Google Cache : Bishop’s Lab Was Developing a “Neural Computer”
My laboratory’s goal will be to continue in our effort to develop a neural computer, the Neuristor™, using living neurons. This computer will exploit all of the advantages of neurons.

Amy Bishop charged with murder in UAH shooting
The Harvard-educated geneticist and her husband, Jim Anderson, are credited with inventing a mobile cell incubation system touted as a replacement for the old-fashioned petri dish. UAH President David Williams predicted in November 2008 that the couple's InQ device would "change the way biological and medical research is conducted."

The battle of 9/11’s ailing first responders
No one should be sheltered from scrutiny as no one should be denied justice, including the dispensers of justice themselves and the Bush administration.

Fort Worth 912 President Comes Out In Support Of Medina
I was born in Dublin, Ireland 38 years after the 1916 Easter Rising in which a band of Irish patriots rose up against oppressive British rule of their country. After an initial success in taking over the Dublin General Post Office, the rebellion eventually failed. The leaders, heroes to the Irish people, were summarily executed.

With Glenn Beck leading the charge, mainstream media swarms on TX Gov. candidate Medina for not disavowing 9/11 Truthers
Today, in a move that illustrates exactly why Glenn Beck has painstakingly tried to portray himself over the past year as some kind of man of the people while hosting a show on the infamous Fox News Channel that cheered the War in Iraq, he turned an interview with Debra Medina, a candidate for the TX Governer seat, into a PR ambush on her and the 9/11 Truth movement.

Perry Supporters Caught Posting Fake Pro-Medina Comments on Dallas Morning News
It is a clear violation of the terms of service.

Debra Medina Says Comments on Glenn Beck Show about More than 9/11
Debra Medina, a Republican candidate in the Texas gubernatorial race, is walking back some comments she made earlier today on the Glenn Beck radio show suggesting the U.S. government could have had a role in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
(Manufactured Controversy Backfires on the Globalists)

Snow in all 50 states? New storm could make that true.
The South faces the brunt of another major East Coast snowstorm. If the Florida Panhandle gets an inch or two as expected, then there will be snow in all 50 states.

Obama signs bill raising debt limit to $14.3 trillion
The United States can now legally go up to $14.3 trillion in debt, as President Obama today signed a new ceiling for red ink.

Few Want Members of Congress Re-Elected, Poll Finds
Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to a CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters.

77 Percent of People in Mumps Outbreak Were Vaccinated Against the Disease
Anyone fully vaccinated from mumps receives two doses of the vaccine, according to the CDC. Of the New Jersey cases, 77 percent were vaccinated, Terjesen said.

Not just ClimateGate – we must remember the entire paradigm of green lies over thirty years
Every ecological problem was instantly transformed into a potential world-ending crisis, from the population bomb to the imminent resource depletion of the “limits to growth” fad of the 1970s to acid rain to ozone depletion.

New Paper in Science: Sea level 81,000 years ago was 1 meter higher while CO2 was lower
This Week in SCIENCE, Volume 327, Issue 5967, Food Security dated February 12 2010.

Climategate: The Official Cover-up Continues
If there’s one thing that stinks even more than Climategate, it’s the attempts we’re seeing everywhere from the IPCC and Penn State University to the BBC to pretend that nothing seriously bad has happened.

The Bank Of England Engaged In Flagrant Gold Manipulation In The Interwar Period Via The New York Fed; Does History Repeat Itself?
The implications regarding the possibility of comparable deceitful and treasonous acts by modern central bankers are staggering.

Commercial Real Estate Losses Could Hit $300 Billion: TARP Panel
Losses from defaults on commercial real estate loans maturing in the next few years could go as high as $300 billion, threatening to topple nearly 3,000 community banks nationwide, a federal watchdog group has concluded.

As Default Rates on Borrowing for Higher Education Rise, Some Borrowers See No Way Out; 'This Is Just Outrageous Now'
When Michelle Bisutti, a 41-year-old family practitioner in Columbus, Ohio, finished medical school in 2003, her student-loan debt amounted to roughly $250,000. Since then, it has ballooned to $555,000.

The FDIC is Broke: $13 Trillion in Assets is Unprotected
The FDIC, that enigmatic seal of security on your bank entrance, is virtually bankrupt. The FDIC provides deposit insurance to over 8,000 banks that collectively hold $13 trillion in assets.

Faber says correction is underwy and all governments will default

Credit Suisse Declares the U.S. a Riskier Investment Than Indonesia
Amid fears that Switzerland might come to an agreement with the United States on banking privacy and tax evasion disclosures, Credit Suisse issued a report identifying those countries it determined to have the highest risks of default on their sovereign debts.

New Phase, Not Just Another Recession
Although the current domination of our economy by finance capital seems new, it is in fact a throwback or “retrogression” (as financial expert Michael Hudson puts it) to the capitalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that is, the capitalism of monopolistic big business and gigantic financial institutions.

Beijing Seen Vacant for 50% as Chanos Predicts Crash
Jack Rodman, who has made a career of selling soured property loans from Los Angeles to Tokyo, sees a crash looming in China.

Inspector General: We're All on Welfare Now
When Inspector General Neil Barofsky, testified before Congress late last month, he received ample coverage for highlighting the incompetence of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in his work bailing out AIG.

Just How Ugly Is The Sovereign Default Truth? How Self Delusions Prevent Recognition Of Reality
When psychologists evaluate human behavior, one of the most prevalent observations regarding any activity is the all too often flawed basis of perceived versus realistic outcomes that dictates our every action.

Sparse U.S. Listings Prompt Rush on China I.P.O.’s
Last April, when global financial markets were collapsing, a Chinese Web site named Sohu.com made a bold move to spin off its online gaming unit and list it on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Why cities aren't hitting panic button -- yet
Cities and other municipalities are in a world of budgetary hurt. Is a wave of bankruptcies on the way?

Collapse of the euro is 'inevitable': Bailing out the Greek economy futile, says FRENCH banking chief
The European single currency is facing an 'inevitable break-up' a leading French bank claimed yesterday.

Greece turns on EU critics
Greece on Friday unleashed a fierce attack on its European Union partners, accusing them of creating a “psychology of looming collapse” a day after they pledged support for the country’s crisis-hit government.

Plot thickens in the battle of 'The Plunge'
The Treasury Department has records of the secret meetings that its President's Working Group on Financial Markets held to discuss the troubled financial markets, after all. That doesn't mean Washington wants us to know what was discussed, or whether Wall Street executives were in the meetings.

The Run On Greece Is Here: Investors Pull Out €10 Billion From The Troubled Country; Crisis Escalation Approaches
Remember the proverbial run on the bank? Well, that was the norm (or rather the outlier) before governments decided to backstop entire financial industries residing within their territo

How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debt
Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country's already bloated deficit.

Greece: How the Bond Vigilantes Left It in Ruins
While Greece is uniquely dysfunctional, there's a lesson here for any country with a heavy debt load, including Britain, Japan, and the U.S.: The bond market is treacherous

Fed in Talks With Money Market Funds to Help Drain $1 Trillion
The Federal Reserve is in talks with money-market mutual funds on agreements to help drain as much as $1 trillion from the financial system as policy makers prepare for the first interest-rate increase since June 2006, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

Dennis Kucinich declares emperor has no clothes: US government assassinations of citizens unlawful
By Carl Herman
Congressman Dennis Kucinich has used the opening of US admission of extrajudicial assassinations to request US Attorney General Eric Holder take two commendable and necessary steps:
1. Declare the acts as obviously unconstitutional (in text to explain their legal status).
2. Request disclosure of all information of Blackwater/Xe and any other company’s involvement in extrajudicial assassinations.

Is Clarence Thomas Compromised?
The Franklin Scandal is a book about child abuse, political corruption, and compromised politicians, and Clarence Thomas may fall into the latter category.

Secession in the Air
By Patrick J. Buchanan
No, it is not 1860 again.

Torture is a crime, not a state secret
By Matthew Harwood
The UK court ruling in the case of Binyam Mohamed demonstrates once more that judges on both sides of the Atlantic have had enough of governments hiding behind national security "secrets" to shield themselves from their many trespasses in the "war on terror".

Surveillance Society: Obama Takes a Blue Pencil to the Bill of Rights
A. BARTON HINKLE
With the world's attention riveted by the earthquake in Haiti, few noticed when, late last month, a federal judge took a pair of sharp scissors to the Bill of Rights. But on Jan. 22, federal district judge Vaughan Walker agreed to dismiss a lawsuit over warrantless wiretapping, as the administration -- the current one -- had requested.

Palin is a Neoconservative, not a Tea Party Constitutionalist
By Michael Pento
Sarah Palin is missing the nucleus of what the Tea Party activists are all about. They are not looking for another John McCain or George Bush. While I sympathize with much of Palin's platform, she misses the entire isolationist sentiment of the movement.

The Obama Retirement Trap Has Started
By Ron Holland
Reports out of Washington indicate that new retirement annuities may be promoted by Obama aides. This is just the beginning!

Zionism Unmasked: "Anti-Semitic" – the label that stops criticism
By Paul J. Balles
First, the expression "anti-Semitic" is a misnomer. It's defined as "hating Jews or Judeophobia." The label "anti-Semitism" is wrong because not all Jews are Semites, and many Arabs are.

Caller Angus Calls Out Glenn Beck On His BailOut Hypocrisy (Video)

Don’t trust Glen Beck, he is bought and paid for controlled opposition
He betrayed us because thats his job. He is an agent of disinformation and he is also what is called Controlled Opposition.

US Poised to Commit War Crimes in Marjah
The United States and NATO are poised to launch a major assault in the Marjah District in southern Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians are in imminent peril. Will President Obama and Congress act to protect civilians in Marjah, in compliance with the obligations of the United States under the laws of war?

A Political firestorm is inevitable as the Tea Party is quietly targeted for capture!
By Dale Robertson
I am sending an alarm to the Tea Party membership! Be alert to turncoats and deceivers being herded into the Tea Party by usurpers from the weakened Republican Party for the sole purpose of capturing our populist movement.

NEOCON GUERRILLA’S IN THE MIDST: Glenn Beck’s Take-down of Debra Medina
Were it not clear before yesterday in the manner which Glenn Beck sandbagged and set a trap for surging Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina who was rising in the polls and closing in on establishment insiders Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchinson, it should be clear now that Glenn Beck is an inside job, an establishment status quo shill masquerading and posing as a revolutionary.

The NRA Horns in on Supreme Court Gun Case and Hires Attorney that Argued in Favor of DC Gun Ban.
On January 25, the Supreme Court granted the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) motion for a divided argument in the McDonald v. City of Chicago gun rights case.

During the Olympics, The Feds Will Be Reading Your Tweets – And the Blotter
As the winter Olympics begin, the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that it will be monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats. Among the sites listed in a privacy impact statement filed Friday afternoon by DHS are the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, Twitter, Google and this web site, the Blotter.

Ridicule of Conspiracy Theories Focuses On Diffusing Criticism of the Powerful
The label “conspiracy theory” is commonly used to try to discredit criticism of the powerful in government or business.