Human bones could reveal truth of Japan's 'Unit 731' experiments
The experiments included hanging people upside down until they choked, burying them alive, injecting air into their veins and placing them in high-pressure chambers.

‘Mossad assassination squad used British passports’
Six suspects in the assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai entered the country using British passports, it emerged yesterday.

Israeli Ambassodor Booed Off Stage!
Fantastic demonstration of peaceful and vocal protest at Michael Orens speech to UCI

Afghan Taliban Chief’s Capture Shows Pakistan May Get Tougher
Pakistan’s capture of the top Afghan Taliban commander shows that its military may be ceding to U.S. pressure for tougher action against the guerrillas, even if it isn’t prepared to do all that the Americans are demanding.

Taliban denies commander captured in Pakistan
The top military commander of the Taliban has been captured in Pakistan in a secret raid, The New York Times said, but the Taliban labelled the report rumour-mongering.

Mullah Baradar: friend or foe?
The Afghan authorities confirmed on Tuesday reports that the Taliban’s second-in-command, Mullah Baradar, has been arrested in Pakistan. But while the West considers the capture of such a ‘big fish’ a strategic victory, our correspondent points out that he was also the key to a possible diplomatic solution to the conflict.

E-mail scams exploiting Haiti earthquake generosity
Criminal gangs have been cashing in on the Haiti earthquake by seeking funds for bogus charities via millions of spam e-mails, a BBC investigation has learned.

JPMorgan Bombing: Bomb Explodes At Bank Offices In Athens
"Police in the Greek capital say a bomb has exploded at the offices of American financial services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co., causing no injuries.

Dubai Hamas assassination: Irish citizens not involved, Ireland says
The three Irish citizens who the Dubai authorities allege helped to assassinate a Hamas official do not exist, according to Ireland's Department of Foreign A

Could Iceland's Financial Meltdown Create The World's First Free Speech State?
It's no secret that Iceland was hit particularly hard by the global financial crisis. Three of its largest banks were nationalized and the government collapsed. Reykjavik, the nation's capitol, saw unprecedented riots and the Icelandic currency-- the Krona-- plummeted along with the bank accounts of every Icelander.

AP Continues to Beat War Drums Over Iran’s
Back again like a bad penny, Associated Press writer George Jahn has returned from nearly a week-long span without any fresh articles to deliver the latest claims that Iran’s civilian enrichment program is either capable of or possibly aimed toward the production of nuclear weapons.

‘Mossad assassination squad used British passports’
Six suspects in the assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai entered the country using British passports, it emerged yesterday.

Dubai Hit: Is Mossad Back On Top Of Its Game?
In 1981 two Fatah military leaders, close aides of Yasser Arafat were killed in Beirut by an Israeli hit team.

Missile that killed Afghan civilians not faulty-NATO
NATO forces in Afghanistan have resumed using a type of rocket that killed 12 civilians after concluding that the missile hit its intended target and did not veer off course, a NATO commander said on Tuesday.

Defeated Tymoshenko contests Ukraine polls
Defeated Ukraine presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday launched a legal challenge to elections won by her rival Viktor Yanukovych, even as parliament set a date for his swearing-in.

Abbas aide says bedroom tape was blackmail
Palestinian figure caught in an apparent sex-for-influence case has accused a former West Bank intelligence officer of conspiring with Israel to blackmail him financially and politically.

Operation Moshtarak: three more civilians killed in Afghanistan
Nato troops and their Afghan colleagues involved in Operation Moshtarak have suffered another blow after three more civilians were killed in the campaign against the Taliban.

Top Taliban commander held in Pakistan
The capture of the Taliban's top military commander in Pakistan followed months of behind-the-scenes prodding by U.S. officials who saw inaction by Islamabad as a major threat to their Afghan war strategy.

'Dubai hit squad stole my identity': British man's name used by assassins who executed senior Hamas leader
A British man in Israel with the same name as an alleged member of a hit squad that assassinated a top Hamas militant in Dubai said his identity had been stolen.

Census Bureau Wasted Millions on 2010 Headcount Preparations, Audit Finds
Federal investigators caution the excessive charges could multiply once the $15 billion headcount begins in earnest next month unless the agency imposes tighter spending controls, according to excerpts of a forthcoming audit obtained by The Associated Press.

USAID Steers No-Bid Haiti Contract to 'Politically Connected' Firm of Bill Clinton Friend
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded another lucrative no-bid contract, Fox News has learned -- this time to a "politically connected" lobbyist and high-profile friend of former President Bill Clinton.

Three Major Firms Pull Out of Climate Change Alliance
ConocoPhillips, BP America and Caterpillar pulled out of a leading alliance of businesses and environmental groups pushing for climate change legislation on Tuesday, citing complaints that the bills under consideration are unfair to American industry.

Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families
Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits - a "perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing," in one official's eyes.

Obama steps up nuclear investment
President Barack Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees on Tuesday to build the first U.S. nuclear power plant in nearly three decades in a move designed to help advance climate legislation in Congress.

Director Kevin Smith told he was 'too big' to fly
Clerks director Kevin Smith has revealed he was asked to get off a plane in the US because he was too big for the seats.

Debunked: ‘Christmas day bomber’ read Miranda rights – but not for nine hours
A detailed timeline released Sunday by the Obama Administration seems to have finally debunked Republican claims that a would-be terrorist clammed up after being read his Miranda rights informing him of his right to remain silent.

Rescue Efforts Resume at Mt. St. Helens
Officials Request a Military Helicopter to Search for 52-Year-Old Climber Who Fell into Volcano's Crater

Aspartame has been renamed and is now being marketed as a natural sweetener
In response to growing awareness about the dangers of artificial sweeteners, what does the manufacturer of one of the world's most notable artificial sweeteners do?

Scandinavia-gate
Yet again, we have a situation where the data doesn’t match the full-gloss coloured graphs produced by the PR agency for global warming called the IPCC.

Scientists discover the secret of ageing
One of the biggest puzzles in biology – how and why living cells age – has been solved by an international team based at Newcastle University, in north-east England.

Climategate: Viscount Monckton Takes a Victory Lap
Per a Phil Jones interview with the BBC, confirmation that the temperature record of the CRU is little better than a fabrication.

UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings
Weather stations which produced data pointing towards man-made global warming may have been compromised by local conditions, a new report suggests.

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

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.

Move Over China: Beijing Sells Whopping $34.2 Billion Treasuries In December As Japan Becomes Largest Official Holder Of US Debt
Gradually we are getting confirmation that Chinese "posturing" about offloading US debt is all too real. The most recent TIC data confirmed the Treasury's greatest nightmare: China is now dumping US bonds. In December China sold $34.2 billion of debt ($38.8 billion in Bills sold offset by $4.6 billion in Bonds purchased), lowering its total holdings $755.4 billion, the lowest since February 2009, and for the first time in many years relinquishing the top US debt holder spot to Japan, which bought $11.5 billion (mostly in Bonds, selling $1.4 billion Bills) bringing its total to $768.8 billion.

Japan eclipses China as top US Treasury holder
China's holdings of US Treasury bonds tumbled in December, allowing Japan to take over as the top holder of American government debt, according to Treasury data released Tuesday.

EU Tells Greece More Deficit Cuts May be Needed
European ministers told Greece on Tuesday it may need to take further steps to bring a swollen debt under control and calm "irrational" financial markets, as wage cuts already announced by Athens sparked another strike.

Foreign demand for Teasury securities falls
The government said Tuesday that foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities fell by the largest amount on record in December with China reducing its holdings by $34.2 billion.

Gold Jumps Most Since November on Demand for Alternative Assets
Gold rose the most in more than three months on speculation that Greek debt concerns will spur demand for the metal as an alternative to holding currency.

Wall St. Helped to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s
Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts.

Foreclosures Seen Still Hitting Prices
More waves of foreclosures will keep downward pressure on home prices in parts of the U.S. over the next several years, two new studies project.

U.K. Inflation Rate Accelerates to 14-Month High
U.K. inflation accelerated in January to the fastest pace in 14 months as an increase in sales tax pushed the rate high enough to prompt a public letter of explanation from Bank of England Governor Mervyn King.

CrisisCompanies Pull Most Bond Sales Since ‘07 Crisis: Credit Markets
Companies are pulling bond sales at the fastest pace since the credit markets seized up 2 1/2 years ago on concern that the inability of European governments to trim their budget deficits will threaten a global recovery.

Gold in euro terms hits record high 816.33 euro/oz
Euro-priced gold extended earlier gains to hit a record high 816.35 euros an ounce on Tuesday, as investors spooked by fears over the fiscal health of peripheral euro zone economies bought the metal as a haven from risk.

Spanish intelligence probing debt "attacks"-report
Spain's intelligence services are investigating the role of investors and media in debt market turbulence over the last few weeks, El Pais reported on Sunday.

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.

America—A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs
By Paul Craig Roberts
If the Treasury’s bonds can’t be sold to investors, pension funds, banks, and foreign governments, the Federal Reserve will have to purchase them by creating new money. When the rest of the world realizes the inflationary implications, the US dollar will lose its reserve currency role.

NYT Sees UN-Syria Conspiracy Theory
By Robert Parry
The New York Times simply refuses to deal with “enemy” Muslim states with any sense of objectivity or fairness, reaffirming its deep-seated bias again on Sunday with the publication of a one-sided article about the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on its fifth anniversary.

Neocon Glenn Beck On POW - 'Shoot Him In The Head' (Video)

The Miracle of the Market
By Jacob Hornberger
In preparation for the two recent back-to-back blizzards, D.C. residents were emptying the shelves of neighborhood grocery stores. Notwithstanding the pre-blizzard panic buying, what's interesting is that no one was freaking out about whether the stores would be adequately stocked after the blizzards.

Hold Onto Your Underwear
By Tom Engelhardt
Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen.

Are US Taxpayers Bailing Out Greece?
By Ron Paul
Last week we were reminded that ours is not the only country suffering from severe economic turmoil.

George Washington on defending the US Constitution: guard against impostures of pretended patriotism
By Carl Herman
After 45 years of service to the newly created United States, George Washington published a message to the American people; the summation of what he most wanted to contribute to Americans' understanding of defending our Constitutional government.

The Goal of Modern Propaganda: Mythocracy
By Cindy Sheehan
The myth is that there is a difference between an elected Democrat and an elected Republican.

The Ficticious Legal Entity Called "a Person" Col. House,left, puppeteer of Presidents
A quote, famously attributed to Rothschild agent Col. Edward House, but rarely understood except by "one man in a million" envisages people as collateral on the national debt: "[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living.

Begin's grandson: 'murderous blood flows in Israeli arteries'
"Murderous blood flows in Israeli arteries," says the grandson of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
In the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired analytic programs investigating the official account.

Hitler on Glenn Beck (Video)
“He has no credibility! All he does is giggle and whimper on the air like a little girl!”

Will Obama's Record War Budget Lead to a US Victory in Afghanistan? Don't Bet On it!
By Jack A. Smith
President Barack Obama has increased the Pentagon's perennially-bloated annual spending spree to its greatest magnitude since World War II $708 billion.

Same Empire, Different Emperor
By Laurence M. Vance
We have an empire in everything but the name.

Gaza Photo Expo Threatened with Closure
The complaints accused the exposition of being anti-Israel, but stopped short of questioning the credibility of the exposition content. “The suffering of the 1.5 million people of Gaza is an important social issue like any other,” asserted Woodley.

DHS Counter Terrorism Exec Takes Office
She will also run the Joint Fusion Center Program Management Office established within the DHS last September by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Flashback - Judge Napolitano - The MIAC report and fusion centers (Video)

A question for ‘Professor’ Beck: How would Cloward and Piven justify global taxation of carbon emissions?
According to Beck, you “don’t need a conspiracy theory” to explain the current nutty economic crisis — just Cloward, Piven, and the “progressive” agenda.

TSA Thugs Harass 4-Year-Old Disabled Boy
Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in.

No rights charge against NY police in 50-shot death
Several New York City police officers who killed an unarmed black man in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day will not face criminal civil rights charges, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Echelon computers can't cope with bad lines
Who remembers Echelon, the top-secret telecommunications spy network said to be run by the US and allied Anglophone nations, and to be triggered as soon as certain key words or phrases are spoken on the phone?

Police drones are grounded for breaking the law
When they first took off, the drones were hailed as the latest weapon in the war against crime.