Baby dies as parents raise virtual child online
A Korean couple let their baby starve to death while they were busy raising a virtual child online, police said.

Christmas Day terror plot plane would have landed safely even if ‘underpants’ bomb had blown up
A bomb on board a U.S. Christmas Day flight would have failed to bring the plane down even if it had been detonated successfully, a new test explosion suggests.

Iraq Opens Up to Foreign Oil Majors
BP Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. took the best deal they could get in Iraq last year when they won the largest oil contracts since addam Hussein was toppled in 2003. Oil companies may wait a long time to get a better one.

Moscow’s First Tea Party
We take you back to May 1, 1990; to one of the global elitists now hovering in the dark of Obama’s corner.

Mossad helped buy off 9/11 litigants
Feinberg's actions were crucial to removing more than 98 percent of the families from the litigation process.

118 UN members reaffirm support for Iran's N-program
As the West pushes for new sanctions against Iran, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) moves to issue a new statement, voicing its support for Iran's peaceful nuclear program.

An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia
If this 563-page heavily documented book by Bill Hendon and Elizabeth A. Stewart, published in 2007, doesn't make your blood boil, you are either as cold blooded as a snake or you are completely lacking in reading comprehension skills.

Sarkozy Plans to Tighten Grip on French State-Owned Companies
“The state must completely overhaul its shareholder’s role in the big industrial companies,” Sarkozy said.

U.S. Wages Food War Against Somalia
While nearly half the population of Somalia teeters at the edge of starvation, the U.S. is preventing the United Nations from delivering desperately needed food.

That was a war council in Damascus
The Iranian president said he expects war to break out somewhere between spring and summer of this year.

Former ISI Head Says U.S. Creates Terror Groups in Middle East
Former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency Hamid Gol says the United States is seeking to create and train terrorist groups in the region.

Greek protestors occupy finance ministry (With Video)
Hundreds of demonstrators have blockaded the Greek Finance Ministry in Athens to protest against harsh new austerity measures aimed at pulling the country out of its financial crisis.

Indonesia's president calls for calm over bank bailout
Indonesia's president on Thursday called for calm as he battled to save his fragile coalition following parliament's call for a criminal probe into a controversial bank bailout.

The curse of Fallujah: Women warned not to have babies because of rise in birth defects since U.S. operation
A sharp increase in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah could be linked to sophisticated weaponry used by U.S. troops in 2004, it has been revealed.

Germany Snubs Greek Aid Plea as Protest Snarls Athens Traffic
Greece’s pledge to deepen planned budget-deficit cuts failed to yield an offer of assistance from Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, as protesters in Athens seized the finance ministry building and blocked roads in the city center.

One in three killed by US drones in Pakistan is a civilian, report claims
One in three "militants" killed in US Predator Drone attacks in Pakistan's remote tribal areas is in fact a civilian, according to a report by an American think tank.

Pupils aged five on hate register: Teachers must log playground taunts for Government database
Heads will be forced to list children as young as five on school ‘hate registers’ over everyday playground insults.

Bombing in Baghdad market kills six
An Iraqi police official says six people were killed by a roadside bomb in northwestern Baghdad as early voting for parliamentary elections takes place across the country.

Iraq's Sunni voters yearn for change
The head of Saddam Hussein's tribe hesitates to talk about the ousted Sunni dictator, wary of angry reactions. But what can he do to shake the association with a man who brutally repressed Iraq's new Shi'ite leaders?

Pundits say Israeli action on holy sites may spark another Intifada
Amid spreading Palestinian protests against Israel's decision to declare shrines in two West Bank cities as Israel heritage sites, the Palestinian cabinet held a solidarity meeting Monday in the city of Hebron near one of the sites while some here worried about a new Palestinian intifada.

Interference Seen in Blackwater Inquiry
An official at the United States Embassy in Iraq has told federal prosecutors that he believes that State Department officials sought to block any serious investigation of the 2007 shooting episode in which Blackwater Worldwide security guards were accused of murdering 17 Iraqi civilians, according to court testimony made public on Tuesday.

China says 2010 defense budget to rise 7.5 percent
China's official military budget for 2010 will rise 7.5 percent over last year, an official said on Thursday, indicating a slowdown in defense spending growth.

Guatemalan police chief, drug czar detained
Guatemala's national police chief and anti-drug czar were detained Tuesday in a case of stolen cocaine that led to the deaths of five police agents.

Not a democracy? Israel 'showed its real face' in Dubai-Mossad scandal
Israel's neither confirming nor denying the claims of its involvement in the Hamas leader assasination. Meanwhile, investigators from different continues are seeking more evidence. Sabakh Al Mukhtar, from the Arab Lawyers association, is sure Mossad's behind the killi

CBO Warns Obama's Proposed Bank Fee Could End Up Costing Consumers
"The cost of the proposed fee would ultimately be borne to varying degrees by an institution's customers, employees, and investors," the CBO said today in a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley.

In e-mails, lobbyists perceive ties between campaign cash, earmarks
Lobbyists and corporate officials talked bluntly in e-mail exchanges about connections between making generous campaign donations and securing federal funds through members of an important House Appropriations subcommittee, according to not-yet-public documents reviewed by ethics investigators.

Conservatives Turn Against Liz Cheney - As Bad As McCarthy
The backlash is growing against Liz Cheney after she demonized Department of Justice attorneys as terrorist sympathizers for their past legal work defending Gitmo detainees -- and now it's coming from within deeply conservative legal circles.

Republicans red-faced over fundraising on fear
US Republicans drew fire this week after the disclosure of an internal fundraising memo that portrays President Barack Obama as the Batman films' crazed killer "The Joker."

President to meet with key senators on immigration
President Barack Obama plans to focus attention on immigration next week by meeting at the White House with two senators crafting a bill on the issue.

Parents of Pentagon Shooter Warned Police
The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday.

Twelve New England towns demand 9/11 reinvestigation
A new movement to reinvestigate the 9/11 attacks is gaining pace in the US. With major public support, 12 towns are set to decide whether to ask the federal government for a new independent probe.

Nadler Renews Call for Independent Investigation of Anthrax Attacks
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, reiterated his call for an independent investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks which killed five people and sickened 17.

Fire All 678 Congressional Staffers Who Are Tax Deadbeats?
Congressional employees who don’t pay their taxes could be fired if Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) gets his way.

The Pentagon’s Runaway Budget
With his decision to boost defense spending, President Obama is continuing the process of re-inflating the Pentagon that began in late 1998 — fully three years before the 9/11 attacks on America.

More Than a 1000 March in Berkeley to Protest Budget Cuts
UC Berkeley—where the idea of the March 4 Day of Action incubated last October—erupted into a riot of noise and colors Thursday afternoon, when more than a 1,000 students marched from Sproul Plaza to Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland.

RNC To Hold Fundraiser At Blackwater Compound
That’s the same Blackwater which has been accused of murder, illegal weapons smuggling, bribery, fraud (including using taxpayer money to buy strippers and prostitutes) and stealing weapons from the US military, among many other serious crimes.

Senate Trio Hopes to Hit Pay Dirt With Carbon 'Fee' on Fuels
Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon fee on the industry rather than wrap it into a sweeping cap-and-trade system that covers most of the U.S. economy.

Karl Rove Admits Mistake in Advising Bush on Iraq Invasion Response
Rove writes that his biggest mistake was not pushing back against claims that the president had led the country into the Iraq war under false pretenses.

Marine’s Death Caused by Afghan Security Guards Stoned on Opium?
WLS-TV in Chicago is reporting that the guards were Afghans who were high on locally produced Opium.

Admiral Mullen: foreign policy is too dominated by the military
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says US foreign policy is too dependent on military generals and admirals and not enough on the State Department.

Lip reading mobile promises end to noisy phone calls
Technology that could see an end to the bane of many commuters - people talking loudly on their mobile phones - has been shown off by researchers.

Mass Loss from Alaskan Glaciers Overestimated? Previous Melt Contributed a Third Less to Sea-Level Rise Than Estimated
The melting of glaciers is well documented, but when looking at the rate at which they have been retreating, a team of international researchers steps back and says not so fast.

Old star is 'missing link' in galactic evolution
A newly discovered star outside the Milky Way has yielded important clues about the evolution of our galaxy. Located in the dwarf galaxy Sculptor some 280,000 light-years away, the star has a chemical make-up similar to the Milky Way's oldest stars, supporting theories that our galaxy grew by absorbing dwarf galaxies and other galactic building blocks.

Fury as EU approves GM potato
The introduction of a genetically modified potato in Europe risks the development of human diseases that fail to respond to antibiotics, it was claimed last night.

Banks shuttered in Fla., Ill., Md., Utah
Regulators on Friday shuttered banks in Florida, Illinois, Maryland and Utah, boosting to 26 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year following the 140 brought down in 2009 by mounting loan defaults and the recession.

Pentagon Shooter Had An Idea For A Currency Based On Knowledge
Strange You Tube video in which gunned down Pentagon shooter presents idea for currency based on knowledge.

Faber: It’s Dead Simple, The Supply Of Dollars Will Grow Way Faster Than The Supply Of Gold
Marc Faber’s recommendation to continue buying gold every month, forever, received a full broadside on CNBC.

Germany: The Unnamed Co-Conspirator
For the better part of the past four months, Greece has been the center of the European maelstrom. It tried concealing the full magnitude of its deficits and debt for years. The proverbial chickens came home to roost when George Papandreou led the Socialists to electoral victory and when he went into the Treasury and found the cupboards were worse than bare.

The 2009 Financial Report Of The U.S. Government Is Out - America's Economic Goose Is Cooked
The 2009 Financial Report Of The U.S. Government has finally been released, and the news is not good. It basically confirms much of what we already know - that the United States government is a complete financial mess.

More Headaches For The Goldman PR Department: Here Comes The (Soon To Be) Viral Goldman Sucks Video
This video is a visualization of Matt Taibbi's "The Great American Bubble Machine"

China Trading US Dollars for US Assets
The strategy seeks higher earnings by acquiring assets while prices are depressed.

Greece Could Sell Islands to Cut Debt: German MPs
Greece should consider selling some of its islands as one option to reduce debt, two members of the German parliament in Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition said.

Doubt over control of U.S. budget grows
As U.S. lawmakers got ready to push through a US$10-billion spending bill last week to extend jobless benefits, Jim Bunning threw an unexpected curveball.

Europe's New Debt Solution: Create Their Own Ratings Agency That Only Gives Friendly Ratings
Is your nation under massive financial pressure due to deteriorating sovereign debt ratings?

Barney Frank Demands Bernanke Probe Fed Involvement In Watergate Scandal And Iraq Arms Sales Following Ron Paul Questioning
A week ago Ron Paul asked Ben Bernanke a series of questions.

If your gold is at an LBMA bank, you may be just an unsecured creditor
Recently I have written several articles that have discussed how much "paper gold" has been sold, principally through the unallocated accounts of the London Bullion Market Association, though there are other vehicles that achieve the same end, such as pool accounts, unbacked exchange-traded funds, futures, and derivatives, etc., but the LBMA dwarfs them all.

Fox News tries to associate government criticism with gun violence
What does the corporate/government controlled news media want all of us to learn from this attack?

Bill Gates And Neo-Eugenics: Vaccines To Reduce Population
By F. William Engdahl
In a recent conference in California, Gates reveals a less public agenda of his philanthropy—population reduction, otherwise known as eugenics.

Lord Of The Lies
Tony Blair has a memoir on the way, and you can smell the wretched stink of its bullshit even before the plastic wrap is peeled off the first copies.

How to Fight a Better War (Next Time)
By Tom Engelhardt
Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’s never too soon to think about the next war.

George Washington: ‘… the Constitution … is sacredly obligatory upon all.’
By Dan Sherrier
Washington reminds us that despite our differences, we all share common ground that should not be forgotten.

Ron Paul: Another Crisis is Coming (Video)
Ron Paul appeared on Fox Business to discuss the economy and the coming currency crisis.

The Great Enemy of the Truth
By Richard Girard
A summation of the article is this: the set-up and cover up of John F. Kennedy's assassination precludes any theory that does not include the National Security State apparatus' involvement.

State Crimes Against Democracy
New research in the journal American Behavioral Scientist (Sage publications, February 2010) addresses the concept of “State Crimes Against Democracy” (SCAD). Professor Lance deHaven-Smith from Florida State University writes that SCADs involve highlevel government officials, often in combination with private interests, that engage in covert activities for political advantages and power.

Architects for 9/11 inquiry: Fire couldn't demolish WTC in 11 seconds (Video)
The question isn't who or why anymore so much as how. How could 200 thousand tonnes of steel have dropped to the ground in under 11 seconds because of a fire? Over a thousand engineers and architects say it simlpy couldn't, not the way it happened on September 11, and now they want a new investigation.

A FireFighter for 911 Truth - Finally (Video)
Finally, a Seattle FireFighter Eric Lawyer, for truth group for Fire Fighters to stand up and join. No longer silent, while the pieces of their fellow NY Fire Dept. firefighters lay buried in the landfill without dignity or proper burial.
Thanks to the Architects for Truth. The Science is finally proving that 911 was in fact an inside job, not made up by Conspiracy "nuts", but here Eric Lawyer states flatly that the Book for Forensic preservation of evidence from a crime scene was blatantly ignored.

Apocalypse tomorrow?
By Jerry Mazza
The advent of Chile’s shattering earthquake, magnitude 8.8, 3 a.m. Saturday, is the worst in 50 years and comes only seven weeks after the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti.

More Terrorist Blowback from U.S. Foreign Policy
By Jacob Hornberger
Immediately after 9/11, Bush administration officials declared the motivation of the terrorists: that the terrorists hated America for its "freedom and values." In other words, the 9/11 attacks, according to President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, and other U.S. officials, had absolutely nothing to do with the boiling rage in the Middle East over U.S. foreign policy.

U.S. lawmakers seek military trials for extremists
In a direct election-year challenge to US President Barack Obama on national security, lawmakers unveiled legislation on Thursday requiring military interrogations and trials for suspected terrorists.

Obama 9th Circuit Nominee: Constitution Must Adapt to Changes in the World
Even his critics describe him as "brilliant," but newly-nominated law professor Goodwin Liu will not have an easy time getting to the 9th Circuit bench.

Body scanners are headed to 11 major airports
Eleven major airports will begin using body scanners to screen passengers as the Transportation Security Administration launches a plan to buy 1,000 of the machines over the next two years.

Narus develops a scary sleuth for social media
Narus is developing a new technology that sleuths through billions of pieces of data on social networks and Internet services and connects the dots.

What In The World Are They Spraying?
What would you say if you were told that airplanes were regularly spraying toxic aerosols in the skies above every major region of the world?

Microsoft exec pitches Internet usage tax to pay for cybersecurity programs
A top Microsoft executive on Tuesday suggested a broad Internet tax to help defray the costs associated with computer security breaches and vast Internet attacks, according to reports.

Spy chips hidden in 2.5 MILLION dustbins: 60pc rise in electronic bugs as council snoopers plan pay-as-you-throw tax
The growing threat of a stealth tax on the rubbish we throw away was exposed by startling figures yesterday.

Details of “Einstein” Cyber Shield Disclosed by White House
The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary.

Police partner with license plate readers
The cameras read license plates of parked and moving cars — hundreds per minute — and check them against vehicle databases, said Lance Clem, a spokesman for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which purchased several systems for its police vehicles last fall.

Family forced to dress snow sculpture of naked woman in bikini after complaints to police
It was supposed to be a bit of fun during recent heavy snow, but one family's snow sculpture has earned a frosty reception.

Liz Cheney Falsely Claims Her ‘Al Qaeda 7’ Smear Ad ‘Doesn’t Question Anybody’s Loyalty’
As ThinkProgress has noted, Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol’s Keep America Safe organization released a web ad on Monday targeting yet-to-be named Justice Department lawyers who had worked on Guantanamo detainee issues as the “al Qaeda 7.” “Whose values do they share?”
(Meanwhile, both political parties support the Patriot Act that trashes the Constitution, while they both got us trillions and trillions of dollars into debt. As if their loyalty should not be questioned.)

Feds weigh expansion of Internet monitoring
Homeland Security and the National Security Agency may be taking a closer look at Internet communications in the future.

U.S. will determine who can board some Canadian flights
Starting in December, some passengers on Canadian airlines flying to, from or even over the United States without ever landing there, will only be allowed to board the aircraft once the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined they are not terrorists.