US congratulates Karzai on 'historic' re-election
The United States congratulated Hamid Karzai on his "historic" re-election as Afghan president and looks forward to working with him, the American embassy in Kabul said in a statement Monday.

Jewish directors challenge Israel
A series of controversial Israeli films are provoking outrage and plaudits in equal measure at the London Film Festival. The best documentary award has gone to one of the year's most controversial films.

UK - Sacked – for telling the truth about drugs
The Government's drugs tsar was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.

1,000 Iraqi detainees risk execution as premier rules out clemency
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wants to have more than 1,000 Iraqi detainees executed before the general elections scheduled for January 2010.

This man wants to lead you!
In the fight for the choice of new global leadership this man stands out, becoming a key part of the plans of the New World Order.

Karzai handed second term after Afghan election run-off cancelled
Afghanistan’s election commission cancelled the second round of a presidential poll today and declared President Karzai the winner after the last-minute withdrawal of his only rival.

'Torture flight' plane spotted in Birmingham
An American plane named in an inquiry by the European parliament into alleged CIA torture flights landed at Birmingham airport last month and was met by British special forces helicopters.

60 people have already died in Ukraine. Ministry of Health requests silence
A closed meeting has been held in Ivano-Frankivsk, at which participants agreed that epidemic of the so-called "pneumonic plague" is being spread throughout Ukraine. But the problem is its form is unknown, it is ATYPICAL nobody knows how to treat it.

One in five young Swedes doubt al-Qaida 9/11 guilt
Almost one in five Swedes aged under 30 think that George W Bush's US government lay behind the attacks on September 11th 2001, according to a new survey by Novus Opinion.

From midnight last night, the European Commission became illegal
As of midnight last night, the terms of 26 European Commissioners expired. Of the 27-strong college, only one, President José Manuel Durão Barroso, has been reappointed. The others, on any conceivable reading of the rules, are now occupying their posts illicitly. Why is the EU, yet again, disregarding its own rules of procedure? Because the composition of the Commission would be altered by the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty, and Eurocrats were reluctant to go through an appointments procedure under the existing rules.

Swine Flu? Typhus? Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever? Pneumonic Plague? Panic Explodes As A Mystery Illness Rips Through Ukraine
Tonight the nation of Ukraine is in an absolute state of panic as a mystery illness rips through that country.

Clinton rejects PA settlements condition
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday night rejected Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's demand that Israel freeze all settlement activity as a precondition to negotiations.

Deputy PM confirms: Israel is gathering intel inside Lebanon
On Wednesday, Lebanese troops found and dismantled four rockets ready for launching near the border with Israel, one day after a Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon exploded in the Upper Galilee, marking the first such incident since last month.

Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister
The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan.

Food Stamps Will Feed Half of U.S Children at some point in their childhoond
Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.

Senate Republicans threaten to boycott climate bill
Republicans are threatening to boycott a Senate committee's work this week on a sweeping climate change bill. Six Senate Republicans urged Environment committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer to postpone any action on the legislation until a full economic analysis of it is completed

US Supreme Court refuses to hear Gitmo case
The US Supreme Court refused Monday to consider the case of a Yemeni detainee held at Guantanamo Bay despite a lower court order for his release. Without giving an explanation, the Supreme Court said it would not take up the case of Yasin Muhammed Basardh, who was ruled innocent of terrorism charges by a US court some six months ago but remains incarcerated at Guantanamo.

Appeals court: Detained Canadian cannot sue the US
A Canadian engineer cannot sue the United States after being mistaken for a terrorist when he was changing planes in New York a year after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

Obamamania gives way to luke warm support
A year on from a historic election, the spirit of popular goodwill that yielded America's first black president has retreated.

The Worst Bill Ever
Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all.

Barack Obama faces triple election defeat on anniversary
Victories in the governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey and a contest for a vacant House of Representatives seat in New York would deliver a blow to Mr Obama almost exactly a year to the day since he won the presidency.

Guantánamo suspects want to stay, say officials
As President Barack Obama's deadline to close Guantánamo looms, some occupants of the notorious detention centre would rather prolong their stay than be sent to maximum security prisons on the US mainland, according to camp officials.

House Republican Leader: ‘Political Rebellion’ Going on in America
We are in the middle, I think, of a political rebellion going on in America and this rebellion are by people who really have not been actively involved in the political process and they don’t really care whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican they want to see people who are going to stand up and protect the future for our kids and grandkids."

Space arms race inevitable says Chinese commander
An arms race in space is an "historical inevitability", a senior Chinese air force commander has warned, marking an apparent shift in Beijing's opposition to weaponising outer space.

Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen
Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering.

Contaminated Food (Video)
A short Documentary Clip briefly explaining the intentional contamination & monopolization of the World's Food Supply.

Profit Drive Swine Flu Propaganda — Pump Up the Volume - Part Six
Most American are unaware that flu vaccines still contain thimerosal and that to avoid mercury, they have to ask for mercury-free shots.

Flight taxes hiked to bail out banks: It's nothing to do with environment
Flight taxes are being raised to help bail out the banks, Alistair Darling admitted yesterday.

New Russian combat robot to replace soldiers
A Russian-made robot that can simultaneously fire three types of weapons against enemy soldiers, fortifications and even tanks was displayed at the 13th INTERPOLITEX-2009 International Exhibition of State Security Technology.

IMF sells 200 tonnes of gold to India
The International Monetary Fund kicked off the sale of more than 400 tonnes of gold with a wallop, saying it sold almost half to India, the world's biggest gold consumer, at near-record prices.

Do Saudis have the clout to destroy NYMEX?
The Saudis have dropped a key US benchmark for crude oil – but why?

Janet Tavakoli: Goldman Sachs: Reasonable Doubt
U.S. taxpayers have a right to recover money paid out for derivatives on deals that include phony collateral.

Take the Long View for Gold & Silver
In the long run, all currencies are losing purchasing power against gold, which is the important point. Don't get caught up in the daily, weekly or even monthly price changes in the precious metals that occur as a result of the volatility of fiat currencies.

Goldman Looks to Buy Fannie Tax Credits
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in talks to buy millions of dollars of tax credits from government-controlled mortgage giant Fannie Mae, but the potential deal is running into opposition from the U.S. Treasury, which could block the deal.

Currency crisis on way, says investor
Jim Rogers, the international investor and chairman of Rogers Holdings, has warned of a currency crisis within the next couple of years.

The U.S. Must Develop Its Resources
Only Congress stands in the way of the abundant copper, gold and silver in the U.S.

What Is Money? Part 11: The Great Default
The governments of every major nation are going to default on their debts. There are two relevant questions: (1) How? (2) When?

CIT Bankruptcy Filed: US Will Likely Lose $2.3 Billion, Goldman Sachs Will Gain $1 Billion
CIT's move will wipe out current holders of its common and preferred stock, likely meaning the U.S. government and taxpayers will lose the $2.3 billion sunk into CIT last year to prop up the ailing company. Goldman Sachs however, will gain $1 billion because of CIT's bankruptcy, according to a report published Oct. 4 by theFinancial Times.

Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes
When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced firsthand the perils of subprime mortgages.

Pandit ‘Near Death’ Hoard Signals Lower Bank Profits
Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are hoarding cash as if another crisis were on the way.

It is Japan we should be worrying about
Japan is drifting helplessly towards a dramatic fiscal crisis. For 20 years the world's second-largest economy has been able to borrow cheaply from a captive bond market, feeding its addiction to Keynesian deficit spending – and allowing it to push public debt beyond the point of no return.

Stiglitz Says U.S. Recession ‘Nowhere Near’ End After GDP Jump
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz said the U.S. recession is “nowhere near” an end and the economy’s third-quarter growth rate of 3.5 percent, the first expansion in more than a year, won’t carry into 2010.

Criminal Rothschilds (Video)
"If my sons did not want wars, there would be none." ~ Gutle Schnaper, Mayer Amschel Rothschilds wife.
I am one of those who do not believe the national debt is a national blessing... it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country
Andrew Jackson, Letter to L. H. Coleman of Warrenton, N.C., 29 April 1824

CIT Group files for prepackaged bankruptcy
CIT Group Inc, a century old lender to hundreds of thousands and small and medium-sized businesses, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, as the global credit crisis left it unable to fund itself and the recession clobbered its loans.

How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting.

Secession: Timing Is Everything
By Russell D. Longcore
If states secede at the time that Washington is drowning in worldwide debt and the financial markets worldwide cause the collapse of the dollar, Washington may be powerless to stop secession.

McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?
By Scott Ritter
The legitimate requirements of American national security will not be satisfied by any massive military commitment to the region.

The Paranoid Center
By Jesse Walker
How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent

Drug-War Assassinations
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The U.S. government has now extended its assassination program to the drug war. According to the New York Times, the Pentagon now has an assassination list for suspected drug dealers in Afghanistan.

Money Supply Timebomb and Fiscal Nightmare
By Robert Murphy
The government has seized and spent so much in just the last year that it’s easy to focus on the issues of the day, losing track of the big picture.

Obama Resuming G.W. Bush's "Extraordinary Renditions"
By Sherwood Ross
With some modifications, the Obama administration appears to be carrying forward the ugly practices of the Bush and Clinton imperial presidencies, hardly the “change” for which the American people had hoped. Unless you count “chump change.”

Be Prepared for the Worst
By Ron Paul
The large-scale government intervention in the economy is going to end badly.

Copenhagen Agreement is a Plan for World Government
By Janet Albrechtsen
The "scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention" that starts on page 18 contains the provision for a "government." The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.

The Afghan election: a five-star debacle
In Afghanistan's disreputable 2009 presidential election, everyone's a loser. Hamid Karzai's "victory", achieved by fraud and now by default, has left him a tarnished, diminished figure. The US administration that orchestrated the whole process still lacks the credible partner in Kabul it says is essential for success.

America's Drug Crisis: Brought to You by the CIA
By Dave Lindorff
The opium, and resulting heroin, that is flooding into Europe and America thanks to the CIA’s active support of the industry and its owners in Afghanistan are doing far more grave damage to our societies than any turbaned terrorists armed with suicide bomb vests could hope to inflict.

Read the Bills? How about Reading the Constitution?
By Gene Healy
Read the bills? It's more important for congressmen to read the Constitution. They'll be pleased to learn that it's short and written in plain English.

Europe's own surveillance state
It's not just Whitehall we have to keep an eye on – to defend our civil liberties we must watch Brussels too

Cameron risks wrath of Tory Eurosceptics as he signals there won't be vote on Lisbon Treaty
David Cameron signalled today that he will not be able to hold true to his pledge to give the public the chance to vote on the controversial Lisbon Treaty.

European Union to police drivers with black boxes
The European Union is drawing up plans for aircraft-style black box recorders to be fitted to all cars to help the police identify who is responsible for crashes.

Obama's latest use of "secrecy" to shield presidential lawbreaking
What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret.

1,600 are suggested daily for FBI's list
Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.