D.C. Rally Completely Ignores 9-11 Beck repeatedly tells his television and live audiences, “Boldly question everything.” But not only hasn’t he questioned the government’s 9-11 conspiracy theory about Osama bin Laden and 19 Muslim cave-dwellers being the culprits behind that attack, he actually attacks those who boldly question that theory.
New Evidence Of Controlled Demolition On 9/11 In the video, at about the 0:59 mark, a high-pressure explosion occurs in one of the Twin Towers, below the impact zone, while the building is still standing.
WORLD NEWS
Top EU official battles 'anti-Semitism' charge The European Union's trade chief battled on Friday to fend off accusations of anti-Semitism after referring to the power of a "Jewish lobby" in US policy.
Police disperse rioters in Mozambique bread protests Mozambique police fired rubber bullets and teargas at demonstrators on Friday as rioting flared in the capital following two days of protests over high bread prices that saw seven people killed and hundreds wounded.
Afghan poll fears grow after another candidate hurt Concerns over security and transparency in Afghanistan's parliamentary election grew on Friday after another candidate was attacked and a German observer sought to temper expectations of the poll.
Fidel Castro warns university students of nuclear war danger Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro led his first open-air rally Friday since a near-death illness four years ago, urging thousands of students packed on the steps at the University of Havana entrance to help prevent a nuclear war.
Censored: Row over anti-immigration ad banned in Sweden A dispute over freedom of speech is raging in Sweden after an anti-immigration advert was rejected by broadcasters there. Center-right politicians say legitimate debate is being stifled and now fear right-wing parties will be unfairly treated in the run-up to upcoming elections. That's prompted calls from politicians in Denmark for election observers to be sent to its Scandinavian neighbour. One of those politicians is Michal Aastrup Jensen, a Danish member of parliament, who joins RT live from Copenhagen.
Netanyahu to US: Building Will Resume Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reiterated his previous commitment to end the Judea and Samaria construction freeze in September in a meeting Wednesday with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Netanyahu said there was “no change to the cabinet decision to end” the freeze.
Worst violence since US pullback hits Iraq Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents.
Israeli settlers start new construction, defy talks Hours before peace talks were set to begin in Washington, Jewish settlers defiantly announced plans on Thursday to launch new construction in their West Bank enclaves in a test of strength with Palestinian Islamists.
Soldiers Kill 25 in Mexico Gunbattle A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug cartel members in northeastern Mexico left 25 purported gunmen dead Thursday, the military said.
The Risks and Rewards of Royal Incest Royal incest, notes historian Joanne Carando, was "not only accepted but even encouraged" in Hawaii as an exclusive royal privilege.
Russian police raid opposition magazine Russian police, some armed and masked, raided a prominent opposition magazine on Thursday as part of an unspecified investigation, the deputy editor of the magazine told Reuters.
The Real Story: Pre 9/11 History Because it's 11 days before the 9 year anniversary of the "False Flag" attack known as 9/11 here is some Pre-9/11 History for those who still believe the official lie.
Rwanda Crisis Could Expose U.S. Role in Congo Genocide A leaked United Nations report documenting Rwandan atrocities that “could be classified as crimes of genocide” in the eastern Congo has created a political crisis that threatens to disrupt Washington’s plans to dominate the continent. Rwanda’s minority Tutsi regime – a close American client that acts as a mercenary for U.S. interests in Africa, along with Uganda – threatens to withdraw its soldiers from United Nations “peace-keeping” missions if the report is not suppressed.
Mexico president defends drug policy, admits violence worse Mexican President Felipe Calderon admitted drug violence was worsening in Mexico but said that the toppling of several major drug bosses had weakened the cartels, in his annual address Thursday.
Karzai's brother calls for U.S. to shore up Kabul Bank as withdrawals accelerate As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.
U.S. NEWS
Doctors Prescribe ObamaCare Repeal Everyone is familiar with the routine when visiting a doctor’s office: The doctor or his assistant checks the patient’s vital signs, then discusses any symptoms the patient is experiencing and examines him in relation to those symptoms. If the patient is anything less than healthy, the doctor prescribes a course of treatment.
UM report labels Discovery Channel incident “politically inspired terrorism” A new report by terrorism researchers at the University of Maryland concludes that the deadly hostage-taking incident at the Discovery Communications headquarters in suburban Washington, D.C. meets the criteria of a terrorist act – a rare one for media organizations and the nation’s capital region. Hostage-taking, though, is a familiar pattern in capital-region terror, the researchers add.
White House considers pre-midterm package of business tax breaks to spur hiring With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks - potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars - to spur hiring and combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt small businesses, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
FBI: 6 accused in forced labor of 400 Thai workers Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history.
Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as Democrats The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama.
New evidence undermines feds' case against Arizona You've heard a lot about the Justice Department's lawsuit to stop the new Arizona immigration law. But that's just one part of the Obama administration's multi-front war on immigration enforcement in Arizona.
Sestak backs off Israel letter Bill Kristol and Gary Bauer's hawkish Emergency Committee for Israel has been attacking a series of members of Congress who were among the 54 signatories to a letter, circulated by the liberal group J Street, which pressed Israel to ease conditions in Gaza and warned it to avoid imposing collective punishment on the Palestinians.
Discovery Gunman James Lee's Sordid Past as a Human Smuggler James Lee, the bomb-laden gunman who was killed by police in the lobby of the Discovery Channel, was once convicted and imprisoned for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from Mexico.
Feds sue Arizona sheriff in civil rights probe The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.
Study Shows Illegal Immigrants From Mexico Staying Put Despite Overall Decline A new study from the Pew Hispanic Center found that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States dropped significantly for the first time in two decades -- but the population out of Mexico has held steady since reaching its peak in 2007.
AZ Border Sheriff: ‘I Have About As Much Regard for the U.N. as I Do the Vermin’ Sheriff Larry Dever, whose officers patrol Cochise County along the border between Arizona and Mexico, said he finds it “amazing” that the U.S. State Department would refer the recently passed immigration law in his state to the United Nations Human Rights Council for review.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
New Evidence That It Was Once Possible To Sail Across Antarctica Why are two groups of tiny sea creatures called bryozoans nearly identical, despite being separated by 1,500 miles of ice? They must have traveled across the continent long ago - on a massive Antarctic seaway.
Scientists Forced To Revise Arctic Sea Ice Projections Upwards The September Arcus Sea Ice Forecast, August Report, is out, and quite naturally, the doom and gloom projections of a death spiral have returned to the closet, at least until next June.
Are we living in a designer universe? The argument over whether the universe has a creator, and who that might be, is among the oldest in human history. But amid the raging arguments between believers and sceptics, one possibility has been almost ignored – the idea that the universe around us was created by people very much like ourselves, using devices not too dissimilar to those available to scientists today.
Is BP's Gulf Oil Radioactive? The people most likely to be exposed to this source of radiation are workers at the site.
Canada bans BPA. Why haven’t we? Environment Canada -- our northern neighbor's version of the EPA -- has officially declared bisphenol A (BPA) toxic. The ubiquitous chemical, found in the lining of nearly all cans used by the food and beverage industry, will have to be phased out in Canada.
Heirloom cacao is ancient treasure of chocolate from the Ecuadorian rainforest Most people have never eaten real chocolate. Sure, we've all wolfed down plenty of "chocolate" candies, bars and cakes. But as you'll see here, very little of that is actually made from real chocolate. Virtually all the chocolate used in modern foods is derived from a hybridized cacao plant that lacks the phytochemical potency that gives real chocolate its many beneficial properties.
Climate Change Lies Are Exposed The world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices.
Vaccine jabs being pushed by medical-industrial complex As we noted here at Oklahoma Watchdog a week or so ago, the pharmacy chain Walgreens has been aggressively pushing this season’s combined seasonal/H1N1 flu vaccine. This, after 2009′s swine-flu scare that resulted in tons of vaccine that was left to rot in warehouses, resulting in lost revenue for vaccine manufacturers and others who profit off of health-related scaremongering.
Natural health movement achieving key victories over HFCS, MSG, GMOs and more It's hard to see it sometimes, but the natural health community has achieved many important victories over the last few years in exposing the truth about dangerous chemicals and food ingredients. Here are some of the major victories we've collectively achieved.
Genetically Modified Apples Under The Guise of Healthier Fruits Genetically modified foods are NOT the answer. Crop uniformity and gene altering such as the research being employed by Plant & Food Research will only reduce genetic diversity making these fruits more vulnerable to disease and pests.
More Children Die After Vaccinations While the officials were mulling over what may have caused the death of four kids during immunization in Lucknow, the vaccination drive continued in other parts of the state and two more infants died after being vaccinated in Allahabad and Fatehpur.
UN climate change panel to be warned over reports The United Nation's climate change organisation faces a warning over how it uses scientific facts in its influential reports, following the discovery of a series of embarrassing errors in its work.
Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites “When you begin to give people a sense of how this is happening, they really don’t like it,” said Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, who has conducted consumer surveys about online advertising.
MONEY & MARKETS
Fears Grow Over Global Food Price Spikes The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) "has called a special meeting on the recent spike in food prices, responding to fears of a repeat of the shortages that led to riots in parts of the world two years ago," the Associated Press reports.
India's Food Price Inflation Rises India's annual food priceindex increased 10.86% as on week ended August 21, faster than 10.05% as on week ended August 14, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Friday.
More than 400 US Banks Will Fail: Roubini Even if the US and European economies manage to avoid a double dip, it will still feel like a recession, while more than half of the 800-plus US banks on the "critical list" are likely to go bust, according to renowned economist Nouriel Roubini of Roubini Global Economics.
Why Lessons From The First Great Depression Mean The Next Four Months Will Be Very Painful For Stockholders Scott Minerd, CIO of Guggenheim Partners, parses through the years of the Great Depression, and focuses on the pivotal 1936, which contained in it the seeds for the destruction of the period of relative economic growth and stability from 1932 to 1936, and resulted in a plunge in the economy in the second great recession of the Depressionary period: that of 1937 and 1938.
Moody’s Escapes SEC Lawsuit, Now Moves to Shield Itself From Liability Despite allegations that Moody’s Investors Service, one of the three major credit rating agencies, committed fraud when it failed to fix what it knew was an erroneous rating, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Tuesday that it wouldn’t sue the rating agency. It instead settled for a scolding, directed at ratings agencies generally.
Trichet Says ECB to Extend Emergency Bank Lending European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet extended emergency lending measures for banks into 2011, remaining in crisis mode as the risk of a renewed U.S. recession puts the euro-area’s rebound in jeopardy.
On The Eve Of The Big Jobs Report, Gallup Says Underemployment Jumped In August It's been something of a mixed-bag in terms of lead-up to tomorrow's big jobs report.
Challenger said layoffs in August were down. ADP says hiring was down, too. Today's initial claims report was okay, and now Gallup is saying underemployment jumped in August.
Auto sales: Worst August since 1983 The nation's top automakers reported disappointing sales Wednesday, resulting in the worst August for industrywide auto sales in 27 years.
Economist Christina Romer serves up dismal news at her farewell luncheon It wasn't the food; it was the entertainment. Christina Romer, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, was giving what was billed as her "valedictory" before she returns to teach at Berkeley, and she used the swan song to establish four points, each more unnerving than the last
Can You Hear Me Now? 17th Weekly Fund Outflow As Equity Fund Redemptions Accelerate This is just getting silly: perhaps the next update on ICI mutual fund flows should occur if there is an inflow for once...ever again. In the meantime, ICI reports we have just recorded the 17th consecutive weekly outflow from domestic equity mutual funds, and what's worse for mutual funds' depleted liquidity ratios, it is now accelerating, hitting a total of $4.3 billion, a more than 50% increase from last week's $2.7 billion.
The U.S. Path to Collapse The combination of more government spending and less taxes equals massive inflation, but this represents the state of mind in Washington today. Inflation is still the last thing on their minds because they don't see it yet.
David Rosenberg: The U.S. Is Suffering a Japanese-Style Depression Presciently bearish David Rosenberg, the chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff who called the global meltdown back when he was still at Merrill Lynch, isn't budging from his view that the U.S. is in a depression -- and a prolonged, Japanese-style one at that.
Problem bank list climbs to 829 The government's list of troubled banks hit its highest level since 1993 during the second quarter, although the pace of growth continued to slow, according to a government report released Tuesday.
James Lee is Al Gore is Prince Charles is the Unabomber
By James Delingpole Al Gore’s Church of Climatism has claimed a new glorious martyr. His name is James Lee – the Discovery channel attempted eco-suicide-bomber – and if he’d had his way he wouldn’t have been the only one who ended up in the great recycling bin in the sky. That’s because, as far as the late James Lee was concerned, humans like the innocent Discovery channel employees he held hostage are the scum of the earth.
No Surprise at Obama's Guantánamo Trial Chaos By Andy Worthington
Surprise is the last thing that anyone ought to feel on hearing the news that the Obama administration "has shelved the planned prosecution," in a trial by military commission, "of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.
Environmental terrorism: Alive, well and dangerous.
By William D. Zeranski "Environmental Doom or the Human Race is Bad to Have Around" should have been the title of James J. Lee's manifesto. By now, many should be familiar with the case of the militant environmentalist and hostage-taker, James J. Lee. He is now dead, killed by police because Lee himself was a threat to the life and environment of others.
Obama: Sounding Bush-like? On Tuesday night US President Barack Obama delivered his second speech from the Oval office, where he officially said that combat missions in Iraq are finished. So what was left unsaid in President Obama's national address about Iraq war? David Swanson said President Obama sounded like he embraced all the lies about this war, including the falsehood about the surge which created "mythical success".
The Lowest of the Low
By Gilad Atzmon I am not holding my breath for the Labour party to make the right decision. Clearly, the same party failed to curtail Blair’s militant enthusiasm, even when it was plainly clear that the argument for the Iraq war was grounded in a dodgy dossier.
The Plan to Circumvent the Presidential Election Process
By Robert Greenslade Several years ago, a plan was hatched to circumvent the electoral system designed by the Founders for electing the President and Vice President of these United States. The plan, if adopted, will infuse a national popular vote into the system without amending the Constitution. This article will examine the electoral system and the plan to circumvent it.
A trillion-dollar catastrophe. Yes, Iraq was a headline war
By Simon Jenkins We might think that after history's mightiest lesson book – the 20th century – the west would be proof against repeating such idiocy. Yet when challenged to show prudence and maturity in response to terror, it plays the terrorist's game. It exploits the politics of fear.
What American President Would Do That?
By Carol A. Taber Other presidents have been wrong. Other presidents have been misguided. Other presidents have been weak and pusillanimous and pathetic. Only one truly disdains America. His name is Barack Obama.
Bone biometrics holds potential for new security systems Skeletal scanning technology developed at Wright State University could hold potential as a new biometric mode particularly effective in weeding out people of interest from crowds, according to an Ubergizmo article.
Mexico drug kingpin says he received trailers of US cash A captured Mexican drug kingpin admitted to "investments" in Colombia and said he had received trailers full of dollars from the United States, in a first interrogation video released here.
Keiser Report: Bilderberg Files Lawsuit Against Journalist This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals of foot massages and Ben Bernanke's big clown feet. In the second half of the show, Max talks to journalist Micha Kat about the Bilderberg Group's lawsuit against him.
Judge bashes warrantless cellphone tracking A federal magistrate has ruled that information pulled from cellphone towers provides such an intimate portrait of a customer's life that government investigators must get a warrant before obtaining it.
Control Of Food Supply To Be Handed Over To Department Of Homeland Security The words “homeland security” are found 41 times in the text of the bill S. 510, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act. Unprecedented powers over food are set to be handed over to Homeland Security if the bill is not stopped.
DOJ Demonizes Constitutionalists As Extremist Criminals A recent Department of Justice guide for investigators of criminal and extremist groups lists “constitutionalists” and “survivalists” alongside organizations like Al-Qaeda and the Aryan Brotherhood.
Report Calls for “Infiltration” of 9/11 Sites The report is only concerned with limiting the effects of conspiracy theories on operations of the state, not with justice or the accuracy of the historical record.
We Need A Revolution, Not A Movement
By Chuck Baldwin Arizona had the opportunity to become a modern-day version of 1775 Massachusetts. But Arizona has probably forfeited that leadership role by 1) reelecting John McCain, and 2) being willing to allow federal courts to dictate law to a sovereign State.
Congress may sneak through Internet ‘kill switch’ in defense bill A federal cybersecurity bill that critics say creates a presidential "kill switch" for the Internet could be added on to a defense spending bill and passed without much debate, technology news sources report.
Man Arrested For Holding “Impeach Obama” Sign At about 5pm Alaska Time, Thursday, August 26, 2010, security personnel approach Sidney Hill, a lone man peacefully displaying an impeach Obama sign near Pioneer Plaza on the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer. Minutes later, a crowd assembles, additional security forces arrive, and they physically assault the man holding the sign. He’s taken to the ground with force and detained.
Obama: All in the Company — Part IV
By Wayne Madsen Barack Obama’s employment as an editor for CIA front Business International Corporation (BIC) after his graduation from Columbia University in 1983, came at a time when such small business and political risk consulting firms were mushrooming and their ranks growing with retired senior CIA personnel.
Retired FBI Agent Says Oswald Didn’t Kill Kennedy A retired FBI Agent from Summit County is making claims regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that go beyond conspiracy theories.
Fox News co-owner funded ‘Ground Zero mosque’ imam: report The second largest shareholder in News Corp. -- the parent company of Fox News -- has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes linked to the imam planning to build a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, says a report from Yahoo!News.
Tony Robbins Warns Economic Collapse Is Coming It seems like almost everyone is warning of a coming economic collapse these days. Do you remember Tony Robbins? He is probably the world's best known "motivational speaker" and his infomercials dominated late night television during the 80s and 90s.
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed (Video) Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. You can download the files from the web-site of the Institute for Research on Middle Eastern policy. And we can cross to Washington now and talk to Grant F. Smith who is a director at that Institute.
Gulf Oil May Not Degrade for Decades Scientists are finding gigantic under oil plumes from the BP spill, including one that is more than 22 miles long, more than a mile wide and 650 feet deep.
Declassified Files Reveal Zionist Lobby Paid Off U.S. Journalists To Sell Israeli Foreign Policy Declassified files from a Senate investigation into Israeli-funded covert public relations and lobbying activity in the United States were released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on July 23rd, 2010. The subpoenaed documents reveal Israel's clandestine programs for "cultivation of editors," the "stimulation and placement of suitable articles in the major consumer magazines" as well as U.S. reporting about sensitive subjects such as the Dimona nuclear weapons facility.
Meet the Globalists Behind the Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's membership in the CFR along with the various globalist foundations funding the ASMA and Cordoba Initiative point to the building of the Cordoba House as a deliberate and provocative move by the globalist elite to create more fear, anger, and hatred towards Muslims while expanding the manufactured "clash of civilizations."
Bombshell: Barack Obama outed as CIA creation Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has discovered CIA files that document the agency’s connections to institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather.
BBC Report On Cloned Meat From Dead Cows The BBC implies that cloned meat from the dead carcases of cows is good for you and says that it “will become the norm” within ten years.
Without A Revolution, Americans Are History
By Paul Craig Roberts The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery. As recently as August 2 Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner penned a New York Times column, “Welcome to the Recovery.”
Russian Scholar Warns Of ‘Secret’ U.S. Climate Change Weapon As Muscovites suffer record high temperatures this summer, a Russian political scientist has claimed the United States may be using climate-change weapons to alter the temperatures and crop yields of Russia and other Central Asian countries.
Is an International Financial Conspiracy Driving World Events? “Our plan for the world” is one that is based on genocide, world war, police control of populations, and seizure of the world’s resources by the financial elite and their puppet politicians and military forces.
The Ground Zero Mosque Lies There never were plans for a mosque at “ground zero.” The entire story is made up by a public relations agency working with the Israeli government and the GOP. There are plans for an Islamic center in an old Burlington Coat Factory store blocks away. That far down the island of Manhattan, a couple blocks away is “across town.” The idea that Israel is financing the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy when Mossad agents were arrested, dancing in the streets on 9/11, is an obscenity.
The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA's Experiments on Children That government-sponsored experimentation still occurs makes a mockery of any governmental efforts, however valid, to protect people from science run amok – and a nation that uses its young, its children, for such pursuits is a nation whose commitment to human rights and democratic principles should be seriously questioned and challenged.
Pat Tillman’s Father To Army Investigator: ‘F— You… And Yours’ There always was a dark cinematic thread to the story of Pat Tillman: the football star imbued with post-9/11 patriotism who was killed in a friendly-fire incident in the Afghan mountains and the allegations of a massive bureaucratic cover-up involving the highest levels of the U.S. Army in the wake of the tragedy.
