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America’s Fiscal Collapse: Obama’s Budget Will Impoverish America
• Infowars.com/The interview starts at 3 minutes into the file. This is a very good interview with an economist who is frantic to get this horrific information to the public. When you listen to Michel Chossudovsky you can hear panic...
Ice Free in 2013
• arcleinThe Arctic is warming up so quickly that the region's sea ice cover in summer could vanish as early as 2013, decades earlier than some had predicted, a leading polar expert said on Thursday. Warwick Vincent, director of the Center for Northern
Wells Fargo Assails TARP, Calls Stress Test ‘Asinine’
• BloombergWells Fargo & Co. Chairman Richard Kovacevich criticized the U.S. for retroactively adding curbs to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which he said forced the bank to cut its dividend, and called the administration’s plan for stress-testing banks “a
California's state work force grew despite budget woes and cut promises
• Sacramento BeeCalifornia state government's full-time work force continues to grow [tax collectors & enforcement?] despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's order to freeze hiring amid a historic budget shortfall.
UW-Milwaukee Study: Climate Change Natural
• WISN"The research team has found the warming trend of the past 30 years has stopped and in fact global temperatures have leveled off since 2001." The most recent climate shift probably occurred at about the year 2000. Now the question is
The rise of fascism in Austria
• Daily MailIn Austria's recent general election, nearly 30 per cent of voters backed extremist right-wing parties. Live visits the birthplace of Hitler to investigate how Fascism is once again threatening to erupt across Europe.
End-Run Around The Second Amendment
• Infowars.com/All they have to do is limit the amount of ammunition available to the civilian market, and when bullets dry up, guns will be useless.
When Is It Going To Be Enough, America?
• Seektress.com via Rense.comThis lady in Texas gets it. Do you?
The Fat Lady Warms Up: Bernanke May Buy Treasuries
• Bloomberg.com“The Bank of England is providing an actual experiment in answering some of the concerns that the Fed has about the effectiveness” of using the strategy to effectively print more money, says former Fed Governor Laurence Meyer...
Thousands Rally Downtown Against Government Spending
• WLWT TVThousands of Tri-State residents gathered Sunday on Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati to voice their opposition to government spending bills recently signed by President Barack Obama. The group called itself the Cincinnati Tea Party, modeled aft
AIG Counter-Party Details - Who Has the Taxpayer's Dollars
• Ritholtz.com/blog/Here are the specific details via last night’s AIG press release:
Police Stress Deterrence Measures as Bank Robberies Surge in New York
• NYtimes.comPolice Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has expressed concern over the frequency of bank robberies and the seeming ease in carrying them out, particularly at certain branches.
Texas teacher pension shortfall is billions worse than expected
• star-telegram.com/On Friday, state lawmakers were soberly assessing the report, which showed that the pension’s unfunded liabilities have more than tripled in six months, to $40.4 billion from $11.5 billion.
Obama Braces for a Backlash Over Wall Street Bailouts
• NYtimes.comThe Obama administration is increasingly concerned about a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street, worried that anger at financial institutions could also end up being directed at Congress and the White House
Trent Frankss, John SShadegg Sign On To PATRIOT Act 10-Year Extension
• TheHill.com via e-mail from Winslow Joan (Thanks!)More than a dozen of the GOP’s most conservative members on Thursday introduced a bill to reauthorize controversial Patriot Act provisions set to expire later this year.
Soldier 'Mutiny' Against Obama?
• globemagazine.com/AN active duty Army officer in Iraq is refusing to recognize President Barack Obama as Commander-in-Chief - and hundreds more soldiers are lining up to follow suit...
Red Cross report says Bush Administration tortured prisoners
• Rawstory.comUS interrogators attached detainees to collars like dogs and used their leashes to slam them against walls, forced them to stand for days wearing only diapers, and tied detainees necks with towels and threw them against plywood walls...
Murder: Wikileaks related human rights lawyers assassinated
• WikileaksThe murders come just two weeks after United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings Professor Philip Alston called on on Kenya’s Attorney General and Police Commissioner to be sacked.
Osama Bin Elvis
• arcleinI am glad that someone has stepped up to say the obvious. Osama went missing in 2001. He went missing the same way thousands of others have gone missing in modern war. He got too close to an exploding piece of ordinance and he was vaporized and bl
Newspaper crisis spurs debate on free online news
• ReutersAnyone following the debate about whether newspapers should make people pay for the news they read online could be forgiven for thinking they woke up in 1999.
Price battles looming for food makers
• Reuters"That is probably going to be one of their greatest challenges -- how can they maintain pricing they have taken at this juncture," ... Worries about pricing and brand loyalty are evident in the weakened share prices of name-brand food manuf
Individualism and Self Defense<br>by Michael Gaddy
• LewRockwellToday’s economic problems have revealed the true purpose of most law enforcement personnel in our country: revenue collection. Apprehending killers, rapists and robbers does not contribute to the coffers of law enforcement and their governing bodies
Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets?!?
• TechDirtPlenty of folks are quite concerned about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations are being negotiated in secret. This is a treaty that is quite troubling. It likely will effectively require various countries, including the US, to update
Bracing for a Bailout Backlash
• NY TimesThe Obama administration is increasingly concerned about a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street, worried that anger at financial institutions could also end up being directed at Congress and the White House and could complicate President O
Obama Enlists Campaign Army In Budget Fight
• Washington PostPresident Obama will kick off an all-out grass-roots effort today urging Congress to pass his $3.55 trillion budget, activating the extensive campaign apparatus he built during his successful 2008 candidacy for the first time since taking office.
U.S. Challenged On Sealing of Detainee Files
• Washington Post[secret charges] The Justice Dept. has filed "unclassified" records in federal court outlining the government's cases against more than 100 detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, but the records are not being made public
Red Cross Described 'Torture' at CIA Jails
• Washington PostThe International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated inter
Ex-Detroit Mayor's Former Top Aide Out of Jail
• NY TimesThe former chief of staff to ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was released from jail early Monday after serving 69 days for obstruction of justice. Christine Beatty, accompanied by her attorney, pastor and others, walked out of the Wayne County Jail
CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years
• PressTVThe CIA report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the r
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