Earnings Fears Knock Stocks
• CNNMoney.comAlso: Gold down $33 - Platinum down $30 - Crude oil at $38 a barrel - red numbers everywhere! Does someone know something?
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Ambassador Alan Keyes discusses Obama, the Constitution, and Consequences
• YouTube via Catherine AbbittIn Part One of this interview, he shares with Molotov Mitchell why the Constitution still matters, the potential ramifications of defying it and if doing so could justify revolution.
Police Seize War on Terror Games
• http://www.waronterrortheboardgame.com/Police in Kent are using tried and tested intimidation tactics with the protesters at this year's Climate Camp and last night raided the campsite, systematically emptying tents and vehicles and confiscating offending materials, among them a few *
Three Ideas That Should Scare The Hell Out Of You
• Michael Shedlock / MishTo close a gap of more than $2 trillion — possibly a lot more, if the budget office projections turn out to be too optimistic — Mr. Obama offers a $775 billion plan. And that’s not enough.
CNN asks Daily Newscaster readers to participate in Dear Davos Initiative
• Daily NewscasterHere is your chance to have CNN's Charles Hodson put your question live on air to billionaire businessmen attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzertland January 23 thru the 27th.
Creating a State of Lawlessness: Madoff Remains Out on Bail
• CNBC.comProsecutors last week asked a judge to revoke Madoff's bail, saying he violated a Dec. 18 court order freezing his assets by mailing more than $1 million worth of valuables to relatives and friends.
Tortured Reasoning
• Vanity FairBush defended harsh interrogations by pointing to intelligence breakthroughs, but a surprising number of counterterrorist officials say that, apart from being wrong, torture just doesn’t work.
Staged Military Exercise-Jan 13, 2009-Remember the 911 Exercise?
• White HouseThe outgoing White House administration will next week hold a joint "disaster scenario" exercise with top members of the incoming team of president-elect Barack Obama, US officials said Friday......"And the exercise you mentioned earli
Final Bush Press Conference: Asked about WMDs, Bush grins
• Rawstory.com"Things didn't go according to plan, let's put it that way," Bush said with a smile, then a grimace.
Really Scary Federal Reserve Charts
• benbittrolff.blogspot.com/Since there is no economic incentive to lend the financial system will continue to de-leverage and destroy bad debt. The banks have been reduced to hoarding. Therefore, despite a massive increase in money, expect DEFLATION in 2009
The Language of Death
• TruthDig.comIt is about building ringed Palestinian enclaves where Israel will always have the ability to shut off movement, food, medicine and goods to perpetuate misery. The Israeli attack on Gaza is about building a hell on earth.
NYPD seeks to deny New Yorkers ability to monitor the air
• villagevoice.com/"There are currently no guidelines regulating the private acquisition of biological, chemical, and radiological detectors," warned Falkenrath, adding that this law was suggested by officials within the Department of Homeland Security.
Economist Robert Shiller fears 'decade' of weakness in US
• business.timesonline.co.uk/One of the world's leading economists has given warning that the United States is facing a decade of financial misery, with the number of unemployed Americans set to continue to rise for years.
Golden Globes go slumming as Indian film wins big
• APHeath Ledger was honored with a Golden Globe, and Kate Winslet came away with two. Yet the Globes otherwise went slumming, with "Slumdog Millionaire" taking top honors and other key prizes going to a newcomer, an underdog, a poster boy for
Voting Machines (humor)
• XKCD (h/t C.D.)Cartoon about the recent Ohio election problem.
Pearls Before Breakfast
• The Washington PostOne year ago today.........Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out.
Do We Have a President?
• Catherine AbbittIT is going to be our duty as American citizens, military, law enforcement, and militias to uphold what is his "agenda" is to destroy America.
Remember Gaza - One of History's Terror Bombing Victims
Stephen LendmanGaza is now immortalized. World outrage honors its courageous people and freedom fighters.
Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months
• http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478024,00.htmlA new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm. Damage to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leadi
Peter Schiff: The Fed’s Bubble Trouble
• prisonplanet.com/The downside of course, is that all of the demand for Treasuries is artificial. Treasuries are now in the hands of speculators looking to sell, not investors looking to hold. These players are analogous to the mid-decade condo-flippers who flocked to
World’s first flying car prepares for take-off
• business.timesonline.co.ukIf it survives its first test flight, the Terrafugia Transition, which can transform itself from a two-seater road car to a plane in 15 seconds, is expected to land in showrooms in about 18 months’ time.
Giant plasma TVs face ban in battle to green Britain
• www.independent.co.ukThe moves, which follow last week's withdrawal of the 100W incandescent lightbulb, are part of a drive to slow the rapid growth of electricity consumption in homes by phasing out wasteful devices and introducing more efficient ones.
US rejected an Israeli request to attack Iran
• RawStory.comIn an effort to sabotage Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, Israeli officials sent a secret request to the White House last year for specialized bombs to attack Iran's main nuclear complex, The New York Times reported.
Israel says Gaza war nearing end as fighting rages
• RawStory.comIsraeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza's main city, sparking some of the fiercest battles yet of the 16-day-old war that Israel launched in response to rocket fire, but that has failed to completely stop the rockets.
High Power Worker
• YouTubeHigh power line workers are conveyed to high tension lines via helicopter. (Helllll No!)
It Felt like “Martial Law” in Los Angeles!
• Daily Paul September 14, 2008 via InfoWars.comThousands of cars and thousands of unsuspecting people are experiencing for the first time in their lives, the full impact of what a police state is all about this morning, folks! The freeway looks like a parking lot! (We reported this when it happen
Bush ordered ceasefire retreat at UN
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bRice told to abstain in last-minute phone call from the White House Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, was forced to step back from voting in favor of the Gaza ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council after orders from Washington, di
Reject Interventionism and Embrace Liberty
• FFF / Jacob Hornberger[An] initial intervention produces a crisis, which then leads public officials to call for a new intervention to address the crisis. That new intervention then produces a new crisis, which then leads to new interventions.
Renegade Nevada claims election bellwether status
• APWhen it comes to voting in presidential elections, the maverick state is as mainstream as it gets. (Yet, the Ron Paul Revolution was perhaps strongest there. Hmmmmmmm.)
Now Do You Believe?
• YouTubeTired of hearing from economic chicken-littles? Well maybe it would be easier to hear from this analyst who's credentials should be obvious to all.
