The Bush administration is considering whether to fold Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's $5.2 trillion in debt into the federal budget, the White House budget office and the U.S. Treasury Department said.
The end result of the global economic slowdown may be the U.S. announcing national bankruptcy as the government cannot afford the bailouts that it promised and the market will not bail out the government, Martin Hennecke, senior manager...
While Hurricane Ike churns through the Gulf of Mexico few people are aware of the great hurricane of 1886 and how it led to the end of Texas port town of Indianola.
Illegal alien killed three Coloradans last week. Another shot at Denverites this week. More drive drunk and kill Americans. Not a single, solitary stinking word uttered by Obama or McCain! Nothing by the media. Somebody is behind this!
After completing this I did not want to upload it for various reasons. A couple of friends convinced me to post it. ASK YOURSELF, WHO IS THE MAN? Has anything changed? What do you see?
The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department are actively helping Lehman Brothers put itself up for sale, and officials are hoping a deal will be in place this weekend before the Asian markets open on Monday, according to sources familiar with the mat
The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence and even ordinary criminal cases.
The judge rejected the government's argument that historical cellphone tower location data did not require probable cause. Could establish the standard which lawyers say are routine as more people carry cellphones that reveal their locations.
The video-sharing service YouTube is banning submissions that involve "inciting others to violence," following criticism from Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) that the site was too open to terrorist groups disseminating militant propagand
Christine Smith concedes at the 2008 Libertarian Party convention and attacks Bob Barr. After the Barr ended up winning the nomination Smith quit the party.
On the night of August 22, the U.S. committed what Chris Floyd, in a richly detailed and amply documented piece, calls an "atrocity" on the Afghan village, near the city of Herat. The U.S. conducted a massive midnight airstrike on the villa
A panel discussion brought to you by Al Jazeera English. Panel discussions feature Chris Hedges, Michael Scheuer, Asad Durrani, former head of ISI(Pakistani Intelligence), and Fawaz Gerges, Scholar of Middle Eastern Studies.
"The plan, meant to build on national service initiatives ... {and} would provide an estimated $5 billion over five years to encourage citizens from kindergarteners to retirees to get involved in community organizations -- including faith-based
She began making regular visits to Jenin, which had been devastated in an Israeli raid earlier that year. She talked to hundreds of people including Palestinian militants and for the first time heard the Palestinian view of the intifada and the diffi
Commenting on the Fannie and Freddie bail-out he said that he liked the plan [I'll bet] Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson had put in place, because "it lowers mortgage rates and helps support housing prices".
In his piece today, Lew Rockwell points out that the F/F bailout simply postpones the inevitable bust, but also ensures that the bust will be more severe in the long run than it would have been had the two faux "mortgage giants" been permit
US troops talk to Newsnight's Andrew North about their feelings on the mission in Iraq and how the effort is hurting the US economy and reputation. 2 months with the US 101st airborne division in the Shia strongholds of Sadr City and Shu'la.
US Congressman Ron Paul says the United States is in Georgia not for democracy but to protect an oil pipeline bypassing Russia. "We are not for democracy there - we are there to protect a pipeline. And that is tragic for me," he said.
We were discussing secure erasure of magnetic media, and a comment was made about recovering data using electron microscopy (to read remnant magnetic patterns in layers beneath current data) after a 7-pass overwrite (DOD standard for secure erasure
In 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, England’s great statesman, wrote a novel entitled Coningsby in which he wrote: “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
A former top CIA official accused of corruption and fraud is threatening to expose the identities o numerous agents and programs as part of his defense, prosecutors said. In a court filing, prosecutors allege that former CIA executive director
"Bob Barr's campaign for President fell off a cliff yesterday. It's time for those who love liberty to redirect their resources elsewhere." by David Nolan co-Founder of the Libertarian Party
On the anniversary of 9/11, an Italian-produced documentary called ZERO, investigating the tragedy, is opening in Russia. The authors believe that the U.S. official version of events surrounding the attacks can't be true. U.S. networks have rejec
So typical--a TV ad portraying women as attractive and alluring is "sexist," but men and fathers can be made to look like idiot husbands and bad fathers all day long and that's not sexist. Of course not--after all, men have everything a
After basically putting a gun to his campaign's head and pulling the trigger by excoriating Paul's press conference yesterday,...NOW he asks him to be VP?!? WTF?!?!?