Bush's Reign of Error: A Timeline
• MotherJones - By Nick Baumann and Dave Gilson"You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you’re gone." —W.
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That Pakistan Problem
• CrooksandLiarsRachel Maddow covers Pakistan’s order to shoot at US troops.
Banks rush to do deals as Wall St crisis deepens
• news.yahoo.comNEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's manic dealmaking reached a new pitch on Wednesday as U.S. share prices plummeted to three-year lows and forced increasingly desperate major banks to scramble for merger partners.
US, China ink trade deals after bilateral talks
• RawStory.comThe United States and China announced Tuesday a raft of trade agreements at the end of bilateral trade talks amid a faltering US economy buffeted by a financial crisis. (do you think that this trade agreement and the financial bailouts are linked :)
Gold prices post biggest 1-day gain ever
• APNEW YORK (AP) — Gold prices exploded Wednesday — posting the biggest one-day gain ever in dollar terms — as fears of more credit market turmoil unnerved investors and triggered a flood of safe-haven buying.
Senate Passes Big Military Bill Wednesday
• WASHINGTON (AP)$70 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Markets in Disarray as Lending Locks Up
• Washington PostThe flow of money through critical parts of the financial system all but stopped yesterday, prompting the stock market to plunge again as banks lost faith in one another and investors rushed to US government securities to protect their savings.
Lew Rockwell - U.S. Government Goes Crazy *AUDIO*
• www.howestreet.comLew is horrified by the latest Government machinations, in the Markets.
Scrambling to Clean Up After A Category 4 Financial Storm
• Washington PostIf there was any good news it was investors here and abroad decided that the only safe place to put their money is in government securities. At one point the effective yield on a Treasury bill was driven below zero
Is GM's Volt Ready to Roll?
• Technology Review...significant hurdles remain before the car can start rolling off assembly lines, chief among them the need for continued development of the car's main battery pack.
Asian Market continues its fall
• BloombergAsian stocks tumbled to the lowest level in three years as credit markets seized up and concerns grew that more financial companies will collapse.
Putting a Meter on the Computer for Internet Use
• NY TimesWHEN Richard Tallent moved to a new home in Beaumont, Tex., he was eager to sign up for Internet service as soon as possible. Time Warner Cable, the local provider, was preparing to impose limits on its new customers’ Internet use.
Bailout of car companies coming
• NY TimesThe chief executives of the three big American automakers — General Motors, Ford and Chrysler — met on Wednesday afternoon with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. When they emerged, they expressed optimism that the loan guarantees would be included as par
Google demos Android phone at developer day
• www.telegraph.co.ukAndroid, the Google-backed operating system that will run on the device, is designed to bring the desktop computing experience to mobile devices, by allowing people to surf the internet and carry out everyday tasks on the go.
Dispossession by Decree<br>by Will Grigg
• Pro LiberateDuring the frontier period, when the government that afflicts us was still in its pupal stage Washington employed an interesting method of stealing land from various Indian communities.
Michael Palin for President
• YouTubehttp://www.michaelpalinforpresident.com With Sarah Palin campaigning hard for Vice President, it's time to consider a new contender as the election campaign heats up: former Monty Python member Michael Palin! Neither Democrat nor Republican, he**
The Denouement (Updated)<br>by Will Grigg
• Pro LiberateIn this famous 1911 editorial cartoon, Karl Marx is rapturously greeted on Wall Street and taken to the bosom of Carnegie and Rockefeller. This tidily sums up the relationship between Wall Street corporate socialists and the non-housebroken Marxist r
MSNBC Staffer Physically Attacks Free Speech Activist
• National ExpositorA close video analysis now shows that it was MSNBC staff members who attempted to silence free speech by physically assaulting a group of 9/11 truthers led by Alex Jones during the takeover of a live broadcast at the DNC in Denver.
America is Now Rome<br>by STAN GOFF
• CounterpunchOn February 1, 1996, I retired from the United States Army. I had served in the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam as an infantryman, the 82nd Airborne Division, the 4th Infantry Division, 2nd Ranger Battalion, the Jungle Operations Training Center, 1
Ron Paul today on FOX: Ki$$ it all goodbye
• YoutubeCavuto invites Ron Paul back to discuss the economy and doesn't appear to be too happy that Paul is insinuating this is the end he had predicted five years ago.
US faces its own F-16's in Pakistan
• Times of IndiaThe United States is suddenly faced with the uncomfortable scenario of confronting the very same weapons and military hardware, including F-16 fighter jets, it has armed Pakistan with for decades.
Feds bailed out China, not the US
• MSNThe deal adds $5 trillion in debt to an already stressed national balance sheet. That basically doubles the U.S. national debt and can't help but push the U.S. dollar lower and U.S. interest rates higher in the long term. The U.S. government is g
Morgan Stanley, Goldman plummet as crisis mounts
• Reuters[taxpayers must bail them out too] Shares of Wall Street firms Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs plummeted on Wednesday and Britain's biggest mortgage lender looked set to be sold in the latest signs of extreme distress in the financial industry.
Customers Withdrawing Deposits From Washington Mutual
• FinancialTimes.com"As soon as they downgraded it I decided to come and was here at 7am," said Lewanne Elwes, an artist manager. "I can't go on waking up in the middle of the night all worried after watching the news . . . I'm tired of this.
Law enforcement's new toy: Blockwide see through your clothing
• APCan high-tech infrared cameras and millimeter-wave cameras "see" terrorist threats coming from as far as 130 yards away? [I see naked people everywhere. Oh, to be a campus cop.] [Terrorist? Look at those guns!]
Bank fears, AIG fallout fuel Wall St sell-off
• ReutersU.S. stocks tumbled to a three-year low on Wednesday as the U.S. rescue of insurer AIG failed to calm a crisis of confidence in global markets and banks were scared to lend to each other.
Gold posts historic gains on flight to safety
• ReutersGold posted a record one-day gain in absolute dollar terms on Wednesday, hitting a near six-week high with investors fleeing to safety as they watched the carnage on stock markets and expected further losses.
US missile strike in Pakistan killed four Al-Qaeda: official, militant
• AFPA US missile strike targeting a top Taliban commander in Pakistan's northwest killed four mid-level Al-Qaeda operatives. "According to local sources the strike [5 missiles] killed four Al-Qaeda operators and some extended family members of H
Is Someone or Something Killing Witnesses to 911?
• PropagandaMatrix.com9/11 witness Barry Jennings has passed away, a firestorm erupted over his testimony that he heard explosions inside the building prior to collapse of either tower and that there were dead bodies in the building’s blown-out lobby.
Sen. Stevens charges don't violate Constitution, judge rules
• McClatchy NewsSen. Ted Stevens won't be able to argue that evidence in the federal corruption case against him violates the constitutional separations that keep members of Congress from being prosecuted for their legislative actions.
