
Blacklisted News
Written by Ernest Hancock Subject: Media: Internet
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Our
delicious spring rally is nearing the limits. The 40pc rise on global
bourses since March assumes that central banks have conjured away the
debt overhang by slashing rates to zero and printing money. Nothing of
the sort has occurred. Two thirds of the world economy will be in
deflation by July. | |
The
Somali pirates attacking shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean
are directed to their targets by a "consultant" team in London,
according to a European military intelligence document obtained by a
Spanish radio station. | |
In
a new revelation, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the
CIA of the United States and his country's ISI together created the
Taliban. | |
It
can now be reported that the recent resignation of former New York
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Chairman, Stephen Frieidman, signals
an expanding investigation of New York Attorny General Andrew Cuomo,
who is not only focused on the massive New York state financial
derivative Ponzi Scheme, but is now centered on money laundry, and
possible funding of alleged terrorists in Pakistan. | |
Distinctive
brain patterns could become the latest subject of biometric scanning
after EU researchers successfully tested technology to verify
identities for security checks. | |
Donald
Rumsfeld’s Tamiflu pushers (just as they were in 2006) are set to be
the big winners in the GSFS (great swine flu scare of 2009) lottery.
Shares of Swiss drug-maker Roche Holding had fallen sharply after their
latest cancer drug failure—but the GSFS came just in time to give their
falling stocks a boost—just as the great bird flu scare of 2006 did. | |
Light
switches, TV remote controls and even house keys could become a thing
of the past thanks to brain-computer interface technology | |
A
U.S. soldier opened fire on fellow troops Monday, killing five before
being taken into custody, the U.S. command said. NBC News reported that
the shooting took place at a “stress clinic” on the main base in
Baghdad. | |
With
the economy performing worse than hoped, revised White House figures
point to deepening budget deficits, with the government borrowing
almost 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year. | |
Can diseases be warded off by eating GMO corn? Scientists are working to find out. | |
Officers
in the town of Palm Bay are being sent aloft on motorised paragliders
to act as spies in the sky, in a first-of-its-kind mission codenamed
Operation Soar. | |
CBS
Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting
any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance. | |
For
now, the nation state endures. But these three typewritten pages are a
reminder that today’s drive towards a European federal state is
inexorably tangled up with the plans of the SS and German
industrialists for a Fourth Reich – an economic rather than military
imperium. | |
Afghans
are furious about the bombing of two villages in Western Farah province
during a drawn-out battle last week, when homes full of civilians were
hit. | |
Sir
Allen Stanford, the Texan financier and cricket promoter accused of a
$8 billion (£5.6 billion) bank fraud, is at the centre of allegations
that he worked as a US government informer, according to the BBC. | |
A sinister bill working its way through the House may eventually serve as a companion piece to the Department of Homeland Security’s “Rightwing Extremist” report
that labels veterans and advocates of the Second Amendment as dangerous
terrorists — H.R. 2159, The Denying Firearms and Explosives to
Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009, sponsored by Rep. Peter King of New
York | |
The
release of the 2010 budget request has shed more light on some FBI
surveillance programs the bureau is currently developing and testing | |
Wisconsin
police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody’s movements
without obtaining search warrants, an appeals court ruled Thursday. | |
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in addition to resistance and steadfastness,
Iran and Syria should look for creation of a new world order,
otherwise, new cruel regimes would be created. | |
NASA's critics have long asked: Why does the space agency need to design and build its own rockets and spacecraft? | |
The
year is 2018 and North Korea has just crossed the DMZ, its Army
camouflaged among refugees forced across the border into South Korea.
It has nuclear weapons and has launched cyber attacks against the U.S.
and South Korea | |
The
Venezuelan government on Friday started the process to nationalize 60
oil service contractors and place them under the control of the state
oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela. | |
Sir,
Andy Xie’s suggestion that an Asian loss of faith in the US dollar
could soon lead to a dollar collapse overlooks two basic considerations
(“If China loses faith the dollar will collapse”, Comment, May 5). | |
Dmitry
Medvedev, Russia’s president, has warned at a military parade in Red
Square that Moscow will teach foreign aggressors the “lessons” of the
Second World War. | |
The
results will create a database, bringing the Sci-fi movie Gattaca to
reality, enabling us to weed out the bad genes and focus on a perfect
person. | |
The
CIA has released a devastating document detailing the dates and
explicit details of secret Congressional briefings in which members of
Congress were told of the Bush administration’s torture techniques and
when they had been used. | |
China
has given its clearest warning to date that emergency monetary stimulus
by Western governments risks setting off worldwide inflation and
undermining global bond markets. | |
North
Korea has begun preparations for a second nuclear test at a site in the
north of the country, South Korean government sources have said,
raising the diplomatic stakes over stalled nuclear disarmament talks. | |
In
April, 2009, Senator Feingold introduced (and gathered 24 co-sponsors
already) legislation, S. 787, to fundamentally change the definition of
"water" under control of the federal government: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:S787 | |
The
Bank of England stepped up its campaign to boost the struggling
economy, raising the size of its asset purchase programme on Thursday
in a surprise move tantamount to printing an extra 50 billion pounds to
get banks lending again. | |
This
Bill Moyers interview is going viral so fast, I can’t even keep up with
it. And for a very good reason - former S&L regulator Bill Black
explains exactly why the current banking bailout is a mistake. | |
Half-size
humans whose remains were found on the remote Indonesian island of
Flores in 2003 have been confirmed to be a new species, and not modern
pygmies whose brains had shrivelled with disease. | |
The
world outside Idaho got a little bit smaller Wednesday, as four F-15SG
fighter jets flown from St. Louis by the Royal Singapore Air Force
landed between rainstorms at Mountain Home Air Force Base | |
NASA is running out of nuclear fuel needed for its deep space exploration. | |
The
Detroit News expands on the movement, with an article on its local
currency, "Detroit Cheers," which was re-born from the Depression era
push to create currencies. | |
The
Pentagon wants to spend just over $50 billion on classified programs
next year, newly-released Defense Department budget documents reveal. “That’s the largest-ever sum,” according to Aviation Week’s Bill Sweetman, a longtime black-budget seer — a three percent increase over last year’s total. | |
The
robot would gather wood, grass, paper and other biological material,
shred it and feed it into its Cyclone engine, which would power a
generator to produce electricity to run the robot. | |
Reding's comments provide a window into a wider agenda to transform the internet. | |
U.S.
health officials are no longer recommending that schools close because
of suspected swine flu cases since the virus has turned out to be
milder than initially feared. But many U.S. schools have done so
anyway, including the school of a Texas teacher who died. | |
According to the U.N., tens of thousands have fled their homes in recent days from the Swat Valley where a militant-government peace pact collapsed this week. | |
Fifty
two percent of Americans support legalizing, taxing and regulating
marijuana, according to a new Zogby poll released late Wednesday. | |
The
European Commission wants the US to dissolve all government links with
the body that ‘governs’ the internet, replacing it with an
international forum for discussing internet governance and online
security | |
"Baxter
is working collaboratively with global public health officials to
address this risk," Chairman and Chief Executive Bob Parkinson told
shareholders at the company's annual meeting Tuesday in Chicago. | |
If
you Google the word "Google," you get 2,650,000,000 results. If you
Google "Google, monopoly," 3,210,000 items are returned. If you Google
"Google, Orwellian nightmare, digital apocalypse, corporate
intellectual engineering," the harvest is much more limited; only 1,280
matches appear. | |
The
Citizens' Council on Health Care has released a new report that
demonstrates evidence and concerns about the extension of eugenics into
State newborn screening programs. Today, many States are expanding
testing, creating State genetic registries and using newborn blood and
DNA to develop new tests for more comprehensive genomic screening of
newborns at birth. | |
Several
top Georgian Defense Ministry officials were arrested on Tuesday for an
attempted coup, which the defense minister said was still continuing. | |
United
States interrogators killed nearly four dozen detainees during or after
their interrogations, according a report published by a human rights
researcher based on a Human Rights First report and followup
investigations. | |
After
the Government’s umpteenth bad Bank Holiday weekend Gordon Brown was
ready once more to try to focus his Government and the country on key
issues such as the economy and swine flu rather than his party’s
internal problems. | |
“In
a highly unusual reversal, the Defense Department’s inspector general’s
office has withdrawn a report it issued in January exonerating a
Pentagon public relations program that made extensive use of retired
officers who worked as military analysts for television and radio
networks,” the New York Times reports Wednesday. | |
Something
strange is stirring. Even the young are joining the chorus of concern
that this tarnished giant is part of a financial oligarchy that holds
the US in its grip, writes Stephen Foley in New York | |
President
Obama's efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons threaten to
expose and derail a 40-year-old secret U.S. agreement to shield
Israel's nuclear weapons from international scrutiny, former and
current U.S. and Israeli officials and nuclear specialists say. | |
The
Homeland Security Department office nixed the ‘reference aid’ within
hours it came out of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)
in late March, the Washington Times reported this week. | |
Source says top agenda item is reconstructing world economy | |
With
video cameras for eyes and fully-functional 4-inch rotor blades, the
helicopter can lift off the ground in a matter of seconds and fly at 20
miles per hour. A built-in GPS system allows it to carefully navigate
outdoor terrain without getting lost. Tests have shown that it can even
handle windy conditions. | |
The
US Special Operations Command - SOCOM, America's secret military elite
- is to double its fleet of robot whispercopters in coming years,
according to reports. | |
The
European Union will provoke fury in Moscow when it launches an
unprecedented drive to forge a new pact with former Soviet states. | |
Proposed
congressional legislation would demand up to two years in prison for
those whose electronic speech is meant to “coerce, intimidate, harass,
or cause substantial emotional distress to a person.” | |
The
internet’s increasing appetite for electricity poses a major threat to
companies such as Google, according to scientists and industry
executives. | |
President
Shimon Peres is urging the government to yield control of key Christian
holy sites to the Vatican, a position believed to be opposed by
Interior Minister Eli Yishai. | |
Disease
is big business and pharmaceutical corporations are cashing in on the
destruction of health worldwide. Akin to their sinister forbearers at
IG Farben, who were convicted of crimes against humanity at the
Nuremberg Trails, today’s pharmaceutical corporations are now
perpetuating genocide on a global scale. | |
Walter Schmidt used a stun gun like this one to administer powerful electric shocks to children touring the prison | |
About
21.8 percent of all owners were underwater as of March 31, the
Seattle-based real estate data service said in a report today. At the
end of the fourth quarter, 17.6 percent of homeowners owed more than
their original mortgage, while 14.3 percent had negative equity three
months earlier. | |
Earlier
this week, residents of Atlanta, Georgia, voiced opposition to a
military high school in DeKalb County. The DeKalb Marine Corps
Institute is scheduled to start classes in August at the Heritage
Center off Briarcliff Road in north DeKalb, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It will be funded with public money. | |
All
of our economic problems are caused by the US Federal Reserve creating
the excess of money and credit that produced the bubbles in stocks,
bonds, houses and size of government, but it doesn't have to be
electronic money made from electronic credit. | |
Georgia
said it put down a mutiny at a military base on Tuesday and accused
Moscow of financing a coup on the eve of NATO war games in the former
Soviet republic | |
As
Michigan's economy continues to suffer, people are offering themselves
up as medical guinea pigs for a quick buck to make ends meet. Some are
selling plasma, others their hair for hundreds on the Internet, while
others take the more extreme road by wanting to sell their eggs or
participate in medical studies in exchange for payment and free medical
exams. | |
Western
policies based on pressuring Iran to give up its nuclear program will
fail because they disregard Israeli nuclear capabilities, which is "the
first and greatest threat to security in the region," an Egyptian
Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. | |
There
is a magnet that can detect malaria at the flick of a switch, a
flu-resistant chicken, an “antiviral” tomato and a vaccine enhanced
with the use of a laser. The ideas are so bold that, as the scientists
behind them admit, they can often struggle for funding. | |
Microcinema International DVD ( www.microcinema.com) today announced the acquisition of "Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup" ( www.loosechange911.com), the latest installment in the series from director Dylan Avery and producers Matthew Brown and Korey Rowe. | |
A
sociology professor at the University of California Santa Barbara is in
the center of a heated debate about academic freedom after he sent an
e-mail comparing "parallel images of Nazis and Israelis" to 80 of his
students in January. | |
Billings
from KBR Inc., the Army’s largest contractor in Iraq, constitute the
“vast majority” of 32 cases referred by government auditors for
criminal investigation, the Pentagon’s top auditor said today. | |
With
eerie prescience, the City tracked a pandemic using a ‘bird flu’
scenario in 2006 – leaving it better prepared for the effects of the
swine flu outbreak. | |
From
COINTELPRO to the illegal targeting of antiwar activists and
Muslim-Americans, the FBI is America's premier political police agency.
And now, from the folks who brought us Wi-Fi hacking, viral computer
spyware and al-Qaeda triple agent Ali Mohamed comes the Bureau's
Department of Precrime! | |
China
has the world’s largest foreign reserves, believed to be mostly in
dollars, along with around 800 billion dollars in US Treasury bonds,
more than any other country. | |