1,000 Architects & Engineers Call for New 9/11 Investigation: More than 1,000 worldwide architects and engineers now support the call for a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. UK: Jobless claimant count jumps to highest since 1997: The number of Britons claiming jobless benefit jumped unexpectedly in January and at its fastest rate in 6 months, raising fears that an improvement at the end of last year may have been little more than a blip. New underground economy: Key indicator: Avoidance of bank accounts Slump in Tax Revenue Creates State of Siege: U.S. states face a "lost decade," says Raymond Scheppach, head of the National Governors Association. The problem is a broken fiscal model exposed by the recession, and likely to extend the pain beyond the downturn's official conclusion. A Sight All Too Familiar in Poor Neighborhoods: — Shantana Smith, a single mother who had not paid rent for three months, watched on a recent morning as men from Eagle Moving carried her tattered furniture to the sidewalk.
Saturday, 20 February 2010
By RussiaToday
A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who's from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war. Continue
By Mark Weisbrot
The goal of Hillary Clinton's rhetoric Seems to be to promote conflict and convince Americans Iran is a threat to their security. Continue
Video By RT
Is it simply fear about nuclear weapons that is fueling this fight or is there more to it? William Weddin says the United States has sought to undermine democracy in Iran and has pushed it to be a military dictatorship ever since the Iranian revolution. Continue
By Mail Foreign Service
MI6 was tipped off that Israeli agents were going to carry out an 'overseas operation' using fake British passports, it was claimed last night. Continue
By Washington's Blog
A false flag attack was apparently discussed in order to justify an invasion of the Dominican Republic.Continue
By Paul Craig Roberts
We constantly hear from Wall Street gangsters and from Republicans and an occasional Democrat that Social Security and Medicare are a form of welfare that we can’t afford, an “unfunded liability.” This is a lie. Continue
By Rasmussen Reports
Seventy-one percent (71%) of all voters now view the federal government as a special interest group, and 70% believe that the government and big business typically work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors. Continue
By Danny Schechter
Disillusion is turning into despair with a system that goes on almost robotically with increasingly no connection with the public. Continue
By Cincinnati News
Man Says Actions Intended To Send Message To Banks. Continue
Must Watch - By Frontline - PBS
Veteran FRONTLINE producer unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008. Continue
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