Wednesday, 13 October 2010

US Colonel Alleges 9/11 Coverup

Must Watch - By Fox News

Judge Napolitano's Ground-breaking interview with Lt. Col, Anthony Shaffer and Former CIA Intelligence officer, Michael Scheuer. -- Shaffer's book, "Operation Dark Heart" was essentially "censored" by the Pentagon in order that some classified details could be "redacted". Continue


Slashing the Dollar - The Future is Ugly

By Mike Whitney

We have to understand what the Fed is doing and the effect it's having on global finances. Continue


Why the U.S. has Launched a New Financial World War
And How the the Rest of the World Will Fight Back

By Michael Hudson

Who needs an army when you can obtain the usual objective (monetary wealth and asset appropriation) simply by financial means? All that is required is for central banks to accept dollar credit of depreciating international value in payment for local assets. Victory promises to go to whatever economy’s banking system can create the most credit, using an army of computer keyboards to appropriate the world’s resources.
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Collapsing Empire Watch

By Glenn Greenwal

It's easy to say and easy to document, but quite difficult to really internalize, that the United States is in the process of imperial collapse. Every now and then, however, one encounters certain facts which compellingly and viscerally highlight how real that is.
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Lessons of the Obama Debacle
By Walden Bello


The key problem is the failure of progressives to translate their vision and values into a program that is convincing and connects with the people trapped in the terrible existential conditions created by the global financial crisis. Continue


Washington at Work--for the Wealthy
Uncle Sam is concentrating America's wealth, not sharing it.

By Sam Pizzigati

We don't need to start redistributing our nation's wealth. We're already redistributing. We just need to reverse the flow.
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State trooper faces charges after dashboard camera shows brutal attack on female motorist:Shocking video has emerged of a police officer slamming a handcuffed woman face first into a concrete wall, leaving her with a deep gash to her chin.

France faces open-ended strikes: Services being disrupted across the country as unions stage another major strike over plans to raise retirement age.

French Labor Activism, US Labor Passivism: French workers by the millions are in the streets marching against anti-worker "austerity policies," In contrast, US workers offer no equivalent resistance as US states and towns cut payrolls and public services and as President Obama's special commission gets ready to reduce social security benefits to the American people.

Britain, the jobless capital of Europe : One in eight adults live in house where no one works

Wall Street Pay: A Record $144 Billion: Pay on Wall Street is on pace to break a record high for a second consecutive year, according to a study conducted by The Wall Street Journal.

Bank Sues Bernanke, Fed Over Limits On Fees: TCF National Bank sued Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and the Fed's board of governors on Tuesday, saying regulations limiting the fees a bank can charge retailers for debit card transactions are unconstitutional.

US Is 'Practically Owned' by China: Analyst: In 1900, sterling was the world's reserve currency but by 1948, that was no longer the case as the British Empire collapsed. "America is doing what Britain did," Winnifrith said. "America spends much more than it can afford and it's not addressing the issue."

US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Pension Deficits: Big US cities could be squeezed by unfunded public pensions as they and counties face a $574 billion funding gap, a study to be released on Tuesday shows.

California to Sell 24 Government Buildings for $2.3 Billion: The state announced Monday it is selling 24 government office buildings — including the Ronald Reagan State Building in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Civic Center — to a group of private investors for $2.3 billion

PR Machine in Overdrive on Foreclosure Fraud Front: A DC contact warned me last week that the banks were readying a massive pushback on the foreclosure crisis. It went into full swing over the weekend.

Senior citizens brace for Social Security freeze: The government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through a second straight year without an increase in monthly benefits. This year was the first without an increase since automatic adjustments for inflation started in 1975.

Health insurance claim denials rose by half in recent years: Coverage denials of individuals based on their medical histories by the nation's top for-profit health insurance companies rose by nearly half in recent years, U.S. lawmakers said Tuesday.

In case you missed it: U.S. 30th in global infant mortality: The United States ranks 30th in terms of infant mortality, an important measure of the quality of healthcare, according to a report released on Tuesday.