Saturday, 26 March 2011 11:36
'This is an important piece of amateur footage, that you won't see on the nightly news. Imagine running for your life. Be warned: The last 2 minutes have images of those killed.'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 10:50
'The IPCC group and the Presidents of the Maldives and Tuvalu continue to claim that the flooding is in progress, and will soon flood the islands and wipe those island nations off the surface of the globe (or rather ocean). Already here we are facing a behavior that well might be termed a "sea-level-gate." In an open letter to the President of the Maldives (Mörner 2009), I addressed the divergence between his claim and our field observations. No reply has come.'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 10:46
'Now, a group of House Republicans is launching a new stealth attack against union workers. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH), Tim Scott (SC), Scott Garrett (NJ), Dan Burton (IN), and Louie Gohmert (TX) have introduced H.R. 1135, which states that it is designed to “provide information on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, to provide additional work requirements, and to provide an overall spending limit on means-tested welfare programs.”
Much of the bill is based upon verifying that those who receive food stamps benefits are meeting the federal requirements for doing so. However, one section buried deep within the bill adds a startling new requirement. The bill, if passed, would actually cut off all food stamp benefits to any family where one adult member is engaging in a strike against an employer.'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 10:08
'Back in April 2010, before Waddell and Reed sold a few shares of ES, effectively destroying the market on news that Europe was insolvent, we made the following observation: “The IMF has just announced that it is expanding its New Arrangement to Borrow (NAB) multilateral facility from its existing $50 billion by a whopping $500 billion (SDR333.5 billion), to $550 billion.”
Little did we know that our conclusion “something big must be coming” would prove spot on just a month later after Greece, then Ireland, then Portgual, and soon Spain, Italy, Belgium, and pretty much all other European countries would topple like dominoes tethered together by a flawed monetary regime. Well, based on news from Dow Jones we can now safely predict the following: “something bigger must be coming".'
Read more: IMF Prepares For 'Threat To International Monetary System'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 09:44
'General Electric Co., the nation's largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States.
Its American tax bill? None. In fact, GE claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.'
Read more: For General Eelectric, Tax Day Just Means More Profit
Saturday, 26 March 2011 09:20
'One of the effects of relatively high inflation is to ease the burden of debt by reducing its real value. For a highly indebted nation such as Britain, inflation therefore seems to make sense as an economic strategy.
With no control over their own monetary policy, the Portuguese and other fiscally-challenged eurozone nations don't have that luxury. Without inflation to do the work for them, the austerity required to get public debt under control becomes that much greater, which is one of the reasons why Portugal will soon be following Greece and Ireland into seeking a bail-out. Britain, by contrast, gets a relatively pain-free way out of the mire.
That's the conventional wisdom, anyway, but it is also largely rubbish. Wednesday's analysis of the public finances by the Office for Budget Responsibility provides further evidence of why elevated inflation can never be economically benign.'
Read more: Britain's £200 Billion Time Bomb of Debt Interest
Saturday, 26 March 2011 08:13
'Twelve years ago NATO attacked former Yugoslavia under the guise of humanitarian aid. Now history is repeating itself in Libya. Michel Chussodovsky from the Centre for Research on Globalization says the coalition forces in Libya may say humanitarianism is the goal, but the military has attacked schools, media, hospitals and historic sites.'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 07:55
'WCTI-TV in New Bern reports those Marines, assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) at Camp Lejuene, are "preserving the sanctity of the city [of Ajdubiyah] and the safety of the civilians within it."
Capt. Timothy Patrick with the 26th MEU told the station: "In Libya right now they are doing exactly what we need them to do. They are doing what they are told, and right now that's protecting Libyan people against Qadhafi forces".'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 07:49
'Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya".
Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".'
Read more: Libyan Rebel Commander Admits his Fighters Have al-Qaeda Links
Saturday, 26 March 2011 07:32
'A US Jesuit order has agreed to pay 166 million dollars to settle more than 500 child sexual abuse cases at religious mission schools in five US states, lawyers say.
The US Northwest chapter of the Rome-based Society of Jesus agreed to pay the money to compensate those abused by members of the Oregon Province from the 1940s through to the 1990s.
According to lawyers, this is one of the largest settlements in the Roman Catholic church's sweeping sex abuse scandal, AFP reported. The victims were Native Americans and Alaska Natives who were abused by the priests and missionaries in the states of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Montana.'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 07:27
'Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has received a vote of no-confidence over "abuse of power" allegations, leading to the collapse of the government.
Earlier this week, a parliamentary committee hit another blow to the government as it announced that the conservatives had hidden the full costs of a spending program from parliament and people.
"A government that breaks the rules and conceals facts from the Canadian people does not deserve to remain in office," Ignatieff noted. The Liberals vowed to scrap $6.1 billion in corporate tax cuts and end extravagant multibillion-dollar plans to buy new fighter jets and build prison cells.'
Read more: Canadian Government Collapses
Saturday, 26 March 2011 07:19
'Senior Libyan officials say the country's longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi is ready to accept an African Union-mediated political solution to the unfolding crisis in the country.
"We are ready to implement the Road Map envisaged [by] the High-Level Committee mandated by the Peace and Security Council of the African Union," the Libyan delegation to AU talks said in a statement in Addis Ababa on Friday.
This comes after the African leaders gathered in the Ethiopian capital to discuss the ongoing Libyan crisis. Gaddafi had also dispatched a high-level delegation to join the African Union talks.'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 07:15
'Bahraini authorities have razed to the ground a hospital west of the country for providing medical services to injured anti-government protesters.
The Shahrakan Maternity Hospital was bulldozed over by army forces on Friday and there are no reports about the condition or whereabouts of the injured.Bahraini authorities earlier destroyed the Pearl Square in the capital Manama, which was the epicenter of anti-government protests.
Also on Friday, Bahraini security attacked anti-government protesters in the city of Sitra using teargas, buckshots and stun grenades. Many protesters have been reportedly injured.'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 07:12
'Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh says that he is ready to hand over power to prevent more bloodshed in the country but only to what he called "safe hands."
Addressing his supporters in Sana'a on Friday, Saleh once again invited the opposition to enter political dialogue and expressed willingness to transfer power peacefully through constitutional institutions. The Yemeni president, however, failed to give indication of when he would be stepping down or on what conditions.'
Saturday, 26 March 2011 06:41
'Britain's biggest union has warned of widespread strikes, demonstrations, marches, and public disobedience over the coalition government's austerity measures.
The general secretary of Unite, Len McCluskey, claimed that the British people are against the government's plans and a release for public anger must be found. Speaking ahead of the planned March 26 protest, McCluskey said that the Saturday march would be the “biggest union event for decades".'
Friday, 25 March 2011 11:16
'Blair covered up a huge UK Paedophile ring involving senior political figures who are still out there doing what they know best ... which is nothing to do with politics!!
We heard recently that our police had broken a massive paedophile ring but we have all heard of such activity before both here in the UK (Operation Ore and the US Operation Avalanche but does it net the big fish?
Historically the answer is no because some of those named in high places have continued on in their positions and more importantly carried on with their evil sexual deviation.We could start by looking back when Tony Blair was the PM here in the UK. It was a very scandalous period with criminal investigations under the “Honours-for-cash” scandal and the war in Iraq scandal etc'
Friday, 25 March 2011 09:05
'Two years ago, George Soros said he wanted to reorganize the entire global economic system. In two short weeks, he is going to start - and no one seems to have noticed.
On April 8, a group he's funded with $50 million is holding a major economic conference and Soros's goal for such an event is to "establish new international rules" and "reform the currency system." It's all according to a plan laid out in a Nov. 4, 2009, Soros op-ed calling for "a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order."
The event is bringing together "more than 200 academic, business and government policy thought leaders' to repeat the famed 1944 Bretton Woods gathering that helped create the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Soros wants a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America isn't so dominant.'
Read more: Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire Global Economy
Friday, 25 March 2011 09:01
'On the front page of the Sunday Times this morning you will see the headline ‘Euro MPs exposed in ‘cash-for-laws’ scandal’ (£). Journalists from the respected Insight investigative team have posed as financial lobbyists and have approached MEPs offering them large sums of money in return for watering down banking reform legislation.
Three MEPs took the bait and were employed by the fake lobbying company on a yearly salary of €100,000. One of those was 56 year old former Romanian deputy prime minister, Adrian Severin, who apparently emailed the journalists posing as lobbyists writing “Just to let you know that the amendment desired by you has been tabled in due time”. He then sent an invoice for €12,000.
The other two MEPs caught up in the scandal was Slovenian foreign minister Zoran Thaler, and former Austrian interior minister Ernst Strasser. It is said that Ernst additionally boasted about serving at least five commercial clients who each paid him €100,000 per year.'
Read more: Banking Reform Bribery Exposed in European Parliament
Friday, 25 March 2011 08:10
'It turns out that there is, in the form of a December 2007 West Point study examining the background of foreign guerrilla fighters — jihadis or mujahedin, including suicide bombers — crossing the Syrian border into Iraq during the 2006-2007 timeframe, under the auspices of the international terrorist organization Al Qaeda. This study is based on a mass of about 600 Al Qaeda personnel files which were captured by US forces in the fall of 2007, and analyzed at West Point using a methodology which we will discuss after having presented the main findings.
The resulting study1 permits us to make important findings about the mentality and belief structures of the northeastern Libyan population that is furnishing the basis for the rebellion, permitting important conclusions about the political nature of the anti-Qaddafi revolt in these areas.'
Read more: The CIA’s Libya Rebels: The Same Terrorists who Killed US, NATO Troops in Iraq
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