Diabetic man is beaten by Henderson police during traffic stop: - Video - The motorist, Adam Greene, will receive $158,000 settlement from the Henderson City Council tonight. International lenders refuse to approve Greece bailout: EU leaders have set several conditions Greece must fulfill before receiving a second bailout, including more painful austerity measures. In protest unions are staging a 48-hour strike, halting bus and metro services. Greek police union wants to arrest EU/IMF officials: - Greece's largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the country's European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders for demanding deeply unpopular austerity measures. Clashes erupt on sidelines of Greek austerity protest: Greek protesters threw stones and firebombs at riot police who responded with tear gas in Athens on Friday as clashes erupted on the sidelines of a protest against new austerity cuts. Live Stream Greece Protest - Video - Greek deputy foreign minister resigns: reports: Greece's deputy foreign minister resigned Friday to protest tough new austerity measures demanded by the euro zone and International Monetary Fund. Lucas Papademos, is the sixth minister to resign over the last two days. Greek default now inevitable: With Greek economic output in freefall, a messy debt default followed by the country's ejection from the eurozone now looks very much like a question of when rather than if. This is no bailout for Main Street America: In reality, a $25bn mortgage deal with banks is a drop in the ocean – given US homeowners' $700bn of negative equity The insiders are selling heavily: On the theory that corporate insiders — officers, directors and largest shareholders — know more about their firms’ prospects than do the rest of us, it can’t be good news that they are selling at such a heavy pace. Anyone can buy guns, no questions asked: Legal loophole permits weapons powerful enough to down aircraft to be sold without checks
Saturday, 11 February 2012
By David Swanson
"They are afraid, the Empire is afraid. The Empire is afraid that the people of the United States might find out about the truth, they are afraid that something like that could erupt in their own territory -- a Bolivarian movement" Continue
By Mike Whitney
Why does Greece have to grovel for $130 bil loan when the banks can just snap their fingers and get as much money as they want? And why does the IMF have one policy for Europe and another for China? Continue
Propaganda Wars
By David Malone
History is written by the victors. It should be no surprise then, that the bankers have developed a very clear story of how the financial debacle happened and who should be blamed. Continue
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