Video: Bill Black on the Deliberate Bank
Fraud That Caused Our Economic Crisis |
The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with William K. Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Black offers his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout. full story |
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Obama Economic Advisors
Took Millions from Banks |
Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to Obama, pulled in more than $2.7 million in speaking fees paid by firms at the heart of the financial crisis, including Citigroup & Goldman Sachs. He pulled in another $5.2 million last year from D.E. Shaw, a hedge fund for which he served as managing director from 10/06 until joining the admin. Thomas E. Donilon, Obama's deputy national security adviser, was paid $3.9 million last year by the power law firm O'Melveny & Myers to represent clients, including 2 firms that received federal bailout funds. full story |
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Fate of the Jaguar in US Agency's Hands |
In February, a wonderfully wild jaguar walked into a snare trap set by Arizona biologists and died shortly after his release. Upon capture, Macho B was sedated and fitted with a radio-collar to track him by satellite. But 12 days later, now listless and rapidly losing weight, he was darted by aircraft and euthanized. His kidneys were failing, apparently from the trauma of his first capture. full story |
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Americans Feel 15.6% Unemployment
as Underemployment Surges |
While workers are feeling real pain from the recession that began in December 2007, they're not represented in the 8.5 percent unemployment rate the Labor Department reported last week. They are part of a broader group that includes those who want a job but have stopped looking for work and those who want full-time positions but have to settle for part-time employment. full story |
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Reps Paul, Frank Introduce Bill
to Legalize Industrial Hemp |
Industrial hemp, a non-drug variety of the cannabis plan, used for centuries for its versatile fibers, is the subject of a new bill filed by Congressmen Ron Paul and Barney Frank. They and eight cosponsors, both Republican and Democrat, hope to legalize the plant so American farmers can begin supplying fibers for a wide array of products, with the overreaching goal of opening a new sector in American agriculture. full story |
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A New World Order - a Plan
to Reform the United Nations |
Veritas-Pax Publishing unveils a bold plan to transform the United Nations into a world body whose very structure is designed to foster the global co-operation seen in the run-up to the G20 London Summit -- but with one major difference. Under this plan, world leaders will unite for regular face-to-face meetings to chart a better tomorrow before the socio-economic challenges facing mankind erupt into the next crisis. full story |
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Russia's Medvedev Hails 'Comrade' Obama |
Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks, saying the US president "can listen" even if little progress was made on substance. The Russian president contrasted Obama as "totally different" to his predecessor George W. Bush, whom he blamed for the "mistake" of US missile shield plans fiercely opposed by Moscow. full story |
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Ontario Tent City Residents
Required to Wear Wristbands |
Dozens of Ontario police descended upon the homeless encampment known as Tent City Monday, separating those who could stay from those to be evicted. Large, often confused, crowds formed ragged lines behind police barricades where officers handed out color-coded wristbands. Blue meant they were from Ontario and could remain. Orange indicated they had to provide more proof to avoid ejection, and white meant they had a week to leave. full story |
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Kinder: MIAC Report Creates
Dangerous Precedent |
A report from the Missouri Department of Public Safety was distributed to law enforcement across our state that depicted Christians, anti-abortionists, advocates for protecting our borders and supporters of certain political candidates as potential "threats" to public safety. The groups purported to be "threats" were supporters of such political candidates as Bob Barr and Ron Paul. full story |
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Obama Asserts Government Control over the Auto Industry |
President Barack Obama asserted unprecedented government control over the auto industry Monday, bluntly rejecting turnaround plans by General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, demanding fresh concessions for long-term federal aid and raising the possibility of quick bankruptcy for either ailing auto giant. Obama took the extraordinary step of announcing the government will back new car warranties issued by both GM and Chrysler.. full story |
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Kucinich to Probe $3.6 billion in Merrill Lynch Bonuses |
Even as Merrill Lynch & Co. bled money and warily eyed a merger with Bank of America, company executives were preparing for a windfall. Following the federal government's promise of $10 billion in TARP funds to buoy the ailing firm through it's roll-up, Merrill paid out $3.6 billion in bonuses: a package 22 times larger than compensation given by AIG, said Congressman Dennis Kucinich's offices in a Monday release. full story |
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"Modern Militia Movement" Report Written with ADL Assistance |
"The Modern Militia Movement", the report written by Missouri law enforcement which lists support for Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, or Bob Barr for president as a sign of involvement in the militia movement, is very troubling. While the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith purports to be a Jewish civil rights organization, in reality the ADL is a left-wing advocacy group which conducts extensive surveillance on individuals and groups across the political spectrum. full story |
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Former Naval Officer Files Criminal Complaint against Obama |
"Free from constitutional restraint, and following your criminal example, military commanders deployed U.S. Army active duty combat troops into the small civilian community of Samson, Alabama last week in a demonstration of their newly received despotic, domestic police power. We come now to this reckoning. I accuse you and your military-political criminal assistants of TREASON. I name you and your military criminal associates as traitors." full story |
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Police Identify 200 Children as Potential Terrorists |
Two hundred schoolchildren in Britain, some as young as 13, have been identified as potential terrorists by a police scheme that aims to spot youngsters who are "vulnerable" to Islamic radicalisation. The number was revealed to The Independent by Sir Norman Bettison, the chief constable of West Yorkshire Police and Britain's most senior officer in charge of terror prevention. full story |
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Who Is Arming the Mexican Drug Cartels? |
The state, Mexican authorities and their US propaganda arm, known in most circles as the Mainstream Media, have recently embarked on a huge disinformation campaign to demonize the American gun owner as the supplier of weapons to the Mexican drug cartels. Everyone in the media, with the possible exception of Lou Dobbs, has joined in the campaign of lies. full story |
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Big Brother Gov't Could Own the News |
A new Senate bill that would give govt. funding to struggling newspapers could result in complete state control of the press. Dem. Sen. Benjamin Cardin proposed a bill this week that would allow newspapers to operate as tax-exempt nonprofits in order to keep the sinking industry afloat. "Reporters and editors are supposed to be wary skeptics of politicians and bureaucrats on behalf of readers, not beholden to the government's favor." full story |
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Teflon Might Cause Birth Defects and Weaken Immune Systems |
A chemical that DuPont uses to make Teflon might cause birth defects and weaken immune systems, according to a new study. The panel looked at blood drawn from 67,000 residents whose water was contaminated with C8 from the plant, which is near Parkersburg, W.Va. The study of that group found that of 1,000 babies born in the past five years, 74 had birth defects. Twelve of those 74 were born to mothers with high levels of C8 in their blood. full story |
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Bachmann Bill Would Ban Global Currency |
Bachmann: "Yesterday, during a Financial Services Committee hearing, I asked Secretary Geithner if he would denounce efforts to move towards a global currency and he answered unequivocally that he would," said Bachmann. "And President Obama gave the nation the same assurances. But just a day later, Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table. I want to know which it is. The American people deserve to know." full story |
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More Cities Target Teens with Daytime Curfews |
Dallas is considering joining a rising number of others across the country that are imposing criminal penalties on kids who skip school to hang out at the mall or on local street corners. The city council will vote next month on extending an existing nighttime curfew for minors to make it broadly illegal for minors under 17 years old to appear in public without adult supervision during school hours. Violators would be subject to a fine up to $500. full story |
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Pentagon Criticizes China on Military Transparency |
China's failure to be transparent about its rapidly growing military capabilities has created uncertainty and risks of miscalculation, the Pentagon said in an annual report released on Wednesday. "Much uncertainty surrounds China's future course, particularly regarding how its expanding military power might be used," according to the report on Chinese military power, which was submitted to the U.S. Congress. full story |
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Postal Service Asks Congress for Bailout |
Postmaster General John Potter said Wednesday the financially strapped U.S. Postal Service will run out of money this year without help from Congress. "We are facing losses of historic proportion," he said. "Our situation is critical." The Postal Service was $2.8 billion in the red last year and is facing even larger losses this year due to a sharp decline in mail volume in the weak economy. full story |
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Director of FBI Urges Renewal of Patriot Act |
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III urged lawmakers yesterday to renew intelligence-gathering measures in the USA Patriot Act that are set to expire in December, calling them "exceptional" tools to help protect national security. The law, passed shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, created divisions between proponents, who said it was necessary to deter terrorism, and privacy advocates warning that it tramples on Americans' civil liberties. full story |
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Jobless Claims Top 5.5 Million |
The number of people filing initial claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, while those filing continuing claims hit an all-time high for the ninth straight week, according to a government report released Thursday. In the week ended March 21, a total of 652,000 people filed initial jobless claims, up 8,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 644,000, the Labor Department reported. full story |
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Senate Rubber Stamps National Enslavement Bill |
The Senate last night rubber stamped a nightmare domestic draft bill that legislates mandatory national service and creates an "army" of at least 7 million civilian enforcers working at the the behest of the government, while also containing language that threatens to ban free speech and the right to protest. 7 million members of this civilian "army" is a similar figure to the number of East Germans who collaborated with the Stasi and informed on their own citizens during the cold war. full story |
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Now 'Big Brother' Targets Facebook |
Millions of Britons who use social networking sites such as Facebook could soon have their every move monitored by the Government and saved on a "Big Brother" database. The idea to police MySpace, Bebo and Facebook comes on top of plans to store information about every phone call, email and internet visit made by everyone in the United Kingdom. Almost half the British population, some 25 million people, are thought to use social networking sites. full story |
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CIA Expert: Most Electronic Voting Systems Can Be Hacked |
The comments, by top cybersecurity CIA expert Steve Stigall, are sure to fuel a new wave of anxiety over electronic voting. Stigall said any voting machine connected to the Internet could be easily hacked, and that while numerous US states have banned voting machines from having wireless capability, some machines can have the cards installed without officials being aware. full story |
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How Big Is That Widening Gyre of Floating Plastic? |
A soup of plastic debris floats off the coast of California, a testament to humanity's reliance on plastic and the failure to dispose of it properly. Just how big is this oceanic zone? Some say it is about the size of Quebec, or 600,000 square miles -- also described as twice the size of Texas. Others say this expanse of junk swept together by currents is the size of the U.S. -- 3.8 million square miles. full story |
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HR 1388 Could Force Mandatory Service
Requirement on All Young Americans |
HR 1388 specifically targets Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) which Congress expects will reach 250,000 participants by 2014. From school-based service learning programs to focusing on severely economically depressed communities, the GIVE act sounds good until you get to part about the mandatory service requirement for youth. full story |
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U.S. Seeks Expanded Power to Seize Firms |
The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to an administration document. The government at present has the authority to seize only banks. full story |
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Privatized Police in Chicago? |
They're private security guards, already on patrol, but they may soon have the powers of Chicago Police officers. As CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, the private security officers now on patrol on the city's Far South Side are expected to have their powers expanded as part of a citywide ordinance now being prepared. But officials are questioning whether this means public safety is being outsourced. full story |
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Big Brother Files Put Children at Risk |
Academics at Cambridge University, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, singled out the DNA database and the Contact-Point index of all children in the UK among the 11 worst examples. But they also found serious problems with 29 other data systems which they claimed were wasting billions of pounds a year and putting children at risk, as well as eroding privacy. full story |
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The Fed Did Indeed Cause the Housing Bubble |
In his article "The Fed Didn't Cause the Housing Bubble" Alan Greenspan attributes the housing bubble to lower interest rates between 2002 and 2005. That's amazing to me. My company served as lead financial advisor to the Federal Housing Administration between 1994 and 1997. I watched both the Administration and the Federal Reserve aggressively implement the policies that engineered the housing bubble. full story |
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New York: Albany County Staging Attack on Ammunition Sales |
Local Law "A" would require that a valid firearms license be shown when purchasing ammunition. The law would also mandate that retailers keep a record of ammunition sales, including the type, caliber, and quantity of the ammunition, make, model and serial number of the firearm it is for, as well as the purchaser's name and address. As if that is not enough, Local Law "A" would also create a secondary method of gun registration for both long guns and handguns. full story |
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The Big Takeover |
It's over -- we're officially, royally fucked. No empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far. It happened when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was forced to admit that he was once again going to have to stuff billions of taxpayer dollars into a dying insurance giant called AIG.. full story |
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Obama Supporters to be Unleashed to Sell Banker Plan |
Obama's "Organizing for America" marching door-to-door followers are required to take a loyalty pledge. "A pledge to support -- not the flag, not the constitution, not the country, not even the Democratic Party, but Obama," writes Lona Manning. In Nazi Germany, civil servants (as well as soldiers and Wehrmacht officers) were required to pledge personal loyalty to the person of Adolf Hitler in place of loyalty to the constitution. full story |
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Obama Administration: Constitution
Does Not Protect Cell-Site Records |
The Obama administration says the 4rth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures does not apply to cell-site information mobile phone carriers retain on their customers. The position is being staked out in a little-noticed surveillance case pending before the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. The case has wide-ranging implications for Americans, as most citizens have or will carry a mobile phone in their lifespan. full story |
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AIG in Lawsuit with Govt. over Millions in Tax Payments |
Lost for the most part in the public furor over the AIG bonuses was the news that the insurance giant is already involved in a lawsuit with the federal government over hundreds of millions in tax payments. Though news of the lawsuit over $306 million in taxes AIG wants back was first reported on at the beginning of the month, the story didn't get much traction beyond the financial press and bloggers. full story |
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The Radical Polarization of Law Enforcement |
A February 20 report entitled "The Modern Militia Movement" was issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) that paints mainstream patriotic Americans as dangerous threats to law enforcement and to the country. Operating under the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the MIAC is listed as a Fusion Center that was established in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. full story |
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House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill |
The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama's promised "ivilian national security force"intensify. The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the Senate. full story |
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Blame Game: Dodd Says Treasury "forced"
Him to Add Bonus Provision to Stimulus Pkg. |
Senate Banking Committee Chairman and CFR member Christopher Dodd played the blame game yesterday. He passed the buck to the Obama administration, telling Bloomberg the Obama administration instructed him to insert a provision in last month's $787 billion borrow and spend "stimulus" legislation allowing AIG to provide lavish bonuses to its executives. full story |
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U.S. Injecting Billions of Taxpayer
Money into Foreign Central Banks |
The Fed has been increasingly acting as the world's central bank, injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into foreign govt.treasuries in an effort to increase liquidity in those countries. The U.S. taxpayer has also bailed out foreign banks indirectly by pumping billions into AIG, which announced Sunday that it had forwarded that cash to counterparties that include foreign banks such as Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank, Calyon, Credit Suisse, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays. full story |
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HR 875: A Bill That Would Regulate
the Small Family Farm Out Of Business |
Obama has come out stating that we need more regulations to keep our food safe. HR 875 uses language so broad and wide reaching that even home gardeners and organic farmers would be subject to the regulation of a new government bureaucracy. The bill appears to be aimed at destroying family farms through federal regulation so that large corporations like Monsanto can consolidate more control over food production in this country. full story |
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Banned Hyperlinks Could Cost You $11,000 a Day |
The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks. Wikileaks was added to the blacklist for publishing a leaked document containing Denmark's list of banned websites. "The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship," Wikileaks said on its website in response to the ACMA ban. full story |
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AIG Bonuses Add to Potential for Public
Revolt against Wall Street, Federal Reserve |
This article isn't about the facts surrounding the AIG bailout and its subsequent payout of $165 million in bonuses to incompetent executives. This is about something far more serious: The growing discontent among taxpayers who are inching ever closer towards a popular revolt. Yes, there is a limit to how much even the mainstream public will put up with. full story |
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Florida Legislator Wants Random
Drug Tests for the Unemployed |
Employers have justified drug tests in the workplace by pointing to such negative effects of drug use as absenteeism and work-related injuries. Now a Florida legislator has proposed that random drug-testing also be applied to those receiving unemployment insurance, justifying it as a way to make state funds go further. full story |
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Obama Administration: Guantanamo
Detainees Have 'No Constitutional Rights' |
Obama's justice department is using an old strategy employed by the Bush administration. Their primary argument is that Ex-Guantanamo detainees don't have any constitutional rights. Even if they did, the brief continues, Rumsfeld and other officers should be immune from prosecution because detainees' right not to be tortured and to practice their religion without abuse was "not clearly established" at the time of their detention. full story |
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Group Smeared as Terror Cell by Feds Runs Soup Kitchens |
The Missouri Militia which routinely works with local law enforcement to help find missing children, sponsors blood donation campaigns and soup kitchens, is being smeared as a terrorist outfit by the federal government. A secret report features a photograph of members of the Missouri militia next to a list of terrorist plots, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the Atlanta Olympic Park attack. full story |
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The Best Way to Wake Up the World to the Obama Deception |
The Obama Deception is already receiving critical acclaim and topping popularity rankings of global Internet video websites, but we are now urging our supporters to push even harder by letting people know how they can watch the full documentary absolutely free. full story |
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Senators Slam Plan for Wounded Vets to Use Private Insurance |
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama admin. is considering a plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance. But the proposal would be "dead on arrival" if it's sent to Congress, Sen. Murray said. No official proposal to create such a program has been announced publicly, but veterans groups wrote a pre-emptive letter last week to Obama voicing their opposition to the idea after hearing the plan was under consideration. full story |
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Unemployment in 7 States May Have Exceeded 20% in February |
Unemployment may actually be higher than during the same phase of the Great Depression. Specifically, as of 1930 - the year after the 1929 crash - the unemployment rate was 8.7 percent. As of December 2008, U-6 unemployment was 13.5 percent Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published a report showing that 7 states had unemployment rates above 10% in February. full story |
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Pentagon Seeks Fleet of Massive DARPA Spy Blimps |
The Pentagon has announced intentions to launch an entire fleet of giant 450-foot-long airships which will act as a massive airborne radar system providing perpetual surveillance of vehicles, planes and people on the ground. The Pentagon said Thursday that it intends to spend $400 million to develop a giant dirigible that will operate on hydrogen fuel cells and solar panels, floating 65,000 feet above the Earth for 10 years. full story |
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Individualism and Self Defense |
There are present in America today a very large number of citizens who believe protection of themselves and their loved ones from violent physical attack, robbery, rape and general mayhem is the sole responsibility of others. Most of these ignorant folks believe that employees of the state should be responsible for protection of the individual in our society. This view is elitist and based on false assumptions. full story |
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Senate Moves Toward Ratification
of U.N.'s 'Law of the Sea Treaty' |
The Senate is gearing up to ratify a decades-old U.N. treaty that critics warn could create a massive U.N. bureaucracy that could even claim powers over American waterways. Critics say the treaty, which declares the sea and its bounty the "universal heritage of mankind," would redistribute American profits and have a reach extending into rivers and streams all the way up the mighty Mississippi. full story |
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DHS Proposes U.S. Gun Laws to
Fight Mexican Drug Cartel Violence |
Roger Rufe, Homeland Security's head of operations, wants to further erode the Second Amendment. Rufe told lawmakers more restrictive gun control and law enforcement may be needed in the Southwest United States in response to the drug war in Mexico, according to the Associated Press. Democrats joined the chorus rallying against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. full story |
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Proposal at U.N. to Criminalize 'Defamation of Islam' |
A new U.N. resolution circulated today by Islamic states would define any questioning of Islamic dogma as a human rights violation, intimidate dissenting voices, and encourage the forced imposition of Sharia law. A copy of the Pakistani-authored proposal, entitled "Combating defamation of religions," distributed among Geneva diplomats attending the current session of the UN Human Rights Council mentions only Islam. full story |
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Secret State Police Report: Ron Paul, Barr,
Baldwin, Libertarians Are Terrorists |
There is a secret report distributed by the Missouri Information Analysis Center entitled "The Modern Militia Movement", dated 2/20/09. The MIAC report specifically describes supporters of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as "militia" influenced terrorists and instructs the Missouri police to be on the lookout for supporters displaying bumper stickers and other paraphernalia associated with the Constitutional, Campaign for Liberty, and Libertarian parties. full story |
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Hersh: 'Executive Assassination Ring'
Reported Directly to Cheney |
Former Vice-President Dick Cheney had his own SS-style political assassination unit that reported directly to him. The Joint Special Operations Command was an executive assassination unit that carried out political assassinations abroad. "They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. Congress has no oversight of it." full story |
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Pentagon Knowingly Exposed Troops
to Cancer-causing Chemicals |
A newly leaked military document appears to show the Pentagon knowingly exposed US troops to toxic chemicals that cause cancer, while publicly downplaying the risks exposure might cause. Because of the difficulties in testing samples, investigators could not prove that chemicals exceeded military exposure guidelines. But a military document released last December found that chemicals routinely exceeded safe levels by 2 to 6 times. full story |
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American Corporate Complicity Created Undeniable Nazi Nexus |
When Josef Mengele saw the scientific need to undertake heinous medical experiments on twins in Auschwitz… when the Reich was enabled to identify the Jews everywhere in Europe and then systematically pauperize and destroy them… when all these terrible things were done, the shape and scope of the horror was pivotally determined by major American industrial giants. full story |
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Ron Paul: Obama Foreign Policy Identical to Bush |
Congressman Ron Paul has slammed Barack Obama's foreign policy, saying it is identical to that of his predecessor George W. Bush, proving once again that both parties follow the same agenda on major issues. Paul compared Obama's pre-election promises to those of his predecessor George W. Bush, who before his election in 2001 guaranteed that the U.S. would not be the policeman of the world or engage in nation building. full story |
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Terrorist Watch List Hits 1 Million |
The government's terrorist watch list has hit 1 million entries, up 32% since 2007. Federal data show the rise comes despite the removal of 33,000 entries last year by the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center in an effort to purge the list of outdated information and remove people cleared in investigations. People put on the watch list can be blocked from flying, stopped at borders or subjected to other scrutiny. full story |
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ADL Lists McLamb, Von Kleist, Banister
and Others as "Extremists" |
According to the Anti-Defamation League, Joe Banister, Tommy Cryer, Pat Shannan, Dave Von Kleist, Jack McLamb, Greg Dixon, Ted Gunderson, and Michael Badnarik are "extremist speakers" who will appear at the "Three Pillars of Tyranny" conference in Pensacola, Florida, later this month. The ADL has included the conference on its "Schedule of Upcoming Extremist Events: 2009" along with events held by racist skinheads and neo-Nazis. full story |
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NY Times: Mileage Tax Would
'Track Where Motorists Have Been' |
Authorities want to "get at" beleaguered American taxpayers with fresh assault on their wallet & privacy. A NYT article about the different test studies being conducted as a precursor to the introduction of a mileage tax admits that cars will contain tracking devices that will record where motorists have been. Jon Kuhl, principal investigator for the Road User Study, concedes that "invasion of privacy" will be an issue, but the article does not mention how this will be overcome. full story |
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Thousands Join Talk Show Hosts in Tax Protest |
Officials estimate more than 8,000 people showed up in downtown Fullerton to protest tax hikes in budget deal. They're revolting. Families with children, bikers, seniors, pirates - by the thousands descended on a Fullerton bar Saturday to join talk show hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of KFI in protesting tax increases recently approved in Sacramento. full story |
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Obamavilles in America |
In this depression, the wretched victims of foreclosure by Obama' pals at Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and JP Morgan live and die in OBAMAVILLES. The arrogant elitist in the White House does not care. Obama is presiding over a $10 trillion bank bailout, all money down a rat hole. Meanwhile, Obama' so-called anti-foreclosure program is an incentive payment bonanza for predatory subprime lenders.. full story |
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Bilderberger Plot to Control U.S. Food Supply |
If left to the soft kill eugenicists in control of the government, healthy organic food produced by independent farmers will soon be a thing of the past. On February 23, the Federal Times reported on HR 875, a bill that would grant the FDA sweeping new powers to regulate food. In short, the government will tighten its grip on the food supply and will ultimately strangle small, independent farmers. full story |
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Obama's War |
Illusions die hard. Especially the ideological kind. When the illusion of Barack Obama, the peacemaker, is finally dispelled, we are going to wake up and find ourselves waist-deep in a war that will soon threaten to dwarf the disastrous invasion of Iraq, both in human and material cost. We know this from what he has said he will do, and what he has already done full story |
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Mock Terrorism Response Exercise Starts Monday |
Valley residents may hear emergency sirens and see a flurry of helicopters flying overhead for five days beginning on Monday, but it's all in the name of training. It's the annual implementation of the Coyote Crisis Campaign -- a mock terrorism response exercise for federal, state and local agencies involving an improvised explosive device. full story |
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Obama Channels Cheney |
The Obama Administration this week released its predecessor's post-9/11 legal memoranda in the name of "transparency," producing another round of feel-good Bush criticism. Anyone interested in President Obama's actual executive-power policies, however, should look at his position on warrantless wiretapping. Dick Cheney must be smiling. In a federal lawsuit, the Obama legal team is arguing that judges lack the authority to enforce their own rulings in classified matters of national security. full story |
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War Comes Home to Britain |
Freedom is being lost in Britain. The land of Magna Carta is now the land of secret gagging orders, secret trials and imprisonment. The government will soon know about every phone call, every email, every text message. Police can willfully shoot to death an innocent man, lie and expect to get away with it. Whole communities now fear the state. There is so much more that the erosion of liberal freedoms is symptomatic of an evolved criminal state. full story |
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Pelosi Backs Senate Amendment to Censor Talk Radio |
Over the last week, the corporate media has subjected us to an incessant propaganda salvo directed against the Oxycotton-addled talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. Obviously, Limbaugh is an easy target, especially for Democrats brainwashed by the false left-right paradigm. However, the point of the orchestrated attack against Limbaugh is not the alleged unfairness of "conservative" talk radio or even Limbaugh's rhetoric critical of Barack Obama, but rather it is a coordinated attack designed to set the stage for the "regulation" of free speech. full story |
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The United Nations: Our Children's New Parents? |
Under the UNCRC, an 18-member committee has been established to review children's rights and any other disputes that might arise. In many cases, we are already bound by international treaties and the UNCRC gives unaccountable UN bureaucrats the power to make decisions concerning our children's well-being. Parents are being demoted to simple caregivers, while the state assumes the role of the prime authoritative figure. full story |
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Extinction Looms Over One in Every Four Antelope Species |
A quarter of all antelope species are threatened with extinction, according to a newly published report by antelope experts who work with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and its authoritative IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. "Unsustainable harvesting, whether for food or traditional medicine, and human encroachment on their habitat are the main threats facing antelopes," says Dr. Philippe Chardonnet. full story |
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Jesse Jackson Jr. Seeks to Insert
Communism into the U.S. Constitution |
Jesse Jackson Jr. has proposed several Constitutional amendments which state that we have the right to full employment, a clean environment, high quality health care, high quality education and safe housing. These amendments are just meant to make all the brainwashed sheep out there feel good because the govt. cannot guarantee these things. These proposed amendments sound like something that would be written by Karl Marx or a politician in the old Soviet Union. full story |
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Food Stamp Enrollment Jumps to Record 31.8 Million |
A record 31.8 million Americans received food stamps at the latest count, an increase of 700,000 people in one month with the United States in recession, government figures showed on Thursday. Food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, are the major U.S. anti-hunger program, forecast to cost at least $51 billion in this fiscal year ending September 30, up $10 billion from fiscal 2008. full story |
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Colbert Mocks 'Crazy Eyes' Beck with 'Doom Bunker' Segment |
It's the end of the world as we know it, maybe, according to Glenn Beck. But, at least one fake pundit feels fine cracking wise. Among media pundits ripe for parody, Beck must seem an easy target, especially for a weathered comedian. After Beck once asked his audience to look into his eyes and see how serious he is, Colbert underwent an on-air anal exam to jokingly one-up the Fox editorialist, finding plenty of red comedic meat in his "crazy eyes." full story |
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Globalist Hillary Clinton: "Never Waste a Good Crisis" |
Bilderberg "guest", as the New York Sun put it, Hillary Clinton has instructed the European Parliament and millions of young Europeans to "never waste a good crisis," a reference to the banker-engineered economic implosion. Clinton "highlighted the opportunity of rebuilding economies in a greener, less energy intensive model," reports Reuters. In other words, the elite should take advantage of the situation in order to impose carbon taxes and other schemes on humanity. full story |
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Australian Police Will Have Power to Secretly Search Homes |
Police will be allowed to secretly search suspects' homes and remotely access their home computers for a month under the most draconian covert operation laws the state has seen. And no one will know, because of a provision allowing investigators to keep those being spied on in the dark for up to three years. The laws give police greater power to deal with criminals than they have to use against suspected terrorists. full story |
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Baxter: Product Contained Live Bird Flu Virus |
The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses. The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. full story |
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FDIC's Bair Says Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said the deposit insurance fund could dry up amid a surge in bank failures, as she responded to an industry outcry against new fees approved by the agency. "Without these assessments, the deposit insurance fund could become insolvent this year," Bair wrote in a March 2 letter to the industry. full story |
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Diebold Voting System Sported 'Delete' Button |
Kim Zetter: "The most startling information in the state's 13-page report (.pdf) is not about why the system lost votes, which Threat Level previously covered in detail, but that some versions of Diebold's vote tabulation system, known as the Global Election Management System (GEMS), include a button that allows someone to delete audit logs from the system." full story |
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A Banana Republic By 2012? Change for the Worse |
As if this isn't enough war, Obama parrots Dick Cheney's charge, totally unsupported by any evidence, that Iran is making nuclear weapons. The chances are high that the new White House Moron will have us at war in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq. As Obama’s wars expand, the $205 billion for war in Iraq and Afghanistan will become $400 billion annually and then $600 billion annually. full story |
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Pennsylvania Rep. Rohrer Introduces
Tenth Amendment Resolution |
Video: Representative Sam Rohrer is introducing a resolution to protect Pennsylvania's independence. full story |
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Combining Pesticides Makes Them More Deadly for Fish |
Common agricultural pesticides that attack the nervous systems of salmon can turn more deadly when they combine with other pesticides, researchers have found. Scientists from the NOAA Fisheries Service and WSU were expecting that the harmful effects would add up as they accumulated in the water. They were surprised to find a deadly synergy occurred with some combinations, which made the mix more harmful and at lower levels of exposure than the sum of the parts. full story |
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1 in 31 U.S. Adults in Prison System |
The Pew Center on the States report says the number of people on probation or parole nearly doubled to more than 5 million between '82 and '07. Including jail and prison inmates, the total population of the U.S. corrections system now exceeds 7.3 million, one of every 31 U.S. adults. The report also noted huge discrepancies among the states in regard to the total corrections population, one of every 13 adults in Georgia and one of every 18 in Idaho.. full story |
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Worst Job Losses in 60 Years Expected |
With output still falling at a dizzying rate, most companies are shedding unneeded workers and cutting back the hours of those remaining. Strapped by debt and seeing their paper wealth evaporating, many consumers are spending as little as they can. "The economic patient is still in critical condition, with little medication to relieve the pain," wrote economists Brian Bethune and Nigel Gault of IHS Global Insight. "We will have to bite the bullet." full story |
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Brown Woos Obama on Global Deal |
Brown will meet Obama on Tuesday and address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. Aides say he has both to demonstrate to a sceptical British public that he commands the respect of the president, and to persuade the American political establishment that global action is needed to rescue the US economy. Brown is under pressure to persuade American political leaders to sign up to bold aims for the G20 summit.. full story |
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MI5 Alert on Bank Riots |
MI5 and Special Branch are targeting activists they fear could inflame anger over job losses and payouts to failed bankers. One of the most notorious anarchist websites, Class War, asks: "How to keep warm during the credit crunch? Burn a banker." Such remarks have rung alarm bells in Scotland Yard and the Ministry of Defence. The chilling prospect of soldiers being drafted on to the streets has not been discounted, although it is regarded as a last resort. full story |
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Designer Baby Row over US Clinic |
A US clinic has sparked controversy by offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like the eye and hair colour of their offspring. The LA Fertility Institutes run by Dr Jeff Steinberg, a pioneer of IVF in the 1970s, expects a trait-selected baby to be born next year. His clinic also offers sex selection. The science is based on a lab technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD. full story |
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German Lawmaker Wants DNA Testing on Dog Shit |
A German lawmaker proposed on Monday a novel and high-tech way of dealing with the menace of dog poo on the streets: DNA testing to identify the canine culprit and fine its owner. Peter Stein, a conservative politician in eastern Germany, told AFP that under his proposal, officials would test the excrement and then match it up to the offending dog using a DNA database of all pooches. full story |
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Laid-off Professionals Turn to "Survival Jobs" |
Nine months ago Mark Cooper lost his job as the security manager for the Western United States for a Fortune 500 company, overseeing a budget of $1.2 million and earning about $70,000 a year. Now he is grateful for the $12 an hour he makes in what is known in unemployment circles as a "survival job" at a friend's janitorial-services company. But that does not make the work any easier. full story |
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