The End Game: This Time Isn’t Different
BusinessInsider.com
Jan. 23, 2010
“Yet the ability of governments and investors to delude themselves, giving rise to periodic bouts of euphoria that usually end in tears, seems to have remained a constant. No careful reader of Friedman and Schwartz will be surprised by this lesson about the ability of governments to mismanage financial markets, a key theme of their analysis.
Americans are conditioned to lick the hand that beats them.
Serfing U.S.A.
By Reid Buckley
Amconmag.com
February 01, 2010 Issue
Take a simple proposition: anything government messes with gets messed up worse. This was the basic insight of Philadelphia, briefly revived by Ronald Reagan. Pollster Scott Rasmussen finds that by a 2-1 margin, American voters agree that no matter how bad things are, Congress can always make them worse. Go around the globe and ask whether anyone believes that government works. You will hear yes only from folk who stand to gain from the state—contractors, pensioners, bureaucrats, and officeholders.
The Coming Grab at Your Wealth and Retirement
If you cannot or will not physically leave the United States, then — for the safety and welfare of your family — please consider moving to the few states that are fiscally prudent…at least, comparatively speaking. Compared to what? Consider New York and Florida as just two examples.
HAARP, Haiti, Brzezinski And The NWO
Online Journal.com
Jan 22, 2010
On October 25, 2005, I wrote an article for Online Journal, headlined Is it the weather or government terror, detailing government manipulation of weather, including earthquakes, for terror and destruction, mentioning that “your local weatherman was surely not up to pointing this out,” and adding “let me help with the forecast, past, present and long-range. Well, déjà vu all over again seems to have struck in Haiti on January 12.
US Security Company Offers to Perform “High Threat Terminations” and to Confront “Worker Unrest” in Haiti
Here we go: New Orleans 2.0
by Jeremy Scahill
Global Research
January 23, 2010
We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype about “looters.” After Katrina, the number of private security companies registered (and unregistered) multiplied overnight. Banks, wealthy individuals, the US government all hired private security. I even encountered Israeli mercenaries operating an armed check-point outside of an elite gated community in New Orleans. They worked for a company called Instinctive Shooting International. (That is not a joke).
US says it will stay in Haiti for long term
January 24th, 2010Despite criticism for the US military presence in quake-stricken Haiti, Washington says it has a long-term plan to stay in the country.
“We are there for the long term, this is not something that will be resolved quickly and easily,” US Ambassador to the UN Alejandro Wolff said on Thursday.
The Gubbermint Liars Are Getting REALLY Desperate!
January 24th, 2010Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen
U.S. Agents Told Women Believed Connected to Al Qaeda May Have Western Appearance and Passports
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, RHONDA SCHWARTZ and BRIAN ROSS
ABCNews.com
See Rome: Innocents Die as Imperial Pot Boils
January 24th, 2010by Chris Floyd
Chris-Floyd.com
Barack Obama has come out swinging following his party’s rout in Massachusetts, vowing to “fight Wall Street” with a “populist” proposal whose main thrust seems to be the reinstatement of some of the common-sense regulations imposed almost 80 years ago to separate banks and investment firms. (I say “seems to be,” because one can only guess what, if anything, Obama really intends to do about the matter. For despite the usual elevated rhetoric, he is, as usual, “leaving crucial details to be hashed out by Congress,” as the NY Times reports. And we know how populist those paladins can be when they get down to hashing out crucial details.)
UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters
January 24th, 2010(Remember Kiddies…The “UN” is nothing more than front for an Organized Crime Syndicate!…Paul)
Jonathan Leake
TimesOnlineUK
January 24, 2010
THE United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.
Wow! UK parliamentary investigation into Climategate may not be a whitewash
JamesDelingpole.com
January 23rd, 2010
The Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into “the unauthorised publication of data, emails and documents relating to the work of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA)” – ie Climategate. (hat tip R. Campbell; Platosays).
Watchdog groups warn: ‘Corporate globalization’ of US elections is upon us
By Stephen C. Webster
RawStory.com
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
The Supreme Court may have ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission days ago, but the decision’s shockwaves are still rippling across American democracy.
Obama Justice Department Decapitates Gun Industry: FBI Arrest 21 Gun Industry Executives in Las Vegas to Attend Gun Show
Illinois Gun
Infowars.com
January 23, 2010
What’s being touted as the largest single investigation and prosecution against individuals in the history of the Justice Department’s enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act occurred Monday in Las Vegas.
Initial H1N1 Attack Rate Raises Pandemic Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary
January 22, 2010
In London and the West Midlands, the difference in the proportion of samples with haemagglutination inhibition titre equal to or above 1:32 between baseline and September, 2009, was 21·3% (95% CI 8·8—40·3) for children younger than 5 years of age, 42·0% (26·3—58·2) for 5—14-year-olds, and 20·6% (1·6—42·4) for 15—24-year-olds…..
To Protect and Serve…The New Amerika
Student: ‘Beating So Bad Thought I Was Going To Die’
WPXI.com
January 22, 2010
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper said three plainclothes officers have been reassigned during an internal investigation into the beating of an 18-year-old student violinist from the city’s Creative and Performing Arts High School.
Greed, Be Thou My God
January 23rd, 2010How Wall Street Destroyed Health Care
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
CounterPunch.org
At my annual check-up, my doctor handed me a sheet explaining the reasons for office fee increases for Medicare Patients. It is worth reporting at length.
The Last Days of Ben Bernanke
by Chris Temple
NationalInvestor.com
January 22, 2010
The developments over the last day or so concerning Time magazine’s 2009 Person of the Year have been nothing short of breathtaking. Until yesterday, if you had to make a choice as to which key member of President Barack Obama’s economic inner circle was most in danger of losing his job, it would certainly have been Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. Indeed, such was the almost unanimous view of the economic pundits out there; especially following the most recent damaging revelations of Geithner’s AIG-related e-mails.
GOP Establishment threatened by Ron & Rand Paul
January 23rd, 2010Robert Stark
Examiner.com
Congressman Ron Paul has become the unofficial spokesman of a growing liberty movement. However many in the GOP establishment view the movement as a threat to their power. Ron Paul was reelected last election by an overwhelming margin but the establishment Republicans are looking to up seat him in the next election. Ron Paul says he has “drawn 317 cosponsors and passed through the House Financial Services Committee a bill to audit the Federal Reserve., and has “led the fight against bailouts, Obamacare and Cap and Trade”. He says “the national attention our efforts have generated, we have broadened the debate on foreign policy and are challenging the status quo idea that America must be the World’s policeman.”
Our Supreme Court Has Lost Its Mind
By Terrell E. Arnold
Rense.com
1-23-10
In a leap that Justice John Paul Stevens called “profoundly misguided” the US Supreme Court has written a decision that may well be the final undoing of American democracy. To see that, it is necessary to take on board the main trend in the distribution of wealth and power in this country. Today the spread between rich and poor is as broad as it has ever been. As of 2000, one percent of the people owned 40% of the nation’s wealth. That gap has been creeping up; probably as of 2010 one percent of the people now own more than half of the wealth. In addition to that, a goodly chunk is owned by foreigners. Thus the democratic base, meaning that 99% of the people may be net owners of little more than a third of our country’s wealth.
A Very American Coup
By William Astore and Tom Engelhardt
CampaignForLiberty.com
01/23/10
Here’s a bit of cheery news: Last week, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with the nation’s top defense company executives, including the CEOs of those mega-military-industrial combines Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and called for a “closer partnership.” He also made them a promise. He pledged, according to his spokesman, “to work with the White House to secure steady growth in the Pentagon’s budgets over time.”
The Rule of Law Has Been Lost
January 23rd, 2010by Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research
What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some deadly disease or Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Dangerous Crossroads: U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border
Nuclear and Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled
by Rick Rozoff
Global Research
January 23, 2010
2010 is proceeding in a manner more befitting the third month of the year, named after the Roman god of war, than the first whose name is derived from a pacific deity.
THREAT MORPHING – TSA NO LONGER INTERESTED IN “AL QAEDA” BUT WILL GO AFTER “ANTI-ABORTIONISTS”, WHITE CHRISTIANS, AND ALL “ANTI-GOVERNMENT” TYPES.
January 23rd, 2010Crash Stew: Signs Point to Global Stock Market Meltdown
January 23rd, 2010by Mac Slavo
LewRockwell.com
There’s a lot of buzz hitting the contrarian financial news circles around the web regarding recent market weakness and the possibility for the end of the rally which began in March of 2009.
Bernanke’s Doom Loop
January 23rd, 2010by Gary North
LewRockwell.com
Two Bank of England economists have written one of the most perceptive and forthright papers in the history of central banking: “Banking on the State.” Compared with any of the dozens of deadly dull, equation-filled, narrowly focused, recommendation-avoiding, career-enhancing, résumé-padding, utterly useless academic exercises published in the dozen regional Federal Reserve bank journals every month, this paper stands out like a diamond in an immense dung hill.
There Is No Freedom of Choice in America
January 23rd, 2010by Don Cooper
LewRockwell.com
We have no freedom of choice in America; it’s an illusion. The federal and state governments regulate every single market in this country which means that everything any American thinks he is freely choosing is something that in fact has been “approved” by the state for American consumption and Americans may only “choose” from that list. Choosing something not on the “approved” list is considered criminal and can result in one losing their freedoms altogether. That’s not freedom of choice, that’s state control of people’s lives. If the last two sentences were said in the context of a communist regime, no one would hesitate to nod acceptingly, but when uttered in the context of the U.S. government, they are considered to be conspiratorial and paranoid, but are true just the same.
Banks shut in Fla., Mo., NM, Ore., Wash.
By MARCY GORDON
APNewsMyWay.com
WASHINGTON (AP) – Regulators shut down banks Friday in Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, bringing to nine the number of bank failures so far in 2010, following 140 closures last year in the toughest economic environment since the Great Depression.
