Insouciant Americans
The Underwear Bomber case indicates that whoever is behind these bomb scares is laughing at our gullibility.
How realistic is it that al-Qaida, an organization that allegedly pulled off the most fantastic terror attack in world history, would in these days of heightened security choose for an attack on an airliner a person who is the most conspicuous of all? Umar Farouk Mutallab had a one-way ticket, no luggage, no passport, and his father, reportedly a CIA and Mossad asset, had reported him to the CIA and Mossad. Does anyone really believe that al-Qaida would choose as an airliner bomber a person waving every red flag imaginable?
National Security: The Big Fraud
The handwringing about the would-be Christmas Day airplane bomber and the politicians’ tiresome declarations that it will never happen again miss the point: As long as the U.S. government pursues its imperial program of invasion, regime change, occupation, and sponsorship of corrupt governments in the Muslim world, Americans will be targets for avengers. This does not excuse the killing of innocents — it merely points out an inevitable chain of events.
A global fiasco is brewing in Japan
I have felt rather lonely after suggesting in my New Year Predictions that Japan is dangerously close to blowing up on its sovereign debts, with consequences that will be felt across the world.
The Biggest Financial Deception of the Decade
Enron? Bear Stearns? Bernie Madoff? They're all big stories about big losses and have hurt a lot of employees and investors. But none come close to getting my vote for the decade's most dastardly deception...
First came Enron, with $65.5 billion in assets, going belly-up and becoming the largest bankruptcy in US history at that time. The stock went from a high of $84.63 in December 2000 to a whopping 26¢ one year later. And what had we been told by the media? Fortune magazine dubbed Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years.
Next came WorldCom filing for bankruptcy in 2002, their assets of $103.9 billion dwarfing Enron's. Tyco, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems...also made headlines for their acts of fraud and mismanagement.
A few years later, Bear Stearns set us all up for the Big Meltdown of 2008. It was B.S. (no, I mean Bear Stearns) that pioneered the asset- backed securities markets, and we all know how that turned out. Later we learned that as losses mounted in 2006 and 2007, the company was actually adding to its exposure of mortgage-backed assets. With net equity of $11.1 billion supporting $395 billion in assets, Bear leveraged itself up to an astonishing 35-to-1...
New York Fed Faces House Subpoena Over AIG Bailout Payments
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may be forced to deliver documents related to American International Group Inc.’s government bailout after the chairman of a House oversight committee said he would issue a subpoena.
Will Globalists Trigger Yet Another World War?
Giordano Bruno
SilverBearCafe.com
World War III is the most iconic event in American culture that never happened. Since the early 1950’s, generations have been preparing for it, writing books about it, producing films and fictional accounts on it, and even playing video games based on it. The concept of another world war is so ingrained into our popular consciousness that it has become almost mythological. It is a legend, a fantasy story of something far away and incomprehensible, often associated with Tim Lahaye novels and action adventure narratives of religious prophecy and Armageddon. World War III has become “entertainment.”
Phone Calls from the 9/11 Airliners
Response to Questions Evoked by My Fifth Estate Interview
Global Research
January 12, 2010
On November 27, 2009, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Fifth Estate program aired a show entitled “9/11: The Unofficial Story,”1 for which I, along with a few other members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, was interviewed. In the most important part of my interview, I pointed out that, according to the FBI’s report on phone calls from the airliners provided in 2006 for the Moussaoui trial, Barbara Olson’s only call from Flight 77 was “unconnected” and hence lasted “0 seconds.” Although this Fifth Estate program showed only a brief portion of my discussion of alleged phone calls from the 9/11 airliners, its website subsequently made available a 22-minute video containing this discussion.2
“Harper’s Actual Agenda is to Dismantle Canada”
There is, for good reason, a lot of enthusiasm across the country as the groundswell against Stephen Harper’s cynical shuttering of Parliament continues to grow. The prime minister from hell has gotten away with so much — and the opposition is so weak that any indication of genuine public disgust at his continuing demonstration of contempt for democracy is a welcome sign. And everyone who cares about the country should be taking part in the new movement for democracy.
The Price of Freedom
On February 17, at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, DC, a young Nigerian terrorist named Farouk Abdul al Faisal attempted to board United Airlines flight 1497 to Stuttgart, Germany. He had eluded detection by the FBI, and was not on the Terrorist Watch List. He seemed to have succeeded in his aims.
The Federal Reserve Paid the Federal Government $46 Billion in 2009. The FED Seeks Control, Not Profits.
This report is from Fortune. It says that the Federal Reserve System made $51 billion in 2009, and it returned over $46 billion to the government.
If you are a regular reader of my reports, you are well aware of this. I write articles on this at least once a year. Why? Because so few critics of the FED understand this. I keep getting questions on the forums about how the FED works.
The Stupid and Evil Party
GOP operatives are again falling on their noses trying to be more PC than the Democrats. Their war on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for saying in private that president Obama was well-positioned in 2008 because he is “a light-skinned African American with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one” has turned into something truly tasteless. Although Reid apologized to the President for his “poor choice of words,” there was nothing outrageous in what he said, and particularly since it came out in a private conversation. I heard quite a few observations similar to Reid’s from my impeccably leftist academic associates during the presidential campaign. Despite his left-leaning position as a senator, lots of Americans, I was told, would vote for candidate Obama because he seemed like a non-threatening black. White voters would feel good about themselves if they had the chance to vote for such a pleasant-sounding minority candidate.
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS ‘09: THE NEXT STEP FOR A FREE PEOPLE
In recent years Americans have become more and more alarmed at the lack of adherence to the U.S. Constitution exercised by Congress and other elected representatives. The list of violations has grown large indeed.
OBAMA ADVOCATES IMMIGRATION REFORM AT EXPENSE OF CRIME VICTIMS
While the news media feverishly cover the soon-to-be passed health care debacle, the Democrats have revealed their plans to “reform” US immigration policy.
Is A Cashless Society On The Cards?
Steve Perry, executive vice president of Visa Europe, says cash is expensive – a cost on society – and should be replaced by a cashless society.
TelegraphUK
Obama’s TSA Nominee Targets Anti-Government Christians
Former FBI agent Southers says government should pay attention to political Americans
Prison Planet.com
College Profs….Paper or Plastic?
Disappearing Jobs
The job picture in the humanities is going from bad to worse.
The Modern Language Association’s annual forecast on job listings, being released today, predicts that positions in English language and literature will drop 35 percent from last year, while positions in languages other than English are expected to fall 39 percent this year. Given that both categories saw decreases last year, the two-year decline in available positions is 51 percent in English and 55 percent in foreign languages.
First grit, then gas – now it’s vegetables in short supply
Eight more consecutive nights of below-freezing temperatures are expected to exhaust council grit supplies and leave roads icy for days. The Met Office has downgraded predictions of a fresh heavy snowfall – there will be up to 15cm (6in) of snow, mostly on the highest ground – but many roads will remain treacherous for those trying to return to work today.
Nine meals from anarchy
January 12th, 2010A cold snap shows how fragile our supply of food and fuel is. We need a more sustainable system
Guardian.co.uk
‘Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall,” wrote Albert Schweitzer. A colossal banking crisis and a big freeze in the middle of what was meant to be a mild winter don’t encourage confidence to the contrary.
Obama Executive Order Stokes Martial Law Fears
Some warn expansion of military involvement in domestic security could lead to “end of United States as a Republic
Prison Planet.com
Totalitarian “Synchronization” — Germany 1933 and USA 2010
The German National Socialists used the term Gleichschaltung to describe the “coordination” or “synchronization” of all government functions by centralizing power in the Chief Executive. This process was carried out through a series of executive decrees supposedly authorized by the 1933 Enabling Act, formally known as the “Law for Removing the Distress of People and Reich.”
US Mortgage Originations Seen Plunging in 2010
U.S. residential mortgage originations are expected to plummet 40 percent in 2010 to their lowest level in a decade, eclipsing a forecast drop made just one month ago, the industry’s main trade group said Tuesday.
UK universities warn that they face ‘meltdown’
LONDON (AP) – Oxford, Cambridge and other British universities said Tuesday that the government’s plan to cut hundreds of millions of pounds (dollars) from their funding would put their world-class reputations in jeopardy.
Unlike most elite institutions in the United States, Britain’s top schools rely almost exclusively on taxpayers keeping them going.
Federal Reserve Seeks to Block Release of U.S. Bailout Secrets
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve asked a U.S. appeals court to block a ruling that for the first time would force the central bank to reveal secret identities of financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest government bailout in U.S. history.
No Seat for Wall Street at Tea Party
WallStreetJournal.com
JANUARY 12, 2010
Could all those populist pitchforks currently pointed at Washington be turned toward Wall Street instead?
That’s the question that ought to worry Wall Street executives as they prepare to pay themselves nice bonuses this month, hard on the heels of a government bailout of the financial system, and amid continuing job losses around the rest of the country. Financial firms know they’re in for heat on bonuses; they’ve already been chastised on national TV by President Barack Obama’s chief economist.
Big Government, Big Business — Conjoined Twins
CenterForAStatelessSociety.org
David Corn, writing in Mother Jones, takes issue with the popular sentiment:
For many decades, Americans have held negative attitudes toward the titans of industry. … But Americans also don’t fancy the counterbalance to corporate power: government. Since 1965, Gallup has asked survey respondents to choose the biggest future threat to the country: big business, big labor, or big government. Big government always wins — by a lot.
Osama: 10. The US: 0.
To better understand why Osama bin Laden is so far winning his struggle to oust the western powers from the Muslim world, let us go back to 1986, when I was covering the anti-Soviet war in then almost unknown Afghanistan.
Creatures from the Conservative Id
Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity, instead of defying you.
~ Captain Jean-Luc Picard confronts Armus, Dick Cheney’s sci-fi soul mate.
IT IS A MADHOUSE OUT THERE
By Chuck Baldwin
NewsWithViews.com
I think we need to face it: 2010 is more than a new year; it is also part of a new era in which all vestiges of normalcy and common sense have been left behind. In other words, it is a madhouse out there. Let me give you some examples of what I’m talking about.
THE EMOTION OF TYRANNY AND THE WISDOM OF JEFFERSON
We have recently heard the statement “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste… an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” (Rahm Emanuel in a Wall Street Journal interview)
FOREBODINGS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
While sitting for a Christmas Eve photo-taking session expressly designed to magically deliver our Christmas in Canada to my adoptive parents in Italy, I could see within the “rushes,” so to speak, that our early attempts at a celebratory impression were failing.
I just couldn't get "happy enough."
Well, that morning I had read this article.
Hmmm — a few, rather seminally important New World Order measures have already been taken. Though this ruling by Obama hasn't given a United Nations police force a white flag of complete surrender, it has virtually liberated what may prove to be a central recruiting station for a UN invasion of our rights. This Obama-approved invader is the European Union's Interpol, and given its carte blanche immunity from any restrictive limits to its behavior within the United States, I do believe we're in even further and faster trouble than anyone could possibly have thought … as a result of the Obama idea of "Change."
These actions by the President, which I personally consider beyond unconstitutional, the utter desecration of America's national sovereignty, placing no restrictive limits around an international body of not only law enforcement officials but an actual spying organization dedicated to the enforcement of what amounts to European socialism?
Swine flu: “They Organized the Panic”. Inquiry into the Role of Big Pharma and WHO by Council of Europe
New Development: The German President of the Health Committee of the Council of Europe, Wolfgang Wodarg, is issuing accusations against the pharmaceutical lobbies and the governments. He has intitiated the start of an investigation by that body concerning the role played by the pharmaceutical in the campaign of panic about the virus.
