Currency Wars – Iran Banned From Trading Gold and Silver January 24, 2012 Print Version Source: GoldCore Gold’s London AM fix this morning was USD 1,675.00, GBP 1,076.55, and EUR 1,294.94 per ounce. Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,646.00, GBP 1,064.68, and EUR 1,274.29 per ounce. Cross Currency Table – Bloomberg Gold has risen in [...]
Obama to Use Pension Funds of Ordinary Americans to Pay for Bank Mortgage “Settlement” January 24, 2012 Print Version Source: Naked Capitalism Obama’s latest housing market chicanery should come as no surprise. As we discuss below, he will use the State of the Union address to announce a mortgage “settlement” by Federal regulators, and at [...]
Is The NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over The City? Evidence Points To Yes January 24, 2012 Print Version Source: CBS NewYork They’re used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes. But are there plans to deploy drones in the Big Apple to keep an eye on New Yorkers? More and more people believe it’s [...]
LAPD: Joint Military Drills In Downtown LA January 24, 2012 Print Version Source: Phantom Report Maybe the Military Equipment Movement 1\19\12 near Santa Cruz, Southbound is headed toward Los Angeles, CA for the joint military| LAPD exercise. If you are a 11Bravo veteran [US ARMY], you know the branches of the military have Urban Warfare [...]
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Former Liberian Dictator Charles Taylor Worked for CIA January 22, 2012 Print Version Source: Boston Herald When Charles G. Taylor tied bed sheets together to escape from a second-floor window at the Plymouth House of Correction on Sept. 15, 1985, he was more than a fugitive trying to avoid extradition. He was a sought-after source [...]
If feds can bust Megaupload, why bother with anti-piracy bills? January 22, 2012 Print Version Source: CS Monitor It was almost as if the thrums of digital artillery could be felt across millions of keyboards. As some of the internet’s biggest power players, including Google and Wikipedia, protested two fast-tracked anti-piracy bills going through Congress, [...]
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Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Events Disappear January 22, 2012 Print Version Source: Wired Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light. A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s out-there research arm, [...]
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The Globalization of War The “Military Roadmap” to World War III Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham (Editors) December 2011 INTRODUCTION [scroll down for Reader's Table of Contents] The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously. The concept of [...]
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Monsanto’s Best-Selling Herbicide Roundup Linked to Infertility January 21, 2012 Print Version Andre Evans Activist Post A recent study has found that Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide may be responsible for causing infertility. After reviewing the many already well-documented negative impacts Roundup has on the environment and living creatures, it is no surprise to add yet another [...]
US deploys 12,000 troops in Libya January 21, 2012 Print Version Source: Press Tv The United States has sent some 12,000 soldiers to Libya, in the first phase of deployments to the oil-rich North African nation. According to Asharq Alawsat, the troops landed in the eastern oil port city of Brega. Although the deployment [...]
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Protesting Internet Censorship by Stephen Lendman January 19, 2012 On May 12, 2011, Senator Patrick Leahy (D. VT) introduced “S. 968: Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PROTECT IP).” Referred to the Judiciary Committee, May 26 hearings were held. Debate’s scheduled for next week. On [...]
Sadism in the Cell: Thanks to a Vindictive Prison System, Abu-Jamal is Still in ‘The Hole’ Linn Washington Jr. January 20, 2012 Those intent on tormenting now ex-death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal have done it again, this time perhaps even exceeding their past efforts to painfully harass this man widely perceived as a political prisoner. The [...]
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Edible Microchips to Monitor Drug Taking Habits January 20th, 2012 I wonder if people will tell Siri to remind them to take their digestible sensors? Via: Independent: An edible microchip that records the precise details of a patient’s pill regime will be available in Britain by the end of year following a commercial deal [...]
Federal Prosecutor to Take 5th Amendment in Fast and Furious Probe January 20th, 2012 Via: Politico: A senior federal prosecutor in Arizona intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before a House committee next week looking into the Justice Department’s handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, the prosecutor’s attorney [...]
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Rights Groups’ Report: NATO Committed War Crimes in Libya January 20, 2012 Print Version Source: Anti-War A new report has been released by three Middle Eastern human rights groups to detail the results of a “fact-finding mission” to post-Gadhafi Libya. The report was unique in looking not only at human rights violations by the [...]
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