Look Out Below

The slowdown has begun. The economy has started to sputter and unemployment claims have tipped 400,000 for the last seven weeks. That means new investment is too weak to lower the jobless rate which is presently stuck at 9 percent. Manufacturing–which had been the one bright-spot in the recovery– has also started to retreat with some areas in the country now contracting. Housing, of course, continues its downward trek putting more pressure on bank balance sheets and plunging more homeowners into negative equity. The... Read article

The American War Machine (Video)

By Joe Rogan… When people say “support the troops” but aren’t fighting to bring them home and get the criminals who run things in check, I wonder how serious they are about helping anybody. Joe Rogan speaks for those who can’t. -WARNING – This video contains language that some people may find offensive.  Read More →

NOVO ORDO SECLORUM – NeoCon Hell on Earth

The 20th Century was the most destructive era in history. Deaths from all the wars and the genocides estimated at 160 million may seem small if the planet descends into the approaching holocaust. Globalization is the catchword of the ruling class. Sovereign nations are obsolete to the corporatists. Militarization for suppressing conflicts is the mission, since warfare among nations are passé. The old alliances based upon ethnic composition or ideology has vanished. Only dissenters against the New World Order pose a threat... Read article

Nuts, Conservators and a Judge Gone Wild

Hot on the heels of a groundbreaking decision by L. A. Superior Court Judge Reva Goetz to restrain an esteemed medical doctor from reporting elder abuse of conservatee Jean Tanaka, further evidence has surfaced suggesting negligence on the part of Tanaka’s conservator, Linda Cotterman. Dr. Laura Moire’s courtroom testimony on March 3 in the conservatorship matter of Jean Tanaka detailed numerous issues where she deemed the care being given Tanaka by Cotterman to be negligent. Dr. Moire is considered an expert in elder... Read article

Peace Activist and Vet Adam Kokesh Victim of Police Brutality (Video)

Adam Vs. The Man… Television host Adam Kokesh and several other activists participating in a flash-mob were arrested at the publicly-funded Thomas Jefferson Memorial. Their crime? Silently dancing, in celebration of the first amendment’s champion; a clear violation of their right to free-expression. In an excessive use of force, video was captured of Adam being body slammed and placed in a choke for his non-crime.  Read More →

WHO Caves: Allows Smallpox Stockpiling For Three More Years

Once again, the World Health Assembly failed to set a deadline for the destruction of smallpox samples, delaying discussion for another three years. Though it still affirms the need for live sample destruction, the two-day “contentious debate” (repeated for the last 25 years) ended on May 24 in a victory for bioweapons development in the U.S. and Russia. “The retention of the existing stocks of smallpox virus are not required” to maintain and bolster current vaccine supplies, argues Dr. D. A. Henderson in Biosecurity... Read article

Supreme Court Upheld Arizona Immigration Laws

In what can only be labeled a victory for the American people and the rule of law along with states’ rights, the Supreme Court this week upheld Arizona’s E-Verify law that mandates that employers hire legal American citizens and not illegal aliens. Roy Beck, director of www.NumbersUSA.org , gave this definitive interview on this victory: “The most important result of today’s Supreme Court ruling probably is not what will happen in the states but in Congress,” said Beck.   “With more than a dozen states... Read article

Is the Arab Spring spreading to US Congressional staffs?

Millions of American voters were offended this week by the vulgar display on Capitol Hill which witnessed the annual rite of nearly 2/3’s of Members on Congress stumbling over one another at the annual AIPAC Conference in order to ingratiate themselves with their hosts and to protect their sinecures. Equally nauseating to many was what some on Capitol Hill are calling “Congressional Black Tuesday” when they assert Congress cheapened its status in American and foreign eyes and fouled itself by taking the role of undignified... Read article

Extreme Paranoia

Have you noticed that our entire society operates on fear now? Everyone is afraid of everybody else. We are taught not to trust anyone that we do not know and that we should literally spy on our neighbors because they might be a threat. If you do not participate in all of the extreme paranoia that is going on then supposedly something is wrong with you. In fact, if you are not paranoid like everyone else is then you might be a threat.  After all, according to FBI Director Robert Mueller, “homegrown terrorists”... Read article

An Evening with Helen Thomas

And Flashback to John Lennon and Vanunu Mordechai… [Washington, D.C.] When I heard the call to “Move Over AIPAC: Building a New US Middle East Policy” I immediately became one of over100 organizations to endorse it; but I didn’t commit to attend the event until I learned that journalist Helen Thomas was to be the keynote speaker. By the time I booked my flight, Ms. Thomas had been “disinvited” because of the pressure from a few particular people who had still not gotten over her flaming honesty expressed... Read article

Our Pending Economic Train Wreck Made By Congress

“No fewer than 44 states are bleeding serious red ink, while unprecedented costs of social programs, unemployment claims and natural disasters are draining their remaining coffers along with the reserves of the insurance companies. This is the same story; exponential growth and exponential decline.” Mike Folkerth In this ongoing series with my friend and economist Mike Folkerth, www.kingofsimple.com , and author of The Biggest Lie Ever Believed, he writes, “No other mathematical possibility remaining than for the... Read article

Democratizing the Middle East: A Realist Alternative

The most significant aspect of President Obama’s speech on the Middle East (May 19) is the absence of a plan to revive the “Peace Process.” The passing storm over his statements regarding the 1967 borders notwithstanding, it is already evident that there will be no new initiatives in the months to come. This is just as well, because any new initiative would be doomed to fail for as long as the political future of several key countries in the region remains uncertain. The PLO-Hamas coalition hopes, with good reason,... Read article

Replacing Strauss-Kahn; “Pro-Bank Bailout” Lagarde Is A Shoo In

French Finance Minster Christine Lagarde has emerged as the front-runner in the race to replace ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. She is a champion swimmer, an accomplished attorney, and a competent bureaucrat. She’s also a friend of Wall Street who will ferociously defend the interests of big capital. Research assistant for the far-right American Enterprise Institute Jurgen Reinhoudt notes that under “France’s free-market oriented economics minister”…”the top income tax rate was cut... Read article

AID Destroyed Detroit, The Destruction Is Coming To Your Town

For 15 years, from the mid 1970’s to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards.Trash everywhere! Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food... Read article

Out of the Belly of AIPAC and Why I am too RED to be Pink!

AIPAC/American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference brought together over 11,000 sisters, brothers and cousins in the Family of Father Abraham-including 1,500 youth representing 400 schools and 215 universities, 500 journalists from 2 dozen countries and representatives of over 100 endorsing organizations to Move AIPAC Over: http://www.moveoveraipac.org/ On 22 May 2011, inside the Washington Convention Center, Lee Rosenberg, the President of AIPAC greeted that crowd by saying: “We are here because we... Read article

There’s no way out for Greece

Stocks plunged on Monday as Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis deepened and bond yields across the EU periphery headed sharply higher. The euro fell hard against the dollar ($1.40) while the Greek 10-year bond spiked to 17 percent before mounting a modest comeback. The situation is getting desperate. Most economists now believe that Greece will have to restructure its debt. But bondholders are doing everything they can to make sure that doesn’t happen because they stand to lose billions on their investments. So,... Read article

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