The massive industrial conglomerate Halliburton has reportedly offered to pay $250 million to settle charges against its former chief executive, ex-Vice President Dick Cheney, in a multi-million dollar bribery case.

Nigeria filed charges against Cheney last week in an investigation of alleged bribery estimated at $180 million. Prosecutors named both Halliburton and KBR in the charges, as well as three European oil and engineering companies -- Technip SA, EniSpa, and Saipem…

By Jerome R. Corsi

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In a further indication that the "North American Union" agenda is quietly proceeding under what remains of the Security and Prosperity Partnership initiative in the Obama administration, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano signed, with…

In the latest example that virtually every conspiracy theory is almost always inevitably proven to be fact, the Financial Times reports that JP Morgan, the firm targeted by thousands of “tin foil hat” wearing, conspiratorially-oriented “gold bugs”, has cut back on its US silver futures. “JPMorgan has quietly reduced a large position in the US silver futures market which had been at the centre of a controversy about its impact on global prices for the precious metal.” And in what can only be…

Bill Gross, Nouriel Roubini, Laurence Kotlikoff, Steve Keen, Michel Chossudovsky and the Wall Street Journal all say that the U.S. economy is a giant Ponzi scheme.



Virtually all independent economists and financial experts say that rampant fraud was largely responsible for the financial crisis. See…

Days of violent protests by Bangladeshi garment workers - who produce clothes for western brands like Marks & Spencer, H&M, Tesco and Walmart - demanding a higher minimum wage peaked on Sunday when at least three people were killed and 250 people were injured in clashes with police.



Since then, production has resumed in some units of the Dhaka and Chittagong Export Processing Zones, after employees were given assurances that they would reap the full benefits of a…

By Jon Christian Ryter

December 15, 2010

NewsWithViews.com

With a straight face that would suggest they had the authority to do so, the Federal Communications Commission is poised to steal the Internet after new…

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Reflecting on the undue influence that drug giant GlaxoSmithKline appears to have exhibited over the FDA's decision-making process regarding the diabetes blockbuster Avandia, Time magazine author Massimo Calabresi asks, "Does the FDA have a drug problem?"…

HERE IS MORE INFO ON FBI ACTIVITIES, A GOVERNMENT OUT OF CONTROL, WITH NO RULE OF LAW. AND A CORRUPT JUSTICE SYSTEM.

http://www.ideamarketers.com/?articleid=1259877

Richard C. Holbrook (Kissinger Light) Dead.

Richard C. Holbrook, one of the New World Order’s biggest fans and planners, died Monday, December 13^th, 2010.

Holbrooke was a high ranking member of the Bilderburg Group, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. He participated in the planning and execution of every war, from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq that the United States has involved in.…

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has made his strongest condemnation yet of WikiLeaks, as supporters of Julian Assange demonstrated for his release.



In a call to the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the US President ''expressed his regrets for the deplorable action by WikiLeaks'', the White House…

The masters sent me to the United States three times. When I finished my last trip I said, "Oh, finally, I finished my mission". But that was my ego talking. When I got home, there came another invitation to the USA. I said "What do I do with this?” I thought I would have to say no, because I have already finished the three trips. So I went into meditation and I said to the masters. "I have already finished my…

Julian Assange was a guest at a US Embassy cocktail party less than a year ago.

HEARTLAND MONITOR POLL

Americans no longer think the U.S. economy is No. 1, a new Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll shows.

By Ronald Brownstein

December 8, 2010

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A man looks on as he walks by skyscrapers in the financial district…

Richard Holbrooke, noted diplomat, is dead at 69

December 13, 2010

by Cynthia J. Koelker, MD

Source: Survival Blog





Are over-the-counter (OTC) drugs really…

President Barack Obama’s health care reform law was dealt a serious blow Monday when the part of the law that requires Americans to purchase health insurance was deemed unconstitutional by a federal court in Virginia. But analysts largely agree that the final battle over the law will ultimately be waged at the Supreme Court.…