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Democrats V. Republicans, in the wake of Scott Brown's Victory

Here in the great State of Massachusetts, a great many irritated people, tired of immense taxation, voted for a pretty decent, hard working fellow from a local town to represent their interests and to oppose D.C. desires, as State Senator.

And it’s good as far as it goes. It might hold up the massive health care fraud. It does announce that many old Dems will be vacating their positions soon, and Congress and the Senate will see some new blood, most of which will be quickly… Continue

Added by Liam Scheff on January 20, 2010 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

There Are NO Security Issues

I can't post the video from Democracy Now but I'll provide a link below. Listen to the American doctor working at the main general hospital just blocks from the Presidential Palace in downtown Port Au Prince. There Are No Security Issues in Haiti. He is adamant that the press is hyping riots and looting to allow for troops to be deployed and insists that he's living with friends and circulating in Haiti's downtown areas until 2 and 3 in the morning and there are no security… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 20, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Killing Me Softly ~ Coal Fired Power Plants

An Observer investigation uncovers a link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations effecting 1000s of people, maybe 100s of 1000s.

Gurpreet Sigh, 7, who has cerebral palsy and microcephaly, and is from Sirsar, 50km from the Punjabi town of Bathinda. He is being treated at the Baba Farid centre for Special Children in Bathinda Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain

Their heads are… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 20, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Disease Is Not An Accident

I believe that almost all diseases we experience here in the US are directly related to the military/industrial/corporate complex. Diabetes is perhaps the result of diet and food additives, cancers the result of continued release of nuclear waste into the environment. But all diseases have an environmental chemical pollutant element to them. We're killing ourselves, very simply.

We don't get disease by accident.…

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Added by Jeff on January 20, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Cold Start: Indian Threat to Pakistan & China

By Farzana Shah

In 2005 India announced a new military doctrine called Start Cold mainly targeting Pakistan as its potential enemy. In November 2009, Indian army chief made a statement that there is a possibility of a limited war between Pakistan and India in a nuclear overhang. In December 2009, Indian chief announced that India is ready to take on both Pakistan and China in a ‘two front war’ simultaneously. These statements spurred a… Continue

Added by Rainbow Warrior Mariah aka Angel on January 20, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

International Criminal Court Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Gonzales

INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED

Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 20, 2010 at 9:30am — 8 Comments

AMEN: Democratic Defeat Imperils Health Care Overhaul - NYTimes

WASHINGTON — Scott Brown’s decisive Senate victory in Massachusetts imperiled the fate of the Democratic health care overhaul as House Democrats indicated they would not quickly approve a Senate-passed health care measure and send it to President Obama.

After a meeting of House Democratic leaders Tuesday night even as Mr. Brown’s victory was being declared, top lawmakers said they were weighing their options. But the prospect of passing the health care overhaul by pushing the Senate… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on January 20, 2010 at 6:38am — No Comments

Haiti: US Ships Blockade Coast To Thwart Exodus To America

"Port-au-Prince is a morgue," he said. "We need to migrate at least two million people."

A US aircraft carrier is spearheading a blockade of Haiti's waters as America prepares for a mass sea exodus of Haitians with thousands fleeing the devastated capital of Port-au-Prince.

US officials have drawn up emergency plans to cope with a mass migration crisis and have cleared spaces in detention or reception centres, including the Navy base at Cuba's Guantanamo… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on January 20, 2010 at 6:30am — 10 Comments

Family facing $25k in damages after SWAT search » Nearly everything family owns is contaminated by tear gas.

By Lindsay Whitehurst

The Salt Lake Tribune

01/17/2010

A Salt Lake City family caught up in the search for an accused cop killer says they lost nearly everything when police pumped their house full of tear gas, causing about $25,000 in damage.

"They destroyed my life in a few hours," said Salvia Miramontes, who had to throw away… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 20, 2010 at 5:51am — No Comments

PNG detains two Australian bankers

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1002056/png-detains-two-australian-bankers

A controversial Papua New Guinea businessman denies that intimidation is behind the detaining of two Australian bankers in Port Moresby but says more arrests may be imminent.

Australians Robin Fleming and John Maddison, senior executives of one of PNG's leading financial institution, Bank South Pacific (BSP),… Continue

Added by peter b dunn on January 20, 2010 at 5:06am — No Comments

Murders at Guantánamo: Harper's Scott Horton Exposes Truth about 2006 'Suicides'

Published on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by CommonDreams.org

by Andy Worthington

It's hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month's Harper's Magazine (available on the web here), but let's try this: The three "suicides" at Guantánamo in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men in question were killed during interrogations in a… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 19, 2010 at 10:31pm — No Comments

John Travolta to Airlift Desperately Needed E-Meters to People of Haiti

Gawker.com

January 19, 2010

Scientologists have mobilized to seize on the promotional and recruitment opportunities presented by the horror going on in Haiti, and John Travolta has personally arranged to fly "volunteer ministers" to Haiti to inflict his junk science on victims there.

Anywhere people are suffering, Scientology's yellow-shirted "volunteer ministers" can be… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 19, 2010 at 9:59pm — No Comments

Secure your checked bags -- fly with a gun

Thought you may enjoy this

Secure your checked bags -- fly with a gun

If you want to keep your checked valuables from being stolen while you fly, just keep a gun in your suitcase.

Many airports won't let you effectively lock your suitcases when you fly, and the new limits on carry-on luggage thanks to moisture-terror-hysteria mean it's open season for unscrupulous TSA employees and baggage handlers who want to help themselves to expensive cameras and other… Continue

Added by DallasBC on January 19, 2010 at 6:12pm — 1 Comment

US Mercenaries Set Sights on Haiti

By Jeremy Scahill

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… Continue

Added by Tara on January 19, 2010 at 6:11pm — No Comments

BATF Notice Bans Private Gun Sales in Texas

BATF Notice Bans Private Gun Sales In Texas

There is no law to prevent private sales without a license, police issue “direction” on orders of Feds

Steve Watson

Infowars.net

Monday, Jan 18, 2010

BATF Notice Bans Private Gun Sales In Texas 180110gunsales2The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is actively issuing directions banning private sales of guns without licenses at gun shows in Texas, despite there being no law to justify such… Continue

Added by Sweettina2 on January 19, 2010 at 5:56pm — No Comments

The Disaster Within The Disaster: It’s Time To Investigate The Aid Fiasco

The Disaster Within The Disaster: It’s Time To Investigate The Aid Fiasco

By Danny Schechter

Haiti remains a death trap, with an aid program that has sat by and watched thousands die without relief. The International Red Cross describes the situation there as a catastrophe, while the American Red Cross reports raising more than $100 million dollars thanks to texting technologies and backing from the White House.

Raising money is their specialty; delivering aid… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 19, 2010 at 4:57pm — No Comments

HAARP - Nature Modification Weapon

HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Reasearch Program). Supposed Weather modification, communication disruption and mind control Weapon. Extended Star Wars Defense Initiative (SDI)weapon of the US...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPusHeDlBxQ

Added by DallasBC on January 19, 2010 at 4:41pm — No Comments

The Right Testicle of Hell:

I should have had these out three days ago but hey I'm not perfect but I am really busy.

Haiti has had one hell of a past if you ever get a chance read up on it's history. Exploitation has been prevalent for at least a couple of centuries, and shows no sign of being curbed currently the US, Canada and other western interests have been sniffing around Haiti like so many wolves around a carcass.

The article is from Greg Palast investigative journalist and then there is a… Continue

Added by DallasBC on January 19, 2010 at 4:25pm — No Comments

US: Record year for home foreclosures as unemployment continues to rise. Massive bailouts have put additional strain on the economy and have deepened the problem

MIAMI (AP) - A record 2.8 million households were threatened with foreclosure last year, and that number is expected to rise this year as more unemployed and cash-strapped homeowners fall behind on their mortgages.

The number of households that received a foreclosure-related notice rose 21 percent from 2008, RealtyTrac Inc. reported Thursday. One in 45 homes were sent a filing, which includes default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions.

In… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on January 19, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

French officials demand that the UN investigate America's "occupation" of Haiti as the U.S. turned away a French plane filled with medical supplies

A French minister has called for a United Nations investigation into the dominant US role in Haiti, saying international aid efforts are about helping the quake-stricken country, not "occupying" it.

US forces turned back a French aid plane carrying a field hospital from the damaged, congested airport in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince last week, prompting a complaint from French co-operation minister Alain Joyandet. The plane landed safely the following… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on January 19, 2010 at 3:55pm — No Comments