Fears of a euro breakup have reached the point where the European Central Bank feels compelled to issue a legal analysis of what would happen if a country tried to leave monetary union.
"Recent developments have, perhaps, increased the risk of secession (however modestly), as well as the urgency of addressing it as a possible scenario," said the document, entitled "[PDF]…Continue
The Washington Post's Dana Priest today reports that "U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people." That's no surprise, of course, as Yemen is now another predominantly Muslim country (along with Somalia and Pakistan) in which our military is secretly involved to some unknown degree in combat operations without any declaration of war, without… Continue
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Psychologists write extensively about people that use the word "I" repeatedly when talking. I won't go into what they write here, suffice it to say, it isn't good.
"Washington seeks to reinstate Haiti as a full-fledged US colony, with all the appearances of a functioning democracy. The objective is to impose a puppet regime in Port-au-Prince and establish a permanent US military presence in Haiti.
The US Administration ultimately seeks to militarize the Caribbean basin.
The island of Hispaniola is a gateway to the Caribbean basin, strategically located between Cuba to the North West and Venezuela to the South. The…Continue
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Key players in 2008 government Bailout of AIG to testify
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Fmr. Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson and fmr. New York Fed Chrmn. Stephen Friedman will testify at a House Oversight hearing on bailed-out insurer AIG. Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner, TARP Inspector Gen. Neil Barofsky and AIG's ex-CFO Elias… Continue
The Microsoft chairman's vision conjures images of a world where Mad Max would feel at home.
Bill Gates said he fears Earth might become a post-industrial wasteland plagued by heat, chronic food and energy shortages, and rampant disease unless governments and private organizations invest more time and money solving what the Microsoft chairman believes are the world's most pressing problems.
Tony Blair and Jack Straw brushed aside repeated warnings from Government lawyers that they would not have a 'leg to stand on' if Britain invaded Iraq.
Devastating evidence at the Iraq inquiry yesterday revealed that every senior legal adviser at the Foreign Office believed the conflict was in breach of international law.
Astonishingly, Downing Street asked lawyers to assess what the consequences would be if Britain toppled Saddam Hussein without legal authority. When they… Continue
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Kay Bailey Hutchison accepts campaign cash from toll-road builder
01:58 PM CST on Tuesday, January 26, 2010
By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News
wslater@dallasnews.com
AUSTIN – Kay Bailey Hutchison has railed against the Trans-Texas Corridor, but she counts one of the state’s premiere toll-road builders among her major financial contributors.
Bartell Zachry, whose San Antonio-based construction… Continue
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THEODOROS PANGALOS RETURNS THE GIFT AS IT WAS A THEFT
Ya Gotta Love This Guy!!!!
The deputy prime minister of Greece has sent back to the Israeli Embassy in Athens three bottles of wine given to him as a gift, because they were produced in the Golan, which "belongs to Syria" and is "illegally occupied."
The embassy had given the wine to Theodoros Pangalos - MP… Continue
Added by Jeff on January 26, 2010 at 11:00pm —
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Of course there isn't one, but Gordon Duff, a Vietnam Veteran and ex-Marine has become one of my heroes of late and he's funny too!
POOR ARE DESTROYING AMERICA, BREEDING LIKE RATS
By Gordon Duff
Compassionate conservative and proposed running mate in the 2012 Presidential election with Sarah Palin, Andre Bauer has outlined the new Republican platform for making American great again. Bauer, non-veteran and former high school cheer leader with a long history of… Continue
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Obama supporters are flooding newspapers with pro-Obama letters purportedly from average citizens – with duplicate messages appearing in more than 70 publications across the nation.
One writer identified as "Ellie Light" has published identical form letters in newspapers around the country. Sabrina Eaton of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Light claims to have different hometowns within the respective newspaper readership… Continue
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The U.S. Military has, via a large and ongoing propaganda effort, attempted to sell itself as being “family friendly” in an attempt to lure recruits with families to join.
On the U.S. Army’s primary recruiting website, goarmy.com, a section titled “Army Families” has sections for health care, finances, family services, and even a section on relocating with a sub-section titled “Helping Children Cope.” A small paragraph addresses the stress on children whose… Continue
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Anyone seen this yet?
I could not find it up here,and since by the looks of things "they" want to keep it a secret...:
In the UK Lord Hutton has secretly barred the release of all medical records concerning the "suicide" of David Kelly,including the results of the post mortem
Only now has it emerged that a year after his inquiry was completed, Lord Hutton took unprecedented action to ensure that the vital evidence remains a state secret for so long.
Lord… Continue
My name is William Dean A. Garner and I’m a NY Times bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many books. For example, I edited Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code, among dozens of others. I’m also a former scientist (biophysics), US Army Airborne Ranger (C 1/75 Ranger Regiment), and corporate mercenary for international private military firms I designed and helped build. I did 211 overseas missions in extremely hostile territories over… Continue
President Obama makes his first State of the Union address on Wednesday, and he's going to call for us to cap spending on everything EXCEPT the military.
Getting a grip on the deficit is fine. But spending on war and weapons is the FIRST place we should look to save money, not the LAST.
Obama's priorities are backwards. But Congress gets the final vote on how to spend tax dollars. And their reaction to the State of the Union -- whether they clap or shout… Continue
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US Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit load onto a helicopter in Leogane, Hait
January 25, 2010
Haiti is no stranger to adversity and anguish - over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities… Continue
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