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The U.S. Senate is considering the unthinkable: changing detention laws to imprison people — including Americans living in the United States itself — indefinitely and without charge.

The Defense Authorization bill — a “must-pass” piece of legislation — is headed to the Senate floor with troubling provisions that would give the President — and all future presidents — the authority to…

Italy Is Closer To Collapse Than Anyone Realized, And So Is The World

Some stories in European press (La Stampa -) suggest that Italy is working on a very big loan package from the IMF. I have no doubt that there are ongoing discussions. There has to be. Either someone…

If You Thought Police Brutality Was Bad … Wait Until You See What Congress Wants to Do Next Week

Washington’s Blog

Sunday, November 27, 2011

The police brutality against peaceful protesters in Berkeley, …

The ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian prime ministership is remarkable for more reasons than it is possible to count. By replacing the scandal-surfing Silvio Berlusconi, Italy has dislodged the undislodgeable. By imposing rule by unelected technocrats, it has suspended the normal rules of democracy, and maybe democracy itself. And by putting a senior adviser at Goldman Sachs in charge of a Western nation, it has taken to new heights the political power of an…

By Deena Stryker

An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little…

New Deployment Has Something to Do With China, Officials Insist

The Obama Administration didn’t get the permanent military presence it sought in Iraq, but they…

NDAA detention provision would turn America into a “battlefield”

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com

Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.

“The Senate is going to vote on…

You all know James Randi. He’s the world famous Psychic Investigator whose rigorous scepticism has been the undoing of many a fraudulent spoonbender, dodgy faith-healer and ouija-board-wobbling spiritualist.



Randi is the expert magician and escape artist who is offering $1 million in his Paranormal Challenge “to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal,…

This is the best they could come up with. Although the magnifying glass is a nice touch.

http://www.america.gov/conspiracy_theories.html

When did global warming turn into a forced religion?

Hot on the heels of Climategate — the leaking of thousands of emails and computer files that show many of the world’s leading climate scientists fudging the results of their global warming research and contriving to keep skeptics from being published in academic journals — comes what could be called Glaciergate. Prominent among the claims of impending environmental disaster in the UN’s fourth report on climate change, published in 2007, was the prediction that all of the…