Summers: ‘Statistical Recovery and Human Recession’

Neal Lipschutz The Wall Street Journal January 30, 2010 Key Obama economic adviser Larry Summers coined a telling way to look at the current American economic state of play. He said the U.S. is experiencing a “statistical recovery and a human recession.” It is a phrase that should resonate through much of the industrial world, [...]

Game Over for the American Middle Class – MYBUDGET360

JAN-28-2010 – Game Over for the American Middle Class – Inflation Adjusted Wages up 20 Percent in Last 20 Years While Housing Costs are up 56 Percent and Healthcare Costs are up 155 Percent. The struggle for average Americans to keep up is largely becoming an act of will power and force in this current grand [...]

China suspends US talks over Taiwan arms deal – Shanghai Daily

Full Article China announced yesterday it will postpone bilateral military programs and security talks and impose sanctions against companies in response to the US government’s planned US$6.4 billion arms deal with Taiwan. A Foreign Ministry announcement said China had decided to partially halt exchange programs between the two countries’ military forces, as well as vice-ministerial [...]

FACTBOX-U.S. companies involved in Taiwan arms sales

Jan 30 (Reuters) – China said it would impose sanctions on companies involved in a planned $6.4 billon arms package for Taiwan that the Obama administration sent the U.S. Congress on Friday. Here are the main arms included in the package, and the companies that make them. Other weapons systems are to be opened to [...]

State Council: U.S. planned arms sale to Taiwan runs counter to sound development of cross-Strait relations

English.news.cn BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said Saturday that U.S. planned arms sale to Taiwan was in violation of its commitment to supporting the peaceful development of the cross-Strait relations. The move ran counter both to the sound development of the cross-Strait relations and to the fundamental [...]

World Trembles As US Prepares New Quake Test

Written By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers The reason for this new American quake test, these reports say, is due to the ‘catastrophic failure’ of their previous ones that have so destabilized our Earth’s inner magnetosphere that more earthquakes have been reported in the past 30-days then in the first 90-days of 2009 (including over 600 [...]

Osama bin Laden is ‘worth more alive than dead’, declares his son – UK TIMES ONLINE

Osama bin Laden is worth more to the United States alive than dead because his death could unleash “very,very nasty” attacks by militants, his son has claimed. In an at times rambling interview with Rolling Stone magazine, which was conducted in part in a Damascus strip club, the terror leader’s fourth-eldest son, Omar Osama bin Laden, [...]

The United States of Corporate America: From democracy to plutocracy

By Rodrigue Tremblay Online Journal Guest Writer “The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” –Plato, ancient Greek philosopher “The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a [...]

Google Attacks China as Washington-Beijing Hostility Deepens – Webster G. Tarpley www.tarpley.net

Webster G. Tarpley www.tarpley.net January 18, 2010 Washington, January 18, 2010 — In an interview with Dina Gusovsky of Russia Today, Webster Tarpley pointed out that the escalating clash between Google and the People’s Republic of China comes in the context of rapidly deteriorating relations between the two countries on a broad front. Google is [...]

Chavez Says US Weapon Test Caused Haiti Earthquake

http://www.ktradionetwork.com/2010/01/21/chavez-says-us-weapon-test-caused-haiti-earthquake/ January 21,2010 Press TV Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Wednesday accused the United States of causing the destruction in Haiti by testing a ‘tectonic weapon’ to induce the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country last week. President Chavez said the US was “playing God” by testing devices capable of creating eco-type catastrophes, the Spanish newspaper [...]