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, [...]

Engineered Earthquake? US is Occupying Haiti as Troops Flood In

http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article19515 2010 January 19 by Aislinn Laing, and Tom Leonard in Port-au-Prince The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to “clarify” the American role amid claims the military build up was hampering aid efforts. U.S. Air Force troops patrol downtown Port-au-Prince Monday January 18, 2010. Thousands more U.S. troops will [...]

THE RICH? THEY GET ELECTED

www.truthdig.com Posted on Nov 7, 2009 A day after it was announced that the U.S. unemployment rate had hit the double-digit mark, a report was released showing that nearly half of the members of Congress are millionaires, seriously questioning the notion that our lawmakers identify with “we the people.” Hilariously enough, four of the top five richest [...]

NYTIMES: Adults Spend 8 Hours a Day Spent on Screens, Study Finds

By BRIAN STELTER IN a world with grocery store television screens, digitally delivered movie libraries and cellphone video clips, the average American is exposed to 61 minutes of TV ads and promotions a day. Some people may think that amount seems excessive. But “people don’t seem to be getting up and running away,” said Jack Wakshlag, [...]

Whats Really in Obama’s Healthcare Bill??

H. R. 3200- To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes. • Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is [...]

Ignorance in America

Reposted from Puppetgov and Global Research By Prof. John Kozy~Global Research Ignorance is pervasive in America; it affects the rich as well as the poor, the powerful and the powerless, the famous as well as the obscure. It’s prevalent in the suites of our nation’s CEOs, the Congress, the military, and even our universities. It [...]

Police to investigate News of the World phone-hacking claims

By: David Batty guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 July 2009 11.55 BST Article history The Metropolitan police is to examine allegations that journalists from theNews of the World and other newspapers repeatedly used criminal methods to get stories through mobile phone hacking. The assistant commissioner, John Yates, is to “establish the facts” about the claims and will report back later [...]

Dashing Fabricated Hopes: The Meaning of Ahmadinejad’s Victory

By Pierre Tristam June 14, 2009 “Pierre’s Middle East Issues Blog” — It’s been a little weird, if not embarrassing, to witness the reactions of the American press to the Iranian election in the last 24 hours. There was the initial rush of expectation–that “change” was as much in the Iranian air as it had [...]

US Media Campaign to Discredit Iranian Election

By Charting Stock http://informationclearinghouse.info See also:- Lights turned off on media after elections: The AFP news agency reported that Iran’s wireless telephone network was shut down at 5:30pm GMT (10:00pm in Tehran), just as incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was making a television appearance to congratulate himself on a “great victory”. See also:- Landslide or Fraud? [...]

How the spooks took over the news

This is an edited extract from “Flat Earth News: an award-winning reporter exposes falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media”, published by Chatto & Windus. In his controversial new book, Nick Davies argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale [...]