Intelligence can target Americans *OFFICIAL*

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61251Z20100203 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In unusually frank comments, the top U.S. intelligence official acknowledged on Wednesday that spy agencies can target for killing Americans who are involved in terrorism. “We take direct action against terrorists, in the intelligence community,” Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, said. “If … we think that direct action will involve [...]

Former Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis Charged with Fraud; It’s Only a Start

Written by: Michael Shedlock On April 24, I wrote Let the Criminal Indictments Begin: Paulson, Bernanke, Lewis. You will be pleased to read Ex-BofA chief Lewis charged with fraud. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday it was bringing civil charges against senior Bank of America (BAC) executives, including former company CEO Ken Lewis, [...]

Enough With The Government Cover-Ups

Edward Harrison, 01.12.10, 04:20 PM EST What really happened to AIG and other bankrupt firms. It has come to light recently that American International Group withheld important information about its dealings with financial counterparties in the lead-up to its collapse and bailout by the Federal Reserve. What is most troubling about this episode is that [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The United States of Plutocracy

Posted on Sep 8, 2009 By William Pfaff The United States has for practical purposes been a plutocracy for some years now. American national elections usually function more or less correctly, except that they have become all but completely dominated by money. The contributors of money to Senate and House campaigns are dominated by the source of that [...]