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This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a a fact and every economic event leading to our very complete collapse is here. The framing and Destruction of Bank of America is one of the last events leading to the final blow. You will no longer be Americans but globalists and citizens of the global union with a New Capitol in Brussells Belgium. Oh yes Since religions will no longer be needed to control the masses religions will no longer be supported by the Union.This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a a fact and every economic event leading to... more
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Some of the finest journalists risk life and limb to bring us the stories that matter from all over the world. From the war-torn Congo to areas of the world hit by devastating natural disasters, reporters put aside their own personal safety to ensure the truth is told and viewers across the globe are able to see for themselves what's really going on.
Other news reporters muck around reporting on the weather, local sports matches and glorified press-release events but let's not assume these are any less dangerous. As this video shows, death by custard pie, wrestler or lizard is only a "cut!" away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JUB-oAukiUSome of the finest journalists risk life and limb to bring us the stories that matter... more
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The daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain has sharply criticized the Tea Party movement, accusing it of "innate racism."
In an appearance on ABC's The View, Meghan McCain also took issue with a number of recent statements from Sarah Palin, criticizing the former Alaska governor for defending Rush Limbaugh's use of the word "retard" and for suggesting that President Obama launch a war against Iran in order to win a second term.
McCain described Former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo's call for a literacy test for voters as "innate racism."The daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain has sharply criticized the... more
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It's an issue that strikes at the core of America's health reform debate: How much should one have to pay to ensure their health care needs are met?
Now take that price and inflate it by up to 39 percent -- just to get a feel for what it is like to be one of roughly 800,000 Anthem Blue Cross customers in California who hold individual policies.
The company said its dramatic rate hike would take effect on March 1.
State regulators almost immediately promised to investigate the increase. Then, on Monday, the Obama administration got involved.It's an issue that strikes at the core of America's health reform debate:... more
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Great Hayek VS Keynes Rap Video!
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Metropolitan Police Commander Ali Dizaei, Britain's most senior Asian officer, has been sentenced to four years for perverting the course of justice and misconduct after a row with a web designer who did some work on Dizaei's personal website.
Prosecutor Peter Wright QC said Dizaei was guilty of a "wholesale abuse of power" motivated by self-interest and pride. The shamed policeman was ordered to spend two years in prison and two years on licence.
Dizaei, 47, went on trial accused of abusing his position to arrest a 24-year-old web designer, with whom he'd argued over money owed for web design work. After arresting Waad al-Baghdadi, 23, Dizaei had then fabricated a series of allegations against him and inflicted an injury on himself to back up a claim that the young man had "stabbed" him with the mouthpiece of shisha pipe.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said "criminals in uniform like Dizaei" were the greatest threat to the reputation of the police.Metropolitan Police Commander Ali Dizaei, Britain's most senior Asian officer,... more
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Short article about a possible role for Palin
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Hundreds of emergency crews were on Monday battling to clear snow-clogged roads and restore power to thousands of homes across the east coast before a new storm hits.
But despite their best efforts, the capital remained largely paralyzed, with the federal government saying it would be closed for at least one more day and scores of schools and local businesses remaining shut.
An early morning freeze on Sunday which turned partially-cleared roads into icy skating rinks, gave way to warmer temperatures helping the big melt to get under way, but officials warned travel was still hazardous.
"This is really challenging for us, and will continue to be a challenge for most of the week," said Laura Southard from the Virginia emergency management center, noting that another storm is due to hit the mid-Atlantic region late on Tuesday.
With record snowfall of more than three feet (a meter) in many places after a monster blizzard swept across Virginia, Maryland and the US federal capital city, bulldozers were hard at work.Hundreds of emergency crews were on Monday battling to clear snow-clogged roads and... more
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All three countries have pledged to impose sweeping cuts in public-sector jobs and wages and in social benefits, along with new consumption taxes, in line with demands from the European Union that they sharply reduce their budget deficits, currently 10 percent or more of their respective gross domestic products.
Greek President George Papandreou of the social-democratic PASOK party, who was elected last year on the basis of promises to reverse the right-wing policies of the preceding conservative government, this week announced plans for an across-the-board freeze on public sector wages along with a cut in allowances, which amounts to a wage cut of 4 percent. He also called for a pension “reform,” which entails raising the retirement age, as well as higher fuel taxes.
The social-democratic Portuguese and Spanish governments have pledged to impose similar austerity measures.
Signs of mounting resistance by the working class in these countries are playing an enormous role in the tremors rippling through the global financial markets. There is a growing sense in governments and board rooms around the world that a major confrontation with the working class is coming, with potentially revolutionary implications.
The banks and the media are demanding that heads of state and parliaments demonstrate the “political will” and “political consensus” necessary to impose historic attacks on the working class. These phrases are euphemisms for a degree of ruthlessness that implies a readiness to employ state repression. However, the financial markets are at once skeptical over the willingness of political leaders to employ the required measures and anxious over the outcome of such a confrontation.All three countries have pledged to impose sweeping cuts in public-sector jobs and... more
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Today at the National Teaparty Convention former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, told an audience at the convention carried on C-SPAN that the Teaparty movement is a formidable force in American politics. She said that the GOP would do well to incorporate the movement lest it becomes a third party that could challenge the status quo. She also said that America needs to return to the good old days when it was a god fearing nation where people look to divine intervention for much needed security. She said that many Blue Dog Democrats are even looking under the hood of the Teapart movement and that they must be thinking that they need to take a serious look at this movement and not be left behind by the movement.
To cheers from the audience chanting "Run Sarah Run" over and over, Sarah is asked if she has any plans to run again. She states that the Teaparty movement is "the future of politics in this country, and I am proud to be part of it."Today at the National Teaparty Convention former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, told... more
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The death toll from Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last month has reached 212,000, while the number of homeless may be far higher than the one million estimated by authorities, the prime minister has said.
"We have over 200,000 (dead). The last number I received from my services was 212,000 people that were collected on the streets and different places," Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN from Haiti's devastated capital Port-au-Prince.
Mr Bellerive said the toll, already the highest on record from any natural disaster in the Americas, was likely to rise "a little bit" higher as recovery crews pull bodies from locations where demolition had been delayed while rescue teams searched for survivors.
He also said more than 300,000 people had been injured in the disaster, and that most of them had received medical attention.
more at link.The death toll from Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last month has reached... more
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They have been searching in Iraq for the past nine years, 10 months and 15 days.
Today, the hard work finally paid off as soldiers found one of those elusive ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that Saddam Hussein was supposed to have been hiding.
So is it all round to Tony Blair's house for celebratory drinks?
Unfortunately the discovery came just a few days late for the former prime minister, who could have used the extraordinary find as proof he was right about Iraq all along during the Chilcot Inquiry.
But from the looks of the rocket, it would appear unlikely it could be deployed anywhere in 45 minutes, let alone be fired at the UK, as a certain dossier led us to believe.
The bomb is thought to have been buried by Saddam Hussein's regime before the UK and U.S. invasion of Iraq started in 2003.
Iraqi guards were as surprised as the rest of us to discover the 'missile' during an operation in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb.
It is not yet known whether the seven-metre rocket is armed with a warhead.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1248567/Iraq--Missile-discovered-Baghdad-s-Abu-Ghraib-suburb.html#ixzz0enxhMku9They have been searching in Iraq for the past nine years, 10 months and 15 days.... more
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Turkish Confederation of Labour Unions (Türk-İş) President Mustafa Kumlu reckoned the general strike on Thursday (4 February) a success.
Confederations discuss how to proceed
Representatives of the six union confederations that took the joint decision for a general strike will meet today (5 February) at the Public Workers Unions Confederation to discuss how to proceed after yesterday's major protest action. Members of the Civil Servants Unions Confederation (MEMUR-SEN) joined the general strike only to some extent, a considerable part of the members did not participate.
"Successful despite the pressure"
Türk-İş President Kumlu said in an announcement, "The protest action to use our right not to work was a success despite the pressure and the threats of the governorship, the bureaucrats and the employers". Kumlu added that according to information given by representatives from provinces and districts, Tekel workers were supported by tens of thousands of people.
"The government should get the message"
Kumlu expressed his gratitude to the organizations that took part in the protest action and boosted it with their support. The confederation president argued, "Türk-İş wants the government to understand well the message of this action and to accomplish what is necessary. Türk-İş points out the necessity in respect to the social conscience to solve the workers' problems as soon as possible".
Turkish Confederation of Labour Unions (Türk-İş), the Hak Workers Union Confederation (Hak-İş), the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK), the Civil Servant Unions Confederation (MEMUR-SEN), the Public Workers Unions Confederation of Turkey (KAMU-SEN) and the Confederation of Trade Unions of Public Employees (KESK) decided for a general strike because of the government's insistence to employ the workers of the recently closed down Tekel leaf tobacco factory as "temporary personnel".
Erdoğan did not get the message
In the course of a press conference in Ankara Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described the general strike as "unjust" and "ideological". He signalized that the government is not going to change its position. Previously, the government stuck to the "temporary employment" model and had suggested to improve the regulation's conditions.
Government mislead the public
Erdoğan mislead the public by claiming the resistance of the Tekel workers to be "illegal" and an "occupation". He pronounced that the government is going to intervene against the workers in front of the Türk-İş head office by the end of this month.
The Ankara Governor Kemal Önal threatened civil servants right before the general strike with a writing stating that the protest action was "illegal" and participants would have to face consequences.
KESK Legal Advisor Oya Aydın gave the all-clear and said that both the general strike and the Tekel workers' resistance in Ankara were in line with the law. Aydın told bianet that Turkey was convicted by the European Court of Human Rights for similar incidents in the past and also referred to the Constitution.Turkish Confederation of Labour Unions (Türk-İş) President Mustafa Kumlu... more
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BILL MOYERS: He(Obama) inherited from George W. Bush the biggest financial debacle since the Great Depression, along with two unpopular and costly wars, and a dysfunctional and demoralized government...what does it do to our politics when the very spokesmen for what some people have called a decade of conservative failure. I mean, remember before Obama, they turned a budget surplus into a deficit. They took us to war on fraudulent pretenses. They borrowed money to fight it. They presided over a stalemate in Afghanistan. They trashed the Constitution. They presided over the weakest economy in decades-
THOMAS FRANK:..Those things have all sort of been dwarfed by the economic disaster and the wreckage on Wall Street. But I would say to you that all of these things that we're describing here are of a piece. And that they all flow from the same ideas. And those ideas are the sort of conservative attitude towards government. And conservative attitudes towards governance.'s_demented_politics_let_the_gop_off_the_hook_for_their_giant_mess?obref=obinsite... more
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The simmering movement is the whitest phenomenon on the national scene, evident not just in its Caucasian numbers but in the bedrock beliefs stirring its anti-government contempt.
In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."
"Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern (and some Western) states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures whose primary purpose was to deny the vote to those who were not white,"The simmering movement is the whitest phenomenon on the national scene, evident not... more
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Feb. 4 episode of The O'Reilly Factor included a 20 minute interview of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. Following this edited interview, O'Reilly had guests Dennis Miller and a "body language expert" offer their analysis of Jon Stewart and how the interview went. Well straight from the No Spine Zone's official site, they have posted the full, unedited 42 minute interview! Here it is for all to see. Jon Stewart truly.... DESTROYS FOX NEWS!Feb. 4 episode of The O'Reilly Factor included a 20 minute interview of The Daily... more
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It came in the mail less than a month after Darline Fairchild watched her family's home go up in flames -- a bill for the nearly $28,000 it cost the fire department to extinguish the blaze.
Do you really need natural disaster insurance? "I felt my body turn cold and I just broke out into a sweat," Fairchild told ABCNews.com. "It was awful. I said, 'It's got to be a mistake.'"
But it wasn't a mistake. The Fairchilds, of New Castle, Ind., were just one of a growing number of fire and accident victims across the country who are being billed for fire department services once funded solely through taxpayer money.
Already banned in several states, the practice of charging to respond to house fires and car accidents -- dubbed a "crash tax" or an "accident tax" -- has horrified victims and earned the ire of insurance lobbyists who say their member companies are being targeted to make up for budget shortfalls.It came in the mail less than a month after Darline Fairchild watched her... more
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George Orwell defined doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
When it comes to war, spending, and more, President Barack Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address showed that doublethink is alive and well in Washington, D.C.George Orwell defined doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory... more
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