Iraq PM in tight race as opposition alleges fraud
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was locked in a tight contest to hold on to his job on Friday, as election results from Iraq's polls trickled in and opposition blocs alleged blatant fraud.

Internet helped Flight 253 suspect radicalize, attack plane 'within weeks'
The Internet allowed extremists to contact, recruit, train and equip the suspect responsible for the attempted Flight 253 bombing on Christmas Day "within weeks," a top Pentagon official told lawmakers Wednesday.
(The internet is bad. Regulate the internet. Regulate the internet.)

Welcome to the Wealthy Elite's Bilderberg Group
What will the wealthy elite discuss at the Bilderberg 2010 meeting that should be this May? Iceland, that brave country that is fighting back against predatory capitalism, will be on the list.

A Guide to the 9/11 Whistleblowers
When losing a discussion on the facts of 9/11, a so-called 9/11 "debunker" will often rely on an old canard to "prove" that 9/11 could not have been an inside job: "So many people want their quarter hour of fame that even the Men in Black couldn't squelch the squealers from spilling the beans," write self-satisfied defenders of the government story. According to the logic of this argument, if there are no 9/11 whistleblowers then 9/11 was not an inside job.

Flashback - Bush's Odd Behavior on the Morning of 9/11 - What Did He Know? (Video)
There is something very odd and disturbing about George W. Bush's behavior on the morning of 9/11, as well as in the weeks following the attacks.

Welcome to the Wealthy Elite's Bilderberg Group
What will the wealthy elite discuss at the Bilderberg 2010 meeting that should be this May? Iceland, that brave country that is fighting back against predatory capitalism, will be on the list.

Homes and livelihoods gone in an instant
"We were in our home when we heard the Israeli tanks and bulldozers approaching. We ran off immediately," says Sbaih.

Gates in Abu Dhabi to discuss pressure on Iran
Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Abu Dhabi Thursday looking to tighten pressure on Tehran, as Iran's president warned Gulf countries against allowing a U.S. presence in the region.

FINI BACKS INTERNET'S NOBEL PRIZE BID
House Speaker Gianfranco Fini on Thursday threw his weight behind an initiative launched by an Italian tech magazine to award the Internet with this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Strike Paralyzes Greece; Protests Turn Violent
Greek public and private sector workers went on strike on Thursday, grounding flights, shutting schools and halting public transport in the second nationwide walkout in two weeks in protest against austerity plans..

Two IDF soldiers charged with using 9-year-old 'human shield' in Gaza war
The Israel Defense Forces prosecution on Thursday filed an indictment against two combat soldiers suspected of inappropriate conduct during Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2008.

New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released
Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet. AIPAC was investigated after it acquired and circulated classified government information provided in strict confidence by US industry and worker groups opposed to AIPAC sponsored economic legislation.

Iraq PM in tight contest with ex-premier for poll lead
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was in a tight contest to keep his job as he vied with ex-premier Iyad Allawi, initial election results from four of the country's 18 provinces showed Thursday.

Israeli Officials: 50,000 New Settlement Homes Planned
Israel’s Monday announcement for 112 new settlement units in the West Bank hardly caused a stir, even as the nation’s settlement “freeze” is nominally still active.

Billionaire Pinera takes power as quakes rattle Chile
As the ground shook and buildings swayed, conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera took office as Chile's president on Thursday, tasked with rebuilding after a massive earthquake killed hundreds just 12 days ago.

China rights record worsening in areas: US
China's human rights record worsened last year as authorities increased harassment of activists and repression in the Xinjiang region, the US State Department said Thursday.

French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment
A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experimen

Chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth says Devil is in the Vatican
Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", according to the Holy See's chief exorcist.

U.S. intelligence officers waterboarded 9/11 mastermind 160 times, says ex-MI5 boss
U.S intelligence agencies deliberately concealed their mistreatment of terror suspects, a former head of MI5 claimed last night.

Riots in Athens as thousands protest against cutbacks
Masked youths stoned police outside Greece's parliament today in protest at cutbacks proposed to try to end the country's debt crisis.

Vladmir Putin forging ahead with vision of Eurasian empire
The Soviet Union is gradually being rebuilt as Vladimir Putin eyes a return to the Kremlin. The man who declared the collapse of the Communist state to be the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” appears determined to forge a new empire.

Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate Change Effort
From the You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department.

Mexican Helicopter Spotted in Starr County
A Mexican navy helicopter was seen doing surveillance in Starr County.

Rapid Rise in Seed Prices Draws U.S. Scrutiny
During the depths of the economic crisis last year, the prices for many goods held steady or even dropped. But on American farms, the picture was far different, as farmers watched the price they paid for seeds skyrocket. Corn seed prices rose 32 percent; soybean seeds were up 24 percent.

Wyoming Governor Signs Sovereignty Resolution
This week, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal signed House Joint Resolution 2 (HJ0002), claiming “sovereignty on behalf of the State of Wyoming and for its citizens under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government or reserved to the people by the Constitution of the United States.”

Hillary to headline AIPAC conference
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the keynote speaker at this month's annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, The Cable has confirmed.

Social Security Is Going Cash Flow Negative Six Years Earlier Than Expected
The raw numbers show clear acceleration of the deterioration in the Funds dynamics...The conclusions are not good...

Bruce Ivins' attorney calls for case to be re-opened
An attorney for the alleged anthrax killer Bruce Ivins has said that he does not believe that the case against Ivins should not be closed.

Full Court Press on the Slaughter Rule
Rep. David Dreier (R., Calif.), ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, said the Slaughter Rule is evidence that Democrats cannot pass their bill "while playing by the rules."

House Democrats looking at 'Slaughter Solution' to pass Obamacare without a vote on Senate bill UPDATED!
Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill?

Congress, Ariz. school district sues taxpayers to stop questions
A handful of taxpayers in a small community north of Wickenburg, Arizona are being targeted by the local school district in a lawsuit that asks a judge to declare they have no right to request public records, sue the district, or complain to outside agencies.

Senate Health Care Bill Dead on Arrival, Pro-Life House Democrats Say
The health care reform bill passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve appears to be dead on arrival in the House, as seven anti-abortion Democrats intend to join the ranks of lawmakers who plan to vote against the legislation, Fox News has confirmed.

Missouri District Closes Half Its Schools To Avoid Going Broke
The Kansas City Missouri School Board voted Wednesday night to shutter nearly half of its schools in an effort to avoid going broke.

Monckton On Climate Hoaxers: “Jail The Lot”
Canada Free Press | I had the honor of attending a presentation given by noted ‘climate change’ skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton, sponsored and asked about the legal ramifications for climate data fudgers.

NASA Heads Knew NASA Data Was Poor, Then Used Data from CRU
Email messages obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the climate dataset of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was considered — by the top climate scientists within NASA itself — to be inferior to the data maintained by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU).

Cell-All: Super Smartphones Sniff Out Suspicious Substances
Years ago, if you wanted to take a picture, you needed a dedicated camera. You needed to buy batteries for it, keep it charged, learn its controls, and lug it around. Today, chances are your cell phone is called a “smartphone” and came with a three-to-five megapixel lens built-in—not to mention an MP3 player, GPS, or even a bar code scanner.

Over 130,000 cases of diabetes now linked to soda consumption, HFCS
For years, advocates of natural health have been hammering away at the message that soda causes diabetes and obesity. The soda industry, meanwhile, has remained in denial mode, mirroring the ridiculous position of the tobacco industry that “nicotine is not addictive.” Soda doesn’t cause diabetes, the industry claims, and it’s perfectly safe to consume in essentially unlimited quantities.

Banned in 160 Nations… Yet U.S. FDA Regards it as Safe?
A livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs has been approved by the FDA.

Economists Credit Fed For Alleviating Crisis
The $787 billion stimulus package was a good for the economy, but the Federal Reserve played the biggest role in rescuing the U.S. economy from the financial crisis, according to the majority of economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.

Politics, shaky economy create no rush to restructure Fannie and Freddie
The federal government has spent the past half year seeking to roll back its emergency efforts at propping up the financial markets -- with the notable exception of its involvement in mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Unemployment tops 20% in eight California counties
For many California areas, unemployment rates moved persistently higher in January, indicating that the national economic recovery hasn't yet translated into jobs for the Golden State.

It's Going To Implode: Buy Physical Gold - NOW
Evidence seems to be mounting that we are headed towards some sort of implosion in the paper Gold market, and perhaps the currency/bond markets in general.

Iceland braces for consequences of Icesave vote
A proposal to use taxpayer funds to pay off Iceland's substantial debts to foreign governments seemed likely to be defeated in a national referendum Saturday.

GATA Claims To Have Evidence Of "Massive Physical Short Gold And Silver Positions That Can Not Be Covered"
If GATA is not bluffing and indeed has evidence of massively uncoverable physical positions, and should this evidence be made public, the repercussions for the price of gold will be unprecedented.

GMAC Bailout Could Cost Taxpayers $6.3B
New watchdog report says the Treasury Department sank billions into auto finance giant GMAC without an exit strategy or proof the company was viable - a decision that could cost taxpayers $6.3 billion.

Big Miami-Dade hospital system nears insolvency
The city's major hospital network, which runs Miami's only round-the-clock trauma center and is a safety net for the poor and uninsured, is running out of money and could close, a predicament that illustrates the precarious financial state of many hospitals around the country.

Canadian dollar likely to trump US greenback: experts
The Canadian dollar, or loonie as it is affectionately called here, is likely to soar above parity with the US greenback this year, experts at a Canadian bank said Wednesday.

China’s Exports Rise 46%
China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year.

Madoff Victims Join Stanford Investors to Lobby for Payback
Victims of Bernard Madoff and accused Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford are banding together to lobby Congress for a law that could require Wall Street firms to pay billions of dollars to cover some of the losses they suffered.

Last 10 years a ‘lost decade' for most investors
Many now call the last 10 years a “lost decade.” The immediate reference is to 10 years of going nowhere, or worse, in the stock market.

The Great Recession Is Paying Off for Pawnshops and Payday Lenders
Millions of Americans today are facing the worst money problems imaginable, but these same conditions are creating flush times for pawn shops and so-called payday lenders.

Obama Foreclosure-Prevention Plan Lagging, New Data Shows
Only about a third of the homeowners who have successfully completed the trial period of the Obama administration's mortgage modification program have been offered permanent relief, according to new federal data obtained by the Huffington Post.

Ron Paul Says Giving Fed More Power `Makes No Sense': Video
U.S. Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman about the outlook for financial regulation and the Federal Reserve's authority.

Jefferson and Nullification
By Clyde Wilson
Those who hope to revive a constitutional role for the States as counters to the present U.S. Empire, must hope to make the States once more into self-conscious, viable polities who have the political will to enact nullification and stand by it.

Blame It on Freedom
By Jacob G. Hornberger
Count on the statists to become angrier, more frustrated, and more fearful that people might discover the truth as to the real causes of America’s woes.

Crybaby “Sir” Bernie Kerik, 9/11 And America's Controlled Press
By Gordon Duff
One of the strangest things seen in America in recent days was the press coverage of the sentencing of Bernie Kerik as a crooked cop. Day in, day out, Fox News does little but talk up the heroics of Bernie Kerik and how he is being wrongfully persecuted by the courts. There is much more to this story than Fox will report or than Fox is able to hide.

Ron Paul - National ID - Welcome to USSA (Video)
Congressman Ron Paul talks about the proposed United States national worker ID card.

Jesse Ventura on The View 03/10/10 (Video)
Jesse Ventura was on The View yesterday. The same tired comment was brought up: “why would our government do that” in regard to the 9/11 attacks. Jesse does his best but they ultimately “soundbite” him. I guess these overpaid ladies have never read army field manuals, the PNAC report, Operation Northwoods, or even know anything about history such as Gulf of Tonkin, Pearl Harbor and so on.

Stop the Federal Reserve From Shredding Its Records
Should the policymaking committee of the most powerful peacetime entity in the United States government be allowed to destroy their source records? The Federal Open Market Committee of the nation's central bank, an intricate part of the United States government may be continuing to destroy its source records, a policy it began in 1995 with an unrecorded vote -no fingerprints - conducted by then Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Protect your country against GOLDMAN SACHS - Max Keiser (Video)

Israeli Nuclear Threats and Blackmaill - The Samson Option Still Threatens the World
By Carol Moore
The phrase the “Samson Option” is used to describe Israel’s strategy of massive nuclear retaliation against “enemy” nations should its existence as a Jewish state be jeopardized through military attack.

ABC interviews FBI 911 Whistleblower Coleen Rowley (Video)
Chris Bury of ABC News interviews Coleen Rowley at the Treason in America Conference in Valley Forge, PA., 03/06/10.

Defiance of 2010 federal census (Video)

The Solution: By Schaeffer Cox (Video)
utting government back into the hands of We the People. If you could find a way to end corruption in government and give the power back to the People, without violence, or spending much money, or lobbying for new laws, or electing any candidates, when would you want the information.

Pondering Our Collapse While We Watch Others Fall
By Bob Chapman
Every important factor we see is working against the dollar and we believe that trend is irreversible

Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?
Before we discuss whether it is necessary for the U.S. to stay in Afghanistan, a little history might be instructive.

Wall Street Journal Stands By Its Man, Chalabi
By Jim Lobe
After several weeks of silence, the Wall Street Journal editorial page has apparently decided to stand by its man, Ahmed Chalabi, despite all the new charges by Gen. Ray Odierno regarding his collusion with Iran — charges, that, incidentally, were echoed as recently as this weekend by neo-con hero Gen. David Petraeus in his interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN’s ‘GPS’.

CrossTalk on 9/11: Whodunit? (Video)
In this edition of CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle asks his guests why discussion of the events of 9/11 continue to attrack so much attention but is all but banned in the media mainstream.

David Griffin: 9/11 Was a Hoax (Videos)
Dr. David Ray Griffin, professor and author of ‘The New Pearl Harbor Revisited’, believes 9/11 was an inside job.

The Census and History: It Is Not a Pretty Picture!
By Gary D. Barnett
The point I want to make is that data-collection by government about the citizenry is always dangerous.

Senators McCain and Liebermann: indefinitely detain Americans if they say so
By Carl Herman
The word “dictatorship” means law is whatever “leadership” dictates; literally the diction of the leader (leader = Fuhrer in German).

Census Data Not So Confidential After All
Mary L. G. Theroux
Thus, while the Census Bureau assures us that “your confidentiality is protected. Title 13 requires the Census Bureau to keep all information about you and all other respondents strictly confidential,” these exceptions negate such assurances. Of course, the release of the “strictly confidential” data was also perfectly legal: during World War II, under the terms of the Second War Powers Act, and more recently, under the terms of the USA PATRIOT Act, now extended by the Obama administration.

Chicago police expanding Taser use
The Chicago Police Department is dramatically expanding its use of Tasers, adding several hundred more and putting them in the hands of patrol officers for the first time.

NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Policy Comes Under Fire
City Council members criticized the NYPD’s policy of saving personal information of people who are stopped and questioned but not charged with any wrongdoing.

Minneapolis schools locked down over vague threat posted on internet
The lockdown, which affected around 50 schools in the Minneapolis public school district, meant children were told to remain in their classrooms while access to outside visitors was strictly limited.

Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban ‘Absurd’
Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking.