US Terror Suspects In Pakistan: FBI Tortured Us
"Since our arrest, the U.S. FBI and Pakistani police have tortured us," read the message. "They are trying to set us up. We are innocent. They are trying to keep us away from public, media and families and lawyers. Help us."

Clear way for Manuel Noriega's extradition to France, U.S. asks
The U.S. government is asking a Miami federal judge to clear the way for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to be extradited to France on money-laundering charges.

UN find challenges Israeli version of attack on civilian building in Gaza war
The UN mine action team, which handles ordnance disposal in Gaza, has told the Guardian that the remains of a 500-pound Mk82 aircraft-dropped bomb were found in the ruins of the mill last January. Photographs of the front half of the bomb have been obtained by the Guardian.

Zardari's nuke remote control to be snatched
A new bill passed by the Pakistani parliament may snatch the remote control of the country's nuclear bombs from President Asif Ali Zardari.

US refuses to share info on Mumbai suspect
The US has refused to share details about the past records of a key terror suspect of the 2008 Mumbai attack, Indian intelligence sources say.

Iran ready to comply with UN demands
Iran says it is ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by the UN.

Iran president offers prisoner exchange of Iranians in America for jailed US hikers
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday proposed a swap of Iranians in U.S. prisons for three American hikers being held in Tehran.

Domestic threats biggest Olympic security concern: expert
A University of Calgary expert in modern terrorism says small disruptions by domestic groups are the most likely security threat to the upcoming 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, but organizational issues are also a critical concern.

England is 'cesspit' breeding Islamists, says Soyinka
England is a "cesspit" and breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims, the Nobel laureate and political activist Wole Soyinka has said in an interview in which he also accused Britain of allowing the existence of "indoctrination schools".

Ex-UK minister says Blair lied over Iraq war
Former minister Clare Short accused Tony Blair of lying over the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and stifling discussion in the British cabinet in the run-up to the war.

Witness links Berlusconi associate to top mobster
The key witness in a Mafia trial in Sicily told a court on Tuesday that a close ally of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had direct links with the former "Boss of Bosses" of the Cosa Nostra.

Russia bids to limit protest damage
Russian officials have scrambled to contain the damage after thousands of people took part in the country's biggest anti-government protest since the start of the economic crisis.

Berlusconi eyes Israeli membership in EU
Italian Prime Minister says Israel should join the European Union, in a u-turn from his earlier remarks criticizing Israel's settlement policy as an impediment to peace.

Crisis-hit Greeks scramble for tax receipts
The aim is to use ordinary citizens to flush out Greece's tentacular black economy, estimated to amount to at least a third of the official, 250 billion euro ($351 billion) gross domestic product, by making them demand legal proof of payment.

Israeli police who put US man in coma get off scot-free
Israeli authorities have cleared the police of the charge of inflicting coma-inducing head injury to an American during a protest against the erection of an Israeli barrier.

S.Korea watching for possible N.Korea missile tests
South Korea's military was watching Tuesday for any North Korean missile tests after the communist state banned shipping from several more coastal zones in its territory.

Haiti questions Americans over child “kidnapping”
Haitian authorities questioned a group of 10 American missionaries on Monday who are accused of illegally trying to take children out of the quake-shattered Caribbean country.

Afghans call Bagram US Air Force base “Obama’s Gitmo”
Afghans call Bagram US Air Force base “Obama’s Gitmo”

US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men in January
Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successful drone strikes killed three al-Qaeda leaders, wanted by the Americans.

IDF denies disciplining top officers over white phosphorous use in Gaza war
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday denied that two of its senior officers had been summoned for disciplinary action after headquarters staff found that the men exceeded their authority in approving the use of phosphorus shells during last year's military campaign in the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli government wrote in a recent report.

US missile test mimicking Iran strike fails
A U.S. attempt to shoot down a ballistic missile mimicking an attack from Iran failed after a malfunction in a radar built by Raytheon Co (RTN.N), the Defense Department said.

Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power
In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and American power.

We the people call for a total national strike April 15 -- 18
The spark of Freedom is igniting within the hearts and minds of the people in America, as well as globally, and we all have the moral obligation to fan the flames. The time for taking our freedom for granted has passed.

Pentagon’s Black Budget Tops $56 Billion
Cobbling together this round figure for the military’s hush-hush projects is easier than it seems.

Medina for Texas...Money Bomb--February 2
Volunteers with Debra Medina’s campaign for governor are setting off a “money bomb” on Tuesday aiming to raise a large amount of money from a lot of small donors on a single day. This event is pegged to the Feb. 2 anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War in 1848. (The Constitution Candidate in Texas)

Struggling towns printing their own cash
Last year, two Detroit tavern owners were sitting at the bar, sampling their beverages and bemoaning the local economy -- no one in the city had cash, and when they did, they spent it in the suburbs. Then the pair hit on a solution: Print their own money.

Early draft of the Constitution found in Phila.
Researcher Lorianne Updike Toler was intrigued by the centuries-old document at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Gates pitches $768.2B defense budget to Congress
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is urging Congress to approve the Obama administration's $768.2 billion Pentagon budget request, saying America needs "a broad portfolio of military capabilities."

Va. Senate bans health insurance mandate
The Democratic-led Virginia Senate sent a strong message about health care reform efforts in Washington, D.C., on Monday (Feb. 1), passing a bill that makes it illegal for Virginians to be required to buy health insurance.

One in Eight Americans Used Food Banks in 2009
A charitable organization reported Tuesday that 37 million Americans visited food pantries and soup kitchens during the 2009 recession, forcing some sites to cut meal portions and turn away people.

Gates Demurs on Question of NY Terrorism Trial
Defense Secretary Robert Gates declined to say Tuesday whether he thinks it's appropriate to try self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a New York civilian court, not far from the site of the attack.

Political activist group organizing boycott of Super Bowl
A national conservative political activist group is urging people not to watch the Super Bowl this year, and instead read a book about politics or history. Mark Dice, spokesman for The Resistance, calls football the “opiate of the masses” and says Americans’ obsession with sports is partially to blame for the decline of country.

Obama Budget Has $1.9 Trillion Tax Rise
The Obama administration proposed to increase taxes on Americans earning more than $200,000 by close to $970 billion over the next decade and take in an additional $400 billion from businesses even as it retooled a proposed crackdown on international tax-avoidance techniques.

Los Angeles might require rainwater capture
A proposed law would require new homes, larger developments and some redevelopments in Los Angeles to capture and reuse runoff generated in rainstorms.

CIA moonlights in corporate world
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.

Wet Summer, More Demand Could Create Seed Shortage
Home gardeners might have a hard time finding some seeds this year. Seed dealers say wet weather that made for a poor growing season last year and increased orders from Europe could result in a shortage of seeds this spring for the most popular cucumber variety and some vegetables.

War spending surges in President Obama's budget
President Barack Obama’s new budget, to be released Monday, forecasts two consecutive years of near $160 billion in war funding, far more than he hoped when elected and only modestly less than the last years of the Bush Administration.

White House Proposes $3.8 Trillion Budget
Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard University economist who has studied other countries' experiences, said that level could push the U.S. toward a tipping point where interest rates could soar, the value of the dollar could plunge and the economy could face another crisis.

Obama budget plan calls for generic drugmaker fees
President Barack Obama on Monday proposed fees on generic drugmakers to help reduce review times for the cheaper copycat medicines and clear a backlog of applications.

Review shows dramatic shift in Pentagon's thinking
The Pentagon will no longer shape the U.S. military to fight two major conventional wars at once, but rather prepare for numerous conflicts and not all in the same style, according to a draft of a new strategic outlook the Pentagon is announcing on Monday.

Dentist puts tell-all microchip in tooth
Dr. Kevin Brunski wants to chip your tooth. More specifically, the Crown Point dentist, who has a patent pending on his invention, I-Denti-Fied, hopes to one day see every person in the United States wearing the device -- a chip about the size of a grain of rice that stores a person's unique identification number linked to his or her entire medical history.

New study: a common flame retardant causes infertility
So many US women have difficulty becoming pregnant that the fertility industry has become a huge business, raking in between three and five billion dollars a year.

Pachauri fails to get UK support over ‘unsubstantiated’ climate report claims
Rajendra Pachauri, who has faced criticism as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change following allegations of inaccurate statements in panel reports, suffered a fresh blow last night when he failed to get the backing of the British government.

The Fort Knox Conundrum: Chinese say they received bogus bars of gold traced to U.S.
Could over 1 million bars of gold, much of which is still held in Fort Knox, Ky., be counterfeit?

Roubini Sees ‘Very Dismal and Poor’ U.S. Expansion
Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who anticipated the financial crisis, said the U.S. growth outlook remains “very dismal” and White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers said the economy is still mired in a “human recession.”

The Next Leg Of The Housing Crisis In Five Simple Charts
Everything that the government has done so far, with a few minor detours, has been almost exclusively focused on maintaining home prices high, by tweaking either the supply or the demand side of the housing equation.

Moody's Warns on Deluge of Debt
Moody's Investors Service warned of sizable refunding requirements for nearly 1,000 companies over the coming years, questioning whether they will be able to refinance more than $800 billion in debt taken on in the middle part of the last decade.

Rising FHA default rate foreshadows a crush of foreclosures
The share of borrowers who are falling seriously behind on loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration jumped by more than a third in the past year, foreshadowing a crush of foreclosures that could further buffet an agency vital to the housing market's recovery.

The Myth of the Fed’s Exit Strategy
Interest rates have to soar to unimaginable levels to attract recalcitrant investors, or the plunge in spending sends us into a postponed Great Depression II.

HCA Owners' Big Payout: $1.75 Billion
HCA Inc., the nation's largest hospital operator, will pay its private-equity owners a $1.75 billion dividend, believed to be among the biggest ever, after reporting stellar 2009 financial results.

Fund charges exposed as fees outstrip returns
Millions of investors have their pensions and long-term savings in funds where the managers have taken more in fees than they have delivered in returns over the past decade.

Least and Most Affordable Housing in the World
Inquiring minds are reviewing the results of the 6th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey.

Copper Market Set for ‘Catastrophe,’ Threlkeld Says
Copper prices, which more than doubled last year, are set to plunge as speculators unwind positions and global inventories expand, according to David Threlkeld, president of metals trader Resolved Inc.

China to Raise Resource Acquisitions as Car, Home Sales Jump
China, the world’s largest metal consumer, will add to last year’s record $32 billion spending on resource acquisitions as demand for iron ore, copper and oil soars with the fastest economic growth since 2007.

Bailout Recpients Fly Under The Radar While We Remain Exposed
he SEC now allows money market funds to suspend redemptions, freezing your assets.

Banks raking in cash with 'highest personal loan rates in a decade'
Banks are making record profits after hitting customers with the highest personal loan interest rates in almost a decade.

Is the stock market being manipulated by the Feds
Charles Biderman, founder and CEO of TrimTabs Investment Research, discusses the possible role of US governmernt cash in the current stock market rally with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman.

Goldman: After Six Months, We Can Safely Say This Is No V-Shaped Recovery
Last Friday's lights-out GDP report has revived hopes among bulls that we still might get the V-shaped recovery everyone was predicting last summer.

Obama Administration Vision: War Without End
By David Wood
The Obama administration has unveiled a scary new view of the global security landscape and a new strategy intended to protect Americans and U.S. allies. It is a sharp change from previous Pentagon strategic assessments in that it focuses on the wars Americans are currently fighting, rather than on future conflicts in which the United States might be involved.

It begins. An Anti-War Secessionist Movement is alive.
By Tom Barnes
In today’s Time Magazine online we learn that in the State of Vermont, among perhaps the most left leaning population in the Union, a secessionist movement has started in the wake of these unpopular wars.

Two analogies for everyone to understand how US wars in Iraq and Iran are unlawful
By Carl Herman
Laws are meant to be perfectly clear and followed; especially those to save human beings from the scourge of war.

Obama's Secret Slush Fund
By Phil Kerpen
President Obama and Budget Director Peter Orszag have thrown transparency out the window and created a black box for taxes and spending on climate change hidden inside the administration's 2011 budget.

What remains must be the truth: 9/11 revisited
Paul J. Balles argues that, revisiting the question of who benefited from 9/11, "it becomes perfectly clear that Israel alone had reason to plot and execute” it. But he says that Israel couldn't possibly have executed such a plan without help from the US authorities and that a process of elimination "leaves only the Zionist neo-conservative civilian leaders of the Pentagon” as Israel’s accomplices.

Why Not Kill a Million for a Ratings Boost?
Neocon Says Obama Should Save Presidency By Attacking Iran

The Fed as Giant Counterfeiter
By Robert P. Murphy
San Jose State economics professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel tells all his students that the easiest way to understand the Federal Reserve is to think of it as a giant, legalized counterfeiter.

Rand Paul: The Constitution Candidate in Kentucky (Video)
Rand Paul tells Judge Napolitano this is the year of the Outsider.

Useful Lies, Useless Lives
By Mohamed Khodr
For 100 years the Arab and Muslim world have known that when it comes to European and American imperialistic designs on the Middle East there are two separate universes with separate political, economic, racial, and legal standards. 

Year of the Rat — I Mean, Census
By Becky Akers
“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers. . . ,” says Article I, Section 2 of the United States’ Constitution. “The actual Enumeration shall be made. . . within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.”

The Death of Global Warming
By Walter Russel Mead
The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.

One small needle, a world of trouble
By Michael Mandel
The doctors diagnosed her with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological condition characterized by sudden weakness or paralysis. And while no one seems willing to discuss the likely cause, the 39-year-old knows exactly where the fault lies.

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Future Governor of Texas Debra Medina (Video)
Debra Medina On Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano.

Hillary Clinton’s Prescription: Make The World A NATO Protectorate
By Rick Rozoff
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was busy in London and Paris last week advancing the new Euro-Atlantic agenda for the world.

‘The scare is over’: Climate Change skeptic Lord Monckton debates Rupert Posner from the Climate Group
Lord Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, architect, mathematician and climate change sceptic is on a speaking tour of Australia to spread his message that climate change activists are ‘bed-wetters and liars’.

The Precarious State of the Union
By Peter Schiff
In this week's much anticipated State of the Union address, President Obama again demonstrated his poor understanding of the fundamental problems that confront our nation.

Texas Race For Governor : The Debra Medina Show: How She Unveiled Rick Perry's Fake Tea Party Persona
If she can raise $500,000 or more from next Tuesday's money bomb, Medina will have enough to continue making a focused GOTV effort for her campaign -- which will keep her in the race. Who knows what happens if she makes enough from her money bomb to go on television. (Perry and Hutchison are both connected to Bilderberg, establishment insiders. Medina is the only REAL candiate.)

JPMorgan vs. Goldman Sachs: Why the Market Was Down 7 Days in a Row
By Ellen Brown
We are witnessing an epic battle between two banking giants, JPMorgan Chase (Paul Volcker) and Goldman Sachs (Rubin/Geithner). The bodies left strewn on the battleground could include your pension fund and 401K.

Radical Inequality Is Literally Killing Us
By Sam Pizzigati
Two British intellectuals — one a distinguished, gray-haired professor emeritus, the other a rising young academic superstar — have just finished a 15-day speaking tour across the United States. They came to fan the flames of “populist rage.”

U.S. agrees to timetable for UN Gun Ban
The United Nations and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are moving forward with their plan to confiscate your guns.

Obama seeks power to Assassinate "US Citizens" they label as terrorist (Video)
They want the power to assassinate US citizens they call terrorist, when they cannot even get the names right to begin with. Example, 5 year olds on no fly lists.

Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers
The Obama administration has moved quietly to cede control of the Web from the United States to foreign powers.

Steve Jobs slams Google’s phony ‘don’t be evil’ mantra
A couple of days after launching the much hyped iPad last week, Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, hosted a question and answer session with the firm’s staff, during which he is understood to have criticised both Google and Adobe.

Police officers sent on hypnosis courses in the “new frontier in UK policing”
Some are saying that ‘forensic hypnosis’ is a the ‘next logical step’ for investigators to use when other ‘more traditional methods’ fail. “Putting people in a receptive brainwave state makes it likelier that the truth would come out.”

Your equality laws are unjust, pope tells UK before visit
Pope Benedict XVI marked the announcement of his first papal visit to Britain with an unprecedented attack on the government’s equality legislation yesterday, claiming it threatened religious freedom and ran contrary to “natural law”.

Tesco shopper, 24, forced to show ID… because she was ‘too young to buy a QUICHE’
A Tesco shopper claims she was ordered to provide ID proving she was over 21 – to buy a slice of quiche.

Agony of doctor’s receptionist paralysed by swine flu jab
A receptionist at a GP’s surgery has been left unable to walk properly after having the
swine flu jab.