Exploitation of Haitian children increases
Haiti's earthquake has increased the risk of some orphanages being used as providers of child servants and sex slaves, authorities said.

Now MPs at centre of the expenses scandal get £48,000 golden handshakes
Scores of MPs caught up in the Parliamentary expenses scandal will walk away from the Commons with a £30million payday – courtesy of the taxpayer.

UN likely to refer Goldstone findings to The Hague
The United Nations is likely to refer the findings of the Goldstone report to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, diplomatic sources in New York said on Saturday.

Haiti - Still Starving 23 Days Later
You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti.
Twenty three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over 200,000 people, as many as a million people have still not received any international food assistance.

US rejects EU diplomacy over Iran N program
Leading US senators Joseph Lieberman and John Kerry inveigh against a top EU official for supporting further diplomatic talks with Iran over its nuclear program.

Report: Israeli warships on way to Persian Gulf
As Israel keeps threatening the regional countries with war, Egyptian maritime sources say the Israeli navy has deployed two missile ships to the Persian Gulf.

Sexual abuse in German Church deeper than expected
Less than a week after a German Jesuit leader apologized over a deepening sexual abuse scandal at a prestigious Catholic institution, new reports paint a far grimmer picture of the crisis.

School bombing exposes Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan
The discovery of three American soldiers among the dead in a suicide bombing at the opening of a girls’ school in the northwestern Pakistan town of Dir last week reignited the fears of many Pakistanis that Washington was set on invading their country.

Afghan police commander arrested in bomb ring
An Afghan police commander has been arrested as part of a ring that planted roadside bombs, NATO-led forces said on Sunday, a sign of the difficulty Western troops face in setting up Afghan security forces they can trust.

Report: 'No strategic value' to Afghan outpost where 8 died
A U.S. military investigation into a battle last October in eastern Afghanistan that cost eight American soldiers their lives has concluded that the small outpost was worthless, the troops there didn't understand their mission, and intelligence and air support were tied up elsewhere in the province.

The Upcoming Tenth Amendment Summit
For the first time in perhaps generations, the people of the states are demonstrating their disgust with the actions, policies, principles, and philosophies of the federal government.

U.S. Senator Lieberman: Impose sanctions on Iran or attack it
The world faces a stark choice between imposing tough sanctions on Iran to stop its nuclear program, or attacking it, United States Senator Joe Lieberman said Saturday.

Obama vows to beat 'blizzard' of opposition
President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to beat a "blizzard" of opposition and to salvage his crusade for change, leaving a snow-buried White House to rally Democrats spooked by looming November polls.

Palin's Tea Party Crib Notes
Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits" are clearly visible. There's also what appears to read as "Budget cuts" with the word Budget crossed out

Taking America Back: Part 1
1. Start with a local political Party. (I like the Constitution Party) 2. Rewrite the State Party Charter to Prohibit ANY out of State Donations. 3. Only permit money from businesses in the State. 4. Focus on LOCAL races like School Board, City Council, State Legislature etc. 5. Ban out of State Donations to the State Party itself. (No Soft Money) 6. If anyone violates these rules than they lose Party membership, endorsements and support.

U.S. mid-Atlantic digs out from blizzard
Churches canceled services on Sunday and millions of people dug themselves out of snowbound streets as the U.S. mid-Atlantic region struggled to recover from its biggest blizzard in decades.

Obama administration proposes to eliminate the office in the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Obama administration has apparently come up with a creative way to deal with the increasingly bleak news with regard to the economic position of the United States in the world. It proposes to eliminate the office in the Bureau of Labor Statistics that collects and publishes the comparative data on employment, unemployment, manufacturing productivity, and labor costs, among other things. You can find it right there on page 11 among the various programs that it has marked for termination.

Judge Bars Testimony Relating to Carlyle Group
Carlyle/Synagro, murderers, money launderers, drug traffickers and gangsters

US Tea Party ‘revolution’ threatened by discord
With its 2,800 rooms, fountains, indoor palm trees and expensive restaurants, the Gaylord Opryland Resort seems a strange venue for the first national convention of the Tea Party, which spends its time railing against big-spending government.

Obama Picks MIAC Report Governor Jay Nixon to Serve on Advisory Council for Defense and National Security Issues: Council of Governors
Confused by the title? Don't be. Governor Jay Nixon in Missouri is the genius behind the state's MIAC Strategic Report released in February of 2009 o
utlining the so-called Militia Movement. This MIAC report profiled Tea Partiers, 2nd Amendment believers, anti-abortion activist among others as part of the militia domestic terrorist group.

Tea Party candidates for the 2010 mid-term elections “will be expected to support the Republican National Committee platform,” (The Subverted Tea Party Movement)
Prospective political candidates will be expected to support the Republican National Committee platform, though without any specific litmus or purity test.
(Business as usual)

Why “Tea Party” Means Nothing!
Ever since I saw Sean Hannity have a live show at a tea party and talk up the tea parties, I knew that there was a serious misinterpretation about what the tea party movement is and what the true identity is.
(That would be the same Sean Hannity that day after day, week after week, month after month tried to rally Americans into supporting the attack on the sovereign nation of Iraq, through his talk radio show. Hannity's justification for attacking Iraq was, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Iraq had no weapons of mass destrucion as Hannity claimed. Now Hannity tries to pass himself off as someone that supports are troops, when in reallity Hannity has the blood of over 5,000 American service men and women on his hands, that died in this needless, illegal war. Hannity even supports the constitution trashing Patriot Act. Unfortunately, a large segment of the tea party movement has been fooled by and has been hijacked by warmongering statist neocons, such as Hannity, Palin, Huckabee and Gingrich.)

Flashback - Maddow explains how the Republican subverted Tea Party movement is a blessing for statist progressives
Ron Paul’s media coordinator Steve Gordon went on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show and complained about what he characterized as an attempt by Republicans to hijack the idea.

New errors in IPCC climate change report
The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders.

Physicists Prove Teleportation of Energy Is Possible
Over five years ago, scientists succeeded in teleporting information. Unfortunately, the advance failed to bring us any closer to the Star Trek future we all dream of.

Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included
The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.

How the face of Pluto changed in just two years (do you think they can blame it on global warming?)
Nasa scientists have been left stunned after detailed images of the surface of Pluto reveal it has dramatically changed colour over just a two-year period.

The Lancet retraction of vaccine autism paper condemned as Big Pharma conspiracy to discredit Dr. Wakefield
The truth is a dangerous thing. Especially when profits are at stake.

Bonus storm as losses hit £7bn at Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland is about to announce losses of more than £7 billion for 2009 but will still hand out enormous bonuses to its investment bankers.

Europe Risks Another Global Depression
The entirely pointless G7 meeting this weekend only served to underline the fact that Europe is again entering a serious economic crisis.

G7 wants banks to pay for rescue, details pending
The idea of a global tax on banks to recapture bailout costs gained ground on Saturday, boosted by the Obama administration's latest proposals, but there was no agreement on a specific design.

This Just In: Goldman Sachs Killed AIG
In order to implode and cost taxpayers $180 billion, AIG first had to make--and lose--positively massive market bets with other Wall Street firms.

Greece ‘Dress Rehearsal’ for U.S., Deutsche Bank Says
The cost of insuring against U.S. and U.K. debt defaults may rise in the same way as it has for so- called European peripheral nations including Greece and Portugal, Deutsche Bank AG said.

Max Keiser Report: John Perkins and Stacy Herbert on Engineered Takedown of US Economy (Video)
This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals behind Hank Paulson's memoir allegations, Hilary Clinton's threats to cut China's energy supply, and Barack Obama's big, big budget. Keiser also talks to former economic hitman John Perkins about whether or not the United States is now being attacked by economic hitmen.

Global market turmoil hints that U.S. recovery may founder
Conflicting U.S. jobs data and mounting concerns about debt defaults abroad that threaten global economic growth triggered a worldwide wave of stock-market volatility Friday amid fears that the improving U.S. economy could unravel.

Max Keiser's On The Edge with Catherine Austin Fitts (Video)
Latest on Global Financial Crisis with Max Keiser

2010 bank failure tally now 16
Regulators shuttered a Minnesota bank on Friday night, for the 16th failure of 2010.

Ken Lewis: If I’m Going Down, Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke Are Coming Down With Me
No WAY is Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis going to be the only one to answer for the acquisition of crappy Merrill Lynch and its crappy bonuses, "a person close to Lewis's defense team" (who may or may not be Ken Lewis himself) tells Charlie Gasparino today on the Daily Beast.

Charting The Worst And Soon To Be Shortest Economic "Recovery" Ever
The Minneapolis Fed has launched a useful charting service which analyzes not only the Great Recession, which allegedly has ended (must be news to the 1.8 million...and growing...newly uncovered unemployed, but we'll take the NBER's word for it) but the even Greater Recovery that we have presumably been in for the past 6 months or so.

Poll: Americans worried, angry about deficit
A majority of American people are worried and angry about the size of US federal budget deficit, according to a new survey.

Secret summit of top bankers
world's top central bankers began arriving in Australia yesterday as renewed fears about the strength of the global economic recovery gripped world share markets.

Global markets rout hits Asia
Mounting fears about parlous government finances in Europe hammered stock markets across Asia on Friday following New York's worst finish since November.

Fears Rise of Euro Government Default
Financial markets swooned Thursday amid rising fears of a government debt default in Europe, highlighting the seriousness of the challenges facing the euro currency as fiscally challenged countries like Greece, Portugal and Spain dig themselves out of debt.

Portugal near political crisis over debt
Portugal moved towards a political crisis on Thursday night as its finance minister appealed to opposition parties not to defeat the minority Socialist government over a regional finance bill that he said would undermine the country’s international credibility.

Hillary to China: Vote for Iran Sanctions, or Face Gulf Conflagration and Oil Cutoff
By Webster G. Tarpley
For her Jan. 29 speech at the Ecole Militaire in Paris, Mrs. Clinton was evidently wearing that stylish new French perfume from the House of Sarkozy called Chantage – meaning blackmail.

America’s Silent War In Pakistan Unmasked
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali
To many Pakistanis the most shocking aspect of the latest Taliban suicide bombing the question was: What was a team of American soldiers doing in a volatile corner of North West Frontier province?

AIG-Gate: The World’s Greatest Insurance Heist
By Ellen Brown
Rumor has it that Timothy Geithner is on his way out as Treasury Secretary, due to his involvement in the AIG scandal that is now unraveling in hearings before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Bob Chapman writes in The International Forecaster.

Webster Tarpley On The Draconian Internet Takeover
Google is now in an open cooperation with the NSA, in order to counter China cyber attacks.

More Government Equals Fewer Jobs
By Peter Schiff
If we are not careful, government regulations, subsidies, and spending, all designed to fight unemployment, could push the labor market into a death spiral.

Ron Paul on Fox Business' America's Nightly Scoreboard w/ David Asman
Congressman Ron Paul tells Fox Business' David Asman that, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security, we are poorer, not safer. This is not surprising, considering every agency in the federal government either don't do what they're supposed to, but actually makes things much worse.

Climate skepticism growing in Great Britain
By Rick Moran
A new poll out shows decidedly more people skeptical of climate change.

Patriot Act - Eight Years Later
By William Fisher
After 2009 - a year when federal prosecutors charged more suspects with terrorism than in any year since the attacks of September 11, 2001 - and in today's atmosphere of heightened fear triggered by the aborted plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, Congress will begin again this month to consider reauthorization of key parts of the USA Patriot Act.

When the Military Serves as Police
By Jacob Hornberger
What happens when the military is used in a police capacity? You get a "war on terrorism," one in which people think that the laws of war now apply to the situation.

IPCC: International Pack of Climate Crooks
By Marc Sheppard
Unquestionably the world’s final authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s findings and recommendations have formed the bedrock of literally every climate-related initiative worldwide for more than a decade.

It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt
The truth is that the U.S. government now owes more dollars than actually exist.

500,000 EU computers can access private British data
Privacy campaigners expressed shock last night after it emerged that large amounts of confidential personal information held about British citizens on a giant computer network spanning the European Union could be accessed by more than 500,000 terminals.

Law professor: Assassinating US citizens raises ‘troubling’ issues
The admission by Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair that the United States intelligence community is authorized to assassinate Americans working with terrorists overseas has raised serious questions of constitutionality.

FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.

Top 10 Problems With America Assassinating Americans
The director of U.S. national intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee the government has the right to kill Americans abroad.

The government has your baby's DNA
When Annie Brown's daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.