Glenn Beck’s Show In UK Has Had Zero Ads Past Three Days
During the last week and a half, Glenn Beck lost his 100th, 101st and 102nd sponsors.

Countdown To A Battle
Any day now, 15,000 NATO troops will launch Operation Moshtarak ( "Together" in Dari), one of the biggest assaults of the eight-year-old Afghanistan war. The attack will be on Marjah, a densely-populated warren of desert canals, and billed as the last big Taliban stronghold in Helmand, Afghanistan's opium heartland and most violent province

Ukraine PM defies pressure to concede defeat
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Thursday broke more than three days of silence after her defeat in presidential elections, slamming her rival but still defying mounting pressure to concede.

Lawyer of Mumbai attack co-accused shot dead
A lawyer for an Indian accused of being a member of a Pakistan-based militant group and conducting reconnaissance of Mumbai landmarks before the 2008 attacks, was shot dead Thursday, a senior police official said.

Nigeria killings caught on video
Nigerian police and military units carried out extra-judicial killings last year in the aftermath of clashes with members of a Muslim group in the north of the country, footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to confirm.

Great news: the people responsible for Amazongate, Glaciergate, and Africagate trousered £3 million of your tax money
Our old friend Jo Abbess BSc is back. And she’s got some searching, pertinent questions which could put paid to my AGW-denying antics once and for all!

New voices urge IPCC chief to step down
The credibility crisis facing the UN's climate panel over errors in its 2007 report has cast a shadow on IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri. Now, top researchers in Germany are among those calling for his resignation.

IAEA suggests Iran's new enrichment modest
Iran expects to produce its first batch of higher enriched uranium in a few days but its initial effort is modest, using only a small amount of feedstock and a fraction of its capacities, according to a confidential document shared Wednesday with The Associated Press.

Ahmadinejad Urges Dismantlement of N. Armaments
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday called on the established nuclear states to dismantle their nuclear arms.

Demjanjuk presents German law with an almost impossible problem
The Demjanjuk trial, which resumed Monday, has offered up some awkward moral questions for the German justice system. But compared with other Nazi trials, Demjanjuk represents a completely new legal challenge.

Jerusalem Palestinian families come out against building on their ancestors graves
Members of prominent Palestinian families from Jerusalem have come out today in protest against plans to build a Museum of Tolerance on top of part of the ancient Mamilla Cemetery where their ancestors are buried.

Foreign Office releases Binyam Mohamed torture notes
The Foreign Office was forced to publicly admit today that the former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed was effectively tortured while he was being held by the CIA in Pakistan.

Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri warns of Israel 'threat'
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he is concerned about "escalating" threats posed to the Middle East by Israel.

Scotland’s first Islamic ‘terrorist’ walks free
The Government’s terrorism watchdog is to review the controversial legislation that resulted in the acquittal yesterday of “wannabe suicide bomber” Mohammed Atif Siddique.

US may send more troops to northern Afghanistan: official
US commanders are weighing plans to send more American troops to northern Afghanistan, a region under the command of German forces, a US official said on Tuesday.

'No concrete evidence' against Harkat: Witness
The Canadian government had little concrete evidence when it declared an Ottawa man a national security threat, an intelligence expert suggested Tuesday.

Israeli Army Open Fire on Gazan Farmers and International Observors
Gazan farmers whose land lies in Israeli defined buffer zone accompanied by international observers have been held down in their field by live gunfire.

What Israel gets away with
The following questions elicit the same answer in each instance. No other country in the world conducts itself at home and in world affairs with such impunity as Israel.

Obama administration imposes new sanctions on Iran Revolutionary Guard affiliates
The Obama administration on Wednesday slapped new sanctions on several affiliates of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeting one person and four companies for penalties over their alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass destruction.

French accuse Tony Blair of ‘Soviet-style’ propaganda in run-up to Iraq war
Tony Blair was accused by the French government of “Soviet-style” black propaganda in the run-up to the Iraq war, secret memos obtained by the Iraq inquiry have found.

Obama Open to tax hikes on middle class
President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.

U.S. To Be Hit By Massive Cyber Attack On Feb. 16
On February 16, at about 10:00 am ET, the U.S. will be hit by a massive, crippling cyber attack from an unknown entity. Key players will convene in the White House situation room and plan the response, from mitigation to (possibly) retaliation. It'll be live on television

Flashback - The exaggerated fears over digital warfare
The age of cyber-warfare has arrived. That, at any rate, is the message we are now hearing from a broad range of journalists, policy analysts, and government officials.

Senators Advance Bipartisan Jobs Bill (With Constitution Trashing Patriot Act Included)
Senate lawmakers Thursday unveiled $85 billion legislation aimed at dealing with the ongoing unemployment crisis, urging quick action on the bipartisan proposal.

Judge Napolitano: Why The Patriot Act is Unconstitutional (Video)
Judge Andrew Napolitano talks about natural rights and The Patriot Act.
(Who are you going to believe, the fearmongering, warmongering, constitution trashing neocons on so called conservative talk radio, or the Judge?)

Another Legislative Fix to Citizens United
Democratic leaders in each chamber have teamed up today to introduce a legislative package designed to nullify the Supreme Court’s recent decision empowering corporations to spend uncapped sums to influence federal elections.

Proposed Senate jobs bill includes health-care provisions
The health-care bill may have stalled in Congress, but the draft of the $80 billion jobs bill that just emerged from the Senate contains a number of health provisions.

Poll: Debra Medina closing on Kay Bailey Hutchison
Tea party-backed candidate Debra Medina is closing on Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in Texas’s Republican gubernatorial primary, increasing the odds the race led by Gov. Rick Perry will be thrown into a runoff.

First Lady Links Childhood Obesity to National Security in Launch of ‘Let’s Move’ Campaign
At a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign to end childhood obesity in the United States, an epidemic she said is costly and a threat to national security.

Captain America Plans to Infiltrate “Racist” Tea Party Movement
Nice going Marvel Comics. Thanks for making patriotic Americans into your newest super villains.

Scan safeguards no match for sex, celebrity
That didn’t take long, did it? But it was bound to happen.

S. 3002 Must Be Overhauled or Scrapped
Introduced by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) on February 4th as the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010,” S. 3002 is designed, according to the bill preamble, to “more effectively regulate dietary supplements that may pose safety risks unknown to consumers.”

Google to Join Forces with NSA
An alleged intrusion into Google's immense cyber system has provoked the Obama White House to accelerate in plans for government monitoring of the Internet, something that should be triggering alarms throughout the nation, according to security experts

Google to build high-speed Internet network
Google Inc (GOOG.O) plans to build a super-fast Internet network for up to half a million people, a project that could pressure telecommunications companies to loosen their control of Web access in the United States.

Australiagate: Now NASA caught in trick over Aussie climate data
In this article we look at the findings of two independent climate researchers who analyse climatic data used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to show warming of two degrees per century for Australia without explanation.

Breast cancer virtually "eradicated" with higher levels of vitamin D
In a gathering of vitamin D researchers recently held in Toronto, Dr. Cedric Garland delivered a blockbuster announcement: Breast cancer can be virtually "eradicated" by raising vitamin D levels.

Croat scientist warns ice age could start in five years
A top scientist in Croatia has warned Europe to prepare for an ice age instead of talking about global warming.

Cell Phones are Dangerous, But This May Be Far Worse...
An increasingly alarmed army of international scientists have reached a controversial conclusion. The "electrosmog" that first began developing with the rollout of the electrical grid a century ago and now envelops every inhabitant of Earth is responsible for many of the diseases that impair or kill them.

Scientists seek better way to do climate report
Some climate scientists are calling for drastic changes in how future United Nations climate reports are done.

Plot thickens in the battle of 'The Plunge'
The Treasury Department has records of the secret meetings that its President's Working Group on Financial Markets held to discuss the troubled financial markets, after all. That doesn't mean Washington wants us to know what was discussed, or whether Wall Street executives were in the meetings.

Angela Merkel dashes Greek hopes of rescue bid
German chancellor refuses to rescue Greece's ailing economy amid Berlin's domestic austerity

The Run On Greece Is Here: Investors Pull Out €10 Billion From The Troubled Country; Crisis Escalation Approaches
Remember the proverbial run on the bank? Well, that was the norm (or rather the outlier) before governments decided to backstop entire financial industries residing within their territo

How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debt
Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country's already bloated deficit.

Greece: How the Bond Vigilantes Left It in Ruins
While Greece is uniquely dysfunctional, there's a lesson here for any country with a heavy debt load, including Britain, Japan, and the U.S.: The bond market is treacherous

Taxpayer's $2.3 Billion Stake In CIT Group Worth $0
Thank you Hank, Ben and Tim. Excellent work. Seriously. Great f*cking job. Maybe just maybe you should have peered at the books before committing TARP funds.

GE’s Immelt Disagrees With Paulson’s Memory of Talks
General Electric Co. says Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt disagrees with former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson’s recollection of discussions involving commercial paper as the financial crisis swelled in September 2008.

Fed in Talks With Money Market Funds to Help Drain $1 Trillion
The Federal Reserve is in talks with money-market mutual funds on agreements to help drain as much as $1 trillion from the financial system as policy makers prepare for the first interest-rate increase since June 2006, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

Smaller banks at risk if commercial real estate falters
A blizzard of commercial real estate defaults could bury hundreds of community banks, a congressional watchdog reports Thursday.

Report Says Silicon Valley Economy Sputtering
Silicon Valley's economy took a big hit during the global meltdown and could have trouble climbing out, according to a report released Wednesday.

Foreclosure rate down from December to January, though still above last year's levels
The number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in January increased 15 percent from the same month last year, and a surge in cash-strapped homeowners who've fallen behind on mortgages could be on the way.

U.S. trade deficit widens to $40.2 billion in December
The U.S. trade deficit widened to a seasonally adjusted $40.2 billion in December as imports of crude oil surged, outpacing a large increase in exports, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

Ten Year Treasuries Nose Dive At Auction
Ten Year treasury yields hit 3.692% in today's auction, which was well above where the ten-year treasuries were trading going into the auction.

Euro zone in intense talks on Greek rescue
Euro zone countries held intensive talks on Wednesday on a possible rescue for debt-laden Greece as civil servants in Athens staged the first big strike against government austerity plans.

How Brussels Is Trying to Prevent a Collapse of the Euro
The problems facing Greece are just the beginning. The countries belonging to Europe's common currency zone are drifting further and further apart, and national bankruptcies are a distinct possibility. Brussels is faced with a number of choices, none of them good.

King Says BOE Keeps Options Open
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said Wednesday that it is far too soon to rule out further purchases of government bonds using freshly created money, and signaled that the central bank won't tighten policy for at least the next year.

Bernanke says Federal Reserve will scale back stimulus policies . . . eventually
The Fed chairman's exit strategy is outlined in written testimony for a snowstorm-delayed House hearing. The central bank will take actions including an interest-rate hike, but the timeline is hazy.

Gary Shilling: Higher Government Pay Will “Likely Lead to a Tax Revolt”
14.8 million Americans are currently out of work and looking for a job, according to a report released today by the Bureaus of Labor Statistics. Even if you do have a job, wages have not increased substantially over the last ten years, with one exception: government workers.

One in five US mortgages "underwater" in Q4 -Zillow
One of every five U.S. home owners owed more on their mortgage than their home was worth in the fourth quarter, a trend that poses a serious threat to the U.S. housing market's recovery, real estate website Zillow.com said on Wednesday.

The Dumping Begins: Chinese Reserve Managers Notified That Any Non-USG Guaranteed Securities Must Be Divested
It appears that this time China’s posturing is for real.

‘PIGS’ in Rescue Lipstick Are Uglier Than Default
By Mark Gilbert
“The worst possible signal which we could send out is one calling for outside help,” Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou told Bloomberg Television this week. He may be the only policy maker in the European Union who understands how disastrous a bailout would be.

The Tyranny of Emergency – Gun Rights Suspended…Again
While inches turned into feet of snow and life along the East Coast came to a standstill, government agencies were far from dormant.

The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan
By Nick Turse
Black Sites in the Empire of Bases

Secession: A Solution to the Washington Debt Threat
By Ron Holland
Frédéric Bastiat must have been looking toward the future of the United States today when he said, "When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it."

Gun Control and the War on Drugs
By Anthony Gregory
In reality, these two issues are more similar than many people might think.

Gary Franchi: Tea Parties Co-opted
In Reality Report 31 Gary Franchi declares the Tea Party movement officially co-opted and provides remedial instructions on how to take it back.

Commission Chairman: 9/11 Commission Was Set Up to Fail (Video)
This is a very brief clip from a question and answer session Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton gave at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on 9/11/2006. As representatives of the family members, and family members themselves called for a new investigation right across the hall.

Unlawful war on Iran is treason; it levies war against the US, our military, and our Constitution
By Carl Herman
Causing unlawful war upon the US is an attack upon our nation, consistent with US Constitution Article III Section 3:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Yemen, the new Waziristan
By Pepe Escobar
Like an ever-profitable horror B-movie franchise, the al-Qaeda myth simply refuses to die.

Bombs Away: Conservatives Embrace War
By Doug Bandow
The disastrous experience of Iraq should teach us many lessons, the most important of which is that war always should be a last resort. That standard is no where close to being met in Iran.

Raising the bar for Nullification
By Michael Boldin
The final goal? It’s a long way off – a federal government that follows the strict limits of the constitution, whether it wants to or not.

Future police: Meet the UK's armed robot drones
Police forces all over the UK will soon be able to draw on unmanned aircraft from a national fleet, according to Home Office plans. Last month it was revealed that modified military aircraft drones will carry out surveillance on everyone from protesters and antisocial motorists to fly-tippers, and will be in place in time for the 2012 Olympics.

Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret
A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence — communications that paved the way for new spy legislation.

Cop “Jokes” About Murdering Armed Citizens
Rod Tuason apparently suffers from a personality disorder common to professional bullies — a tendency to think that bullying behavior is hilarious.

Man Arrested for Warning About Martial Law, Practicing Second Amendment
A Massachusetts man is under arrest for the stash of guns police found in his possession.

Torture ruling a victory for free speech
The Court of Appeal’s decision on Wednesday to release material relating to the torture of “war on terror” detainee Binyam Mohamed is undoubtedly an embarrassment for David Miliband, the Foreign Office and the government.

Rep. Alan Grayson: $12 Trillion Gone and No One Punished
Rep. Alan Grayson talks Wall Street and how America lost $12 trillion on its net worth in the last 18 monhs of the Bush Administration and how nobody was held responsible for that.

Australian govt websites face censorship protest
A shadowy group of cyber-activists blocked key Australian government websites on Wednesday to protest against controversial plans to filter the Internet.

'War on Terror' to last as long as Cold War
The ''War on Terror'' is likely to last as long as the Cold War, a senior Government security official has warned.