'Lawyer' for jailed church workers in Haiti tied to child prostitution ring
The parents of a self-styled lawyer advising Americans jailed in Haiti said he's the same person wanted for child trafficking in El Salvado

Hidden enemy delays advance in Marjah
US Marines and Afghan troops were bogged down by sniper fire and home-made bombs on the third day of their biggest offensive since the overthrow of the Taleban in 2001.

Afghan Leaders Call Surge: 'Imbecilic and Tragic'
“We have millions of young men coming of age, America doesn’t realize this. Each one will become a fighter with one purpose in life, to free their country and drive out foreign invaders. Each child you see will be a trained soldier with a Kalashnikov. We will fight for a century if we have to. Ask Britain, ask Russia, they know.

Clinton expected to seek Saudi Arabia's help in confronting Iran
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton begins a difficult diplomatic assignment Monday in Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally. By all accounts, President Obama's meeting with King Abdullah last year went poorly over misunderstandings on a variety of issues, and now Clinton seeks to rebuild ties.

Vatican: Irish Catholic clergy must admit child abuse
Secretary of state says men of the church were involved in 'abominable acts', as bishops prepare to talk to the pope

Shell security under microscope after massive data leak
The security measures at Royal Dutch Shell are under close scrutiny after the details of 176,000 employees and contractors were emailed to campaigners.

Vancouver Olympics protests turn uglier
Anti-Olympic demonstrators waving anarchist flags and causing some vandalism marched through the downtown streets of Vancouver as the Winter Games action got under way on Sunday (NZT).

Pope to meet Irish bishops on child abuse scandal
Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops are preparing for an unprecedented meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. They have been invited by the Pope to discuss the Irish Church's response to the child sex abuse scandal.

America's deadly robots rewrite the rules
Consider: for the first time ever, a civilian intelligence agency is manipulating robots from halfway around the world in a program of extrajudicial executions in a country with which Washington is not at war.

The new McCarthyism sweeping Israel
To disagree with the state is to 'delegitimise' the state: that is the increasingly strident response of the country's political and military establishment to those who dare to criticise its conduct

Pakistan's top court strikes down presidential order, raising fears of instability
Pakistan's Supreme Court suspended the presidential appointment of two top judges in an emergency ruling late Saturday that could cause a destabilizing clash between the judiciary and the unpopular, Western-backed government.

Ahmadinejad: Iran doesn't need nukes, they haven't helped Israel
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country does not need nuclear weapons and is capable of defending itself without them.

What the New 9-11 Photos Show
There is certainly a great deal of evidence contained in these hundreds of photographs, which will take some time to analyze, but one thing is very clear. The Twin Towers were turned into dust.

Government climbdown over David Kelly post-mortem report
The Government has backed down over a move which threatened to delay the release of the post-mortem of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly.

US troops kill 12 Afghan civilians
The US and British led offensive in Helmand province, Afghanistan, has claimed the lives of 12 civilians.

New blow to election credibility
Any lingering hope that Iraq can hold a credible and peaceful election suffered a further blow yesterday when the leading secular nationalist bloc suspended its participation.

Israel not able to attack Iran, ex-IDF chief says
Former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Dan Halutz says Tel Aviv is not able to launch a preemptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.

Goldman Sachs accused of rigging tax vote
A BANK has been accused of rigging a public vote on whether the City should pay a levy on its wheeler-dealing.

Americans stock up to be ready for end of the world
Recession and the constant threat of terrorist attacks have given new life to the ingrained survivalist instinct
(Americans are more afraid of the U.S. Government than they are of terrorists)

AIPAC Officials Duplicated Classified Policy Documents Before Returning to US Government
Top officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee duplicated a stolen classified US government policy document before returning it under order of the US Trade Representative.

'Tea party' activists filter into GOP at ground level
The conservative movement is urging its members to seek positions as Republican precinct representatives. Their goal is to remake the party - and U.S. politics - from within.

Obama Poised to Use Executive Power to Muscle Through Domestic Agenda
Faced with a resurgent GOP and a largely stalled legislative agenda, President Obama is planning to use his executive powers to forge ahead with his domestic initiatives, including on energy, the environment and the economy, The New York Times reported

The battle of 9/11’s ailing first responders
No one should be sheltered from scrutiny as no one should be denied justice, including the dispensers of justice themselves and the Bush administration.

Fort Worth 912 President Comes Out In Support Of Medina
I was born in Dublin, Ireland 38 years after the 1916 Easter Rising in which a band of Irish patriots rose up against oppressive British rule of their country. After an initial success in taking over the Dublin General Post Office, the rebellion eventually failed. The leaders, heroes to the Irish people, were summarily executed.

Perry Supporters Caught Posting Fake Pro-Medina Comments on Dallas Morning News
It is a clear violation of the terms of service.

Debra Medina Says Comments on Glenn Beck Show about More than 9/11
Debra Medina, a Republican candidate in the Texas gubernatorial race, is walking back some comments she made earlier today on the Glenn Beck radio show suggesting the U.S. government could have had a role in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
(Manufactured Controversy Backfires on the Globalists)

Obama signs bill raising debt limit to $14.3 trillion
The United States can now legally go up to $14.3 trillion in debt, as President Obama today signed a new ceiling for red ink.

Few Want Members of Congress Re-Elected, Poll Finds
Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to a CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters.

Scientists discover the secret of ageing
One of the biggest puzzles in biology – how and why living cells age – has been solved by an international team based at Newcastle University, in north-east England.

Climategate: Viscount Monckton Takes a Victory Lap
Per a Phil Jones interview with the BBC, confirmation that the temperature record of the CRU is little better than a fabrication.

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

77 Percent of People in Mumps Outbreak Were Vaccinated Against the Disease
Anyone fully vaccinated from mumps receives two doses of the vaccine, according to the CDC. Of the New Jersey cases, 77 percent were vaccinated, Terjesen said.

Not just ClimateGate – we must remember the entire paradigm of green lies over thirty years
Every ecological problem was instantly transformed into a potential world-ending crisis, from the population bomb to the imminent resource depletion of the “limits to growth” fad of the 1970s to acid rain to ozone depletion.

New Paper in Science: Sea level 81,000 years ago was 1 meter higher while CO2 was lower
This Week in SCIENCE, Volume 327, Issue 5967, Food Security dated February 12 2010.

Climategate: The Official Cover-up Continues
If there’s one thing that stinks even more than Climategate, it’s the attempts we’re seeing everywhere from the IPCC and Penn State University to the BBC to pretend that nothing seriously bad has happened.

Spanish intelligence probing debt "attacks"-report
Spain's intelligence services are investigating the role of investors and media in debt market turbulence over the last few weeks, El Pais reported on Sunday.

FDIC Responds To IndyMac/OneWest Video Alleging Sheila Bair Transferred Billions In Taxpayer Funds To Paulson & Co., And Others
A few days ago we posted "The Great Highway Robbery Continues: How the FDIC is Legally Transferring Billions in Taxpayer Money to Hedge Funds" which presented a clip by Think Big Work Small, highlighting what was seemingly a grand scheme to defraud taxpayers with the FDIC's complicity.

A Caribbean Tax Holiday for U.S. Businesses
The IRS is investigating how $100 billion a year in credit-card receipts are escaping U.S. sales and income taxes in locales like Aruba and St. Kitts

The Bank Of England Engaged In Flagrant Gold Manipulation In The Interwar Period Via The New York Fed; Does History Repeat Itself?
The implications regarding the possibility of comparable deceitful and treasonous acts by modern central bankers are staggering.

Real list of countries on verge of bankruptcy
Let’s talk a bit about these supposedly broke governments that have been reaching insolvency, and in cases like Iceland in 2006 and Argentina in 2001, have declared bankruptcy.

Commercial Real Estate Losses Could Hit $300 Billion: TARP Panel
Losses from defaults on commercial real estate loans maturing in the next few years could go as high as $300 billion, threatening to topple nearly 3,000 community banks nationwide, a federal watchdog group has concluded.

As Default Rates on Borrowing for Higher Education Rise, Some Borrowers See No Way Out; 'This Is Just Outrageous Now'
When Michelle Bisutti, a 41-year-old family practitioner in Columbus, Ohio, finished medical school in 2003, her student-loan debt amounted to roughly $250,000. Since then, it has ballooned to $555,000.

The FDIC is Broke: $13 Trillion in Assets is Unprotected
The FDIC, that enigmatic seal of security on your bank entrance, is virtually bankrupt. The FDIC provides deposit insurance to over 8,000 banks that collectively hold $13 trillion in assets.

Faber says correction is underwy and all governments will default

Credit Suisse Declares the U.S. a Riskier Investment Than Indonesia
Amid fears that Switzerland might come to an agreement with the United States on banking privacy and tax evasion disclosures, Credit Suisse issued a report identifying those countries it determined to have the highest risks of default on their sovereign debts.

New Phase, Not Just Another Recession
Although the current domination of our economy by finance capital seems new, it is in fact a throwback or “retrogression” (as financial expert Michael Hudson puts it) to the capitalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that is, the capitalism of monopolistic big business and gigantic financial institutions.

Beijing Seen Vacant for 50% as Chanos Predicts Crash
Jack Rodman, who has made a career of selling soured property loans from Los Angeles to Tokyo, sees a crash looming in China.

Inspector General: We're All on Welfare Now
When Inspector General Neil Barofsky, testified before Congress late last month, he received ample coverage for highlighting the incompetence of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in his work bailing out AIG.

Just How Ugly Is The Sovereign Default Truth? How Self Delusions Prevent Recognition Of Reality
When psychologists evaluate human behavior, one of the most prevalent observations regarding any activity is the all too often flawed basis of perceived versus realistic outcomes that dictates our every action.

George Washington on defending the US Constitution: guard against impostures of pretended patriotism
By Carl Herman
After 45 years of service to the newly created United States, George Washington published a message to the American people; the summation of what he most wanted to contribute to Americans' understanding of defending our Constitutional government.

The Ficticious Legal Entity Called "a Person" Col. House,left, puppeteer of Presidents
A quote, famously attributed to Rothschild agent Col. Edward House, but rarely understood except by "one man in a million" envisages people as collateral on the national debt: "[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living.

Begin's grandson: 'murderous blood flows in Israeli arteries'
"Murderous blood flows in Israeli arteries," says the grandson of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
In the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired analytic programs investigating the official account.

Hitler on Glenn Beck (Video)
“He has no credibility! All he does is giggle and whimper on the air like a little girl!”

Will Obama's Record War Budget Lead to a US Victory in Afghanistan? Don't Bet On it!
By Jack A. Smith
President Barack Obama has increased the Pentagon's perennially-bloated annual spending spree to its greatest magnitude since World War II $708 billion.

Ron Paul and the Judge Talk About the Infiltration of the Tea Party Movement by Neoconservatives (Video)
Dr. Paul appeared on Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch to discuss the Tea Party movement and a bailout of Greece.
(Leading the drive to takeover the Tea Party movement you will find the wolves that dress in sheep's clothing and wrap themselves in the flag. I'm talking about certain warmongering, fearmongering, constitution trashing, neocons on so called conservative talk radio. Neocons on talk radio are encouraging their easily led, gullible, indoctrinated listeners to infiltrate the Tea Party movement. Unfortunately, the sheep don't know their being used and led to the slaughterhouse, financially, spiritually and physically.)

Same Empire, Different Emperor
By Laurence M. Vance
We have an empire in everything but the name.

U.S. Economic Terrorism the New 'Winning Trade'
When Wall Street planned and executed the U.S. housing-bubble (and all its related scams), it destroyed the lives of tens of millions of Americans. Then, when it subsequently 'crashed' global markets, it inflicted hardship on most of the world. But the Oligarchs were just getting started.

Secession in the Air
By Patrick J. Buchanan
No, it is not 1860 again.

Cash transactions above 1,500 euros will be illegal in Greece
"From 1. Jan. 2011, every transaction above 1,500 euros between natural persons and businesses, or between businesses, will not be considered legal if it is done in cash. Transactions will have to be done through debit or credit cards"

The Obama administration has announced it will now rule by fascist decree and ignore Congress and the American people
Obama’s plan to rule by authoritarian decree is unconstitutional. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution states: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” Article II, Section 3 states that the president may call Congress into emergency session during a national crisis.

Paul Craig Roberts: The U.S. is a Police State
The US now has a list of Americans that the country can now murder abroad if they are fraternizing with terror groups. Paul Craig Roberts says that all of this points to a sign that the United States has become a police state.

Control freaks want web licences to end bloggers’ anonymity
The American blogosphere is going increasingly “viral” about a proposal advanced at the recent meeting of the Davos Economic Forum by Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, that an equivalent of a “driver’s licence” should be introduced for access to the web. This totalitarian call has been backed by articles and blogs in Time magazine and the New York Times.