Images of Earthquake Devastation in Chile

Russian agency blames NATO for drug problem
Russia's federal drug control agency has complained that NATO may be to blame for the current youth drug problem in Russia.

UK troops to remain in Afghanistan 'for five years'
Britain will be "militarily engaged" in Afghanistan for a further five years, the head of the Army has said.

Clinton Insists She Pressed Israeli DM on Gaza Blockade
Though the Obama Administration’s official meetings with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak centered mostly on planning more moves against Iran, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insists that she did bring up the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Apple admits child labour was used to build iPods and iPhones in Chinese factories
Technology giant Apple has admitted that child labour has been employed at some of the factories that build its iPods, computers and mobile phones.

Live footage from Chile

The Mossad Role in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy
The genesis of Israeli involvement in the JFK assassination was JFK’s growing conflict with Israel over Israel’s drive to build the nuclear bomb.

Iranian envoy: IAEA’s Iran report imbalanced, not reflecting Iran’s views
Soltanieh made the remark in a statement, that copies of which were distributed in an IAEA meeting on Wednesday following recent Iran report of the Agency's new chief Yukiya Amano.

Police recover DNA of Dubai hitmen
Dubai police say they have recovered the DNA of assassins, who killed a senior Hamas commander in January.

Hilo, Hawaii, appears poised for brunt of tsunami
The tsunami racing towards Hawaii right now, set off by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Chile's capital, appears poised to strike the city of Hilo first and hardest.

Israel approves 600 new Jerusalem settlement homes
Israel has given the green light for 600 new homes in a Jewish settlement in annexed Arab east Jerusalem, the Haaretz daily reported on Friday.

Chile Quake Prompts Tsunami Warnings
A deadly 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, collapsing buildings, shattering major bridges and highways across a long strip of the country, and sending tsunami warnings along the Pacific basin.

Another Puzzle in Iran After Nuclear Fuel Is Moved
When Iran was caught last September building a secret, underground nuclear enrichment plant at a military base near the city of Qum, the country’s leaders insisted they had no other choice. With its nuclear facilities under constant threat of attack, they said, only a fool would leave them out in the open.

Israeli spies in Lebanon continue to collapse one after another
In the latest developments in this context, a well-informed source told Al-Manar on Friday that the Lebanese army intelligence directorate has arrested two espionage networks serving the Zionist enemy, one in the north and the other in the south.

Officials puzzle over millions of dollars leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai
A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan -- often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport -- as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising concerns about the money's origin.

Thai court seizes 1.4 billion dollars from Thaksin
Thailand's top court said Friday it would confiscate frozen assets worth 46 billion baht (1.4 billion dollars) from deposed premier Thaksin Shinawatra, more than half his fortune.

Suicide Bombers Hit Afghan Capital Kabul
The Afghan president has condemned a series of explosions which killed at least 17 people in the country's capital.

Lavrov: Still no proof of Iran's nuclear weapon decision
Russia's Foreign Minister says there's no evidence Iran plans to build a nuclear bomb - and that further sanctions against it are unlikely to produce results. In an interview for RT, Sergey Lavrov says atomic inspectors are keeping a close eye on Iran.

U.S. cites secret evidence in Mumbai attack case
Prosecutors preparing to try a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman on charges he aided the 2008 Mumbai attackers invoked a secrecy law on Wednesday to control evidence disclosures in the case.

Abdolmalek Rigi - Who Is He?
The high-profile arrest of Abdolmalek Rigi by Iranian security forces on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Kyrgyzstan raised many questions as to who Rigi really is.

Medvedev objects to "endless" NATO expansion
Russia's new military doctrine does not identify NATO as its major threat but Moscow is disturbed by the alliance's "endless enlargement", President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Thursday.

Nigel Farage summoned for tirade against Van Rompuy
The head of the European parliament has summoned British Eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage over his tirade against European Council President Herman van Rompuy.

Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us
Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator, claims that the following government officials have committed what amount to acts of treason.

GOPs oppose proposal for consumer bureau at Treasury Department
Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee oppose a measure to create a bureau of financial protection at the Treasury Department, a Senate Republican aide said on Saturday evening.

Obama Appoints Federal Reserve Operative to Debt Commission Panel
President Barack Obama rounded out his appointments to his new deficit commission, naming former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Alice Rivlin and three others to serve on the panel.

Coffee Party activists say their civic brew’s a tastier choice than Tea Party’s
Furious at the tempest over the Tea Party -- the scattershot citizen uprising against big government and wild spending -- Annabel Park did what any American does when she feels her voice has been drowned out: She squeezed her anger into a Facebook status update.

Bizarre? Now this is bizarre!
In a 13 month period from May 2003 to June 2004, the Federal Reserve sent nearly $12 billion in cash, mainly in $100 bills from the United States to Iraq. To do that, the Federal Reserve Bank in New York had to pack 281 million individual bills ... onto wooden pallets to be shipped to Iraq. The cash weighed more than 363 tons and was loaded onto C-130 cargo planes to
be flown into Baghdad.

AGW: It's not about 'the science'
And it never was about the science, as Sam at Climatequotes.com (”remembering what they will want us to forget”) reminds us with this useful little delve into the Government archives.

IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri to face independent inquiry
Rajendra Pachauri, the controversial Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to face an international inquiry into the performance of his organisation.

Many leading scientists tell the EPA to think again
This letter from numerous leading scientists in climate and related fields to Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is worthy of wider circulation.

U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend
After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period.

IBM Researchers Develop Energy Efficient Method to Analyze the Quality of Data at Record Speeds
IBM ( IBM) Research today unveiled a breakthrough method based on a mathematical algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, costs, and energy usage for analyzing the quality of massive amounts of data by two orders of magnitude.

The Financial Battle for the Middle Class – Underemployment at 20 Percent, 38 Million Americans on Food Stamps and Little Hiring
For most Americans a jobless recovery is an oxymoron.

Massive Bank Failures Due, Says Oversight Panel
Close to 3,000 banks are currently classified as having a risky concentration of commercial real estate loans, according to a recent report by the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP). All of them are small to mid-sized banks, already weakened by the financial crisis

500 Stores In Desperate Bid To Save $200 Million
Blockbuster is losing big when it comes to at-home videos, so they are cutting back on expenses and on advertising in the U.S. to make up for it.

Head of IMF Proposes New Reserve Currency
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, suggested Friday the organization might one day be called on to provide countries with a global reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar.

AIG Posts Loss Tied to Rescue, Reserves; Shares Fall
American International Group Inc. posted a wider-than-expected loss after setting aside more reserves for insurance claims and paying down bailout debts. The shares fell 8.5 percent in New York trading.

Bernanke Pushes to Keep Regulation Power as Some Senators Waver
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke renewed his push to keep bank-supervision authority as some senators expressed support and others wavered.

Bernanke delivers blunt warning on U.S. debt
With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece, and declared that the central bank will not help legislators by printing money to pay for the ballooning federal debt.

India to Buy IMF Gold
Well thats according to an article carried by the Emirates Business today, the rational being that unlike China who can boost gold reserves internally, India needs to import gold in order to boost supplies.

More Evidence that the Fed Sent Money to Iraq
I don't know anything about money laundering, drug trafficking or terrorist networks. But I might be able to guess who could keep track of that kind of information: the Fed.

Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs
That lack of disclosure shows how the government has obstructed a proper accounting of what went wrong in the financial crisis, author and former investment banker William Cohan says. “This secrecy is one more example of how the whole bailout has been done in such a slithering manner.”

EMU could collapse if one member defaults -Germany
A debt default by one euro zone member could end the single currency union but this is unlikely, the head of the German debt management agency said on Thursday.

Jobless claims up 12% in past 2 weeks
The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance surged to just below the 500,000 level last week, and have climbed more than 12% over the past two weeks, the government said Thursday.

Banks Bet Greece Defaults on Debt They Helped Hide
Bets by some of the same banks that helped Greece shroud its mounting debts may actually now be pushing the nation closer to the brink of financial ruin.

A "Good" Terrorist Captured by Iran
By Ray McGovern
The Iranian government is celebrating the capture of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a violent group called Jundullah (Arabic for Soldiers of God), which Tehran says is a terrorist organization supported by the United States, Great Britain and Israel.

Judges Restore Damning Passage on MI5 to the Binyam Mohamed Torture Ruling
By Andy Worthington
On February 10, the Court of Appeal brought to an end an 18-month campaign by foreign secretary David Miliband to prevent the publication of a short summary, prepared by two High Court judges, explaining how US agents had subjected the British resident Binyam Mohamed to what was described as “at the very least cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,” and had provided this information to their British counterparts.

Ron Paul: Oath to US Constitution rejected by both parties’ “leadership.” US revolt coming?
Congressman Ron Paul spoke on the House floor for 5-minutes on US policy to assassinate US citizens at the dictate of the executive branch based on “secret evidence,” US policy of torture that includes American citizens and without legal recourse, US policy of rendition to secret prisons, and unlimited detention.

On the Edge with Max Keiser - The Israeli and the US Government become less and less legitimate (Video)

Is America Becoming A Police State?
By Chuck Baldwin
We are not free, and we are getting less free by the day.

CPAC The Untold Story
The Neo-Conservative movement is in big trouble as Constitutional/Libertarianism- Conservatism is on the rise.

Sheep-Shearing Season on the Revenue Ranch
By William N. Grigg
To put the matter bluntly, police -- the self-described "Sheepdogs" -- aren't here to protect the flock, but rather to make sure that we're securely penned in when it's sheep-shearing season.

Carpe Diem, Dr. Paul!
By Mark R. Crovelli
Dr. Paul, and the moment will never be so ripe for you to announce your candidacy.

Obama signs extension of Patriot Act
President Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation's main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act.

India: Criticising GM crops may land you in jail
Criticising Genetically Modified (GM) products could land you in jail — if the draconian draft Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill (BRAB) of 2009, which will be tabled in the current session of the parliament by the UPA government, is passed.

Man takes city to Supreme Court over handgun ban
A grandfather is taking his 2nd Amendment fight to the U.S. Supreme Court in what is expected to be a landmark case. Otis McDonald, 76, is suing the city of Chicago over its handgun ban.

Core of Corruption: In The Shadows - Official Trailer
Core of Corruption is a documentary film series which details a comprehensive investigation into clandestine intelligence operations and conspiracies. The project is surfacing exclusive whistleblowers, insiders and critical evidence for the very first time. Over 2,000 hours of credible network news clips have been surfaced for this ground breaking event, most of which have never been seen since they aired and have never been available on the internet.

Obama Seeks US Ban of Assault Weapons For Benefit of Mexico
President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are seeking to reinstate the weapons ban on assault rifles which expired in 2004. This would ban 19 types of semi-automatic military style guns and ammunition clips containing more than 10 rounds.

EU warned Google for violation of privacy in street view
Google’s street view technology is now once again in trouble. Google’s Street View service launched in the United States in 2007. Google Street View now adds photo of real-life scenes from cities around the world to Google’s maps.