Israel deports flotilla activists after world outcry Israel, facing mounting international outrage at its raid on an aid convoy sailing to Gaza, said on Tuesday that it would expel all activists seized on the ships and dropped threats to prosecute some of them.
Officials deny Israeli claims weapons were onboard Turkish officials have denied claims leveled by Israeli authorities that weapons were onboard one of the six aid ships attacked by Israel on Monday. Officials from the Customs Undersecretariat said every passenger was searched before getting on the ship with the help of X-ray machines and metal detectors. Senior officials from the undersecretariat said Israel's allegations were tantamount to “complete nonsense.”
Two ships still heading towards Gaza Organizers of an aid flotilla to Gaza kept mum Tuesday on additional ships scheduled to arrive in Israel’s international waters in the coming days, while Israeli officials mulled possible responses.
America’s Complicity in Evil
By Paul Craig Roberts Americans will likely accept Israeli propaganda that Israelis were met by deadly fire when they tried to intercept an arms shipment to Palestinian terrorists.
Israeli Knesset Member: Israel Wanted High Number Of Fatalities Knesset Member Hanin Zoabi, who was on board the Marmara ship when it was raided by Navy fighters, held a press conference in Nazareth on Tuesday, in which she accused Israel of committing crimes during its takeover of the Gaza-bound aid ship. She called for an international inquiry into the incident.
Israelis opened fire before boarding Gaza flotilla, say released activists (With Video) Survivors of the Israeli assault on a flotilla carrying relief supplies to Gaza returned to Greece and Turkey today, giving the first eyewitness accounts of the raid in which at least 10 people died. (In video Al Jazeera journalist describes the scenes as they unfold live, clearly stating that an activist has been shot and killed before Israeli troops board the vessel. He also says that a white flag has been raised in surrender to the Israeli army.)
Turkish Sources – Israeli Advance Target Assassination List Found on Flotilla Turkish sources and media revealed a document which shows that a death list had been prepared in advance by the Israelis, showing names and pictures of people on board of the ships to be murdered, who, according to Israel, were “involved in the International humanitarian aid for Gaza”.
Europe’s Coming Summer Of Discontent As the IMF and the ECB continue to push austerity measures all over Europe this summer, the chaos that we witnessed in Greece could end up being repeated over and over again across the continent.
Israel: Next Time We’ll Use More Force’ Israel will use more aggressive force in the future to prevent ships from breaking the sea blockade on the Gaza Strip, a top Navy commander told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
In raw video, reporters claim Israelis fired on activists before boarding ship In what could be a serious blow to Israel’s narrative on the killing of at least nine humanitarian activists making their way to Gaza through international waters, raw video by an Al Jazeera producer, who was filming during the raid, appears to provide evidence that the IDF opened fire on the flotilla even before boarding it.
WORLD NEWS
Israel orders families of diplomats out of Turkey Israeli media say the Foreign Ministry has ordered the families of its diplomats in Turkey to leave that country because of the uproar over Israel's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Gaza flotilla raid: 'We heard gunfire – then our ship turned into lake of blood' Some formed human shields, others fought back with makeshift weapons, while a few of the most vulnerable hid below deck and prayed for the violence and killing to stop. But what united every survivor who spoke out today about yesterday's pre-dawn assault by Israeli commandos on the pro-Palestinian aid flotilla to Gaza, was a sense of deep shock at the speed, aggression and lethal force of the Israeli response to what they reiterated was nothing more than a humanitarian aid effort.
No one should test Turkey’s patience, PM Erdog˘an warns Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdog˘an, who cut his trip to Chile short after Israel's attack on a Turkish-led humanitarian aid flotilla on Monday, said in an address to his party's parliamentary group on Tuesday that Israel should not test Turkey's diplomatic patience and that Turkey would do everything in its diplomatic power to give the deserved response.
U.S. insists Israel conduct probe into commandso attack The United States continues to remain silent over the attack by Israeli commandos on a fleet of aid ships transporting aid to Gaza. While most countries in the world have strongly condemned the attack, the U.S. has called for more information. Behind the scenes however the U.S. is busy defending its ally. UN Security Council resolutions have been watered down as a result of U.S. intervention.
Israeli occupation unjust, says Vatican A VATICAN document leaked overnight calls the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories a "political injustice".
Activists on 'Rachel Corrie' undeterred by Israeli action Free Gaza Movement’s cargo ship Rachel Corrie yesterday assumed a holding position in the eastern Mediterranean, poised to make a fresh attempt to reach Israeli-blockaded Gaza. Organiser Greta Berlin said the ship was waiting for Challenger II , a small passenger boat which suffered failure of its steering gear while preparing for the passage.
Obama gives Israel all-out support After the United Nations ratified a resolution calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, the US president gives Israel "concrete guarantees" to prevent the decision from harming Israeli interests. Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post quoted senior political sources in al-Quds (Jerusalem) as saying that President Barack Obama's assurances to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came with the promise of a significant upgrade to Israel's military capabilities.
EU jobless hits record 10.1 per cent Debt-laden Europe posted a record unemployment rate on Tuesday and its core currency and shares plummeted amid a worrying industrial slowdown.
Activists Tell of Live Fire During Israeli Raid Activists said Tuesday that Israeli commandos used live fire and beatings in their raid on ships trying to take humanitarian aid to Gaza. Despite the violence their leaders said another aid ship has already set sail for Gaza from Europe.
President Sarkozy urges revamped trade ties at Africa-France Summit At the opening of the 25th France-Africa Summit in Nice, France on Monday, French President Nicholas Sarkozy unveiled plans to improve France’s often troubled but powerful relationship with its many former French colonies.
UN calls for impartial probe into Israeli raid on aid ships An emergency session of the UN Security Council called Tuesday for an independent inquiry into an Israeli attack that killed at least 10 people aboard ships delivering aid to Gaza.
U.S. blocks Security Council criticism of Israeli raid Israel faced heavy criticism in an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Monday in response to its deadly attack on an aid flotilla trying to breach the Gaza blockade, but attempts to issue a formal statement stalled after the United States rejected the strong condemnation sought by Turkey.
Egypt opens Gaza border after Israel ship clash Egypt will open its border with the Gaza Strip to let Palestinians cross, officials said on Tuesday, following a storm of international criticism of Israel's bloody enforcement at sea of its blockade on the enclave.
Mystery solved: flotilla cargo contents revealed! Al Jazeera's Aymen Mohyeldin attended a press conference today where Israeli officials showed journalists the contents of the flotilla's cargo ship. Here are some of the shocking details.
UK demands Israeli probe into flotilla killings Britain called on Israel today to mount a “transparent and thorough” investigation into the killing of nine civilians during the storming of an aid flotilla heading for the Gaza Strip.
Official: US Will Stand with Israel I’m told there won’t be any daylight between the US and Israel in the aftermath of the incident on the flotilla yesterday, which resulted in the deaths of 10 activists.
Transcript details last moments of Polish plane Pilots of the doomed aircraft carrying Poland's President Lech Kaczynski received at least a dozen warnings from on-board systems to regain altitude during the last minute before the crash, according to transcripts from its cockpit recorders released on Tuesday.
Doubt cast on Israel raid account Eyewitness accounts from ships raided by Israeli commandos have cast doubt on Israel's version of events that led to the deaths of at least 10 people.
Israeli Death List lost by Israeli Soldier during raid Writer Kawther Salam stated in her article today, "Turkish sources and media revealed a document which shows that a death list had been prepared in advance by the Israelis, showing names and pictures of people on board of the ships to be murdered, who, according to Israel, were 'involved in the International humanitarian aid for Gaza.'"
Official: As many as 9 Americans on Gaza relief flotilla As many as nine Americans may have been aboard the Gaza relief flotilla attacked by the Israeli military, and are now being held by Israeli authorities, a State Department official said Monday.
Gaza flotilla attack: world unites in condemnation of Israel's actions Israel's calculated gamble in sending commandos to raid the Mediterranean flotilla looked likely last night to exact a high price, leaving it increasingly isolated internationally and diplomatically and losing the vital public relations war in the Middle East.
South Korea dials back tough talk over Cheonan sinking One day after China refused to take a stand against North Korea over the March 26 sinking of South Korea's Cheonan naval ship, South Korea appears to be moderating its rhetoric against the North over the Cheonan sinking.
Protests erupt across the world after Israeli raid Tens of thousands of people joined angry protests across the world Monday after a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, demanding retaliation and showing support for the Palestinians.
Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system.
German President Horst Köhler Resigns German President Horst Köhler, under fire for controversial comments he made about Germany's mission in Afghanistan, resigned with immediate effect on Monday in a shock announcement that comes as the latest in a series of blows to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Netanyahu cancels Obama meeting amid raid furore srael’s prime minister has cancelled a planned meeting with President Obama to deal with the escalating international crisis over an attack by the Israeli military on civilian aid ships that left at least 10 dead.
US activist loses eye after being shot in face with tear gas canister An American solidarity activist was shot in the face with a tear gas canister during a demonstration in Qalandiya, today. Emily Henochowicz is currently in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem undergoing surgery to remove her left eye, following the demonstration that was held in protest to Israel’s murder of at least 10 civilians aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters this morning.
Republicans Jump Out To Historic Lead In Gallup Generic Ballot Gallup's generic polling shows the number of voters saying that they would vote for Republicans rising three points from last week, while the number saying they will vote for Democrats dropped four points. The 49%-43% lead for the Republicans is the largest that the pollster has ever recorded for the party.
BP oil spill could make Gulf hurricane season 'devastating' The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season opens today, and with it concerns over the effect the BP oil spill could have on coastal ecosystems if a major storm moves into the northern Gulf of Mexico and reaches land.
Gibbs: 'I'd refer you to the memo' White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday he could “understand” if reporters thought he was responsible for keeping them in the dark about an administration position offered to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) — but he had no immediate answers for reporters about details of the deal.
Hispanic Caucus wants Napolitano to cut ties with Arizona police Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) have called on the Department of Homeland Security to sever its ties with Arizona police in response to the state's new immigration enforcement law.
Free birth control under health care? As health reform regulations begin to take shape, Planned Parenthood has begun a quiet campaign to ensure that birth control is counted among the free preventive services that health insurers must cover under the Affordable Care Act.
Debating the 17th Amendment The New York Times’ David Firestone takes a critical look at the efforts among some Tea Party activists to repeal the 17th Amendment, which provides for the direct popular election of U.S. Senators.
U.S. attorney general opens criminal probe of gulf oil spill Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Tuesday that his office is using "the full weight" of its investigative power to pursue criminal and civil investigations into the oil spill that has devastated the Gulf Coast.
After Facing Criticism, Obama to Meet Arizona Gov. Brewer on Thursday President Obama intends to meet with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday, a White House official told FoxNews.com, after criticism mounted over the president's refusal to meet her while she is in Washington this week.
Police arrest Census taker A battle is brewing between the state and federal governments over a Census taker arrested in Puna for misdemeanor trespassing.
Fort Hood shooting suspect appears in court A military psychiatrist charged with last year's shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army Base attended a court appearance on Tuesday in a wheelchair, his first public appearance since the incident.
Undercover Census Fraud Investigation – New Jersey I was paid for four hours of work I never did. I was told to take a 70 minute lunch break, was given an hour of travel time to drive 10 minutes, and was told to leave work at 3:30pm. I resigned prior to doing any data collection but confronted Census supervisors who assured me, “no one is going to be auditing that that level,” and “nobody is going to be questioning it except for you.”
Obama threatens court action over US oil spill President Barack Obama Tuesday threatened legal action against those to blame for unleashing the nation's worst ever oil spill, as BP once again battled to stop the six-week leak.
BP Cited ‘Well Control Situation’ Six Weeks Before Blowout BP Plc told regulators six weeks before its well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded that workers were having trouble maintaining control, according to e-mails released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the spill.
Met lab claims 'biggest breakthrough since Watergate' Police scientists have hailed a new technique that recently played a pivotal role in securing a murder conviction as the most significant development in audio forensics since Watergate. The capability, called "electrical network frequency analysis" (ENF), is now attracting interest from the FBI and is considered the exciting new frontier in digital forensics, with power lines acting as silent witnesses to crime.
Japanese Robots to Take Over the Moon by 2020
Now another Asian superpower is thirsting for the resources buried on Earth's largest natural satellite. According to a report in Japanese publication NODE, JAXA, Japan's space program, is looking to pour $2.2B USD into plans to put an army of robots (peaceful robots, of course) on the Moon.
Death Ray Takes Out Targets at Sea For years, the U.S. Navy has been pursuing a workable ray gun that could provide a leap ahead in ship self-defenses. Now, with a series of tests of a system called the Laser Weapon System, or LaWS), it may be one step closer to that goal.
Hay festival: 'Climate change is a long struggle' "Who knows? Everybody might be wrong," he says. "I may be wrong. Climate change may not happen as fast as we thought, and we may have 1,000 years to sort it out."
Scientists warn of unseen deepwater oil disaster Independent scientists and government officials say there's an aspect to the oil spill disaster we can't see, hidden in the Gulf of Mexico's mysterious depths; the ruin of a world inhabited by enormous sperm whales and tiny, invisible plankton.
MONEY & MARKETS
Foreign banks find fortune in crisis The foreign companies have found a lucrative niche, essentially acting as brokers for the federal government’s bailout money. Domestic banks with the size and expertise for that role are largely banned from competing for the contracts because they have been recipients of the emergency funds.
Euro falls to four-year low on debt crisis woes The euro fell to a four-year low yesterday on worries the euro zone’s debt crisis is spreading to its banking system, and the price of US Treasuries and gold rose as investors sought safe haven
Gold To $10,000? There is no doubt that when benchmarked against the CPI, money supply and GDP, gold can easily double from here.
The New Deal: Walk Away From Your Mortgage…But Stay In Your House! “Strategic defaults”–walking away from your mortgage–have come back into vogue, as people realize it is crazy to keep throwing money into houses they can’t afford and that will never be worth as much as they borrowed to buy them. Especially when they can buy or rent a similar house for much less just down the street.
France warns on credit rating France admitted on Sunday that keeping its top-notch credit rating would be "a stretch" without some tough budget decisions, following German hints that Berlin may resort to raising taxes to help bring down its deficit.
Global rebound anemic: Roubini Advanced economies face years of anemic growth and the risk of a double-dip recession as their citizens cope with sluggish employment and highly indebted governments, economist Nouriel Roubini said on Monday.
Spain's austerity measures 'strong': IMF chief The Spanish government's package of austerity policies is strong and moving in the right direction, the head of the International Monetary Fund was quoted as saying in an newspaper interview published on Monday.
COMMENTARY
Israel: The Pariah of the International Community The most striking feature about Israel’s most recent act of terrorism, an act of piracy and murder on the high seas, is that it surprises nobody. A robber steals. Israel commits war crimes. What is even more remarkable is its attempts at self-justification, claiming that its soldiers were attacked. Well of course they were attacked. They were illegally boarding a ship carrying peace activists trying to feed the starving people of Gaza in international waters. This was an act of piracy, this was an act of terrorism. Someone invades your space. You fight back.
AIPAC - Traitors Within A closer look at how the members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee exercise a grotesquely disproportionate amount of power over the foreign policy of the United States.
Not in My Jewish Name
By Rob Kall I am a Jew and I am outraged and ashamed by the acts Israel has perpetrated. I am not a self hating Jew, not an anti-semite, as some religious extremist Jews have accused me and other Jews who criticize Israel.
‘Mideast peace unlikely unless US alters relations with Israel’ US President Barack Obama has been confronted with a major question on US relations with the Israeli leadership after a deadly Israeli commando raid on aid ships bound for Gaza has come at a time when Washington has been trying to broker peace with the Palestinians and improve the image of the US in the Arab world.
Israel Is The New North Korea, And The Latest Crisis Could Affect The Korean One
By Joe Weisenthal The conventional wisdom regarding Israel's disastrous seizure of a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza is that regardless of the facts, it's been an epic PR disaster that perfectly plays into the hands of every Israel critic around the world. Anyone defending Israel on the facts (like by arguing that the seizure was not intended to be violent, or that the "peace activists" attack soldiers) is totally missing the point.
What if Iran had carried out the Gaza carnage?
By Kourosh Ziabari The Monday assault of the Israel Defense Forces on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip from Turkey left at least 10 dead and several other wounded. Never mind that Israel's criminal action violated the 4 Geneva 1949 Convention. Just imagine for a single moment that Iran had carried out the carnage instead of Israel. Simply replace the two names and then read the news as reported by CNN: "The Free Gaza Movement, one of the organizers of the aid, said that Israeli commandos dropped from a helicopter onto the deck of one of the ships early Monday and immediately opened fire on unarmed civilians."
What does Israel fear from media coverage?
By Glenn Greenwald A day after Israeli commandoes raided an aid flotilla seeking to breach the blockade of Gaza, Israel held hundreds of activists seized aboard the convoy on Tuesday . . . .Reuters reported that Israel was holding hundreds of activists incommunicado in and around the port city of Ashdod, refusing to permit journalists access to witnesses who might contradict Israel's version of events.
Jim Willie explains how infinite money can take gold down in secret This spigot is precisely what lifts the gold price along the powerful long-term trend. It is the great monetary inflation lever. However, in the last two weeks, the easy credit lines have been taken advantage of to supply funds to central bank agents who have a constant habit of selling huge contracts of gold futures, of course often naked short selling.
The Real Issue: The Embargo Beinart doesn't blame Israeli commandos for what happened yesterday. He instead points his finger at the Israeli embargo of Gaza: Israel does not deserve all the blame for Gaza’s impoverishment. Gaza’s other neighbor, Egypt, imposes an embargo of its own, though less effectively. And Hamas has been known to confiscate goods meant for Gaza’s poor. But none of that excuses Israel’s role in keeping Gaza destitute.
A Bright Idea: Less Litigation And More Interposition!
By Derek Sheriff If more people serving in our state governments familiarized themselves with the The Principles of ‘98 and the classical liberal states’ rights tradition nobody knows, they might be less concerned with provoking federal lawsuits in the hope of obtaining a favorable court ruling.
Forgetting the Troops
By Southern Avenger America's reluctance to examine the plight of POWs in Vietnam reflects its reluctance to examine foreign policy in general.
Israeli’s Nuclear Policy: From South Africa to Iran
By James Petras The policy of nuclear genocide by proxy, proposed by Israel toward Iran, is executed by its bimodal high achieving fifth columnists operating from the top positions in the State Department, National Security Council, Congress and above all in the White House.
The Legal Position on the Israeli Attack But as I told this afternoon's tremendous spontaneous demonstration on Whitehall, fine words are not enough and we must now see the kind of sanctions regime we saw against apartheid South Africa.
The euphemisms of war War is government in its purest, most concentrated form. Government is force, it is raw coercion, it is the threat of, and carrying out of violence on others, to achieve the goals of a class of men and women who think they have some right to rule over their fellow humans.
Israeli Butchery at Sea
By Gilad Atzmon For days the Israeli government prepared the Israeli society for the massacre at sea. It said that the Flotilla carried weapons, it had ‘terrorists’ on board. Only yesterday evening it occurred to me that this Israeli malicious media spin was there to prepare the Israeli public for a full scale Israeli deadly military operation in international waters.
Psychopaths United For Israel
By Keith Johnson 70 million Christian Zionists make up the most coveted voting block in America. All of them pray for the return of their savior so that he may deliver them from this horrible, dangerous place and rapture them up into the safety of his loving embrace. What chance do we have of saving this world, when the largest segment of our society just can’t wait to leave the world behind?
An Israeli War Crimes Tribunal (ICTI) May be the Only Deterrent to a Global War
By Francis A. Boyle The United Nations General Assembly must immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a "subsidiary organ" under U.N. Charter Article 22. The ICTI would be organized along the lines of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the Security Council.
Memorial Day: Remembering The USS Liberty Attack Two recent events demand that we recall that awful day in 1967 when the U.S.S. Liberty, a Navy intelligence ship, was attacked by the Israel Defense Force killing 34 American soldiers and injuring 171 during the Arab-Israel 7 Day War.
The Third Anniversary of a Death in Guantánamo
By Andy Worthington Despite its gravity, this story was almost entirely overlooked in the mainstream US media, and I hope, therefore, that reviving it at this particular time will not only provide some impetus for calls for a thorough investigation, but will also allow questions to be asked about the deaths of Muhammad Salih and Abdul Rahman al-Amri.
Fiat Money And Schemes Collapsing
By Bob Chapman Goldman Sachs will get a hand slap, the Greek Tragedy continues, signs of growth not real, more market manipulation to report on, never incremental news, a broken system of risk-free trade and return.
Free-Market Health Care and the Poor
By Jacob Hornberger One of the disastrous consequences of having adopted the welfare-state way of life is what it has done to the concept of voluntary charity. Let’s look at Medicare and Medicaid, socialist programs that go to the heart of the economic problems facing our nation.
Raid on flotilla puts final nail in coffin of Turkish ties with Israel As details slowly emerge in the wake of Israel’s deadly attack on a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, leaders from Turkey’s ruling and opposition parties raise their voices to condemn the action. It is the latest and worst incident in a long line of troublesome encounters over the last year and a half between the two allies and some say this could be the final act. ‘Our relations will never be the same,’ says a member of the ruling AKP
Attack against Freedom Flotilla is a terrorist act and a crime against humanity Neurosis can make people say stupid things. Given the nonsense coming out from Zionist propaganda both in Palestine and in Europe, the Israeli establishment must be freaking out. It is amazing how a government in possession of nuclear weapons is afraid of eight ships of peace activists loaded with humanitarian aids and hope heading to Gaza, transformed by the Zionists into an open-air concentration camp.
Don’t Let Them Take “Peace” Out of Memorial Day! “Memorial Day should be a day to demand peace, a day to demand an end to a military-industrial complex that claims nearly half of the nation’s general funds, a day to focus on the real threats to American’s “cherished ideals,” most of which are purely domestic, and a day to celebrate what those ideals are: equality before the law, freedom of speech and assembly, freedom from government intrusion in our lives, the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty by a jury of our peers, and the right to stand up and say that our political leaders are, for the most part, crooks, charlatans and even war criminals.”
Israel's Attack on Us All
By Jonathan Cook It is quite astounding that Israel has been able to create over the past 12 hours a news blackout, just as it did with its attack on Gaza 18 months ago, into which our main media organisations have willingly allowed Israeli spokespeople to step in unchallenged.
Nuclear Offer to Apartheid Regime Blows Diplomatic Cover
By Jonathan Cook Israel faces unprecedented pressure to abandon its official policy of “ambiguity” on its possession of nuclear weapons as the international community meets at the United Nations in New York this week to consider banning such arsenals from the Middle East.
PRISON PLANET
Privacy fears 'should not hamper airport security' US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told an aviation conference in Abu Dhabi Tuesday that concerns over privacy should not hamper cooperation on airport security.
Estimated Cost of Afghan, Iraq Wars Tops $1 Trillion The rising cost of the Afghan and Iraq wars is always a serious concern, though it really only gets discussed when a major new spending bill is passed or a new milestone is hit.
Syria, Lebanon say flotilla attack can lead to war Syrian President Bashar al—Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Monday that Israel’s attack on a flotilla of aid bound for Gaza threatens to ignite a war in the region.
Beijing suspects false flag attack on South Korean corvette WMR’s intelligence sources in Asia suspect that the March attack on the South Korean Navy anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette, the Cheonan, was a false flag attack designed to appear as coming from North Korea.
Analysts question Korea torpedo incident How is it that a submarine of a fifth-rate power was able to penetrate a U.S.-South Korean naval exercise and sink a ship that was designed for anti-submarine warfare?
Energy expert: Nuking oil leak ‘only thing we can do’ As the latest effort to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico meets with failure, the idea of nuking the immediate area to seal the oil underground is gaining steam among some energy experts and researchers.
The WTC Leaseholder and His Associates That Cheated Death on 9/11: Was it Coincidence or Foreknowledge? New York real estate developer Larry Silverstein and several key individuals associated with his firm, Silverstein Properties, appear to have had remarkable luck on September 11, 2001, when changes in their schedule or coincidental circumstances saved them from being high up in the World Trade Center when it was attacked.
The "International Community" Pushes for "Global Coordination" Never letting a good crisis go to waste, the sovereignty-hating globalists continue to argue that national governments should have less say in implementing domestic financial regulation and fiscal policy.
Bilderberg 2010 Agenda Leaked Veteran Bilderberg researcher and bestselling author Daniel Estulin has once again acquired a copy of the agenda for the annual meeting of the world's power elite.
The sinking of the Cheonan: Another Gulf of Tonkin incident While the South Korean government announced on May 20 that it has overwhelming evidence that one of its warships was sunk by a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine, there is, in fact, no direct link between North Korea and the sunken ship. And it seems very unlikely that North Korea had anything to do with it. That’s not my conclusion. It’s the conclusion of Won See-hoon, director of South Korea’s National Intelligence.
Bill Gates funds covert vaccine nanotechnology The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world.
US troops won’t be used to stop illegal immigration: US US National Guard troops being sent to the Mexican border will be used to stem the flow of guns and drugs across the frontier and not to enforce US immigration laws, the State Department said Wednesday.
The Big Lie Selling You War With North Korea Anyone with half a brain realizes that the US Government, unable to gain support for an invasion of Iran, has changed gears and decided that North Korea will be the next step towards World War III.
US money supply plunges at 1930s pace as Obama eyes fresh stimulus The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history.
Paper: Financial Crisis Worse Than 2008 Mervyn King, the Bank of England Governor, summed it up best: “Dealing with a banking crisis was difficult enough,” he said the other week, “but at least there were public-sector balance sheets on to which the problems could be moved. Once you move into sovereign debt, there is no answer; there’s no backstop.”
Tax dollars perpetuate global-warming fiction With public faith in the global-warming myth on the wane, leftist zealots are desperate to spin a new tale – and they’re spending your tax money to do it.
Threatening Mexico Tourist Ad Invokes Hunting Arizonans An Arizona sheriff is calling on Mexican officials to apologize for a “threatening” advertisement that depicts a camouflage-clad man looking through binoculars with the words: “In Sonora we are looking for people from Arizona.”
US plans naval exercises with South Korea: Pentagon The US military on Monday said it will carry out anti-submarine and other naval exercises with South Korea in the “near future” after a North Korean sub sank a South Korean warship.
Covert U.S. operations authorized in secret order A senior U.S. military commander issued a secret order last year that laid the ground for an escalation of covert operations across the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, officials said on Monday.
U.S. military told to get ready in Korea standoff The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama “fully supports” the South Korean president and his response to the torpedo attack by North Korea that sank a South Korean naval ship.
US State Department Says “Conspiracy Theories Exist In The Realm Of Myth” The US State Department’s America.gov web site, which purports to engage international audiences on issues of foreign policy, society and values, has dedicated a special section to conspiracy theories and misinformation.
Secret Parliamentary Lobbying Video: “Give Our One World A Chance” This leaked parliamentary lobbying video for private corporation Blackwell and Briggs essentially urges the government to concentrate advanced technology that can be used for surveillance into corporate hands, enabling the elimination of what it describes as “subversive” groups that pose a threat to the “one world” order.
Shadowy Schemers Converge on Spain As the super-secret Trilateral Commission (TC) was meeting behind locked and guarded doors at the luxurious Four Seasons resort hotel in Dublin, Ireland May 8, participants were upset to learn that awareness of their evildoings was surging in the United States.
CAFR: U.S. agencies have billions, trillions in investments while crying budget deficits What CAFRs reveal is a communist-style policy whereby the US taxpayers surrender enormous assets to the state, who then “invest” these collective trillions that swell in these accounts. Concurrently, taxpayers are informed of budget deficits to either squeeze more taxes from them and/or cut public services. To add insult to injury, the state lies in omission by never reminding Americans of their hard-earned and withheld trillions as they eliminate jobs, reduce education, and attack the quality of our lives.
Obama Pledges New “International Order” At West Point President Obama on Saturday pledged to shape a new “international order” as part of a national security strategy that emphasizes his belief in global institutions and America’s role in promoting democratic values around the world.
Senate Passes Faux Financial “Reform” Bill The Senate passed a financial “reform” bill which won’t fix any of the core problems in the financial system, and won’t prevent the next financial crisis.
House votes to expand national DNA arrest database "It's wrong to treat someone as guilty before they're convicted," says Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute. "It inverts the concept of innocent until proven guilty."
Mexican President Knocks Arizona Law From White House Lawn (Video) Mexican President Felipe Calderon took the unusual step Wednesday morning of criticizing an American law while visiting the White House, saying cooperation is needed to fix the US-Mexican immigration issue but "such laws as the Arizona law that is forcing our people to face discrimination. If we are divided, we cannot overcome these problems."
Leaked Doc Proves Spain’s ‘Green’ Policies — the Basis for Obama’s — an Economic Disaster Pajamas Media has received a leaked internal assessment produced by Spain’s Zapatero administration. The assessment confirms the key charges previously made by non-governmental Spanish experts in a damning report exposing the catastrophic economic failure of Spain’s “green economy” initiatives.
‘Naked’ scanners may increase cancer risk US scientists are warning that radiation from controversial full-body airport scanners has been dangerously underestimated and could lead to an increased risk of skin cancer – particularly in children.
Blanchflower Says Another EU Aid Package ‘Inevitable’ Former Bank of England policy maker David G. Blanchflower said another euro-region rescue package “inevitably is going to come” and the euro’s “unstoppable” decline may lead to parity with the U.S. dollar.
Gates Foundation Suggests Sterilizing Males with Ultrasound Among the 78 research projects to receive $100,000 grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation earlier this week as part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative, is an effort by researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to develop a non-invasive, reversible form of birth control for men — using ultrasound.
Shining a Light on the Shadow Bank Lobby These days, a “shadow bank lobby,” has played a prominent role in shaping the financial reform process, pushing amendments that will weaken consumer protections, water down regulation of the Wall Street casino, and increase the likelihood of continuing fraud and future bailouts.
