Technologies of Control and Liberation Patri has often made the point that new technologies have a greater impact on society than attempts to reform rules. This is what seasteading is all about: the development of a new technology to unleash the power of decentralized innovation in the market for governance.
Martin Feldstein: Bilderberg’s promoter of equity spending on adjustable-rate mortgages and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis In late 2007, as the housing crisis was in full swing, was Martin Feldstein gearing up to suggest further reductions in interest rates to promote consumption? Would he be looking to suggest homeowners with some equity left in their homes to be stimulated to take the interest savings and spend away the last of their wealth? Well, that appears to be the case.
Rockefeller Study Envisages Future Dictatorship Controlled By Elite Global pandemics that kill millions, mandatory quarantines, checkpoints, biometric ID cards, and a world of top-down government control. These things are not lifted from the latest sci-fi blockbuster movie, they're part of the Rockefeller Foundation's vision for what the globe might be like in 15-20 years' time under a new world order tightly controlled by the elite.
WORLD NEWS
Drug violence kills 19 in Mexico The latest spate of drug-related violence in Mexico left 19 people dead, including five factory workers near the US border and four police officers in Acapulco, officials said.
Cautious optimism after capping Gulf of Mexico spill Amid cautious optimism after capping a months-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP extended tests to check for potential leaks in the seabed, officials said.
CIA says it moved Iranian scientist, 2nd informant to U.S. over safety concerns The Iranian scientist who returned to his homeland this week was one of two CIA informants whisked out of Iran last year by the agency amid concerns that the Tehran government had discovered they were providing secrets to the United States, current and former U.S. officials said.
Tony Blair met Colonel Gaddafi in Libya last month Tony Blair visited Libya last month and met Colonel Muammar Gaddafi just days after denying he was an adviser to the country, it was disclosed last night.
Inside Mexico's Drug War, Americans Allege Abuse Two Americans were driving back to El Paso, Texas, last December after an afternoon across the border in Ciudad Juárez. A few blocks from the border, they were surrounded by Mexican army trucks and pulled from their Dodge Ram.
Nation’s Spies, Contractors Brace For Post Expose
That acrid scent in your nostrils? It’s the intelligence community’s hair on fire. No, not from an imminent terrorist attack, but from an imminent series on the community’s expansive use of contractors since 9/11, courtesy of the Washington Post and PBS’ Frontline.
Security summit to focus on Kyrgyzstan Dozens of top officials from Western and former Soviet countries will meet Saturday to redress international inaction over the teetering Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, which has been rocked by months of instability and violence.
Erlinder: Defense lawyers now risk assassination in East Africa Jwani Mwaikusa, law professor at the University of Dar es Salaam and defense lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda, was gunned down outside his home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on July 13.
Firefighters Flooded Rig, Caused Oil Spill, Suit Says The worst oil spill in U.S. history was triggered by firefighting boats that flooded the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig with water, causing it to sink into the Gulf of Mexico and damage BP Plc’s well, a lawsuit claims.
Palestinians Suffer as Courts' Authority Hits All-time Low The Israeli government is facing legal action for contempt over its refusal to implement a Supreme Court ruling that it end a policy of awarding preferential budgets to Jewish communities, including settlements, rather than much poorer Palestinian Arab towns and villages inside Israel.
Clues Suggest Amiri Defection Was an Iranian Plant U.S. officials are explaining Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri's return to Iran as the result of a defector having a change of heart because of his concern about Iranian government threats to his family. Iran and Amiri himself have insisted that it is a simple case of a victim of abduction escaping his captors.
Iran scientist: CIA offered me $50m to lie about nuclear secrets An Iranian scientist who says he was abducted and taken to the United States by the CIA returned to Tehran yesterday to a hero's welcome and claimed that he had been pressured into lying about his country's nuclear programme.
NATO not winning Afghan hearts and minds - poll NATO is failing to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan, according to a poll released on Friday showing most people in Taliban heartlands view foreign troops negatively and believe the Taliban should join the government.
An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table In late 2006, George W. Bush met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon and asked if military action against Iran's nuclear program was feasible. The unanimous answer was no. Air strikes could take out some of Iran's nuclear facilities, but there was no way to eliminate all of them.
BP ’stops oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico’ BP has succeeded in stopping its Gulf of Mexico leak for the first time since an accident on April 20 killed 11 men and triggered a giant oil spill, boosting the shares.
Afghanistan War: U.S. Wounded Toll in 2010 Nearly Matches All of 2009 Already on track to be the deadliest year ever for American and NATO forces in Afghanistan since the Taliban was overthrown in late 2001, 2010 also will be the worst year ever for numbers of Americans wounded in the war.
Initial Results from Well Integrity Test Are Inconclusive As Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen has explained, sustained pressure readings above 8,000 pounds per square inch (psi) would show that the wellbore is more or less intact, while pressures of 6,000 psi or less would mean there could be major problems.
US-Backed Jundallah Bombs Iran Mosque A Sunni insurgent group said it carried out a double suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran to avenge the execution of its leader, as Iranian authorities Friday said the death toll rose to 27 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guard.
U.S. NEWS
Schwarzenegger mobilizes National Guard to border Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday mobilized members of the California National Guard as part of a federal effort to deter drug trafficking and illegal immigration along the border with Mexico.
Hidden Cameras Show Illegal-Immigrants Streaming Across AZ Border The hidden camera footage, acquired from a variety of sources, indicates that there is an unfortunate lack of federal law enforcement presence on Arizona's federal land on the border in Nogales, in the Coronado National Forest (15 miles inside the border), and the Casa Grande Sector (80 miles inside the border).
Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”
FEC orders Biden's 2008 presidential campaign to pay $219,000 Federal election officials have ordered Vice President Biden's former presidential campaign to pay the government $219,000 to make up for excessive contributions and recordkeeping errors while he was seeking the 2008 Democratic nomination.
On State Pay Cuts, Judge Rebuffs California Governor A California judge on Friday declined a request by the Schwarzenegger administration to compel the state controller to reduce the pay of 200,000 state workers to the minimum wage while lawmakers muddled though a budget impasse.
Army reports record number of suicides for June Soldiers killed themselves at the rate of one per day in June making it the worst month on record for Army suicides, the service said Thursday.
A 2nd Christmas Attack, In NYC? The failed bombing attempt over Detroit on Christmas Day may not have been the only attack that extremists planned for the 2009 holiday, with intelligence from overseas three weeks earlier indicating that a plot targeting New York City on the same day may have been in the works, according to an FBI report obtained by Fox News.
U.S. SENATE RACE: Reid takes lead on Angle U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has opened a strong lead over Republican opponent Sharron Angle after pummeling her in a ubiquitous TV and radio ad campaign that portrays the Tea Party favorite as "too extreme," according to a new poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Underground tunnel complexes FOUND ON MOON Space boffins believe they may be on the verge of discovering a vast, hidden network of tunnels beneath the surface of the Moon.
Insurance companies hire weather modification company to minimize damage
The Monday storm that pounded Calgary with hail the size of golf balls would have been even more severe if cloud seeding planes hadn't been in the sky earlier in the day, says an official with the company that flies the aircraft.
China's wars, rebellions driven by climate: study Two millennia of foreign invasions and internal wars in China were driven more by cooling climate than by feudalism, class struggle or bad government, a bold study released Wednesday argued.
Big Pharma nanotechnology encodes pills with tracking data that you swallow The emerging field of nanotechnology is currently gaining a lot of attention across many industries. Nanotechnology allows scientists to manipulate individual atoms and molecules to create unique materials and even micro-scale devices, and this is leading to a wide range of applications in clothing, textiles, electronics and even food and medicine.
Rats fed junk food pass down cancer risk through multiple generations of offspring A recent study out of Georgetown University Medical Center has concluded that what you eat can affect your children's and grandchildren's health, even if they eat healthy themselves. Sonia de Assis and her colleagues observed that rats fed fatty, unhealthy food pass on an increased cancer risk to their children and grandchildren.
MONEY & MARKETS
Rust Discovered On Bank Of Russia Issued 999 Gold Coins Here's a head scratcher: as everyone knows from elementary chemistry courses, gold is the most inert metal in the world - it does not rust, nor corrode. Yet this is precisely what Russian commercial precious metal trading company, International Reserve Payment System, discovered on thousands of (allegedly) 999 gold coins.
Fed's volte face sends the dollar tumbling Rarely before have a few coded words in the minutes of the US Federal Reserve caused such an upheaval in the global currency system, or such a sudden flight from the dollar.
Growing outrage over Goldman Sachs’ settlement Goldman Sachs’ settlement is the largest fine ever paid by a Wall St. firm, but the $550 million seems insignificant for a company that made more than $13 billion last year. Former managing director of Goldman Sachs Nomi Prins joins The Dylan Ratigan Show to discuss.
Fed Gets More Power, Responsibility After fending off most challenges to its independence and winning new powers to oversee big financial firms, the Federal Reserve has emerged from a bruising debate on the overhaul of U.S. financial rules as perhaps the pre-eminent regulator in the sector. But that could only bring it added blame if things go wrong again.
Video: Timing of Goldman Sachs’ settlement seems suspect Was Goldman Sachs’ settlement deal a political ploy designed to move the Wall St. bill forward? Cenk Uygur, host of “The Young Turks,” and Michael Waldman, former Clinton speechwriter, joins The Dylan Ratigan Show.
Citigroup says it classified certain repos as sales Citigroup Inc (C.N) said in a letter to the U.S. securities regulator it had unintentionally classified as much as $9.2 billion of repurchase agreements as sales at one point, when they should have been shown as borrowings.
How Large is the Outstanding Value of Sovereign Bonds? Debt issued by governments worldwide is immense. According to the Bank for International Settlements, at year end 2009 worldwide sovereign debt exceeded $34 trillion, and is greater than the amount of corporate bonds outstanding.
BIS footnote unlocks major development in gold use A small footnote in the Bank of International Settlements' latest annual statement has flagged up a potentially major development in the way the metal can be used as an active financial instrument.
The scariest jobs graph you've seen yet That's job growth per month on the X axis, and how many months that level of job growth would take to get us back to pre-recession levels on the Y axis.
24 multinationals move HQ to Shanghai 24 multinational companies, have decided to move their regional headquarters to Shanghai, including 6 Fortune 500 companies such as Vale, Walt Disney and Kraft Foods.
3 Reasons The New Financial Regs Won't Fix Anything The financial reform bill currently working its way toward President Barack Obama's desk for signing is being touted as the biggest overhaul of the banking and investment sectors since the Great Depression.
Fears & Facts: Polish plane probe stirs up debate It's more than three months since the deadly plane crash in the Smolensk region killed Polish president Lech Kaczynski and many of the country's top officials. The Russian investigation has been completed - but rumours and conspiracy theories remain. That's despite the fact Polish authorities declared themselves satisfied with the findings.
Joan Veon: When Central Banks Rule the World Established in 1944 and named after the New Hampshire town where the agreements were made, Bretton Woods I created a system that made the dollar the reserve currency of the world. In addition, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank were established.
‘Everything is on the table. Everything’
By Vin Suprynowicz This is the America-hating, free-market-despising, wealth-destroying agenda that’s driving us to bankruptcy. Yet today’s Democrats call their freedom-loving opponents “extreme”?
Iraqi leaders and the selfish gene
By Sami Moubayed The Shi'ite politicians who formed the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) to fight parliamentary elections had one objective in mind: keeping secular ex-prime minister Iyad Allawi's hands off the premiership. That is becoming increasingly clear from their words and actions, which belie any thought that they had even the slightest intention of working together as a community or political bloc, with each politician seeing himself more worthy of the premiership than any other.
North Korea's desperate measures
By Donald Kirk Behind brave blasts of bombast and bluster, North Korea has one urgent reason for wanting to renew six-party talks on its nuclear program and separate meetings with an American general at the truce village of Panmunjom. The overwhelming problem for the North is the nation is now on the verge of its worst famine since the mid-1990s when approximately two million people are believed to have died of starvation and disease. "Food shortages and a more general economic crisis have persisted to this day," according to a report released this week by Amnesty International. The North's "delayed and inadequate response to the food crisis has significantly affected people's health".
Assembly-Line Medicine
By Chuck Baldwin It is no hyperbole to say that the consequences of the recently passed “Obamacare” bills by the Congress will be horrific.
Obama Frees CIA from Its Watchdog
By Melvin A. Goodman President Barack Obama has treaded softly in regards to the national security community, failing to demand any meaningful accountability for the abuses of the Bush-43 administration. But former CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman believes Obama's most inexplicable failure may be in not appointing a new inspector general for the CIA.
U.S. Risks Military Clash With China In Yellow Sea
By Rick Rozoff Delayed until after the United States achieved a United Nations Security Council statement on July 9 condemning the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, Washington’s plans for naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea near Chinese territorial waters are forging ahead.
Big Government is Wobbly
By Scott Martin Big Government. Collectivism. Central authority. Corporatism, fascism, socialism, etc. Call it what you want, but it’s an overbearing master, operating in the name of we-know-best-and-we’ll-take-care-of-you type of government
American War Versus Real War
By Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt One striking aspect of the Vietnam years -- and the antiwar movement of that era -- was the degree to which you could see images of Vietnamese civilian suffering here in the United States.
Hardly A Conservative Model
By Daniel Larison The Republican Party was a captive of Gerson’s wing for almost all of the Bush administration’s tenure, and it continues to be defined by the extremism that prevailed during that time.
Israel Chokes Gaza Despite Announced Easing
By Mel Frykberg
Israel has received international praise for its decision to ease its crippling blockade on Gaza following the country's deadly assault on a humanitarian flotilla trying to bring desperately needed humanitarian aid to the coastal territory. But according to the UN and human rights organisations, the easing of the blockade is insufficient in meeting Gaza's needs.
WikiLeaks founder: Site getting tons of 'high caliber' disclosures WikiLeaks.org, the website that released secret video of a U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed a dozen civilians, is "getting an enormous quantity of whistle-blower disclosures of high caliber," the site's founder, Julian Assange, said Friday in a rare public appearance here.
U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result.
NYC Man Fined $2,000 For Taking Discarded Garbage It's something nearly everyone's been tempted to do at least once. You see someone else's throwaways on street and think -- that would look nice in my place.
Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records--that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year--must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.
Rangel calls for the reinstatement of the draft A New York Congressman is calling for the reinstatement of the draft. Democrat Charles Rangel wants to highlight the fact that relatively few families are bearing a disproportionate burden in fighting our country's wars.
Senators Knew Gulf of Tonkin Attack Was a False Flag What do the Viet Nam War and the Iraq War have in common? The U.S. was dragged into both conflicts on the basis of lies, and thousands of Americans died as a result. Here, the Newspaper of Record comes out and admits that the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which persuaded Congress to commit the U.S. to the Viet Nam War, “never happened.”
Under Threat: A Free and Open Internet First some background. As a candidate, Obama pledged support for "network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet." As president, he reneged across the board, including for Internet freedom and openness,
Oxford Research Group Concludes Israeli Attack On Iran Would Start Long War According to the report, it might take three to seven years for Iran to develop a small arsenal of nuclear weapons if it decided to do so. Also, the report wisely states that an Israeli strike would be focused not only on destroying nuclear and missile targets but would also hit factories and research centers and even university laboratories to damage Iranian expertise. Shockingly, this would cause many civilian casualties. Oxford believes Iran's retaliation would include withdrawing from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the production of nuclear weapons to deter further attacks.
U.S. paid Iranian nuclear scientist $5 million for aid to CIA, officials say The Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed to have been abducted by the CIA before departing for his homeland Wednesday was paid more than $5 million by the agency to provide intelligence on Iran's nuclear program, U.S. officials said.
U.S. banks laundering Mexican cartels' drug money A report in the August 2010 issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine sheds light on the role that U.S. banks have played in helping to finance the violent drug trade that has plagued the U.S. - Mexico border for years, resulting in over 22,000 dead on both sides of the border since 2006.
Why BP is readying a 'super weapon' to avert escalating Gulf nightmare In a desperate attempt to stop a huge area of the Gulf ocean floor from possibly rupturing due to subterranean methane gas (leading to a calamity no human has ever seen) BP has ripped a page from science fiction books.
NASA Flight Director Confirms 9/11 Aircraft Speed As The "Elephant In The Room" The airplane was UA175, a Boeing 767-200, shortly before crashing into World Trade Center Tower 2. Based on analysis of radar data, the National Transportation and Safety Board reported the groundspeed just before impact as 510 knots. This is well beyond the maximum operating velocity of 360 knots, and maximum dive velocity of 410 knots.
Psychopaths in the Gulf It’s the elites that we have to be most careful about for they have sociopathic goals and have no compunction against using psychopathic means.
Conficker, Cyber Emergency, and the Internet Kill Switch Conficker is a computer worm which has been infecting PC's on the Internet since November 2008. Worryingly, nothing is publicly known of its mission, because it has yet to do anything of great note.
WMD claims were lies says former envoy Britain and the US did not believe Iraq's weapons programmes posed a "substantial threat" before launching the 2003 invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein, the inquiry into the war has heard.
More and more Americans preparing for social unrest From the outside, Jerry Erwin's home in the northwestern US state of Oregon is a nondescript house with a manicured front lawn and little to differentiate it from those of his neighbors.
New BP Data Show 20% of Gulf Spill Responders Exposed to Chemical That Sickened Valdez Workers In an under-the-radar release of new test results for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill workers, BP PLC is reporting potentially hazardous exposures to a now-discontinued dispersant chemical -- a substance blamed for contributing to chronic health problems after the Exxon Valdez cleanup -- among more than 20 percent of offshore responders.
NSA setting up secret 'Perfect Citizen' spy system The U.S. government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants.
Google’s Street View ’snoops’ on Congress members Google's popular Street View project may have collected personal information of members of Congress, including some involved in national security issues.
Internal Raytheon email calls system ‘Big Brother’ The National Security Agency has begun work on an "expansive" spy system that will monitor critical infrastructure inside the United States for cyber-attacks, in a move that detractors say could end up violating privacy rights and expanding the NSA's domestic spying abilities.
What Mainstream Media is Not Telling You about the Gulf Oil Cleanup What surface oil dispersant for oil spills is so toxic and ineffective it has been banned in England for a decade? The one that British Petroleum (BP) is using now in the Gulf of Mexico. It's loaded with 2-butoxyethanol, which kills marine and wetland wild life while causing serious lung problems to humans!
Rupert Murdoch’s London Times Published Forged Iran Nuke Document, U.S. Intelligence Concludes U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.
