Italy’s PM Berlusconi: G-8 ‘believe absolutely’ that Israel will attack Iran

Any attack on Iran will (most probably) start WW III.Members of the G-8 meeting in Huntsville, Ontario on June 25, 2010World leaders “believe absolutely” that Israel may decide to take military action against Iran to prevent the latter from acquiring nuclear weapons, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Saturday.“Iran is not guaranteeing a peaceful production [...] continue reading the breaking news

CIA director: US has not had good intelligence on Osama bin Laden since ‘the early 2000s’

The CIA had no (reliable) intel on Bin Laden since ‘the early 2000s’, .….….. BUT: “He’s in an area of the tribal areas of Pakistan.’ More complete BS we can take a bath in.The United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, in years, Leon Panetta, [...] continue reading the breaking news

Obama Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Approved By Senate Committee

WASHINGTON (CBS4) ? The White House is one step closer to having the authority to flip the Internet “kill switch” in case of emergency.The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved a cybersecurity bill called PCNAA, or Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act on Friday. The bill would give the president the [...] continue reading the breaking news

Venezuela To Nationalize US Firm’s Oil Rigs

* Rigs were idled for months in PDVSA payments dispute * Minister said idled rigs opposition ploy against Chavez* Socialist government has nationalized many industries* Giants Halliburton and Schlumberger also in VenezuelaCARACAS, June 23 (Reuters) - Venezuela will nationalize a fleet of oil rigs belonging to U.S. company Helmerich and Payne, the latest takeover in [...] continue reading the breaking news

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Slams President Obama: Warning Signs Are Not Enough

Added: 25. June 2010 Earlier this month, Governor Jan Brewer sat in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama to discuss the critical issue of border security. The Governor personally related to the President the concerns of millions of Arizonans over the lack of security on Arizona’s southern border. During their visit, President Obama committed [...] continue reading the breaking news

Greece Puts Its Islands Up For Sale In Order To Survive

Desperate attempt to repay debts also driven by inability to find funds to develop infrastructure on islands Greece is raising cash by selling off an area of state-owned land on Mykonos for luxury tourism. There’s little that shouts “seriously rich” as much as a little island in the sun to call your own. For Sir [...] continue reading the breaking news

US Predator Drones to Surveil Mexican Border

See also: Big Brother DHS And DOD Want To Open US Skies To Spy DronesA Predator drone takes off on a U.S. Customs Border Patrol mission from Fort Huachuca, Ariz.WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department will use unmanned surveillance aircraft and other technological upgrades in its ongoing effort to protect the southern border of the [...] continue reading the breaking news

Germany Takes Stand against Patents on Plants and Animals: ‘Limits We Should Not Cross’

The problem started with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980). Suddenly it was OK to patent life forms, were before life forms were considered a part of nature and were not patentable.This ruling lead to corporations patenting the genes of everything they can think of that could later [...] continue reading the breaking news

General Stanley McChrystal Recalled To Washington Over Rolling Stone Article

US commander in Afghanistan apologises for magazine article in which he criticises Barack Obama and ambassador to KabulPresident Barack Obama meets General Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, late last year. (AP)General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander of all Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, has been recalled to Washington after he criticised Barack Obama’s administration [...] continue reading the breaking news

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange emerges from hiding, next big leak to be of the ‘calibre’ of publishing information about the way the top secret Echelon system had been used

See also: Iceland Rewrites Law to Create Haven For Investigative ReportingWikiLeaks founder drops ‘mass spying’ hintWikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange. (Colbert Report)WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has given his strongest indication yet about the next big leak from his whistleblower organisation.There has been rampant speculation about WikiLeaks’ next revelation following its recent release of a top secret [...] continue reading the breaking news

Gold Reclaims Currency Status As Global System Unravels

Gold is the money of the elite and the rest is worthless paper backed by nothing.We already know that the eurozone money markets seized up violently in early May as incipient bank runs spread from Greece to Portugal and Spain, threatening the first big sovereign default of our era. [...] continue reading the breaking news

China pledges to ‘increase the renminbi’s exchange-rate flexibility’

- Mike Krieger: This Is The Last Dance:They refuse to allow the yuan to strengthen because they know that once they do that it will mark the real end of the dollar era. So instead they are spending like crazy on infrastructure ahead of them allowing the dollar to plunge.  Then the strong yuan will [...] continue reading the breaking news

Spain: The New Crisis In Euroland

European leaders meet in Brussels today amid growing fears that Spain, Europe’s fifth-largest economy, is preparing to ask for a bailout which would dwarf the €110bn (£90bn) rescue plan for Greece.The Spanish government yesterday dismissed reports that it was already in discussions with the European Commission, International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury for a [...] continue reading the breaking news

Iceland Rewrites Law to Create Haven For Investigative Reporting

The new law was created with the involvement of the whistleblowing website WikileaksIceland has passed a sweeping reform of its media laws that supporters say will make the country an international haven for investigative journalism.The new package of legislation was passed unanimously at 4am yesterday in one of the final sessions of the Icelandic parliament, [...] continue reading the breaking news

US Senate Bill Proposes Internet ‘Kill Switch’ For The President

A new US Senate Bill would grant the President far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of, or even shut down, portions of the internet.The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects “shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed” by the Department [...] continue reading the breaking news

CNBC’s Cramer Calls Market ‘Stupid, Rapacious, Arbitrary, Capricious And Downright Ridiculous’, Tells Viewers To Stay Out

After catching a few soundbites of Cramer’s spiel today, we were stunned: for once theStreeter did not lose his marbles over an engineered, 20 handle, 200DMA breakout rally.Quite the opposite. In what is likely a first, the Mad Money host actually told his viewers it is time to get out of the market: “I am [...] continue reading the breaking news

Hours After Debt Downgrade Greece Gets Vote of Confidence From China

Chinese sign multibillion euro contracts with Greece Greece’s prime minister George Papandreou welcomes Chinese vice-premier Zhang Dejiang who brought good news to the debt-ridden country. Greece’s debt-ridden economy has received unexpected endorsement from China as the two countries announced multibillion euro accords to boost cooperation in fields as diverse as shipping, tourism and telecommunications.The [...] continue reading the breaking news

Maniac Nutcase Congressman Bob Etheridge Assaults Student In DC (Video)

Land of the free!Added: 14. June 2010Congressman Bob Etheridge voted to RAISE your healthcare costs by voting for ObamaCare and he voted for Cap and Trade. continue reading the breaking news

Don’t Use Violence, we are civilians!!! Smuggled Gaza Footage Israel doesn’t want you to see

More Disturbing Images of Israeli BarbarismAdded: 10. Juni 2010Source: Gilad AtzmonMore:- Israel rejects international probe, says it would be biased against the Jewish state; Egypt calls Gaza blockade a failure, border stays open (AP)- Iran Offers Military Protection To Gaza Aid Ships (RT)- Former US Marine Disarms Israeli Commandos, Describes Mass Murder By Israeli Soldiers [...] continue reading the breaking news

Bilderberg 2010: The Power Gallery

- Bilderberg 2010: Final (Official) List of Participants:Henry Kissinger, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin and Paul Volcker at Bilderberg 2010.Change we can believe in! (Kissinger: Obama Will Create A New World Order)Henry Kissinger, diplomat, strategist, Nobel laureate, wanted for questioning in Spain over war crimesQueen Beatrix of the Netherlands, major stakeholder in Royal Dutch ShellViscount Etienne [...] continue reading the breaking news

23 Killed, 340 Injured in Kyrgyz Riots; Interim Government Declares State of Emergency, Imposes Curfew

More than 23 people have died and 340 been injured in ethnic fighting which broke out last night in the city of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan.Kyrgyz soldiers stand on an armoured vehicle in the streets of Osh Photo: AFPSeveral buildings across Osh, the country’s second-largest city, were ablaze Friday morning, after [...] continue reading the breaking news

The Spill, The Scandal and the President: The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world’s most dangerous oil company get away with murder

“BP Atlantis”! President Obama in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, May 28, 2010.This article originally appeared in RS 1107 from June 24, 2010. (Rolling Stone Magazine) — On May 27th, more than a month into the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, Barack Obama strode to the podium in the East Room of the White House. For [...] continue reading the breaking news

US government debt to rise to $19.6 trillion by 2015

Totally unsustainable. Prepare for collapse.- US: $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP (Chart of Day)Doomed!WASHINGTON June 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a Treasury Department report to Congress.The report that was sent to lawmakers Friday night with [...] continue reading the breaking news

Left-Wing Icon Daniel Ellsberg: ‘Obama Deceives the Public’

Just another elite puppet President.Obama’s ‘actions are totally uncoupled from his public statements. I don’t even listen anymore. He has turned 180 degrees.’… and today he is critical of the new man in the White House. “I think Obama is continuing the worst of the Bush administration in terms of civil liberties, violations of the [...] continue reading the breaking news

Israel rejects international probe, says it would be biased against the Jewish state; Egypt calls Gaza blockade a failure, border stays open

Israel has rejected calls for an international probe, saying it would be biased against the Jewish state.This crime happened in international waters and therefor there should be an international probe.An international probe would be biased against the Jewish state?Sounds like we are all getting the anti-semite label now.Just who do those Israeli fascists think they [...] continue reading the breaking news

NATO Warns of Military Strike Against Cyber Attackers

And such an attack can be much more easily staged than a real terrorist attack.Listen also to the buzzwords.NATO is considering the use of military force against enemies who launch cyber attacks on its member states.The move follows a series of Russian-linked hacking against NATO members and warnings from intelligence services of the growing threat [...] continue reading the breaking news

Even Bild Zeitung, Germany’s biggest newspaper, covers Bilderberg 2010

See also: Bilderberg 2010: Final (Official) List of ParticipantsThe following article is in German (You can use ‘Google Translate’ for it.).Finally Bilderberg meetings get some media coverage.Sie treffen sich jedes Jahr. Ihr Thema: Die weltweite Wirtschaftslage, der Finanzmarkt – und die Eurokrise. Alles weitere: top secret!Der Geheim-Gipfel mit hochrangigen Persönlichkeiten, unter anderem aus Politik und [...] continue reading the breaking news

Bilderberg 2010: Final (Official) List of Participants

Bilderberg MeetingsSitges, Spain 3-6 June 2010Final List of ParticipantsHonorary Chairman BEL Davignon, Etienne Vice Chairman, Suez-TractebelDEU Ackermann, Josef Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AGGBR Agius, Marcus Chairman, Barclays Bank PLCESP Alierta, César Chairman and CEO, TelefónicaINT Almunia, Joaquín Commissioner, European CommissionUSA Altman, Roger C. Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.USA [...] continue reading the breaking news

Autopsy Results Reveal That Gaza Flotilla Activists Were Shot In Head At Close Range

Exclusive: Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results revealCrowds at the funeral of one of the Turkish victims of the Gaza flotilla raid, at the Beyazit mosque in Istanbul. (AP) Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza [...] continue reading the breaking news

European Debt Crisis Worsens: Now Hungary Warns of Greek-Style Crisis

- Hungary Warns of Greek-Style Crisis (New York Times):PRAGUE — Fears that the debt crisis could migrate to central Europe were stirred Friday after a senior Hungarian government official said the previous government had manipulated budget figures and lied about the state of the economy, but most financial experts dismissed the remarks as a [...] continue reading the breaking news

Spanish PM to Open Secretive Bilderberg Club Meeting in Sitges

- Bilderberg 2010: The Shadowy Global Elite Is Meeting In Sitges (Guardian)- Times Archive, 1977: An exclusive club: On Thursday, 120 people will gather in Torquay. Henry Kissinger will be there, so will Helmut Schmidt, Baron Rothschild and Mrs ThatcherSpanish prime mininster Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is expected to open this year’s meeting of the [...] continue reading the breaking news

Worldwide annual military budget rose 5.9%, arms spending unaffected by financial crisis

Why? Because ‘they’ are spending your money, not theirs!!!Worldwide annual military budget rose 5.9% in real terms according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute The US’s decision to increase its F35 Joint Strike Fighters programme is in keeping with a wider global pattern that bucks the trend towards austerity. (AP)Governments around the world might be [...] continue reading the breaking news

Wall Street’s War

Congress looked serious about finance reform – until America’s biggest banks unleashed an army of 2,000 paid lobbyistsThis article originally appeared in RS 1106 from June 10, 2010.(Rolling Stone Magazine) — It’s early May in Washington, and something very weird is in the air. As Chris Dodd, Harry Reid and the rest of the compulsive [...] continue reading the breaking news

Former Bundesbank Head Karl Otto Pöhl: Bailout Plan Is All About ‘Rescuing Banks and Rich Greeks’

Unconstitutional:- France’s Europe Minister Pierre Lellouche: Eurozone Bailout Violates EU Laws“Against all its vows, and against an explicit ban within its own constitution, the European Central Bank (ECB) has become involved in financing states.”Karl Otto Pöhl was head of the German central bank, the Bundesbank, from 1980 to 1991.Bailout Plan Is All About ‘Rescuing Banks [...] continue reading the breaking news