Another New Study Challenges Climate Change ‘Orthodoxy’
Patrick Goodenough | CNSNews.com Virtually all changes in global atmospheric temperatures in the late 20th century were the result of nature rather than human activity, according to a new peer-reviewed study, one of whose authors predicted Friday was “sure to cause a stir.” “It goes against the orthodoxy,” said climate scientist Chris de Freitas of [...]
Bernanke: “I Don’t Know” Which Foreign Banks Were Given Half a Trillion
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was confronted yesterday by Congressman Alan Grayson about which foreign banks were the recipients of Federal Reserve credit swaps, but he was unable to provide an answer as to where over half a trillion dollars had gone. Asked which European financial institutions received the money, [...]
Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman, CFR and Trilateral Commission Member Picked for State Department Post
White House Taps Hormats for State Post Jay Solomon | WSJ.com The Obama administration picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Vice Chairman Robert Hormats to be the State Department’s undersecretary for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, the White House announced Friday. Mr. Hormats, if confirmed by the Senate, will buttress Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign to [...]
Feds Prepare To Tax Toilet Paper In Name Of Climate Change
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com The vampiric and gluttonous feeding frenzy currently being enjoyed by the federal government under the pretext of climate change is set to be expanded with a range of new taxes on products disposed of via waste water, including cosmetics, toothpaste and toilet paper. The “Water Protection and Reinvestment Act,” H.R.3202, introduced [...]
$24 Trillion — Nothing to see here
Jbearlaw | DailyKos.com $24 Trillion. That’s the estimated amount of loan guarantees, TARP and TILF money handed out, along with the other programs designed to bailout the financial industry. That’s according to the Inspector General, Neil Barofsky. But it’s nothing to worry about, according to the AP. Jbearlaw’s diary :: :: The government’s maximum [...]
Commerce Secretary: Americans ‘Need to Pay’ for Chinese Emissions
Keith Johnson | WSJ.com With the U.S. secretaries of energy and commerce in China this week, much of the attention focused on the standoff over emissions reductions or small breakthroughs in clean-tech cooperation. But yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions. From Reuters: “It’s important that those who consume [...]
Government Sachs’ Strikes Gold … Again
Robert Scheer | TruthDig.com Connect the dots: Goldman Sachs made $3.44 billion in profit this past quarter, while the U.S deficit topped $1 trillion for the first time in the nation’s history and appeared to be headed toward doubling that figure before the budget year is out. Since most of the increase in the federal [...]
Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8
Lyubov Pronina | Bloomberg.com Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a “united future world currency.” “Here it is,” Medvedev told reporters today in L’Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight nations. “You can see [...]
True unemployment rate already at 20%
Anthony Mirhaydari | MoneyCentral.MSN.com Really, how hard is it to find a job? Was June’s horrid numbers, in which 467,000 people lost their jobs compared to 345,000 in May, a one-time fluke? Or does it mean that all those Wall Street economists who believe the economic recovery is starting are dead wrong? Not to scare you, [...]
US economy ‘may need’ 2nd stimulus
PressTV.ir There are speculations that the US economy needs a second stimulus to recover from its current doldrums as the first one has apparently failed to treat the ailing economy. The US may need another stimulus plan to secure its recovery, said Laura Tyson, a Barack Obama aide and member of his economic advisory panel. [...]
The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free
Chris Hedges | TruthDig.com The ability of the corporate state to pacify the country by extending credit and providing cheap manufactured goods to the masses is gone. The pernicious idea that democracy lies in the choice between competing brands and the freedom to accumulate vast sums of personal wealth at the expense of others has [...]
Climate Cops To Fine “Wasteful” Homeowners & Businesses
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com Climate cops in Scotland have been handed new powers to fine “wasteful” homeowners and businesses who use too much energy or too many plastic bags under new legislation that represents the first wave of invasive tyranny under the pretext of fighting the manufactured threat of global warming. Energy police will [...]
More Bernanke, Mr. Issa, And The Media
Market-Ticker.Denninger.net I’m done being nice about this. First, watch the following clip from CNBC. It is quite clear, and explicit. This set off a veritable firestorm on CNBC, with various commentators coming in to defend Bernanke. None, however, was more odious than Jim Cramer, who said we need “a little less democracy.“ What? LESS DEMOCRACY Jim? Oh, I get [...]
CIA seeks laid-off bankers in N.Y. recruitment drive
Frederick H. Katayama | Reueters.com Laid off from Wall Street? The CIA wants you — as long as you can pass a lie detector test and show that you are motivated by service to your country rather than your wallet. The Central Intelligence Agency has been advertising for recruits and will be holding interviews on June [...]
Kucinich Grills Ken Lewis on Federal Reserve Emails
Former Bank of America CEO, Ken Lewis, testified June 11, 2009 to congress about the BOA’s merger with Merrill Lynch. During the hearing Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, challenged Lewis to be more forthcoming about his dealings with the Federal Reserve during the merger.
HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply
FoodFreedom A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped. HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small [...]
