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Latest Articles: New World Order
House GOP leader forsakes tea parties, takes earmark ban off the table
Post Date: 2010-11-05 20:43:02 by Skip Intro
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If you ask Republicans around the country, they'll probably tell you that Tuesday's election results were all about pushing back against excessive government spending. Problem is, they may have forgotten to elect anyone who's actually planning on real budget cuts. Rep. John Boehner, presumptively the next Speaker of the House and a longtime rhetorical foe of earmark spending in its present form, told a Fox News host on Thursday that the proposed ban on congressional earmarks he'd been talking up was officially off the table. Boehner, who has personally upheld the no-earmark principle, had before the elections advocated a year-long ban on financial appropriations for ...
Soros UN Panel Draft Report Foresees Bank Tax, CO2 Auctions to Aid Climate
Post Date: 2010-11-05 13:22:09 by jwpegler
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At least $65 billion might be raised by taxing foreign-exchange transactions and auctioning pollution permits, a United Nations panel said today in a report recommending ways to finance aid for fighting global warming. The panel, which includes billionaire investor George Soros and Larry Summers, director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, said selling carbon-emissions permits would generate $38 billion and a financial transactions tax an additional $27 billion, according to the report released today. The findings are intended to guide envoys at UN climate talks that start this month in Mexico as they seek ways to pay for $100 billion in climate aid that was ...
Google slashes overseas tax rate through 'Double Irish' and 'Dutch Sandwich' strategy
Post Date: 2010-11-01 15:56:01 by WhiteSands
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NEW YORK - By employing strategies known to lawyers as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich," Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the past three years - moving most of its foreign profit through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google's income shifting helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries. "It's remarkable that Google's effective rate is that low," said Martin Sullivan, a tax economist with Tax Analysts. "We know this company operates throughout the world mostly in high-tax countries ...
Police block sex abuse survivors near Vatican
Post Date: 2010-11-01 15:45:10 by WhiteSands
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ROME – Italian paramilitary police blocked a boulevard leading to the Vatican to prevent a march Sunday by some 100 survivors of clergy sex abuse from reaching St. Peter's Square, but later allowed two protesters to leave letters from the abused at the Holy See's doorstep. The two also left a dozen stones near the obelisk in St. Peter's square to mark a symbolic path so other survivors might know they have company in their suffering. The candlelit protest was the first significant demonstration in the shadow of the Vatican by people who had been raped and molested by priests as children, and organizers said it would be repeated until the Holy See takes decisive action to ...
Broder: War With Iran! Why? It Will Help Obama’s Campaign!
Post Date: 2010-10-31 21:34:46 by jwpegler
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In his most despicable and sickening column ever, David Broder, the “dean” of Washington’s press corps (that should tell you something), nostalgically recalls how World War II “resolved” the economic crisis of the Great Depression. Broder then placidly recommends that Obama consider an American attack on Iran as a winning tactic for his 2012 reelection campaign. Why? Because not only will it “resolve” our economic crisis, but even Republicans will “urge him on”! No Iran war, no 2012 win! Plain as day, isn’t it? Why didn’t Rahm think of that already, I wonder? Unnecessary, immoral, illegal, and unconstitutional war is the last refuge ...
A Look at Tea Party Sugar Daddies the Koch Brothers
Post Date: 2010-10-16 15:56:51 by Skip Intro
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A Look at Tea Party Sugar Daddies the Koch Brothers In a recent “New Yorker” article, Jane Mayer looked into the corporate dealings of the Koch Brothers, the sugar daddies of the Tea Party movement. The Kochs have contributed $100 million to a so-called movement of people that have no clue how well they’re being played by men whose only end is corporate profit. This article will look at the Koch Brothers and their company, Koch Industries, oil barons who are manipulating a rabble of confused individuals in the bid to rid the country of Obama’s supposed socialist vision and lower taxes. If the Tea Partiers knew that Koch Industries does not pay corporate income tax, ...
Drilling Ban Gone But De Facto One Still In Place
Post Date: 2010-10-13 01:54:58 by Hondo68
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Hu Jintao could teach us something about energy policy. Today, the White House announced it is lifting its ban on offshore drilling in the Gulf. While this announcement has received much attention in the media, energy experts know that this “news” is much more about “political energy” than actual energy policy. Coming just weeks before the November congressional elections, this politically motivated ploy does nothing to substantively remove the challenges faced by the U.S. energy sector. From new energy tax proposals, to activist opposition to hydraulic fracturing and climate change negotiations, to the continued de facto ban on offshore drilling that results from this ...
Neocons Talk Deficit but Won’t Budge on Defense Cuts
Post Date: 2010-10-09 11:54:37 by Skip Intro
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Establishment conservatives love to talk about the need to cut government spending, but they always seem to find an excuse whenever there is a serious effort to actually do it. Last year, for example, they opposed cutting Medicare as part of health care reform. Now they are banding together to stop cuts in defense spending, which is a fifth of the federal budget, even as they also insist that the deficit is our most critical problem. This hypocrisy was on full display on Oct. 4, as American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks, Heritage Foundation president Ed Feulner, and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol penned a joint op-ed for the right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial ...
Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read
Post Date: 2010-10-04 13:06:58 by Skip Intro
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Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don’t even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest. Most Americans don’t really seem to care about who owns the ...
Punishing Lynne -- From Death Row, This Is Mumia Abu-Jamal
Post Date: 2010-09-28 19:08:26 by Ferret Mike
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Lynne Stewart, the activist lawyer, was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison. This outstanding lawyer, a 70 year old grandmother, who is facing the serious threat of breast cancer, was originally sentenced to 2 years and 4 months, but the federal appeals court apparently felt that wasn’t enough. The same appeals courts that traditionally reverse the convictions of cops who torture or kill Black citizens, and who traditionally rely on the judgments of the trial courts, reversed Stewart’s sentence as not tough enough. So much for judicial tradition. For Lynne’s tradition wasn’t that of the tony, tie and tails law firms of downtown Manhattan. She didn’t ...
S. Calif. heat wave leaves thousands without power (O'Bush "guest workers" crank up AC)
Post Date: 2010-09-28 13:33:59 by Hondo68
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LOS ANGELES — Southern California's heat wave has left tens of thousands of people without electricity. Southern California Edison says more than 27,000 of its customers were without power Tuesday morning, mainly in Orange and Los Angeles counties. Most have been blacked out for eight to 16 hours as temps hit 113 degrees in some parts. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reports another 15,000 customers are without power in Los Angeles. Edison spokeswoman Vanessa McGrady says the heat has driven folks to use their air conditioners around the clock. She says transformers that usually cool down overnight are getting a workout and are blowing or burning out. DWP spokeswoman ...
Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer's memoir
Post Date: 2010-09-26 20:37:44 by Skip Intro
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Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer's memoir Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday. "DoD decided to purchase copies of the first printing because they contained information which could cause damage to national security," Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. April Cunningham said. In a statement to CNN, Cunningham said defense officials observed the September 20 destruction of about 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's new memoir "Operation Dark Heart." Shaffer ...
GOP fat cats are back and ready to spend on Republican candidates ahead of midterm elections (Koch, Univision)
Post Date: 2010-09-25 18:30:44 by Hondo68
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House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio. Ten of the wealthiest conservative donors gave $19 million to GOP candidates since Obama came into office. Gearing up for the November midterm elections, some of the wealthiest GOP powerhouses have their wallets out and are ready to spend. Big time. In fact, since President Obama came into office, 10 of the most active conservative contributors have donated a whopping $19 million to Republican candidates and their political action committees, according to Politico. The fourth-highest spender on that list was the Koch family. David Koch, a leading Manhattan philanthropist(and reputed Tea Party bankroller) made headlines this past week when he ...
National 'Take Back Day' urges surrender of unneeded prescription drugs (to the Drug Enforcement Administration)
Post Date: 2010-09-23 15:19:18 by Hondo68
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With the abuse of prescription drugs continuing to rise, the Drug Enforcement Administration is for the first time asking people nationwide to turn in their expired, unused and unwanted prescription medicines at more than 4,000 locations on Saturday. The first national "Take Back Day" aims to collect powerful drugs that are beneficial to patients, but that could easily fall into the wrong hands if left to languish in homes. People will be able to turn in pills, powders and other solid medicines anonymously and without fear of prosecution; authorities will then safely destroy the medications by incinerating them. A focus of the effort is to get commonly abused drugs out of ...
(U.N.New York)Ahmadinejad Says Capitalism Faces Defeat: "to spare no effort" to make practical plans for a new world order"
Post Date: 2010-09-21 11:21:18 by Murron
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(U.N.New York)Ahmadinejad Says Capitalism Faces Defeat: "to spare no effort" to make practical plans for a new world order" The Associated Press Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says capitalism is facing defeat and is calling for an overhaul of the "undemocratic and unjust" global decision-making bodies. In a speech on the second day of a U.N. anti-poverty summit, the Iranian leader called on world leaders, thinkers and global reformers "to spare no effort" to make practical plans for a new world order. To spotlight this effort, Ahmadinejad proposed Tuesday that the United Nations name the current decade the Decade for ...
Tea Party, protesters clash at Glenn Beck event (Andrew Breitbart vs Union Goons)
Post Date: 2010-09-18 23:17:11 by Hondo68
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Even before Glenn Beck took the stage at the Right Nation 2010 gathering in Hoffman Estates Saturday, a sideshow started outside. While 5,400 conservatives headed inside the Sears Center, about 200 protesters joined in song and prayer outside, accusing Beck, a Fox News commentator headlining the event, of promoting hatred and racism. They held signs accusing Beck of lying and calling him a coward. Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is also scheduled to speak at the event, confronted the protesters. He screamed that they must be union members who had been duped into protesting. “Do you even know what you’re protesting?” he shouted. “Who’s with SEIU ...
Palin Opens Up About Possible 2012 Run, Says She's Willing to 'Give It a Shot'
Post Date: 2010-09-17 18:51:17 by Hondo68
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Sarah Palin gestures at the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 16. (AP Photo) Sarah Palin may be edging closer to a 2012 presidential run, telling Fox News "I would give it a shot" if the American people think she's "the one." The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee was in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday for the Reagan Dinner, a big GOP fundraiser in the heart of water-testing country for presidential candidates. Palin has remained coy about her ambitions, but she elaborated a bit in an interview with Fox News, attaching several conditions to the possibility of a 2012 presidential run. "If ...
Sarah Palin’s top advisor outed as PNAC (“New Pearl Harbor”) director
Post Date: 2010-09-15 19:47:32 by Brian S
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Vanity Fair recently ran a story titled Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury, in which they noted "The small inner circle that shapes Palin’s voice day to day includes lobbyist Randy Scheunemann, a director of the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century, who advises Palin on foreign affairs,..." The official PNAC website features a bio of Scheunemann, stating "Randy Scheunemann is a foreign policy and national security analyst based in Washington D.C. In 2002, he founded the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI) to promote freedom for the Iraqi people. He served as pro bono President and Executive Director of CLI until its mission was ...
The George W. Bush Memoir: Now Here’s a Book I Might Consider Burning
Post Date: 2010-09-14 14:36:06 by Skip Intro
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Admirers of George W. Bush will soon have an opportunity to get inside the head of their dearly beloved neo-conservative icon. His much-hyped memoir, ‘Decision Points’ is due out in bookstores on November 9th. We’re told that ‘The Decider’ has, “spent almost every day” writing what his publishing house calls, “a strikingly personal and candid account revealing how and why he made the defining decisions in his consequential presidency and personal life.” Oh—the romantic visions this must conjure up in the minds of so many adoring fans. Can’t you just imagine all of those sleepless nights Ol’Dubyah must have spent burning the ...
Winners And Losers [The Global Economy In Action]
Post Date: 2010-09-01 10:35:16 by Capitalist Eric
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Winners And Losers When you mention the word "globalism" to most people, they think of something that is going to happen someday in the future. But the truth is that globalism is already here. At this point we essentially already have a one world economy. Goods and services flow across national borders more freely today than at any other point in human history. A major economic event on one side of the world instantly affects financial markets on the other side of the world. Labor has become a truly global commodity. You can go to the exact same fast food restaurant or buy the exact same iPod on six different continents. A whole host of international trade agreements are making ...
Warning Global Fiat Currency Financial System Collapse By Early 2011
Post Date: 2010-09-01 09:32:41 by Capitalist Eric
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Readers of my articles will recall that I have warned as far back as December 2006, that the global banks will collapse when the Financial Tsunami hits the global economy in 2007. And as they say, the rest is history. Quantitative Easing (QE I) spearheaded by the Chairman of Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke delayed the inevitable demise of the fiat shadow money banking system slightly over 18 months. That is why in November of 2009, I was so confident to warn my readers that by the end of the first quarter of 2010 at the earliest or by the second quarter of 2010 at the latest, the global economy will go into a tailspin. The recent alarm that the US economy has slowed down and in the ...
Whitman wins Sacramento River Cats bobblehead race
Post Date: 2010-08-21 21:25:50 by Hondo68
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Republican Meg Whitman can now claim another endorsement—fans of a Sacramento minor-league baseball team. The Sacramento River Cats on Friday held their own kind of gubernatorial election—a bobblehead contest. The team gave away 2,500 bobbleheads in the likeness of Whitman and Democratic candidate Jerry Brown. Team spokeswoman Rebecca Brutlag says the Whitman bobbleheads were snatched up first, making her the winner. The team did not count how many fewer Brown bobbleheads had been distributed when Whitman won. In 2008, President Barack Obama won a River Cats bobblehead contest against his GOP opponent Sen. John McCain. Brutlag says the contests are ...
News Corp Donates $1 MILLION To Republican Governors Association
Post Date: 2010-08-17 11:45:15 by Skip Intro
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News Corp Donates $1 MILLION To Republican Governors Association Fox News and Wall Street Journal parent company News Corp donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported. The media conglomerate, controlled by Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, took advantage of the unlimited donations corporations can give to governors' associations (from Bloomberg BusinessWeek): The Republicans' biggest corporate donor was New York-based News Corp. Teri Everett, a spokeswoman, said the company "actively supports organizations that advocate a pro-job, low tax, economic growth agenda." News Corp. opposes proposed federal rule changes ...
An Argentina-like Economic Crisis
Post Date: 2010-08-13 19:45:50 by Capitalist Eric
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The United States' economic decline precariously resembles Argentina's economic collapse, which started in 1998 and landed Argentina in a depression by the end of 2000. What began in Argentina as a recession mushroomed into a full-fledged depression due to bad economic and monetary policy. The Obama administration and its congressional Democrat lackeys are on the precipice of following Argentina's disastrous economic and monetary policy decisions. Arguably, the United States economy has been in a two-year-long recession, and while some may posit that the country has started an economic recovery, others suspect the country will plummet into a deeper recession, or perhaps a ...
Proposed Law Would Put Video Cameras In Cars
Post Date: 2010-08-11 22:55:42 by A K A Stone
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SACRAMENTO - Lawmakers are considering controversial new legislation this week that would allow vehicles to be equipped with dashboard cameras to record the moments leading up to accidents. The proposed law, AB1942, would promote safer driving habits and reduce accidents by permitting video recorders to be installed on the windshield. The bill currently allows devices to record video, audio, how fast and which direction the vehicle is traveling, a history of where your car has been, steering and brake performance and seat belt usage. The devices would record in a continuous loop and would only save information if there is unusual vehicle motion or a crash. They could also be capable of ...
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