Inspector General Hasn’t Bothered Looking into Who the Federal Reserve Gave Trillion’s of Dollars of Our Money to…

Inspector General Coleman, of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, has no idea about the “trillions of dollars in off balance-sheet transactions” of the Federal Reserve since Sept. of 2008 (start of the Paulson Bailout TARP Plan). “If you are not responsible for the oversight of $9 trillion lent out in credit in [...]

A Key 911 “Witness” Turns Out to be an Actor

Remember the guy in that video interview from the day of the attacks who sounded like a infomercial actor? Guess what… he is. This is the guy who, somehow or another, just happened to know the “official story-line” about how the Towers collapsed right after the event on Sept. 11th 2001. And he just HAPPENED [...]

US treasury secretary rejects limits on executive pay

by Andre Damon, WSWS Timothy Geithner, US treasury secretary, said on Monday he opposes caps on executive pay in companies receiving bailouts from the federal government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Censorship Act of 2009 – the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act (HR 1966)

by Kurt Nimmo, Prison Planet The corporate media has linked teen idol Miley Cyrus, who plays schoolgirl rock star Hannah Montana in the hit Disney series and movie, to an unconstitutional bill now working its way through Congress. According to Reuters, Cyrus recently posted an angry tirade on her Twitter web page in response to [...]

Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can’t See the Trees or the Forest

by Noam Chomsky, Common Dreams The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so. For one thing, even without inquiry, it was reasonable to suppose that Guantanamo was a torture chamber. Why else send prisoners where they would be beyond the [...]

Who’s afraid of the CIA?

Elizabeth Cheney worked in 2002 for a secretive office charged with using U.S. tax-payer dollars to support “unnamed groups” in the Middle East with the express purpose of helping foster “democracy” in the region. Translation: she funneled cash to “terrorists” to stir up trouble in countries that weren’t friendly to Western Business interests. She worked [...]

Blue collar U.S. males lose more ground

from Reuters * U.S. male unemployment rate surges past national average * Blue collar men take worst hit, wages keep falling * Construction may recover; many assembly jobs are gone One statistic that stands out in America’s recession-stung economy is the unemployment rate for adult men: in April for the second month in a row [...]

Housing starts hit record low

(yesterdays fake rally came on news that the news in housing was going to be good. Turns out, that was more BS. Housing starts are down to the lowest ever recorded numbers, since they started keeping track in 1959.) The housing market is in the spotlight again today, but today’s report on April housing starts [...]

Commentary: Prosecute sins of Bush-Cheney era

by Jack Cafferty, CNN It doesn’t go away by itself. Watergate “went away” when Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace and left town never to be heard from in an official capacity again. The Bush presidency is thankfully over…but the damage he and Dick Cheney did continues to press on the nerve of the [...]

Hedge Funds and the Global Economic Meltdown

Part 1 (Put Options. Sound familiar?) [watch the rest after the break]

Truth Seeping Out: 40 U.S. intelligence and counter-terrorism agents challenge official account of 9/11

by Fred Burks, National Intelligence Examiner More than 40 U.S. intelligence and counter-terrorism agents have publicly raised serious questions challenging the official account of 9/11. Respected researcher Alan Miller of patriotsquestion911.com has compiled photos and statements of these 40 plus dedicated agents in regards to 9/11. Many of these agents are open to being interviewed [...]

Changing Obama’s Mindset

by Howard Zinn, The Progressive That’s been the story of this country. Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They didn’t just moan. They worked, they acted, they organized, they rioted if necessary to bring their situation to [...]

U.S. stirs a hornet’s nest in Pakistan

by Eric Margolis, Winnapeg Sun Pakistan finally bowed to Washington’s angry demands last week by unleashing its military against rebellious Pashtun tribesmen of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) — collectively mislabelled “Taliban” in the West. The Obama administration had threatened to stop $2 billion US annual cash payments to bankrupt Pakistan’s political and military leadership and [...]

9/11 Coincidences (Part Nine)

9/11 Coincidences (Part Seven)