Pipeline Geopolitics: Major Turnaround. Russia, China, Iran Redraw Energy Map

(Is it merely a coincidence that the deadline set by President Obama coincided so smoothly with the projected start-up date of Iran’s Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran pipeline? After all, we invaded Afghanistan to give assurances for the Trans-Afghan Pipeline deal; a pipeline that would transport Caspian Sea LNG reserves to sea and then by boat to the emerging markets in South China. Now, as the [...]

Federal Reserve Seeks to Protect U.S. Bailout Secrets

By David Glovin and Thom Weidlich, Bloomberg Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve asked a U.S. appeals court to block a ruling that for the first time would force the central bank to reveal secret identities of financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest government bailout in U.S. history.

Obama received $20 million from healthcare industry in 2008 campaign

Almost three times the amount given to McCain by Brad Jacobson, Raw Story While some sunlight has been shed on the hefty sums shoveled into congressional campaign coffers in an effort to influence the Democrats’ massive healthcare bill, little attention has been focused on the far larger sums received by President Barack Obama while he [...]

Swine flu: “They Organized the Panic”. Inquiry into the Role of Big Pharma and WHO by Council of Europe

(“We want to clarify everything that brought about this massive operation of disinformation.”… “There was no medical reason for this. It was only for marketing purposes.”… “All that mattered and that led to the great campaign of panic which we have seen was that it was a golden opportunity for representatives from labs who knew [...]

Emails implicate Treasury Secretary Geithner in cover-up of AIG deal to bail out the banks

by Barry Grey, WSWS A financial scandal has erupted that implicates Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in efforts to conceal the funneling of $62 billion in taxpayer funds to 16 large banks as part of the government bailout of the insurance giant American International Group (AIG).

Drug firms made ‘false H1N1 claims’

The severity of the H1N1 outbreak was deliberately exaggerated by pharmaceutical companies that stood to make billions of dollars from a worldwide scare, a leading European health expert has claimed. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, has accused the makers of vaccines for the virus of influencing the World Health Organisation’s [...]

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Imposing Middle East Peace

(former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America states that Israel is “the only apartheid regime in the Western world” and that “Sooner or later the White House, Congress and the American public–not to speak of a Jewish establishment that is largely out of touch with the younger [...]

Umar Fizzlepants Update Including a Picture of the “Burned” Seat

by Scott Creighton   ***UPDATE*** As it turns out, the photo of the seat section where Umar Fizzlepants was supposed to have ignited his “sparkler of terror” is even more fraudulent than I first reported. You see, Umar (or the poor Sudanese refugee playing the role of Umar) was seated in 19A… the picture is of 19B, the seat NEXT to [...]

Al Qaeda in Iceland? Furry Sparkler Hats? Not as Funny As You Might Think

by Scott Creighton  The people of Iceland have had enough.  It may be time for the Al Qaeda Roadshow to travel north.  Einars Már Gudmundsson, a novelist, said most citizens were unaware that Iceland’s three leading banks –Landsbanki, Glitnir and Kaupthing – were operating as global hedge funds with exposure of 11 times Iceland’s GDP.  “I had never heard [...]

Six million in the US with no income but food stamps

(The other day I was talking with a friend.  He had to resort to renting out rooms in his home so that he could keep from joining the foreclosure class even though he has a full-time job. He told he didn’t know how many times someone would call about a room opening offering to pay part [...]

The Prestige – Part 3:The Prestige

by Scott Creighton “Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint Exupéry 1943 In 1996, a self-proclaimed terrorist and thief fled the reach of Osama bin Laden and ran right into the outstretched arms of [...]

The Prestige – Part 2:The Turn

by Scott Creighton “But, you know, this guy (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab), looking at it in some respects, looking at it in retrospect, probably did us a favor.”  Thomas Kean, Co-Chair of the 9/11 Commission Report It’s fitting, isn’t it? It’s fitting that one of the leading architects of the most elaborate cover-up in American history comes out [...]

The Prestige – Part 1:The Pledge

by Scott Creighton Now you’re looking for the secret. But you won’t find it because of course, you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to work it out. You want to be fooled. The Prestige 2006  It is said that every great magic trick has 3 distinct “acts” and as we leave the previous [...]

Long Live Palestine – Lowkey

One year anniversary of Operation Cast Lead with Lowkey Original song – Long Live Palestine, Long Live Gaza