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Guard On Alert For Tea Party Protests
The Maryland National Guard has been put on alert in anticipation of
today’s nationwide Tea Party protests, while a Homeland Security
spokesman refused to deny that protesters would be under surveillance
from the DHS.
Somali
attack on US vessel was ‘act of revenge, not piracy’
Somali pirates who attacked an American freighter with rocket-propelled
grenades were not trying to capture it but to destroy it as an act of
revenge, one of their commanders claimed today.
Iran
takes Israeli war threats up with UN
Iran has condemned the latest Israeli threats to “strike”
Iran as Tel Aviv releases news of its biggest ever joint war games with
the US.
W,
the Torture Decider
The prose of the recently leaked report of the International Committee
of the Red Cross on torture seems colorless. It is at the same time
obscene — almost pornographic.
Report:
Obama may keep some CIA torture details secret
President Barack Obama is “wavering” on whether to fully
release details of the Bush administration’s approved torture
techniques, according to a report in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal
based on statements by “people familiar with the discussions.”
94
Years of Serfdom
This April 15 is the 94th year that Americans have had to file an income
tax. For most Americans, the day is a non-event. The federal and state
governments have already collected the taxes due by withholding from
each paycheck over the course of the calendar year. Most Americans never
saw the money and have no real idea that they earned it.
Celente
Calls for “Revolution” as the Only Solution
Taxed to death, angry at government bailouts, outraged by Wall Street
greed, and bitterly resentful of a system that rewards the undeserving
rich, the American public is ready to revolt.
China
versus America: ‘Great Game’ for Global Order?
The game in the 21st century financial crisis is actually a game between
the United States and China. It is reminiscent of the Great Game between
the United Kingdom and Russia in the 19th century.
DHS
"Rightwinger" Report Hyped As Pretext To Crack Down On
Tax Protests? A wave of mainstream media
attention has led to increasing speculation that the Homeland Security
report on "the rise of the right wing" was deliberately
leaked and hyped as part of an effort to falsely categorize, demonize
and crack down on legitimate protest movements that have nothing
to do with the right-wing.
US
inflation goes negative for first time in 54 years
Overall prices in the US economy registered their first year-on-year
fall for more than half a century today, fuelling fears that the
American economic slump could tip the world’s biggest economy
into a destructive bout of Japanese-style deflation.
Ron
Paul: Reckless Spending And Taxation Prolonged Great Depression
Ron Paul has slammed Barack Obama's claim that reckless government
spending and taxation is the only way to alleviate the economic
crisis by pointing out that the end of the great depression only
came after taxes and spending were drastically cut.
DHS
Rep Refuses to Say if Law Enforcement Will Tape Tax Day Tea Party
Goers
“I can’t speak to sort of things that are law enforcement
sensitive. So I can’t speak to any current law enforcement
operations,” Sean Smith, Assistant Secretary of DHS for Public
Affairs, said Tuesday. Iran
complains to UN about Israeli “threats”
Iran demanded on Tuesday that the U.N. Security Council respond
firmly to what it described as Israel’s “unlawful and
insolent threats” to launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear
facilities.
US
forces leave Iraq polluted
The initial reason to invade Iraq was the alleged presence of weapons
of mass destruction. Now the US has pledged to withdraw troops,
who are accused of using controversial weapons themselves, and no
clean-up is planned.
DNA
pioneer Alec Jeffreys: drop innocent from database
The inventor of genetic fingerprinting, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys,
today warns that the government is putting at risk public support
for the DNA national database by holding the genetic details of
hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
The Great Global Warming Hoax
RAND Wants WWIII to Save US Economy
Paul Watson & Alex Jones - Mumbai Terror Attacks
Paul Joseph Watson: Internet Censorship a Growing Cancer
