Last
Updated:
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 18:53
GMT Bill
To Audit Federal Reserve Now Has 207 Co-Sponsors At time of writing, a bill that would see the Federal Reserve
bank audited for the first time in 59 years has 207 cosponsers in the
House and is gaining traction with every single day.
Obama
Administration to Seek New Power for SEC on Executive Pay
The Obama administration will seek new powers for the Securities and
Exchange Commission to force firms to let shareholders vote on executive
pay and make directors who set compensation more independent, an administration
official said. Alex
Jones: CPS Bill to End 4th Amendment in Texas Alex needs for your help to call Governor Perry and demand
he not sign a CPS Anti 4th Amendment bill.
EU
security proposals are ‘dangerously authoritarian’
The European Union is stepping up efforts to build an enhanced pan-European
system of security and surveillance which critics have described as
“dangerously authoritarian”.
Swedish
PM calls for national carbon taxes in Europe
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt of Sweden, which will assume the rotating
EU presidency next month, called Tuesday for European nations to tax
carbon emissions to reduce greenhouse gases.
House
committee subpoenas Federal Reserve The congressional panel investigating what happened to all that
bank bailout money has issued a subpoena to the Federal Reserve, asking
them to hand over all documents relating to the takeover of Merrill
Lynch by the Bank of America.
GM,
Amtrak and an Increasingly Fascist America
Last week, General Motors finally declared bankruptcy. Many in government
thought $20 billion in taxpayer dollars would save the company, but
as predicted, it only postponed the inevitable.
Death
toll rises in Peshawar luxury hotel suicide blast
The death toll from a suicide attack on a luxury hotel in the northwestern
Pakistani city of Peshawar has risen to 16 with at least 57 injured,
including a British aid worker.
UK
cop accuses colleagues of waterboarding pot suspects Six members of London’s metropolitan police force are the
focus of a criminal investigation after a corruption probe revealed
allegations by a serving officer that detectives waterboarded suspects
allegedly caught with a “large amount” of marijuana.
Brookings:
Waxman-Markey a $9 trillion tax!
The Waxman-Markey climate bill amounts to a $9 trillion tax that will
reduce personal consumption by up to $2 trillion by mid-century, according
to an analysis presented yesterday by the left-leaning Brookings Institution.
Fed
Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited, Expert Says The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is so out of whack
that the central bank would be shut down if subjected to a conventional
audit, Jim Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer,
told CNBC.
Fear
Rules: Who Spent All That Money For What?
The power of irrational fear in the US is extraordinary. It ranks
up there with the Israel Lobby, the military/security complex, and
the financial gangsters. Indeed, fear might be the most powerful
force in America.
N.
Korea: US may provoke nuclear war in Peninsula
North Korean media hints that a US pledge to extend its nuclear
umbrella to Japan and South Korea would be considered as ‘declaration
of a nuclear war’ in the troubled peninsula.
Oil
rallies further into the $70s
Oil prices surged past $71 a barrel Wednesday on the back of a global
stock market rally and ahead of the government’s weekly supply
report.
Government
Demands Inventory of All VFW Weapons
An Infowars reader has passed along an email sent to VFW commanders
by the Assistant Adjutant of the Department of Texas Veterans of
Foreign Wars indicating the U.S. Army TACOM (Tactical Army Command)
is demanding an inventory of all weapons held by VFW posts.
Russia
says expecting new North Korea missile test
Russia has information on North Korean plans to launch a ballistic
missile but does not know when it will take place, Interfax news
agency quoted a senior Russian military source as saying on Wednesday.
Open
Letter to Rachel Maddow on Obama, Brzezinski and 9/11 Conspiracy
Perhaps you haven’t examined the official myth about 9/11,
i.e. that it was accomplished solely by Al Qaeda and Bin Laden.
Given that Obama made a claim and didn’t back it up with any
facts- while admitting that elements in the US and Britain conspired
to overthrow Mossadegh a half century ago- it’s kind of a
misnomer to say he “debunked” “9/11 conspiracists”.
