Last
Updated:
Sunday, June 21, 2009 16:04
GMT Proposed
Law Allows AG Holder to Block Gun Sales to Over a Million Americans New Jersey Democrat senator Frank R. Lautenberg plans to introduce
legislation designed to cancel the Second Amend rights of well over
a million U.S. citizens this coming week, according to the New York
Times.
Sotomayor
resigns from women’s club
U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor has quit her membership
in a women’s club, the New York-based Belizean Grove.
BBC
Issues Retraction Over Misleading Iran Photos
The crisis over the Iranian election has been our lead story for most
of the week. As with all our coverage, we have been careful to report
what both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi supporters are saying. Similarly,
we have taken care to label the pictures we use, explaining what they
are of.
Ireland
to hold second referendum on Lisbon Treaty Brian Cowen, the Irish prime minister, said that his country
would hold a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in October after
he secured assurances from EU leaders likely to boost a Yes vote.
‘Insane’
file-sharing verdict could challenge law’s constitutionality
In the first file-sharing case to go to trial in the United States,
a Minnesota jury has ruled that a 32 year old woman must pay the music
industry $1.92 million dollars for illegally making 24 songs available
for sharing from her hard drive.
Nasa
aims to crash into the Moon at 6,000mph Two robotic probes were speeding towards the Moon at 8,000mph
last night on a mission that will help to earmark future human camp
sites, as hearings got under way in Washington that could shake up Nasa’s
plans for returning Man to the lunar surface.
Back
in the U.S.S.A.
Harry Browne, the former Libertarian Party candidate for president,
used to say: “the government is great at breaking your leg,
handing you a crutch, and saying ‘You see, without me you
couldn’t walk.’”
Mottaki
says West ‘dramatizing’ riots
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks out against
Western efforts that seek to dramatize the post-election unrest
in the country.
U.S.
Destroyer Shadows N. Korean Ship
A North Korean cargo ship was reportedly steaming toward Myanmar
on Sunday even as it was shadowed by a U.S. Navy destroyer, posing
the first test of how far the United States and its allies will
go to stop the North’s suspected arms trade under a new United
Nations resolution.
More
Powerful Fed? Many In Congress Don’t Seem to Like It The old Wall Street axiom isn’t playing well in Washington
as Congress takes its first shots at the Obama administration’s
package of sweeping reform proposals for the financial sector.
Cashless
Control Grid Inches Closer to Reality
Central bankers in Japan are mulling the abolition of cash. Richard
Jerram, a senior economist with Macquarie bank, told investors that
“the proposal has become practical with the broad penetration
of electronic money and credit cards in Japan,” reports the
Times Online. Bankers claim the scheme will rescue the economy from
another deflationary spiral.
Are
the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated “Color Revolution?”
A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief
in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of
Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see
below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.
9/11
Truther Found Not Guilty Of Assaulting Disabled Girl At the time of this staged incident, neo-con media outlets
like Sean Hannity and Fox News, as well as 9/11 debunking groups,
claimed that a 9/11 truther had beaten up a disabled girl as a means
of trying to discredit the 9/11 truth movement. Now that Talis has
been aquitted and proven completely innocent of all charges, as
we maintained all along, will those same groups now come forward
and apologize for promulgating this hoax?
CIA
seeks laid-off bankers in N.Y. recruitment drive Laid off from Wall Street? The CIA wants you — as long
as you can pass a lie detector test and show that you are motivated
by service to your country rather than your wallet.
Who
Will Control Iraq’s Oil?
Furious protests are threatening to undermine the Iraqi government’s
plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields
in a desperate effort to increase its declining oil production and
oil revenues.
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
