As of
Monday February 20, 2012
Ron Paul tells crowd America "slipping into a fascist system"
U.S.
Forest Service researchers confirm warming is killing off yellow cedar in Alaska
United States
experiencing longest stretch of high unemployment since Great Depression
according to Congressional Budget Office
Inflation: January
Consumer Price Index highest in four months
Greeks rage at loss of sovereignty as leaders haggle to appease bankers
Pat Buchanan
says "days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end" after being
blacklisted as an extremist
Federal Reserve Open Market Committee officially announces goal to devalue
dollar by 33 % over next 20 years
Nigel Farage: Greece is being driven into the ground and towards revolution by
anti-democratic troika
Man preparing for possible doomsday declared mentally defective and
extra-judicially stripped of civil rights
Max Keiser says "we lost [the battle with the bankers]... MF Global signals the
end of any hope of reform... heading toward financial holocaust"
Conspiracy behind AGW denial: Heartland Institute insider releases financier
list and media strategy to obfuscate and politicize climate change
Police state: New York City Police stop 684,330 people for questioning in 2011
Chicago police officers arrested for stealing cash from drug courier
Imperial
establishment cling to U.S. nuclear weapons; megalomaniac John Bolton slams
possible stockpile reduction
Steep reductions in deployed strategic nukes under review by Obama
administration
House committee takes step toward holding Attorney General Holder in contempt of
Congress for failure to provide subpoenaed information about Operation Fast and
Furious
Boogeyman: security in U.S. heightened over "Iran threat"
Iranian engineers reportedly succeed in neutralizing and purging Stuxnet
computer virus
USS Abraham
Lincoln passes through Strait of Hormuz shadowed by Iranian Navy
Chief of the
General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov says Iranian nuclear
tension likely to come to a head in the summer
Dallas woman says Transportation Security Administration agents repeatedly sent
her through body scanner to enjoy view of her "cute" body
Fiscal insanity: deficit spending during Obama estimated at $5,170,000,000,000
according to fourth budget release
Judge sides against Amish farmer; Food and Drug Administration wins fight over
selling fresh raw milk
Athens burns as Greek rage against latest austerity bill
Occupy movement preparing for new phase of larger marches and strikes
Eyewitness counters official police lie in Virginia shooting; woman executed by
officer for disobedience
Bed sheets and flip-flops: Rolling Stone publishes damning 84-page
unclassified report by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis; blasts military
establishment group-think and deceptions
Pentagon requests $81 million for "urgent upgrade" to twenty 30,000 pound,
bunker-busting bombs
Greek PM Papademos makes televised plea for parliamentary support of austerity
measures to receive 130 billion euro bailout from IMF and EU
LAOS leader says party will not vote for euro bailout agreement
One killed, 3 injured in Israeli air strike on Gaza
Niger refuses Libyan demands to extradite Gaddafi’s son, Saadi
British and
Qatari soldiers operating with Syrian rebels
Fighters and weapons flowing from Iraq into Syria
Unnamed U.S. officials confirm Assad claim: Iraqi Al Qaida behind bombings in
Damascus
Two dead,
18 wounded during clashes between Sunnis and Alawis in Lebanon
Conflicting allegations of responsibility following killing of Syrian general
Bahrain police use tear gas and stun grenades to break up protests against Saudi
and U.S.-backed government
Anonymous hackers take down CIA web site
Western mission accomplished as Libya divided and in chaos
Congress to hold hearing into Department of Homeland Security practice of
monitoring social networks and media
State Department travel
advisory urges U.S. citizens to avoid all but essential travel to 14 states in
northern and central Mexico
Police state: Los Angeles Police Department sets up war room
Totalitarian USA: Los Angeles County raises fines to $1,000 for tossing football
or Frisbee at any beach
State sponsor of terror: Israel financing, training and arming People's
Mujahedin of Iran
Turkish-based Syrian opposition claim Iranian special forces units actively
supporting Assad
Pakistan warns Britain to help stop American drones slaughtering hundreds of its
innocent civilians; retaliation possible for war crimes
Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite shows "Earth
is losing a huge amount of ice to the ocean annually"
Sumatran tigers losing critical habitat as forest's wood harvested for toilet
paper
Scores of District of Columbia employees suspended, face firing and prosecution
for receiving unemployment benefits while holding city jobs
Enemies of the state: FBI warns of threat from "anti-government extremists"
Imperial yearning: Britain pleads with U.S. to take part in flotilla challenging
Iranian power in Persian Gulf; American commanders see Royal Navy having nothing
to contribute to mission
"What
I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders
about conditions on the ground," writes Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis in
Armed Forces Journal piece on Afghanistan.
Canadian tar sand development causing caribou declines, government responds by
poisoning wolves
Bill Gates backs clique of climate scientists lobbying for large-scale
geo-engineering experiments
John Williams unravels manipulated Government statistics; true unemployment
measure at 22.5 percent
Race in America: more blacks reject being labeled African American
Rick Santelli: labor force participation is down
Scientists
gain understanding of regional climate change from global warming: cold, snowy
winters in Central Europe rise when Arctic covered by less sea ice in summer;
darker ocean revealed and stored heat released
Global warming: coral showing faster growth in formerly cool waters of western
Australia, contrast with coral deaths in east Australia waters now beyond
optimum temperature
Minority of meteorologists raising overweight furor in global warming debate;
weathermen shaping public opinion despite lacking climate expertise
Dozens
reported killed as Syrian opposition take to streets in commemoration of 1982
Hama massacre
Syria's
Assad set for long conflict; outsiders see descent into civil war; opposition
hardened
Human Rights Watch:
Libya's ex-ambassador to France dies in militia custody from possible torture
less than 24 hours after being detained
Sunni
Islamist-led opposition win majority in Kuwaiti parliamentary elections
Resource-driven war possible between Sudan and breakaway South Sudan
Street battle rages near Egypt's Interior Ministry
Bahrainis
protest regime crackdown
Selling snake oil: Bernanke defends Federal Reserve policy, cautions against
rapid deficit reduction
Iranian
President Ahmadinejad calls for new world order of justice-seeking nations
Israeli Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister touts capabilities to
take military action against Iran, countering "nightmare" threat
Transportation Security Administration agent steals $5,000 from passenger at
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Obama administration doubles size of secret list of suspected terrorists in 1
year; about 21,000 banned from flying to or within the United States, including
500 American citizens
Family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry allege top federal prosecutor in
Phoenix lied; intend to sue BATFE and Justice Department for $25 million
Congressional report: Top Department of Justice officials had extensive
knowledge of and involvement in Operation Fast and Furious
Radioactive water leakage from reactor 4 at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power plant
Paul Craig
Roberts says John Williams statistics "make it completely clear that there is no
economic recovery"
Satellite data shows unsafe levels of micro-particulate pollutants across China;
nearly every province registering above 10 micrograms per cubic meter
Food shortages lead China to challenge U.S. for agro-economic dominion in South
America
Britain bristling over renewed territorial claims of Argentina toward Falkland
Islands
Ron Paul campaign
reports over $13 million received in fourth quarter 2011; zero debt
NATO report: Taliban nowhere near surrender and confident of their return to
power
Defense Secretary Panetta says 2013 will see end to international forces' combat
role in Afghanistan