The Fed Has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street
Ellen Brown/WebofDebt.com The Federal Reserve was set up by bankers for bankers, and it has served them well. Out of the blue, it came up with $12.3 trillion in nearly interest-free credit to bail the banks out of a credit crunch they created. That same credit crisis has plunged state and local governments into insolvency, [...]
‘Anonymous’ names Saturday a global day of protest to defend free speech
January 15, 2011 No CommentOnline protest group “Anonymous,” which has in recent months staged some of the most stunning and audacious cyber-attacks yet seen on key corporate Internet infrastructure, has named Saturday, Jan. 15, as a global day of protest to defend the freedom of speech. In a video published to their central communications blog, “AnonOps Communications” sought to [...]
Bill Maher lashes out at ‘Teabaggers’ identification with ‘Founding Fathers’
January 15, 2011 No Comment
They were not the common man of their day’ Comedian Bill Maher took issue with the Tea party’s identification with America’s “Founding Fathers’ at the end of the season premiere of his cable show Friday night. “I think it’s pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts, and what’s more, you would [...]
Human rights activists have held a demonstration in front of the White House to protest against the opening of the notorious U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay nine years ago. On Tuesday, 173 human rights activists, each wearing a black hood and an orange jumpsuit to represent the remaining prisoners at the US detention facility, [...]
The Commonwealth of Virginia is planning to file a bill under which it would begin minting its own gold and silver coins as an alternative currency to the US dollar. Virginia’s Republican Delegate Bob Marshall, from Prince William County, was to ask the General Assembly to consider the idea on Wednesday when it convenes for [...]
The United States Patriot Act is similar to the legislations carried out by the Nazi Germany in the World War II era, a former CIA officer says. “The Patriot Act was similar to legislation carried out by the Nazis because essentially it was using terrorism in both cases as an excuse to strip civil liberties [...]
By David Edwards and Stephen Webster Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) has introduced a little-noticed bill that intends to once again renew controversial provisions of the Bush administration’s USA Patriot Act that are due to expire this year. When the act was first signed into law, Congress put in some “sunset” provisions to quiet the concerns [...]
