Israelis who authorized the use of white phosphorous in densely populated Gaza should be tried for war crimes, a British Labour Party legislator said Friday, after entering the Hamas-ruled territory with 60 European parliamentarians. The lawmakers are visiting Gaza to draw attention to the territory’s “evil blockade” by Israel and Egypt, said the Labour legislator, Gerald Kaufman. You Tube: UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza

A January 8 release of documents in the ACLU FOIA lawsuit seeking materials related to the CIA's destruction of videotapes of interrogators using "enhanced interrogation techniques" has revealed the first evidence of a precise instruction for the destruction of those tapes.

RAW: The Chaos Moments After Haitian Earthquake (Graphic content)). Gulf Today: 300,000 homeless after Haiti quake: UN. Al Jazeera: Up to 200,000 feared dead: "We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies. We anticipate there will be between 100,00 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number," Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, the country's interior minister, told the Reuters news agency on Friday. If the casualty figures are accurate, the 7.0 magnitude quake that hit Haiti on Tuesday would be one of the 10 deadliest earthquakes ever recorded.

Obama asks 'Heckuva job, Brownie' George W. Bush to help with Haiti relief efforts By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 15 Jan 2010 Mega barf alert AND gag me with a chainsaw! Because Bush did *such* a great job with the Hurricane Katrina (aka blown levies) relief efforts, President Barack Obama is asking his killer drone soul mate to help with Haiti relief efforts! Such a request assigns legitimacy to the illegitimate P_resident that was Bush, who was installed in a coup d'etat, and serves to permanently elevate him from war crime status and torturer (Shock & Awe, Waterboarder-in-Chief) to world-class humanitarian.

'Smoking gun of U.S. Climategate': Weather Channel founder Coleman's TV special accuses NASA & NOAA of manipulating climate data. It has been revealed that a "sleight of hand" was used in the computer program that rated 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD.” Skeptical climate researchers have discovered extensive manipulation of the data within the U.S. Government's two primary climate centers: the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. These centers are being accused of creating a strong bias toward warmer temperatures through a system that dramatically trimmed the number and cherry-picked the locations of weather observation stations they use to produce the data set on which temperature record reports are based. The two investigators say the system has been distorted in other ways as well.

The government of the Netherlands recently granted the US military use of its islands in the Caribbean, with the excuse that this is to help in the "war against drugs". In reality, this is a direct threat to the Chavez government in Venezuela. ...Chávez has accused the Netherlands of supporting aggression against Venezuela, because the Netherlands has given permission to the American armed forces to use the military bases on the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao.

Nine US Drone Strikes in 15 Days: Is This Escalation Permanent? US drones continue to loom over Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency, firing an alarming number of missiles into “suspected hideouts” in villages across the region. Two more struck today, killing at least 11 additional people. Today drones fired four missiles at a compound in Zanini village, near Miramshah, killing at least five people, whom security officials described as “militants.” One of those slain in the strike was said to be foreign. Just two hours later, the drones struck again, this time hitting at the Bichi village, not far from the site of yesterday’s strike in Pasalkot. The Bichi strike was said to have killed six “suspects.” AFP: 11 killed in US missile strikes in NW Pakistan: officials. AntiWar: US Drone Fired Missile Into a Crowd of "Suspects," Killing 13 Afghans. TANSW: Pakistan Taliban deny US drone strike killed top leader. This comes on top of this Nobel Peace Prize winner Kills at Least 15 in North Waziristan and this Civilians Slain as Latest US Drone Strike on North Waziristan, Kills Five and this US Drones Kill 12 in North Waziristan: Third TERROR Strike in 24 Hours in Tribal Area and this U.S. Drones Kill 15 People Near Border in Pakistan and summing up all of 2009, this: 44 US drone hits in Pakistan killed 700 civilians in 2009.

BP and Chinese partner CNPC have paid a $500 million (306 million pounds) signature bonus due on the contract they won to develop Iraq's supergiant Rumaila oilfield, a senior Iraqi oil sector official said. The Iraqi Oil Ministry and the BP-led consortium also agreed to set the baseline production level at Iraq's biggest oilfield at 1.066 million barrels per day, Dhiya Jaafar, current head of the South Oil Co, told Reuters in the southern oil hub of Basra.

UK Police sledging in Oxfordshire: Local policing area commander Supt Andrew Murray said the snow had "a habit of bringing out the child in all of us". He added: "I have spoken to the officers concerned and reminded them in no uncertain terms that tobogganing on duty, on police equipment and at taxpayers' expense is a very bad idea should they wish to progress under my command".

Since writing today's piece for Upstate New York's right-leaning Gouverneur Times, a new poll has come out this morning showing the Republican Scott Brown now leading the Democrat Martha Coakley by 4 points in the race for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by a Democrat named Kennedy for nearly 60 years.

Economic Recovery fed reserve read more...interest rates Goldman Sachs jim rogers gold silver etf peter schiff ron paul Max Keiser Gerald Celente Jim Rogers wall st street Tim Geithner glenn beck henry paulson glass Steagall. EclipTV: Gerald Celente: Financial mafia controlling US and Wall Street: Even as Barack Obama makes a read more...public show of calling out major US banks, some analysts remain skeptical about his sincerity. Gerald Celente says that Wall Street owns Washington and real reform has yet to be put in place. (VIDEO)

Customers of China’s two largest mobile phone networks, China Mobile and China Unicom, have had their texting service blocked after sending risqué messages, the state media claims. The disclosure comes as the country is embroiled in a dispute with Google. On Tuesday the internet giant said it could quit China because of concerns over censorship. The Global Times, a government-run newspaper, said: “Everyone seems to be under watch.” Bad as this is, let's remember that the US/Israel, Britain, Australia and New Zealand do this too ("Echelon"). They all need to be exposed and stopped from doing this.

There has not been an audit of the gold in Fort Knox since 1954. This has not been done since 1954 but is legally required to be auditied on a yearly basis. There have been numerous clues to the "salted" bars and may be one of the reason's the Federal Reserve doesn't want an audit.