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Permalink Silber Resurfaces: Help Preserve a Vital Voice

Arthur Silber has surfaced again after a long silence due to chronic -- and worsening -- illness. As you can see from this post, his health remains precarious, and he is need of assistance -- not only for the bare modicum of health care that he might be able to eke out with a few extra dollars, but also just to survive on a daily basis: buying food, paying rent, etc. Silber has no insurance, and no other means of support other than what he is given for the writing on his blog. And readers here know that his writing and insights are incomparable, and that Silber gives us a deep and bracing viewpoint that we sorely need. [Just check out the list of "Major Essays" on his site -- or take a random stroll through his archives -- and you will see what I mean.] So if you have anything to give, please consider throwing a bit of it Silber's way, as soon as you can. AWIP: The Internet as You Know It Will Cease to Exist. + A Deadly Liar and Manipulator.


Permalink 364 photographs of the Pentagon on 9/11 just released on the Internet. These exclusive pictures have never been available on the Internet before

These photographs were taken by an anonymous source who came forward at the premiere of Loose Change: Final Cut in Denver, Colorado. The man identified himself as a photographer for the military and told us that we can have a copy of the photographs. After carefully examining the photographs, it was determined that no one person should have these on their own. New World Order Report has decided to make these pictures available for download and viewing.


Permalink Anthony Lawson/Jeff Gates- A Closer Look at Israel's Role in Terrorism - Parts 1, 2 and 3

This series is based on an article by Jeff Gates, who is a widely acclaimed author, attorney, merchant banker, educator and consultant to governments worldwide, who served for seven years as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. He is the author of Guilt by Association, Democracy At Risk and The Ownership Solution. See his website http://criminalstate.com/ [Submitted by Gilad Atzmon]


Permalink Revealed: Jack Straw's secret warning to Tony Blair on Iraq

A "secret and personal" letter from Jack Straw, the then foreign secretary, to Tony Blair reveals damning doubts at the heart of government about Blair’s plans for Iraq a year before war started. The letter, a copy of which is published for the first time today, warned the prime minister that the case for military action in Iraq was of dubious legality and would be no guarantee of a better future for Iraq even if Saddam Hussein were removed.


Permalink Sea of bodies captured by the AP (GRAPHIC)

Haitians are piling bodies along the devastated streets of their capital after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace and the main prison, the cathedral, hospitals, schools and thousands of homes. Untold numbers are still trapped. President Rene Preval says he believes thousands of people are dead even as other officials give much higher estimates – though they were based on the extent of the destruction rather than firm counts of the dead. His prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, tells CNN: “I believe we are well over 100,000,” while leading senator Youri Latortue tells The Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead. Both admit they have no way of knowing. The magnitude-7 quake struck Tuesday afternoon. Some photos are coming out of the country but most photojournalists are just arriving and trying to find ways to transmit the photos. We will update the blog as more photos are available. WARNING: This post contains graphic images of dead bodies and injured survivors. CNN: Total Chaos as U.S. Helicopters Drop Food in Port-au-Prince (VIDEO) AFP: Anger at US builds at Port-au-Prince airport. BBC: UN Official on Haiti: This crisis has been like no other because the country has been decapitated. BBC: Senegal offers land to Haitians. CNN: U.S. takes control of the capital's airport. Obama (just like the Neocons) sees crisis as a great opportunity...


Permalink FBI admits Spanish politican was model for 'high-tech' Osama bin Laden photo-fit

Mr Llamazares said the mistake showed the "low level" of US intelligence services. 16 Jan 2010 The FBI has admitted using a photograph of a bearded Spanish politician as the basis for a mocked-up photofit image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look now. The US state department was forced to withdraw the mocked up photo-image, circulated around the world last week, after the discovery that it was not quite as technically sophisticated as the FBI had originally claimed. Gaspar Llamazares, a member of Spain's communist party and the former leader of the United Left coalition in parliament, said his forehead, hair and jaw-line had been "cut and pasted" from an old campaign photograph.


Permalink Italy proposes mandatory licenses for people who upload video

Italy's Berlusconi regime, already known around the world as an enemy of free speech and popular access to the tools of communication, has now floated a proposal to require Italians to get an "uploader's license" in order to put any "moving pictures" on the Internet. The government claims that this is required as part of the EU's product placement disclosure rules, which is about as ridiculous assertion as I've heard this month.


Permalink Romania to introduce fat tax, in battle against obesity

Fast-food restaurants are bracing themselves for Europe’s first “fat tax” as the battle against obesity gathers momentum. The Romanian Health Ministry has outlined plans to levy an extra charge on fatty, salty and sugary foods; a move that will tackle two problems simultaneously — the poor quality of its citizens’ diets and a plunging public-sector budget as a result of the recession.


Permalink Businessman sues BA 'for treating men like perverts'

A businessman is suing British Airways over a policy that bans male passengers from sitting next to children they don't know - even if the child's parents are on the same flight. Mirko Fischer has accused the airline of branding all men as potential sex offenders and says innocent travellers are being publicly humiliated. In line with the policy, BA cabin crew patrol the aisles before take-off checking that youngsters travelling on their own or in a different row from their parents are not next to a male stranger.


Permalink Are You Ready for a Fascist America?

The tax on banks proposed by Washington guarantees Wall Street $US 4 trillion which means top banks will keep playing the same game in the future, economic trend forecaster Gerald Celente warned. “Goldman Sachs is nothing more than a big hedge fund, period and paragraph. If they went under – people don’t have go to the ATM machine to get their money out of the Goldman Sachs bank, they do not have Goldman Sachs cheques, they are just fronting for Wall Street and all Wall Street is doing is gambling and their risks are covered by the American taxpayer,” said Celente. “America was at its greatest when it was not about Wall Street but Main Street; when it was not about the Walmart but moms and pops and community; when it was not about factory farms but family farms. Everything in America has gone corporate,” grieved the forecaster. Celente concluded by saying, “the merger of state and corporate powers, according to Mussolini, who knew a thing or two about it, is called fascism and fascism is coming to America.


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