MSM: Top US court rules for Navy in whale-sonar case

The US Navy can conduct sonar training exercises off the southern California coast without restrictions designed to protect whales, dolphins and other marine mammals, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a defeat for environmentalists. In the most significant environmental case of its new term and its first ruling of the term, the high court threw out a federal judge’s injunction that had required the Navy to take precautions during submarine-hunting exercises.

Environmental groups brought the lawsuit and said the intense sound waves can harm or even kill 37 species of marine mammals, including sea lions and endangered blue whales, by interfering with their ability to navigate and communicate.

The Foreign Policy of an Obama Administration

“Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.” Bertrand Russell

“In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 4, 1933)

“I believe in a whole lot of things that make me progressive and put me squarely in the Democratic camp.” Sen. Barack Obama, (July 8, 2008)

Video: Marc Faber and Charles Maxwell on the economy, stocks and the bailout – MSM

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Senator: New Media Makes it Difficult to Impose Fairness Doctrine

Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin told Cybercast News Service that Obama and a Democrat dominated Congress will likely not be able to impose the Fairness Doctrine on talk radio. “It’s increasingly difficult to try and put quotas on political speech over any medium, so I think that would be the challenge anyone would face if they wanted to try and do that,” Cardin said on November 4 at the Democratic Senatorial Committee election night party.

Global Economic Tremors

On October 28, the Financial Times’ columnist Martin Wolf wrote: “Preventing a global slump must be the priority.” He cited Nouriel Roubini back in February listing “twelve steps to financial disaster,” all of which the US took and dragged the whole world down with it.

Priority one is to rescue it and avoid a possible depression. “Given the near-disintegration of the western world’s banking system, the flight to safe assets, the tightening of credit to the real economy, collapsing equity prices, turmoil on currency markets, continued steep declines in house prices, rapid withdrawal of funds from hedge funds and ongoing collapse of the so-called “shadow banking system.” More worrisome is that “next year could be far worse” so what does Wolf think should be done?

Video: Another UN official goes public on 9/11 doubts

At the Osaka 9/11 Truth International Conference on Nov. 1, 2008, The Corbett Report conducted an interview with Etsuko Chida, a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees worker who was in Kandahar on 9/11. In this stunning interview, she questions the official 9/11 conspiracy theory, raising the points that Osama and Al Qaeda were CIA founded and funded, and that it is more beneficial for the US if the boogeyman Osama is not captured.

Beware The Obama Hype – What “Change” In America Really Means

November 12, 2008 – My first visit to Texas was in 1968, on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas. I drove south, following the line of telegraph poles to the small town of Midlothian, where I met Penn Jones Jr, editor of the Midlothian Mirror. Except for his drawl and fine boots, everything about Penn was the antithesis of the Texas stereotype. Having exposed the racists of the John Birch Society, his printing press had been repeatedly firebombed. Week after week, he painstakingly assembled evidence that all but demolished the official version of Kennedy’s murder.

Bailout Price Tag: $3.5T So Far, But ‘Real’ Cost May Be Much Higher

While the government is clearly spending a lot of taxpayers’ money to bail out financial firms, the tally is even bigger than most Americans (economists and pundits included) are probably aware or willing to admit.

MSM: U.S. Stocks Fall on Treasury Strategy Shift, Best Buy Forecast

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks fell for a third day as the Treasury’s plan to use bailout funds to shore up consumer lending and Best Buy Co.‘s warning of a “seismic” slowdown in spending stoked concern the credit crisis is far from over.

MSM: Greasy roadside snack vans ‘must offer at least one healthy option or face being closed’

Greasy roadside takeaways serving motorists burgers and chips will be shut down if they fail to offer new healthier alternatives, under new rules revealed today.
The snack vans, often found in busy lay-bys, must now offer soup, salads or low fat yogurts with their artery-clogging kebabs.

MSM: Gloom grips markets as global downturn spreads

ISINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s retail sales data on Wednesday pointed to slowing consumption and the World Bank said more countries are seeking its help, as evidence mounted that the rich-world downturn is spreading through emerging economies.