Economy derails freight trains

Union Pacific down 21 percent in first quarter; 5,200 employees furloughed

Mikhail Gorbachev calls for new American revolution

(RawStory) – Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last communist general secretary, called for a new American “revolution” — also calling it a “perestroika,” or government restructuring — in an editorial published Wednesday in The Sydney Morning Herald .

House committee subpoenas Federal Reserve

(RawStory) – The congressional panel investigating what happened to all that bank bailout money has issued a subpoena to the Federal Reserve, asking them to hand over all documents relating to the takeover of Merrill Lynch by the Bank of America.

MSM: Australia may push swine flu to pandemic

(Sydney) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) said a spike in swine flu cases in Australia may push it to finally announce the first flu pandemic in 41 years.

The Plea of Mother Earth – Unite or Perish!

As our seas become laden with plastic trash and 75% of our fishing grounds are depleted ~ we must face the fact that we are rapidly depleting what Nature provides us and that our eco-system does not have borders. Our actions effect everything and we must unite and cooperate with each other and nature ~ or we will perish

For 300 Years Britain has Outsourced Mayhem. Finally it’s Coming Home

Opium, famine and banks all played their part in this country’s plundering of the globe. Now it’s over, we find it hard to accept

Will there be Zimbabwe-type Hyperinflation in the U.S.A.?

The Republicans are convinced that hyperinflation is just around the corner, but don’t believe it. The real enemy is deflation, which is why Fed chief Bernanke has taken such extraordinary steps to pump liquidity into the system.

Government Demands Inventory of All VFW Weapons

An Infowars reader has passed along an email sent to VFW commanders by the Assistant Adjutant of the Department of Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars indicating the U.S. Army TACOM (Tactical Army Command) is demanding an inventory of all weapons held by VFW posts.

What a “Jobless Recovery” Really Means: A Massive Redistribution of Wealth from the Little Guy to the Big Boys

Everyone from the Fed bank of San Francisco to Kiplinger’s is saying that we may have a “jobless recovery”.

MSM: North Korea threatens ‘merciless’ nuclear offensive

(Guardian) – North Korea today warned it would use nuclear weapons in a “merciless offensive” if provoked, two weeks after testing a Hiroshima-size device.

MSM: Iranian weapons getting through to Taliban

(Telegraph) – Heavy weapons are continuing to stream across the Afghan border from Iran despite Barack Obama’s attempts to enlist Tehran’s help in fighting the insurgency, officials have said.

MSM: ‘Orwellian language’ in schools turns pupils into ‘customers’, finds damning report

(DailyMail) – Schools using the ‘Orwellian language of performance management’ are undermining teenagers’ education by turning them into ‘customers’ rather than students, a landmark report says today.

MSM: America a weapons supermarket for terrorists, inquiry finds

(Guardian) – Undercover inspectors manage to buy high-grade gear including nuclear triggers and evade export bans

MSM: Peru declares curfew after bloody clashes in Amazon jungle

(Guardian) – Peru has declared a curfew in its Amazon jungle after dozens died and hundreds were injured in bloody clashes between security forces and indigenous tribes protesting against oil and mining projects.

Recycled radioactive metal contaminates consumer products

Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactive metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world.

Israeli tanks, bulldozers roll into Gaza

Israeli tanks have crossed the border into the southeast Gaza Strip after the regime’s gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast across the strip.

MSM: Peled proposes Israeli sanctions on US

(JPost) – In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government over US President Barack Obama’s Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the US in a letter to cabinet ministers on Sunday.

Video: Peter Schiff takes on Rockefeller, CFR, Rothschild frontman

Peter Schiff exchanges blows with Michael Mussa from The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics.

MSM: Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead: Kevin Hassett

(Bloomberg) – I’ve finally figured out the Obama economic strategy. President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing “failed” firms, that they have developed a scheme to gain the same power over every business. The plan is to enact policies that are so anticompetitive that every firm needs a bailout.

Treasury Secretary’s Secret Talking Points Reveal That Banks Were Forced to Surrender Ownership Stakes to Government

Last October, then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ordered nine banks that the Treasury Department described as “healthy” financial institutions to surrender ownership interests to the government or else face regulatory action that would force them to surrender ownership interests to the government, according to an internal Treasury Department document.

MSM: The depression quietly deepens

(Telegraph) – Those of us who still question whether the world has purged its toxins are reduced to the same tiny band of moaning Druids from early 2007, when we shook our heads in disbelief as the carry trade swept Iceland to fresh madness and bankers laughed off sub-prime rot at Bear Stearns.