The Fed – Just One Giant Money Counterfeiter

(ZeroHedge) – San Jose State economics professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel tells all his students that the easiest way to understand the Federal Reserve is to think of it as a giant, legalized counterfeiter. I had always known that the Fed and other central banks were like counterfeiters, but I still thought that the actual mechanics of open-market operations and so forth actually provided some important distinctions.

Video: Peter Schiff Vlog on Congress Confirming Bernanke

February 1st 2010

Two analogies for everyone to understand how US wars in Iraq and Iran are unlawful

(Examiner) – Laws are meant to be perfectly clear and followed; especially those to save human beings from the scourge of war. The UN Charter are those laws, fortified with treaty status that under the US Constitution puts the Charter equal in authority to US law. The problem is that when political “leadership” of both parties want war, and then engage their propaganda minions in corporate media disclosed in the 1975 Church Senate Committee as “Operation Mockingbird,” Americans can easily be dis-informed. After all, Americans witness few wars and not many of us study the UN Charter to clearly understand lawful and unlawful wars.

MSM: Obama’s Secret Slush Fund

(Fox) – President Obama and Budget Director Peter Orszag have thrown transparency out the window and created a black box for taxes and spending on climate change hidden inside the administration’s 2011 budget. Read More Here

MSM: Scotland records coldest winter

(BBC) – Scotland has suffered some of the coldest winter months in almost 100 years, the Met Office has confirmed.

Study: Hunger in America jumps ‘unprecedented’ 46 percent

(RawStory) – If there is any indicator of the toll that the Great Recession has taken on the public, it would be the statistics beginning to emerge about hunger in the US.

Video: How Weed Won the West – Marijuana Legalization is a Crucial Issue for the Liberty Movement

(KurtNimmo) – Jonathan Perri, writing for the Los Angeles Times, declares the war against drugs a dismal failure. Perri mentions an op-ed penned by D.A.R.E. America Chairman Skip Miller who claims his organization has reduced illegal drug usage by America’s children.

Neocon Says Obama Should Save Presidency By Attacking Iran

(SteveWatson) – A Neoconservative commentator and scholar has stated that Obama can save his presidency and turn around his plummeting approval ratings by bombing Iran.

U.S. agrees to timetable for UN Gun Ban

(NationalGunRights) – The United Nations and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are moving forward with their plan to confiscate your guns.

MSM: Law to limit ammunition before Oakland council

(SFChronicle) – Any new public policy measure undertaken to reduce, regulate or limit access to the guns and ammunition that have contributed to the loss of human life across the nation’s urban landscape is a step in the right direction.

Virginia Senate Passes Health Care Freedom Act

(TenthAmendmentCenter) – Breaking: Today the Virginia State Senate passed Senate Bill 283 (SB283) by a vote of 23-17.

Provides that a resident of the Commonwealth shall not be required to obtain or maintain a policy of individual insurance coverage. This applies regardless of whether the person has or is eligible for health insurance coverage under any policy or program provided by or through his employer or a plan sponsored by the Commonwealth or the federal government. The measure also states that no provision of Title 38.2 renders a resident liable for any penalty, assessment, fee, or fine as a result his failure to procure or obtain health insurance coverage.

Also passed today is SB310 and SB417, both of which provide “that a resident of the Commonwealth shall not be required to obtain or maintain a policy of individual insurance coverage.”

MSM: Russia Denies Paulson Claim Of Plan To Sell Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

(DowJones) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s office Monday denied Russia approached China in 2008 to sell off U.S. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds, as detailed in former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s memoirs.

Obama Using Public Schools To Recruit Agenda Advancing Interns

(NewsBusters) – A rather disturbing document surfaced on the Internet Saturday with grave implications concerning how the Obama administration is recruiting interns from public schools to assist in advancing the President’s agenda along with his desire to get Democrats including himself elected. Read More Here

Baltic Dry Index Collapses Signal Further Worldwide Economic Weakness In 2010

(BeforeItsNews) – The Baltic Dry Index has collapsed by 40% over the last 10 weeks further signaling economic weakness.

MSM: Huge Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power

(NYTimes) – In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and American power. Read More Here

MSM: U.K.’s Royal Mint Doubles Production of Gold Coins (Update2)

(Bloomberg) — The U.K.’s Royal Mint, established in the 13th century, more than doubled gold-coin production last year as investors sought to diversify their assets and hedge against a weaker dollar and accelerating inflation.

MSM: Backdoor taxes to hit middle class

(Reuters) – The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families.

After test failure, US warns Iran over defensive missiles

(PressTV) – Amid failure of the US long-range ballistic missile test over the Pacific Ocean, the Pentagon warns Iran continue to pursue long-range ballistic missiles.

Video: FED GAVE Banks Access to 23.7 TRILLION DOLLARS NOT $700 Billion!

(MSNBC) – Dylan Ratigan Show – January 30, 2010 – best part starts at 1:08

MSM: Climategate scientist ‘hid flaws in data’, say sceptics

(Independent) – The “climategate” controversy intensified last night when the senior British scientist at its centre, Professor Phil Jones, faced fresh accusations that he attempted to withhold data that could cast doubt on evidence for rising world temperatures. Read More Here

Obama Administration Vision: War Without End

(PoliticsDaily) – Suicide bombers inside the United States. Nuclear-armed nations collapsing and losing control of nuclear weapons. Bloody new conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan. American troops under attack at bases around the world. Terrorist attacks using unknown new diseases. Chinese missile attacks on Taiwan.

MSM: Coast-to-coast double-digit college tuition hikes

(MSNBC) – As students around the country anxiously wait for college acceptance letters, their parents are sweating the looming tuition bills at public universities.

Israel threatens Iran with ‘heavy price’

(PressTV) – Israeli National Security Advisor Uzi Arad has threatened Iran with ‘heavy’ measures after reports of US augmentation of forces off Iran’s coast.

Did Government Approve Citizens As Toxic Waste Sites? Are We Being Poisoned?

“Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.” -Winston Churchill
It has been a long established joke about not drinking the water in Third World countries. Now it is here in America that the water has been declared unsafe to drink, and it is no joke. Whereas the greatest problem with water in the underdeveloped nations is usually such as amoebic dysentery, serious but reversible, in the U.S. it is rat poison one gets in the drinking water–and it is no accident.

MSM: The Depressing News About Antidepressants

(NewsWeek) – Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse. Read More Here

Obama Pledges Another $215 Million For Virtual Strip Search Scanners

(PaulWatson) – But historical record clearly shows that devices are a completely illegal violation of human rights

Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers

(NewsMax) – Without the ingenuity of America’s brightest minds and the investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars, there would be no Internet, as we now know it today.

Video: Mind blowing speech by Robert Welch in 1958 predicting Insiders plans to destroy America

Judicial Watch posts documents in ‘Pelosi Air Force Scandal’; travel tops $2 million

(TheUSReport) – The government watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s use of US Air Force aircraft for Congressional Delegations (CODELs). According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Speaker’s military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.

U.N. Climate Change panel embarrassed further – Sean Segler

This newest revelation will cause more embarrassment for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology last month over inaccurate statements about global warming: