PIMCO: The US Falls Into the Sovereign Debt Ring of Fire

In the latest PIMCO investor letter, Bill Gross brings up a chart he likes to call “The Ring of Fire.”

Mainstream Media Refuses to Disclose that “Independent” Pundits Are Actually Lobbyists

(WashingtonsBlog) – As reporter Sebastian Jones points out (see this and this), former Congressman Richard Gephardt runs a lobbying firm representing giant insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

Video: Reality Report #33 – Banister on Stack, Medina Offs Beck, Ron Paul Wins, Citi Withdraws

In this edition of the Reality Report former IRS Special Agent Joseph Banister joins Gary to weigh in on Joseph Stack’s attack on the IRS building in Austin. Franchi also presents stories on Citigroup’s recent bank run prevention plan and Ron Paul’s recent straw poll victory at CPAC. We also unspin ABC’s attempts at demonizing patriots, expose CNN’s simulation, present Utah’s recent legislative action against the Federal Government and spot light on Glenn Beck’s ratings drop. Gary brands a new “Enemy of the State” and reads from the mailbag.

Toyota’s consumer safety problems are dwarfed by body count of Big Pharma’s deadly drugs – Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) – Even as Toyota now finds itself the target of an increasingly hyped-up inquisition about “public safety,” skeptical consumers are asking the commonsense question: If public safety is so important, then why isn’t Congress asking about the dangers of Big Pharma’s deadly drugs?

Video: EPA Head – No Warming Since 1995 Doesn’t Mean Warming Isn’t Occurring

(SteveWatson) – EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson engaged in doublespeak of the highest degree today as she told reporters that no statistically significant increase in global temperatures since 1995 does not mean that there has not been human induced global warming. Read More Here

Who Are Their Prey? All of Us: From the Left and Right

(Infowars) – Our knee-jerk, tunnel-visioned, democratic and republican voters must develop some peripheral vision, or they will be taught some lessons of life that could more more easily be learned by viewing outside of the central areas of corporate media focus. And perhaps, the best place to begin seeing on the edges of one’s usual visual field is the corporate media itself.

McCain’s Dietary Supplement Bill: An Attempt to Implement Codex Alimentarius

(Infowars) – A bill recently introduced to the U.S. Senate, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (S. 3002), by Senators John McCain and Byron Dorgan is possibly the most direct assault on natural health freedom we have seen for some time. If passed into law, this bill would require all dietary supplement manufacturers, distributors, and holders all the way down to the retail store level to be comprehensively registered. It would also allow for the arbitrary banning of nutritional supplements by the FDA and the introduction of deceitful reporting of adverse events related to them.

Video: Economic Rebellion – It’s Just Starting

Greenspan: Worst Financial Crisis EVER, INCLUDING the Great Depression

(WashingtonsBlog) – Greenspan just said that the current credit crunch is “by far the greatest financial crisis, globally, ever” — including the 1930s Great Depression.

Bloomberg notes:

Greenspan said that while the economy was in worse shape in the Great Depression, the recent financial crisis was potentially more harmful than that in the 1930s because “never had short-term credit literally withdrawn.”

Video: The Alex Jones Show – Big Brother is Watching You

Alex starts off the 1st hour with big brother news, and the latest on the attacks by gov. disinfo agents, cointelpro trying to paint alex jones as being like “Timothy McVeigh”.Alex also covers the biggest news stories of today, and tells us who the guest will be on today’s show.

World War

(PressTV) – ‘Russia not working on Iran sanctions’

A senior Russian diplomat says his country will not support what he called crippling sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Read More Here

(PressTV) – China puts off military exchanges with US: Pentagon

The Pentagon says that Beijing has put off several high-profile military exchanges with Washington over the US military’s 6.4-billion-dollar arms deal with Taiwan. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Ahmadinejad blasts duplicity in fighting terror

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad censure what he describes as self-proclaimed anti-terror fighters for their double standards in countering terrorists. Read More Here

(Reuters) – Russia warns West against “crippling” Iran sanctions

A senior Russian diplomat warned the West on Wednesday against trying to paralyze Iran by targeting the Islamic Republic’s energy and banking sectors with crippling sanctions. Read More Here

(StopNato) – South Atlantic: Britain May Provoke New Conflict With Argentina

On February 22 two major developments occurred in the Americas south of the Rio Grande. The two-day Rio Group summit opened in Mexico and Great Britain started drilling for oil 60 miles north of the Falklands Islands, known as Las Malvinas to Argentina. Read More Here

(InformationClearingHouse) – A Report From The Afghanistan Resistance – Marjah Operations are an Exemplary Lesson for the Invaders – Read More Here

(ChinaDaily) – China Circled by Chain of US Anti-Missile Systems

Washington appears determined to surround China with US-built anti-missile systems, military scholars have observed. Read More Here

(Reuters) – U.S. Patriot Missiles in Poland Early April: Report

WARSAW – Poland is set to host a battery of U.S. Patriot missiles and the American troops to man it from the start of April, PAP news agency said Sunday. Read More Here

CNN Poll: Seven in 10 Americans Believe Iran has Nuclear Weapons – Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Video: Russian Chief of Staff – US Plans to Strike Iran

Conquest and Censorship

(GlobalResearch) – After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror’s army buried its fallen comrades, but left the corpses of the English defenders to rot in the fields where they lay.
Such is the brutal nature of war: the victor inflicts all manner of suffering and humiliation on the vanquished.

Economy

(Reuters) – Nearly 20% of US Workers Underemployed in Jan

Nearly 20 percent of the U.S. workforce lacked adequate employment in January and struggled to make ends meet with reduced resources and bleak job prospects, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. Read More Here

(Reuters) – Regulators report 27 percent jump in problem banks

The number of “problem” U.S. banks jumped 27 percent during the fourth quarter of 2009 to 702, the highest level since 1993 and a sign the industry’s recovery is still shaky, regulators reported on Tuesday. Read More Here

(Reuters) – US Jan mass layoffs edge up on weak manufacturing

The number of mass layoffs by U.S. employers edged up in January as manufacturers stepped up job cuts, data showed on Tuesday, but probably not enough to alter views that the economy is on the brink of creating jobs. Read More Here

(AP) – Report: States’ tax collections fall again

States again saw sharp declines in tax collections in the last quarter of 2009 — a record fifth straight quarterly drop, according to a new report that predicts more looming spending cuts or tax increases. Read More Here

(TheComingDepression) – Mainstreet in the gutter while wallstreet post 17% bonuses in 2009

Bonuses on Wall Street rose 17 percent last year to $20.3 billion even as the industry faced a public backlash over pay practices. Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Concerns grow over China’s sale of US bonds

Evidence is mounting that Chinese sales of US Treasury bonds over recent months are intended as a warning shot to Washington over escalating political disputes rather than being part of a routine portfolio shift as thought at first. Read More Here

(Bloomberg) – Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs

When a congressional panel convened a hearing on the government rescue of American International Group Inc. in January, the public scolding of Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner got the most attention. Read More Here

(Aljazeera) – Spain engulfed by pension protests

Spain’s debt-laden Socialist government has witnessed the first mass protests by unions in its six years in power as anger over a plan to raise the retirement age spilled onto the streets. Read More Here

(247WallSt) – Underwater Mortgages Hit 11.3 Million

There is a reason that 702 American banks, nearly one in ten, were on the FDIC “problem list” as of the end of 2009. A large number of small and mid-sized banks are burdened with home and commercial mortgages that are in default and may even go into foreclosure. Read More Here

(VancouverSun) – U.S. economy is a shambles, with no improvement in sight

President Obama’s claim that a second depression isn’t possible doesn’t square with the relevant numbers Read More Here

(ZeroHedge) – FDIC Hits Record “Default” Level As Deposit Insurance Fund Plunges By $12.7 Billion To NEGATIVE 20.9 Billion

The U.S. banking industry continued to struggle in the fourth quarter, as the number of banks on the brink of failure continued to rise and the government’s fund to protect deposits fell sharply into the red. Read More Here

(EconomicPolicyJournal) – Where Did the Links Go That Point to the Government Forcing Your 401k and IRA Money into Treasury Securities?

Forget about hedging inside your 401k and IRA against inflation. Sooner than you think, you will not be allowed to own gold ETF’s, gold mining stocks or gold related mutual funds in your 401k or IRA. Read More Here

(Bloomberg) – Greek Police, Protesters Clash in Nationwide Strike (Update2)

Greek police fired tear-gas and clashed with demonstrators in central Athens after a march organized by unions to oppose Prime Minister George Papandreou’s drive to cut the European Union’s biggest budget deficit. Read More Here

(ChimpPlanet) – Trillions for War And None For The American People

In 2001, George W. Bush attempted to destroy Social Security by turning the people’s money over to Wall Street. Then, 9/11 happened and Social Security was saved for the time being. Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – Foundation for the Study of Cycles: Gold to $2,000 By Late 2011, While Dollar and Stocks will Sink

I’m agnostic about different cycle systems, but – for what it’s worth – the Foundation for the Study of Cycles is predicting: Read More Here

(ZeroHedge) – The $100 Trillion Problem: Can America Learn From Chile Before It’s Too Late?

Jose Pinera provides an Entitlement State 101 lecture, in which Chile’s former Labor and Social Security Minister demystifies the U.S.’s $100 trillion unfunded benefits problem. Since Pinera is the man who many years ago privatized Chile’s entitlement system, America, and the entire Western system, which for the past century has been relying on unfunded liabilities to provide benefits to the population in the hopes that funding day will never come, may do well to listen to what he has to say. Read More Here

Top Bush adviser defends using nuclear weapons on civilians

(RawStory) – The senior Justice Department legal adviser to President Bush who made the legal case for the Bush Administration’s use of torture tactics on terror suspects defended comments that the president could unilaterally “massacre” civilians in wartime in a newly released interview.

Bernie Sanders compares climate skeptics to Nazi deniers

(Politico) – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is comparing climate change skeptics to those who disregarded the Nazi threat to America in the 1930s, adding a strident rhetorical shot to the already volatile debate over climate change.

MSM: Sharp decline in public’s belief in climate threat, British poll reveals

(Guardian) – Public conviction about the threat of climate change has declined sharply after months of questions over the science and growing disillusionment with government action, a leading British poll has found.

School officials continue dodging questions about webcam surveillance

(AfterDawn) – After the lawsuit over Harriton High School’s alleged webcam surveillance triggered an FBI investigation, you would hope school officials would come clean about what they characterize as completely legitimate security activities. Yet Lower Merion School District’s response to parents seems to raise more questions than it answers.

Glenn Beck Supporters, Not 9/11 Truthers, Are Advocating Violence

(PaulWatson) – While Fox News host Glenn Beck propagandizes almost on a daily basis about how 9/11 truthers represent a dangerous extremist fringe who are planning on killing the President, it turns out that the only violence being espoused is coming from Beck’s own viewers.

Video: Fox News spins overtime to minimize Ron Paul CPAC straw poll win

(Fox) – Neocon Billy Kristol dismissed the straw poll as student silliness. Good thing is, when Kristol will be playing shuffleboard at the old folks home the students will (hopefully) be running the country and the neocons will be a but a bad memory. – Video Link Here

MSM: Washington Times Covers Richard Gage, 9/11

(WashingtonTimes) –  A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center.

Iran to reveal evidence of Jundallah ties with U.S.

(PressTV) – Iran says it has irrefutable evidence confirming that terrorist ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi had been aided and abetted by the US government before his arrest.

Unplug the Signal: The Truth Will Not Be Televised

(Pupaganda) – A flow of information is constantly streaming from the television set; a bombardment of words and pictures.  The speed at which this information is communicated makes it easy for the signal to take control, switching the viewer’s brain to stand-by as information is absorbed without analysis or question. Today the television’s constant signal shapes the conclusions of the masses and produces the collective norm.