Video: Road Warrior-level collapse imminent – Alex Jones says we must take corrective action now

(AlexJones&AaronDykes) – Move towards global currency as U.S. loses status, faces depression and sees dangerous cuts to services as economic instability sets in

The United States as we know it has ended, Alex Jones warns, as the nation has lost its credit rating with China, its Dollar reserve status and faces saddling debt and cuts in programs and services. Continue reading

The October Surprise Is Coming

(AmericanThinker) – The October Surprise. We all know it’s coming. In what shape, idea, form — who’s to say? Evil always surprises. Its goals are constant, the ultimate objective never changes, but inevitably it manifests itself as the savior of the day, the savior of man. The 2008 Democrat October Surprise that ushered in the first hardcore radical post-American president in American history was the “economic collapse.” Oh yes, that was a beaut.

The time before that, the moochers and the looters tried to fake Bush documents — except that the conservative blogosphere caught them red-handed, so they missed their mark. Continue reading

Health News

(NBC13) – Video: No shot, no school for Alabama sixth graders

As of last September, Alabama law requires 11 and 12 year olds to have a Tdap booster before registering for sixth grade this coming school year. However, some health officials are concerned parents aren’t getting the message. View Video Here

(MailOnline) – Sterilise the poor and bring back the workhouse: Public’s bizarre suggestions for spending cuts – Read More Here

(NanoWerk) – Nanotechnology professor found dead in his lab – Read More Here

(Rense) – Aspartame Jumps Premature Births Up To 78% – Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum

How Aspartame Kills The Fetus And Maims Babies – Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Scientists discover how broccoli fights cancer

Scientists may have discovered why eating broccoli seems to reduce the chance of developing prostate cancer. Read More Here

(Webuser) – Mobile phones cause memory loss

A study by life assistance company CPP claims that 23 million Britons don’t know their partner’s mobile number off by heart and 30 million can’t recall their best friend’s mobile number. Read More Here

Indigenous Struggle, Ecology, and Capitalist Resource Extraction in Ecuador – An Interview with Marlon Santi

(GlobalResearch) – On July 5, I sat down with Marlon Santi, President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), in his office in Quito. We discussed the increasing contradictions between the demands of the indigenous movement, on the one hand, around water rights and anti-mining resistance, and the positions of the government of Rafael Correa, on the other, which has labelled indigenous resistance to large-scale mining and oil exploitation as “terrorism and sabotage.” Continue reading

World War

Video: Israel Soldier and Palestinian Girl – Video Link Here

(KurtNimmo) – Democrat Levin Demands More Illegal Attacks On Pakistan

More evidence there is little discernible difference between Republicans and Democrats. Long time archaic Senate fixture Carl Levin who pretends to represent the people of Michigan has called for stepping up the Pentagon murder campaign to violate Pakistan’s borders and kill its people. Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – Britain Unveils Unmanned ‘Combat Aircraft Of The Future’

The UK Ministry of Defence’s “combat aircraft of the future” — a state-of-the-art jet capable of deploying weapons and bringing back intelligence without human guidance — made its long-awaited debut at a ceremony Monday. Read More Here

(Telegraph) – North Korean soldiers defect to China fuelling fears of imminent military clash – Read More Here

(Guardian) – America: hooked on war and getting poorer

With record foreclosures and child poverty at a shameful level, can we really afford to stay in Afghanistan and Iraq for 10 years? – Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Obscure book by British adviser becomes cult hit after Warren Buffett tip

An obscure book about the collapse of the German economy in the 1920s has become cult reading among leading financiers, after a tip from billionaire investor Warren Buffett. Read More Here

(SoapBox) – Requiem for the Antiwar Movement by Cindy Sheehan – Read More Here

(ThinkProgress) – Bolton Lays Out His Pro-Israel Strategy: Increase Political Support In The U.S. For Letting Israel Bomb Iran

Reports have emerged this week on the group Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI), an organization led by pro-war neocons and evangelical Christians seeking to attack President Obama’s Middle East policy. The group launched an ad this week bashing Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) for allegedly not understanding that Israel is a U.S. ally.

War hawk flack John Bolton commented on the new group today in an email to right-wing Commentary Magazine: Read More Here

(NewStatesman) – General Petraeus’s leaked emails about Israel – Read More Here

(Intifada) – Israel: a Failing Colonial Project? – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Israel’s New ‘Video Game’ Executions – Soldiers kill by remote control – Jonathan Cook

It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick.

The aim: to kill terrorists.

Played by: young women serving in the Israeli army. Read More Here

(AsiaPacificJournal) – Kyrgyzstan, America and the Global Drug Trade: Deep Forces, Coups d’Etat, Narcotics and Terror – Peter Dale Scott

Will the current crisis in Kyrgyzstan lead to greater instability, and perhaps an expansion of the current conflict in Central Asia? There are good reasons to be concerned. Deep forces, not adequately understood, are at work there; and these forces have repeatedly led to major warfare in the past. Read More Here

(PalestineTelegraph) – Why did Tony Blair receive a hero’s welcome in Kosovo?He should have been arrested as a war criminal – Read More Here

(WorldBulletin) – Turkey, China help Iran on fuel supplies after “US bite”

Friendly powers in the international arena are helping Iran get fuel supplies after the U.S. passed unilateral sanctions a week ago. Read More Here

(Laatan) – THE NEOCONS ARE GETTING DESPERATE: THEY’VE SET UP AN ‘EMERGENCY COMMITTEE FOR ISRAEL’

In a sign of desperation the neoconservatives have created their latest committee, the ‘Emergency Committee for Israel’, complete with its own website, which has been set up to counter growing anti-Zionist public opinion. Read More Here

(Reuters) – Libyan aid ship nears Gaza, but final port in doubt – Read More Here

(ArutzShiva) – Report: Iran-Iraq-Syria Missile Route Revealed

Iraqi civilians report that dozens of Iranian trucks filled with missiles have recently passed through their country, former minister Mordechai Ben-Porat told Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew-language news service. The trucks appear to be heading for Syria. Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Video: No ‘Hope’? Israel blocking new aid ship to Gaza

The organisers of a Libyan aid ship bound for Gaza say it’s been confronted by an Israeli military vessel and ordered to change its course for Egypt. They also say the boat – called ‘Hope’ – is refusing to alter its destination and will continue to head to the Palestinian territory. The Israeli vessel is reportedly continuing to shadow the ship, after the country insisted it would not allow it to break the three-year Gaza blockade. Continue reading

BP Oil Gusher

(FloridaOilSpillLaw) – New Satellite Images of Gulf: Oil reaches Mexico’s Yucutan, near Cancun (PHOTOS) – Read More Here

(MyWay) – Scientists say Gulf spill altering food web

Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment.

Near the spill site, researchers have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes – cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles. Read More Here

(FloridaOilSpillLaw) – Loop Current stretching all the way to Louisiana coast; Directly over BP oil well blowout – Read More Here

Video: Oil Spill Update Hopedale La

Me and a friend made a trip to his land in Hopedale La, And after we walked to the Ancient Indian Mound we found OIL. This was on July 10th 2010 and that oil is way in the marsh 1/2 way to Lake Borne. Video Link Here

(GulfOilSpillLaw) – Government Experts reveal 420 MILLION to 840 MILLION gallons of BP oil have flowed into Gulf – Read More Here

(Helium) – Why BP is readying a ‘super weapon’ to avert escalating Gulf nightmare

In a desperate attempt to stop a huge area of the Gulf ocean floor from possibly rupturing due to subterranean methane gas (leading to a calamity no human has ever seen) BP has ripped a page from science fiction books.

The giant oil company is now quietly preparing to test a small nuclear device in a frenzied rush against time to quell a cascading catastrophe. If successful they will have the capability to detonate a controlled fusion generated pulse. Read More Here

(Discovery) – Oil-Stopping Island Crumbles Into the Gulf: Big Pics

More photographic evidence surfaced today that an artificial island being built to stop the Gulf oil spill from reaching the Louisiana coast is nearly under water. Read More Here

(FloridaOilSpillLaw) – Video: Oil Expert: “Real concerned about shut-in integrity test” by BP “because of the down hole damage” that “could cause it to blowout” View More Here

(RawStory) – Security contractor: BP fired me for taking photos of dispersants

A security contractor who was once responsible for keeping reporters away from cleanup workers is now coming forward to blow the whistle on BP.

Adam Dillon claims he was fired by the oil company after he took pictures showing how dispersants were being used in the Gulf. Read More Here

(OilPrice) – BP Committing Ecocide on Islands in Gulf

From environmentalists and wildlife specialists to fisherman and businessmen along the Gulf Coast the message is the same: BP is not only strangling the news of what is actually occurring in the Gulf of Mexico with the oil disaster but has co-opted key federal regulatory and oversight agencies to advance its agenda and that of its oil partners, including Halliburton, Anadarko, and Transocean. Read More Here

Economy

(WSJournal) – Fed Sees Slower Growth

Federal Reserve officials, who are likely to reveal Wednesday a cut in their assessment of the growth outlook, are divided on how aggressively the central bank should act if the economy slows further. Read More Here

(ZeroHedge) – Why Watching CNBC Can Be Hazardous To Your Wealth – Read More Here

(ZeroHedge) – Bloomberg Poll Finds Americans No Longer Drinking Kool Aid, 71% See Economy “Mired In Recession” – Tyler Durden – Read More Here

(NYDaily) – Are the jobs gone for good? The facts about this downturn are very grim – Read More Here

(BuffaloNews) – Feeling crunch of a high jobless rate – Read More Here

(WashTime) – Both parties mull raising retirement age – Read More Here

(PoliticsDaily) – Cap-and-Trade Will Be Part of Senate Climate Change Bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Tuesday that the Senate will soon debate a bill to reduce pollution and that the legislation will include a scaled back version House-passed language to reduce carbon output by charging some polluters for emissions above a certain threshold. Read More Here

(Stateline) – Collapse in Living Standards in America: More Poverty By Any Measure

15 million unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities Read More Here

(ABCNews) – Autos and Gasoline Drag Retail Sales Lower in June – Read More Here

(Examiner) – U.S. banks laundering Mexican cartels’ drug money – Read More Here

(Independent) – Britain’s debt: The untold story

The true scale of Britain’s national indebtedness was laid bare by the Office for National Statistics yesterday: almost £4 trillion, or £4,000bn, about four times higher than previously acknowledged. Read More Here

(RestoreTheRepublic) – Video: The Reality Report – Tom Woods on the Economic Meltdown!!! – Gary Franchi – Video Link Here

(InflationUS) – Video: Empty Store Shelves Coming to America

(RussiaToday) – Video: Webster Tarpley – ‘Obama, the Wall St. puppet’

The Obama administration could be nearing the finish line for financial reform legislation that has been a political football tossed back and forth between both parties. Will this bill change the way Washington and Wall Street work? Can it turn around the economic downturn?

(NewAmericanRepublic) – Chinese rating agency strips Western nations of AAA status

China’s leading credit rating agency has stripped America, Britain, Germany and France of their AAA ratings, accusing Anglo-Saxon competitors of ideological bias in favour of the West. Read More Here

(Truthout) – How Brokers Became Bookies: The Insidious Transformation of Markets Into Casinos

“You all are the house, you’re the bookie. [Your clients] are booking their bets with you. I don’t know why we need to dress it up. It’s a bet.” – Sen. Claire McCaskill, Senate Subcommittee investigating Goldman Sachs (Washington Post, April 27, 2010) Read More Here

REPOST (AspenDaily) – Historian warns of sudden collapse of American ‘empire’

Harvard professor and prolific author Niall Ferguson opened the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival Monday with a stark warning about the increasing prospect of the American “empire” suddenly collapsing due to the country’s rising debt level. Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Video: Economic Collapse – Rich continues getting Richer and Poor gets Poorer

Video: Who repealed the Glass-Steagall Act?

The Glass Steagall Act President Roosevelt signed into law was repealed. See who swept aside the banking firewall protections on the 12th of November 1999. Continue reading