MSM: Times loses almost 90% of online readership

(Guardian) – The Times has lost almost 90% of its online readership compared to February since making registration mandatory in June, calculations by the Guardian show.

Draft Law Revives Practice of Soviets

(NYTimes) – The lower house of the Russian Parliament passed a draft law on Friday allowing the country’s intelligence service to officially warn citizens that their activities could lead to a future violation of the law, reviving a Soviet-era K.G.B. practice that was often used against dissidents. The president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, is expected to sign it into law shortly.

The legislation was proposed during the tense weeks after two suicide bombers attacked the Moscow subway, and its stated goal was to stanch the growth of radicalism among young Russians. But rights advocates and opposition parties have warned that the expanded powers could be used to silence critics of the government. In a letter made public on Thursday, 20 leading human rights activists condemned the legislation as a blow to “the cornerstone principles of the law: the presumption of innocence and legal certainty.” Read entire article

Video: Max Keiser – NSA & CIA – The Secret America – Alex Jones Tv

Alex talks with film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader Max Keiser. Max formerly hosted The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News and produced and appeared regularly in the TV series People & Power on the Al-Jazeera English network. He currently hosts a weekly financial commentary show which started in 2009 and is broadcast on Press TV, with weekly appearances by financial commentator Stacy Herbert and featuring interviews with well known alternative economists. Alex discusses the removal of his video, The Obama Deception, from Google’s YouTube. On Thursday, Alex challenged activists to drive the popular documentary up in search engine ranking. Google trends rankings revealed a few hours later that it was the #1 search term, above Lindsay Lohan, the BP Oil Spill or the death of George Steinbrenner.

Video: Alex Jones Tv – Youtube Caught yet Again Messing with ChangeDaChannel’s Account!

Alex talks with Kenneth Web of ChangeDaChannel about youtube messing with his account causing a pay per-view notice to be posted before you could even watch the video.

Video: Does The President Have Authority To Assassinate Americans?

(FoxNews) – Fox and Friends with Judge Naplitano –

DoD, Guard establish eight Homeland Response Force units

(AmericanFreePress) – Eight more homeland response force units will be established in fiscal year 2012, Defense Department and National Guard Bureau officials said here today.

The units are regional forces that will cross state lines when needed. They are part of a restructuring of the nation’s chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive consequence management enterprise.

Massachusetts (supported by Connecticut and Vermont), New York (supported by New Jersey), Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Utah and California each will host a homeland response force unit.

One unit will be based in each of the 10 Federal Emergency Management Agency regions. The units are scheduled to have 570 Guardsmen, and each will have a medical team, a search and extraction team, a decontamination team and very robust command and control capabilities, officials said. Read entire article

Video: New F35’s For North American Union

(NAUResistance) – “Defence Minister Peter MacKay, Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose, and Industry Minister Tony Clement announce plans to acquire 65 Joint Strike Fighter F-35 aircraft from Lockheed Martin. New Democrat MP Malcolm Allen reacts to the controversial $16-billion contract.” – Sounds Like A Broke Government Up To Their Eyeballs In Debt To Me! Good Thing We Are Giving Up Our Sovereignty To Stop The Global Financial Crisis, Even Better We Are Being Taxed To Death To Help Stop It.. Ahhh.. Whats $16 billion To Keep Our Neighbors To The South, Happy Right?

BP Oil Gusher

(Bloomberg) – Gulf Oil Spill May Cost 17,000 Jobs, Moody’s Says – Read More Here

(11News) – Video: BP Insider Admits Disaster Call Center Is A Diversion, Don’t Even Take Notes… – Video Link Here

(CharlieVLog) – Video: Oil Seepage? Try Truth Seepage – Video Link Here

(CNBC) – Video: Cause of Oil Spill is BP’s Iran trade – Video Link Here

(WeatherUnderground) – Tropical Storm Formation – View Image Here

(Truthout) – BP’s Scheme to Swindle the “Small People” – Dahr Jamail

Gulf Coast fishermen and others with lost income claims against BP are outraged by a recent announcement that the $20 billion government-administered claim fund will subtract money they earn by working on the cleanup effort from any future damage claims against BP. This move, according to lawyers in Louisiana working on behalf of Louisiana fishermen and others affected by the BP oil disaster, contradicts an earlier BP statement in which the company promised it would do no such thing. Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – BP’s Photoshopped Command Center Just The Latest In A Pattern Of Deception – Read More Here

(WPost) – Before rig explosion, BP pumped chemical mixture into well, contractor says

In the hours before the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, BP pumped into the well an extraordinarily large quantity of an unusual chemical mixture, a contractor on the rig testified Monday. Read More Here

(WDSU) – Fishing Families Turn To Fast Food, Donated Groceries

For thousands who count on the Gulf of Mexico to feed their families, what once seemed like a never-ending, free buffet of shrimp, crabs, oysters and fish is off-limits. Read More Here

(CLG) – Halliburton profit soars 83% in Q2

Halliburton profit soars 83% in Q2 –Before the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, Halliburton was hired by BP to seal the Macondo well before it blew up. 19 Jul 2010 US oil giant Halliburton says its second-quarter profit has jumped 83 percent, despite because of the company’s involvement in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill volcano. The news caused Halliburton shares to soar 5 percent to $28.89 in Wall Street pre-opening trade on Monday, the Associated Press reported. The oil giant’s net income for the April-June period was $480 million up from $262 million one year ago. Read More Here

Video: Video of NAACP Racism Emerges After Resolution Condeming Tea Party Movement

(KurtNimmo) – Race is a tactic used by the global elite to divide and conquer the masses and pit them against each other. A prime example of this tactic in action is the recent NAACP passage of a resolution condemning alleged and unsubstantiated racism in the Tea Party movement.

Card carrying members of the NAACP may not know it, but they are being played for chumps. They will not emerge winners from this cynical race game, the ruling elite will. For the eugenicist elite, we are all vermin regardless of skin color and ethnicity.

Over the weekend TeaParty365 co-founder David Webb, who happens to be black, went on CBS’ “Face the Nation” to denounce the “selective racism” of the NAACP. He complained that NAACP President Benjamin Jealous “will not condemn the New Black Panther Party for saying that they want to kill crackers and kill cracker babies, whereas he would condemn the KKK or any element that shows up . . . and claims that they are a part of the Tea Party.”

The NAACP’s shrewd race game was further exposed when Breitbart released a video today demonstrating the racism of USDA official Shirley Sherrod while addressing a meeting of NAACP members. Sherrod boasts to an appreciative audience how she withheld information and help from a farmer because he was white.

Weighty guests arrive for annual Bohemian Grove

(PressDemocrat) – Some of the world’s wealthiest and most prominent begin arriving today for the annual encampment at the Bohemian Grove, a gathering some describe as a benign men’s club and others as an insidious gathering of power.

The encampment is expected to have 2,000 attendees at any one time, a guest list that has included U.S. presidents and foreign heads of state, politicians, industrial barons, actors, artists and musicians.

As in the past, their identities and a description of the programs are closely guarded by officials of the San Francisco-based Bohemian Club.

Health News

(NaturalNews) – HIV vaccines cause 50 percent false positive rate in HIV tests – Mike Adams

It may come as a big surprise to most people, but HIV tests given to people today don’t actually test for the presence of the HIV virus. Rather, they test for the presence of HIV antibodies that the immune system creates to defend itself against HIV. And just because you have HIV antibodies doesn’t mean you actually carry HIV. In some circumstances, up to 50 percent of HIV positives are false, causing havoc with the lives of those patients who are falsely accused of being “HIV positive.” Read More Here

(BBC) – Vaccine patch may replace

A vaccine patch could cut out the need for painful needles and boost the effectiveness of immunisation against diseases like flu, say US researchers.

The patch has hundreds of microscopic needles which dissolve into the skin. Read More Here

(Guardian) – Greenpeace finds evidence of GM rice contamination in China’s emergency grain stores

China’s ban on GM rice questioned as environmental activists discover unapproved transgenic products at two grain sources Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Regular mobile phone use linked to tinnitus: research

Regular use of a mobile phone for more than four years almost doubles the chance of developing tinnitus – the debilitating condition that causes constant ringing or buzzing in the ears. Read More Here

(MailOnline) – Could being too houseproud raise risk of breast cancer? – Read More Here

Hosting Company Says al-Qaeda Website Reason for Removing 73,000 Blogs

(KurtNimmo) – It was not copyright violations that prompted the hosting service Burst.net to pull more than 73,000 blogs offline earlier this month. It was al-Qaeda, the phony terror group created by the CIA.

“The site was shut down after FBI agents informed executives of Burst.net, Blogetery’s Web host, late on July 9 that links to al-Qaeda materials were found on Blogetery’s servers, Joe Marr, chief technology officer for Burst.net,” told CNET. “Sources close to the investigation say that included in those materials were the names of American citizens targeted for assassination by al-Qaeda. Messages from Osama bin Laden and other leaders of the terrorist organization, as well as bomb-making tips, were also allegedly found on the server.”

The FBI did not order Burst.net to pull the plug. Marr said a Burst.net employee erred in telling Blogetery’s operator and members of the media that the FBI had ordered it to terminate Blogetery’s service. He said Burst.net did that on its own, according to CNET.

Modern Political Prisoners in America

(SzandorBlestMan) – When I was growing up, I learned in school that one of the reasons the United States of America was better than the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was because we didn’t hold political prisoners in our jails. That was something the bad, bad communists did. That was something that was done in communist countries to keep dissidents in line and to silence them. Such a thing could never be done in America. I don’t know if this is still taught in the schools, but if it is then I believe our children are being grossly misinformed. The United States of America has become the leading nation when it comes to jailing its citizens, and the vast majority of them have been jailed for non violent crimes. We are, in effect, being jailed by the political class for disobeying rules they have deigned necessary, not for actions that have harmed another human being or his property. Most of those jailed are, in effect, political prisoners.

Group Calls for Hearings Into Google’s Ties to CIA and NSA

(Infowars) – More information has emerged about Google’s relationship with the government and spook agencies (see PR Newswire below). The revelations should come as no surprise.

In 2006, Robert David Steele, a 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer and a former clandestine services case officer with the CIA, told the Alex Jones Show that the CIA helped bankroll Google at its inception. “I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical activities, and it doesn’t fund what I call the open source world,” said Steele, citing “trusted individuals” as his sources.

Video: Troktiko – Controversial Greek blog administrator is assassinated

(DomainGang) – BREAKING NEWS – The administrator of the most popular political and social blog in Greece, “Troktiko” – the Rodent – was assassinated after being shot with 20 bullets.

Known for its controversial political articles, stigmatizing the former, right wing government of New Democracy, Troktiko became the most popular, Greek-owned destination in Greece. With an Alexa ranking of 869 globally, Troktiko.blogspot.com surpassed many international web sites in traffic.

The administrator of Troktiko, journalist writer and radio producer Socrates Giolias aged 37, was executed with a barrage of bullets, outside his residence around 5:20am local time today, in Ilioupolis – a suburb of Athens, in Greece.

Economy

(CSPAN) – Video: Ron Paul EXPOSES the Real GDP and Unemployment Numbers – Video Link Here

(NBC25) – Video: Competing currency being accepted across Mid-Michigan – Video Link Here

(BusinessInsider) – The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out – Read More Here

(ProjectSyndicate) – Double-Dip Days – Nouriel Roubini

The global economy, artificially boosted since the recession of 2008-2009 by massive monetary and fiscal stimulus and financial bailouts, is headed towards a sharp slowdown this year as the effect of these measures wanes. Worse yet, the fundamental excesses that fueled the crisis – too much debt and leverage in the private sector (households, banks and other financial institutions, and even much of the corporate sector) – have not been addressed. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Is the “War on Wall Street” Over – Danny Schechter – Read More Here

(Fox) – Our Unemployment Insurance Addiction – Read More Here

(ConnectMidMichigan) – Competing currency being accepted across Mid-Michigan – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Working People in America impoverished by Obama’s Economic Policies: Labor Fights Back for Living Wages and Jobs For All – Shamus Cooke

If U.S. economy eventually recovers and current trends continue, U.S. workers won’t be celebrating in the streets. The corporate establishment has made it clear that a “strong recovery” depends on U.S. workers making “great sacrifices” in the areas of wages, health care, pensions, and more ominously, reductions in so-called “entitlement programs” — Social Security, Medicare, and other social services. Read More Here

(AP) – Stores push summertime ‘Christmas’ sales – Read More Here

(PhilsStockWorld) – It’s the End of the World As We Know It

What are 308,367,109 Americans supposed to do? Read More Here

(InternationalForecaster) – Stage Two of Europe’s Credit Crisis: An Internal Bank and Sovereign Debt Crisis Combined – Bob Chapman

The crisis affecting Europe is nothing new. It goes back three years and the beginning of the credit crisis, 60% of the subprime CDOs, collateralized debt obligations, had been sold to European institutions. These were the mortgage bonds, which contained a variety of toxic waste, which the rating agencies, S&P, Moody’s and Fitch, in collusion with banks and brokerage houses, had sold as AAA bonds, when in fact their ratings should have been considerably lower. The holders of these bonds in many instances became insolvent and had to be bailed out by capital injections from central banks, most of the funds were lent by the Federal Reserve. Read More Here

(GoldSeek) – These 72 Analysts Believe Gold Will Go Parabolic To Between $2,500 and $15,000!

Believe it or not but I have identified 72 economists, academics, gold analysts and market commentators who have developed sound rationale as to why gold could quite possibly go to a parabolic top of at least $2,500 an ounce to even as much as an unimaginable $15,000 before the bubble finally pops! Read More Here

(NYTimes) – After Job Training, Still Scrambling for a Job – Read More Here

Climategate

(WattsUpWithThat) – Breaking: Phil Jones got to endorse papers for Oxburgh inquiry

Previously I have said this about the lack of integrity regarding the recent Climategate investigations:

The investigations thus far are much like having a trial with judge, jury, reporters, spectators, and defendant, but no plaintiff. The plaintiff is locked outside the courtroom sitting in the hall hollering and hoping the jury hears some of what he has to say. Is it any wonder the verdicts keep coming up “not guilty”?

Now from Bishop Hill we learn that it appears that the Oxburgh investigation let Dr. Phil Jones endorse what evidence (papers he’s published) to review. So let me amend what I said above: Read More Here

World War

(WashPost) – Top Secret America: Air and satellite operations

The warfare- and combat-related air and space activities and operations of the military, intelligence agencies and the federal government. The Air Force is the primary organization here, but the Navy and Marine Corps also fly large air wings, as do Customs and Border Patrol as well as the FBI. The NRO is the national organization responsible for the development and operation of reconnaissance satellites of all sorts. Those air activities primarily involved in intelligence collection are included under technical spying. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Netanyahu: I deceived the US to Destroy the Oslo Accords – Jonathan Cook

Damaging video released: threatens to gravely embarrass Netanyahu and US administration Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Gulf War Syndrome, PTSD and Military Suicides: U.S. Government’s Message to America’s Vets: “Drop Dead” – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – The Transformation of American Warfare: Fighting Wars with Robots – Sherwood Ross – Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Iraq War Increased Terrorist Threat to the UK, Former MI5 Chief Tells Chilcot Inquiry – Read More Here

(Rense) – Zionism – Trojan Horse Of The West

For centuries the West has attempted to get a foothold in the Middle East. They finally succeeded in 1948 when the state of Israel supplanted the land formerly known as Palestine. Virgil wrote of how the Greeks were able to enter the city of Troy hidden in a huge wooden gift horse, similarly, the great nations of the western world successfully claimed the gateway to the Middle East by way of Zionism. Read More Here

Palestine

(InfoClearingHouse) – Film: “To Shoot an Elephant”

Gaza Strip has been under siege since June 2007, when Israel declared it an “enemy entity”. A group of international activists organized a siege-breaking movement, the Free Gaza movement. Thanks to their efforts, and despite the Israeli ban on foreign correspondents and humanitarian aid workers to cover and witness operation “Cast Lead” on the ground, a group of international volunteers: self organised members of the International Solidarity Movement were present in Gaza when the bombing started on December, 27th 2009. Together with two international correspondents from Al Jazeera International (Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros), they were the only foreigners who managed to write, film and report for several radio stations what was happening inside the besieged Palestinian strip. View Film Here

(Rense) – Israel’s Separation Wall – A Health Hazard – Stephen Lendman

In July 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled the Separation Wall illegal, saying its route inside the West Bank, and associated gate and permit system, violated Israel’s obligations under international law, ordering the completed sections dismantled, and “all legislative and regulatory acts relating thereto” repealed or rendered “ineffective forthwith.” Read More Here

Afghanistan

(Fox) – Video: Sec. State Clinton Admits U.S. Created Mujahideen that Became al-Qaeda

Clinton says we had no idea Afghan fighters would become terrorists. – Video Link Here

(Telegraph) – Joe Biden backtracks on US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

Joe Biden, the US vice-president who has advocated a reduced war effort in Afghanistan, on Sunday backtracked on the pace of the US troop withdrawal planned for next summer. Read More Here

(PressTV) – ‘Yemen, Washington’s next Afghanistan’

American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has painted a glum future for the United States President Barack Obama’s efforts to establish a military foothold in Yemen.

“If George W. Bush is remembered as being the president who got America stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s looking like Obama wants to be remembered as the president who got America stuck in Yemen,” he said in an audio message that surfaced on Monday, the Associated Press reported. Read More Here

Iran

(IPS) – Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme

Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear weapons programme, according to a former CIA officer. Read More Here

(Uruknet) – Israel ‘close to deal on F-35’

After protracted disagreements, the Israeli Defense Ministry was reported Wednesday to be close to sewing up a deal to buy up to 25 U.S. F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter aircraft built by Lockheed Martin, which Israeli leaders believe is essential to counter Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. Read More Here

(WSJournal) – Iran Accuses U.S, Pakistan of Supporting Terrorism

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki accused the U.S., Pakistan and allied forces of utilizing Afghanistan to support terrorist strikes inside Iran, including last week’s bomb blasts in eastern Sistan-Baluchistan province. Read More Here

(IsraelToday) – Report: Israel convinces Obama to plan for Iran strike

According to a report in Time magazine Israel has managed to convince Washington to put the option of a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities back on the table.

Israel has long argued that all of the international sanctions against Iran are pointless unless Western powers are prepared to back them up with the threat of force. Read More Here

Iraq

Video: Gordon Brown – Saddam Hussein Had to Be Removed for New World Order –