Economy

(MercuryNews) – Defeat of jobs bill in Senate costly to California

Hundreds of thousands of jobless residents will see their unemployment checks cut off. The deficit-plagued state budget stands to lose billions of desperately needed dollars. And a tax credit for research and development, long prized by the tech industry, appears to be on life support. Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Ben Bernanke needs fresh monetary blitz as US recovery falters

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is waging an epochal battle behind the scenes for control of US monetary policy, struggling to overcome resistance from regional Fed hawks for further possible stimulus to prevent a deflationary spiral. Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – Mission Accomplished:The Reagan Occupation and the Destruction of the American Middle Class – Read More Here

(WoodTV) – 400k unemployed in MI to lose benefits

Comes on heels of GOP killing Senate extension Read More Here

(WeAreChange) – We are Change Plans End the Fed protest on Independence Day

We Are Change groups from MD, VA and DC have joined togeather to hold an End The Fed protest in Washington DC in honor of Independence Day. The event will be on Saturday, July 3rd and the permits are already in. Read More Here

(KDVRDenver) – Bank of America, Freddie Mac Sell Homes Without Notice – Read More Here

(USAToday) – Obama Gets “Financial Reform” Bill as He Heads for G20

“We are poised to pass the toughest financial reform since the ones we created in the aftermath of the Great Depression,” Obama said at the White House as he prepared to leave for the G-20 summit in Canada. Read More Here

(WPost) – New Financial Overhaul Gives Government Broad New Powers To Seize Financial Firms – Read More Here

(BusinessInsider) – These 8 Members Of Congress Are Under Investigation For Fundraising During The Financial Reform Debate – Read More Here

(FoxNews) – Senate Republicans Defeat Jobless Aid Measure Over Deficit Fears

The Senate has failed to reach an agreement to extend weekly jobless benefits, leaving more than a million out-of-work Americans without an unemployment check by week’s end.

The 57-41 loss was a major blow for President Obama and Democrats. They needed three more votes — for a total of 60 — to stop a GOP filibuster. Read More Here

(TampaBay) – Pinellas to lay off 211 county workers

The layoffs run through virtually every department, affecting everything from parks and street repairs to customer service and health care. Read More Here

Economy

(StarTribune) – In jail for being in debt – Read More Here

REPOST – (AP) – Long-Term Unemployed Now 46 Percent Of Unemployed, Highest Percentage On Record – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – The Economic Crisis: Class Struggles Heat Up in Greece

Workers in Greece today stand in the forefront of the converging European class struggles against big capital’s attempt to make working people pay the costs of its crisis. Read More Here

(FoxBusiness) – Video: Peter Schiff on Fox Business News

Is it Time to Dump Your Stocks? – Video Link Here

(USAWatchdog) – Gold’s Flashing Warning Sign

Gold hit another all-time high yesterday! According to gold website Kitco.com – Read More Here

(Telegraph) – Risks to global economy have ‘risen significantly’, top IMF official warns

The risks to a robust global recovery have ‘risen significantly’ as many governments struggle with debt, a leading official from the International Monetary Fund has warned. Read More Here

(CNSNews) – Billboard Puts Obama on $100,000,000,000,000 Bill, Asks: ‘But Who Will Pay the Piper?’ – Read More Here

(EuropaPress) – Spanish Police Protest “Unjustified Waste Of Public Money” In Protecting Bilderberg

The SME-CCOO union of the Catalan police today showed their disagreement with the “unjustified waste” of public money aimed at preserving the security of the Bilderberg Club, which celebrates these days its annual meeting in Sitges. Read More Here

(EuroPacificCapital) – The Phantom Recovery – Peter Schiff

In recent months, GDP numbers have rebounded – primarily as a result of record low interest rates reliquifying the credit market and government stimulus jolting consumer spending. Although the “positive growth” has delighted Obama’s economic brain trust, it has done little to boost the fortunes of Main Street. As I have said many times, GDP largely measures spending, and spending is not growth.

Video: Greece erupts as men from IMF prepare to wield axe

(SundayTimes) – MAY DAY protests in Greece turned violent yesterday as youths in gas masks and hoods set fire to vehicles, smashed shop fronts and threw molotov cocktails and rocks at police in an explosion of fury over austerity measures they claim will hurt only the poor.

Tourists were cut off from their hotels as thousands of communists, civil servants and private-sector workers converged on a main square in Athens to vent their rage at the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Video: A Consistent Argument for Limited Government

Congressman Paul appeared on MSNBC’s Daily Meeting and Fox News’ America Live with Megyn Kelly

Agents Provocateurs Disrupt Washington State Protest

(KurtNimmo) – It followed a familiar pattern. A protest against police brutality turned into a riot. From the Olympian this morning:

Olympia police arrested about 15 protesters at Adams and State streets about 9:15 p.m. Thursday after they began throwing bottles at buildings and tried to block the streets with trash bins, witnesses and police said.

World War

(LewRockwellBlog) – Whom Will Obama Bomb?

According to the latest CNN opinion poll, only 19% of the booboisie like the idea of Obama’s Soviet-style nationalization of the health care industry. The Democrats spat on the Constitution, as they always do, and shoved the thing down our throats. A lot of people are mighty, mighty pi__ed off at this, and will undoubtedly vent by voting a lot of Democrats out of office in November.

So what can we expect the Marxist in the White House to do to prevent a GOP takeover of Congress? Don’t rule out the most tried and true tactic of all — war. The booboisie always rally around the prez when the bombs are dropping from the sky, even if they’re falling on innocent foreign civilians.

(CNN) – Video: Taliban fighters training in Iran, U.S. officials say

Iran is helping train Taliban fighters within its borders, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials. Video Link Here

(ForeignPolicy) – Get Yer Anti-Ballistic Missile Shield Here

Where do sheikhs go shopping? Facing the rising threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, they go to weapons shows like the International Defence Exhibition and Conference, where leaders from Cairo to Riyadh are stocking up. Read More Here

(AFP) – ‘Only rumours’ that Iran making nuclear weapons: Turkish PM

Turkey’s prime minister said Tuesday it was “only rumours” that Iran was making nuclear weapons, stressing the Islamic republic’s right to develop civilian atomic power. Read More Here

(PressTV) – Israel has nukes, but Iran is pressured: Erdogan

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Iran’s nuclear rights should be respected and it is only a rumor that Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapons. Read More Here

(TimesOnline) – Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejects new Obama offer of dialogue as a ‘plot’

Iran’s Supreme Leader yesterday rejected a renewed offer of dialogue with Washington from President Obama, and accused the US of continuing to plot against Tehran while offering peace. Read More Here

(NYTimes) – Iran Unlikely to Develop a Nuclear Weapon This Year, Petraeus Says

Gen. David H. Petraeus said Tuesday that Iran would not develop a nuclear weapon this year, but that the country still remained the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East and Central Asia. Read More Here

(OpenDemocracy) – Venezuela obtains Chinese warplanes for ‘anti-drugs fight’

Chinese J-8 attack jets delivered in Venezuela. Sri Lankan general goes on military trial while supporters protest. Nigerian militants attack city with car bombs. South African youth leader found guilty of hate speech. All this and much more, in today’s security briefing. Read More Here

(PressTV) – US may try Sheehan for anti-war campaign

US authorities have arrested a number of anti-war protesters, including high-profile activist Cindy Sheehan, during a demonstration in Washington DC. Read More Here

Video: Hilary Clinton Threatens Iran With ‘Painful Consequences’

Stating that a nuclear-armed Iran would touch off an arms race in the Middle East and embolden Iran’s “terrorist clientele” to take new actions, Clinton said, “This … is unacceptable to the United States. It is unacceptable to Israel. It is unacceptable to the region and the international community.”

Economy

(WSJ) – Economists Say Fed Saved the U.S. Economy

The $787 billion stimulus package was a good for the economy, but the Federal Reserve played the biggest role in rescuing the U.S. economy from the financial crisis, according to the majority of economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey. Read More Here

(InternationalForecaster) – Pondering Our Collapse While We Watch Others Fall – Bob Chapman

Every important factor we see is working against the dollar and we believe that trend is irreversible. That means the present dollar rally probably cannot endure and it could well be the time to short the USDX. Read More Here

(AFP) – Police battle demonstrators in strike-hit Greece

Greek police battled demonstrators on Thursday as the country ground to a halt in the latest protest strike against government austerity measures aiming to end a crippling debt crisis. Read More Here

(EUObserver) – EU wants answers on Wall Street role in Greek debt

The European Commission has said it is seeking answers following allegations that Wall Street investment banks helped Greece hide the extent of its debt. Read More Here

(Reuters) – Strike Paralyzes Greece; Protests Turn Violent

Greek public and private sector workers went on strike on Thursday, grounding flights, shutting schools and halting public transport in the second nationwide walkout in two weeks in protest against austerity plans. Read More Here

(CrainsNY) – Gov: Budget failure could cause NY depression

Gov. David Paterson attempts a town hall meeting about the state’s budget issues in Brooklyn amid rumors on his political future. Some humor emerges amid the defiance. Read More Here

(WSJ) – School Crisis Rattles Missouri

The Kansas City Missouri School Board voted Wednesday night to shutter nearly half of its schools in an effort to avoid going broke. Read More Here

(MSNBC) – Fannie, Freddie’s $125 billion tab still growing

Sixteen months after being seized, the firms remain wards of the state Read More Here

(NYTimes) – 972 Foreclosure Filings in Hawaii in February – Read More Here

(AP) – City Closes Public Schools, Stops Bankruptcy

The school board narrowly approved the plan Wednesday night to close 29 of the district’s 61 schools to try to stave off bankruptcy. The closures have angered many parents, students and teachers, but administrators say they had no choice. View Video Here

(ZeroHedge) – It’s Going To Implode: Buy Physical Gold – NOW

Evidence seems to be mounting that we are headed towards some sort of implosion in the paper Gold market, and perhaps the currency/bond markets in general. Let’s take a look: Read More Here

Video: A Familiar Pattern – “Anarchists” Disrupt Peaceful Protest in Vancouver

(KurtNimmo) – Once again, so-called “anarchists,” clad in black with their faces masked, have engaged in violent protest and property destruction, this time in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics.
“A loosely organized group of ‘thugs’ from central Canada promoting anarchy were among 200 anti-Olympic protesters who marched through downtown Vancouver Saturday, smashing plate glass windows at Hudson’s Bay and TD bank, overturning newspaper boxes and assaulting bystanders, police say. They used spray paint on cars and transit buses, tore down signs and threw about road construction barricades as they marched down the street,” reports CTV.

Israel’s war on protest – Army used to deport activists against the Wall

(GlobalResearch) – The Israeli courts ordered the release this week of two foreign women arrested by the army in the West Bank in what human-rights lawyers warn has become a wide-ranging clampdown by Israel on non-violent protest from international, Israeli and Palestinian activists.

Surveillance Drones To Zap Protesters Into Submission

(PaulWatson) – Illustrating once again that the prison planet being built around us far outstrips anything Aldous Huxley or George Orwell ever imagined, a Wired News report details how police forces worldwide are preparing to unveil drone aircraft that can not only conduct surveillance of protesters, but also zap them into submission with non-lethal weapons.

Internet Censorship Protest Shuts Down Australian Government Websites

(PaulWatson) – Hackers protesting government censorship of the Internet have shut down several Australian government websites in a demonstration against the announcement that filters would be imposed to block access to websites deemed offensive by the authorities.

What Americans Really Have to Fear – Violation of Rights by Military

I was among the several people arrested on Sunday, January 31, while protesting outside the main gate of Vandenberg Air Force Base. The purpose of my protest was to criticize the development, maintenance, and potential use of nuclear weapons by the United States.

Iran

(TehranTimes) – Iranians rally to protest against Sunday riots

Iranians staged marches throughout the country on Wednesday to protest against the anti-government riots in Tehran on Sunday. Read More Here

(TehranTimes) – Ahmadinejad says protests, ‘U.S., Israeli scenario’

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said that the U.S. and Israel were behind the anti-government protests on Ashura. Read More Here

(UPI) – Jet ready to fly Iran’s Khamenei to Russia

An Iranian security council ordered a checkup of the jet standing ready to fly Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to Russia should the country reach a breaking point. Read More Here

Iran: U.S. Hasn’t Learned Lesson from Hiroshima

After visiting the lingering traces of America’s crimes in Hiroshima, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Sa’eed Jalili declared, “At the very least, the U.S. should be punished with disarmament and the revocation of its right to veto for its crimes here.” Read More Here

(PressTV) – ‘Japan ready for nuclear cooperation with Iran’

The Japanese ambassador to Iran has said Tokyo is ready to cooperate with Iran in the field of nuclear energy. Read More Here

US Spies: Israel or UK Forged Nukes Report on Iran

Philip M. Giraldi, PhD, is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer. He was also foreign policy advisor to Ron Paul during his last presidential run.
US intelligence sources have confirmed Iran’s assertions that a document published by a British daily about Tehran’s nuclear program is a fabrication. Read More Here

Pentagon’s Role in Global Catastrophe: Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes

In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it is important to ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on the planet is not a focus of any conference discussion or proposed restrictions?

MSM: Copenhagen climate change summit: Up to 1,000 arrested and two Britons deported as rioters clash with police

(DailyMail) – Almost 1,000 climate change activists were arrested at a massive protest in Copenhagen yesterday after rioters clashed with police and smashed shop windows.

Video: Hundreds Demanding Globalist Agenda Arrested at Copenhagen

(KurtNimmo) – Duped by the junk science of the climate change scam, thousands of people rallied in Copenhagen to demand immediate implementation of the globalist agenda to deliver “rich nations” into a New Dark Age. Bamboozled protesters called for an end to “capitalism,” “tough measures on climate change,” and “action instead of words.”

Video: Tarpley – False Flag Red Alert

November 29, 2009 – Webster talks about the potential of a false flag attack

Video: Ron Paul at End The Fed Rally in Houston

November 22, 2009 – Discussing H.R. 1207 and government undermining our liberty – “The System is Rotten”

MSM: British soldier faces 10 years in jail after being arrested during anti-war demonstration

(MailOnline) – A soldier facing charges of desertion for refusing to return to Afghanistan has been arrested and charged with five further offences after joining an anti-war demonstration.

Tea parties descend on Capitol Hill

(Politico) – Thousands of tea party activists descended on Washington Thursday to protest the trillion-dollar health care bill and government spending, holding signs protesting Barack Obama’s agenda while aiming chants of “You work for us” at the Capitol building.

MSM: China Executes Tibetan Protesters

(WAPost) – Two people have been executed in China for their involvement in deadly riots in Tibet last year, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, the first officially confirmed to have been carried out.

Video: Protest Against Wall Street Bankers

Today was an amazing beginning for us. Not just the beginning of the three day protest against the American Bankers Association (ABA) conference, but the beginning of the end for business as usual on Wall Street. The big banks heard loud and clear tonight that taxpayers are fed up with them taking our money and using it to pay themselves outrageous profits and lobby against financial reform.

Video: Solider who refuses to return to Afghanistan leads thousands on anti-war march in London

(DailyMail) – A serving soldier yesterday accused politicians of abusing the trust of the army and serving soldiers.

WeAreChangeLA on Street Activism – Suggestions for Organizing Effectively

The realization that 9/11 was an inside job and that the global elite are on the fast track to a new world order is a potentially paralyzing downer. However, there is within the Truth Movement a joyous bunch. Street Activists; we are not a glum lot.

MSM: Israeli youths reject army call-up

(Aljazeera) – More than 80 Israeli students have announced their refusal to serve in the Israeli military because of what they call their nation’s track-record of oppression in the occupied territories.

Take America Back From the Banks

Reining in the financial industry’s power and greed will be a long, hard-fought war. But it is one that must be fought

Peace of the Action – Cindy Sheehan

I had just walked back into my hotel room yesterday after chaining myself to the White House fence and being arrested, when I saw White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, say that removing troops from Afghanistan was “not an option.”

A Nation of Snoops

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and other big city cops are calling for a new system of “citizen watch” programs, allegedly to help them spot hidden terrorists. I view this new call for a nation of private spies with a deep suspicion born of experience with the LAPD and its historic penchant for spying on law-abiding residents of that city.

Video: End The Fed Action 11-22-09

http://RestoreTheRepublic.net | http://EndTheFED.US

Video: Cindy Sheehan Moving to District of Criminals

She’s back and this time, she’s here to stay. Cindy Sheehan says she is moving to Washington. The anti-war activist was outside the White House for the second day in a row, with a bullhorn and a handful of protestors, shouting against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Guantanamo and calling for “health care not warfare.”

Why Are We Unable To Resist?

I often wonder why young Americans do nothing to protest the outrageous criminal regime that has taken control of the United States. Where is the resistance? Two illegal wars, a growing police state, and several trillion dollars stolen by criminal bankers from the American people in the past year alone — why aren’t they protesting, resisting – burning tires in the streets?

Crowds Flood UC Berkeley in Protest

Amid shouts of “Whose university? Our university!” and “Lay off Yudof!” thousands of protesters demonstrated on the UC Berkeley campus yesterday against the university administration’s handling of the budget crisis.

Government Riots Against The Public

The totalitarian and privatized forces of this illegal government occupation are rising, in attacks against and upon the public, using the excuse of public demonstrations by the people to attack and crush any form of protest by people against the oppression and dictatorship that ‘The State’ has now become during this first decade of the New Millennium.

Video: On the Edge with Max Keiser – “Yes, the US Empire is Collapsing”

http://maxkeiser.com – October 2nd, 2009

The War Against Free Thought

The war against our minds has many dark levels, all of which attempt to hide truth which is not sanctioned by the police state, replacing it with a new fabricated “official version” of events. The state/corporate controlled media informs us of what we are to think, while multiple forms of coercion, bribery and intimidation are used to reinforce the government’s ideas and convince people to accept them as their own.

Video: We Are Change Luke Rudkowski – G-20 protest

Various video clips of We Are Change founder, Luke Rudkowski, protesting during the Pittsburgh G-20 summit in September of 2009. Rock on Infowarrior!

The U.S. Creeps Closer to a Police State

When word first arrived that the G-20 would be meeting in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, activists began organizing protest demonstrations. Events like this are what freedom of speech is made for. What better occasion to protest than a meeting of the world’s 20 top leaders — most of them deservedly hated — where they will be imposing policy on billions of people worldwide?

Video: Forced Vaccines Refused By Nurses In New York

This year, the New York State Health Department is requiring all health care workers who come into contact with patients to get the flu vaccine, and will also require the H1N1 or swine flu vaccine as well.

Permission?

Article One – The Constitution of the United States
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Forty five words that grant the public their rights under the Constitution, to speak freely or to peaceably assemble to protest the illegal excesses of this government. Yet to do this we are “REQUIRED” to ask “PERMISSION” from the same people that we are protesting against?

Military and Riot Thugs Detain, Dehumanize and TORTURE American Citizens

(JasonBermas) – In what was possibly the most surreal, horrific, and unimaginable thing I have ever witnessed in my life, 1200 Riot Police and Military Personal rabidly attacked a group of well under 300 American citizens, many of them just students that were unaware there was even a protest going on.