Movie rental giant Blockbuster will close 180 stores by the end of the first quarter, the company said. The retailer did not disclose specific stores to be closed. Since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September, the Dallas-based company has shuttered 58 stores.Before its filing, Blockbuster operated 3,425 stores nationwide, of which 402 were franchise locations. Worldwide, the chain had more than 6,500 stores as of Jan. 20...
Independent writers explain, document, and prove what all humanity will soon recognize as “emperor has no clothes” facts: US wars are Orwellian unlawful. The following are objective facts and independently verifiable. Indeed, the facts are uncontested and therefore non-controversial by definition. Literally the one and only action between now and public embrace of factual reality is critical mass of Americans recognizing and acting upon what’s right in front of us:
•All “reasons” for war with Iraq were known to be lies as they were told. These are now the admissions of our own US government agencies.
"It reminds me of going to a family funeral," said Charles Fisher, a biology professor at Penn State University, and chief scientist on a recent mission to study the impact of the Gulf oil spill on coral in the area...
This is the house where it all started (photo). It was in a deposition for the foreclosure case that news of GMAC using a robo-signer was first revealed almost 3 months ago. Very interesting story from the NYT.
Editor's Note: Offensive language here, but it's all courtesy of American taxpayer money donated to Homeland Security. Give 'em a call and tell them to spend your money more wisely.
George Donnelly We Won't Fly
I was about to delete an offensive comment on this blog – one of the very few we get – and thought, hmm, I wonder where this guy is posting from? Because, really, it is quite unusual for us to get nasty comments. Lo and behold, the troll posted to our website from an IP address controlled by the federal government’s Department of Homeland Security! Here is the taxpayer-funded troll’s gem of a comment, for your entertainment:
An advertisement alleging "Israeli war crimes" won't appear on the sides of some Metro Transit buses for another week, but it's already ignited a political firestorm. The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, which bought the ad, says it's intended to break through what it calls the silence over Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians. Others have organized a campaign to block the ad, which they say will inflame bigotry against Jews and Jewish organizations.
Editor's Note: Well thank goodness for Harry Reid protecting us from artisan cheese.
Shannon Dininny Associated Press YAKIMA, Wash. — A federal inspection report is faulting for unsanitary practices an artisan cheese maker who is known as a pioneer in the industry...
This article originally appeared on The Intel Hub on August 7th 2010.
Nov 29th 2010 Editors Note: With the new release of documents by Wikileaks, it has once again brought their credibly into question. That being said, it is well documented that the so called leaked documents have done absolutely nothing but further the goals of the establishment. Here is the article i posted when the Afghan War Diaries were first released. As you can see many credible journalists and whistleblowers believe that Wikileaks is run by certain intelligence agencies. The Intel HubAlex Thomas
Sunday on The Intel Hub Radio Show Shepard interviewed Eric and his cousin who had their dogs killed during a SWAT raid by trigger happy law enforcement officials. Several topics were raised in the interview such as the fact that in some states if a police dog is killed, the suspect could serve 5 or more years in prison. There should be a more humane way that SWAT could conduct their operations to minimize harm to innocent people and animals. One suggestion that was raised in the interview was that SWAT should maintain an animal handling professional to secure such animals as soon as the house is cleared. SWAT teams are outfitted with padding and body armor.
This strange weather phenomenon, which you will see in the video below, happened in Newfoundland where the waves were actually frozen as they crashed on the beach. This is exactly what one would expect at the end of the warmest year on record, right? Are we freezing because of global warming? The media is still ranting that one of the effects of global warming is colder, wetter winters. Yes and building seven at the world trade center collapsed on its footprint from a burning ember? Or was it from a burning Rolls Royce engine that was catapulted from one of the planes. Was there ever a reasonable explanation for what was obviously a controlled demolition?
We’ve seen behind the curtain, as the Fed waved its magic liquidity wand over Wall Street. Now it’s time to enlist this tool in the service of the people. The Fed’s invisible hand first really became visible with the bailout of AIG. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in June 2009:
“Many of us were, shall we say, if not surprised, taken aback when the Fed had $80 billion to invest — to put into AIG just out of the blue. All of a sudden we wake up one morning and AIG has received $80 billion from the Fed. . . . So of course we’re saying, Where’s this money come from? ‘Oh, we have it. And not only that, we have more.’” How much more — $800 billion? $8 trillion?
Popular Internet telephony service Skype has crashed, inhibiting communication for millions of users trying to phone home for the holidays, the company has acknowledged.
Genachowski was the top communications advisor to the Clinton White House and an architect of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. That infamous legislation led directly to the greatest corporate consolidation of radio and television stations in American history. Julius Genachowski is one of the reasons that today’s radio and TV landscape is such a wasteland of corporate sameness. Now, he is positioned to do the same thing to the Internet, courtesy of Barack Obama, the guy who never made a promise he wasn’t prepared to break.
North Korea's military is reportedly preparing to shoot down a floodlit tower decorated with Christmas lights which overlooks the border near the South's capital, Seoul – home to millions of Christians.
Aside from a few token nods May (J Street U director) made to the Palestinian popular struggle (which ironically is linked the BDS movement), his case against BDS seemed contrived to trigger the most base emotional responses from Jewish-Americans, especially those who had been subjected to sustained Zionist conditioning.”
Goldman Earned $55.7 Million From Build America Fees (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, has made $55.7 million from the sale of $36.4 billion of Build America Bonds, about a third of the fees it earned from its municipal business, it said in response to queries from Iowa Senator Charles Grassley.
Bank of America has seen easier days. The bank been reportedly identified as a target by WikiLeaks, it reportedly maintains a war room to defend against the leak, it's the subject of a federal racketeering lawsuit, one of many high profile lawsuits involving its foreclosure practices. Now, the bank has been accused of breaking into a woman's home and taking her possessions, including her late husband's ashes.
As we inch towards Christmas most of us are busy shopping and looking forward to spending the holidays with our friends and family. While Americans flock to retail stores throughout the nation, the Department of Homeland Security is busy implementing a completely different agenda. This Stazi type agency recently launched their Orwellian "see something, say something" campaign which is aimed at getting everyday American citizens to spy on their neighbors. As outrage against these ridiculous measures has continued to grow, the threat of terror has once again become an everyday mainstream media talking point. From attacking the food supply to suicide bombers, we are being lead to believe that Al Qaeda will carry out an attack in the very near future
Is the economy on the brink of collapse? What can we do as American citizens to prepare our self for the collapse of the dollar? Shepard also covers news including the Christmas time terror rhetoric that is right on schedule. Will their be a terror attack this holiday season? This is very important information! Hear Bob without hearing him get interrupted every two mins! Christmas Time Staged Terror?
The history of American currency and how the European American bankers have stolen its issuance from our govt over the years, a must see. The world economy is doomed to spiral downwards until we do two things: 1) outlaw government borrowing; 2) outlaw fractional reserve lending. Banks should only be allowed to lend out money they actually have and nations do not have to run up a "National Debt". Remember: It's not what backs the money, it's who controls its quantity.
In the United States, it is not just the federal government that has a horrific debt problem. Today, state and local governments across America are collectively deeper in debt than they ever have been before. In fact, state and local government debt is now sitting at an all-time high of 22 percent of U.S. GDP. Once upon a time, municipal bonds (used to fund such things as roads, sewer systems and government buildings) were viewed as incredibly safe investments. They were considered to have virtually no risk. But now all of that has changed. Many analysts are now openly speaking of the possibility of a municipal bond market crash in 2011. The truth is that dozens upon dozens of city and county governments are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Webmaster's Commentary:
The Private Central Bank system is designed to always create more debt than can be paid, in order to enslave the people. It therefore follows that no matter how hard you work, or how much you sacrifice, the government can never get out of debt. You have only two choices. Either to allow yourself and your family to be dragged down to homelessness and starvation alongside the government that voted the Federal Reserve into power, or cut your losses, stop throwing good money after bad, and let the system collapse while you still retain enough of your own wealth to start again.
WASHINGTON — Congress on Tuesday passed legislation to better protect sharks, creatures that swam the oceans before the age of dinosaurs but now are being killed by the millions for their fins, a delicacy used in a traditional Chinese soup. Conservationists called the measure a major step to save a species in trouble. They estimate that 73 million sharks are killed annually to support the shark fin trade, and that 30 percent of the world's species are threatened or nearly threatened with extinction. The loss of too many top predators can disrupt the balance of the populations of other species.
The Senate passed a bill, sponsored by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on Monday, and the House of Representatives passed its version with the same language Tuesday, sending it to the president's desk for his signature. Supporters anticipate that he'll sign it.
---Comment---Who is going to protect the sharks from government protected oil giant BP? The Gulf of Mexico has become a giant aquatic dead zone. - kdtroxel
On Friday, the Los Angeles Times broke a taboo of sorts among mainstream news organizations by urging Fox News to “crack down on... partisanship in its news ranks” or ”stop pretending to be an objective news source.”
The editorial was prompted by the leak of an internal Fox News memo ordering its “reporters” to “refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question.” The memo was sent by Bill Sammon, Fox News' Washington managing editor, in 2009 and released by Media Matters last week. It's refreshing to see a leading news outlet abandon the premise that Fox is a “fair and balanced” news organization during the day, and shows its conservative slant only in its evening opinion shows. The Times editorial board noted that mainstream reporters had shrugged off an earlier memo directing Fox personnel to refer to the “public option” as a “government option” during the health-care reform debate because the phase tested poorly among viewers.
Here's where The Year of the Drone merges with what the late, great deconstructionist Jacques Lacan would qualify as "the unsayable": the invisible, dangerous liaisons between the "war on terror" and the energy war, as in the topography of the war on terror matching all the key 21st-century sources of energy from the Middle East to Central Asia.
This implies a key Pipelineistan chapter - the never-ending saga of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, which has been at the very core of the troubled Washington-Kabul marriage since the mid-1990s.
Webmaster's Commentary: For anyone who thought for one millisecond that the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was about either:
1. True security in the US or 2. Getting Osama Bin Laden, (A CIA asset, and member of the family with which the Bush family did a lot of business,
http://www.rense.com/general14/bushsformer.htm
I urge you to please think again, perhaps using both lobes of the brain this time. This was has always been about a publicly funded war, where our very brave men and women in uniform are getting killed and maimed for life for private profit. Mull those last three words of the previous paragraph. Place them along side the Obama administration's recent absolutely glowing characterization of the "progress" we are making in Afghanistan.I rest my case.
'When a burglar goes in, they don't take your photos and your husband's ashes,' says alleged victim of wrongful foreclosure Andrew Martin The New York Times
TRUCKEE, Calif. — When Mimi Ash arrived at her mountain chalet here for a weekend ski trip, she discovered that someone had broken into the home and changed the locks. When she finally got into the house, it was empty. All of her possessions were gone: furniture, her son’s ski medals, winter clothes and family photos...
WEBMASTER COMMENT: I don't want to give anyone ideas, but if the banks are gonna steal your stuff even if the bills are paid ... why bother paying any more bills?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged Israeli citizens to refrain from taking the law into their own hands against minorities and migrant workers, in a clip released Wednesday on his bureau's YouTube channel.
Webmaster's Commentary: One has to wonder whether Netanyahu appreciated the incredibly bitter irony of this statement, in light of the fact that Israel has institutionalized violence against all Palestinians, and particularly Gazan Palestinians.
A group of Seattle residents have published an ad complaining that their tax dollars are being spent on Israeli "war crimes", the local Komo News reported Wednesday. The ad has already sparked controversy in the city.
Webmaster's Commentary: In the United States, telling the truth when it come comes to Israel should never be branded either as anti-Semitic or criminal: the truth is, simply, the truth.The Israeli government understands this, and that's why they're squirming.
Seeking to learn more about Islam and terrorism, some law enforcement agencies have hired as trainers self-described experts whose extremist views on Islam and terrorism are considered inaccurate and counterproductive by the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies…
Webmaster's Commentary:
Which is like hiring the KKK to help you understand the black culture.
Recent rabbinical decrees in Israel have sparked a ‘go-ahead’ for racism to run rampant in the streets of every major city in Israel. Those decrees with the encouragement of the racist government itself are both responsible. it’s not only Palestinians that fall victim to these beasts, it’s the foreign worker, the foreign tourist and homosexuals as well.
Webmaster's Commentary: You cannot kill all the non Jews! Who would pay retail?????
Despite Goldberg’s claim to be “running a campaign on this blog against the cheap deployment of Nazi imagery in argument-making,” he does just that, stating that “it’s a fair analogy” to liken the boycott of Israeli goods to the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, explaining that “the BDS movement, like no other anti-Israel propaganda campaign, has sent chills down the collective Jewish spine precisely because economic boycotts have been, throughout history, used to hurt Jews.”
Senior Hamas official Salah al-Bardawil said WikiLeaks documents of Fatah leaders asking Israel to assault Hamas have prompted the resistance group in Gaza to reconsider talks with Fatah security leaders, and may mobilize judicial action for treason.
“Fatah’s denial of the documents does not concern us much. The group takes logistical support from Israel in order to eliminate the resistance movement led by Hamas since the signing of the Oslo agreements.”
“The documents which were revealed alongside the ‘peace illusions’ documents by Mohammed Haikal, revealing an Israel-Fatah agreement to strike Hamas proves that striking Hamas is the common denominator of both parties.”
Webmaster's Commentary: "I see your true colors shining through...."
They came, they saw, they took it all. Welcome to the world where thieves have no honor, and those who hone their talents hammering the rest of us are lavishly rewarded. Hard times can be good times -- for the aggressively avaricious.
Short Clip Included - Lloyd Blankfein with Charlie Rose
"Goldman Hires People Who Want To Do Good For Society" - Causing me to spit out my egg nog...
Two good reporters for the New York Times, Mark Maqzzetti and Dexter Filkins, write today that the United States is preparing for send troops across the border into Pakistan in pursuit of the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and any other bad guys they can find. If there’s a worse idea, I don't know what it is.
Webmaster's Commentary: The US and NATO right now appear to be doing their level best to blame Pakistan for their collective, nearly decade-long failure in Afghanistan. The US can move from friend to enemy against any foreign nation with lightning speed, if it believes that such a move, however erratic it might seem, will meet their geopolitical objectives. This may well be happening now in the case of Pakistan. We may potentially be looking at an abrupt, bitter ending of a political and military alliance with Pakistan which suddenly transforms into a war against Pakistan.
As completely insane as such a move might seem, were I a betting human being, I would not bet against it; there are too many careers on the line over the Afghanistan debacle, and too many people who feel that "punishing Pakistan" with such an action would deflect blame away from their own catastrophic failure of vision which lead them to believe that a war in Afghanistan was militarily winnable.
According to accounts by several students, the school punished them with detention and cleanup work because the popular holiday treats pose a possible threat to others due to the ease of weaponizing the candy canes. Skylar Torbett, a junior, says he was told, “candy canes are weapons because you can sharpen them with your mouth and stab people with them.” Zakk Rhine, another member of the club, was told that the candy canes could, “maliciously maim students with the intent to injure.”
An ordinary citizen, in Georgia, has the right to carry a firearm. An ordinary citizen who went around shooting his neighbors’ dogs on the neighbors’ property would be locked away as menace and a maniac. He would be denounced in the pages of the Augusta Chronicle. But give that ordinary citizen a badge, and the Augusta Chronicle will bend over backwards to give him the benefit of every doubt, and to defend him. Because ordinary citizens must never know that, sadly, we fill the ranks of our police with the mediocre, the stupid, and the mean.
'The government defines a suspicious activity as “observed behavior reasonably indicative of pre-operational planning related to terrorism or other criminal activity” related to terrorism.'
The war’s brutality and destruction are growing. US forces around Kandahar are blowing up or bulldozing houses, assassinating suspected Taliban sympathizers and using mass reprisals against the civilian population. Death squads are hard at work murdering those suspected of backing Taliban and opposing western occupation. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is in something of a panic over America’s longest war. How can a bunch of lightly-armed mountain tribesmen in turbans fighting only part-time battle the world’s most powerful armed forces to a standstill?
Webmaster's Commentary: The very stark reality here is that this war cannot be "won" militarily, but this is something that neither American nor NATO leadership dares utter. There will be a moment when the Afghan government creates some kind of rapprochement with the Taliban, which wants US/NATO forces out of Afghanistan ASAP. When that moment comes, the US and NATO forces will have to leave Afghanistan, and the US and other oil consortiums will need to negotiate with whatever government is left standing for the installation of the TAPI pipeline with which to control Eurasian oil. All news and commentary taken from, Mike Rivero'swhatreallyhappened.com.
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