Breaking Up the Big Banks is Not a Solution: Make Them Public Utilities … Leo Panitch: Global capitalism needs massive banks, but big private banks have the power to prevent regulation and threaten more crisis; the solution is not breaking them up but making them public – The Real NewsDominant Social Theme: Since we can't regulate these too-big-to-fail banks, let's nationalize...Read More
Senators agree on immigration overhaul plan … A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on a plan to grant legal status to most of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., which could form the basis for a far-reaching overhaul of immigration laws this year. The Senate blueprint, drafted during weeks of closed-door meetings by leading senators from each party, will probably se...Read More
The Ministry of Public Security is working to set up an annual high-level meeting with US judicial officials in a bid to catch and return more Chinese fugitives. "We're negotiating with the US Department of Homeland Security and will try to arrange the first summit this year," said Wang Liqiang, a senior official in the ministry's international cooperation bureau. The meeting is...Read More
Exposure to conspiracy theories has dramatic consequences … The school massacre in Newtown was a government hoax designed to bolster gun control. The destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11 was the result of a controlled demolition. Elvis faked his own death. For every major event, there's a conspiracy theory to explain it. And though the temptation is to treat it as harmless paranoia, a...Read More
$20 trillion shale oil find surrounding Coober Pedy 'can fuel Australia' … Coober Pedy has between 3.5 billion and 233 billion barrels of oil Australia could change from oil importer to exporter … South Australia is sitting on oil potentially worth more than $20 trillion, independent reports claim – enough to turn Australia into a self-sufficient fuel producer. Brisbane c...Read More
Syria's Muslim Brotherhood Propped Up by US Since 2007 Under Bush … In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, "To Check Syria, U.S. Explores Bond With Muslim Brothers." And even then, it was noted that the Brotherhood held close links with groups the US recognizes and lists as terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Al Qaeda. The report gives a disturbi...Read More
Exposure to conspiracy theories has dramatic consequences … The school massacre in Newtown was a government hoax designed to bolster gun control. The destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11 was the result of a controlled demolition. Elvis faked his own death. For every major event, there's a conspiracy theory to explain it. And though the temptation is to treat it as harmless paranoia, a...Read More
$20 trillion shale oil find surrounding Coober Pedy 'can fuel Australia' … Coober Pedy has between 3.5 billion and 233 billion barrels of oil Australia could change from oil importer to exporter … South Australia is sitting on oil potentially worth more than $20 trillion, independent reports claim – enough to turn Australia into a self-sufficient fuel producer. Brisbane c...Read More
Syria's Muslim Brotherhood Propped Up by US Since 2007 Under Bush … In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, "To Check Syria, U.S. Explores Bond With Muslim Brothers." And even then, it was noted that the Brotherhood held close links with groups the US recognizes and lists as terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Al Qaeda. The report gives a disturbi...Read More
Minamata Convention Agreed by Nations … Global Mercury Agreement to Lift Health Threats from Lives of Millions World-Wide … Geneva/Nairobi, 19 January 2013 − International effort to address mercury − a notorious heavy metal with significant health and environmental effects − was today delivered a significant boost with governments agreeing to a global, legally-binding...Read More
Clinton Shouts: 'What Difference … Does It Make?' … Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about ascertaining whether the Benghazi terror attack was the result of a protest by Senator Ron Johnson. "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Clinton shouted, seemingly losing her cool. "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it...Read More
Minamata Convention Agreed by Nations … Global Mercury Agreement to Lift Health Threats from Lives of Millions World-Wide … Geneva/Nairobi, 19 January 2013 − International effort to address mercury − a notorious heavy metal with significant health and environmental effects − was today delivered a significant boost with governments agreeing to a global, legally-binding...Read More
Clinton Shouts: 'What Difference … Does It Make?' … Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about ascertaining whether the Benghazi terror attack was the result of a protest by Senator Ron Johnson. "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Clinton shouted, seemingly losing her cool. "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it...Read More
Inertia reigns as elite return to Davos … The theme of this year's WEF Davos meeting is "Resilient Dynamism" … Some of the world's most influential leaders will be faced with a familiar set of unsolved problems during the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, following a year of economic and political stagnation. Derided by some as being little mor...Read More
Inertia reigns as elite return to Davos … The theme of this year's WEF Davos meeting is "Resilient Dynamism" … Some of the world's most influential leaders will be faced with a familiar set of unsolved problems during the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, following a year of economic and political stagnation. Derided by some as being little mor...Read More
Japan should let elderly 'hurry up and die': finance minister Taro Aso … Japan's finance minister Taro Aso said Monday the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" instead of costing the government money for end-of-life medical care. Aso, who also doubles as deputy prime minister, reportedly said during a meeting of the National Council on Social Security Reforms...Read More
Terror in North Africa: are Westerners pulling the strings? English-speaking jihadis seen in Mali, as a Canadian is reported to have co-ordinated Algeria attack … Canada is investigating an allegation by the Algerian Prime Minister that one of its citizens co-ordinated the terror raid at the Saharan gas plant in which dozens of hostages were killed. Westerners, including a man with blond hai...Read More
More than four years since the financial crisis, not one senior Wall Street executive has faced criminal prosecution for fraud. Are Wall Street executives "too big to jail"? In The Untouchables, premiering Jan. 22, 2013, at 10 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE producer and correspondent Martin Smith investigates why the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has failed to act on cr...Read More
List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports. –Droneswatch.orgDominant Social Theme: "Crack some eggs to make an omelet."Free-Market Analysis:PAKISTANName | Age | GenderNoor Aziz | 8 | maleAbdul Wasit | 17 | maleNoor Syed | 8 | maleWajid Noor | 9 | maleSyed Wali Shah | 7 | maleAyeesha | 3 | femaleQari Al...Read More
Japan should let elderly 'hurry up and die': finance minister Taro Aso … Japan's finance minister Taro Aso said Monday the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" instead of costing the government money for end-of-life medical care. Aso, who also doubles as deputy prime minister, reportedly said during a meeting of the National Council on Social Security Reforms...Read More