I-85 To Be Turned Into Toll Road

By Camie Young~Gwinnett Daily Post
Interstate 85’s carpool lanes will be converted to toll lanes, as U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters on Tuesday announced a $110 million grant to get Gwinnett’s traffic moving.
While the toll pricing has not been determined, rates would change based on congestion on the interstate, and cars with three or more people [...]

Brown denies role in arrest of senior Tory MP

Police take bank records from family home in London and questions are raised over who authorised the operation

By Nigel Morris and Ben Russell~London Independent
Senior figures at the heart of the British establishment were embroiled in a constitutional storm over the freedom of MPs after the Conservative Damian Green was arrested for obtaining leaked Whitehall documents.
Britain’s [...]

Police state Britain: MPs want protection after arrest of Tory for telling truths Labour didn’t want you to know

By Benedict Brogan, James Chapman and Stephen Wright~Daily Mail
MPs demanded protection from a ‘police state’ last night after the heavy-handed arrest of a Tory frontbencher shocked Westminster.
Extraordinary details of four simultaneous raids on immigration spokesman Damian Green’s homes and offices raised urgent questions about the independence of Parliament.
The Oxford-educated father of two girls, who denies [...]

Saakashvili Admits Georgia Started War

~Russia Today
For the first time ever, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has admitted that his country started the military conflict in South Ossetia in August. But the Georgian leader is adamant the action was justified. He was testifying before a parliamentary commission investigating the five-day war.
According to Saakashvili, the attack on the South Ossetian capital, which [...]

Poverty spreading in suburbs

~Reuters
Poverty in the United States is spreading from rural and inner-city areas to the suburbs, according to a study, a situation that can worsen as the economy confronts what may be a protracted recession.
The study by the Federal Reserve’s Community Affairs department and the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program found that poverty levels in the [...]

Civil War in the U.S.A. in 2009?

~Russia Today
Russia Today interviews Igor Panarin, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian foreign affairs ministry, who believes the economic crisis in the US has confirmed his long-held belief that the country is heading for extinction in its present form.

Financial Disaster Will Lead to Civil Disorder in 2009 or 2010, Says Secret Citibank Memo

By Mike Adams~Natural News
An internal memo from a top Citibank analyst reveals what the banks really think about the global financial situation, and the outlook is grim.
“The world is not going back to normal after the magnitude of what they have done. When the dust settles this will either work, and the money they have [...]

Downturn Drives Military Recruitment

By Christian Davenport~Washington Post
Some of the largest investment firms on Wall Street are gone. The country’s auto industry is on the verge of collapse. Banks are shedding jobs. But in these doom-and-gloom times, there is someone who’s hiring: your local military recruiter.
The economic downturn and rising unemployment rate are making the military a more attractive [...]

Poll: Less than half say US offers liberty and justice for all

By Muriel Kane~Raw Story
A new poll from Rasmussen Reports indicates that although Americans strongly support the saying of the Pledge of Allegience, less than half of them believe that “the United States is truly the land of liberty and justice for all.”
Among those polled, just 46% said they would agree with that statement, while 42% [...]

America’s Child Soldiers: US Military Recruiting Children to Serve in the Armed Forces

By Sherwood Ross~Global Research
In violation of its pledge to the United Nations not to recruit children into the military, the Pentagon “regularly target(s) children under 17,” the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) says.
The Pentagon “heavily recruits on high school campuses, targeting students for recruitment as early as possible and generally without limits on the age of [...]

Italian Judge: Blogs are Illegal

By John Ozimek~The Register
Italian bloggers are up in arms at a court ruling early this year that suggests almost all Italian blogs are illegal. This month, a senior Italian politician went one step further, warning that most web activity is likely to be against the law.
The story begins back in May, when a judge in [...]

Mumbai False Flag Attack: Update

By Leonard Feldman~Rense
As many astute observers noted, the Indian Police, media and TV gave out some earlier information regarding what the captured terrorists said. That is terrorists with an ’s’.

Many have speculated over the last two days that the captured terrorists would be assassinated as is the case with all ‘terrorists’ in false flag operations. [...]

Oil on its Way to $20

~CNBC
Crude oil prices will rally in the near-term, but then investors will see another sharp selloff that will take crude back down to seven-year lows, according to one technical analyst.
Looking at the chart for light, sweet crude, prices will rise to $76 to $80 in the next two months, Dick Otto from Matrix Asset Management [...]

Obama Tells Disappointed Supporters: “I Am the Change.”

~Gateway Pundit
Oh, brother!
Barack Obama told his disappointed supporters who voted for him on the promise of change only to find him appoint old Clintonites and Bush cabinet members not to be upset, “I am the change.”
McClatchy reported:
President-elect Barack Obama essentially said Wednesday that he is the change, striving to assure Americans that he’ll shake [...]

Ron Paul Warns Of Secret Plans To Create International Central Bank

By Steve Watson~Infowars
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has warned that international forces are planning the creation of a global central bank that will see a new fiat monetary system come to dominate the world economy.
The 2008 presidential candidate also warned that Barack Obama’s administration will only represent a change in faces and not in policies.
Speaking about [...]

Eugenics: Now Women Can Get Sterilized In 90 Seconds

~YOU TUBE

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

By Joe Gould~Daily News
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
The 34-year-old worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
Witnesses said [...]

Gold prices rise, oil almost unchanged

~Associated Press
Gold prices rose, but other precious metals and agricultural commodities dropped Friday as Wall Street added to its gains this week, while oil prices were mostly flat.
Commodities prices have correlated strongly with equities in recent weeks, as the buck and Treasurys lured spooked investors from stocks and commodities. Markets are afraid that a weak [...]

A look at Obama’s “economic team”

By Tom Eley~WSWS
President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for top economic positions underscore the fact that his administration’s overriding priority will be to secure the interests of the financial elite. The economic appointments have been welcomed by the political establishment and media as “centrist” and “center-right.”
Obama announced that Timothy Geithner, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of [...]