By Sherwood Ross~Puppetgov
The culture of secrecy in Government and Corporate America is a pattern “which deeply and often disastrously affects all of American life,†a law dean writes.
Secrecy really “took off†after the Korean War “with the creation of the American national security state, and got us into [...]
While the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index of 20 major cities tumbled by 18.1 percent, it marked the third straight month the decline was not a record.
The UK economy shrank by 2.4 per cent in the first quarter at the fastest rate in more than 50 years and far worse than expected, according to official figures today.
~Reuters
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed on Tuesday his re-election as a victory for the Iranian people and a defeat for the Islamic Republic’s enemies.
The hardline president spoke a day after Iran’s
top legislative body confirmed he had won the June 12 election by a
landslide and dismissed complaints of irregularities submitted by two
defeated, pro-reform opponents.
“This election was actually [...]
By Richard Spencer~London Telegraph
Simon Ford, who founded a “gift experience” company that prospered in the United Arab Emirates’ boom years, said he had been forced to escape as he feared being sent to debtors’ prison under strict bankruptcy laws.
He is one of thousands of British and [...]
~Washington’s Blog
In a fascinating 22-page study of money and currency, Christopher Weber shows that every government – from Athens, to pre-collapse Rome, to the Islamic countries in the Middle Ages – which stuck to the Greek standard of coins has been stable and prosperous.
Specifically, the Athenian Drachma contained 65.6 grains of silver. Even after Greece [...]
Nearly 50 cash-strapped cities nationwide are forgoing fireworks festivities, choosing instead to retain jobs or, in the case of Montebello, Calif., give the money to food banks.
By P.J. Huffstutter~Los Angeles Times
Mayor Bill Cervenik has spent a lifetime celebrating the Fourth of July curled up on a blanket in this city’s Memorial Park beneath bursts of [...]
~Raw Story
This video is from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, broadcast June 29, 2009.
By Bob Chapman~The International Forecaster
As you have already seen this is a worldwide depression and no one will escape. Europe’s economy is already in a shambles as is the US economy. Inflation will rage all over the world, because every nation has created massive amounts of money and credit as demanded by US and British [...]
It is impossible to imagine that the US was not aware that the coup was in the works. At minimum, the US could have flexed its tremendous economic muscle before the coup and told the military coup plotters to stand down.
By Jeremy Scahill~Rebel Reports
There is a lot of great analysis circulating on the military [...]
~AP News
Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.
Toyota’s system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analyzing brain waves, it said in a [...]
By David Swanson~American Chronicle
Lawless detention is the least of it. State secrets and warrantless spying scrape the surface. Drone attacks and ongoing torture begin to touch it. But central to the power of an emperor, and the catastrophes that come from the existence of an emperor, is the elimination of any other force [...]
Revelation highlights how Congress members are bought and paid for by the elite in Washington
By Paul Joseph Watson~Prison Planet
In a Campaign for Liberty video commentary, Ron Paul reveals that even though up to 20 Democrats opposed the controversial climate bill, they voted for it anyway, underscoring once again how the vast majority of Congress members [...]
By Martin Banks~London Telegraph
His admission came as Brian Cowen, the Irish prime minister, was set to announce 2 October as the date when Ireland holds its second referendum on the document.
The treaty, which proposes the first full-time President of the European Council, is highly contentious and was rejected by the Irish in a referendum in [...]
By The Big Money~MSN
A rallying cry can be heard across the country, from the swanky streets of New York’s SoHo to the tiny town of Randolph, Kan.: “Save our post office!”
As the United States Postal Service, weighed down by a crippling multibillion-dollar deficit, shrinks its operations, post offices across the country are on the chopping [...]
~Yahoo Tech
It works for Fido, so why not you?
The same RFID implants used to identify lost pets are now being adapted for use on you and me, and not how one might have originally expected. As with all pioneering technologies, it’s leisure pursuits that are getting the first stab at the tech.
Specifically: One beach-oriented Barcelona [...]
As we enter our second year at Puppetgov, we ask how much has changed since our second video came out in 2007. Has there been any real change?
By Stephen C. Webster and Larisa Alexandrovna~Raw Story
Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, former Reagan administration Associated Attorney General Bruce Fein lamented President Barack Obama’s decision to shut his eyes to open confessions of war crimes by members of the prior administration.
“It’s at the highest levels that the rule of law finds [...]
