by Stephen Brown FrontPageMag.com Oct 20th, 2011 American soldiers have launched a major operation this week that has seen hundreds of US and Afghan troops mass near Afghanistan’s eastern border with Pakistan, raising suspicions over a possible unilateral military strike in North Waziristan. If undertaken, the assault would end years of frustration with Pakistani... »
Archive for October 20th, 2011
Occupy Wall St: Naomi Wolf condemns ‘Stalinist’ erosion of protest rights
Author was arrested alongside Occupy Wall Street protesters after she disputed police claims that they had to clear sidewalk • Naomi Wolf: how I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street Matt Wells GuardianUK The feminist author Naomi Wolf has criticised the erosion of the right to public protest in the United States after she... »
If the “Occupy” Movement and Tea Party Join Together, We Can End the Malignant Partnership Between Big Government
by George Washington ZeroHedge.com 10/20/2011 Mike Krieger writes today: The reason the liberal mainstream corporate media demonized the Tea Party is because it threatens the status quo. The reason the conservative corporate mainstream media demonizes Occupy Wall Street is because it threatens the status quo. These are textbook divide and conquer strategies being used... »
Brainwashing America, Pentagon-Style!
RT.com The Pentagon is about to crank the propaganda machine up to 11. According to a new report, the Department of Defense is attempting to find out what makes a person easily influenced in hopes of swaying them towards supporting their own causes. In a report published this week by Wired.com’s Danger Room, they... »
FBI Ramps Up Next Generation ID Roll-Out—Will You End Up in the Database?
BY JENNIFER LYNCH EFF.org OCTOBER 19, 2011 NextGov.com is reporting that the FBI will begin rolling out its Next Generation Identification (NGI) facial recognition service as early as this January. Once NGI is fully deployed and once each of its approximately 100 million records also includes photographs, it will become trivially easy to find... »
More than 1 in 10 Americans on Suicide-Linked Antidepressants
Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post.com Thursday, October 20, 2011 Despite evidence linking popular antidepressants like Prozac to suicide more than 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 12 are now taking antidepressants prescribed by their doctors. In fact, antidepressants are now the most common drug among people aged 18 to 44, according to statistics... »
Does one ‘super-corporation’ run the global economy? Study claims it could be terrifyingly unstable
Research found that 147 companies formed a ‘super entity’ within group, controlling 40 per cent of its wealth By Rob Waugh DailyMailUK 20th October 2011 A University of Zurich study ‘proves’ that a small group of companies – mainly banks – wields huge power over the global economy. The study is the first to... »
Bugging Out of NYC: “Something Terrible is Coming… So For Now, I’m Getting Out.”
Mac Slavo October 20th, 2011 SHTFplan.com You may remember the Wall Street Insider from a previous interview in which he suggested that elements within the Obama administration were mobilizing to incite class and race conflicts across the United States. That report was made available in mid August of this year, just before the Occupy... »
European Debt Crisis: Is This the Beginning of the End?
by David Moenning OilPrice.com Thursday, 20 October 2011 Almost exactly two years since the onset of the Greek debt crisis, the European Commission has set out to create a comprehensive strategy to rein in the crisis and return to a viable path of economic prosperity. The deadline: Sunday, October 23. With fiscal instability and... »
TSA begins random road inspections in Tennessee
Tennessee Becomes First State To Fight Terrorism Statewide By Adam Ghassemi NewsChannel5.com PORTLAND, Tenn. – You’re probably use to seeing TSA’s signature blue uniforms at the airport, but now agents are hitting the interstates to fight terrorism with Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR). “Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not... »