Archive for December 16th, 2011

The Intel Hub December 16, 2011 In this fast-paced hour Madison Ruppert of End the Lie and James Corbett of the Corbett Report (http://CorbettReport.com/) discuss a wide variety of topics including the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, for the fiscal year 2012, domestic use of drones (UAVs), the insecurity of these systems, drone... »

by Stephen Lendman VeteransToday.com Friday, December 16th, 2011 Obama supports draconian FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act provisions. Justification given is national security and war on terror hokum. Henceforth, anyone anywhere, including US citizens, may be indefinitely held without charge or trial, based solely on suspicions, spurious allegations or none at all. No reasonable... »

By David Swanson VeteransToday.com Friday, December 16th, 2011 The National Defense Authorization Act is not a leap from democracy to tyranny, but it is another major step on a steady and accelerating decade-long march toward a police state. The doomsday clock of our republic just got noticeably closer to midnight, and the fact that... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 12/16/2011 The ever-eloquent populist-in-chief has just turned an important corner. It seems that the clear class warfare escapades he has been engaging in recently have backfired as, according to a poll by Associated Press-GfK, a majority of adults, 52 percent, said Obama should be voted out of office while 43... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 12/16/2011 Never a dull Friday when dealing with continents that have a terminal solvency, pardon, liquidity crisis. FITCH PLACES BELGIUM, SPAIN, ITALY, IRELAND, SLOVENIA AND CYPRUS ON RATING WATCH NEGATIVE Shockingly, French-owned Fitch has nothing to say about… France. Full statement: FITCH PLACES BELGIUM, SPAIN, SLOVENIA, ITALY, IRELAND AND CYPRUS... »

France is staring into the abyss today, facing fundamental challenges to its political and economic status, and perhaps even its idea of itself as exceptional and, yes, a little better than the rest of us. By James Kirkup TelegraphUK 16 Dec 2011 The origins of the challenge are the crisis in the eurozone, the... »

Mac Slavo December 16th, 2011 SHTFplan.com Anti-state, Anti-war and pro-market Libertarian thought leader Lew Rockwell (www.LewRockwell.com) joins Judge Napolitano to discuss the various reasons for why Ron Paul’s Constitutional philosophies are finally garnering recognition from the American public. While he may be running as a Republican, Paul’s positions on spending, war powers, economic policy,... »

Madison Ruppert ActivistPost.com Friday, December 16, 2011 Today the United States House of Representatives and Senate both passed their final versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012, or H.R. 1540. This represents the complete destruction of everything that America is supposed to stand for; the most essential of rights... »

Deborah Dupre Examiner.com December 16, 2011 After the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA FY 2012) passed the Senate 86-13 Thursday afternoon, the world’s largest human rights group updated its explanation of the bill’s inclusion of targeted killings of Americans, a component already signed as an Executive Order by President Barack Obama, that... »

DEBKAfile December 16, 2011 War tensions around Syria rose alarmingly Thursday night, Dec. 15, when Turkey’s top military council convened “to review the armed forces’ preparedness for war” in response to the deployment of Syrian missiles, some tipped with chemical warheads, on their common border. DEBKAfile’s military sources report the meeting was led by... »