Congress clears historic health care bill

(AP) Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage. Widely viewed as dead two months ago, the Senate-passed bill cleared the House on a 219-212 vote, with Republicans unanimous in opposition. Congressional officials said they expected Obama to sign the bill as early as Tuesday. A second measure — making changes in the first — was lined up for passage later in the evening. It would then go to ...

There Will Be Blood!

(TownHall.com) I’m not crazy about congressional Democrats right now. As I write this, Congressional Democrats are engaged in a furious partisan battle to pass their idea of healthcare reform. Alas it is an idea the majority of Americans do not share. It is in fact an idea that the majority of congressmen do not share, which is why President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are twisting arms, bribing, cajoling and threatening all manner of mischief in order to eek out a majority vote – or non vote -- on a bill the people have made clear they do not want. They ...

Bank of England Deliberately Created “Consumer Boom”

(The Independent) The Bank of England deliberately stoked the consumer boom that has led to record house prices and personal debt in order to avert a recession, the former Bank Governor Eddie George admitted yesterday. Lord George said he and his colleagues on the Monetary Policy Committee “did not have much of a choice” as they battled to prevent the UK being dragged into a worldwide economic slump by slashing interest rates. And he said his legacy to the current MPC was to “sort out” the problems he had caused. Lord George, who headed the Bank for a decade from 1993, revealed to ...

Homeland Security Wants Clearance to Fly Drones Over Texas

(The Dallas Morning News) The federal government may soon send unmanned aircraft to scour West Texas and the state’s coastal waters in an effort to boost border security, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a letter to the governor sent Friday. Perry had formally requested the assistance a week ago. The need also was underscored in a phone call that Democratic nominee Bill White had with Napolitano on Thursday. Homeland Security has six drones and is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to get the necessary clearance to begin flying over Texas, Napolitano wrote. Before operations start, ground control stations, pilots, sensor ...

“Two wrongs and it still ain’t right” (Caution foul language!)

Synagogue Bomb Suspects: The Feds Put Us Up to It!

(NBC New York) Defense attorneys say an alleged plot to bomb New York synagogues was hatched and directed by a federal informant. Lawyers for four men from Newburgh have filed a motion to dismiss the terror indictment against them. They said the informant badgered the defendants until they got involved in the plot. They said the informant chose the targets, supplied fake bombs for the synagogues and a fake missile to shoot down planes. The motion said he also offered to pay the defendants, who attorneys alleged weren't inclined toward any crime ...

Mother keeps McDonald’s Happy Meal for a whole year… and it STILL hasn’t rotted

(Daily Mail) Glancing at the two McDonald's Happy Meals pictured here, you may feel they look pretty much identical. Astonishingly, however, this is the same meal, photographed 12 months apart. Where any other food might be a mouldy, decomposing mess after a year, the McDonald's meal shows few signs of going off apart from the beef patty shrivelling and the stale burger bun cracking. Proof, says the American nutritionist who took these photographs, that it contains so many preservatives that it is bad for the children it is aimed at. Joann Bruso said: 'Food is supposed to decompose, go bad and smell foul eventually. The ...

IMF calls for new body to save taxpayers from burden of failing banks

(Guardian) The International Monetary Fund has called for a European "fire brigade" funded by the finance industry to deal with the collapse of banks that operate in several countries. Managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn urged the European Union to create a European resolution authority to deal with insolvent banks that would force shareholders and uninsured creditors – rather than taxpayers –to bear the costs of failure. The authority would be funded by the financial industry from deposit insurance fees and levies on institutions, he said. "What I think is needed is a European resolution authority, armed with the mandate and the tools to deal ...

Pentagon Sees a Threat From WikiLeaks.org

(NY Times) To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information and documents that governments and corporations around the world would prefer to keep secret. The Pentagon assessed the danger WikiLeaks.org posed to the Army in a report marked “unauthorized disclosure subject to criminal sanctions.” It concluded that “WikiLeaks.org represents a potential force protection, counterintelligence, OPSEC and INFOSEC threat to the U.S. Army” — or, in plain English, a threat to Army operations and information. WikiLeaks, true to its mission to publish materials that expose secrets of all ...

European fraudsters steal $7B in carbon credit scam

(CBC News) Fraud within Europe's carbon credit trading system has cost taxpayers more than $7 billion in the last 18 months, European police said Friday. Officials at Europol, the body in charge of co-ordinating police forces inside the European Union, say fraudulent activity on the EU's Emission Trading System was first suspected in late 2008 when police noticed the volume of trades in certain countries would mysteriously spike. "It is estimated that in some countries, up to 90 per cent of the whole market volume was caused by fraudulent activities," Europol said. Since late 2008, the total value of fraudulent activity is believed to ...

Total Sellout: American Academy of Family Physicians Lets Coca-Cola Sponsor Health Advice

(Natural News) The American Academy of Family Physicians has come under fire for a controversial decision to partner with the Coca-Cola Company in a new public outreach campaign about the health risks of soda consumption. "Coca-Cola, like other sodas, causes enormous suffering and premature death by increasing the risks of obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, gout, and cavities," said Walter Willett of Harvard University. "[The academy] should be a loud critic of these products and practices, but by signing with Coke their voice has almost surely been muzzled." The academy claims that its health message will not be compromised by accepting tens of thousands ...

Federal Reserve Must Disclose Bank Bailout Records

(Bloomberg) The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal appeals court said. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today that the Fed must release records of the unprecedented $2 trillion U.S. loan program launched primarily after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The ruling upholds a decision of a lower-court judge, who in August ordered that the information be released. The Fed had argued that disclosure of the documents threatens to stigmatize borrowers and cause them “severe and irreparable competitive injury,” discouraging banks in ...

16,500 more IRS agents needed to enforce Obamacare

(Washington Examiner) New tax mandates and penalties included in Obamacare will cause the greatest expansion of the Internal Revenue Service since World War II, according to a release from Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas. A new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee minority staff estimates up to 16,500 new IRS personnel will be needed to collect, examine and audit new tax information mandated on families and small businesses in the ‘reconciliation’ bill being taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives this weekend. ... Scores of new federal mandates and ...

Rep. Broun Calls The Civil War “The Great War Of Yankee Aggression”

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Census Is For Counting Not Prying

by Chuck Baldwin The constitutional requirement for the Census is found in Article. I. Section. 2. Paragraph. 3. “The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.” The purpose of the Census is that of counting the US population in order to apportion among the states the number of representatives in the US House of Representatives. That’s it. Nothing more. Nothing less. There is nothing in the Constitution requiring ...

Proof There is No Pre-tribulation Rapture

Lights, Camera, Distraction!

by Keith Johnson Days after our tough talking Vice President Joe Biden returned from his trip to Israel with a handful of broken glass, the Obama administration announced that it has blocked delivery of armaments slated for delivery to the state of Israel.  This announcement brought cheers and jeers from opposite ends of the political spectrum while leaving those in the middle, well…perplexed. The diplomatic theatre going on between Israel and the Obama administration has everybody fooled.  But this entire political circus is purely for public consumption.  The short-term goal is to create the ...

Let us not forget where the banking collapse started

(Telegraph) More than one in four adults in Britain are not working, after a record number left the workforce in recent months, official figures indicated. A total of 10.6 million people either did not have a job, or have stopped looking for one, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics, which indicated that more people than ever before had abandoned the workplace – choosing instead to study, go on sick leave or just give up searching for a job. A record 149,000 left the workforce and became "economically inactive", between November last year and January, the ONS said. These people ...

The Arabs that own Hollywood?