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Child Poverty In America Is Absolutely EXPLODING – 16 Shocking Statistics That Will Break Your Heart
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Just when you thought you could trust the National Association of
Realtors, a new shocking report from the NAR itself says that they have
miscounted the amount of existing homes that were sold for the last five
years.
Villagers in Wukan, China have chased away local police and government after a mass protest against corruption.
Derivatives, unlike stocks where the equation has always been
murky, are for the most part zero-sum products: one’s gain is someone
else’s loss (net of commissions) unless of course the entire system
collapses in a daisylinked chain reaction (think AIG). And MF Global’s
bankruptcy, by dint of being a derivatives broker, and the resulting
massive losses to both shareholders and clients, means that some entity,
on the other side of all these failed bets, made off like a bandit.
In a statement released Tuesday, House oversight committee Chairman
Darrell Issa criticized an amendment proposed by Texas Republican Rep.
Lamar Smith to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, saying it does
not fix anything and would give “Attorney General Eric Holder’s
Department of Justice broad new powers to police the Internet.”
Even at this 11th hour – when all of our liberties and freedom are
about to go down the drain – many people still don’t understand that the
indefinite detention bill passed by Congress allows indefinite
detention of Americans on American soil.
With the US pulling out troops from Iraq this month, Washington
plans to send Blackwater mercenaries to the Middle Eastern country under
the new brand of ACADEMI.
According to informed sources inside Iran, Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei has recently ordered the arrest of a number of prominent
members of the Revolutionary Guards. He ordered to investigate them and
others, who were not arrested, in a suspected plot to assassinate
him. The sources said that among those arrested and interrogated so far
are some of Khamenei’s bodyguards. The sources conveyed that those
arrested tried to convince Khamenei to visit Mlard missile base in
western Tehran on November 12th. It should be mentioned that on that day
a huge blast took place in this military base, which killed among
others the head of ballistic missiles production and development unit.
Canada is ending its participation on the Kyoto Protocol meant to fight global warming.
The most expensive weapons program in U.S. history is about to get a lot pricier.
A shoulder-mounted laser that emits a blinding wall of light
capable of repelling rioters is to be trialled by police under
preparations to prevent a repeat of this summer's looting and arson.
Over the weekend, struggling Republican presidential candidate Gary
Johnson reminded MSNBC viewers that GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich had
once to called to punish some drug offenders with death.
In the wake of most countries in Europe vowing to stop using
full-body scanners at airports; the Broward County Commission is looking
into banning the scanners from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International
Airport.
A member of the Iranian parliament's National Security Committee
said on Monday that the military was set to practice its ability to
close the Gulf to shipping at the narrow Strait of Hormuz, the most
important oil transit channel in the world, but there was no official
confirmation.
The easiest way to deal with a debt spiral is to let it keep going and going.
WITHIN mere minutes of spotting a car travelling on a dusty track
in the United States’ south-western desert, the Republic of Singapore
Air Force’s (RSAF) latest and most lethal “smart” bomb found and hit its
target.
Martial Law Comes To Your Cellphone...
WOW
From A-Z, the Arab Spring is Fake.
An online piracy bill in the House would "criminalize linking and
the fundamental structure of the Internet itself," according to Google
Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.
Seventy-six percent of those surveyed said most representatives do
not deserve to be reelected, the highest number in the 19 years Gallup
has asked the question and six points higher than in August, just after
the contentious debate over raising the debt ceiling.
Latvia's largest bank scrambled Monday to head off a run among
depositors who were gripped by rumours of the bank's imminent ruin.
Heralding a New Level of the Police State
Billionaire market speculator and philanthropist George Soros bought
about $2 billion worth of European bonds from now-bankrupt MF Global —
the same debt that pushed the firm to collapse, according to The Wall
Street Journal.
A largely overlooked exchange from Thursday’s House Judiciary
Committee hearing includes what appears to be an admission from Attorney
General Eric Holder that emails to and from him about Operation Fast
and Furious may exist, and that he’s refusing to provide them to
Congress.
After months of negotiations, the U.S. and Canada have unveiled new
trade, regulatory and security initiatives to speed up the flow of
goods and people across the border. The joint action plans provide a
framework that goes beyond NAFTA and continues where the Security and
Prosperity Partnership (SPP) left off. This will take U.S.-Canada
integration to the next level and is the pretext for a North American
Homeland Security perimeter.
United Nations climate envoys have proposed the creation of a
global “climate court” that would be responsible for enforcing a
sprawling set of rules requiring developed countries to cut emissions
while compensating poorer countries in order to pay off a “historical
climate debt.” The proposals are contained in a draft document pieced
together for the climate conference in Durban, South Africa.
Representatives at the conference are struggling to come up with a
compromise that negotiators from 194 nations can agree on.
Farmageddon, The Unseen War on American Family Farms, vividly conveys the stories of numerous farmers who found themselves on the wrong side of government food policy.
According to first-hand accounts and reports provided to Boiling
Frogs Post by several sources in Jordan, during the last few hours
foreign military groups, estimated at hundreds of individuals, began to
spread near the villages of the north-Jordan city of “Al-Mafraq”, which
is adjacent to the Jordanian and Syrian border.
The prospect of European heavyweights like Italy or Spain turning
to the IMF for rescue loans is worrying the United States and other
nations that fear they could suffer losses on funds they have extended
to the IMF.
As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning,
sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects
and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known
arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that
has helped revolutionize modern warfare.
Interesting Prospect...
An agreement reached by European countries for deeper economic
integration was a step in the right direction but not a complete
solution for the euro zone’s debt crisis, International Monetary Fund
(IMF) chief economist Olivier Blanchard said on Sunday.
As the evidence begins to mount pointing the accusing finger at the
increasingly illegitimate corporate-financier occupiers of the West’s
governments as having built up Russian opposition movements and being
behind the current unrest filling Russia’s streets, the corporate media
has already started to rewrite events as they unfold.
Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy head of the Guard, said in remarks
broadcast on state television that the violation of Iran’s airspace by
the US drone was a “hostile act” and warned of a “bigger” response. He
did not elaborate on what Tehran might do.
The man who shot dead a campus police officer at Virginia Tech on
Thursday before killing himself was a student at a nearby university who
had stolen an SUV at gunpoint the day before, officials said.
This will be a weekly post, of weekend wrap ups, notables, and other editor musings.
Germany’s state and federal interior ministers have agreed to make a
second legal attempt at banning the far-right National Party of Germany
(NPD).
Ignoring ranks of riot police with unmuzzled dogs, gusting snow,
and accusations by Vladimir Putin that protesters are dupes of the
United States tens of thousands of Muscovites poured into Bolotnaya
Square, across the river from the Kremlin, to vent their anger at
alleged fraud and vote-rigging on behalf of the ruling United Russia(UR)
party in last weekend’s parliamentary elections
There is compelling evidence that the United Nations collaborated
in the forced sterilization of poor, rural women in Peru from 1995 to
1997. The controversy revolves around Peru’s National Program for Family
Planning, which received funding from both the United Nations
Population Fund and U.S. Agency for International Development. The
Program included a campaign entitled Voluntary Surgical
Contraception—that is, sterilization. An estimated 100,000 to 300,000
people, mostly women, were sterilized.Doctors and hospitals were
pressured to meet sterilization quotas. It’s not surprising that reports
and testimonials of forced sterilizations abound.
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