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  • Chinese drywall poses potential risks
    12 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when building materials were in short supply, American construction companies used millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was abundant and cheap. Now that decision is haunting hundreds of homeowners and apartment dwellers who are concerned that the wallboard gives off fumes that can corrode copper pipes, blacken jewelry and silverware, and possibly sicken people.
    (04-11) 18:31 PDT PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — By BRIAN SKOLOFF and CAIN (…)

  • Economic Crisis: No End In Sight
    10 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Economic Crisis: No End In Sight Worse than the Great Depression
    by Mike Whitney
    Global Research, April 9, 2009
    It’s been 21 months since two Bear Stearns hedge funds defaulted setting off a series of events which have led to the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression. No one expected the financial meltdown to hit this hard or spread this fast. The failure at Bear triggered a freeze in the secondary market where mortgage loans are repackaged into securities and sold to (…)

  • ET TU BARACK?
    9 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is alleged to have said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
    The late Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler, to rally support for the pending Holocaust, is alleged to have rhetorically asked his followers, “Who remembers now the extermination of the Armenians?”
    While historians continue to debate whether Stalin or Hitler actually uttered these words, the insights these quotations reveal about the frailties of humankind are (…)

  • Questioning "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe"
    8 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    If links don’t work, use this version:
    http://www.checktheevidence.co.uk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=224&Itemid=60
    Why has this new paper been published now by Jones, Harrit et al? What important 9/11 evidence are Steve Jones and the Co-authors ignoring or unable to address?
    This is a quickly composed article, posted as a response to the re-cycled and morphing thermite theory, which has again been “dressed up” in what appears to be an authentic Scientific (…)

  • Video: Ex-Rep. Gilchrest: Pressure Groups Have “a Hold on Congress!”
    7 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On April 7, 2009, a public hearing on the “True Costs and Benefits of US Military Aid to the Middle East, 1980-2010),” was held on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., in the Rayburn House Building, room 2168. One of the speakers was ex-Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD). He said that pressure groups, on Middle East issues, have “a hold on Congress.” He mentioned “AIPAC” as one of the groups. The event was sponsored by the “Council for the National Interest,” see: http://www.cnionline.org/ For (…)

  • The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America
    7 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936&ei=WoLbSeehJ4L4-AaZ_4yRBw&q=money+masters

  • Highly Engineered Thermite found in WTC samples
    7 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The scientific paper Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe conclusively shows the presence of unignited aluminothermic explosives in dust samples from the Twin Towers, whose chemical signature matches previously documented aluminothermic residues found in the same dust samples. The present review of the paper and related research is intended to summarize those findings for the non-technical reader. To that end, I first provide a short (…)

  • WAR PIGS - COST OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE
    7 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WAR PIGS - COST OF A GLOBAL EMPIRE
    Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of deaths construction In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah! Black Sabbath – War Pigs
    You know civilization is in danger when I find more wisdom in the words of Ozzy Osbourne than in the words of any (…)

  • Bernanke’s Financial Rescue Plan: The growing prospect of a U.S. default
    7 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bernanke’s Financial Rescue Plan: The growing prospect of a U.S. default
    by Mike Whitney
    Global Research, April 6, 2009
    Fed chief Ben Bernanke has embarked on the most radical and ruinous financial rescue plan in history. According to Bloomberg News, the Fed has already lent or committed $12.8 trillion trying to stabilize the financial system after the the bursting of Wall Street’s speculative mega-bubble. Now Bernanke wants to dig an even bigger hole, by creating programs that will (…)

  • Video: Demonstration at Home of Electric Industry Honcho
    7 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday evening, April 6, 2009, anti-electric rate hike activists staged a candlelight march and demonstration. It ended up at the residence in north Baltimore, in Maryland, of Mayo Shattuck, CEO of Constellation Energy, the parent company of BGE. The activists are demanding the re-regulation and “roll back of gas and electric rates” in the state of Maryland and a halt to any planned shut offs by BGE of electric utilities to about “84,000 households.” The protest action was cosponsored by (…)