Online voting for Human Rights Hero 2011 closed one month early, and result censored, after Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi took clear lead

The oppression of Muslims in the United States has become similar to the mistreatment Jews experienced in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a US-based Imam tells Press TV.

Also see Israel Ramps Up Push for Attack on Iran

Investigators say the gang used blackmail tactics to extort vital information about Turkey's security projects from individuals holding strategic positions at TÜB?TAK. The gang has an archive of footage showing male employees in compromising positions with women.

Obama czar proposed government should ‘infiltrate’ social network sites, chat rooms, message boards.

It was recently announced that Apple would set up an R&D center here, following in the footsteps of Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Texas Instruments and others, he told the audience.

for the missile suckers

Real 911 film

The missile cult started form a known con-man on a French website but then it really got steam with Loose Change. The purpose of the missile cult is to avoid real research into 911 and to turn away rational adults curious about 911 truth because the missile hypothesis is so insane.

Entire Hour on Fri, Feb. 3rd, 9pm EST

Short video exposing the truth about Rick Santorum.

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CNN Video - Ron Paul interview - Feb. 1, 2012

Runs 3 minutes.

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George Soros explains why his hedge fund bought $2 billion of MF Global Italian bonds - and why he would buy even more, were he still running the fund. The reason: Deflation.

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Uggs have been banned in a school in PA. Sure Uggs and other high top boots can hide stuff, but how about instead of banning Uggs they just discipline the kids that get in trouble.

Once booming, Nevada’s economy has tanked since last time presidential race visited

In Nevada, people could once buy homes and feed their families with money earned from free-spending tourists who flocked to Sin City for relaxed gambling and liquor laws.

But things have changed dramatically in the four years since the White House race last came to this state.

Now, Nevadans are struggling with the highest foreclosure and unemployment rates in the nation, their woes creating a dour landscape as Republican candidates compete for votes ahead of Saturday’s GOP caucuses.

“Unemployment is such a big problem here. It affects everybody,” said Josh Dobbins, a Las Vegas accountant and a father of four.

(*When Mitt Romney Came to town>>> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/king-bain )

A researcher at MIT, Andreas Mershin, has created solar panels from agricultural waste such as cut grass and dead leaves. In a few years, Mershin says it’ll be possible to stir some grass clippings into a bag of cheap chemicals, paint the mixture on your roof, and immediately start producing electricity.

Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) launched an investigation in response to a lawsuit filed by six FDA whistleblowers and documents released by the National Whistleblowers Center that show the FDA targeted whistleblowers for special monitoring and intercepted personal communications to Congress, including emails to Senator Grassley's staff...

US and Israeli agendas need enemies. Both pursue rogue state policies.

They defy international laws and conventions, applying rule of law standards to others, not themselves. Their interests alone matter, no matter the toll on others.

When enemies don’t exist, they’re invented. Fear stirs public angst. Major media scoundrels spread it. Propaganda substitutes for truth and full disclosure.

Its sponsors include America, Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Colombia, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, UAE, Oman, Lybia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Togo.

Notably, Russia and China aren’t included. Nonetheless, Russian UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin said:

“We have the text which we shall send to our capital cities and will wait for the result.” He added that doing so “does not predetermine its fate in any way.”

More on its text below.

The chances of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement becoming law in Europe dwindled suddenly on Friday, after Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said he was suspending ACTA's ratification in his country.

A group of European regulators has written to Google Inc calling on it to halt the introduction of its new privacy policy, saying it needs to investigate whether the proposals sufficiently protect users' personal data.

I believe in paying money for products that earn it. I do not believe in a pricing and distribution model that still thinks it’s 1998. And I really don’t believe in censoring the internet so that studio and label executives can add a few more millions onto their already enormous money pile.

Treat your customers with respect , and they’ll do the same to you. And that is how you fight piracy.

THE death toll from the big freeze that has hit much of continental Europe this week rose to 122 yesterday.

In Serbia, at least 11,000 villagers remained trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in the country’s mountains last night, officials said.

In some regions temperatures have plunged to a record low of -30C (-22F), with snowfall causing power cuts, traffic chaos and the closure of schools, nurseries and airports.

I wonder how much Ticket Master Ripped Off the people going to see the Super Super Bowl?

Ron Paul: Hey Banksters, No More Bailouts for You!
Over 20 minute interview with Ron Paul in Nevada for "Face to Face with Jon Ralston"
February 1st, 2012.

"I found many accounts through which hundreds of thousands of dollars were being flowed as a conduit on a monthly basis,"

Doug Hornig, Senior Editor
Casey Research

Lovers of liberty have seemingly had a good bit to celebrate recently...

Meanwhile, Geithner is rumored to be heading to Government Sachs in November...

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Hot off the presses. The lawsuit was filed earlier today in New York.

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The United Nations says that the earth is in great danger and that the way you and I are living is the problem. In a shocking new report entitled, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing" the UN declares that the entire way that we currently approach economics needs to be changed. Instead of focusing on things like "economic growth", the UN is encouraging nations all over the world to start basing measurements of economic success on the goal of achieving "sustainable development". But there is a huge problem with that. The UN says that what we are doing right now is "unsustainable" by definition, and the major industrialized nations of the western world are the biggest culprits.

For our own story, we had relied on the Daily Mail's posted date on the story, which turns out to be incorrect. Daily Mail has since corrected this publish date, so it now shows the year 2003. This, in turn, has caused us to publish this correction. We regret the confusion. Even more, we regret that the good news we originally reported turns out to be old news rather than today's good news. At times like this, we all need some good news, but it seems our optimism in this case was misplaced...

Highly recommended short clip for anyone who hasn't seen it - Runs 2 minutes.

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A policy group in the US has called for providing Israel with 200 additional bunker-buster bombs and aerial refuelling tankers to increase the credibility of a military strike aimed at thwarting Iran's nuclear program.

This guest essay on derivatives was written by frequent contributor Zeus Yiamouyiannis.

Here is how the counterfeit value derivative con works. It’s a game of “I pretend, you pretend, we all pretend, and the taxpayer will pay in the end”.

1) I’ll create an instrument, say a credit default swap (CDS), an unregulated insurance with no capital requirements, with a certain “notional” value. Notional value is just something I assign. It does not have to be attached to or backed by any real asset or actual money/principal, but I can pretend as if it is. (Notional amount.)

As workers began inspecting a leaky tube in one of the San Onofre nuclear plant's reactors Thursday, federal regulators said more than 800 tubes in a second, offline reactor showed wear and thinning, although they are only two years old.

And plant officials confirmed that sensors showed a tiny amount of radioactive gas may have leaked out of a building next to the first reactor before the reactor was shut down late Tuesday.

Mob attacks branch of HSBC Bank in the capital
It follows announcement that warship HMS Dauntless will set sail for the South Atlantic

Supreme leader affirms Iran has helped militant groups attack Israel before and will continue nuclear programme

Workers at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant have discovered hundreds of damaged tubes in a nuclear reactor that is currently offline. The workers found the damaged tubes while checking the extent of the damage of a leak in the tubes of another reactor that released at least a small amount of radiation.

Officials have been quick to claim that the levels released were too low to cause any harm to workers or the public when in reality the idea that these officials, whose jobs are on the line, would actually tell the public if there was a large release remains sketchy to say the least.

The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, seeks “a declaration that the alleged practices violate the law, as well as injunctive relief, damages for harmed homeowners, and civil penalties” — which could be a very big bill indeed for the plaintiffs.

Sayer Ji, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

The scientific literature indicates that there are at least two dozen adverse health effects linked to exposure to mineral oil, a crude oil derivative. New research indicates these fat-soluble hydrocarbons are accumulating to disturbing levels in our bodies, and affecting newborns by contaminating breast milk...

Long-running negotiations between Russia and USA about NATO's European missile defence shield are currently deadlocked. Both countries want to protect their people by operating early warning radar stations, but have been unable to find a way to cooperate on the issue. NATO's top brass decided to deploy a missile defence system aimed at protecting Europe, but their plan to place it in former Warsaw Pact countries right on Russia's border raised the alarm in Moscow, leading it to consider countermeasures.
So the reset in US-Russia relations announced by Washington and supported by Moscow is in now jeopardy.

By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON, Feb 1, 2012 (IPS) – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to accounts from well-placed senior military officers.

Dempsey’s warning, conveyed to both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, represents the strongest move yet by President Barack Obama to deter an Israeli attack and ensure that the United States is not caught up in a regional conflagration with Iran.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for a new world order of justice-seeking nations, to replace the existing Western-dominated liberal status quo.

President Ahmadinejad made the remarks at the inauguration ceremony of the 2nd International Conference on Hollywoodism and Cinema in Tehran on Thursday.

The Iranian chief executive stated that the world's dominant powers deliberately bully the smaller nations, who are not in conflict with one another, thereby creating artificial problems between them.

The United States has made the surprise announcement that it will end combat operations in Afghanistan earlier than expected. Many believe the Obama Administration has finally given in to political pressure ahead of this year's presidential election.

Quotes from the founder of planned parenthood herself Margaret Sanger. After reading these tell me again that planned parenthood isn’t a eugenics based organization filled with people who are truly racist and inhuman to the core.

With the precious metals sector having been in the grip of another bankster-induced “silly season”, I was very unsure about how the market would “react” to the latest shenanigans of B.S. Bernanke. Put another way, I was uncertain as to whether the actual fundamentals would be allowed to assert themselves – even to a small degree.

Pickpockets no longer need to touch their victims — they can use cheap technology to read credit cards through peoples’ pants.

The Israeli occupation authorities have issued notice of their intention to demolish a renewable energy project which generates electricity and represents the only source of lighting for the houses in a Palestinian village near Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The people of Al-Mnazel received the demolition notice advising of Israel's plans to destroy the solar panels which provide them with electricity. The project was established a couple of years ago with funds from the Spanish government.

What a bunch of petty minded, vindictive assholes. I guess when you think you are Gawd-Awfull's chosen people you feel you have to act to show it. /SR

At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia's mountains, authorities said, as the death toll from Eastern Europe's weeklong deep freeze rose to 122, many of them homeless people.

JUST SAY NO TO ANY MORE WARS...Feb. 4 anti-war actions called to stop imperialist threats to Iran

As someone with 37 years experience in the print media, I have two complaints about the way in which the electronic media are covering this Republican presidential primary.

Today Thursday February 2 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the besieged Gaza concentration camp, coming through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern border of the Gaza Strip.

“The looks on their faces when they knew they got the wrong door was priceless,” she recalls. “They looked at each other dumbfounded.”

Sanchez says another agent came by later that day to offer an apology, but it was one that Sanchez felt wasn’t quite genuine.

“For me it felt routine apology, it felt like just a regular, ‘I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Here’s the phone number for your landlord to get reimbursed for the door, have a good day.’

And that’s how I felt, like it was a smack in the face.”