Dimon
Says He’s Eager to Repay ‘Scarlet Letter’ TARP
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, who today
reported first-quarter profit that beat analysts’ expectations,
said his firm could repay U.S. government rescue funds “tomorrow.”
Man
Detained As Terror Suspect For Photographing Police Car
Despite police claiming that an ambiguous section of the UK Counter
Terrorism Act of 2008 would not outlaw taking photographs or film of
police, a man was detained as a terror suspect this week simply for
taking a photograph of a police car in order to document police misconduct.
Don’t
Fall For the Old Divide And Conquer Trick
The powers-that-be are trying to distract us from the looting of our
wallets by the big banks by creating a left-versus-right, us-versus-them
drama.
Robert
Shiller’s Fatal Prescriptions
Economist Robert Shiller now prescribes a strong dose of medicine –
actually poison – for the U.S. economy (see here). Shiller’s
diagnosis and doctoring are the same as those of the Bush-Obama-Bernanke
regimes. He only wants greater and more persistent doses of the poisons.
BBC rebukes its Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen for anti-Israel
comments
The BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen faced calls to quit
tonight after he was criticised for breaching the broadcaster’s
rules on accuracy and impartiality in two reports about the Arab-Israeli
conflict.
Texas
could secede from the union, governor says
A fired-up Texas Gov. Rick Perry told an Austin crowd gathered as part
of the national “tea party” protests that while there was
“no reason” to dissolve the union, “but if Washington
continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who
knows what might come out of that.”
Why
Third Year Arctic Ice Will Increase Next Year
In spite of the excess global sea ice area and the freezing Catlin crew,
AGW proponents have recently ramped up the rhetoric about “melting
ice caps.” This has been based on a couple of points.
NSA
spied on member of Congress and broke new laws, report says
An article in The New York Times detailing new violations of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reports that the National
Security Agency has been intercepting the communications of Americans
on a scale going well beyond the broad legal limits established
last year by Congress.
Robert
Fisk: How can you trust the cowardly BBC? The BBC Trust’s report on Jeremy Bowen’s dispatches
from the Middle East is pusillanimous, cowardly, outrageous, factually
wrong and ethically dishonest.
Rick
Perry’s Cynical Effort to Exploit the Tea Party Movement and
States’ Rights
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s says the state may secede. Perry
made the comment after a Tax Day Tea Party speech he delivered at
the Austin City Hall. CNN
Correspondent Claims Tea Parties ‘Anti-government,’
‘Anti-CNN’
CNN is finally covering the tea parties – by attacking the
participants. After anchor Anderson Cooper made an obscene sexual
joke about attendees, CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen rudely interrupted
one of the protestors and slammed the event for being “anti-government,”
“anti-CNN,” and “not really family viewing.” Ron
Paul: Bring back private pirate hunters
A congressman from Texas who’s known for broadsides at U.S.
foreign policy says Somali piracy has an age-old solution”
- letters of marque” empowering private citizens to chase
the criminals from the oceans.
Protest
over G20 police tactics
Protestors will be gathering outside Scotland Yard on Thursday voicing
their dissent over police tactics during the G20 demonstrations
in London.
The Great Global Warming Hoax
RAND Wants WWIII to Save US Economy
Paul Watson & Alex Jones - Mumbai Terror Attacks
Paul Joseph Watson: Internet Censorship a Growing Cancer
