Questions Regarding The Fort Hood Massacre

by Chuck Baldwin November 20, 2009 By now, virtually everyone has read and reread the copious news accounts of the terrible shooting a few weeks ago at Fort Hood, Texas. This column will not attempt to add new details to what is already a highly scrutinized tragedy. However, I do want to pose three basic questions that, to me, are extremely glaring and, for the most part, absent from the discussion. Question 1: Why were the soldiers not armed? After all, this is a military base; more than that, it is an Army base that emphasizes the training and equipping of frontline, combat-ready soldiers. ...

Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for potential ‘global collapse’

(London Telegraph) In a report entitled "Worst-case debt scenario", the bank's asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems. Overall debt is still far too high in almost all rich economies as a share of GDP (350pc in the US), whether public or private. It must be reduced by the hard slog of "deleveraging", for years. "As yet, nobody can say with any certainty whether we have in fact escaped the prospect of a global economic collapse," said the 68-page report, headed by asset chief ...

Will the real Peter Schiff please stand up?

Obama Allies Want New Tax To Pay For Cost Of Protecting Afghan Opium Fields, Bribing Taliban

by Paul Joseph Watson Not content with savaging American taxpayers with two huge new financial burdens during an economic recession, in the form of health care reform and cap and trade, close allies of Barack Obama have proposed a new war surtax that will force Americans to foot the bill for the cost of protecting opium fields in Afghanistan, paying off drug lords, and bribing the Taliban. Warning that the cost of occupying Afghanistan is a threat to the Democrats’ plan to overhaul health care, lawmakers have announced their plan to make Americans pay an additional war tax that will be taken ...

Health-Care “Reform”: It’s All About Power

(Campaign For Liberty - Sheldon Richman) If the politicians who are bent on redesigning the medical and medical-insurance industries really wanted only to curb rising prices and help the uninsured get coverage, they would have zeroed in on the previous government interventions that created those problems. Instead, they are pushing grand schemes to turn our medical decision-making over to bureaucrats. That indicates that the so-called reform campaign is about power. Medical care is too expensive. Prices for services rise faster than other prices, and there's reason to believe much of the money is wasted. Expensive medical care equates to expensive insurance, which ...

US Sen Reid Readies Health Bill For Saturday Vote

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D., Nev.) said Thursday that the Senate is poised to act on $848 billion health-care legislation, despite lingering uncertainty over whether he can secure enough support for the bill. Reid, appearing with other Senate Democrats at a rally at the Capitol, said that the bill fulfills a goal sought for decades to extend insurance coverage to Americans lacking

Ron Paul’s Amendment To Audit The Federal Reserve Approved

(StreetInsider.com) A key House panel approved the Paul-Grayson Amendment by an overwhelming 43-26 Thursday afternoon, which will give watchdogs new authority to audit the Federal Reserve. Here is a summary of the Paul-Grayson Amendment: Dear Financial Services Committee Colleague: It is encouraging to see the issue of Federal Reserve transparency receiving so much attention during this current markup. Today we plan to offer an amendment to the Financial Stability Improvement Act that expands on the many extant proposals to enhance Federal Reserve transparency. Our amendment is based on HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, which has broad bipartisan and grassroots support. The bill ...

Is Obama the Antichrist?

By Rev. Ted Pike 19 Nov 09 The Bible prophesies that a Jewish world government--presided over by Israel's false messiah, Antichrist--will be established in the last days. Next to the first and second comings of Christ, eventual antichrist world government and God's judgment on it, is probably the Bible's most frequent prophetic theme. I'm increasingly asked if I think Barak Obama could be the Antichrist. In my new lecture/discussion series, Biblical Answers: Reviving True Christianity, at www.truthtellers.org, I consider at length why I do not believe he could. Scripture makes it clear that ...

Court: Army Corps Liable For Katrina Flooding

(WIBW) The Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a shipping channel linking New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico led to catastrophic flooding during Hurricane Katrina, a federal court ruled Wednesday. "It is the court's opinion that the negligence of the Corps, in this instance by failing to maintain the MRGO properly, was not policy, but insouciance, myopia and short-sightedness," U.S. District Court Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. wrote in his lengthy ruling, referring to the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet canal. "For over 40 years, the Corps was aware that the Reach II levee protecting Chalmette and the Lower Ninth Ward was ...

Former Monsanto Lawyer Hired by FDA as Key Advisor

(Natural News) A former lobbyist and Monsanto employee who is credited with playing an instrumental role in introducing genetically modified milk and known carcinogens into the U.S. Food supply has been hired as a key advisor for the FDA. Michael Taylor has been hired to advise Margaret Hamburg, the FDA's commissioner of food and drugs. In his new position, Taylor will also work with the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, the Office of Regulatory Affairs, Congress and the White House. Taylor's FDA career began in 1976, when he served as an attorney for the agency. ...