Zero Hedge Submitted by Tyler Durden In a much anticipated statement, Obama just announced that he has struck a deal with Boehner on the debt and the deficit, which will allow the US to avoid default. And also, as Reuters adds, Obama said that spending cuts included in deal to raise the debt ceiling will [...]
Source: AFP The United States’ top military officer admitted Saturday he did not know whether troops serving in Afghanistan would get paid if lawmakers fail to agree a deal on avoiding a debt default. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who is on a visit to Afghanistan, was asked by [...]
Source: Cryptogon If the left hand isn’t sharing information with the right hand, with hundreds of millions of dollars in potential trading profits hanging in the balance, I’m Santa Claus. —Usual Suspects Now Heavily Involved with Commodity Warehousing Via: Reuters: In a rundown patch of Detroit, enclosed by a cyclone fence and barbed wire, stands [...]
Source: Truthout – By Jason Leopold The Air Force, in response to an exclusive report published by Truthout earlier this week, has withdrawn materials used in a training session that relied upon passages from the New and Old Testament and a quote from an ex-Nazi SS officer to teach missile officers about the morals and [...]
Source: BLN By Lee Rogers The entire debt ceiling debate that is being covered religiously by the corporate controlled media is nothing more than a fraud surrounded by false ideologies on both sides of the phony political spectrum. This problem is very simple to solve and it defies logic that not one single person in [...]
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The Raw Story By Pro Publica Prohibited from regulating hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the EPA took to the air, proposing federal regulations to reduce smog-forming pollutants released by the fast-spreading approach to gas drilling. If approved as currently written, the rules would amount to the first national standards for fracking of [...]
Mail Online July 31, 2011 Iraq is more dangerous than it was just a year ago, after a surge in bombings, assassinations and violence by Shi’ite militias, according to a report released today. In his quarterly review to Congress, a top government adviser accused the U.S. military of glossing over the issue, just months before [...]
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com July 31, 2011 Earlier this month, Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced “Stop Gun Trafficking and Strengthen Law Enforcement Act,” H.R. 2554, a gun-grabbing bill little noticed by the corporate media. It is co-sponsored by Elijah Cummings, Democrat and Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and notorious gun-grabber Carolyn McCarthy. [...]