Fed plows $30 billion in money markets overseas

The Fed's action -- taken at 1 a.m. EDT -- sets up temporary "swap" arrangements to supply dollars to the central banks of Australia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden in exchange for their currencies.

Dirty deeds done in the dark...

Pakistanis say suspected US drone shot down

Department of Defense (DOD) file photo shows an unmanned Predator surveillance plane. A suspected US unmanned spy plane crashed Tuesday in a troubled Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan where Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants are active, officials said. (AFP/DoD-HO/File/Jeffrey S. Viano)

The officials said the unmanned aircraft was shot down late Tuesday in the village of Jalal Khel in South Waziristan after circling over the area for several hours. Its wreckage was strewn on the ground, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

E pluribus hokum or When the gamblers bail out the casino

Think of America as a town with one casino, in which the only economic activity is gambling. Most people lose, but the casino keeps lending them more money to play. Eventually, of course, the casino must go bankrupt. At this point, the townspeople people vote to tax themselves in order to bail out the casino. Collectively, the gamblers cannot help but lose; individually they nonetheless hope to win their way out of the hole. Americans are so deep in the hole that they might as well keep putting borrowed quarters into the one-armed bandit. They have hardly saved anything for the past 10 years. Instead, they counted on capital gains to replace the retirement savings they never put aside, first in tech stocks, then in houses. That hasn't worked out.

Rabbis Hail Ahmadinejad’s N.Y. Visit

Rabbis from Neturei Karta protest in support of Palestinian rights

"It is sad that so few have actually attempted to speak to the Iranian President or seek the true opinion of Iranian Jewry who live in peace and practice their faith throughout that nation. We have met this man who has demonstrated time and again that he is sincerely interested in the well being of Iran's Jewish community and has deep respect for world Jewry and their Torah faith. The Zionist attempt to socially isolate this man and his people is immoral and disastrous," said the statement.

Rabbis from Neturei Karta - I refer to this group and the "True Jews." Isn't it funny how we never see them in the Zionist controlled main-stream media?

Israeli security agents active in Persian Gulf

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, dozens of former Israeli military officers and a large number of Mossad (Israeli intelligence) and Shabak (Israeli secret service) members are active in cooperation with the Israeli security devices in the Persian Gulf states.

Iranian president blames US for market collapse

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to photographers at UN headquarters in New York, ahead of the annual General Assembly. Ahmadinejad justified his policy of confronting the West by saying US troops are surrounding Iran. (AFP/Stan Honda)

"Problems do not arise suddenly," he said. "The U.S. government has made a series of mistakes in the past few decades. The imposition on the U.S. economy of the years of heavy military engagement and involvement around the world . . . the war in Iraq, for example. These are heavy costs imposed on the U.S. economy.

What can I say? The man's right!

Bernanke and Paulson: Congress must move now

US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson briefs reporters in Washington, DC on September 15. World markets slid amid mounting concerns over a massive bailout for the US financial system, as haggling over the fine print sparked investor impatience and a spike in oil and gold. (AFP/File/Jim Watson)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged Congress on Tuesday to quickly pass a $700 billion financial bailout, warning that letting problems persist would have dire consequences for the national economy.

Don't worry about the details just approve the damn bailout plan - TRUST US, we're Jews...

Christian charity to give $11 million to needy Holocaust survivors

A Christian charity is donating $11 million to 28,000 destitute Holocaust survivors in Israel and around the world ahead of the upcoming Jewish New Year holiday, the organization announced Tuesday. The Chicago-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews said it will give 11,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel a NIS 1,800 holiday gift each, while 17,000 survivors residing abroad will receive NIS 1,050 each.

Shouldn't charity start at home? Considering the state of the American economy, one would think these Christian Zionists and useful idiots of Israel would help their needy Christian brethren...

Ahmadinejad: "Israel like a plane without an engine"

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Monday, hours after his interview with The Los Angeles Times. The Iranian leader said he would present Ban with his proposal for a one-state solution in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Photo: AP

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday said that Israel was doomed like "an airplane that has lost its engine" and reiterated his refusal to accept the Holocaust as historical truth, asserting that the Palestinians should not be made to "pay for" events that may have "occurred during World War II."

I agree! There is a commerical currently showing that encourages us to "question everything." It seems that everything can be questioned except the so-called holocaust. Consider the lies that have perpetrated about President Ahmadinejad, the Iran nuclear energy program, Iraq, and Saddam's "weapons of mass destruction." Isn't it at least possible that lies have also been told about Hitler and the so-called holocaust? Inquiring minds want to know...

Students shot at Finnish trade school

NINE people were killed when a gunman went on a shooting rampage in a Finnish trade school today, several Finnish media outlets quoted police as saying.

Okay, once again, why is this not an act of terror? Ohhh, silly me, because the perpetrator is not a Muslim, that's why...

Chinese milk company 'knew of taint last year'

"In the eight months from December 2007 to August 2, 2008, Sanlu made no report to relevant authorities in Shijiazhuang and took no corrective measures, allowing the situation to worsen further," the report on state-run CCTV's news channel said.

Most Americans think U.S. is losing war on terrorism, poll finds

A majority of Americans think the United States isn't winning the war on terrorism, a perception that could undermine a key Republican strength just as John McCain and Barack Obama head into their first debate Friday night, a clash over foreign policy and national security.

Whose Iraq Predictions Have Come True?

On Sept. 10, 2002, I asked 35 questions regarding war with Iraq. The war resolution passed on Oct. 16, 2002. Now today, as some of my colleagues try to reestablish credentials regarding spending restraint, I want to call attention to my 18th question from six years ago:

"Are we willing to bear the economic burden of a $100 billion war against Iraq, with oil prices expected to skyrocket and further rattle an already shaky American economy? How about an estimated 30-year occupation of Iraq that some have deemed necessary to 'build democracy' there?"

Congress, Bush team agree on some bailout terms

Scrambling for a quick accord on the $700 billion bailout, the Bush administration and leading lawmakers have agreed to include mortgage aid and strong congressional oversight along with unprecedented help for failing financial institutions, a key lawmaker said Monday.

Kicking and screaming I might add...

Mobile phone use 'raises children's risk of brain cancer fivefold

Children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, startling new research indicates.

The polls show Arab Americans are just like everyone else

The poll headlines were widely reported: “Arab American voters strongly support Barack Obama”, “Arab Americans move away from the Republican party”, and “Bush administration gets low grades from Arab Americans.” These were the more obvious storylines, but there was another conclusion I found interesting. Much of this poll’s data points to a fact, clear to those who know Arab Americans, but surprising to those who do not understand this community: Arab American attitudes, in general, differ little from attitudes of the broader electorate.

Poll: Many Whites still have negative feelings toward Blacks

Now, in what could be a historic year for a black presidential candidate, a new Associated Press-Yahoo News poll, conducted with Stanford University, shows just how wide a gap remains between whites and blacks. It shows that a substantial portion of white Americans still harbor negative feelings toward blacks. It shows that blacks and whites disagree tremendously on how much racial prejudice exists, whose fault it is and how much influence blacks have in politics.

Taxpayers Forced To Bailout Zionist Gangsters

It should come as no surprise that the key person behind this unprecedented government bailout of A.I.G., a huge Zionist criminal operation, is himself a devoted Zionist. Ben Shalom Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve System, is another Hebrew-speaking scion of the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York City, like Michael Chertoff and Alvin K. Hellerstein.

Anti-Islam Film Targets "Swing State" Voters

The 2006 film, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West", which has been accused by critics of encouraging Islamophobia, was reportedly delivered, or slated for delivery this weekend, into tens of millions of households in states such as Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Missouri and other "swing states" that don't vote consistently for either party and usually decide elections.

An investigation by IPS last year revealed that the production and promotion of "Obsession" was tied to several right-wing Zionist groups in the U.S. and Israel. Raphael Shore's brother, Rabbi Ephraim Shore, heads up the Israeli group Aish Hatorah, which helped form HonestReporting, an organisation which, the IPS investigation revealed, had ties to the film despite the apparent denials of the relationship.

Young and Arab in land of mosques and bars

Hamza Abu Zanad, right, smoked shisha with friends at an exclusive bar in Dubai. Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times)

Here, I can practice my religion in a natural and free way because it is a Muslim country and I can also achieve my ambition at work," said Ahmed Kassab, 30, an electrical engineer from Zagazig Egypt, who wears a long dark beard and has a prayer mark on his forehead. "People here judge the person based on productivity more than what he looks like. It's different in Egypt, of course."

Tensions mount over bail-out

At 5 pm Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, issued a statement that said: “Congress will respond to the financial markets crisis by taking action this week in a bipartisan manner.” But it added “we will not simply hand over a $700bn blank cheque to Wall Street.” Democrats would insist on “independent oversight, protections for homeowners and constraints on excessive executive compensation.”

Was the Marriott attack an attack on US Marines?

Was there a top secret and mysterious operation of the US Marines going on inside the Marriott when it was attacked on Saturday evening? No one will confirm it but circumstantial evidence is in abundance. Witnessed by many, including a PPP MNA and his friends, a US embassy truckload of steel boxes was unloaded and shifted inside the Marriott Hotel on the same night when Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.

Pakistani troops fire on intruding U.S. choppers

Pakistani troops fired on two U.S. helicopters that intruded into Pakistani territory on Sunday night, forcing them to turn back to Afghanistan, a senior security official with knowledge of the clash said on Monday. (Graphic/Reuters)

It was the second such incident in a week, and reflects frayed relations with the United States over Pakistan's failure to act more forcibly against Islamist fighters in the tribal lands bordering Afghanistan.

Exposing the fallacy of anti-Zionism equaling anti-Semitism

Influential Zionist circles around the world have been bullying western governments to promulgate legislations that would incriminate critics of Israel on the ground that anti-Zionism is actually anti-Semitism in disguise. The Zionist efforts have not been a complete failure as some western politicians and lawmakers are shamelessly parroting the Zionist canard, ignoring the huge chasm between the pathological hatred of Jews, commonly known as anti-Semitism or Judeophobia, and the moral rejection of Israel’s manifestly criminal policies toward the Palestinian people.

Many economists skeptical of bailout

Many of the same economists and opinion-makers who'd provided a bipartisan sheen of consensus to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's previous moves have quickly begun casting doubts on the wisdom of a policy that would allow Treasury to purchase without oversight hundreds of billions of dollars of difficult-to-price assets from financial institutions.

Well, NO Sh*T!

Foreign banks may get help

In a change from the original proposal sent to Capitol Hill, foreign-based banks with big U.S. operations could qualify for the Treasury Department’s mortgage bailout, according to the fine print of an administration statement Saturday night.

Money to bail-out American banks and money to bail-out foreign banks - but still NOT A DIME for the American taypayer, the poor smuck who pays the bill...

Paulson resists calls to help homeowners

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday that the nation's credit markets remain frozen and Congress must move quickly to pass a $700 billion bailout package for financial firms. But key Democrats said the legislation needs changes to provide better protections for taxpayers and homeowners in danger of losing their homes.

$700 BILLION for Big Business and Banks but not a dime for the poor taxpayers who gets stuck with the bill...

Boycott "Jim Crow" Israel

To call attention to Israel's apartheid policies is to ask for immediate labeling as an "anti-Semite." Just ask former president Jimmy Carter. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performer Abdur-Rahim Jackson was separated from the troupe and made to dance for Israeli airport security - twice - to prove he wasn't a danger to the Jewish State, based on his name. "Israel's dismal human rights record has created numerous calls for economic boycotts of that nation," and cultural boycotts, as well. "The Israelis at the airport acted like Jim Crow segregationists of old, never forsaking an opportunity to publicly humiliate black people." Israel acts like the U.S. "did in its own apartheid era."

CIA Has Been Tickling People To Death For Years

Predator drone fires missile

The American use of the Israeli terror tactic of "targeted assassinations" to perhaps kill one "wanted" individual (remember no "war" has been declared there), without concern for the attendant civilian death is a war crime. The use of flying terror platforms to fire Hellfire missiles into crowds of innocent people, in a country that you call your "ally" is either pure idiocy or evil of the highest order. The choice to fight a ground war from the air reaps little military gain at the enormous cost of widespread civilian death.

Olmert to hand in his resignation to president at 7:30 p.m

"I have decided to resign as prime minister of Israel," he announced. "This was not an easy decision, or a simple one. This was a difficult decision with serious misgivings, but I think I am acting in an appropriate manner, as I have promised the people of Israel."

Germans Thwart Anti-Islam Rally

Protestors demonstrate with a banner reading 'Cologne' in front of a mosque in Cologne. (Reuters)

Tens of thousands of Germans took to the streets of the western city of Cologne on Saturday, September 20, to protest an anti-Islam conference of European far-rightists. "We're here to show racism the red card," Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma told the cheering crowd, reported Reuters.

Rescuers comb Pakistan bomb hotel

Rescuers in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, are continuing to search for survivors of a suicide bombing at a hotel, which killed at least 54 people.

Scholar claims to find medieval Jewish capital

This July 30, 2005 photo shows an excavation of an 11th-12th century house made of hard-burnt bricks in Itil, a Silk Road city that served as the Khazar capital, near Astrakhan, about 800 miles (1280 km) south of Moscow, The Khazars established the first feudal state in eastern Europe. A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazar empire, a powerful medieval state that once stretched from the northern shores of the Black Sea to Central Asia and whose rulers adopted Judaism as their state religion. (AP Photo/Dmitry Vasilyev)

The Khazars' ruling dynasty and nobility converted to Judaism sometime in the 8th or 9th centuries. Vasilyev said the limited number of Jewish religious artifacts such as mezuzas and Stars of David found at other Khazar sites prove that ordinary Khazars preferred traditional beliefs such as shamanism, or newly introduced religions including Islam.

This proof that the current Israelis ARE NOT the decedents of the historical Israelites was first published in a now outlawed book entitled The Thirteenth Tribe. The author, Mr. Koestler was an Ashkenazi Jew and took pride in his Khazar ancestry. He was also a very talented and successful writer who published over 25 novels and essays. His most successful book, Darkness at Noon, was translated in thirty-three languages. As expected, The Thirteenth Tribe caused a stir when published in 1976, since it demolishes ancient racial and ethnic dogmas...At the height of the controversy in 1983, the lifeless bodies of Arthur Koestler and his wife were found in their London home. Despite significant inconsistencies, the police ruled their death a suicide...

Diplomats: No evidence Syria site bombed by IAF was nuclear reactor

Diplomats say partial results of samples from a Syrian site bombed by Israel last September show nothing to back up U.S. assertions that the target was a secret nuclear reactor.

Oops! Another Zionist lie bites the dust...

Olmert tells cabinet he will resign from office

Olmert is stepping down amid a number of corruption allegations, after a tenure troubled by Israel's inconclusive 2006 war against Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and months of peace talks with the Palestinians that have yielded no breakthroughs.

Christian Evangelist compound raided in child porn case

The outside of Tony Alamo Christian Church is seen, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008 in Fouke, Ark., after FBI agents and state police raided the evangelist's headquarters Saturday as part of a child pornography investigation (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)

Alamo and his wife Susan were street preachers along Hollywood's Sunset Strip in 1966 before forming a commune near Saugus, Calif. Susan Alamo died of cancer in 1982 and Alamo claimed she would be resurrected and kept her body on display for six months while their followers prayed.

Bush team, Congress negotiate $700B bailout

The rescue plan would give Washington broad authority to purchase bad mortgage-related assets from U.S. financial institutions for the next two years. It does not specify which institutions qualify or what, if anything, the government would get in return for the unprecedented infusion.

Explosion at Pakistan Marriott hotel kills 40

Marriott has been a favorite place for foreigners as well as Pakistani politicians and business people to stay and socialize in Islamabad despite repeated militant attacks.

Developing...

Iran's Ayatollah says 'Illogical' for Iranians to call Israelis friends

Iran's supreme leader said Friday it was illogical to say Iranians are friends with the Israeli people, seeking to end a controversy over Tehran's stance toward the Jewish state - it's biggest enemy in the region.

Actually, the originally statement, and what was cleared up by Iran's Supreme Leader today was, "Iran is a friend to Jews but not a friend to Zionists." But, as was the case with the "wiping Israel off the map" fabrication, mis-representing Iranian leaders makes better news print. However, given that Iran has a Jewish Parliamentarian and maintains the largest Jewish population in the region outside of Israel, the original statement is consistent with their actions and national policy.

Myth of Iran wiping Israel off the map dispelled

Press TV: So you did not threaten to wipe Israel off the map as an Iranian leader? That we will wipe Israel off the map?

Ahmadinejad: No. We say that the people of Palestine should have rights and when the people of Palestine exercise this right, this will happen. Where is the Soviet Union? The Soviet Union has been wiped off the map. What happened to the Soviet Union? The decision of the people, the vote of the people. When the people of the Soviet Union, the Russian people, were allowed to decide to take charge of their destiny, the Soviet Union disappeared.

Vast bailout plan proposed in the U.S.

Congressional leaders met Thursday with Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, second from left; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr.; and Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, about a rescue plan. (David Brody/Bloomberg News)

While details remain to be worked out, the plan is likely to authorize the government to buy distressed mortgages at deep discounts from banks and other institutions. The proposal could result in the most direct commitment of taxpayer funds so far in the financial crisis that Fed and Treasury officials say is the worst they have ever seen.

Okay boys, capitalism is good except when it isn't - now we NATIONALIZE...

Isolating or Attacking Iran Won't Work

By Maziar Bahari

Dr. Akbar Etemad is the father of Iran's nuclear program. After obtaining his Ph.D. in nuclear reactor physics from Ecole Polytechnique of Lausanne in 1963, he was appointed head of the Reactor Shieding Groupe at the Federal Institute for Reactor Research in Switzerland. Etemad returned to Iran in 1965 and became a nuclear advisor to the Iranian government. He was the president of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) between 1974 and 1978.

Arabs denounce cleric's fatwa on 'immoral' TV

A Saudi man drinks Arabic coffee as he watches Satellite TV at his home in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ,Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. Arabs are denouncing a Saudi cleric's edict that it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV stations that show 'immoral' content. Many fear the fatwa could fuel vigilante attacks on the media. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Arabs across the ideological spectrum, from secular-minded liberals to Muslim hard-liners, are denouncing a top Saudi cleric's edict that it was permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV stations that show "immoral" content.

SEC bans short-selling of 799 financial stocks

Federal securities regulators, in an effort to boost investor confidence in the face of a market crisis, took the dramatic step Friday of temporarily banning the trading practice of betting against financial stocks.

Stocks head for rally on word of gov't rescue plan

Wall Street headed for a huge rally Friday after the U.S. government said it is creating a plan to rescue the nation's troubled banks from their souring debts.

Interesting way of saying that American taxpayers are bailing out Wall Street...

Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher

In a statement Thursday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported for the first time that a 30-ton transformer that cools part of the collider broke, forcing physicists to stop using the atom smasher just a day after starting it up last week.

First Clinton, now Palin out of anti-Iran rally

Organizers of an anti-Iran rally next week have dropped Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin from the event, days after Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton pulled out.

A gathering of the usual suspects, as usual...

Ultra-Orthodox party emerging as Israel kingmaker

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish party run by an octogenarian rabbi who has said Hurricane Katrina was divine punishment emerged Thursday as the kingmaker in forming the next Israeli government.

The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish political party is Tizpi Livni's real puppet master. Yes, the same Ultra-Orthodox Jewish party that run the "Modesty Guards" that chase down and beat women because they refuse to sat at the back of the bus or who wear their dresses too short. Click on the link below for an interesting video on the topic:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1009580.html

Can Livni clean up Israeli politics?

Narrow Victory: Tzipi Livni, who gained worldwide attention for leading Palestinian peace talks, won Wednesday’s Kadima primary by a margin of 1.1 percent over Shaul Mofaz.

"She campaigned on change – from Olmert," Mr. Benn says. "But to say, 'she's our Obama,' that she represents real change, is overblown." When it comes to the feasibility of peacemaking, he notes, the same internal divisions among the two peoples remain largely unchanged.

Can Livni clean up Israeli politics? Can you wash stink off a skunk??

Russia ratchets up US tensions with arms sales to Iran and Venezuela

Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow, said that it was logical to conclude a lucrative contract with Iran "in the current situation, when the US and the West in general are stubbornly gearing toward a confrontation with Russia".