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Anti-SOPA activists find ways to keep the Internet free

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Anti-SOPA activists find ways to keep the Internet free As Americans ready for a legislation that will impose a government-sanctioned firewall over the Internet, the elite computer-literate hacktivists attacking the law are finding ways to circumvent the passing of SOPA. If the House and Senate have their way, the Stop Online Privacy Act, or SOPA, will leave Capitol Hill soon and seemingly cloak the... 

Ron Paul scares GOP establishment in Iowa

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Ron Paul’s surge in the Iowa state polls is more than just an exaggeration. Surveys now have him taking the state with first place two weeks before the Iowa caucus begins, and that success has the establishment running scared. During the election season leading up to 2008, a grassroots campaign in support of Texas Congressman Ron Paul posed a serious threat to the other GOP hopefuls during the months... 

Congress Passes Defense Bill Codifying Indefinite Detention

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The President is expected to sign the bill, which will allow indefinite detentions without charge or trial, even for American citizens. The Senate passed the 2012 defense authorization bill 86-13 on Thursday, one day after the House of Representatives passed it in a 283-136 vote. The bill, which codifies a system of indefinite detention for terrorism suspects, will be sent to the President’s desk... 

Rand Paul goes after Gingrich and Romney

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With the mainstream pegging Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney as the top two candidates for the Republican Party’s nod for 2012, Senator Rand Paul urged voters in an Iowa newspaper editorial this week that they shouldn’t be fooled. According to the senator from Kentucky, those frontrunners might be running as conservatives, but they don’t act like them. In an op-ed published December 8 in the Des... 

Occupy DC strikes at heart of lobbyists’ hub

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Occupy protesters block the intersection at 15th and K Streets in Washington, DC December 7, 2011 Up to 70 arrests have been made in Washington DC after the police dispersed a mass demonstration only walking distance away from the White House. “Occupiers” blocked downtown streets to protest against high unemployment and corporate bailouts. ­Hundreds of protesters from Occupy DC and other groups... 

Found: bullet that smashed White House window

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The White House is about half a mile away from where the shots are believed to have been fired. US police seek suspect after round from semi-automatic weapon reaches building’s internal anti-ballistics glass. The US secret service has found a bullet from a semi-automatic rifle that smashed a window at the White House, according to officials. The service has been investigating a shooting that... 

Attack On White House By Mexican Cartel Stuns Obama Regime

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A new Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Obama regime was stunned this past weekend after a brazen attack on the White House was carried out by members associated with at least two Mexican drug cartels that shattered at least one window in what is arguably the most protected building in the world. According to this report, and confirmed by the US... 

Pastor Terry Jones Running For President

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Terry Jones, a controversial pastor who has made national headlines for publicly burning the Quran, is mounting a campaign for president of the United States. Jones isn’t starting small either, and it seems he’s going straight for the big leagues. The campaign, named “Stand Up America Now,” aims to propel him to the White House largely on a seven-point platform which includes... 

Obama unveils deficit cut plan

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US President Barack Obama speaking at the White House in Washington on September 19, 2011 US President Barack Obama has unveiled a new plan to reduce the country’s yawning deficit by more than USD 3 trillion over the next decade, Press TV reported. Some USD 1.5 trillion is expected to be raised through an increase in taxes for the wealthy and corporations. “We can’t just cut our way out... 

Europe Stunned After Being Told “Obama Is Not In Charge”

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A new report prepared by Russian Deputy Finance Minister Tatyana Nesterenko about the Eurogroup meeting of the Informal Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) in Wroclaw Poland on the growing European debt crisis states that EU Finance Ministers were “left stunned” Friday after they were told by US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner [photo top right] that President Obama was “not in... 

Russian President tells British PM, Russia will never extradite Andrei Lugovoy

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All smiles: But Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) has told David Cameron (right) that he will never hand over the prime suspect for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. David Cameron was told last night Russia will ‘never’ hand over the prime suspect for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. The Prime Minister – making the first visit by a British leader to Moscow for six years... 

Barack Obama unveils plan to cut tax for middle class but who pays?

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Obama’s $450 billion employment package to save ONE job: his! Struggling President unveils plan to cut tax for middle class but who pays? Facing a barrage of criticism over his handling of the economy, President Obama last night unveiled a massive $450bn plan to combat the country’s unemployment crisis – and try to save his own job. In a rare address to a joint session of US Congress... 

Underpublicized threat deep in White House

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John Guandolo Infiltration of the federal government by members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood is worse than some have warned recently, says a former FBI special agent in Washington. The agent confirmed that at least three operatives of the Egypt-based Brotherhood – whose credo is “Jihad is our way and death in the cause of Allah is our dream” – have penetrated the Obama administration. The... 

US government loses triple-A credit rating

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United States, Washington: The US Treasury on August 5, 2011 after Standard & Poor's cut the US credit rating for the first time in history. The US has lost its top-level triple-A credit rating for the first time since 1917, after Standard & Poor’s downgraded it to an AA-plus, with an even lower AA rating on the horizon. ­The decision comes after the White House and lawmakers reached... 

Debt Ceiling Roulette

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In this game, the house always wins. Bipartisan complicity stacked the deck against millions of working households, needing to know that political Washington is scamming them. The end result is the banana republicanization of America. American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter: 1862 – 1910) coined the term (his fictional Republic of Anchuria) in his book, “Cabbages and Kings.” It refers... 
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