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U.S. officials failed to verify that fuel for Afghan forces did not come from Iran, report says
January 31, 2013 By 109 Comments
Ernesto LondoñoWashington Post American officials in Afghanistan have failed to verify that fuel purchased for Afghan security forces in recent years did not come from Iran, which would constitute a violation of U.S. sanctions, according to an inspector general report issued Wednesday. The report warned that “it will become more difficult” to make sure assistance to […]
YouTube could introduce paid subscriptions this spring
January 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Caitlin DeweyWashington Post YouTube could roll out a paid subscription model for some content providers as early as next quarter, according to company sources quoted by AdAge and the Wall Street Journal. The move will bolster YouTube’s attempts to lure viewers (and advertisers) from TV to computer screens. YouTube has never been secretive about that goal: At last […]
A $14 Trillion Extortion for a Global Warming Scam
January 31, 2013 By 26 Comments
James Hall21st Century Wire The latest megalomaniacal threat from the financial globalists wants to saddle the world economy with a cost of trillions of dollars that benefits favorite corporatists. The phony global warming cult has a core purpose. Their objective is to drive down the standard of living for non-elites and prevent the use of […]
Chinese Takeover with US Free Trade Zones
January 31, 2013 By 11 Comments
James Hall21st Century Wire Takeover with Free Trade Zones The long-term goal of Communist Red Chinese is to take over the wealth creation resources of the planet. The quasi merger between the authoritarian Maoists and the global capitalists plays out as a sorry act in the Beijing Red Theater. The performance designed to distract and […]
WHY WALL STREET KOWTOWS TO OBAMA
January 30, 2013 By 4 Comments
Andrew McKillop21st Century WireBACK TO SQUARE ONE… In 2008, Goldman Sachs executives and employees were the largest single Wall Street backers of the president, but by 2012 things had changed. Obama had “meddled with the free market”, or perhaps had not been generous enough with billion dollar bailouts, the chemistry wasn’t right. Goldman Sachs Group, […]
Obama Hoping To ‘Craft His Legacy’ in This New Sectarian America
January 22, 2013 By 3 Comments
Patrick Henningsen | Obama’s second term – talk of spare change, climate change and other imaginary threats.
US Attempt to Apply New Sanction Rules To Collectively Punish Iranians
January 20, 2013 By 3,540 Comments
Washington Post | Moves are already afoot to keep the Iranian economy down for the foreseeable future.
As Syria Continues To Simmer, Lebanon Remains in Limbo
January 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Patrick Henningsen21stCentury WireJanuary 16, 2013 BEIRUT – On arrival to Lebanon’s capital city, all seems very functional and normal on the surface, as the city runs business as usual. Below the surface however, there is a feeling of trepidation, an unspoken collective worry that a city and country who has gradually managed to pick up […]
21st Century Wire TV – Episode 7 – ‘FOCUS ON IRAN’
January 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Part 1 – We speak with veteran international broadcaster Afshin Rattansi to discuss Iran’s demographics, economy, internal politics, post-revolution culture and where the country currently resides on the geopolitical scene… http://youtu.be/gzcpxOm5psM This TV show airs Thursdays at 6pm on SKY Channel 191 Paradigm Shift TV(PSTV) in the UK: http://www.paradigmshift.tv For info on upcoming DVD’s visit: http://21stcenturywire.com.previewdns.com/2012/10/29/season-one-21st-century-wire-on-sky-tv/
Henningsen on RT: ‘Syria is a gangster’s paradise right now’
January 9, 2013 By 29 Comments
21st Century Wire and UK Column’s analyst Patrick Henningsen discusses with RT about how NATO’s recent deployment of missile defense batteries in neighboring Turkey is nothing more than a chess move to prepare for western/NATO airstrikes at some point further down the timeline, and also how Syria’s so-called ‘opposition’ are using the chaos in the […]
Robbing Recessioners?
January 6, 2013 By 168 Comments
As standards of living across the eurozone continue to fall, a number of age-old problems are on the rise. In France, the faltering economy has led to a startling surge in armed robbery – with gold and high-value jewellery the main target.
Robbing Recessioners ?
January 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
As standards of living across the eurozone continue to fall, a number of age-old problems are on the rise. In France, the faltering economy has led to a startling surge in armed robbery – with gold and high-value jewellery the main target.
Ponzi Crackdown? Chilling Economic Report Is Getting Passed Around By CEOs
December 27, 2012 By 36 Comments
Business Insider Dec 27, 2012 Over an early-morning coffee with the chief executive of an FTSE 100 business last week, talk turned to the outlook for 2013. Where I had expected some guarded optimism, instead I heard a chilling analysis. The CEO said he had been reading a new paper from Boston Consulting Group headed […]
In The Face of Tragedy What We Focus On Will Define Priorities, Expand Consciousness
December 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Waking Times When we hear mainstream news reporting on violent tragedies at home or overseas, why is the only focus on the act itself and its perpetrator(s)? Especially for those incidents where many pass on– why do we not place a greater importance in remembering those who gave their lives so we could learn, rather […]
The Cashless Society Is Coming – And With Some Very Sinister Implications
November 29, 2012 By 13,114 Comments
Patrick Henningsen | In this sterile and controlled Orwellian hi-tech society, the idea of cash being passed from hand to hand would be as archaic as the thought of carrying around a rucksack of tally sticks today.
BREAKING: 100 Percent of Syria’s Internet Just Shut Down
November 29, 2012 By 5 Comments
Washington Post Max Fisher It appears that the Syrian government may have just taken a drastic measure it has conspicuously avoided over the nearly two years of fighting: cutting itself off from the Internet. Renesys, a Web-monitoring service, reported Thursday morning that sweeping outages in Syria had shut down 92 percent of the country’s routed networks. […]
‘Comfortably Numb’: New Gallup Poll Ranks Least Emotional Nations
November 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
21WIRE | Emotional apathy (or passion) is directly linked to the each country’s per capita GDP.
BP settles criminal charges for $4 billion in spill; supervisors indicted on manslaughter
November 16, 2012 By 5 Comments
Washington Post Stephen Mufson BP has agreed to plead guilty to 14 criminal counts, including manslaughter, and will pay $4 billion over five years in a settlement with the Justice Department over the April 20, 2010, drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and unleashed the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. […]
Obamaville: Virginia has Poorhouses, and Scrooge Would be Proud of Them
November 14, 2012 By 10 Comments
Naked Capitalism Societies have a funny way of walling off undesirables. Lepers were secluded in lepers’ colonies. Japan is particularly uncomfortable with people who don’t fit cultural norms, such as the mentally ill and the destitute. It was really shocking the first time I saw someone begging in the subways in Tokyo in 1991 because […]
