Accountants warn of 50% tax exodus A stream of UK entrepreneurs and financiers are contemplating moving abroad for fear that the planned rise in the top income tax rate to 50 per cent could dent their earnings severely, accountants claim

China’s vice-president denied promotion New questions have been raised about the succession process in the Chinese Communist party after vice-president Xi Jinping, President Hu Jintao’s heir apparent, appeared to have been denied an expected promotion to the commission that runs the country’s military

Philippine troops clash with Abu Sayyaf militants Clashes erupted Sunday in the southern Philippines when al-Qaida-linked militants resisted attempts by government forces to serve arrest warrants on three of their commander

Multinationals break Vietnam law in formula sales Multinational companies in Vietnam sell baby formula so aggressively that they routinely stretch and sometimes break laws designed to promote breastfeeding, an AP investigation has found.

Protecting' Jewish girls from Arabs But theirs is not a promiscuous search. In fact, the group of some 35 volunteers is looking to prevent such interaction and to stop what neighborhood residents have overwhelmingly complained is a growing problem in Pisgat Ze'ev - Arab men going out with Jewish girls.

Khatami reportedly attacked with knife Ahmadinejad says confronting Israel "national, religious" duty; Mousavi also assaulted at rally.

IDF Chief: Israel must free terrorists for Shalit Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said Monday that there was no way Hamas would release abducted soldier Gilad Shalit unless Israel agreed to free jailed Palestinians involved in terror attacks

Punch: Ex-U.S. Official: Hit Israel if It Hits Iran The former national security advisor says, "We are not exactly impotent little babies.

Report: Russia found no secret Iran-bound cargo on 'hijacked' ship Russian prosecutors found no suspicious materials on a ship that was reportedly hijacked, despite media reports it was carrying an air-defence system for Iran, Russian newswires said on Saturday

Sadrists: 30 leaders of Mahadi Army Killed in Damascus A senior source in al-Sadrist movement said 30 of the leaders of the Mahdi army were killed by unknown armed men in their residences in Damascus in the last few weeks

US closing some programs in Bolivia The U.S. Embassy in Bolivia says it is closing some democracy-promotion programs at the request of the Bolivian government.

Yemeni army 'kills scores' in Saada

N-secrets sold to Iran: (A Q) Khan In a damning indictment of a generation of Pakistan’s political and military leadership, rogue nuclear scientist Dr A Q Khan has sensationally disclosed it was former prime minister Benazir Bhutto who had asked him to hand over the country’s nuclear know-how to Iran and North Korea.

BIDEN WINS? OBAMA CONSIDERING MAJOR SHIFT ON AFGHAN WAR President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday

Taliban leader tells 'invaders' to study history The Taliban's reclusive leader said in a Muslim holiday message Saturday that the U.S. and NATO should study Afghanistan's long history of war, in a pointed reminder that foreign forces have had limited military success in the country

Lost in Afghanistan? McChrystal fully unloads on this point: ISAF has not sufficiently studied Afghanistan's peoples whose needs, identities and grievances vary from province to province and from valley to valley. This complex environment is challenging to understand, particularly for foreigners. For this [counterinsurgency] strategy to succeed, ISAF leaders must redouble efforts to understand the social and political dynamics of areas all regions of the country and take action that meets the needs of the people, and insist that [Afghan] officials do the same.

Clinton rebuffs general's warning Report: Gen. McChrystal will resign if not given more troops for Afghanistan.

Afghan police say more (US) troops not the answer

Israel 'not planning Iran strike' Israel assures Moscow it has no plans to attack Iran, Russian president says.

Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets last spring, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq got a makeover,replacing the scandal-plagued Blackwater private security company with a firm named Triple Canopy

1,700 murdered in single Mexican town Border city Ciudad Juarez has seen 1,701 killings in 2009 alone.

Ousted Zelaya says he is back in Honduras Interim leader denies report; Zelaya seeking dialogue to resolve deep crisis.Zelaya Says Honduras Government Plans Embassy Attack (Update1)

US Headlines

exposing Wall Street This is a must see for all those who truly want to know what the hell is going on with the economy. Paul Jay speaks to Sony Kapoor, the Executive Director of Re-Define. A former financial banker, Kapoor explains the mechanism by which one risky bank's failure leads to others suffering and says it's similar to musical chairs. "Everybody's dancing, everybody's doing this leverage game, but when the music stops someone will be left standing." He goes on to explain that "it doesn't matter to the individuals who get around the seats, but if this person left standing fails (like Lehman was), it generates a negative footprint on other banks."

Obama overturns Bush policy on state secrets President Barack Obama's administration on Wednesday made it more difficult for the government to suppress information on security grounds, amid allegations the power was used to cover up Bush-era excess

US objects to Google book deal  The US Justice Department has urged a New York court to reject a deal that would allow internet company Google to publish millions of books online. The deal raised copyright and anti-trust issues, the department said

DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT Act In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people's homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn't be tipped off that they're under investigation. Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after drug dealers.Only three of the 763 "sneak-and-peek" requests in fiscal year 2008 involved terrorism cases, according to a July 2009 report from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Sixty-five percent were drug cases.

Franken reads 4th Am- end. to DoJ official Asks how 'roving wiretap' part of Patriot Act meets constitutional requirement Obama Argues To Keep Patriot Act Surveillance Law

Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?  Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and members of Congress, drug trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear proliferation. She appealed her termination, but was more alarmed that no effort was being made to address the corruption that she had been monitoring The Turkish agents she names, are related to a bigger story in Turkey. The story has not made much headlines in the US, but apparently the Turkish government discovered a coup was being plotted by a network of major officials in various parts of the government. Ergenekon- Guide to Ergekon, Accused of Terrorism in Turkey,

FBI arrests Colorado man in terror probe

Free Market Fantasies by Noam Chomsky "

FDIC May Ask Banks For Bailout!

SEC Seeks Stricter Derivatives Bill

Democrats Target Bank Overdraft Charges Bailed-Out Firms Lean More Heavily on Fees A backlash is brewing on Capitol Hill against banks that charge large fees for overdrafts without asking or telling customers

Federal Reserve rejects public review

Taxpayers Fund 'Airports to Nowhere' Millions in stimulus funds get diverted to empty but expensive airports.

Pre-Existing Health "Conditions" -- Cops, Firefighters, Expectant Dads, and Those Suffering From Allergies, Acne and Toenail Fungus Are Uninsurable According To Internal Documents

Uninsured More Likely to Die, Study Finds Simply lacking health insurance can increase the risk of death by 40 percent.

Cantor To Uninsured Woman With Growing Tumors: Get ‘An Existing Government Program’ Or Find Charity

Scientists make paralyzed rats run Rats with severed spinal cords given electric stimuli, drugs, made to run again

FCC outlines 'net neutrality' rules Chairman proposes rules to safeguard the Internet's 'first amendment.' GOP senators declare war on Net neutrality

Time Magazine's Dishonest and Incompetent Profile on Glenn Beck Enables His Sick Lies The profile whitewashes the shock jock's dishonesty and recycles his false claims. No wonder nobody trusts mainsteam media.

...and they banned the President from speaking to the students Cruey said his daughter is receiving counseling and has been pulled from the class after seeing images of beheadings, children being injured and dead bodies interspersed with readings from the Koran.

Police Report Filed by Acorn Exposes False Claims in Gotcha Vids in a newly released video, ACORN Housing Corp.'s Katherine Conway Russell directly rebuts recent claims about the organization.

Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense Contractors, Others Charged With Fraud In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) picked up on the legislative overreach and asked the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to sift through its database to find which contractors might be caught in the ACORN net. Lockheed Martin and Northrop Gumman both popped up quickly, with 20 fraud cases between them, and the longer list is a Who's Who of weapons manufacturers and defense contractors.

Must Read: Citigroup Oct 16, 2005 Plutonomy Report Part 1. This is a leaked Citigroup report from 2005. It basically shows Citigroup as a supporter of Americas Aristocracy, and yes they even use the term Aristocracy. They say the Bush years are the best thing to happen to the super rich since the Roaring 1920's.

Show Me The Note" Movement Is Helping Stall Foreclosures Modern-day home mortgages have been so sliced and diced by rapacious financiers that some homeowners are successfully delaying -- or even blocking -- foreclosures through the simple tactic of demanding that banks produce the original mortgage note, which amazingly enough is often not so easy for them to do.

Connecticut

$938G will boost energy projects Twelve New Haven communities are in line to receive a total of nearly $938,000 in federal stimulus money.

Concerns over ACORN spread to Connecticut The problems of embattled community activist organization ACORN have hit home in Connecticut, as state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal plans to launch a review of any state funds paid to the group, and U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd Friday labeled some of the group's activities "indefensible."