Boobquake Actually Caused an Earthquake [Oh Crap]

After an Iranian cleric said earthquakes were God's punishment for scantily-clad women, the pro-scantily-clad lobby of womanity declared today Boobquake, a day to flout and disprove the cleric by baring your boobs. And then a 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred in Taiwan! More »

4-packs-supersonic-cruise-missiles-in-a-tiny-box! Buy now at at $10-20 millions

I bet that the Club-K, this new gadget from the Russian military industrial complex will be wildly popular worldwide. It seems that the armament race can be a double-edged sword. Guess who is going to collapse from excess of futile spending now?

Related: Don't Tell Anyone: Hypersonic Glider Blasts Off
From ITWire:

An experimental, and very secret, hypersonic glider called the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2a (Falcon HTV-2a) was launched over the Pacific Ocean from California on April 22, 2010 by the U.S. DARPA and the USAF.

The DARPA Falcon Project is a joint program between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force (USAF).

Falcon is short for (Force Application and Launch from Continental United States),

According to a DARPA Factsheet, the HTP-2 vehicle is to allow the U.S. military “… the capability to respond, with little or no advanced warning, to threats to our national security anywhere around the globe.”

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Updates: DARPA confirms mission’s failure -- Santa Maria Times
Pentagon's new missile program is expensive, unnecessary, and insanely dangerous

My Comment: Another secret program disclosed. Hmmmm .....

A matrix of B/S finally collapsed in its footprint

Climate Change Bill Collapses in US Senate

A long-awaited climate change bill that would put a price on excessive carbon emissions and generate billions of dollars has been postponed indefinitely.

US Senator John F. Kerry's 20 years of climate change plans hit the bottom Saturday after Senator Lindsey Graham, who had allied himself with Kerry on the issue, abandoned the effort in an unprecedented move.

The South Carolina Republican suddenly decided to switch priorities, claiming that that the Senate's Democratic leadership might proceed with a controversial immigration bill first.'

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Related: CLIMATEGATE - America's Impending Master Class Dictatorship

“Cap and Trade” is a multi-trillion dollar tax scam being foisted onto the American public without a legitimate debate or popular referendum. You might be surprised to learn that “Climate Revenues” are already included in the federal budget, starting with $79,000,000,000.00 ($79 billion) in fiscal year 2012, which begins only 20 months from now. During fiscal years 2012 through 2019, the government expects to collect $646,000,000,000.00 ($646 billion) in “Climate Revenues,” a completely new tax category. Have any of your elected traitors told you that they have enacted $646,000,000,000.00 ($646 billion) in “Climate” taxes beginning twenty months from now and continuing forever?
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Meet the new black boss of South Africa

Slum Clearance, South Africa-Style

Waving iron bars and pickaxes, the Red Ants, a rented mob of thugs in bright red overalls and crimson helmets, used the half-light of dawn for cover as they marched into the slum. Stamping out the first cooking fires of the day with heavy boots, they spread out in a long line. Then they attacked.

Bleary immigrant women dropped plastic water containers and ran in panic towards their corrugated iron homes. “Grab the children,” they screamed.

By sunrise their shacks on the outskirts of Johannesburg had been razed. They were forced to watch as their few possessions were burnt.

The Red Ants, described as state-sponsored mercenaries by their critics, have become a growing force in the past few months as South African cities have begun a campaign of “beautification” before the World Cup begins in June. This means clearing away unsightly immigrant squatter camps.'

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Dirty Nuke False Flag: The Time Is Now

“CHATTER” FLOWING IN FROM EVERYWHERE
“SUITCASE” NUKE SAID TO BE IN PLACE

Rumors of an upcoming terror attack to be blamed on Iran are moving around the world, “backchannel chatter.” The primary suspect is Israel who is said to have a number of small “suitcase” type nuclear weapons, some primarily “dirty bombs,” possibly supplied secretly by a previous US administration. These devices are in the “40 ton” range, highly radioactive, extremely small and can be engineered to leave the signature of a primitive device. They were originally designed for use against Soviet armor and troop concentrations in Europe if a massed attack on NATO were to occur. Current conventional systems have made this type of weapon obsolete.

We have been told that federal authorities have interviewed, on video, a prominent individual with specific knowledge of the possession of this type of weapon.

This won’t be in the news. All that “every day folks” will see is a story here or one there that don’t make sense. Why would “ultra-Liberal” Senator Chuck Schumer, nightmare “anti-gun” nut, extreme lefty and staunch New York democrat turn on the president? In fact, why are extreme liberals and conservatives all attacking President Obama and, less visibly, our military leaders, all at the same time? Who is orchestrating this oddest turn of political events in recent history? Why would the Pentagon ban Reverend Billy Graham’s son from a prayer breakfast as an “Islamophobe?”   More

Eurointelligence Daily Briefing - 26 April 2010: 86% of Germans are opposed to the Greek bailout

German hostility to Greek bailout increases

• This has the potential to go badly wrong: opposition in Germany to the bail out plan is rising;
• the CSU, junior coalition partner in Merkel’s government, wants Greece to leave the eurozone;
• a poll says 86% of Germans are opposed to the package;
• Schauble said response to Greece can be positive as well as negative;
• Social Democrats reject fast-track legislation, which means that Germany’s contribution, if it comes at all, would be delayed;
• Schauble plans to talk to parliamentary leaders today;
• the package could go ahead without German contribution initially, though it still would require Merkel to vote in favour;
• Greek finance ministers says package will be agreed in early May;
• says investors should not expect restructuring or rescheduling;
• Wolfgang Munchau says this is going to be the most important week in the history of the eurozone;
• the ECB, meanwhile, changes the transparency rules for asset backed securities pledged as collateral at the central bank.

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This is the Daily Briefing from www.eurointelligence.com.   

2010 US Spending Priorities: 58% To Military

By Rady Ananda

25 April, 2010
Countercurrents.org

Recently, Live Science published a chart showing that the US spends about one-fifth of its budget on the military. But this aggregate view hides how Congress prioritizes spending, when you consider what is discretionary and voted upon each year. A more salient view of these figures segregates 'discretionary' spending from 'mandatory' spending. During the severe economic downturn of the past two years, how has Congress prioritized spending?

When it comes to discretionary spending, Congress gives 58% to the military. Here are US budget charts for the years 2009 and 2010, according to the National Priorities Project (NPP):

NPP describes these charts this way, explaining the difference between 'mandatory' and 'discretionary' spending:

"[These charts show] the breakdown of the proposed federal discretionary budget for fiscal year 2010 [or 2009] by function area.

"The discretionary budget refers to the part of the federal budget proposed by the President, and debated and decided by Congress each year. The part of the budget constitutes more than one-third of total federal spending. The remainder of the federal budget is called 'mandatory spending.' Fiscal Year 2009 will run from October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2009.

"Note that this chart includes the war-related spending requested by the administration as supplemental to the regular budget proposal."

Note, too, per NPP:

"Federal Discretionary and Mandatory Spending

"Congress directly sets the level of spending on programs which are discretionary. Congress can choose to increase or decrease spending on any of those programs in a given year….

"About half of the discretionary budget is 'national defense,' a government-defined function area that roughly corresponds in common parlance as 'military.' However, this category does not include foreign military financing, security assistance, and other programs commonly thought of as military. Other types of discretionary spending include the budget for education, many health programs, and housing assistance.

“Mandatory spending includes programs, mostly entitlement programs, which are funded by eligibility rules or payment rules. Congress decides to create a program, for example, Food Stamps. It then determines who is eligible for the program and any other criteria it may want to lay out. How much is appropriated for the program each year is then determined by estimations of how many people will be eligible and apply for Food Stamps.

“Unlike discretionary spending, the Congress does not decide each year to increase or decrease the Food Stamp budget; instead, it periodically reviews the eligibility rules and may change them in order to exclude or include more people.

"Mandatory spending makes up about two-thirds of the total federal budget. By far the largest mandatory program is Social Security which makes up one-third of mandatory spending and continues to grow as the age demographic of the country shifts towards an older population. [See more at National Priorities Project.]

Also see discussion at How Are Our Federal Tax Dollars Spent? which shows that, in the aggregate, the military budget is one-fifth (21%) of our budget:

But, which is the more realistic view of military spending? Which captures how Congress prioritizes spending? Which is more relevant to us?

Arguably, discretionary spending is most relevant to ordinary citizens, as we continue to suffer under rising unemployment, increased foreclosures, bankster bailouts, million dollar industry bonuses while the minimum wage remains below poverty, all amid a global financial crisis.

And what does that 58% of discretionary spending amount to? In 2010: $1,027.8 billion, or over a trillion dollars, according to Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute, at Defense Spending Is Much Greater than You Think: more than $1Trillion a year.

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More:  Guns vs. Butter - April 22, 2010

Obama is on track to spend more on defense, in real dollars, than any other president has in one term of office since WWII. In that time we've had Korea, Vietnam, the massive military buildup under Reagan, and Bush's funded-by-tax-cuts invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, but in the most trying economic times since the Depression, Obama's out-gunning them all. 

Arianna Huffington