China rejects US demand to boost yuan’s value

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has rejected pressure by the US and a number of other nations for a faster appreciation of the Chinese currency.

US ponders denying Israel arms needed for Iran war

With Israel making apparent efforts to build a case for war on Tehran, the Obama administration reportedly considers denying Tel Aviv the military items needed for an attack on Iranian nuclear sites.

Iran arrests 30 accused of U.S.-backed cyber war

Iran has arrested 30 people for waging what it called an organized, U.S.-backed cyber war against the nation, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Saturday.

Venezuela’s Chavez calls for internet controls

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.

Obama Supports a National DNA Database

Obama has come out in favor of forcing people arrested to submit DNA to a national database.

US Federal Reserve Dealing in Magic and Secrets

The dramatic and costly undertow of deflation continues unabated, as government via fiscal policy and the Federal Reserve, by creating money and credit out of thin air, proceed to overpower this deflation with massive inflation.

Justice or ‘Just US’? Gerald Celente on Wall St. Mafia

Economic Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente says that, whatever Europe does, there will still be shady Wall Street deals.

China May Face ‘Massive’ Bank Bailouts After Stimulus Program

China may be forced to bail out banks that made loans for local-government projects under the unprecedented stimulus program unleashed in 2008, according to Citigroup Inc. and Northwestern University’s Victor Shih.

British law firm ‘conspired’ to hide $50bn debts of Wall St giant

A top British law firm helped stricken banking giant Lehman Brothers hide its debts in the run-up to the bank’s collapse, a report said yesterday.

Second NOLA police officer pleads guilty in post-Katrina shootings

The second guilty plea in the Danziger Bridge case today revealed additional details about the conduct of New Orleans police after Hurricane Katrina and suggested more prosecutions of higher-ranking officers are yet to come.

Google Faces Storm Over Naked Child on Street View

How come people are outraged when Google takes naked photos of our children, but when the government does it with airport body scanners, it’s just fine?

Black and White Homegrown al-Qaeda

A suspected terrorist linked to al-Qaeda in Yemen worked at nuclear power plant. This is major ammo for the ongoing and intensifying propaganda campaign that increasingly warns that America is at risk from homegrown terrorists. Terrorists blowing up a nuclear power plant is a worst case scenario.

Al-Qaeda suspect, Sharif Mobley, worked at US nuclear plants

An American citizen who is being held in Yemen accused of being an al-Qaeda militant worked for six years at a series of US nuclear power plants, it emerged yesterday.

‘I’m proud of using waterboarding to break terrorists,’ declares Bush’s top political adviser

George W Bush’s top political adviser has said he was ‘proud’ of controversial techniques such as waterboarding, which he claimed broke the will of terrorist.