* IMF Chief Suggests Look at “New 'Reserve' Currency”
The I.M.F. leader, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also floated the idea of creating a global reserve currency that could serve as an alternative to the dollar ... (The Game Is Fixed -- The “Yankee Dollar” Is on The Way Out.)

* FDIC Bank Closures - Two Closed Friday (February 26, 2010)

* “Massive Bank Failures” Due
Close to 3,000 banks are currently classified as having a risky concentration of commercial real estate loans, according to a recent report by the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP). All of them are small to mid-sized banks, already weakened by the financial crisis.

* Commercial Mortgage Default Rate In U.S. More Than Doubles
The default rate for loans on office, retail, hotel and industrial properties surged to 3.8 percent from 1.6 percent a year earlier, the New York-based real estate research firm said yesterday in a report. The default rate for loans on apartment buildings climbed to 4.4 percent from 1.8 percent.

* Bernake Delivers Blunt Warning on U.S. Debt
With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece, and declared that the central bank will not help legislators by printing money to pay for the ballooning federal debt.

* Short Selling Restrictions: A Great Indicator of Imminent Market Crashes
Inquiring minds are investigating Fannie Mae's stunning $72 billion loss for 2009, as well as new 'short selling' curbs. The two are actually related. Let's take a look ...

* Goldman Lists New ‘Risk’: Bad Press (God Forbid, We Point Out, The Banksters Are CRIMINALS!)
Goldman Sachs has added something new, to the laundry list of financial risks it faces: unflattering attention.

* The Federal Reserve Explains; The Federal Reserve In One Easy, Retard-Accessible Video
The video is supposed to be some form of user friendly PR approach created by the same people that gave you Enron.

* Unemployment Benefits Denied! Over a Million Families Lives Destroyed!
They did it! The government of your nation did it! They just turned their backs on over a million people on unemployment and denied the extensions! Congress, in the most nefarious and pernicious move seen since “post economic collapse period,” has walked away, not extending unemployment benefits to over a million America families. This is a direct assault on people's ability to survive and this congress has now become a clear and present danger, not only to the millions of people they just harmed, but the rest of us as well. All you have to do is turn on your TV and see the civil unrest in Greece to know, not just “third world” nations are going to experience civil unrest. The government in Greece just cut off a lot of services and you see what happened there. (Meanwhile, Congress Allows $10 MILLION DOLLARS a DAY, To Go Directly To Israel -- ILLEGALLY! AND ... (lest we forget) The Record Bonuses For The Bankers?!)

* Greece's Worst Fears Confirmed
“Our duty today is to forget about the political cost and think only about the survival of our country. Past policies make it necessary to proceed to brutal changes and reduce accumulated privileges.”

* Man Who 'Broke The Bank' of England, George Soros, “At center of hedge funds plot, to cash in, on fall of euro”
A secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses, are said to be behind a plot, to cash in on the decline of the euro.

* City of Angels on Brink of Abyss
"The city is facing a budget crisis unlike any it has ever experienced … The enormity of our current fiscal crisis forces the City to take swift action now and lay out a financial plan for the future."

* SEIU Stern Explains Plan, To Loot The Country
The entire health care program (designed by Stern) has always been about one thing -- UNIONS. Lifting the responsibility of medical payments by union funds will cover the loss of diminishing membership, failing revenues and over-expenditure. It will permanently transfer the burden of responsibility from union officials to the American taxpayers. It will free up union dollars to exponentially expand their power base throughout the world.

* Senate Trio Hopes To Hit ‘Pay Dirt’ With Carbon ‘Fee’ on Fuels
Key senators are weighing a request from Big Oil to levy a carbon fee on the industry, rather than wrap it into a sweeping cap-and-trade system that covers most of the U.S. economy.

* $7 Dollar-A-Gallon Gas Needed, To Meet Government’s CO2 Cuts
As the national average of gasoline creeps to three dollars a gallon, economists are warning, that high gas prices (artificially imposed by enviro-political mandates) in the United States, could slow the economic recovery. (COULD?! So, to meet enviro-political targets, high gas prices would be artificially imposed, despite the crippling economic setting, thus sending a message to average Americans to stop driving and stop breathing? Seems to be roughly the case ...)

* NY Times: “'Global Warming' Alarmists, Have Taken a Vicious Beating” (Awww ... They Deserve FAR MORE!)
For months, 'climate scientists' have taken a vicious beating in the media, as well as on the Internet, accused of hiding data, covering up errors and suppressing alternate findings and views. Their response, (until now) has been largely to assert the legitimacy of the vast body of climate science and to mock their critics as cranks and know-nothings. The unauthorized release, (last December) of hundreds of e-mail messages from a major climate research center in England, and more recent revelations of a handful of errors in a supposedly authoritative United Nations report on climate change, have created what a number of top scientists say, is a major breach of faith in their research.
   MEANWHILE ...
* United Nations STILL Pushing For “Global Environmental” Control See >> Leaked 'Planning Documents (PDF)
Despite the debacle of the failed Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the United Nations is pressing full speed ahead, with a plan for a greatly expanded system of “global environmental governance” and for a multitrillion-dollar economic transfer scheme, to ignite the creation of a global “green world order” economy.

* Obama Signs One-year Extension of Patriot Act (The “NEW Freedom” In AmeriKa!)
Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation's main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act. Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama's signature Saturday.

* NY Times: “'Coffee Party' With a Taste For Civic Participation, Is Added To The Political Menu”
“Fed up with government gridlock, but put off by the flavor of the Tea Party, people in cities across the country are offering an alternative: the Coffee Party ...”
    MEANWHILE ...
* “Coffee Party” Founder, Is Obama Campaign Operative
(“We're not going to take this TEA crap anymore. let's work for change!” - “Coffee Party” Founder, Annabel Park)
Major coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post stoked suspicions ... Billed as an alternative grassroots movement to the “Tea Party,” which has been for the most part absorbed by mainline Republicans and Neoconservatives, the “Coffee Party” promised to wake up politically minded Americans and offered a different avenue for the freedom movement. However, the so-called founder of the “Coffee Party” has been quickly exposed, as an Obama campaign operative, whose caffeine concept was purely designed to undermine and co-opt the “Tea Party” ideology.

* 2010 Census: 10 Questions in 10 Minutes (Look For YOUR Census Form, Sometime In Mid-March.)

* 23 CIA 'Officials' Convicted in Italy
An Italian court convicted 23 Americans of abducting an Egyptian terror suspect, under the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" (kidnapping and torture) program. Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen discusses this news with RT.

* Obama To Seek NEW “ASSAULT WEAPONS” BAN (The “NEW Freedom”)
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban, that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said. “As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder told reporters.

* Louisiana Sheriff Launches “Operation Exodus”
The Bossier Parish sheriff's office is launching a program called "Operation Exodus," a policing plan for an “end-of-the-world” scenario involving a group of ex-police volunteers, .50-caliber machine guns and “war wagons” that are supposedly inspired in part from the Book of Exodus in the Bible.

* Bill Gates: “Lower World Population With Vaccines” (Because 'They' “LOVE You” ...)
“Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services -- we could lower that, perhaps ten or fifteen percent.” But Wait a Minute ... I Thought, If We Had “Obamacare” and Took The Delicious, Mercury-spiked Vaccines, We Would LIVE LONGER?! -- At Least, That's What The 'Mainstream' News Tells Us ... (NO, People ... Mercury and Fluoride Are NOT Suitable For Human Consumption, In ANY Form ... They Are Poisonous!
   MEANWHILE, SPEAKING of FLUORIDE ...
* Chinese Fluoride Is a Homeland “Security” Matter
In an engineering report for the city of Boulder, Colorado, they did an evaluation of fluoridation chemicals and sources and found that much of the fluoride chemicals used for water fluoridation are now coming out of China, with arsenic and lead levels of 50 and 40 milligrams, (respectively) per bag and nonexistent regulatory monitoring of the salt or acid compounds from these imports.” (Google Search: “Fluoride From China”)

* One-in-four Germans Would Take A Microchip Under Skin, Poll Shows
Sounds like something from a sci-fi film, but one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body, if they derived concrete benefits from it, a poll showed. In all, 23 percent of around 1,000 respondents in the survey said they would be prepared to have a chip inserted under their skin “for certain benefits.” Around one in six (16 percent) said they would wear an implant to allow emergency services to rescue them more quickly in the event of a fire or accident. Oh, By The Way; Study: RFID Implants Cause Cancer Unless you see cancer as a “benefit” you really shouldn’t go along with this invasive technology. (Will YOU Be Forced, To Take a Microchip? Some employers around the country, are ordering Microchips to track their employees. Microchips are advertized, as a way to keep your children “safe” by tracking them, as well as the criminals that might want to harm them. See THIS YouTube Clip!)
* RELATED: YouTube: “Anti-Microchip” Protest Song (I LOVE It!)
                                                  
* COVERAGE UNDER “OBAMACARE” -- REQUIRES IMPLANTABLE MICROCHIP
     (Source Bill: H.R. 3200 - “America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009”)
The Obama Healthcare bill under Class II (Paragraph 1, Section B) specifically includes “(ii) a class II device that is implantable.” Then on page 1004, it describes what the term “data” means in paragraph 1, section B:
(B) In this paragraph, the term ‘data’ refers to in formation respecting a device described in paragraph (1), including “claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the Secretary.”
  What exactly is a class II device that is “implantable?” Lets see ... In Section 2521 of the Bill labeled “National Medical Device Registry,” a class II device is defined as: “a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining.” To verify this, open the bill, and do a search for “implantable” and you'll find the definition. Just as alarming, is this phrase used in conjuction with “Class II” device usage: “other postmarket device surveillance activities of the Secretary authorized by this chapter” Furthermore, under this Section 2521, the following is stated in a new topic category: Electronic Exchange and Use in Certified Electronic Health Records of Unique Device Identifiers- “The Secretary of the Health Human Services, acting through the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, shall adopt standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use in certified electronic health records of a unique device identifier for each device described in paragraph (1)”

* Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: “People From Countries Tied to Terrorism Could ‘Potentially’ Enter USA.” But DHS Reports Says THOUSANDS ALREADY HAVE! Napolitano told senators, it is a national security concern that people from countries with ties to terrorism could ‘potentially’ gain entry into the United States by crossing the country’s southern border ... However, according to the DHS’s 2008 Yearbook of Immigration Studies, a total of 791,568 people where detained by federal law enforcement agencies in fiscal year 2008 – 5,506 of those people were from those 14 “special interest” countries. (Things that make you go - Hmmm.)

* Why DID Sgt. Thomas Die?
His death leaves a medical mystery, one similar to those posed by hundreds of other American military personnel battling exotic cancers or struggling with rare respiratory problems. (“Depleted Uranium For Dummies, The Most Toxic Battle In Western Military History”) See Also: http://www.beyondtreason.com (“Beyond Treason” 2 Min. DVDTrailer HERE.)

First Haiti, Then Chili (Worth mentioning again ...) Who Knows? These People Are Capable of Anything!
* 1997 DoD Briefing: “Others' Can Set Off Earthquakes, Volcanoes Remotely, Using Electromagnetic Waves”
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen (April 28, 1997): “Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we've learned in the intelligence community, we had something called -- and we have James Woolsey here, to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.” (Transcript >> DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense, William S. Cohen <<)

* CHEMTRAILS: A day and a Half, of “Chemtrails” In Time-lapsed Video -- Part Two
Timelapse video allows a more clear view of the pattern, of lingering “chemtrails” in comparison with typical cloud cover movement. (Also, See This Slide-show) More on this issue HERE ...

* “Weaponizing” Mozart -- Punishment For Today's British Youth?! 
In recent years, Britain has become the 'Willy Wonka' of social control ... churning out increasingly creepy, bizarre, and fantastic methods for policing the populace. But our weaponization of classical music -- where Mozart, Beethoven, (and other greats) have been turned into tools of state repression -- marks a new low. In January, it was revealed that West Park School, in Derby in the midlands of England, was “subjecting” (its words) badly behaved children to Mozart and others. In “special detentions,” the children are forced to endure two hours of classical music both as a relaxant (the headmaster claims it calms them down) and as a deterrent against future bad behavior (apparently the number of disruptive pupils has fallen by 60 per cent since the detentions were introduced.) One news report says some of the children who have endured this Mozart authoritarianism now find classical music unbearable. As one critical commentator said, they will probably “go into adulthood associating great music, the most bewitchingly lovely sounds on Earth, with a punitive slap on the chops.” This is what passes for education in Britain today: teaching kids to think “Danger!” whenever they hear Mozart’s Requiem or some other piece of musical genius. The classical music detentions at West Park School are only the latest experiment in using and abusing some of humanity’s greatest cultural achievements to reprimand youth.

* Officials Puzzle Over Millions of Dollars Leaving Afghanistan, By Plane -- For Dubai
A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan -- often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport -- as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising concerns about the money's origin.

* NASA Scientist: “Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth's Axis ... Quake May Have 'Shortened' Earth Days”
The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile “may have shortened the length of each Earth day” says JPL research scientist Richard Gross, who computed how Earth's rotation should have changed as a result of the Feb. 27 quake. Using a complex model, he and fellow scientists came up with a preliminary calculation that the quake should have shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).

* Psych Industry Goes NUTS, With “Disorder” Labels For Common Human Behaviors
Thanks to the bizarre new definitions of the psychiatric industry, children no longer throw “temper tantrums” they are now suffering from; “Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria.” A whole slew of new psychiatric “disorders” is now being unleashed onto the public nomenclature, categorizing virtually every human emotion, experience and condition as some sort of “disorder,” that needs to be treated with dangerous, psychiatric drugs ... Another new disease is; “Oppositional Defiant Disorder” (or, ODD), which includes anyone who disagrees with authority. (I'm Not Kidding!) “A pattern of Disobedient, Hostile, and Defiant Behavior toward Authority Figures.” In other words, anyone who's fed-up with government corruption, skeptical about the way our country is being run, or think it's bad that the banksters are robbing the daylights out of us, or question the safety of vaccines, (for example) are now diagnosed with “ODD.”
* YOU Can Use “The Disease Mongering Engine” Yourself -- To Conjure Your OWN Scary Diseases!

* Doritos Ads Represent Sick, Demented Nature of “Junk Food” Companies
One Doritos advertisement portrays a man backing out of a parking lot, when his car strikes an innocent person, who drops his bag of Doritos and falls to the ground behind the car ... Rather than trying to help the innocent victim, this man throws his car into reverse and drives over the downed pedestrian, killing him with the vehicle and stealing the bag of Doritos. A second Doritos ad, shows two (loser-looking) gym bums being attacked by an insane 'junk food' ninja, who uses Doritos chips as throwing stars, to murder the guy who stole his bag of Doritos. The message here? Doritos are so valuable, that it's okay to kill others ... to defend your snack.
  A third Doritos ad, shows one elderly man attacking a young man with a stun gun, in order to buy the last bag of Doritos from a vending machine ... Same gratuitous violence, Same message: Committing violent acts against others, is perfectly acceptable ... when you're pursuing a bag of Doritos.
  Yet another Doritos ad, shows two grown men smacking each other's face, to decide which 'loser' has to go buy more Doritos. The loser ends up with a black eye, after being punched so hard, he flies through the air and lands on a coffee table, shattering it. (Yeah!! All For The “ME” Generation!) Personally? I'm not buying that garbage food ever again!

* GOP Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ.): “Blacks Better Off Under Slavery”
“And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today, than were being devastated by policies of slavery.” Franks says he sometimes says things that are “intemperate,” but added, “I don't want to hide from the truth.”

* Farmers, Others Sue USDA Over Monsanto GMO Alfafa
Opening another front in the battle over genetically modified crops, the lawsuit contends that the US Department of Agriculture improperly is allowing the Monsanto Company, to sell an herbicide-resistant alfalfa seed, while failing to analyze the public health, environmental, and economic consequences of that action.

* GMO Alfalfa Will Devastate Organic Dairy Industry
Organic Valley farmers are joining the Center for Food Safety in a fight against the sale of Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) alfalfa seed. The 869 dairy and beef farmers of Organic Valley “feed their animals an all-organic diet that is on average 60 percent alfalfa. Each cow eats approximately 32.5 pounds of certified organic alfalfa a day.” Siemon goes on to say “contamination of organic alfalfa stands or seed stock will devastate the organic farmers who market milk.” (FACT: Genetically Modified (GMO) Foods, CAUSE CANCER!)

* Bribes Let Tomato Vendor Sell Tainted Food
Days later, federal agents descended on Kraft’s offices near Chicago and confronted Mr. Watson. He admitted his role in a bribery scheme that has laid bare a startling vein of corruption in the food industry. And because the scheme also involved millions of pounds of tomato products with high levels of mold or other defects, the case has raised serious questions about how well food manufacturers safeguard the quality of their ingredients.

* ATF Seizes 30 Toy Guns In Raid (It's The “NEW Freedom” In Amerika!)
A business owner is flabbergasted after a shipment of 30 toy guns for his store was confiscated by ATF agents in Tacoma.

* License Plate Software Stirs Privacy Concerns (The “NEW Freedom”)
“It’s a huge Pandora’s box,” Jack Gillis, a spokesman for the Consumer Federation of America, said. “There are possibilities for tremendous violations if it is used to find out where people are at a given time. Until the access to this technology can be controlled, it has scary potential.”

* How Mobile Phones, Let Spies SEE OUR EVERY MOVE
The technology ’sees’ the shapes made when radio waves emitted by mobile phone masts meet an obstruction ... Signals bounced back by immobile objects, such as walls or trees, are filtered out by the receiver. This allows anything moving, (such as cars or people) to be tracked ... Previously, radar needed massive fixed equipment to work and transmissions from mobile phone masts were thought too weak to be useful ... Now They Are. (The “NEW Freedom”)

* College Students Urged: Trade Bible for Playboy
In the lobby of the University of Texas at San Antonio's humanities building, a hand-drawn poster announces, “Free porn: Just trade in your holy books (Bible, Koran, Vedas) for porn.”

* White House Declassifies Secretive “Cyber-security” Plan
Independent estimates say, implementing the plan could cost as much as $40 billion, in the next five years.

* Confessions of a Windows 7 Pirate
“I’ve been hanging out with a bad crowd lately ... In the interest of research, I’ve been digging into message boards and forums run by unabashed Windows enthusiasts who are intent on breaking Microsoft’s activation technology. I’ve had these forums bookmarked for years and stop in every once in a while just to see what’s new. This time I decided to drop by and actually try some of tools and utilities to see if I could become a pirate, too ... Unfortunately, I succeeded.”

* NASA Releases High Resolution Photos of Earth
The space agency produced the stunning series images using thousands of “satellite-based observations” hundreds of miles above the planet. (See High Resolution Photo Here ... Great Desktop Wallpaper!)