http://warriorsofatlantis.com Rumbles of revolt stir amongst the populace Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:06:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's not Adderall or Oxy. It's Klonopin. And doctors are doling it out like candy, causing a surge of hellish withdrawals, overdoses and deaths. June 1, 2011  | You could argue that the deadliest “drug” in the ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/americas-most-dangerous-pill/ Year after year, the IMF praised Mubarak's 'progress'. Signing up to its $3bn loan now hardly seems a break with the past Hosni Mubarak’s last finance minister, Youssef Boutros-Ghali, was a graduate of the IMF. Photograph: Stephen Jaffe/Reuters News that the Egyptian interim government has struck a deal with the IMF ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/egypts-imf-backed-revolution-no-thanks/ JUNE 10, 2011   Here is an exclusive interview with James G. Rickards, a leading practitioner in the realm of capital markets, national security and geopolitics, on inter alia “quantative easing as a success,“ the currency wars of the past ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/fed-managing-orderly-rise-in-gold-jim-rickards/ Bitcoin—a pseudonymous cryptographic currency designed by an enigmatic, freedom-loving hacker, and currently used by the geek underground to buy and sell everything from servers to cellphone jammers. No, this isn't a cyberpunk artifact from Snow Crash or Neuromancer; it's a real currency currently valued several times higher than ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/bitcoin-inside-the-encrypted-peer-to-peer-digital-currency/ June 9, 2011 9:26 AM PDT by Lance Whitney Responding to a recent report from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization condemning Anonymous, the online "hacktivist" group has issued a public response warning the global organization not to challenge it. Claiming that the NATO report singled it out as a ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/anonymous-warns-nato-not-to-challenge-it/ By Fiona Macrae Last updated at 12:58 AM on 21st May 2011 They have long been famed for their love of lavish banquets and rich recipes.  But what is less well known is that the British royals also had a taste for human flesh. A new book on medicinal ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/british-royalty-dined-on-human-flesh-but-dont-worry-it-was-300-years-ago/ The waters off Libya are a NATO no-fly zone, which is good news to poachers: No inspectors. No surveillance. June 1, 2011  | A war is raging in Libya, but it's not the one in the news. Its battles are ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-wild-war-to-protect-bluefin-tuna-in-libyan-waters-and-obamas-troubling-role/ STEVE LADURANTAYE - The Globe and Mail Now that’s cross-border shopping: Canadians bought $9.4-billion of U.S. real estate in the last year. Canadians were the largest foreign buyers of U.S. real estate in the 12 months ending March 31, according to the U.S. National Association of Realtors annual survey, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/canadians-biggest-foreign-buyers-of-us-real-estate/ May 20, 2011, 10:27 AM EDT By Caroline Alexander and Grant Smith (Updates with council in second paragraph, analysts’ comments starting in fourth, OPEC role starting in sixth. May 20 (Bloomberg) -- The top Iranian legal authority said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s assumption of control over ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/iran-guardians-call-ahmadinejad%e2%80%99s-oil-ministry-role-%e2%80%98unlawful%e2%80%99/ By Keith Barry May 23, 2011 Update 5:30 p.m. May 24: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will require that all new vehicles have an event data recorder. The agency is at this point only considering such a ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/automotive-black-boxes-minus-the-gray-area/ MAY 17--The Drug Enforcement Administration probe that has ensnared a well-known rap music manager is focusing on the shipment of kilos of cocaine from Los Angeles to New York by a narcotics ring that stashed the drug in “road cases” delivered to recording studios, The Smoking Gun ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/cocaine-probe-targets-rap-music-figures/ Written by James Heiser Monday, 16 May 2011 17:16 Five years into President Felipe Calderon’s war with the drug cartels, a growing number of Mexicans are tired of shopworn excuses from a government which appears to be incapable of protecting the public from murderers and kidnappers. Life in a ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/mexicans-take-up-arms-in-self-defense/ Suzanne Edwards May 17, 2011 The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) has received a lot of media attention lately, as the area has been subject to record flooding, monster tornadoes , increased seismic activity, thousands of mysterious Red Winged Blackbird and fish deaths, sinkholes, and most recently, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/%e2%80%9cfe-fi-fo-fum-the-new-madrid-seismic-zone-the-other-sleeping-giant/ ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/watermelon-%e2%80%98landmines%e2%80%99-burst-on-china-farms/ By MARK MAZZETTI and EMILY B. HAGER Correction Appended ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/secret-desert-force-set-up-by-blackwater%e2%80%99s-founder/ By Greg Weston The same day Canada publicly refused to join the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a high-ranking Canadian official was secretly promising the Americans clandestine military support for the fiercely controversial operation. The revelation that Canadian forces may have secretly participated in the invasion of Iraq ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/weston-canada-offered-to-aid-iraq-invasion-wikileaks/ Sarah Lacy May 15, 2011   Ever since he could remember, Ibrahim Boakye had a knack for understanding how things worked. There were things he could just do that no other kids– let alone adults– could understand. By the time he was five-years-old everyone had stopped ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-chilling-story-of-genius-in-a-land-of-chronic-unemployment/ by Ron Ridenour / May 5th, 2011 1. Libya is Africa’s largest exporter of oil, 1.7 million tons a day, which quickly was reduced to 300-400,000 tons/day due to US-NATO bombing. Libya exports 80% of its oil: 80% of that to several EU lands (32% Italy, 14% Germany, 10% France); 10% ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/libya-fact-sheet/ During the worldwide online celebration, did you post on Facebook or tweet the happy fact that Osama Bin Laden is dead? So many people "liked" an "Osama bin Laden is Dead" page on Facebook that it went viral. But according to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, "Facebook in ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/julian-assange-facebook-is-a-spy-machine-for-us-intelligence/ Britain’s The Daily Mail newspaper may have unwittingly revealed a very, very significant clue as to how those MH-60s managed to penetrate Pakistani airspace during sunday’s mission to kill Osama bin Laden. The answer; the weren’t MH-60s, at least not regular MH-60s. The pictures above and ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/a-secret-helo-used-in-bin-laden-raid/ The International Monetary Fund (IMF) now predicts that the size of China’s economy will surpass America’s by 2016, far earlier than most mainstream economists have been forecasting. Some analysts ridiculed the Fund’s prediction, but others warned that it could happen even sooner.The IMF forecast calculated that ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/imf-chinese-economy-to-surpass-us-by-2016/ by Shoestring    source: 9/11 Blogger   April 11, 2011 “There were a number of false reports out there. What was valid? What was a guess? We just didn’t know.” - Colonel Robert Marr, battle commander at NORAD’s Northeast Air Defense Sector on 9/11 Although it has been widely reported that four commercial aircraft were ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-many-false-hijackings-of-911/ By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author Yandex, which last week announced its intention to list on NASDAQ, says it has been forced by Russian authorities to hand over financial information about an anti-corruption blogger to Russia’s domestic security agency, the FSB. Alexei Navalny, who operates the ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/russian-search-giant-yandex-blows-whistle-on-whistle-blower/ Sarah Lacy May 14, 2011   It was when they pulled out the machetes that I started to worry.I’d seen men with machetes in Africa before, but they were rusty, practical tools used for clearing away brush by the side of the highway. These were long, shiny ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/you-think-hollywood-is-rough-welcome-to-the-chaos-excitement-and-danger-of-nollywood/ May 3, 2011 in Places The reported location of the compound housing Osama bin Laden is 2.5 miles (4 km) northeast of the center of Abbottabad and three-quarters of a mile (1.3 km) southwest of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA). Abbottabad is about 100 miles from the Afghanistan ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/bin-laden%e2%80%99s-compound-in-abbottabad-pakistan/ Apr 06, 2011 - 06:04 AM By: Ron_Holland Oil at $200 plus a barrel will be the least of America’s problems when the Saudi Monarchy falls. "If something happens in Saudi Arabia it (oil) will go to $200 to $300 (a barrel). I don't expect this ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/gold-and-oil-will-soar-when-the-saudi-monarchy-falls/ Cpl. Jeremy Morlock with Staff Sgt. David Bram Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji. Among the men of Bravo Company, the notion of killing an Afghan civilian ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-kill-team-how-us-soldiers-in-afghanistan-murdered-innocent-civilians/ You know how we've been covering the efforts of U.S. Uncut, the growing campaign to stop corporate tax dodgers from exploiting overseas tax havens? Well here's an excellent example of why such efforts are desperately needed, from the front page of the New York Times: General Electric, the nation’s ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/ge-worlds-largest-corporation-paid-zero-dollars-in-us-taxes-last-year/ Brazil looks likely to elect an extraordinary leader next weekend By Hugh O'Shaughnessy Sunday, 26 September 2010 The world's most powerful woman will start coming into her own next weekend. Stocky and forceful at 63, this former leader of the resistance to ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/former-guerrilla-dilma-rousseff-set-to-be-the-worlds-most-powerful-woman/   To safely enclose and robotically dismantle the 25-year-old makeshift confinement sarcophagus at Chernobyl, contractors are now erecting a massive steel structure weighing more than 29,000 metric tons By Charles Q. Choi  | Thursday, March 17, 2011 | 13 Computer simulated ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/nuclear-cover-up-worlds-largest-movable-structure-to-seal-the-wrecked-chernobyl-reactor/   By PHIL WHABA | REUTERS Published: Mar 19, 2011 00:31 Updated: Mar 19, 2011 00:31 NEW YORK: ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/nike-to-raise-prices-to-cope-with-rising-costs/ The Obama administration has issued a gag order over findings on a recent spike in dolphin mortalities along the US Gulf coast following the BP oil spill, citing a federal criminal investigation over the spill as the reason. An abnormal dolphin mortality this year along the Gulf ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/obama-administration-restricts-findings-on-gulf%e2%80%99s-dead-dolphins/   Thursday, March 24, 2011 - by Joel Hruska   It's been nearly a decade since the music industry declared war against file sharers via its controversial policy of suing individuals supposedly identified via their IP addresses. After all this time one would expect the various companies to present a ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/record-labels-claim-limewire-liable-for-75-trillion-in-damages/   Could it be that America is actually turning less violent? Or are we as violent as ever — but have simply found different ways of assuaging our urges? March 20, 2011  |   Los Angeles' violent-crime rates are four times lower now than they were 1992. The interesting ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/crime-rates-are-plummeting-and-no-one-knows-why/ Officers took orders from UK police division that employed spy Mark Kennedy, German MPs told Five undercover police officers from Germany were sent to the G8 protests in Gleneagles to infiltrate activist groups, German police have privately admitted. The officers took orders from the UK's National Public Order Intelligence Unit ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/germany-sent-five-undercover-police-officers-to-g8-protests/ Tue, Dec 1 2009 By Mohamed Ahmed HARADHEERE, Somalia (Reuters) - In Somalia's main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate. Heavily armed pirates from the lawless Horn of Africa nation have ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/somali-sea-gangs-lure-investors-at-pirate-lair/ ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/oil-companies-targeted-by-hacking-attack/ The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme has admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed Curveball by German ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/defector-admits-to-wmd-lies-that-triggered-iraq-war/ Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com February 14, 2011 While talking heads like Glenn Beck continue to invoke the threat of radical Islam, they habitually ignore the blindingly obvious, that radical Islam is a creature of the US military-industrial complex. Case in point – the terrorist ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/terrorist-who-trained-london-bombers-was-working-for-us-government/ by Aaron Saenz February 12th, 2011 If you’re thinking of robbing a Las Vegas casino, and you’re not George Clooney, I have a word of advice: give up now. As Anthony Carleo recently found out, even if you leave the casino in one piece, the chips you stole are ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/15m-robbery-of-bellagio-casino-foiled-thanks-to-rfid-chips/   Monday, 14 February 2011 By Jerome Taylor Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking once remarked that humankind would need to colonise space within the next century if it was to survive as a species. "It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next 100 years, let alone the next thousand ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/why-infertility-will-stop-humans-colonising-space/ Hackers have run rampant through the networks of at least five oil and gas firms for years, reveals a report. Compiled by security firm McAfee, it details the methods and techniques the hackers used to gain access to the unnamed multinational firms. Via a combination of con tricks, computer vulnerabilities ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/hackers-hit-at-least-five-oil-and-gas-firms/   You would almost need to be disconnected from the Internet to not know about Aaron Barr, the CEO of HBGary Federal, feeling the wrath of Anonymous after Barr told of his intentions to expose the leaders of Anonymous at an upcoming Security B-Sides conference. But today, WikiLeaks published ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/bank-of-america-using-three-intelligence-firms-to-attack-wikileaks/   By Michael Cooney, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/darpa-wants-to-know-how-stories-influence-our-behavior/ Kevin Carmichael Washington— Globe and Mail Update Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:22PM EST A proxy of the currencies that matter is the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Right, or SDR, whose value is determined by a basket that includes the dollar, the euro, the pound and the yen. Towards ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/imf-should-include-the-yuan-in-its-special-drawing-right/ Harper and President Barack Obama shake hands at a joint news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building after their meeting at the White House Friday. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) Canada and U.S. match up better than any countries on Earth: Obama Last Updated: Friday, February 4, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/border-talks-not-about-sovereignty-harper/ Passed to the Telegraph by WikiLeaks 9:10PM GMT 04 Feb 2011   Ref ID: 09LONDON1451 Date: 6/19/2009 14:09 Origin: Embassy London Classification: CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN Destination: 09LONDON1399 Header: VZCZCXRO4201PP RUEHDBU RUEHFL RUEHKW RUEHLA RUEHNP RUEHROV RUEHSL RUEHSRDE RUEHLO #1451/01 1701409ZNY CCCCC ZZHP 191409Z JUN 09FM AMEMBASSY LONDONTO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2674INFO RUEHZL/EUROPEAN ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/london-based-experts-agree-the-us-dollar-will-maintain-its-reserve-status/ Arlington, Texas (CNN) -- The teams are in Texas, practicing and mentally preparing for game day. Not the Green Bay Packers or the Pittsburgh Steelers, but the dozens of security teams that have been brought in from all over the country to keep the Super Bowl safe. With ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/security-tight-for-super-bowl-sunday/ December 11, 2010 By LOUISE STORY On the third Wednesday of every month, the nine members of an elite Wall Street society gather in Midtown Manhattan. The men share a ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/a-secretive-banking-elite-rules-trading-in-derivatives/ By Matthew Lasar | Published 7 months ago Much of the world's food supply is transported via an inefficient, polluting, and dangerous system of highways and trucks. The overwhelming share of the fuel used to move food powers cumbersome vehicles, only eight percent is really ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/can-we-transport-food-like-internet-data-foodtubes-says-yes/ By Ryan Paul | Published 6 months ago In an e-mail sent to BSD project leader Theo de Raadt, former NETSEC CTO Gregory Perry has claimed that NETSEC developers helped the ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/fbi-accused-of-planting-backdoor-in-openbsd-ipsec-stack/ Uncle Ted has 5 children, but once the new world order is done with its economic raping of the middle class, you may be forced to get sterilized for cash Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, December 6, 2010 Just months after a leaked UN blueprint that revealed climate change ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-secret-behind-ted-turner%e2%80%99s-call-for-a-global-one-child-policy/ Many treatments for depression are no more effective than placebos. December 5, 2010  |  21/365 - western medicine Photo Credit: Image by jypsygen via Flickr A warning: for people satisfied with their standard depression treatments, debunking myths about them may ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/are-antidepressants-a-scam-5-myths-about-how-to-treat-depression/   Facebook stalking is now being used as a tool by the Israeli army to expose women who lie about their religious background in order to avoid military service. According to reports more than 1,000 women have been tracked down after they falsely claimed they were exempt from ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/israeli-army-use-facebook-to-track-down-female-draft-dodgers/ ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/prednisone-connection-in-russell-williams%e2%80%99-crimes/ By Saman Mohammadi Al-Qaeda is a CIA creation. That sounds like a crazy assertion because for nine years we've heard from the establishment media and corrupt political leaders that Al-Qaeda is a transnational menace, and the Western world's biggest security threat in the 21st century. ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/why-conspiracy-theorists-think-al-qaeda-did-911/     ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/soon-the-movies-could-be-watching-you/ By NORIMITSU ONISHI Published: November 8, 2010 JAKARTA, Indonesia — The two houses where he spent part of his boyhood stand pretty much the way they did when he went back to Hawaii four decades ago. The two schools he attended have grown larger but, in spirit, remain unchanged. ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/obama-visits-a-nation-that-knew-him-as-barry/ I had the privilege of sitting in on a fascinating think session today put together by the U.S. Army focusing on future scenarios that could have serious impacts on U.S. national security in the coming decades and well, the role multinational corporations might play in those scenarios was one of the more interesting topics attendees were ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/what-role-will-corporations-play-in-21st-century-security/ Panic! We got our man Oct 29th 2010, 2:01 by W.W. | IOWA CITY SO, the FBI tricked some guy into thinking he was helping al-Qaeda plan an attack on Washington, DC's subway system. The AP reports: A Pakistani-born suburban ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-war-on-commuters/   Justin Hyde — The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will update its pat-down methods at 450 U.S. airports on Friday to allow more aggressive touching, with inspectors instructed to touch travelers' personal do-not-fly zones if they refuse scanners. ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/tomorrow-the-tsa-can-aggressively-pat-down-your-genitals/ What happened when drugs were legal and why they were prohibited Mike Jay Today, as the notion of legalising drugs is making its way into the mainstream political agenda for the first time ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/legalisation-the-first-hundred-years/ Imagine that a company could use the Web to rate your health, your employability—even your dating appeal. Welcome to the credit score of the future. by Jessica Bennett October 22, 2010   ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/what-the-internet-knows-about-you/ by Jim Zarroli October 18, 2010 In the financial markets, a lot rides on the word of a company's top executives. If a CEO tells a lie, a lot of shareholders can get hurt. Now, after studying thousands of corporate earnings calls, two researchers from Stanford University think they've ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/how-can-you-tell-when-a-ceo-is-lying/ Published: 20 April, 2009, 13:03 As the world financial and economic crisis comes into its own, the Western community leaders are seeking to impress on mankind the idea that this upheaval will end up ‘turning the world into something different’. Even though the picture of the 'new world order’ ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/crisis-as-a-way-to-build-a-global-totalitarian-state/ By David S. Fallis Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 24, 2010; 12:34 PM Outside a baby shower in Landover three years ago, Erik Kenneth Dixon snapped. As he argued with his sister and her boyfriend in a parking lot, the 25-year-old man whipped out a .45-caliber Glock and shot ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/realco-guns-tied-to-2500-crimes-in-dc-and-maryland/ Published: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 9:00 PM In seven years, New Orleans' crime camera program has yielded six indictments: three for crimes caught on video and three for bribes and kickbacks a vendor is accused of paying a former city official to sell the cameras to ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/mayor-mitch-landrieu-wants-to-dump-citys-crime-cameras/   by Seymour M. Hersh ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-online-threat/ Published: 19 August, 2010, 17:38 Former Cuban President Fidel Castro continues to taunt the West, this time with an article that accuses the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group of conspiring to create a one-world government. Despite his advanced age and periodic bouts with an intestinal disorder, 84-year-old Castro continues to warn ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/castro-lashes-out-at-secretive-bilderberg-group/ October 27, 2010 Treasury Hid A.I.G. Loss, Report Says (New York Times): The United States Treasury concealed $40 billion in likely taxpayer losses on the bailout of the American International Group earlier this month, when it abandoned its usual method for valuing investments, according to a report by the ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/us-treasury-hid-40-billion-in-aig-bailout-losses/   Drug addicts across the UK are being offered money to be sterilised by an American charity.Project Prevention is offering to pay £200 to any drug user in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Leicester and parts of Wales who agrees to be operated on. The first person in the UK to accept ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/charity-offers-uk-drug-addicts-200-to-be-sterilised/ by Aaron Saenz September 26th, 2010 The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power of biometric identification. Iris and face scanning technologies from Global Rainmakers, Inc. will allow people to use their eyes to prove their identify, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/iris-scanning-set-to-secure-city-in-mexico-then-the-world/   By MATT RICHTEL Published: July 06, 2003    THIS is Charles Lax's brain on speed. Mr. Lax, a 44-year-old venture capitalist, is sitting in a conference for telecommunications executives at a hotel near Los Angeles, but he is not all here. Out of one ear, he listens to a live ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-lure-of-data-is-it-addictive/ By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON — Erik Prince, whose company, Blackwater Worldwide, is for sale and whose former top managers are facing criminal charges, has left the United States ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/blackwater-founder-moves-to-abu-dhabi-records-say/ If you’ve been paying attention to some of the more peculiar side-effects of the global recession, you may have noticed that Canadians have been behaving uncharacteristically uppity of late. This new-found swagger is a result of Canada having the dubious distinction of being the “least-bad-rich-world-economy” – ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/marijuana-may-cause-canada%e2%80%99s-economic-comedown/ The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion? By Frank Thadeusz The entire country seemed to be obsessed with reading. The sudden passion for books struck even booksellers as strange and in 1836 led literary critic Wolfgang Menzel to declare Germans "a people of poets and thinkers."   "That famous phrase is ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/no-copyright-law/ By Noah Shachtman The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/exclusive-google-cia-invest-in-%e2%80%98future%e2%80%99-of-web-monitoring/ If you want to understand copyright law, its history, and how it's been abused, you really ought to read this excellent overview by law professor and practicing intellectual property attorney, Lydia Pallas Loren, called The Purpose of Copyright (found via Teleread). The article kicks off ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-cycle-of-copyright-originally-a-tool-for-censorship-attempted-as-a-tool-for-incentives-back-to-a-tool-for-censorship/   By Kim Zetter ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/%e2%80%98john-doe%e2%80%99-who-fought-fbi-spying-freed-from-gag-order-after-6-years/ By Katie Drummond Extreme altitudes are a major barrier for troops fighting in the mountains of Afghanistan, and the military’s spent millions trying to minimize altitude’s impact on physical and cognitive ability. Now, Darpa-funded researchers are making impressive progress towards inhaled drugs that would pump up troop performance ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/darpa%e2%80%99s-inhaled-drugs-to-boost-troops-at-extreme-altitudes/ By David Kravets ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/study-fair-use-contributes-trillions-to-us-economy/ By Brandon Keim British Petroleum and government disaster-relief agencies are using a toxic chemical to disperse oil in the Gulf of Mexico, even though a better alternative appears to be available. As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill spreads, BP and the U.S. Coast Guard have conducted tests with ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/toxic-oil-dispersant-used-in-gulf-despite-better-alternative/ Actor Sean Penn, who is helping manage a camp of displaced earthquake victims in Haiti, is making pointed criticisms of journalists for dropping the ball on coverage of Haiti. He's wrong. I've been on the ground in Port-au-Prince working as an independent journalist for the past ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/how-to-write-about-haiti/ Guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico let inmates out, lent them guns and let them use official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 people last week, prosecutors said Sunday. Mexican attorney general spokesman Ricardo Najera, shown at a 2009 ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/mexican-prisoners-let-out-to-kill-prosecutors/ By Michael Klurfeld, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/secret-government-contractors-tracking-your-online-activity/ By Alexandria Sage SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:15pm EDT (Reuters) - A nonprofit environmental group has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claiming the agency failed to ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/health-group-sues-fda-over-antimicrobial-soap/ Will Hays: America's Morality Czar "Morality became a divisive issue during the 1920s in the United States. One focal point of the cultural debate was Hollywood ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-hays-code/ By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA Published: April 11, 2010 From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/news-sites-rethink-anonymous-online-comments-2/ Can the sentimental brand association of a logo be so powerful that it inspires consumers to take actions they might not have otherwise intended to take? According to a new University of Toronto study, even a subliminal glimpse of a fast-food logo can make a person ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/study-points-to-power-of-logos-to-influence-behaviour-2/   In a nation where millions go hungry, some of the food supermarkets throw out could feed people in need. But not every grocery chain cares. April 18, 2010  |   ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/how-the-top-5-supermarkets-waste-food-2/ By David Kravets ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/lawmakers-eyeing-national-id-card-2/ Last year, The Pirate Bay moved to an ISP that has facilities located in a former NATO nuclear bunker. It has operated with them successfully for some time but we can now reveal that Hollywood movie studios are threatening the ISP with a legal strike over ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/movie-studios-threaten-strike-on-pirate-bay-nuclear-bunker-2/   The TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies. Will the "digital strip search" device just bring more of the same? January 6, 2010  |   Scan, baby, scan. That’s the mantra among ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/whos-getting-rich-from-the-naked-full-body-scanner-boom-2/ Last Updated: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 | 1:30 PM ET The Associated Press Britain has expelled an Israeli diplomat from London over the use of forged passports in the suspected Mossad assassination of a Hamas operative, a top official has said. Foreign Secretary David Miliband told ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/uk-expels-israeli-over-dubai-killing-2/ Posted March 22, 2010; 10:00 a.m. by Hilary Parker A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/a-sweet-problem-princeton-researchers-find-that-high-fructose-corn-syrup-prompts-considerably-more-weight-gain-2/ By Michael Wagnitz , ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/what-exactly-is-thimerosal-2/ BEIJING (AP) – China’s premier expressed concern Friday about its holdings of Treasuries and other U.S. debt, appealing to Washington to safeguard their value, and said Beijing is ready to expand its stimulus if economic conditions worsen. Premier Wen Jiabao noted that Beijing is the biggest foreign creditor ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/china-%e2%80%98worried%e2%80%99-about-us-treasury-holdings-2/ Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan   At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/blackwaters-secret-war-in-pakistan-2/ WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials. Executives from Blackwater, which has generated controversy because ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/cia-sought-blackwater%e2%80%99s-help-in-plan-to-kill-jihadists-2/ Wednesday, 02 September 2009 17:31Civilian contractors working for the Pentagon in Afghanistan not only outnumber the uniformed troops, according to a report by a Congressional research group, but also form the highest ratio of contractors to military personnel recorded in any war in the history of ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/contractors-outnumber-us-troops-in-afghanistan-2/ In just one week on NBC, the detectives on "Law and Order" investigated a cash-for-clunkers scam, a nurse on "Mercy" organized a group bike ride, Al Gore made a guest appearance on "30 Rock," and "The Office" turned Dwight Schrute into a cape-wearing superhero obsessed ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/what-your-tv-is-telling-you-to-do-2/ The stories we hear in Sunday school seem to form the basis for the popular belief that Jewish slaves were forced to build the pyramids in Egypt, but they were saved when they left Egypt in a mass Exodus. That's the story I was raised to ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/did-jewish-slaves-build-the-pyramids/ Of course the Israelis are serious about cyberwarfare, given that they’re really serious about security in general. The most well known Israeli cyberwar attack was in 2007 when Israel reportedly hacked in to Syrian air defense networks and hit the off switch, allowing IDF attack jets ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/israelis-very-serious-about-cyberwar/ TALLY SHOWS THAT THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS THE REAL SOURCE OF BAILOUT FUNDS Today, the Real Economy Project of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released an assessment of the total cost to taxpayers of the Wall Street bailout. CMD concludes that multiple federal agencies have disbursed ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/largest-money-transfer-in-recorded-history-46-trillion-spent-on-the-bank-bailout-to-date/ The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece. Together ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/american-stonehenge-monumental-instructions-for-the-post-apocalypse/ By Nate Anderson | Last updated September 8, 2009 7:25 AM The Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission had a bright idea back in the mid-1990s—it decided to release "anonymized" data on state employees that showed every single hospital visit. The goal was to help researchers, and the state ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/anonymized-data-really-isnt%e2%80%94and-heres-why-not/ In the weeks before New York City hosted the Republican National Convention last August, security officials spent millions securing the area around Madison Square Garden against a possible terrorist attack. They set up barricades, installed extra cameras on buildings, and assigned extra police to the streets. ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/outrageous-lets-shut-them-down/ For months, shipping firms have been testing ways to repel pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia, trying everything from sonic blasters to warning shots. But things have now escalated to lethal force: A Somali pirate was apparently killed yesterday in a gunfight between a cargo ship and ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/mercs-vs-pirates-deadly-shootout-on-the-high-seas/ By Tony Czuczka Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would be a “scandal” if banks helped Greece massage its budget, as European officials investigate Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s role in Greek efforts to conceal the size of its ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/merkel-slams-greek-%e2%80%98scandal%e2%80%99-as-goldman-role-examined/ Surplus tomatoes are dumped on farmland in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Photograph: Sally A. Morgan/Ecoscene/Corbis Excessive consumption in rich countries 'takes food out of mouths of poor' by inflating food prices on global market Eliminating the millions of tonnes of food thrown away annually in the US and UK could lift more ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/elimination-of-food-waste-could-lift-1bn-out-of-hunger-say-campaigners/ By Tina Mather, AlterNet Posted on April 18, 2010, Printed on September 10, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/146487/ Unemployment. Health care. The national debt. So many social issues take a lot to fix: experts, money, and lots of time. To add to a growing list of social issues, here’s another: 1 in 7 ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/how-the-top-5-supermarkets-waste-food/ Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they’re calling “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards” — that would be required for all employees in the United States. The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/lawmakers-eyeing-national-id-card/ Britain has expelled an Israeli diplomat from London over the use of forged passports in the suspected Mossad assassination of a Hamas operative, a top official has said. Foreign Secretary David Miliband told legislators Tuesday that the diplomat, who has not been named, was removed following an ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/uk-expels-israeli-over-dubai-killing/ By Michael Moriarty web posted January 25, 2010 Why the increasingly strident desperation within the Progressive Democratic Party? They lost Massachusetts last week. Before that they had already passed the point of no polite return with the equally strident briberies of not one but two holdouts on Obama ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-new-world-orders-chicago-way/ BEIJING (AP) – China’s premier expressed concern Friday about its holdings of Treasuries and other U.S. debt, appealing to Washington to safeguard their value, and said Beijing is ready to expand its stimulus if economic conditions worsen. Premier Wen Jiabao noted that Beijing is the biggest foreign creditor ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/china-%e2%80%98worried%e2%80%99-about-us-treasury-holdings/ When did that happen? The Canada Customs Act came into being in 1985, but by all reports ACTA was to have been the international treaty targetting electronic devices, and ACTA hasn’t even been ratified yet. The stepped up enforcement is more likely to be related to the abolition ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/laptops-fair-game-for-border-searches/ IPS Friday, August 21, 2009 It was announced as a terror plot busted. German police had captured three young Muslim men in the small village Medebach-Oberschledor, some 450 km southwest of Berlin Sep. 4 in 2007. The police declared they had seized 730 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, enough to ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/germany-terror-plot-emerges-as-secret-service-game-2/ Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city's surveillance network has claimed. The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals. In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out of 269 suspected robbers. David ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/1000-cameras-solve-one-crime/ Countries should consider imposing a two-pronged tax on banks and other financial firms to pay for bailouts the next time markets tank, the world's financial body is proposing. In a report to the G20 countries that was obtained by the BBC, the International Monetary Fund recommends ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/global-bank-tax-urged-by-imf/ By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing them to revel in their power to address the world while keeping their identities concealed. A ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/news-sites-rethink-anonymous-online-comments/ "Morality became a divisive issue during the 1920s in the United States. One focal point of the cultural debate was Hollywood ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/will-hays-americas-morality-czar/ Is the planet really warming up? Just ask the corporations that stand to make—or lose—billions due to "climate exposure." By Clive Thompson LAST YEAR, Beluga Shipping discovered that there's money in global warming. Beluga is a German firm that specializes in "super heavy lift" transport. Its vessels are equipped with massive cranes, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/betting-on-change/ Pakistani police deliberately failed to properly investigate the 2007 assassination of former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto — a political murder that could have been prevented, a UN report says. Benazir Bhutto waves upon her return to Pakistan from exile in 2007. Her ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/bhutto-murder-investigation-flawed-un/ Your Office Copy Machine Might Digitally Store Thousands of Documents That Get Passed on at Resale By Armen Keteyian   (CBS)  At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/digital-photocopiers-loaded-with-secrets/ Al-Qaeda still aims to strike inside the United States but home-grown or unaffiliated extremists now "pose an equally serious threat," FBI chief Robert Mueller warned US lawmakers Thursday. "Al Qaeda and its affiliates are still committed to striking us in the United States," Mueller told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/home-grown-solo-terrorists-as-bad-as-al-qaeda-fbi-chief/   Is the FBI prematurely closing the books on a still unsolved terror case? April 25, 2010  |   ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/key-expert-calls-fbis-theory-about-accused-anthrax-terrorist-impossible/ 'Long-term greedy” was the phrase that Sidney Weinberg, Goldman Sachs’s legendary managing partner from the 1930s to the 1960s, used to describe the American investment bank’s overarching strategy. Such a pious mission statement from a corporate titan would make a ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/goldman-sachs-the-bank-that-thought-it-ruled-the-world/ Lawyers suing Google claimed Thursday they have discovered evidence in a patent application that Google deliberately programmed its Street View cars to collect private data from open Wi-Fi networks, despite claims to the contrary. "At this point, it is our belief that it is not an accident," said Brooks ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/lawyers-claim-google-wi-fi-sniffing-%e2%80%98is-not-an-accident%e2%80%99/ BY GOLNAZ ESFANDIARI Before one of the major Iranian protests of the past year, a journalist in Germany showed me a list of three prominent Twitter accounts that were commenting on the events in Tehran and asked me if I knew the identities of the contributors. I told her I did, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-twitter-devolution/ Posted by Philip Dru on 5/27/10  The New York Times this morning has a particularly lush installment of one of the American media’s most favored, reliable, and self-affirming rituals — it’s time to mock and pity Those Crazy, Primitive, Irrational, Propagandized Muslims and their Wild ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/those-irrational-misled-conspiratorial-muslims/   A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/how-terahertz-waves-tear-apart-dna/ By JIM DWYER “I know perfectly well,” Cynthia Magnus said, “that garbage is not glamorous.” Certainly not. But it can be famous. Last winter, as Ms. Magnus, a graduate student at the City University of New York, walked along 35th Street in Manhattan to get to class, she often spotted bags ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/sneakers-in-the-trash-were-made-for-recycling/ By Jon Silverman Professor of Media and Criminal Justice, University of Bedfordshire Jamaica's most-wanted man, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, is finally in police custody, after attempts to capture him in May led to clashes in which scores of people died. Many on the Caribbean island of Jamaica attribute its ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/jamaica-violence-linked-to-us-drug-market/ BY GLENN FRANKEL History is a great teacher, but sometimes it packs a nasty sense of irony. A case in point: South African Prime Minister John Vorster's visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in April 1976, where he laid a wreath to the victims of the German Reich ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/israels-most-illicit-affair/ Japan has serious plans to send a solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam a gigawatt-strong stream of power down to earth and power nearly 300,000 homes. The satellite will have a surface area of four square kilometers, and transmit power via microwave to a base station ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/japan-wants-to-power-300000-homes-with-wireless-energy-from-space/ OFF THE EASTERN SEABOARD — Name a recent U.S. military operation, and you can pretty much guarantee that a specially modified Air Force plane was somewhere in the vicinity, trying to influencing the minds of the people below. It’s called the Commando Solo. Ordinarily, civilians are ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/inside-the-air-force%e2%80%99s-secret-psyops-plane/ Posted by Philip Dru on 5/19/10 • May 18 (Bloomberg) — A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trader in New York was all it took to fleece taxpayers on a water-and-sewer financing deal in West Virginia. The secret conversation was part of ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/conspiracy-of-banks-rigging-states-came-with-crash/ The stinking rich are planning billion-dollar luxury liners that keep the land-based Americans they've plundered at a safe distance. June 2, 2010  |   ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-really-creepy-people-behind-the-libertarian-inspired-billionaire-sea-castles/   By Felicity Carus A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today. As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/un-urges-global-move-to-go-vegan-save-the-world/ By Wendy McElroy In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer. Even if the encounter involves you and ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/are-cameras-the-new-guns/   By Anne E. Kornblut Monday, May 10, 2010 The Obama administration is considering changes to the laws requiring police to inform suspects of their rights, potentially pursuing an expansion of the "public safety exception" that allows officers to delay issuing Miranda warnings, officials said Sunday. Attorney ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/obama-administration-looks-into-modifying-miranda-law-in-the-age-of-terrorism/ By AAP As someone who has turned microchipping himself into a hobby, Amal Graafstra is a pioneer of so-called DIY implantation. Graafstra implanted himself with two radio-frequency identification tags (RFIDs), similar to the sort of chips used in cats and dogs, five years ago. The ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/diy-microchippers-make-implants-a-hobby/ by John Taylor Gatto ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-six-lesson-schoolteacher/ When it comes to the sustainable and organic food movement, the U.S. lags far behind many European countries, including Germany.  Many German farmers and consumers are dedicated to producing and eating organic, as well as local, but recently it's been revealed that the German government may ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/germany-champion-of-organic-food-or-gmos/   On Sunday, March 14th two Americans were shot in a drive by shooting in the city of Ciudad Juarez which lies on the border between Mexico and United States. This violence is just one of many examples of the so called “Mexican Drug War” that is ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/war-on-the-southern-border-the-mexican-drug-cartels/   James Corbett The Corbett Report June 23, 2009 It’s the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each other to see who ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/soros-the-cia-mossad-and-the-new-media-destabilization-of-iran/ By Michael Kanellos, greentechmedia ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/why-intel-wants-to-get-into-energy/ Henry Makow June 23, 2009 On March 20, 1969, Dr. Richard Day, the National Medical Director of the Rockefeller-sponsored “Planned Parenthood” told a meeting  that American industry will be sabotaged and shown to be uncompetitive. In view of the recent bankruptcy of General Motors, his remarks are especially ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/in-1969-rockefeller-official-said-us-would-be-de-industrialized/ Liam Bailey | 10.07.2006 The growth of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), particularly the meetings emphasis on security and defence and the new membership applications, are creating ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-build-up-to-world-war-3-begins-in-shanghai/ By Daniel Tencer ExxonMobil’s sabotage of some 100 Texas oil wells in the past 17 years — going so far as to plug up some wells with explosives — means the world’s largest oil company could be liable for penalties of up to $1 billion, the Texas General ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/exxon-faces-1-billion-fine-for-sabotaging-texas-oil-wells/ Vincent Fernando, CFA | ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/why-china-wont-surpass-america-as-1-superpower-any-time-this-century/ Noor Javed, The Toronto Star May 12, 2012 They make you smell like an exotic flower, mask the most offending smells, or simply give you a fresher feeling. But popular perfumes and body sprays could also be dousing you with small amounts of chemicals that trigger allergic reactions and disrupt ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/hidden-chemicals-found-in-perfumes/ Posted by Philip Dru on 3/27/09 • Is the U.S. about to lose its status as the dominant global superpower? Will the dollar collapse? If so, what would become the new global reserve currency and what would replace U.S. hegemony in a new world order? American troops are currently ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/haaretz-will-us-financial-woes-lead-to-new-world-order/ By Brendan O’Neill It is UN World Population Day on Saturday 11 July, when various United Nations bodies will try to convince us that population growth is the cause of much of the planet’s economic and environmental crises. Here, we publish an edited version of a speech given by spiked ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-billions-of-people/ Paul Joseph Watson Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Billionaire globalist George Soros told the Financial Times during an interview that China will supplant the United States as the leader of the new world order and that America should not resist the country’s decline as the dollar weakens, living standards drop, and a new ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/soros-china-will-lead-new-world-order/ Paul Joseph Watson Time Magazine’s coverage of the swine flu scare has a noticeable subplot - preparing Americans for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as well as forcing them to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations. In an article entitled How to Deal with Swine Flu: Heeding the Mistakes of ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/time-magazine-preps-americans-for-mandatory-vaccinations/ By Nicholas Thompson  The Wall Street Journal has a wham-bam headline Wednesday morning: Electricity Grid in U.S. ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/china-and-russia-vs-us-grid/ Posted by Philip Dru on 5/03/09 •  The ongoing swine flu epidemic may have you wishing you had taken that flu shot this season, but some doctors say you may be better off without it. "Since the 12th century, the most commonly used treatment for a cold or the flu is chicken ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/doctor-questions-value-of-vaccines/ Posted by Philip Dru on 7/25/09 • The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported. Vice President Dick Cheney and several other ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/report-bush-mulled-sending-troops-into-buffalo/ By Paul Craig Roberts President Obama called on the Iranian government to allow protesters to control the streets in Tehran.  Would Obama or any US president allow protesters to control the streets in Washington, D.C.? There was more objective evidence that George W. Bush stole his two ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/iran-falling-to-us-psyops/ Tamsin Carlisle   New technology is causing an upheaval in the distribution of world gas supplies. As a result, the world’s biggest energy consumer could become a net gas exporter, as some liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters start imports. Last week, the US Potential Gas Committee – a group of industry, government and academic ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/gas-market-is-facing-a-new-world-order/ The BRIC Group's (Brazil, Russia, China, India) maiden summit in Moscow this week The bankruptcy south of the border, thanks to America's monetary and fiscal and financial institution malpractice, has erased the unipolar reality and left a power vacuum into which new players are leaping. The latest entry to help participate actively ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/new-world-order-part-ii/ By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find its way into court because of legal and ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/documents-back-saudi-link-to-extremists/ By Daniel Tencer Published: July 25, 2009 Updated 8 months ago The Federal Reserve — the quasi-autonomous body that controls the US’s money supply — is a “Ponzi scheme” that created “bubble after bubble” in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/spitzer-federal-reserve-is-%e2%80%98a-ponzi-scheme-an-inside-job%e2%80%99/ Officials in Shanghai are urging parents to have a second child, the first time in decades the government has pushed for more babies. A public information campaign has ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/shanghai-urges-two-child-policy/ Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, May 7, 2009 Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch gave a strange response when asked about plans for mainstream news websites to charge for content, declaring, “The current days of the internet will soon be over.” He was making reference to the fact that corporate media websites cannot continue ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/rupert-murdoch-%e2%80%9cinternet-will-soon-be-over%e2%80%9d/ by Butler Shaffer Recent news stories advise us of yet another contributor to the menace of ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/life-is-destroying-the-planet/ The untold story behind the famous rise -- and shameful fall -- of Jaime Escalante, America's master math teacher. Jerry Jesness  Thanks to the popular 1988 movie Stand and Deliver, many Americans know of the success that Jaime Escalante and his students enjoyed at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. During ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/stand-and-deliver-revisited/ Posted by Philip Dru on 4/26/09  Swine flu panic is spreading in Mexico and soldiers are patrolling the streets after it was confirmed that human to human transmission is occurring and that the virus is a brand new strain which is seemingly affecting young, healthy people the worst, and that the ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/swine-flu-is-deadly-mix-of-never-before-seen-viruses/ Posted by Philip Dru on 4/19/09  U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation. Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/tons-of-released-drugs-taint-us-water/ by Johann Hari Somali pirate “ships” are small, but the ships they seize are huge. They held one gigantic tanker for months until ransom was paid. Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates/ Friday, 14 August 2009 JOURNAL: More on Funding the Taliban It appears that the US military/government is slowly starting to focus on Taliban funding issues. Here's a recap.  An estimated half of the Taliban's funding comes from the protection racket it runs against Afghanistan's opium/drug industry.  Estimates are that it rakes in $70 to $300 ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/global-guerrillas/ By Lucy Johnston , ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/gulf-war-toxins-in-swine-flu-vaccine/   Apr 8 10:55 AM US/Eastern By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer   WASHINGTON (AP) - The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air. John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/ap-newsbreak-obama-looks-at-climate-engineering/     Cooking Up Millions of Viruses for a New Vaccine   Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 8:01am   VALHALLA, N.Y. — As soon as Doris Bucher learned that a new strain of swine flu had turned up in the United States, she e-mailed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offering to send materials that ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/fighting-tyranny-social-network-60-cooking-up-millions-of-viruses-for-a-new-vaccine/ James Corbett The Corbett Report 23 June, 2009 addthis_pub = 'corbettreport'; It's the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/destabilization-20/   What's going on here is not the "magic of the marketplace," but some hocus-pocus by brand-name dealers. June 25, 2009  | Like a Fourth of July crescendo of fireworks, our gasoline prices are rising higher and higher. ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/gas-pump-thievery-whos-really-behind-the-rising-prices-at-the-pumps/   Lesley Wroughton The International Monetary Fund denied media reports on Wednesday that it had discussed possible loans with Lebanon's Hezbollah before parliamentary elections next month. The Financial Times and New York Times on Wednesday reported that Hezbollah had held talks with the IMF and the European Union to secure financial support ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/imf-denies-reports-it-negotiated-with-hezbollah/ by Tristan McConnell in Berbera, Somalia The first time Farah Ismail Eid set out to hijack a ship off the coast of Somalia his boat was easily outrun. On the second occasion he kept pace but his boarding ladder was too short. On the third attempt he was captured. Eid, 38, from ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/foreigners-are-the-real-pirates-says-former-somali-fisherman/ Efforts have been stepped up at the Blue Grass Army Depot to wipe out the last of the U.S. chemical weapons' stockpile. But disposal isn't expected to be completed until 2021, well past deadlines. August 23, 2009|Bob Drogin RICHMOND, KY. — Behind armed guards in bulletproof booths deep in the Kentucky woods, ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/erasing-a-chemical-arsenal-in-the-kentucky-woods/ Oct. 2005: Rumsfeld’s growing stake in Tamiflu Posted by Philip Dru on 4/30/09 • Categorized as Big Pharma, Bioterrorism NEW YORK (Fortune) – The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it’s proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/oct-2005-rumsfeld%e2%80%99s-growing-stake-in-tamiflu/ Barbara Demick LA Times Wednesday February 25, 2009 Reporting from Beijing — “Empty,” says Jack Rodman, an expert in distressed real estate, as he points from the window of his 40th-floor office toward a silver-skinned prism rising out of the Beijing skyline. “Beautiful building, but not a single tenant. “Completely empty. “Empty.” So goes the refrain as ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/beijing%e2%80%99s-olympic-building-boom-becomes-a-bust/ Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms Posted by Philip Dru on 4/29/09 • Categorized as Bioterrorism If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/flying-pigs-tamiflu-and-factory-farms/ What a difference the crisis has made for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It was just a few months ago that this important but unloved institution, a landmark of post-war global economic arrangements, seemed destined to irrelevance.   The IMF has long been a whipping boy for both left and right. ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/challenges-facing-the-imf%e2%80%99s-new-power/ For the first time, scientists have used genetic modification to increase the levels of multiple, rather than single, nutrients in a crop. The first corn produced through the technique hasn’t yet been tested for dinner-table safety, but if it succeeds, it may signal the development of a new, super-nutritious generation of ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/frankenfood-gets-supersized/ Steve Watson Infowars.net Monday, April 27, 2009 A U.S. based pharmaceutical company that just weeks ago was involved in a scandal involving vaccines tainted with deadly avian flu virus has been chosen to head up efforts to produce a vaccine for the Mexican swine flu that has seemingly migrated into the U.S. and ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/baxter-to-develop-swine-flu-vaccine-despite-bird-flu-scandal/ Dr. Paul in 1976: “An evil political maneuver … blatant advertising efforts to panic people into taking swine flu shots” Robert Allison Prison Planet.com Monday, April 27, 2009 In the book Swine Flu Expose, a book by Eleanora I. McBean, Ph.D., N.D., from 1976, Dr. Ron Paul calls the Swine Flu Vaccination Program (which was ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/swine-flu-vaccines-dr-ron-paul-in-1976/ Canada's greenhouse-gas emissions are up 26 per cent since 1990 by Monique Beaudin MONTREAL - A new report from Greenpeace says oil production in Alberta's tar sands has made Canada into a "global carbon bully." Little has been done to tackle climate change in Canada, and the federal government has actively tried to ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/canadas-becoming-a-global-carbon-bully-greenpeace/ Okay, let’s get this through our heads… at some point, the people we trust to take care of boring rubbish like economics, philosophy, law, culture – you know, the framework of a civil polity, the stuff we tuned out in favour of watching Canadian Idol – those people looked around ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/bilderberg-chairman-%e2%80%98bilderberg-helped-create-the-euro%e2%80%99/ Apologists 'spin' Israel's spy operation in the US by Justin Raimondo There is growing evidence that, prior to 9/11, a rather impressive Israeli spy network in the US went into overdrive ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/the-urban-myth-gambit/ IPS Friday, August 21, 2009 It was announced as a terror plot busted. German police had captured three young Muslim men in the small village Medebach-Oberschledor, some 450 km southwest of Berlin Sep. 4 in 2007. The police declared they had seized 730 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, enough to make 550 kg ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/germany-terror-plot-emerges-as-secret-service-game/ By David Hambling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8NMyUHlFhM&feature=player_embedded Police in Pittsburgh are using sound blasters and other non-lethal weaponry to ward off protesters at the G-20 summit. The sonic weapon is the LRAD or Long Range Acoustic Device, a super loud-hailer deployed by U.S. forces and famously used to fight off pirates. According to the Guardian, LRAD ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/sonic-warfare-erupts-in-pittsburgh-honduras/ by Paul Harris Bob Geldof and Bono may have screwed it for the world’s poorest countries. These are two well-meaning guys, and they certainly deserve kudos for the attention they have helped to focus on the plight of the world’s poor. But when they offered flippant sound bites last week about ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/canada-crushes-third-world-not-third-world-debt/ by Dana Gabriel Under the pretext of the war on terror and through initiatives such as the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), as well as other commitments, there has been an ongoing effort to further harmonize North American security priorities.  The militarization of the continent, along with U.S.-Canada integration ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/us-canada-border-security-and-military-integration/ Stephen C. Webster A team of scientists claim to have unearthed startling data from dust and debris gathered in the days and weeks after the World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001. In a study published by the Open Chemical Physics Journal -- a peer-reviewed, scientific publication -- Steven E. ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/study-claims-highly-engineered-explosive-found-in-wtc-rubble/ Kim Zetter, Wired.com June 9, 2009 MELBOURNE, Florida — In a sparsely decorated office suite two floors above a neighborhood of strip malls and car dealerships, former oncologist Douglas Jackson is struggling to resuscitate a dying dream. Jackson, 51, is the maverick founder of E-Gold, the first-of-its-kind digital currency that was once used ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/bullion-and-bandits-the-improbable-rise-and-fall-of-e-gold/ China's exports rose 17.7% in December, state media have reported, suggesting the country has overtaken Germany as the world's largest exporter. The rise, compared to a year earlier, breaks a 13-month decline in trade as a result of the global downturn. Xinhua said total exports for 2009 were $1.2tn (£749bn), but total ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/china-overtakes-germany-as-worlds-largest-exporter/ By Hassan Hafidh Iraq will meet with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in September to finalise a $5.4 billion standby loan to the war-battered country and may launch the sale of treasury bonds worth $3 billion within two months, a central bank official said. The IMF in June outlined its loan conditions to an ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/iraq-poised-to-finalise-54-bln-imf-loan/   Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 6, 2009 7:28 AM   Health insurers around the world collectively hold $4.5 billion worth of tobacco industry stock, according to a new study. The Consumerist has great highlights on the story, including this killer quote from the study's co-author, David Himmelstein, "[It's] the ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/health-insurers-invest-billions-in-tobacco-stocks/ Motorists flee as officers threaten to shoot it out ... http://warriorsofatlantis.com/its-police-vs-police-in-mexican-drug-war/