Link: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/203805-Bill-Gates-Lower-World-Population-with-Vaccines

During his recent TED talk, Bill Gates said that the world population is headed to 9 billion people. Then he said, "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."

Seven Palestinians were detained as clashes erupted on Sunday with Israeli forces at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, after storming the site with discord reported throughout the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem. Ma'an's Jerusalem correspondent reported that four right-wing Israelis were allowed access to the Al-Aqsa compound with a police escort. Dozens of Palestinian worshipers spent the night at site, fearing a takeover during the Jewish holiday of Purim.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/02/201022774452701256.html

At least 300 people have been confirmed dead after a devastating earthquake struck Chile and triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific ocean. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck early on Saturday 92km northeast of Concepcion, Chile's second largest city, at a depth of 63km at 3:34am local time (06:43 GMT).

Link: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m2d27-Ron-Paul-Oath-to-US-Constitution-rejected-by-both-parties-leadership-US-revolt-coming

We hold these Truths to be self-evident...Congressman Ron Paul spoke on the House floor for 5-minutes on US policy to assassinate US citizens at the dictate of the executive branch based on “secret evidence,” US policy of torture that includes American citizens and without legal recourse, US policy of rendition to secret prisons, and unlimited detention. He concludes with “emperor has no clothes” obvious observation that these acts are unlawful.

Link: http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/02/how-to-fight-back-and-win-common-ground-issues-that-must-be-won/

Throughout this report, I have presented statistical and fact-based evidence to demonstrate that a strategic attack has been launched against 99% of Americans. Despite the efforts of the mainstream media and most current politicians, awareness of this reality is spreading throughout the United States. A recent Rasmussen poll found that only 21% of Americans think that the government has the consent of the governed. An Opinion Research Corp. survey revealed that 86% believe “the system of government is broken.”

Link: http://rt.com/Politics/2010-02-27/iran-sunni-insurgent-arrest.html#

US was backing the leader of an armed Sunni group heading an insurgency in the country who was captured earlier this week. Washington denies the claims. Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Live Technorati del.icio.us Digg Reddit Mixx Propeller Abdolmalek Rigi says he was on his way to the Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan to meet with a US official when he was seized – sparking further mystery over American use of the facility in the Central Asian country. It's not the first time the Manas airbase has hit the headlines, and all for the wrong reasons. The latest allegation is from Iran claiming the facility is an American front to transport terrorists to undermine the Iranian government.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/pers-f27.shtml

Thursday’s televised health care summit in Washington ended without any agreement on the part of congressional Republicans to support Obama’s health care proposals. Whatever the wrangling between the two parties, however, all sections of the political establishment are committed to two basic propositions: (1) It is necessary to cut government spending on health care programs that benefit millions of people; and (2) health care services for millions more must be rationed so as to reduce the costs to the corporate-financial elite.

Link: http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m63702&hd=&size=1&l=e

US soldiers killed an Iraqi tribal chief's son and wounded his wife in what the Americans on Saturday called a tragic accident, although local accounts of the incident differed. US troops were travelling through the district of Kanaan, northeast of Baghdad, late on Thursday when Zhaheri tribe chief Thaher Zaihud al-Zhaheri's son, Ahmed, walked outside the family's front door and was shot dead, the tribal leader said. Further gunfire wounded Zhaheri's wife in the leg.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/27-2

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile early Saturday morning released 500 times the energy of the 7.0-magnitude quake that struck Haiti last month, a geophysicist told CBS' "The Early Show." Tsunami warnings were issued for much of the Pacific, including Hawaii, following the quake that struck near the Chilean coast, killing at least 76 people.

Link: http://rawstory.com/2010/02/imf-chief-pushes-power-worlds-stage/

The International Monetary Fund wants more power to police the global financial system and a bigger role in emergency financing, managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Friday. In a speech to the Bretton Woods Committee, a finance reform think tank in Washington, D.C., he claimed that a stronger IMF also warrants a new global reserve currency that would serve as an alternative to the U.S. dollar.

Link: http://rawstory.com/2010/02/obama-time-together-pass-health-reform/

US President Barack Obama on Saturday called on Democrats and Republicans to overcome their differences on health care reform and act on his proposal without delay. "It is time for us to come together," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "It is time for us to act. It is time for those of us in Washington to live up to our responsibilities to the American people and to future generations."

Link: http://www.alternet.org/economy/145774/the_great_american_bank_robbery

How did the big banks nearly take down the entire economy and still continue to profit? Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains. Bankruptcy is a key feature of capitalism. Firms sometimes are unable to repay what they owe creditors. Financial reorganization has become a fact of life in many industries.

Link: http://www.thetotalcollapse.com/empires-on-the-edge-of-chaos/

Summary: - Imperial collapse may come much more suddenly than many historians imagine. A combination of fiscal deficits and military overstretch suggests that the United States may be the next empire on the precipice.

Link: http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m2d27-Ron-Paul-Oath-to-US-Constitution-rejected-by-both-parties-leadership-US-revolt-coming

We hold these Truths to be self-evident...Congressman Ron Paul spoke on the House floor for 5-minutes on US policy to assassinate US citizens at the dictate of the executive branch based on “secret evidence,” US policy of torture that includes American citizens and without legal recourse, US policy of rendition to secret prisons, and unlimited detention.