Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/12-1

The CIA claims that there has been not one "non-combatant" killed in the past year. This claim always seemed to be biased advocacy rather than honest fact. Indeed, the Guardian recently published some of the pictures we have obtained of the aftermath of drone strikes. There were photos of a child called Naeem Ullah killed in Datta Khel and two kids in Piranho, both within the time-frame of the CIA's dubious declaration. The BIJ reporting begins to fill in the actual numbers. It's a bleak view: more people killed than previously thought, including an estimated 160 children overall.

Link: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=31991

“There was a huge explosion in the basement—several seconds before the plane hit the tower!” William “Willy” Rodriguez is the 9/11 hero who helped save hundreds of lives, and the last person to escape alive from the World Trade Center (WTC) Towers. Inasmuch as the thrust of this narrative is meant to be about the honor, nobleness, and benevolence of heroism, be forewarned.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/2011812102710529250.html

Big businesses have long had the same economic rights as citizens, yet few of the moral responsibilities. In a moment of candour he likely thought would win him much needed support from the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, the presidential candidate explained his thinking to a heckler - who asked why he didn't feel corporations should share more of the economic burden of reducing the deficit: "Corporations are people, my friend ... of course they are.

Link: http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/federal-reserve-hides-profits-from-inflation/

Last year $8.4 trillion was handled by the FRBNY from the auctions. There is NO information available as to how it was dispersed.” The headlines screamed that we needed to increase the National Debt to prevent an economic collapse. Wait a minute. Is that the whole story? Much is said of how the increase of the National Debt ceiling is inflationary, and it surely is. But the gain by the United States government is only temporary. The real profit goes to the Federal Reserve and Wall Street but that profit is hidden from Congress and the public.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ9Wxmwab0M

Shocking facts about the dangerous state of many nuclear power plants and lack of oversight in America. Is a Fukushima type meltdown inevitable in the United Sates?

Link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10744574

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook northeast Japan, jolting the area devastated by a quake and tsunami in March, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and no tsunami warning. The quake hit at 3:22 am (0622 NZT Thursday) at a depth of 38 kilometres, with its epicentre 18 kilometres from Iwaki city in Fukushima prefecture, the United States Geological Survey said.