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| Max Keiser: Markets! Finance! Scandal! -Bailout Nation & U.S. banks financing terrorists | |
| Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandal behind the UK economy, which is lying on a bed of nitroglycerin, the Tea Party racket and the Save Our Savers group. Keiser also speaks to Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation, about Tim Geithner, Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke. | |
| Date: 2010-02-04 05:35:31 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 785 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 4 | |
| World Cancer Day: 40% of the 12 million diagnosed with cancer each year could avert the killer | |
| Forty per cent of the 12 million people diagnosed with cancer each year could avert the killer disease with protection against infections and lifestyle changes, according to organisers of World Cancer Day. The number of global cancer deaths is projected to increase by 45 per cent by 2030 (from 7.9 million in 2007 to a projected 11.5 million deaths), influenced in part by an increasing and ageing global population. Each year cancer kills more people than HIV, Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined. More than 7.6 million lives were lost last year the equivalent death toll to last month\\\\\\\'s earthquake in Haiti happening every week. And the burden of the disease weighs heaviest in the world\\\\\\\'s poor countries. The number of cases are expected to double in the next 10 years, yet only five per cent of global resources for cancer are spent in the developing world. Experts say this \\\\ | |
| Date: 2010-02-04 05:18:04 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 788 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| If You Want Change, Change Congress with Lawrence Lessig who has known Barack Obama for 20 years | |
| Professor Lawrence Lessig has know Barack Obama for 20 years, and supported all his campaigns. In this video produced for The Nation and FixCongressFirst.org, Lessig describes his concern over President Obama\\\\\\\'s limited approach to truly \\\\ | |
| Date: 2010-02-04 04:55:11 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 794 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 | |
| Blackwater's Youngest Victim -powerful short documentary co-produced by Jeremy Scahill and Democracy Now | |
| On September 16, 2007, employees of the military contractor Blackwater, USA opened fire and killed at least 14 Iraqis in the infamous Nisour Square massacre. The youngest victim was Nine-year-old Ali Kinani, who died from a gunshot wound to the head. In this exclusive interview, produced for Democracy Now by The Nation\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley of Big Noise Films, Ali\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s father Mohammed talks about his son, the shootings, and his struggle to win some justice for his son. Two and a half years after the shootings, Mohammed may be the one man standing between Blackwater and total impunity. | |
| Date: 2010-02-04 04:51:10 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 786 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Reuters: U.S. Government calls Iran launch provocative | |
| Reuters: US calls Iran launch \\\\ | |
| Date: 2010-02-04 04:51:07 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 727 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Blackwater kills 17, bribes to keep Iraqi contracts | |
| Blackwater, that private army of God, allegedly shot 17 people dead in Baghdad\\\'s Nisour Square in 2007. The Justice Department is to investigate allegations they followed up with $1m in bribes to the Iraqi government to try and keep their contracts with the country. | |
| Date: 2010-02-03 05:30:20 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 770 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 | |
| Spies for Sale: CIA Offers Helping Hand to Battle Corporate Espionage | |
| Things are getting weirder and weirder. Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg\\\\\\\'s Gigi Stone reports on how some Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives are offering their services to financial firms and hedge funds to look for deceptive work practices. (Source: Bloomberg) Copyright Bloomberg 2010 | |
| Date: 2010-02-03 05:20:06 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 786 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 3.67 | |
| Iran launches space probe and reopens Nuclear program discussion | |
| Tehran has successfully launched a probe into space - with two turtles, a hamster and a worm on board. Iran also plans to unveil three new satellites on Wednesday - all part its ambitious independent space programme - which coincides with celebrations of the country\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s 31st Islamic revolution anniversary. The development is a great concern to the US who fears that the country\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s nuclear programme is at a threateningly advanced stage. Al Jazeera\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Stefanie Dekker reports. | |
| Date: 2010-02-03 04:49:42 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 770 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 4 | |
| Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) humbles John McCain for holding up NLRB nominee Craig Becker | |
| Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) humbles John McCain for holding up NLRB nominee Craig Becker | |
| Date: 2010-02-03 04:47:17 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 756 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Leaked Memo - How To Protect Banks & Screw Taxpayers! | |
| See the full memo here: http://tinyurl.com/yc5sv6u | |
| Date: 2010-02-02 08:44:05 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 746 - Votes: 7 - Rating: 5 | |