Book: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands behind coup attempt on Indonesian government

Prince Bernhard shown here on the left boxing, date unknown.
Historians quarrel about prince’s role in Indonesia coup
NRC | Dec 2, 2009
By Bart Funnekotter
The late prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, husband of former queen Juliana, was party to an attempted coup against the government of the young Indonesian republic in 1950, a book published this [...]

Is Erik Prince ‘Graymailing’ the US Government?

The Nation | Dec 4, 2009
By Jeremy Scahill
The in-depth Vanity Fair profile of the infamous owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is remarkable on many levels–not least among them that Prince appeared to give the story’s author, former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky, unprecedented access to information about sensitive, classified and lethal operations not only of Prince’s [...]

Erik Prince: Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy for the CIA

Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater security firm (recently renamed Xe), at the company’s Virginia offices. Photograph by Nigel Parry.
Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged by a grand-jury investigation, bribery accusations, and the voluntary-manslaughter trial of [...]

Copenhagen Climate Conference to Create ‘Huge’ Carbon Footprint

Commuters at Copenhagen’s Central Railway Station walk under a banner urging Danes to be more climate-conscious.
AP | Dec 3, 2009
By Joshua Rhett Miller
Talk about your global warming . . . When an estimated 16,500 delegates, activists and reporters descend upon Copenhagen Monday for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, a lot of hot air will [...]

‘Copenhagen Summit : On The Road To the Dark Age’

mindanaoexaminer.com | Dec 4, 2009
By Erick San Juan
Makati City, Philipines – THIS COMING WEEK, December 7-18, 2009 in Copenhagen , Denmark, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) the successor to the Kyoto Protocol and will be attended by 20,000 delegates from 193 nations, approximately 65 heads of government (including the Philippine President).
Amidst the [...]

Blackwater behind plan to kill or snatch

mail.live.com | Dec 2, 2009
by Akhtar Jamal
Islamabad—An American newsmagazine has revealed a detailed report on the secretive activities of Blackwater elements in Pakistan and claimed that they were working on a plan to kill suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives in Karachi.
The New York-based weekly The Nation in an extensive article claimed that the Blackwater operatives [...]

Scientists ‘grow’ meat in laboratory

The move towards artificially engineered foods has taken a step forward after scientists grew a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time.
Telegraph | Nov 29, 2009
By Nick Britten
Researchers in the Netherlands have created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope [...]

Cooking the books on climate

ocregister.com | Nov 27, 2009
by Mark Steyn
My favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently roiling the “climate change” racket was Stuart Varney’s interview on Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr., star of the 1980s medical drama “St Elsewhere” but latterly better known, as is the fashion with members of the thespian community, as [...]

Act of Settlement: the history of why Catholics cannot rule over Britain

The Queen at the State Opening of Parliament  Photo: AP
The Act of Settlement in 1701 might be a cause of some embarrassment today but it was enshrined in law with the honourable purpose of securing a stable monarchy and avoiding further bloodshed and division over the state religion.
Telegraph | Nov 26, 2009
By Christopher Hope
England was [...]

Mandy and Cherie attend shooting party with Gaddafi and Rothschild

Lord Rothschild with Lord Mandelson at a routine suare’ in Corfu. Mr Gaddafi was said to be the best shot while Lord Mandelson did not pick up a gun.
Lord Mandelson attended shoot with Gaddafi’s son
Lord Mandelson, the First Secretary, was last night at the centre of fresh controversy after it emerged he had recently socialised [...]