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Remember what Vice-President Biden told Jonathan Alter in The Promise? At the conclusion of an interview in his West Wing office, Biden was adamant. “In July of 2011 you’re going to see a whole lot of people moving out. Bet on it,” Biden said as he wheeled to leave the …

Spraying that takes place at 6:30 A.M. around the Chicago Suburbs. These are not real clouds Chemtrails Video Over the last few years, intentionally manipulating Earth’s climate on a planetary scale has gone from a fringe idea to a possibility debated by mainstream scientists. That’s worried a lot of people, …

Be afraid, be scared, be controlled by big government propaganda! Abandoned briefcase scare halts CTA Blue Line trains, Kennedy Jessica D’Onofrio and John Garcia November 9, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — A briefcase sitting at a Northwest Side CTA stop brought the Kennedy Expressway and the Blue Line to a standstill …

$15B DEFICIT | Cites doubts about gambling package November 8, 2010 BY DAVE McKINNEY Sun-Times Springfield Bureau Chief SPRINGFIELD — A gambling package that could raise $1 billion annually for the state appears “top-heavy” and should take a back seat in the upcoming fall veto session to raising the income …

November 8, 2010 BY NATASHA KORECKI Convicted political fixer Tony Rezko gave U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez free upgrades on a riverfront town house after the congressman asked for them, Gutierrez told the FBI, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. Gutierrez’s comments to federal agents in a previously undisclosed 2008 interview contradict …

November 07, 2010| By John Chase and Kristen Mack, Tribune reporters While candidates for U.S. Senate and governor made last-minute appeals in the closing days of their campaigns, the hard chargers who want to be Chicago mayor were busy setting themselves up for business. Rahm Emanuel spent part of Election …

Over the last few years, intentionally manipulating Earth’s climate on a planetary scale has gone from a fringe idea to a possibility debated by mainstream scientists. That’s worried a lot of people, and last week the practice was informally placed off-limits by 193 nations. The moratorium, enacted under authority of …

Friday, November 5, 2010 Leading liberal intellectual Noam Chomsky just told Press TV: “The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist …

By David Kravets Email Author November 2, 2010 A leading privacy group is urging a federal appeals court to suspend the government’s program of introducing full-body imaging machines at airports across the country. The Transportation Security Administration began deploying 450 of them in March to dozens of airports nationwide. “The …

Movie theater technology is getting a novel tweak–it’ll start watching audiences to see how they react to movies and ads. The silver screen is set to watch you back, and it’s all in the cause of market research. Some theaters have already been watching you for years, but only to …

Geithner Visited Jon Stewart in April, Though Not for Laughs – Bloomberg By Ian Katz – Nov 3, 2010 11:00 PM CT In the midst of debates on financial regulation and China’s currency in April, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner sat down to discuss the U.S. economy — with comedian …

By Andy Sullivan, WASHINGTON | Thu Nov 4, 2010 6:14pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Representative Ron Paul on Thursday said he will push to examine the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions if he takes control of the congressional subcommittee that oversees the central bank as expected in January. “I …

If you didn’t know there was a bar connected to the Bridgeport liquor store Maria’s, you might hear the strains of music wafting from the walk-in freezer and think someone was throwing a party inside. We did know about the bar—and yet, after entering the shop and receiving encouraging smiles …

By JOE SHARKEY Published: November 1, 2010 HAVING been taught by nuns in grade school and later going through military boot camp, I have always disliked uniformed authorities shouting at me.  So I was unhappy last week when some security screeners at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago started yelling. “Opt …

Just days after the Federal Reserve will announce it has launched QE2, the Fed will hold a major conference at Jekyll Island. The island is off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia. In November 1910, Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department A.P. Andrews, …