thestatedtruth.com | January 25, 2011
Hmm….There is a new push to give President Obama an Internet “Kill Switch”. Portions of the Lieberman-Collins bill, which was not uniformly well-received when it became public in June 2010, became even more restrictive when a Senate committee approved a modified version on December 15. The full Senate did not act on the measure. The revised […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 20, 2011
Stratfor’s Annual Forecast ….Here are some examples of this year’s themes: – The U.S. is unlikely to withdraw from Iraq as promised in 2011. – The U.S. economy will grow. – In Europe, more countries will need bailouts. – Russian-German relations will strengthen. – Japan will rot, but it will rot in seclusion. Here are […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 13, 2011
This is an amazing story! TUCSON, Ariz. — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has passed a “major milestone” on her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head, doctors said Thursday. The Arizona congresswoman has been sitting up, dangling her legs on the edge of the hospital bed and moving her limbs in response to commands. That’s […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 11, 2011
LONDON – WikiLeaks will step up its publication schedule of secret documents, founder Julian Assange announced Tuesday, promising more revelations based on the group’s stash of confidential U.S. embassy cables and other leaks. “We are stepping up our publishing for matters related to Cablegate and other materials, “Those will shortly be occurring through our newspaper […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 10, 2011
If this is plan B, inquiring minds wonder what plan C would look like! In what may one day be heralded as the formal proposal that proverbially started it all, the Commonwealth of Virginia introduced House Resolution No. 557 to establish a joint subcommittee to “to study whether the Commonwealth should adopt a currency to […]
thestatedtruth.com | January 8, 2011
We think all would agree, this is a travesty. Our liberties and freedom will become even more compromised as events like these change the landscape around us. Ms. Giffords, 40, who the authorities said was the target of the attack, was said to be in very critical condition at the University Medical Center in Tucson, where […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 16, 2010
Let’s just say this is courtesy of the Wikileaks firestorm… Did you know that E-mails are now today’s primary mode of communication (that’s the main reason the U.S. Post Office is basically broke) , and that e-mail has been subject to the same amount of government surveillance as having a phone bugged since the Patriot Act. Fair to assume this may force […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 16, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had his bail ruling in Britain upheld on appeal.  It was considered a setback to U.K. prosecutors who sought to keep him jailed during an extradition fight with Sweden. The ruling today by the High Court in London upholds a Dec. 14 decision to free Assange on condition that he turn in his […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 14, 2010
A lawyer for Julian Assange of WikiLeaks says a secret grand jury is meeting outside Washington to consider charges in the release of thousands of sensitive U.S. documents. Mark Stephens, one of Wikileaks lawyers told David Frost on Al-Jazeera television that they have heard from Swedish authorities that there has been a “secretly empaneled” grand jury […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 14, 2010
December 10,2010 By George Friedman Julian Assange has declared that geopolitics will be separated into pre-“Cablegate†and post-“Cablegate†eras. That was a bold claim. However, given the intense interest that the leaks produced, it is a claim that ought to be carefully considered. Several weeks have passed since the first of the diplomatic cables were […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 14, 2010
A judge in the U.K. granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange bail but he fights sexual-misconduct accusations in Sweden and will remain in custody after Swedish prosecutors said they would challenge the decision.
thestatedtruth.com | December 11, 2010
Some think state secrets should be protected. It is a hot topic to say the least. The counter to that is reviewed below from the recently arrested Julian Assange.  Please note that the reviewed article below is not the indicative opinion of TheStatedTruth.com…………… Don’t Shoot Messenger For Revealing Uncomfortable Truths By Julian Assange Wikileaks deserves protection, not threats and attacks. […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 11, 2010
What’s the old Boy Scout motto……”Be Prepared”…well it looks like we are! On Oct. 31, the Maryland-based U.S. Cyber Command became fully operational, and its commander is also the head of the National Security Agency, the premier U.S. government entity for signals intelligence. “USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 11, 2010
China And Its Double-Edged Cyber-Sword   By Sean Noonan A recent batch of WikiLeaks cables led Der Spiegel and The New York Times to print front-page stories on China’s cyber-espionage capabilities Dec. 4 and 5. While China’s offensive capabilities on the Internet are widely recognized, the country is discovering the other edge of the […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 10, 2010
Anyone surprised about this? What country wouldn’t protect its state interests!  From ABC News:  “Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the man behind the publication of more than a 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables, could soon be facing spying charges in the U.S. related to the Espionage Act, Assange’s lawyer said today. Justice Department officials declined to comment […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 7, 2010
It’s a done deal….Julian Assange has been arrested. In one of his releases he implied the United States usually gets its way with other countries…..Our guess is that he will end up some where else for trial (anyone care to guess where)? Bloomberg reports that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange  was arrested by London police over rape allegations made in Sweden. “Assange, […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 6, 2010
We agree with this new bill to protect national security interests. As for corporate interests, well that’s another story!  These excerts from The Hill Blog: Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) introduced a bill Thursday aimed at stopping WikiLeaks by making it illegal to publish the names of military […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 6, 2010
This from NBC: Julian Assange’s attorney says a place and time are being negotiated for a meeting with Scotland Yard. There will be a waiting line of countries that want to arrest Julian Assange. Interestingly, despite discussion that the British authorities are well aware of where Assange is located, his arrest has so far been elusive.  It […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 2, 2010
Attacks on Nuclear Scientists in Tehran December 1, 2010 By Ben West On the morning of Nov. 29, two Iranian scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear development program were attacked. One was killed, and the other was injured. According to Iranian media, the deceased, Dr. Majid Shahriari, was heading the team responsible for developing the technology […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 1, 2010
This excerpt from Art Cashin on the floor of The New York Stock Exchange Cyber Warfare – Maybe because of the apparent success of the Stuxnet virus on the Iranian nuclear efforts, there has been a lot of floor chatter about the new age of cyber warfare. The chatter got a lot more active with the […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 23, 2010
Hey, they got to be kidding, don’t they? Mr. Mansour was apparently not Mr. Mansour!   “It’s not him, said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. And we gave him a lot of money”….How do you spell Morons! Taliban Leader In Secret Talks Was An Impostor By DEXTER FILKINS and CARLOTTA GALL Published: November […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 9, 2010
These endless wars will bankrupt America eventully! Tuesday, November 09, 2010 By Edwin Mora (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of the NATO training mission in Afghanistan, indicated today that U.S. forces will still be fighting in Afghanistan in 2014, with current plans aiming to have “Afghan security forces in the lead” and U.S. […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 4, 2010
The so-called “rare earths” would not be rare earths…unless they were rare. “Basically, rare earths are exotic elements that are critical to the future of high tech, clean energy, Big Science and – oh by the way – national defense,” explains Byron King, editor of Outstanding Investments. “The list includes 17 elements like terbium, ytterbium, […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 1, 2010
The new normal is not pleasant, and nobody wants to see this!  The overall cost for the Indiana security is $1 million, paid for with federal funds designated for administration of the unemployment system. Indiana unemployment offices are starting to add armed security guards. The official explanation: “Armed security guards will be on hand at 36 […]
thestatedtruth.com | October 7, 2010
By Scott Stewart In this week’s Geopolitical Weekly, George Friedman wrote that recent warnings by the U.S. government of possible terrorist attacks in Europe illustrate the fact that jihadist terrorism is a threat the world will have to live with for the foreseeable future. Certainly, every effort should be made to disrupt terrorist groups and […]
thestatedtruth.com | October 5, 2010
Stratfor October 5, 2010 | 0903 GMT .  By George Friedman The U.S. government issued a warning Oct. 3 advising Americans traveling to Europe to be “vigilant.†U.S. intelligence apparently has acquired information indicating that al Qaeda is planning to carry out attacks in European cities similar to those carried out in Mumbai, India, in […]
thestatedtruth.com | October 4, 2010
Possible targets in the suspected European terror plot are pre-security areas in at least five major European airports, a law enforcement official told ABC News. Authorities believe terror teams are preparing to mount a commando like attack featuring small units and small firearms modeled after the Mumbai attack two years ago. The State Department issued […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 30, 2010
September 30, 2010 Â Â The Eiffel Tower was evacuated Sept. 28 after an anonymous bomb threat against the symbolic Parisian tourist attraction was phoned in; no explosive device was found. The day before the Eiffel Tower threat, French authorities closed the Gare Saint-Lazare in central Paris after an abandoned package, later determined innocuous, was […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 27, 2010
Heightened Terror Threats In Europe WASHINGTON….. In an effort to preempt a suspected terrorist plot(s) against European targets, the Central Intelligence Agency has targeted missile strikes against militants in Pakistan’s tribal regions, according to current and former officials. The strikes, launched from unmanned drone aircraft, represent a rare use of the CIA drones to preempt a possible […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 26, 2010
Let’s be careful what we wish for here, as this sets up a dangerous precedent of a new type of worldwide cyber warfare in the future.  TEHRAN, Iran—A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran’s first nuclear-power station weeks before the facility is to […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 15, 2010
The funded status of the 100 largest corporate defined benefit pension plans dropped by $108 billion during August 2010 as measured by the Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI). The funded status decrease was primarily due to a significant decrease in corporate bond interest rates that are the benchmarks used to value pension liabilities. Though […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 12, 2010
09/12/2010 Scientific American has done a summary of peak commodity levels as well as depletion projections for some of the most critical resources in the world including oil, gold, silver copper, not to mention renewable water, as well as estimating general food prices over the next half century. Generally speaking, regardless of whether one believes […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 9, 2010
September 9, 2010 By Scott Stewart and Nate Hughes  Over the past decade there has been an ongoing debate over the threat posed by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to modern civilization. This debate has been the most heated perhaps in the United States, where the commission appointed by Congress to assess the threat to the […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 4, 2010
A must listen to interview with Jim Rickards about our economy and more.  We all need to be aware of the direction of things to come.   This interview from Jim Rickards will help in understanding these things better.  Click on the following link or paste into your browser:   http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2010/9/4_Jim_Rickards.html  Biography of James G. Rickards…..James G. Rickards is […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 31, 2010
More then one in six Americans are currently on government anti-poverty programs and the number continues to rise. The chart is below. WASHINGTON — Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. More than 50 million Americans are […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 31, 2010
Rethinking American Options on Iran August 31, 2010 | 0856 GMT  By George Friedman Public discussion of potential attacks on Iran’s nuclear development sites is surging again. This has happened before. On several occasions, leaks about potential airstrikes have created an atmosphere of impending war. These leaks normally coincided with diplomatic initiatives and were […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 29, 2010
Interesting to say the least….rare earth elemnts are used in almost everything that is high tech……. Bloomberg reports that China is cutting back 72% of its exports of Rare Earth metals.  China has said that environmental issues are the reason for the cutbacks. 72% drop in availability of any commodity is important. RE’s are important. Japan […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 29, 2010
Some food for thought from George Friedman, CEO of STRATFOR, who believes China “will have a collapse†in the coming decade due to internal striff, an export based economy, and low internal rates of return,  It will set America up as the primary beneficiary in a new Golden Era. Mr. Friedman’s views are controversial but well worth listening […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 29, 2010
By Todd Harrison of Minyanville Seeking Solutions In An Uncertain World We used to play for silver, now we play for life; ones for sport and one’s for blood at the point of a knife. –Grateful Dead We live in interesting times. During the last two years, a financial virus spawned and infected the economic […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 21, 2010
So, what does our government (boneheads) expect. The emerging new economic power of the world is China. They are also the largest holder of our debt (by the way, this sets up the potential of financial warfare). Doesn’t logic say that military power will follow! It might behove the United States NOT to sell Taiwan […]
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