Janet Yellen confirmed as Fed's first female chair

Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first female Federal Reserve chair. She sailed through the Senate confirmation process, thanks in part to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) invoking the "nuclear option," making it significantly easier to pass judicial and executive branch nominees. With only 56 senators voting in favor of Janet Yellen, she would not have had the votes necessary to be confirmed if the Senate confirmation rules were not changed. Janet Yellen is the first major executive branch nominee to be confirmed since these rules were changed. RT's Perianne Boring takes a look at the confirmation process of the most powerful woman in finance.

Government Says Radiation Not Harmful

Alex continues with the news that Fukushima radiation has arrived on US shores while the Government increases allowable radiation and says there is no threat.

Polar Vortex hits U.S. with dangerously low temperatures

A cyclone of arctic air known as a polar vortex stretched from the Dakotas to the deep South, bringing wind chill warnings on the heels of near-blizzard conditions in some regions. Several Midwest states shut schools and urged everyone to stay inside, while airlines canceled thousands of flights. Gwen Ifill reports.

Christopher Hitchens on the Writing of Saul Bellow and Race Relations (2007)

Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 -- April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.

In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age."[5] His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift and Ravelstein. Widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors, Bellow has had a "huge literary influence."[6]

Bellow said that of all his characters Eugene Henderson, of "Henderson the Rain King," was the one most like himself.[7] Bellow grew up as an insolent slum kid, a "thick-necked" rowdy, and an immigrant from Quebec. As Christopher Hitchens describes it, Bellow's fiction and principal characters reflect his own yearning for transcendence, a battle "to overcome not just ghetto conditions but also ghetto psychoses." [8] [9]Bellow's protagonists, in one shape or another, all wrestle with what Corde (Albert Corde, the dean in "The Dean's December") called "the big-scale insanities of the 20th century." This transcendence of the "unutterably dismal" (a phrase from Dangling Man) is achieved, if it can be achieved at all, through a "ferocious assimilation of learning" (Hitchens) and an emphasis on nobility.

In 1989, Bellow received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow

Facebook can track your un-posted thoughts

If you have a Facebook account, then you've probably found yourself typing out a status update that you delete last-minute, just before posting. Maybe it's too personal or controversial. But for whatever reason, you delete it, feeling a sense of relief that no one will ever be able to see those words. But thanks to a new report, we now know that's not necessarily the case. The study shows Facebook has the technological ability to see the information you were hoping to keep private. RT's Ameera David reports.

Alex Jones Show: Monday (1-6-13) Ian Garland

On this Monday, January 6 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex reveals that Fukushima's radioactive ocean plume may have already hit America's West Coast. A man with a geiger counter took radiation readings at a beach near San Francisco and discovered that the radiation is over five times the normal, safe limit. As we revealed last week, the Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, a compound that protects the human body from radiation poisoning, yet the government has yet to declare an emergency. Ian Garland, a gun dealer who got caught up in Operation Fast and Furious, joins the show to disclose the true extent of the ATF gunwalking cover-up and the Justice Dept.'s immense corruption.

EXPOSED! Plans for Controlled Revolution In UK

Kev and Cip bring you an absolutely fantastic show for the first broadcast of 2014.

2013 seen the GUNN guys cover what they seen as an upcoming "controlled revolution" with Russel "mark of the beast" Brand being offered up as the pied piper of the alleged revolution. And 2014 looks set to be the engineered summer of discontent used by the elites to bring in the police state *on steroids!




Commonly Known As Dom join the GUNN team to break down the upcoming protests planned for the uk in june, with a call for the arrest of the QUEEN!

Dom breaks down the people behind the "protests" and it is the opinion of GUNN this information must go viral.

People are waking up en masse and the Elites know it. The best way to control a revolution is to actually run it from behind the scenes.

GUNN would like to wish all the listeners all the very best for the months ahead in what will surely be a pivotal year in the info war.

Down The Rabbit Hole w/ Popeye (01-01-2014) Being The Change, NSA Spying, Common Core Exposed & More

On this edition of DTRH Popeye starts off 2014 on a positive note by urging everyone to use the new year to make real positive change. Whether it is taking personal responsibility in your own personal lives, or doing random acts of kindness for others, be a truly positive change in the world this year. Moving on Popeye gets into a few different topics including: The NSA intercepting computers, memory sticks, and hard drives purchased online to install spyware; Common core exposed in less than four (4) minutes; NY State counties allowing fracking waste to be sprayed on the roadways; Independent journalist Brian Hill being arrested and held on trumped up charges; The two terror attacks in Russia leading up to the 2014 Olympics, and the possible connection to the Saudi's and the CIA; Fukushima radiation hitting the west coast, and more.