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Clinton lied about sniper fire

Let's Hear It For The GOP!

Voting 'no' on Hillary, Obama and McCain

Obama church published Hamas terror manifesto?

Ron Paul backers tangle with state GOP over caucus reports

Republicans and "Free Market" Zealots Bring Disaster to America

Paul Leaves Door Open To Third Party Bid

McCain to 60 Minutes: US has been torturing prisoners

John McCain Traitor?

Lawmaker affirms terrorists want Obama White House

Obama lobbies 'gays' for edge over Hillary

Clinton Camp Backpedals From Ken Starr-Obama Tie

Dems Ponder Primary Do-Overs In FL, MI

Obama Aide Calls Clinton "A Monster," Resigns

Citizen Exit Polls A Huge Success In Texas

Breaking Ron Paul News Here

Republican delegates favor Huckabee, Paul

Has Ron Paul Quit the Race?

Ron Paul Hammers Neo-Con Rival To Retain Congressional Seat

Ron Paul Revolution Radio Here

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry

The Globalist's Agenda

Genocide is the Agenda and Deceit, Terror, and Larceny are the Means to the End. "Population Control for Enviormental Sustainability" NWO code for elimination of 5.87 billion people!!! That Means YOU Have to Go!!! Stone Monument already erected!!! - Georgia Guidestones. Cashless Society 2009 "Mark". WWIII a Scalar War! 21st Century WEATHERWARS!

DO NOT FALL FOR IT AMERICA!!!

Aaron Russo

Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation. Professor Khurana – a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers – reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, and a paper based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal. He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours". He believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade. Noting that malignant brain tumours represent "a life-ending diagnosis", he adds: "We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation." He fears that "unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps", the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.

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Are we trying to win this war? Not a chance!
President Bush stated last week in his news conference, “America is at a defining moment in the Iraq War….” He might add that to his now infamous and false statement, “Saddam Hussein hides weapons of mass destruction that are an imminent danger to the safety of the United States….” Soon after his personal invasion in an unprovoked war, Bush strutted across one of our aircraft carriers after the ‘fall’ of Baghdad with his “Mission Accomplished” speech. Since then, 4,000 young American men and women died. Another 30,000 suffer horrific amputations, burns, emotional mayhem, depression, failed marriages, alcoholism, drug use, fatherless children and homelessness. American soldier suicides reached an all time high in 2007. Thousands more return to lives living on the edge of despair with post traumatic stress syndrome. Doctors expect thousands if not tens of thousands of post Iraq War suicides. In a recent column, I documented some 150,000 to 200,000 Vietnam American soldier suicides after active duty. Yet, Bush again made his statements at the news conference like he repeats year after year. “We will not let their deaths be in vain,” Bush said in his news conference. Every year, more deaths, more killing, more money wasted and more lives destroyed. Johnson and Nixon said exactly the same words in different phrases. “Peace with honor,” Nixon said. “I will not send our boys to fight on foreign soil 10,000 miles away,” Johnson said. Bush’s idea of making those 4,000 deaths valid is to go out and kill another 4,000 of our young people and wound another 30,000! Brilliant logic Mr. Bush!

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record

Katrina Victims May Have to Repay Money
Imagine that your home was reduced to mold and wood framing by Hurricane Katrina. Desperate for money to rebuild, you engage in a frustrating bureaucratic process, and after months of living in a government-provided trailer tainted with formaldehyde you finally win a federal grant. Then a collector calls with the staggering news that you have to pay back thousands of dollars. Thousands of Katrina victims may be in that situation. A private contractor under investigation for the compensation it received to run the Road Home grant program for Katrina victims says that in the rush to deliver aid to homeowners in need some people got too much. Now it wants to hire a separate company to collect millions in grant overpayments. The contractor, ICF International of Fairfax, Va., revealed the extent of the overpayments when it issued a March 11 request for bids from companies willing to handle "approximately 1,000 to 5,000 cases that will necessitate collection effort." The bid invitation said: "The average amount to be collected is estimated to be approximately $35,000, but in some cases may be as high as $100,000 to $150,000." The biggest grant amount allowed by the Road Home program is $150,000, so ICF believes it paid some recipients the maximum when they should not have received a penny. If ICF's highest estimate of 5,000 collection cases — overpaid by an average of $35,000 — proves to be true, that means applicants will have to pay back a total of $175 million.

Mysterious Clay tablet holds clue to 5,000 year old asteroid mystery

No. 1 'Clinton hater' may endorse Hillary
Rush Limbaugh isn't the only surprise supporter in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. Only thing is, this guy is for real. Continuing the transition from No. 1 Clinton media enemy to political ally, Richard Mellon Scaife, publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and a principal owner of NewsMax.com, met with Hillary Clinton and pronounced he now has a favorable view of the presidential candidate and may even endorse her in the Pennsylvania primary. Noting that his paper had criticized some of Clinton's policies the very day she visited the editorial board last week, Scaife praised her courage for walking into what could have been a lion's den. "Reading that, a lesser politician – one less self-assured, less informed on domestic and foreign issues, less confident of her positions – might well have canceled the interview right then and there," he writes in a special column today. "Sen. Clinton came to the Trib anyway and, for 90 minutes, answered questions. Her meeting and her remarks during it changed my mind about her." Actually, though, Scaife's mind has been changing about the Clintons for some time, as WND previously reported. Scaife said he found more areas of agreement with Clinton than disagreement – especially on the Iraq war and domestic policy matters."Does all this mean I'm ready to come out and recommend that our Democrat readers choose Sen. Clinton in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary?" he asked in his column. "No – not yet, anyway. In fairness, we at the Trib want to hear Sen. Barack Obama's answers to some of the same questions and to others before we make that decision. But it does mean that I have a very different impression of Hillary Clinton today than before last Tuesday's meeting – and it's a very favorable one indeed."

‘Tase ‘Em!’: Supporters Shout Back at Protesters Who Heckle Rove

Treasury Secretary Paulson, Brit Exchequer Chancellor Darling to “Monitor” Financial System
London - Britain and the United States plan a joint Anglo-US financial working group to improve monitoring of the international financial system, the Financial Times said on Monday. According to the paper, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson agreed last week to set up the group, which is to prepare proposals for better monitoring and regulation of the international financial markets. Darling is expected to present the finalized plans, including membership and terms of reference, at a meeting of the G7 finance ministers on April 11 in Washington. US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will discuss further steps for stricter monitoring of international financial transactions during this week’s Nato summit in Bucharest, the paper said, quoting British government sources. The main goal was a joint approach to the international financial crisis that has hit both countries hard. The joint working group’s tasks will be to look into the role of agencies for evaluating credit and investment risks and increase transparency in the evaluation of complex financial products, the paper said.

Are We Headed For Jericho?

Condi's Farce Goes On
As prospects of true peace in Palestine look as bleak as ever, mainly because of Israeli intransigence and American complicity with the Zionist state, peace-loving people in the Middle East and around the world are once again affronted by yet another disingenuous visit to the region by US Secretary of State. Rice has made numerous visits to Ramallah and occupied Jerusalem ever since she became Secretary of State more than three years ago. However, the overall situation pertaining to the Palestinian plight has more or less remained unchanged. In fact, one can safely contend that the Israeli occupation and apartheid are now much worse than they were three years ago. Hence, it is highly unlikely that Rice’s current visit is going to make any difference. It is really not difficult to pinpoint the causes and reasons for the failure of American “peace efforts” in this part of the world. The US knows very well that Israel will not move even one centimeter toward peace without serious American pressure. But the US government lacks both the inclination and the willingness to do so. The Jewish-control of Congress and the virtual complete subservience of Bush administration to the powerful Jewish lobby, known as AIPAC, as well as to pro-Israeli neocons, make any breakthrough, even any genuine progress in peacemaking , extremely unlikely.

UFO Photos Draw National Attention

Weak dollar not at odds with policy: ex-US official
The dollar is likely to remain under pressure for the next few months at least, but its weakness is not inconsistent with the Bush administration's strong dollar policy, former U.S. Treasury undersecretary Tim Adams said on Monday. "A strong dollar policy is a pledge by the United States not to use the dollar as a tool to gain competitive advantage in global markets. So it's not inconsistent," Adams, who was the Treasury's top international official until last summer, told a conference in Hong Kong. The dollar has plumbed record lows against the euro as the U.S. credit crunch has worsened. This has prompted some commentators, including Mohamed El-Erian, co-chief executive officer of Pimco, the world's biggest bond fund, to call for concerted central bank intervention to stabilize the currency and steady global markets. Steve Hanke, an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, agreed that international action, as well as expansionary fiscal policy in Japan and Europe, was needed to help put a floor under the dollar.

Spitzer call girl ring's No. 2 turns self in

Oprah's False Christ
Oprah Winfrey will be letting out all the stops on her XM Satellite Radio program this coming year. Beginning January 1, 2008, “Oprah & Friends” will offer a year-long course on the New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles.1 A lesson a day throughout the year will completely cover the 365 lessons from the Course in Miracles “Workbook.” For example, Lesson #29 asks you to go through your day affirming that “God is in everything I see.” Lesson #61 tells each person to repeat the affirmation “I am the light of the world.”3 Lesson #70 teaches the student to say and believe “My salvation comes from me.” By the end of the year, “Oprah & Friends” listeners will have completed all of the lessons laid out in the Course in Miracles Workbook. Those who finish the Course will have a wholly redefined spiritual mindset—a New Age worldview that includes the belief that there is no sin, no evil, no devil, and that God is “in” everyone and everything. A Course in Miracles teaches its students to rethink everything they believe about God and life. The Course Workbook bluntly states: “This is a course in mind training”5 and is dedicated to “thought reversal.” A Course in Miracles (also referred to as ACIM or "the Course") (originally published in 1975) is a book considered by its students to be their "spiritual path." According to Dr. Helen Schucman and the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP), Dr. Helen Schucman and Dr. William Thetford "scribed" the book by means of a process coming from a divine source through a form of channeling which Schucman referred to as "inner dictation." Schucman described the divine source of her channeling as none other than the person of Jesus Christ. Well.....Dr. William Thetford, headed the CIA's "Mind Control" MK-ULTRA SubProject 130: Personality Theory, while at Columbia University between 1971 - 1978. Dr. Thetford's Professional Bio, also available on the A Course in Miracles web site, makes reference to his involvement in a Personality Theory Research Project while Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University, but the information does not specifically cite this as a CIA MK-ULTRA SubProject.

World doesn't end, Doomsday cult gives up in Russia

Hillary and Jorge; Ng Lap Seng and Hillary
Jorge Cabrera is a convicted drug dealer and friend of Fidel Castro. News snippets:Jorge Cabrera, a drug smuggler who has emerged as one of the most notorious supporters of President Clinton's re-election campaign, was asked for a campaign contribution in the unlikely locale of a hotel in Havana by a prominent Democratic fund-raiser, congressional investigators have learned. Snip: On his return to the United States several days after that meeting, in November 1995, Cabrera wrote a check for $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee from an account that included the proceeds from smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States, said the investigators, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Snip: Photo taken at an official DNC fundraiser with Bill and Hillary posed with Ng Lap Seng, Macau Crime Lord who controls Prostitution in that region. His Fortuna Hotel is actually a high class bordello where young girls (often underage) are available for a price. Ng, through his American contact Charlie Trie, donated close to a million dollars to the Democrats. Click Here for Photos, Links, and the rest of the story.

al-Sadr issues Wake-up Call to Bush, McCain and the GOP. So Much for the "Surge"

Illogical Conclusions from Supposed Experts on Arctic Ice
MSNBC ran a story on Arctic sea ice on March 18 from the Associated Press that included comments from professionals that seem positively unhinged from reality. While admitting that Arctic sea ice made a partial recovery this winter, federal scientists are still favoring Chicken Little’s "the sky is falling, the sky is falling," alarm to foist on the general public. Walt Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center told reporters: "Thickness is an indicator of long-term health of sea ice, and that’s not looking good at the moment. What’s going on underneath the surface is really the key thing." He added, "It may look OK but if you could see behind you’d see … it’s just empty. And what we’re seeing with the ice cover is it’s becoming more and more empty underneath the ice cover." NASA satellite images show Arctic ice cover to be well on it’s way back to previous levels. But NASA ice scientist Josefino Comiso says more than 70 percent of that sea ice is new, and thin and salty. The more important ice is a thicker perennial sea ice that normally lasts through the summer.

Neocon Destruction of the Fourth Made Officials Nervous

Connecting the Dots to Tyranny
Which do you choose? A way of life where you are the master of your destiny, or one where virtually all decisions are made for you by one ruling body or another? It's the classic struggle facing every human on earth. Freedom or control. Control today has a name. "Agenda 21." This is the name of a policy document first unveiled at the United Nations' Earth Summit in 1992. Implementation of the treaty is through a policy called Sustainable Development. This program is now the official policy of the United States and is being systematically imposed in every single state of the Union and in every city and town. There are very few exceptions. Sustainable Development is no less than a ruling principle through which decisions for all aspects of our lives are determined through public/private partnerships between government (at all levels) and private institutions in our communities. They provide guidelines to determine business decisions; property use; medical care; education curriculum; foreign policy; economics; taxes; labor policy; career decisions; housing; building material; farming policy; and much more. Agenda 21 is based on the principle that government is the maker of rights. Click Here for more on the "sustainable" world the globalists have planned for you. A world where all but 500 million people have been exterminated.

Witchcraft on the Home Shopping Network?

Homosexual 'nuns' mock Christianity
A San Francisco-based homosexual organization that has run "Revival Bingo" and whose members have taken communion in a Catholic church in full costume regalia chose Resurrection Sunday to stage its 2008 "hunky Jesus" competition. "This behavior is shameful," said a commentator on the Roman Catholic blog, which has monitor the activities of the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" in prior events. "It's meant to scandalize and offend people, and those responsible certainly succeed in that regard," the blog said. "The blasphemy you see is one of the ways these people seek to reinforce their fantasy that God is either a myth or indifferent to their lifestyle choices, no matter how obviously unnatural (at least to anyone who is not bereft of what should be common sense). Those who insist that acts of blasphemy and indecency, and shameless acts of perversion are harmless – or even acts of virtue – do so because of moral blindness resulting from obstinacy in evil…"

Huge Gamma Ray Burst

House price slump in US dashes hope of end to credit crisis
Declines in US house prices are continuing to accelerate, according to surveys that signal there will be no quick end to the credit crisis. The price of the average home was 11 per cent lower than a year ago, the S&P Case-Shiller index showed yesterday, as repossessed homes flood the market – and economists predict that the price adjustment may belittle more than half over. The Case-Shiller index has become one of the most widely followed measures of the US economy because American homes are the collateral that supports hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities and other credit derivatives. The latest figures cover house prices in 20 metropolitan areas in January, and show that price declines have spread far beyond the once-hot speculative property markets in Florida and the South-west and crumbling industrial towns. Now, Charlotte, North Carolina, is the sole region showing year-on-year gains. The year-on-year decline of 10.7 per cent in the average house price is worse than anything seen in the last downturn in the early Nineties. Prices fell 2.4 per cent in just one month.

Cash-strapped Hillary fails to pay bills

US Treasury chief says Social Security 'unsustainable'
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday that America's Social Security program for the retired is "financially unsustainable" and needs an urgent overhaul. Paulson, speaking after a government panel had completed its annual assessment of the Social Security and Medicare benefits programs, said waves of retiring Americans threaten to soon deplete available funds stockpiled in the two programs. "As the baby boom generation moves into retirement, these programs face progressively larger financial challenges," Paulson said. The Treasury secretary said a growing number of retirees and the programs' rising costs could harm America's future prosperity if Social Security and Medicare are not overhauled and bolstered.

Two popular cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia may not work

The Worst is Yet To Come
In a recent report, the Associated Press asked the disturbing question: How Deep Is The Economic Abyss? Although few are prepared to answer that due to the ambiguity, complexity and impropriety at work, I find it strangely amusing that the mainstream media is finally admitting publicly that such an abyss exists and indeed poses a threat, now that we're hanging off the proverbial edge. Until recently, such discussions have been considered doom and gloom rhetoric by the celebrated experts of our time rendering writers like yours truly not ready for prime time in much the same way the compromised church leaders of our day dismiss their dissenters as fundamentalist crackpots for insisting on the mention of Hell in our evangelical discourse. But you can only hide the obvious for so long. It becomes increasingly difficult to persuade panicking passengers aboard your foundering vessel that everything is OK when you're thrashing about in seawater sporting a life preserver.

Thanks a lot, music pirates; you've screwed us all

Wall Street May Face $460 Bln in Losses, Goldman Says
Wall Street banks, brokerages and hedge funds may report $460 billion in credit losses from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, or almost four times the amount already disclosed, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Profits will continue to wane, other analysts said. "There is light at the end of the tunnel, but it is still rather dim,'' Goldman analysts including New York-based Andrew Tilton said in a note to investors today. They estimated that residential mortgage losses will account for half the total, and commercial mortgages as much as 20 percent. Earnings and share prices at U.S. financial institutions tumbled in the past year as fallout from the mortgage crisis spread to other markets. Demand for mortgage-backed securities evaporated, leading to the collapse of Bear Stearns Cos., once that market's largest underwriter, and a Federal Reserve-led bailout by JPMorgan Chase & Co. earlier this month. Goldman's own share-price estimate was cut 3.7 percent to $210 at Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller. The research firm also reduced its profit estimates for the world's biggest securities firm for the rest of this year and all of 2009.

Gold May Rise for Second Week on Speculation Dollar to Decline

Hoarding by banks stokes fears on credit crisis
Central banks’ efforts to ease strains in the money markets are failing to stop financial institutions from hoarding cash, stoking fears that the recent respite in equity markets may not signal the end of the credit crisis. Banks’ borrowing costs – a sign of their willingness to lend to each other – in the US, eurozone and the UK rose again even after the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented activity in lending to retail and investment banks against weaker than usual collateral and similar action in Europe.

Experimental Weather Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon

Revealed: Obama's dad polygamist, alcoholic
In his autobiographical book "Dreams from My Father," Barack Obama paints a heroic picture of his father as having emerged from a poor Kenyan village, where he was nothing more than a simple goat herder, to become a Harvard-educated economist, destined to return to Africa to fulfill his promise. Unfortunately, the reality is much bleaker than the tale Obama tells in his book. In truth, Barack Obama senior, Obama's father, was a polygamist who had already abandoned one wife and child in Africa when he met Obama's mother in Hawaii. After being educated at Harvard, Obama senior returned to Africa, abandoning Obama and his mother, to live the life of a chronic alcoholic who ultimately killed himself in his second drink-induced car accident, while driving drunk on the streets of Nairobi. The truth about Obama's father was first exposed by London's Daily Mail in a January 2007 expos� whose details remain unchallenged even today, as Obama leads in delegate count in the race for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential election.

Chinese Exporters Shun Flagging Dolllar

US deploys nuclear sub to Persian Gulf’
An American nuclear submarine has crossed the Suez Canal to join the US fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf, Egyptian sources say. Egyptian officials reported that the nuclear submarine crossed the canal along with a destroyer on Friday and Egyptian forces were put on high alert when the navy convoy was passing through the canal. An American destroyer recently left the Persian Gulf, heading towards the Mediterranean Sea; earlier on Thursday, a US Navy rescue ship crossed the canal to enter the Red Sea. The deployment comes as recent reports allege that US Vice President Dick Cheney is seeking to rally the support of Middle Eastern states for launching an attack on Iran. This is while US officials deny that Cheney’s Mideast tour is linked to a possible military attack on Iran. According to the latest reports, in recent months a major part of the US Navy has been deployed in and around the Persian Gulf. Meanwhile, Iran on Sunday rejected French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s comments on the necessity to build a strong deterrent against new security threats posed by nuclear-armed Islamic states, a news agency reported. Speaking on Friday at the launch of the fourth of France’s latest generation of nuclear-armed submarines, Sarkozy said Iran was “increasing the range of its missiles while serious suspicions weigh on its nuclear programme”.

New Black Panther Party condemns 'white men,' 'Jews,' praises Barack

Saudis Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit
Friday, Dick Cheney was in Saudi Arabia for high-level meetings with the Saudi king and his ministers. On Saturday, it was revealed that the Saudi Shura Council, the elite group that implements the decisions of the autocratic inner circle, is preparing "national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts' warnings of possible attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactors," one of the kingdom's leading newspapers, Okaz, reports. The German-based dpa news service relayed the paper's story. Simple prudence, or ominous timing? We noted here last week that an American attack on Iran was far more likely, and more imminent, than most people suspect. We pointed to the mountain of evidence for this case gathered by scholar William R. Polk, one of the top aides to John Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and to other indicators of impending war. The story by Okaz, which would not have appeared in the tightly controlled dictatorship without approval from the top, is yet another, very weighty piece of evidence laid in the scales toward a new, horrendous conflict. We don't know what the Saudis told Cheney in private, or even more to the point, what he told them. But the release of this story now, just after his departure, would seem to be a clear indication that the Saudis have good reason to fear a looming attack on Iran's nuclear sites and are actively preparing for it. And they certainly should be bracing themselves. A U.S. attack on Iran will come suddenly, and if it is indeed aimed at destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities, a "threat" being talked up again with new urgency by both Cheney and Bush lately, it has the potential for unimaginable consequences.

Pentagon agency confuses Iran with Iraq in official history

Companies Try To Cover-Up Move To Watch Consumers Via TV's
Comcast has denied that it is developing camera devices built in to cable boxes that monitor consumers as they enter the room, despite the fact that Vice-President Gerard Kunkel admitted to a journalist that such a move would represent a "holy grail," and rival companies like TiVo and Microsoft have already filed patents for similar technology. A firestorm of controversy erupted last week after industry website newteevee.com carried an article by Chris Albrecht which revealed that Comcast was, "experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room". How did Albrecht know? Because Comcast's senior VP of user experience Gerard Kunkel told him during the Digital Living Room conference held in San Francisco. "Perhaps I’ve seen Enemy of the State too many times, or perhaps I’m just naive about the depths to which Comcast currently tracks my every move," wrote Albrecht. "The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content from appearing on the screen. Kunkel also said this type of monitoring is the “holy grail” because it could help serve up specifically tailored ads. Yikes."

Mysterious Condition Threatens Bat Population In US

Back to the 1930s � "Papiere, Bitte"
The current situation has arisen because the power elite has created a global economy via globalization. Prior to this, if there was an economic crisis in one country, many other nations would not be affected. This is not accidental. It’s part of the power elite’s plan to create a global economic crisis. This will result in the world’s population submitting to the power elite’s “International Planning” whereby they will manage the world’s economy. The political structure they will form to do that will be a World Socialist Government. Population control is also an important part of the power elite’s International Planning. In this regard, they consider people no better than animals upon whom to conduct experiments. In order to control populations, the power elite obviously has to be able to track them. This will be reminiscent of the 1930s in which the Nazis would request I.D. by saying, “Papiere, bitte” (Papers, please) of those under its control. Everyone also had an Arbeitsbuch containing her or his personal demographic, educational, occupational, etc. information. Today in Communist China, a similar document is the “Dangan.” And by 2017 A.D., all British citizens will have a National I.D. card by. The federal government plans to use these “machine-readable” state driver’s licenses, with “uniformity” among the states, as federally-approved I.D. cards. This will be followed by future federal demands upon the public, and down the road if the people at some point refuse to bow to these demands, they could be forced into submission by varying means. People could be labeled “domestic terrorists” simply by appearing to intend to influence a politician’s pro-abortion policy, for example, by saying they won’t vote for her or him (Section 802 of the Patriot Act states that the “term ‘domestic terrorism’ means activities that appear to be intended to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion”). Note that one doesn’t have to “intend to influence,” but only “appear” that way to be considered a “domestic terrorist.”

1948 is the worst year in Palestinian history

Will Rush Limbaugh Be Indicted for Voter Fraud?
As the board of election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where Cleveland is located, launches an investigation into illegal crossover voting in the state's 2008 presidential primary, a big open question remains unanswered: Will county officials go after the ringleaders of apparently illegal electioneering where thousands of Republican voters swore -- under penalty of law -- allegiance to the Democratic Party in order to vote for Hillary Clinton? In case you missed it, Rush Limbaugh, the nation's top-rated talk radio host, was urging Republicans in Texas and Ohio to skip their party's primary on March 4 and instead cast a vote for Hillary Clinton in order to prolong the fight between her and Barack Obama. And that Tuesday, as media in both states reported, thousands of Republicans did just what Limbaugh and others had suggested -- they changed parties to vote for Clinton. "I want Hillary to stay in this, Laura," Limbaugh told Laura Ingraham on Feb. 29, near the start of his Hillary crusade. "This is too good a soap opera. We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically, and it's obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it and don't have the stomach for it, as you probably know."

Airship Surveillance Opens Its Doors for Client Inspection

Christians guilty of praying in park appeal convictions
A notice of appeal has been filed on behalf of four Christians who were fined for praying in a public park in Elmira, N.Y., according to officials with the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal alliance that defends the right to hear and speak the truth. "Christians shouldn't be punished for expressing their religious beliefs," said Joel Oster, a senior legal counsel for the ADF. "They have the same First Amendment rights as anyone else in America." The case stems from a visit by seven Christians to a homosexual festival in a public park in Elmira last year. They were convicted of "disorderly conduct" even though the police officer who arrested them testified their actions were peaceful. Charges against three of the defendants were dropped, but Elmira City Judge Thomas Ramich concluded Julian and Gloria Raven, Maurice Kienenberger and Walter Quick were guilty of disorderly conduct and fined them $100 apiece, plus court costs. A local newspaper reported the judge determined Raven was reckless for going to the park.

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Is 'success' of U.S. surge in Iraq about to unravel?
A cease-fire critical to the improved security situation in Iraq appeared to unravel Monday when a militia loyal to radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr began shutting down neighborhoods in west Baghdad and issuing demands of the central government. Simultaneously, in the strategic southern port city of Basra, where Sadr's Mahdi militia is in control, the Iraqi government launched a crackdown in the face of warnings by Sadr's followers that they'll fight government forces if any Sadrists are detained. By 1 a.m. Arab satellite news channels reported clashes between the Mahdi Army and police in Basra. The freeze on offensive activity by Sadr's Mahdi Army has been a major factor behind the recent drop in violence in Iraq, and there were fears that the confrontation that's erupted in Baghdad and Basra could end the lull in attacks, assassinations, kidnappings and bombings. As the U.S. military recorded its 4,000th death in Iraq, U.S. officials in Baghdad warned again Monday that drawing down troops too quickly could collapse Iraq's fragile security situation.

D.C. Gun Crackdown Meets Community Resistance

Torture Bracelet To Control Dissenting Americans?
The Department of Homeland Security is pursuing the introduction of a device known as the Security Bracelet, a wearable tag that would allow authorities to inflict pain compliance on suspects from a distance, while also recommending law enforcement applications and potential use in "crowd control situations". Introduced ostensibly to combat airline terrorism, a creepy promo video courtesy of the patent holders Lamperd FTS exploits shocking 9/11 imagery to push the torture device as a solution to countering potential hijackers by inflicting "Electro-Muscular Disruption" and presumably giving the rest of the passengers a debilitating shock at the same time. "Upon activation of the electric shock device, through receipt of an activating signal from the selectively operable remote control means, the passenger wearing that particular bracelet receives the disabling electrical shock from the electric shock device. Accordingly, the passenger becomes incapacitated for a few seconds or perhaps a few minutes, during which time the passenger can be fully subdued and handcuffed, if necessary. Depending on the type of transmission medium used to send the activating signal, other passengers may also become temporarily incapacitated, which is undesirable and unfortunate, but may be unavoidable," reads the patent for the device. The claim that such a shock would "not cause permanent injury" is an insult to the hundreds of Taser victims who have lost their lives to so-called "non-lethal weapons" - devices whose abuse by authorities has led groups like Amnesty International to condemn them as an affront to basic human rights. Watch the Video.

Border Violence in Arizona, Union Stance

The Power Elite Playbook: Government by Gunpoint
America’s long-term foreign policy, including passive and/or aggressive regime change, is driven by corporate greed. Trade agreements or “reciprocity treaties” (tariff-free trade akin to economic annexation or the creation of American protectorates) always favor business. These obligatory contracts generally include the exclusive right to extract resources, sell products, and maintain commercial properties and military bases despite the justifiable objections of the native populations. Though foreign interventions became even more frequent after the creation of the CIA, they began over a century ago. Greedy American sugar growers, eager to expand their Hawaiian production found a compliant duly-elected Hawaiian monarch, Kalakaua who signed the “Bayonet Constitution,” (at the point of a gun) dated July 6, 1887, and written by Hawaii’s Interior Minister Lorrin A. Thurston, an elite resident who considered his white supremacist mentality a form of patriotism. This document reduced the King’s executive power and deprived native Hawaiians of their voting rights...

US Accidentally Ship Nuclear Bomb Fuses To Taiwan

Global Warming Bill Would Inflict New Great Depression
A new bill aimed at combating global warming currently being considered by the Senate would, if passed, inflict a new great depression on America by reducing GDP by 6.9 percent - a figure comparable with the economic meltdown of 1929 and 1930. The shocking consequences of the Lieberman-Warner legislation, known as America's Climate Security Act, were revealed by the Environmental Protection Agency's economic analysis of the bill this week, which forecast a whopping $2.9 trillion would be shaved off the economy by the year 2050. In comparison, despite the fact that America is teetering on the brink of a recession or is already in one according to many experts, GDP still increased by 0.7 percent in 2007. Imagine what effect a -6.9 percent swing would have - an economy ten times worse than it is now.

ACLU 'hate machine' to be honored?

"He Is Risen"
Noah Webster, the man who is called the Father of American Education, said, "Education is useless without the Bible." He also said, "The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields." Noah Webster went on to say, "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed. . . . No truth is more evident to my mind, than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people." One more quotation from Noah Webster is necessary at this point. He said, "The religion which has introduced civil liberty, is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of government."

Iraq announces tenders for Iraq-Iran pipelines

Monsanto's Deadly GM Food Takeover
There have been few experiments as reckless, overhyped and with as little potential upside as the rapid rollout of genetically modified crops. Last month, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a pro-biotech nonprofit, released a report highlighting the proliferation of genetically modified crops. According to ISAAA, biotech crop area grew 12 percent, or 12. 3 million hectares, to reach 114. 3 million hectares in 2007, the second highest area increase in the past five years. For the biotech backers, this is cause to celebrate. They claim that biotech helps farmers. They say it promises to reduce hunger and poverty in developing countries.”If we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of cutting hunger and poverty in half by 2015,” says Clive James, ISAAA founder and the author the just-released report, “biotech crops must play an even bigger role in the next decade.” In fact, existing genetically modified crops are hurting small farmers and failing to deliver increased food supply — and posing enormous, largely unknown risks to people and the planet.

Home Prices Fall At Record Rate - Confidence Sinks

Shell exec says world not running out of oil
John Hofmeister, the Houston-based president of Shell Oil's U.S. operations, expressed doubt about the validity of peak oil theory in an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box show. "The peak oil theory has really swamped the world. God bless Matt Simmons," Hofmeister told CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla, according to a transcript provided to WND by CNBC. "His assumptions are correct based on his hypotheses, but his hypotheses are too narrow." Matt Simmons, a Houston-based investment banker who specializes in the energy industry, is widely known for his 2005 book, "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy," in which he analyzed oil depletion data from Saudi Arabian wells. The peak oil theory argues the world's oil resources are finite and will be completely exhausted at a future date.

Obama 'money man' tied to 'house n-ggers' pastor

The Triple Failing of the Big Private Banks
Since August 2007, US and European banks have constantly made headline news concerning the deep crisis they are going through and its knock-on effect on the neoliberal economic system as a whole. Asset depreciation for these banks currently stands at over 200 billion dollars. Several banking research services and seasoned economists estimate that the final damage will exceed 1,000 billion dollars. How did the banks manage to build such an irrational lending system? Eager for profit, mortgage companies made loans to a sector of the population that was already heavily indebted. The conditions attached to these mortgages--highly profitable for the lender--amounted to daylight robbery for the borrower: the interest rate was fixed and reasonable for the first two years but thereafter rose sharply. Lenders assured borrowers that the property they were buying would quickly appreciate thanks to the boom in the real estate sector. The problem was that the real estate bubble burst in 2007 and house prices started to go steadily down. The number of defaults on payment soared and mortgage brokers had trouble repaying their own loans. To protect themselves, the big banks either refused extra credit to the mortgage lenders or agreed to new loans at far higher interest rates. But the spiral did not stop there, since the big banks had bought up a large number of the original loans as off-balance sheet operations by creating specific companies called Structured Investment Vehicles (SIV), which finance the purchase of high yield mortgages converted into bonds (CDOs, or Collateralised Debt Obligations).

Going into 'survival mode'

What Color is Your Christianity?
Stop the foolishness, folks. God is a Spirit and man is a spirit. That’s right, man is a spirit. We live in a body, we possess a soul, but we are a spirit. And a spirit ain’t got no color nor denomination! Enough already of this stupid race baiting, we are allowing God’s children to be separated for political gain. We should know better than that. If you are born again of the Spirit of God you have been bleached. Yep, bleached in blood. I say shame on all of us. Shame on Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, on Jeremiah Wright and Bob Jones University. Shame on every pastor and politician who wants to identify himself as some type of specialized Christian. Shame on Baptist Christians and Methodist Christians, on AME Christians and Evangelical Christians, on Charismatic Christians and Fundamentalist Christians. Shame on conservative Christians and liberal Christians, on black Christians and white Christians. Stop it already. Stop taking your cue from the television. Stop allowing Jackson and Sharpton, Hannity and Rush, and all our preachers to classify us as if we were different types of cars! Don’t listen to Hillary or Obama, Dick Morris or Juan Williams, or any of the talking heads planted by the race-baiters whose job it is to keep blood-washed Christians separated. Divide and conquer…it is the oldest trick in the book.

Global Warming? It was the coldest Easter for more than 40 years

'Paulson Is 'F**king Incompetent'
What Paulson and Fed chairman "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke are doing, is attempting to have the Federal government bail out the U.S. banking system by transferring the losses to the government and, ultimately to the American people. Among the many problems with that approach is that the banks' losses are so large, that creating enough dollars to plug the hole would destroy the value of the already plunging dollar through hyperinflation. As LaRouche observed in his March 12 webcast, "We now have obligations in the world, in the order of magnitude of hundreds of quadrillions of dollars of nominal claims. These claims will never be repaid. They could never be repaid." Even Paulson and Bernanke have no illusions of bailing it all out-Paulson has made it clear that the banks and others will have to take painful losses. Saving the system, in their terms, does not mean saving everyone within it. There have already been failures of small banks and billion-dollar hedge funds, and those failures will escalate. Many of the biggest banks and securities firms have already taken tens of billions of dollars in losses, and those losses will continue.

10 Million Tons Floating: The Plastic Sea

Sandra Day O'Connor justifies prayer limits
A former member of the U.S. Supreme Court serving on an appeals court panel has justified a city's decision to ban prayers at council meetings that are "in Jesus name," calling it a "reasonable" restriction on a councilman's speech rights. The comments came this week as the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard a case handled by the Rutherford Institute on behalf of Rev. Hashmel Turner. Turner, a resident of Fredericksburg, Va., and a member of its town council, was part of a rotation of council members who took turns bringing a prayer at the council meetings, and he ended his prayers "in Jesus name." That offended a listener, who promptly brought several heavyweight activist groups into the picture with the threat of a lawsuit if the elected Christian council member wasn't censored. So the city adopted a policy requiring "nondenominational" prayers, effectively eliminating any reference to "Jesus." John Whitehead, the founder and chief of the Rutherford Institute, told WND it's an issue of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, burdened with the politically correct atmosphere in the U.S. that appears to endorse or at least allow any sort of religious acknowledgement, except for Christians.

Bush/Zionists Turn Iraq Into A Hiroshima Hell

Dick Cheney tour sparks Iran war rumours
Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, has triggered speculation that he has been using a tour of the Middle East to prepare Iran's neighbours for a possible war with Tehran. Mr Cheney, whose nine-day tour has included stops in Turkey, the Gulf and Afghanistan, insisted that Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. "The important thing to keep in mind is the objective that we share with many of our friends in the region, and that is that a nuclear-armed Iran would be very destabilising for the entire area," Mr Cheney told ABC News before arriving in Kabul, the Afghan capital, after a visit to Oman. Challenged on the recent National Intelligence Estimate by US intelligence officials, which concluded that Iran's nuclear weapons programme stopped in late 2003 because of international pressure, Mr Cheney said: "What it says is that they have definitely had in the past a programme to develop a nuclear warhead - that it would appear that they stopped that weaponisation process in 2003.

Obama says America is a 'bully'

Death Magic
The mass media continue discovering ways to distract the public from the issues of survival this nation faces. I use the neutral term “public” rather than “citizens” though we are citizens still, partly. Not only bad laws but for decades Television has been directed toward reducing the ability to think or act so that most of us to varying degrees have been reduced to a glop that may be denoted “the masses.” Experimental psychology and the entire Pavlovian project intertwine with this development but that’s another essay. To television we can add computers and the various screen-experiences they provide from blogs to “games,” the worlds of X-Box and Play station. Sense – respond, emotions and hormones go wild. Do more people use the internet to study, learn history and write analytically or to “surf” for imagery, for various kinds of pornography, including simple voyeurism, if this kind of morbidity is ever “simple” or trivial.

How Obama Plays Race Card & Blames Hillary

Questions Pour Over Bear Stearns Buyout
Stunned Bear Stearns shareholders who saw investments virtually wiped out overnight when a takeover deal with JPMorgan Chase was unveiled are demanding to know how it was put together in the first place. For instance, they -- and Washington lawmakers -- want answers on how the deal was arranged, and gained government approval and financing, all in a few hours, and seemingly without alternative bidders being canvassed. "Under the circumstances, shareholders should be entitled to know just about everything," said James Melican, chairman of shareholder advisory firm Proxy Governance Inc, which is expected to make a recommendation to investors on whether or not the deal should be approved. "There needs to be full disclosure of exactly what happened over the weekend," he said. Investors have "an absolute right to know whether or not there is any other alternative mechanism that could either keep Bear Stearns in business or at least have them get a more appropriate price for their shares." Billions of dollars in shareholder value has been wiped away in the last week. Based on current market prices, the takeover is valued at $2.41 a share, a shockingly low offer compared with Bear's $159 stock price last April.

Laptop links Obama, Chavez, Colombian revolutionaries

‘Miss Bimbo’ Website Horrifies Parents With Plastic Surgery Tips for 9-Year-Olds
"It's a good symbol of the end of western civilization." Girls as young as nine are encouraged to "buy" their virtual dolls breast operations and facelifts.

China ships 80 truckloads of troops toward Tibet

Gun Owners Fooled By Mammoth Supreme Court Hoax
Comments made by justices in an ongoing landmark case have been heralded as a "victory" for the individual right to bear arms by the media and embraced by self-proclaimed conservatives, but in reality gun owners are the victim of a mammoth hoax and the second amendment is being destroyed. As Gun Owners of America point out today in a USA Today op-ed, the second amendment is the very bedrock of America and shouldn’t even be the subject of a Supreme Court debate. Individual Right to Bear Arms Wins Favor in Court Argument, the headline from the New York Law Journal, was typical of the media output after most of the nine Supreme Court justices hinted that the right to bear arms is a "general right." However, the case is likely to conclude with the introduction of several new regulations on hand gun ownership at the very least, and, if the government gets its way, a total ban on handguns. The outcome will set the precedent for gun laws nationwide.

Bear Stearns has called in grief counselors

US economist calls financial crisis worst since 1930s
The current financial crisis is the worst the world has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s and the US Federal Reserve move to cut interest rates will not make much difference, the Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Wednesday. "It will have some impact - it will do a little bit to stem the blood - but it's not addressing the fundamental problems underlying the collapse of the financial sector," Joseph said. Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, is a former chief of the World Bank and chaired former US president Bill Clinton's council of economic advisers. He is in New Zealand on a lecture tour. He said the Federal Reserve's move to cut its funds rate by three-quarters of a percentage point was "just trying to ease the economy down rather than try to address the underlying problems." Stiglitz said the main problem was the fact that an estimated 2 million Americans were going to lose their homes because they could not repay mortgages which exceed the value of their property as house prices fell dramatically. "As people walk away from their mortgages there will be more and more defaults - that undermines the whole financial system," he said.

Bush Iraq War Lies Continue Non-Stop

2nd Amendment bars regulation of people’s ability to bear arms
Compelled to take up arms to regain their liberties as Englishmen, America's Founders knew that even the constitutional republic they had established could threaten the freedoms for which they had fought. In the First Amendment, they established a first line of defense — the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. Knowing that words and parchment barriers alone would prove inadequate to restrain those elected as servants from becoming tyrants, they added the Second Amendment to secure "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" — not to protect deer hunters and skeet shooters, but to guarantee to themselves and their posterity the blessings of "a free State." Their foremost concern was the precipitating events of the American Revolution, wherein British troops in Massachusetts and Virginia seized American muskets, cannon and powder — actions the Declaration of Independence calls "a design to reduce (the colonists) under absolute Despotism." Entrusting the nation's sovereignty to the people, the amendment breaks the government's military monopoly, guaranteeing to the people such firearms as would be necessary to defend against the sort of government abuse of their inalienable rights the British had committed. Thus, the amendment's "well regulated Militia" encompasses all citizens who constitute the polity of the nation with the right to form their own government.

Yuan sets new record against dollar

Taking a Toll on the People
In this age of obsession about CO2 and the "Greenhouse Effect," it's amazing that I, a global warming skeptic, am the first commentator (as far as I know) to raise this issue. When all those millions of cars per year wait in line at toll plazas, they're idling, spewing fumes into the air and wasting gasoline. Now, regardless of where you stand on global warming, unless you're the Smog Monster, I think you'll agree with a simple proposition: Pollution is bad. Furthermore, waste is bad. Lastly, sending more greenbacks than necessary to Mideast oil sheiks is bad. Are we in agreement thus far? OK, then a simple corollary presents itself: Raising revenue through tolls is self-destructive and quite stupid. Thus, I have a challenge for toll-advocating politicians. So many of you, such as NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NY Governor Eliot Spitzer and Governor Corzine, will happily pontificate about the perils of global warming, about how citizens have to sacrifice to reduce their carbon footprint (I know where I'd like to put a carbon footprint). I want you to put your money - and, really, it's our money - where your mouth is. Eliminating tolls will greatly mitigate all the problems you pay lip service to, while making the people's lives easier. C'mon, you talk the talk about the importance of sacrificing for the good of Mother Earth and posterity.

Guns on Campus and At Work

US legal system 'worse than Russia'
A survey of 180 in-house counsel working in five European countries identified the US as the jurisdiction they were keenest to avoid, with 29 per cent naming it the country they were most concerned about facing a major dispute in. The US attracted almost twice as many votes as Russia and China. Despite fears of political interference and corruption in their legal processes, both were named by just 16 per cent of in-house counsel as their most feared jurisdiction. The survey, commissioned by Lovells, the international law firm, noted that “while in-house lawyers are relatively comfortable with managing disputes in their own countries, there is great concern regarding the unknowns in different markets”. It said the US system, although less corrupt than most, is "filled with traps in which the inexperienced or uninformed may easily become caught”. Marc Gottridge, Lovells’ US managing partner, said these traps include the complexity of the US federal system, with its "multiplicity of courts, prosecutors and regulators at state and federal levels" and the tradition of targeting corporations as well as individuals in criminal cases.

Mercaz Harav Purim Bash & Other Inanities

Anything that grows 'can convert into oil'
After three years of clandestine development, a Georgia company is now going public with a simple, natural way to convert anything that grows out of the Earth into oil. J.C. Bell, an agricultural researcher and CEO of Bell Bio-Energy, Inc., says he's isolated and modified specific bacteria that will, on a very large scale, naturally change plant material – including the leftovers from food – into hydrocarbons to fuel cars and trucks. "What we're doing is taking the trash like corn stalks, corn husks, corn cobs – even grass from the yard that goes to the dump – that's what we can turn into oil," Bell told WND. "I'm not going to make asphalt, we're only going to make the things we need. We're going to make gasoline for driving, diesel for our big trucks." The agricultural researcher made the discovery after standing downwind from his cows at his food-production company, Bell Plantation, in Tifton, Ga. "Cows are like people that eat lots of beans. They're really, really good at making natural gas," he said. "It dawned on me that that natural gas was methane." Bell says he wondered what digestive process inside a cow enabled it to change food into the hydrocarbon molecules of methane, so he began looking into replicating and speeding up the process. "Through genetic manipulation, we've changed the naturally occurring bacteria, so they eat and consume biomass a little more efficiently," he said. "It works. There's not even any debate that it works. It really is an all-natural, simple process that cows use on a daily basis."

Librarian fired for reporting child pornography

Get Ready for Global Flight from U.S. Treasury Debt
Asian, Mid East and European investors stood aside at last week's auction of 10-year US Treasury notes. "It was a disaster," said Ray Attrill from 4castweb. "We may be close to the point where the uglier consequences of benign neglect towards the currency are revealed." The share of foreign buyers ("indirect bidders") plummeted to 5.8pc, from an average 25pc over the last eight weeks. On the Richter Scale of unfolding dramas, this matches the death of Bear Stearns. "The situation is getting worse, and the risks are that it could get very bad," said Martin Feldstein, head of the National Bureau of Economic Research. "There's no doubt that this year and next year are going to be very difficult." Even monetary policy � l'outrance may not be enough to halt the spiral. Former US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers says the Fed's shower of liquidity cannot cure a bankruptcy crisis caused by a tidal wave of property defaults. The Chinese have quickened the pace of yuan appreciation to choke off 8.7pc inflation, slowing US bond purchases. Petrodollar funds, working through UK off-shore accounts, are clearly dumping dollars amid rumours that Gulf states - overheating wildly - are about to break their dollar pegs. But mostly likely, the twin crash in the dollar and US agency debt reflects a broad exodus by global wealth managers, afraid that America is spinning out of control. Sauve qui peut. The bond debacle last week tallies with the crash in the dollar index to an all-time low of 71.58, down 14.6pc in a year. The greenback is nearing parity with the Swiss franc - shocking for those who remember when it was 4.375 francs in 1970. Against the euro it has hit $1.57, from $0.82 in 2000. Against the yen it has smashed through Y100. Spare a thought for Toyota. It loses $350m in revenues for every one yen move. That is an $8.75bn hit since June. Tokyo's Nikkei index is crumbling. Less understood, it is also causing a self-reinforcing spiral of credit shrinkage throughout the global system. Japanese investors and foreign funds are having to close their yen "carry trade" positions. A chunk of the $1,400bn trade built up over six years has been viciously unwound in weeks. The harder the dollar falls, the further this must go.

Man Innocently Kills Cop During Drug Raid

Venezuela's state-run oil company begins demanding payment in euros as US dollar weakens
Venezuela's state-run oil firm is starting to demand payment in euros — a measure aimed at protecting revenues from a weakening U.S. dollar, Venezuela's oil minister said Tuesday. Rafael Ramirez said the initiative by Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, to charge euros rather than U.S. dollars was "advancing," but not yet completed. "The issue of euros in new contracts is going to be progressive," Ramirez told a news conference. "Only the first steps have been taken. A specific policy has not been established." He said some new contracts require payment in euros. PDVSA decided to demand payment in euros as a means of protecting the company from the falling value of the dollar.

Landslide Victory For Ron Paul In Missouri

The Hell-Disaster of Iraq
Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a "hell-disaster". But we have used these parallels before and they have drifted away in the Tigris breeze. Iraq is swamped in blood. Yet what is the state of our remorse? Why, we will have a public inquiry--but not yet! If only inadequacy was our only sin. Today, we are engaged in a fruitless debate. What went wrong? How did the people--the senatus populusque Romanus of our modern world--not rise up in rebellion when told the lies about weapons of mass destruction, about Saddam's links with Osama bin Laden and 11 September? How did we let it happen? And how come we didn't plan for the aftermath of war?

A Disarmed Public Open To Massacre

Beating the Machine
While it is still eight-and-a-half months away, we already know the Election of 2008 is in the toilet. The people—even those who like the candidates we will be forced to choose from—have already lost because the designated winners and losers are all losers. John McCain. Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama. The issues that will be enacted during the 111th and 112th Congress will destroy the fabric of America and leave the United States torn, tattered and bleeding profusely. The North American Union. Amnesty for illegals. Erasing US borders. Adding more social progressives to the federal judiciary in order to eliminate the Bill of Rights—and with it, freedom of speech and the right of citizens to own firearms because sovereignty will not be surrendered back to Europe as long as US citizens are armed and willing to fight to preserve their nation. Nations are lost through apathy. The United States is no different than any other nation from the dusty, unread and long forgotten pages of history that were undermined and destroyed from within by greedy politicians who sold their souls for money and power. Pre-World War II Italy and Germany were not defeated by foreign enemies. They were both destroyed by "patriots" within their own country. They were all defeated from within by far right radicals—glib-tongued extremists—who advocated the abolition of government in order to provide the people with more liberty. Anarchy, brought on by legislative or judicial shortcuts that skirt the rule of law, always leads to totalitarianism.

Campaign denies McCain’s Iran/al Qaeda gaffe

US and Russia missile talks fail
Russia and the US failed to bridge their deep differences on Washington’s plans to site elements of a missile defence shield in eastern Europe and on how to replace a key nuclear arms reduction treaty due to expire next year. The meeting of the so-called “two plus two” group of the US and Russian foreign and defence ministers seemed to offer no prospect of an early thaw in relations between the two countries, weeks before Russia is set to inaugurate Dmitry Medvedev as its president. Relations between the two countries have in the past year hit their lowest point since the Soviet collapse, as Vladimir Putin, the outgoing president, has used tough rhetoric to criticise what he calls US attempts to create a “unipolar” world. The US has stepped up its criticism of curtailments of democracy in Russia. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said after talks with Condoleezza Rice, his US counterpart, and �Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, that Russia remained opposed to the missile shield, despite assurances from Mr Gates that it posed no threat to Russia.

Natural Ability Useless in Tribulation

Discrimination case over restaurant sign dropped
A Philadelphia restaurant has been cleared of a discrimination complaint triggered by the owner's sign telling patrons, "This is America. When ordering, please speak English." "This is a great victory," owner Joey Vento told WND today after the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations ruled his sign could stay in the window of Gino's Steaks South Philadelphia landmark store. The controversy began in October 2005 when Vento put up a small bumper-sticker size sign. On June 12, 2006, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations launched on its own initiative a discrimination case against Vento. It alleged the sign violated the city's Fair Practice Ordinance by discouraging the business of non-English speaking people, including, most importantly, Hispanic-speaking immigrants.

Is The D.C. Gun Case Off Target?

Monsters in Washington DC
Boston gave us the "Big Dig," Socorro, New Mexico hosts the "Very Large Array," but from Wall Street and Washington, D.C. we get the "Big Lie," soon to be followed by the "Very Large Depression." We think that most of you understand about the potential for a "Very Large Depression" which we have spoken of in several of our recent issues, but you may have been wondering about what we meant by the term: "Big Lie." The "Big Lie" is that the recession which has been ongoing for two years and which many economists are still downplaying and are still having trouble admitting to, is just another normal, mundane downturn in what economists call the "business cycle" and that we will soon "turn the corner" and be back "in the money" after a few, or perhaps several, tough quarters. This is the unmitigated tripe we get from our "fane-stream" media. What planet are these morons reporting from, we ask? Certainly not from earth, because there is nothing normal or mundane about this recession. This is a super recession on steroids. There has been nothing like it in the past, and there is not likely to be anything like it in the future, a future that may in all likelihood include the complete and utter destruction of the worldwide financial system as engineered by the bungling Illuminati, many of whom will be destroyed by the monster which they themselves have created. We are all about to attend an encore performance on the financial stage based on the theme from a novel by Mary Shelley entitled: "Frankenstein."

Morgan Eats Bear, Now Has $77 Trillion In Derivatives

Justice Department says legal opinion on Executive orders is classified
The Bush Administration's Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is refusing to turn over a document providing its analysis of Bush's justification for executive orders. Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Federation of American Scientists, the office said the document was "classified." Steven Aftergood, who writes the Secrecy News blog for the Federation, requested the legal opinion after a Democratic senator referenced it on the Senate floor. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the freshman senator who ousted Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) in 2006, said he'd reviewed three documents that outlined Justice Department opinions. "For years, under the Bush administration, the Office of Legal Counsel within the Department of Justice has issued highly classified, secret legal opinions related to surveillance," Whitehouse said in a Dec. 7, 2007 floor statement. "This is an administration that hates answering to an American court, that wants to grade its own exams, and OLC is the inside place the administration goes to get legal support for its spying program."

U.S. Treasury fears Islamic strings on investments

Building NAFTA's CANAMEX Supercorridor
The mainstream press frequently reports that NAFTA trade corridors are a fiction. Meanwhile, work on NAFTA superhighways continues, usually in the open for everyone to see. An example is the CANAMEX corridor. According to the CANAMEX Corridor Coalition: Since its inception in 1995, the CANAMEX Corridor has grown to become the cornerstone for the seamless and efficient transportation of goods, services, people and information between Canada, Mexico and the United States. As the implementation of NAFTA moves toward fruition, the CANAMEX Corridor will broaden its initiatives to harvest the benefits of increased trade, tourism and economic activity within the region. The CANAMEX Coalition helpfully notes that Congress approved the corridor in the 1995 National Highway Systems Designation Act as a "High Priority Corridor." The Act is now Public Law 104-59, and it specifies: (26) The CANAMEX Corridor from Nogales, Arizona, through Las Vegas, Nevada, to Salt Lake City, Utah, to Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Montana, to the Canadian Border as follows: (A) In the State of Arizona, the CANAMEX Corridor shall generally follow-- (i) I-19 from Nogales to Tucson; (ii) I-10 from Tucson to Phoenix; and (iii) United States Route 93 in the vicinity of Phoenix to the Nevada Border. (B) In the State of Nevada, the CANAMEX Corridor shall follow-- (i) United States Route 93 from the Arizona Border to Las Vegas; and (ii) I-15 from Las Vegas to the Utah Border. (C) From the Utah Border through Montana to the Canadian Border, the CANAMEX Corridor shall follow I-15.

Terrorists Are Not the Real Enemies

Destroying American Culture: Multiculturalism
Our leaders, with their open-borders approach to life, dismantles the fabric of a successful nation. Which is it – free market economy, or forced Multiculturalism? Today, millions in this country call themselves Hmong-Americans, Muslim-Americans, Korean-Americans, African-Americans, Sudanese-Americans, Bangladeshi-Americans. In other words, they do not hold total allegiance to or loyalty as an American. One of our presidential candidates calls himself an African-American. In fact, he is a Kenyan-American. He grew up in Indonesia until the age of 10. Barack Obama cannot be considered an All-American man by his own words. Those people with hyphenated nationalities manifest "multiculturalism." By its very name, it destroys one culture by breaking it into many. It’s like throwing a baseball through a window in a house, fracturing it into many pieces. The window can no longer protect that house from rain, winds or snow. Additionally, with numerous cultures come multiple languages. Linguistic chaos equals unending tension. The writer, Kant, said, "The two great dividers are religion and language."

Terrorists Are Not the Real Enemies

France's sordid housing crisis
Ondine Millot - who in her day job is the court correspondent for the French daily paper - spent six months researching these advertisements and the people who place them, for an article which exposed the trade in property-for-sex. "I was very surprised to find out that this kind of thing was going on," she says. "We called a lot of men, I made something like 50 phone calls. Most of the ads that were 'against services', where no amount was specified for the rent, were men that were looking for sex in exchange for housing." "Rent was over 70% of my budget... Looking at friends, people I know, they live in places that are unhealthy, squalid. Or they negotiate with landlords who rent them rooms and who sometimes abuse them." - From Mes Cheres Etudes. Sex for rent is the extreme end of an extreme problem which is catching swathes of France's most vulnerable people - the young and the poor - in its grip. France, the government admits, is in the grip of its worst housing crisis since the end of World War II.

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'Perfect storm' hits California parents
California parents who want more for their children than the institutionalized indoctrination of public schools are being boxed in more and more, according to an international pro-family organization whose leaders are expressing horror over a recent court ruling banning homeschooling in the state. WND broke the story about the ruling from a Los Angeles appeals court that ordered a homeschooling family to enroll their children in a public school or "qualified" private school, specifically disallowing the program they already were in. Since then, several petitions have been assembled to protest the decision, a multitude of homeschooling advocates have announced plans to seek to overturn it, and even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell have acknowledged parents' rights in determining their children's education should be protected. Now comes the concern from The World Congress of Families. "There's something like a perfect storm relative to educational freedom in California," said Congress founder Allan Carlson. "You've got the governor and state legislature (in 2007) in a sense signing off on a fairly radical sex gender education program. And two years ago there was a court decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that basically said once you put your children in a public school parents abdicate control.

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Food Riots in Egypt
The most acute effects have been seen in Egypt, where thousands of people have resorted to violence due to shortages of basic food commodities and rising food prices. At least 10 people have died over the past two weeks, in riots that erupted at government subsidised bakeries. The unavailability of basic food products such as bread, rice, sugar and cooking oil, coupled with high food prices has led many to protest against the Egyptian government and resort to violent tactics. An Egyptian man said: “People are fighting. Killing for bread, some are even pulling out knives. What is happening? What is this? Famine? ” Another woman, waiting at a government bakery said: “I’ve been standing here from 7am. Its now 2pm and I can’t get hold of even one loaf of bread.” “I have five children. What am I supposed to do? You now need to bribe someone to get bread, if you do not want to get trampled on.” Egypt is one of the world’s largest importers of wheat and this year alone spent $2.6 billion on its wheat-import. However, soaring food prices has driven many Egyptians to the brink of starvation. Al Jazeera’s Jamal El Shayyal reported from Cairo, that people were demanding drastic measures to be taken and wanted the military to be called in, to solve the food crisis.

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Numerous Countries Have Recently Dropped The Dollar as Their Reserve Currency

Jim Rogers: “Abolish the Fed”
Somebody at CNBC, billed as “America’s business channel,” made a mistake. They allowed Jim Rogers, investor and buddy to George Soros, to get on and slam the Federal Reserve. Not only slam the Fed, but call for it to be abolished. Somebody at CNBC was asleep at the switch, or the kill button anyway. Because you never hear such talk over the corporate media, an entity owned by the same banking and financial interests that prop op the Fed and the funny money system. “How much money does the Federal Reserve have?” Rogers asks. “I know they can run their printing presses forever, but that is not good for the world, inflation is not good for the world, a collapsing currency is not good for the world. It means worse recession in the end.” Of course, recession — or, depending where you are situated in the funny money system, depression — will be a good deal for the bankers, as it will wipe the board clean and allow them to consolidate and at the same time destroy the once heralded middle class, a necessary task as our rulers move toward their plan to impose serfdom on the masses, or that is to say those who are not already serfs and peons, working for a dollar or two per day.

Marijuana Prohibition and Public Safety

Spitzer Quits But Other Public Figure May Be Linked to Escort Ring
At least one other New York public figure is involved in the prostitution ring investigation that brought down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, according to lawyers in the case. And today British newspapers reported that one of England's wealthiest men, Duke of Westminster, had been a client of the now-infamous Emperor's Club last year, although not involved in the New York investigation. Despite two days of negotiations, Spitzer, with his wife by his side and top lawyer Ted Wells in the wings, resigned today without a deal with f