Boris Sobolev
Equities fell off a cliff last week and gold along with gold stocks followed. We think parachutes will open to ensure a safe landing as the financial authorities will yet again come to the rescue.
Over the last year, fuel for the equity markets has largely been coming from cheap debt available to private equity […]

Mortgage lender hires advisers for ‘orderly liquidation of assets’
By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch
Jul 31, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., the 10th-largest mortgage lender in the U.S., teetered on the brink of bankruptcy on Tuesday after saying it can’t pay its creditors, potentially becoming the first big lender outside the subprime mortgage business […]

Caroline Baum
July 31 (Bloomberg) — Where is the PPT?
If that acronym, short for Plunge Protection Team, doesn’t immediately conjure up images of government officials and representatives of large Wall Street banks (think Goldman Sachs) conspiring to support the stock market, you don’t spend enough time with the black-helicopter crowd.

Kurt Nimmo
Tuesday July 31, 2007
It is understandable Congress critters are concerned about the existence of peer-to-peer networks as Congress by and large is owned and operated by transnational corporations and the very idea of non-centralized peers operating as equals sans central servers and routers is anathema to them. It should come as no surprise Congress […]

Kevin Mooney
Tuesday July 31, 2007
When Turkish nationals sought to buy Florida driver’s licenses in 2003 without taking the required examination, a tip-off by a concerned citizen alerted counter-terrorism officials, who then used undercover agents to infiltrate the group.

Wayne Parry
Tuesday July 31, 2007
OCEAN CITY, N.J.— At the beach of the future, high tide will meet high-tech.
Visitors will wear wristbands that automatically debit their bank accounts or credit cards to pay for beach access, food and parking. Garbage cans will send e-mail to cleanup crews when they’re ready to be emptied.

By Jim Kunstler
Last week’s stock market meltdown suggested that a financial sector rigged for the falsification of reality eventually enters a danger zone where reality implacably reasserts itself, expectations dissolve, and all that remains is the sour odor of fraud.

By: Henry Makow
The story that Wall Street bankers planned to overthrow FDR in 1933 still makes the rounds in 2007.
Last week, the BBC named “Dubya’s” grandfather, Prescott Bush as one of the conspirators.
Clearly, the Illuminati bankers staged the “planned coup” to give FDR credibility as Wall Street’s nemesis. As I will show, […]

Hello to CASPIAN members and friends:
The VeriChip battle is heating up! The Associated Press published a feature article today on the human implant controversy that is appearing on newsstands across America:
Chips: High tech aids or tracking tools?
By Todd Lewan, AP National Writer
July 22, 2007
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_Chipping_America.html

Nancy Levant
July 31, 2007
It’s hard to imagine the level of paranoia that the federal government must be experiencing. Between the insanity of badly orchestrated lies, which precipitated our involvement in all the wars in 20th and now 21st Centuries, think tank induced environmentalism, and now the “storm” induced military-turned-policed-nation, including an executive-level suggestion that […]

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
July 31, 2007
Any thoughts that the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton were sincerely seeking true justice with the prosecution and conviction of former U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean have been thoroughly exposed as blatantly disingenuous by the recent revelation of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA).

by Steven LaTulippe
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America! We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall, and we see further into the future.”
~ Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
Can Ron Paul really win? Does he have a snowball’s chance of becoming the next president, or are we all kidding […]

By Patrick J. Buchanan
July 31, 2007
The Iraq war has probably killed the idea of using U.S. troops to intervene in the name of Mr. Bush’s “world democratic revolution.”
The Middle American revolt that killed amnesty for the 12 million illegal aliens has buried the idea of open-borders immigration.

By Andrew Noyes
Remarks made by President Bush over the weekend about the need to revise a 30-year-old intelligence surveillance law to aid anti-terrorism efforts has ruffled the feathers of civil libertarians and key lawmakers.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is “badly out of date and Congress must act to modernize it,” Bush said during his weekly […]

Phil Rockstroh
Monday July 30, 2007
In this summer of angst and grim foreboding about what further assaults against common sense and common decency the Bush administration might inflict upon the people of the world, how many times during the day do those of us — still possessed of mind, heart and conscience — take pause, hoping […]

by Andrew Bosworth
“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator”
-Mother Jones
Consider this disturbing fact: the United States now has the world’s highest incarceration rate […]

According to a revealing report in Vanity Fair magazine (March, 2007), the biggest and most influential company no one has ever heard of has 44,000 employees working on over 9,000 active contacts with the federal government—that is more contracts than any other company in America. The company’s past and present board members are a who’s […]

By Jeannine Aversa
July 30, 2007
WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Monday said the United States may be unable to pay its bills this fall unless Congress raises the government’s borrowing authority, now capped at $8.965 trillion.
Paulson, in a letter to lawmakers, estimated the government is likely to bump into the statutory debt limit in […]

Adam Thomas
Press Esc
Monday July 30, 2007
The Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers’ brains for monitoring their health information, and has already awarded a $1.6 million contract to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable “biochip”.

Rep. Ron Paul
July 30, 2007
While fear itself is not always the product of irrationality, once experienced it tends to lead away from reason, especially if the experience is extreme in duration or intensity. When people are fearful they tend to be willing to irrationally surrender their rights.

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By: Devvy
July 30, 2007
Congress is going on vacation - again. It’s called their “August Recess.” Last year the house was in session about 79 days, but got paid for the full year. I suppose we the people win the longer this body of poltroons for one world government are out of session, but at this […]

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Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
July 30, 2007
Although at the present time I am one of very few people, if not the only person, vociferously advocating revitalization of “the Militia of the several States” along strict constitutional lines, I am confident that the Forces of Darkness fully anticipate that I shall […]

by R. Lee Wrights
“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.”
- Dorothy Thompson, American newspaper columnist (1894-1961)
All Americans, if not all human beings, think they know how to define freedom. And, in all fairness most of them do […]

Numerous incidents last night around New Hampshire couple’s property had frantic observers worried siege was underway
Paul Joseph Watson
Sunday, July 29, 2007
30 to 40 shots were fired outside Ed and Elaine Brown’s house last night in what was a probable attempt at provocation to goad the Browns and their supporters into a violent response.

BY KAREN MAESHIRO
LANCASTER - Using fingerprints, voice tones and eye-movement patterns has long been the stuff of spy movies, but the use of biometrics is now coming to the Lancaster School District.
The district plans this fall to use a fingerprint scanner at El Dorado School to help speed up the lunch line. Officials say […]

Majority of Americans Favor Extra Safety Factor of Cameras
by MICHELLE LIRTZMAN
July 29, 2007
Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras  a measure decried by some civil libertarians, but credited in London with helping to catch a variety of perpetrators since the early […]

by Justin Raimondo
July 30, 2007
Pat Tillman was slated to become an iconic figure, the purest representation of the New Bushian Man: a football hero who had refused a lucrative contract in order to enlist in the military, who could have had a life of riches and ease but chose, instead, to go to Afghanistan […]

by Glen Allport
July 30, 2007
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At the Brink
There is much debate in the freedom movement, and especially in the voluntaryist / abolitionist / market-anarchist community, on whether Ron Paul’s candidacy is helpful or harmful to the cause of freedom. Given the high stakes involved, this is […]

Things You Must Believe to be a Voter
by Retta Fontana
July 30, 2007
Exclusive to STR
know what you are thinking, dear reader. Where are parts II through XXX of the delusions under which the masses operate? This is not an exhaustive list, just an exasperating one. I’d love to hear your responses. You might […]

by Becky Akers
The bureaucrats who expect us to believe that lipstick and Listerine become WMD’s once we carry them aboard planes want us to accept the same baloney regarding cheese. Yep: cheese. That magnificent marriage of milk and mold, that creamy ambrosia brimming with fat and flavor, is the newest threat to American aviation, according […]

by Roland Piquepaille
Researchers at the University of Florida (UF) have developed chips which someday might be inserted in the brains of people affected by epilepsy or who have lost a limb. These neuroprosthetic chips ‘can interpret signals in the brain and stimulate neurons to perform correctly.’ The University claims this is the future of […]

By EDWARD LUCAS
29th July 2007
Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp’s mass wedding. “They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia”.
Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormitory tents arranged in a heart-shape and called the Love Oasis, where they can […]

VP latest to make official denial, some call it ‘gaming semantics’
Jerome R. Corsi
July 29, 2007
Despite evidence to the contrary, Vice President Dick Cheney says there is no “secret plan” to create a continent-crossing superhighway to help facilitate a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada.

by Karen Kwiatkowski
For libertarian-minded people, that is.
This assertion may seem counterintuitive and even dead wrong in an age of metastasizing American empire, state corporatism-lite at home, a shredded Bill of Rights, and a crazy unitary executive.

I’ve Got Nothing Here
Radley Balko
July 27, 2007
This story is so bizarre and outrageous, I can hardly believe it’s true.
Tampa’s Mark O’Hara was released from prison this week. He was serving a 25-year sentence for possession of 58 Vicodin tablets. Prosecutors acknowledge he wasn’t selling the drug. They acknowledge that he had a prescription for it. […]

Cops Ask Woman For Help, Then Arrest Her
ROSELLE PARK, N.J. A New Jersey woman trying to be a Good Samaritan was instead busted by police. And the whole troubling incident was caught on tape.
Monica Montoya, 25, happened to be walking by the scene of an accident in Roselle Park, N.J., when police asked her […]

July 29, 2007
FOR the past five years big business has been hijacked by a crowd of smart financiers who, backed by cheap money, have bought and sold companies at their whim.
But as the events of the past week have shown, and as my colleagues explain in The Party’s Over (see related link in panel, […]

July 29, 2007
Cheap credit has led to a torrent of takeovers with little regard to risk. Last week the market woke up
Just a few weeks ago, the deal looked like a cinch. Cadbury Schweppes had put its American soft-drinks operation up for sale and buyers were clamouring to make an offer.

Is the Net’s popular encyclopedia marred by disinformation?
While researching my next article about the Lockerbie bombing, I witnessed an incident that made me wonder whether intelligence agents had infiltrated Wikipedia.
Anyone who knows the universal success of Wikipedia will immediately grasp the importance of the issue. The fact that most Internet search engines, such as Google, […]

by Paul Gottfried
July 28, 2007
About two weeks ago Justin Raimondo mentioned on a blog that Ron Paul’s enemies had begun to smear him as an anti-Semite and racist. From the references I assumed that the sources of the attack were the neoconservatives, an assumption that made perfectly good sense given the diametrically opposed views of […]

Jul 28
US President George W. Bush on Saturday called for Congress to revise a US security law in order to ease restrictions on the government’s secret communications surveillance of terror suspects.
Amid furor over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s handling of the government’s secret warrantless wiretap program, Bush urged legislators to pass the update of the […]

By DEB RIECHMANN
July 28, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush wants Congress to modernize a law that governs how intelligence agencies monitor the communications of suspected terrorists.
“This law is badly out of date,” Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

Kurt Nimmo
July 28th 2007
If Bush and the neocons have their way, your cell phone will be an official government surveillance device. Of course, your cell phone and computer connected to the internet are already surveillance devices, it is just that Bush and the neocons want to enshrine this fact in law.

Ivan Penn
SPTimes
July 28, 2007
It appears that the effort to implant microchips into humans is not only alive and well but moving ever closer to getting under everyone’s skin.
Delray Beach firm VeriChip, the nation’s only FDA-approved company allowed to produce microchips for injection into people, got a boost recently from the American Medical Association.

By MichaelVail
July 28th, 2007
SOCORRO, New Mexico (STPNS) –
If you missed last week’s column (shame on you), we looked at the potential of being forced to join the North American Union of Canada, Mexico and the United States. In my opinion, this agenda will prove to be a disaster for America.

Abuse of power by National Park Service police
By DOUG THOMPSON
The last place you expect to run into a federal government goon squad is the Blue Ridge Parkway, the scenic highway that runs through Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

By VINNEE TONG
NEW YORK - The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand’s owner said Friday.
A group called Corporate Accountability International has been pressuring bottled water sellers to curb what it calls misleading marketing practices.

From Joel Skousen
7-28-7
The only major difference between the German experience with executive decree (Hitler’s 1933 Enabling Act) and the Bush administration’s continual use of executive orders to dictate policy is the speed of implementation. The German Bundestag gave Hitler all power in one bill. In the US, Congress is allowing Bush to take it one […]

California drivers are outraged, fear theft of confidential details
By Jerome R. Corsi
July 28, 2007
The Orange County Superior Court in California is outsourcing the processing of traffic tickets to a California company that sends the information through a Nogales, Mexico, subsidiary, raising public concerns of identity theft and complaints of language problems that allegedly lead to […]

by GOA staff
Even while we are busy defending our Second Amendment rights against efforts to enhance the Brady Law, there is a movement afoot to restrict our First Amendment rights as well… a movement that can make the defense of our liberties that much harder.

A few nights ago I saw a preview of Saving Jessica Lynch. It was all I could do to contain the gray matter.
I was extremely busy and without access to a computer during the “rescue.” A week after Pfc. Lynch was returned to American custody, I heard incredulous stories of a heroic young soldier, […]