(Remeber this for the “future”, kiddies…:)…Ed.)
Security company Blackwater U.S.A. is buying Super Tucano light combat aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Embraer. These five ton, single engine, single seat aircraft are built for pilot training, but also perform quite well for counter-insurgency work. Brazil. The Super Tucano is basically a prop driven trainer that is equipped […]

Should You Chip Your Children?
ARTICLE DATE: 08.29.07
By Lance Ulanoff
I’m surprised by both the debate over RFID (radio frequency identification) and the technology’s growing capabilities. RFID has been a boon to corporations with large retail outlets, inventory rooms, warehouses, and more. It’s even beginning to bleed into public spaces such as county beaches. Yet […]

by Karen Buckelew
BALTIMORE, MD — Implanting human beings with microchips that contain their identification and medical records is a controversial subject.
But by the end of the year, as many as 500 kidney dialysis patients in Maryland will be equipped with microchips from Florida firm VeriChip Corp., and local hospitals will be carrying the technology to […]

By: Al Cronkrite
August 31, 2007
The George W. Bush administration has pushed us down an ugly path and refuses to consider a “U” turn. Stealthily it has set in place the legal platform for Fascism and sacrificed our sovereignty under the heel of world government. Down this street is a grinding, immoral, tyranny that will strangle […]

Kurt Nimmo
No doubt, for a large number of Americans, it is a good enough excuse: “Gasoline prices could rise to about $9 per gallon if the United States withdraws troops from Iraq prematurely, Rep. Jon Porter said he was told on a trip to Iraq that ended this week,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. “To […]

Little-noticed regulation allows construction on military installations
By Jerome R. Corsi
August 31, 2007
The U.S. Army is authorized to create civilian prison labor camps on military installations, according to a little-noticed regulation.

By GRANT SLATER
August 31, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) - Passengers on a plane leaving New York could see three words in 4-foot block letters painted on an East Village rooftop terrace as they ascended: GOOGLE RON PAUL. The entreaty to search the Internet for news of the Republican congressman from rural Texas is one […]

‘Sounds the death knell for religious freedom’
August 31, 2007
A court decision that opens the doors of Culbertson Elementary School in Pennsylvania to books about witches – but rejects the Bible as being too “proselytizing” – is being challenged.

(When you hear “Expand Governmnt”…Duck and Cover…Ed.)
By Holly Rosenkrantz
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush today will announce steps the administration says will help people with subprime mortgages keep their homes.

Andrew Clark
August 31, 2007
The US financial industry displayed fresh signs of distress from the credit crunch afflicting global money markets yesterday, with one mortgage provider describing lending conditions as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Leading accountancy firm H&R Block revealed huge losses at its up-for-sale mortgage arm, Option One, and said it […]

(I consider this a Must Read…ED…:) )
By William L. Anderson
In February, 2001, I saw the end of the credit-filled boom, as the stock market went bust, and predicted recessionary times, which soon followed. It seems, however, that Washington, D.C., is one great big toga party, and if it is true that Blutarsky of “Animal […]

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
August 31, 2007
Free republics are not known to have long life expectancies. At the ripe old age of two hundred and thirty-one, America is definitely showing her age. She is long past her prime, and some are predicting her demise. No, some are PLANNING her demise.

by Paul Craig Roberts
August 31, 2007
The media is silent, Congress is absent, and Americans are distracted as George W. Bush openly prepares aggression against Iran.
US Navy aircraft carrier strike forces are deployed off Iran.
US Air Force jets and missile systems are deployed in bases in countries bordering or near to Iran.

by Ray McGovern
August 31, 2007
Not another warning about war with Iran! Well, suck it up. President George W. Bush’s speech Tuesday makes clear his plan to attack Iran, and how the intelligence, as was the case before the attack on Iraq, is being “fixed around the policy.”

By Ryan Singel
August 30, 2007
Verizon and its government allies told a federal court judge Thursday that national security requires the dismissal of lawsuit accusing the phone provider of violating federal privacy laws by allegedly providing millions of phone records to a secret anti-terrorism data-mining program. Verizon also argues that the nation’s telephone privacy […]

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
August 31, 2007
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 — The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn again to a legal tool, the “state secrets” privilege, to try to stop a suit against a Belgian banking cooperative that secretly supplied millions of private financial records to the United States government, court documents show.
The suit […]

by Paul Craig Roberts
In the administration of George W. Bush, the Republican Party has achieved the greatest combination of idiocy and evil in human history.
The Republicans have bogged America down in a gratuitous and illegal war. The war has destroyed Iraq, killed between 650,000 and 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians, displaced 4,000,000 Iraqis, and littered the […]

by Gary North
Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee are now paying the price of their tight-money policies that began the month that Bernanke became FED chairman: February, 2006. He inherited the boom and bubbles that Alan Greenspan’s expansionist monetary policy had created. This expansion began in mid-August, 1982, under Paul Volcker, and accelerated in […]

by Michael Tennant
The Ten Commandments begin thus: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or […]

by Jacob G. Hornberger
The 9/11 attacks brought to the surface a dilemma that everyone, especially libertarians, must now confront: whether to choose a pro-empire, pro-intervention foreign policy or a free society.
No one can deny that we now live in a country in which the president, on his own initiative, has the omnipotent power to […]

by Patrick J. Buchanan
Asked during World War II why the British continued to fight so ferociously, Churchill is said to have snorted, “If we stop, you’ll find out.”
The question arises in the war on terror: we know who the main enemy is, al-Qaeda, the men and movement responsible for 9/11, but what are they fighting […]

By Jim Kirwan
8-30-7
Very few Americans, not directly affected by this man of many faces have no idea, of who really directs the duties of the 180,000 government employees in DHS: Duties that this man now holds in his stained and conflicted hands. It seems that the variety of controversies which have paralleled Michael Chertoff’s meteoric […]

by Jack Cashill
August 30, 2007
More than six years after retired United Airline captain Ray Lahr launched his Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, petition into the fate of TWA Flight 800, the FBI has shown him –likely by accident – one seriously smoking gun.

Firestorm erupts as car dealer accused of destroying America
By Joe Kovacs
August 30, 2007
LAKE PARK, Fla. – A South Florida car dealer says he has no plans to stop airing Spanish commercials on English-language TV stations, despite furious complaints from outraged viewers who believe he’s catering to illegal aliens and destroying American culture.

By Jim Kouri
August 30, 2007
The latest news not being covered by the mainstream news media is President George W. Bush’s reassignment of some 1,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to work as US Customs officers.
News of this reassignment began to leak out after a press conference on Wednesday by Julie L. Myers, Assistant […]

By Nancy A. Youssef
WASHINGTON — In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday that it won’t make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month’s strategy assessment, but instead will allow top commanders to make individual presentations.

By Joshua Rozenberg
30/08/2007
Inquests into “friendly fire” cases will never hear evidence in person from US military witnesses, the Ministry of Defence has disclosed.
It is thought that the Pentagon fears that US troops suspected of negligently killing British service personnel may be arrested for manslaughter if they set foot in Britain.

by Jim Willie CB
August 29, 2007
TRIBUTE TO KURT RICHEBÄCHER. He was a valued colleague and an inspiration to my newsletter. Our week together in Cannes will forever be etched in my memory.
Amusement is my response when other writers call me or my work ‘extremist’ as Claude Cormier recently has. He is a topnotch analyst out […]

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
“We are now at the year 1908, which was the year that the Carnegie Foundation began operations. And, in that year, the trustees meeting, for the first time, raised a specific question, which they discussed throughout the balance of the year, in a very learned fashion. And the question is […]

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
BOISE, Idaho (CNN) — Sen. Larry Craig will temporarily step down from his committee assignments, CNN has learned.
Also on Wednesday, three Republican lawmakers, including Sen. John McCain, called on Craig to resign.
Their statements came a day after Craig made his first public statement about pleading guilty to a disorderly conduct charge relating […]

Ron Paul says martial law provisions in place to deal with economic discord
Paul Joseph Watson
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Texas Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul says that attempts to rescue an ailing stock market last week, during which the Fed pumped in billions in liquidity, were merely a stop gap measure - and that an economic […]

By Ryan Singel
08.29.07
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.

By Spencer Ackerman
Get ready for more revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency’s post-9/11 warrantless surveillance program. Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee is going to hear testimony from Jack Goldsmith, the former head of Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, a key ally in James Comey’s efforts as […]

by SAF staff
A state police plan to halt firearms sales in Pennsylvania from Sept. 2 through Sept. 6, ostensibly to update that agency’s background check system, is a civil rights outrage, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.
“The Pennsylvania State Police have just provided a strategy to any state agency, and the FBI, for arbitrarily suspending […]

by Paul Tustain
Aug 29th, 2007
Once everyone gets back from vacation and starts to focus on what’s really going on, we may be in for a torrid few months in the financial markets.
I believe the current lull in gold prices could offer a good opportunity to defend yourself before the real trouble begins.

“[T]he theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” – Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
by William N. Grigg
Anastasio Prieto, a truck driver from El Paso, Texas, doesn’t trust banks and prefers to carry his savings with him in cash. While this is a dangerous way […]

Two-Year Project to Include 200 Patients: 21 Patients Have Already Enrolled and Received the VeriMed Microchip; 85 Potential Enrollees to Attend Next Week
VeriChip Corporation (NASDAQ:CHIP - News), a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, and Alzheimer’s Community Care, a local non-profit agency serving Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers, announced […]

Jim Lobe
Just four days after the American Enterprise Institute will launch its September 6 “All or Nothing” campaign to save the Surge, it will debut “Freedom Scholar” Michael Ledeen’s forthcoming book, “The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots’ Quest for Destruction” (St. Martin’s Press), a rehash of neo-con arguments for “regime change” – by military […]

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Scott Reed, a Republican strategist, was at a dinner in Philadelphia on Monday night when his cellphone and Internet pager began beeping like crazy. Only later did he learn why. His party was buzzing with news of a sex scandal involving a Republican United States senator — again.

Bush’s SPP power grab sets stage for military to manage flu threats
By Jerome R. Corsi
August 28, 2007
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canada released a plan that established U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law and set the stage […]

August 29, 2007
Iran issued a strong protest on Wednesday after US forces seized an Iranian delegation at a Baghdad hotel in an action likely to further escalate tensions between archfoes Tehran and Washington.
The Iranians, including two diplomats, were taken in blindfolds and handcuffs from the Sheraton hotel on Tuesday night after their convoy was […]

By Kurt Nimmo
According to Bush, Iran is “responsible for training extremist Shia factions in [Iraq] which it supplied with arms and weapons, including sophisticated roadside bombs. He referred specifically to 240mm rockets that he said had been made in Iran this year and smuggled into Iraq by Iranian agents,” the Guardian reports from Reno, Nevada, […]

By: Justin Raimondo
For months we at Antiwar.com have been monitoring the situation between Iran and the United States, parsing the words of administration spokesmen for any hints of when and how hostilities between the two countries might begin. We’ve been running reports from insiders saying that the Cheney faction is pushing for an attack, that […]

TOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks fell sharply Wednesday on the heels of a decline on Wall Street, where investors remained uneasy over global credit markets and there were more worries about consumer confidence and falling home prices.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index had plunged 2.59 percent by the end of Tokyo’s morning session, while benchmarks in […]

Presidential candidate says Neo-Cons waiting for right opportunity
Paul Joseph Watson
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Presidential candidate Ron Paul believes that an attack on Iran is highly likely within a year and that the Bush administration is simply waiting for the right opportunity, or event on which to blame Iran, before launching the assault.

by Richard C. Cook
August 28, 2007
No one can predict how deep the decline in Western economies that is underway will go, because there is so little transparent information. Within the U.S., the government is hiding the severity of the crisis in order to prevent a collapse of consumer confidence.