Ron Paul is as surprised as anyone at the near messianic zeal he inspires
By SARAH LIEBOWITZ
September 30. 2007
R
on Paul doesn’t understand his own success. He didn’t know his calls for an end to the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education would draw cheers, that his anti-income tax, anti-foreign intervention and libertarian message […]

by Bill Bonner
Now we’ve finally figured it out. We were sitting in a pub, listening to a crazy woman. All of a sudden, it was clear…what went wrong with the US economy, we mean.
The dollar has dropped so low that America is becoming a shopping paradise for foreigners. Of course, we’ve been predicting that foreigners […]

By MICHAEL MELIA
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Dengue fever is spreading across Latin America and the Caribbean in one of the worst outbreaks in decades, causing agonizing joint pain for hundreds of thousands of people and killing nearly 200 so far this year.

By Cameron Hay
KIDS as young as five are having their fingerprints taken at a city school – just so they can borrow library books!
A politician and a civil liberties group have raised serious concerns about the capture of personal data, which has been likened to the novel 1984, where everyone’s movements are tracked and monitored.

Scott Casey and Sam Cardwell
CANBERRA - A team of American astronomers has detected a huge burst of radio energy from deep space while using the Parkes radio telescope in NSW.
The huge burst of energy, which has startled scientists with its strength, is thought to have originated over 500 mega-parsecs or one-and-a-half billion light years […]

By Sarah Lai Stirland
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton dominates the airwaves, the Sunday political talk shows and the polls. And it turns out she’s also dominating one of the hottest new media platforms in politics — but not in a way she would like.

by R. Lee Wrights
September 30th, 2007
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either […]

Incident provokes national outrage
Steve Watson
Saturday September 29, 2007
High School security guards in Palmdale CA have reacted viciously to an incident that was caught on camera last week, creating false charges against school children to detract from their own excessive actions which have since hit the headlines.

By Douglas Herman
Who wins, in a possible war with Iran? More importantly, who loses?
The much predicted, much feared and, in the case of the corporate-controlled US mainstream media, much ballyhooed war with Iran, will feature a long list of winners and a longer list of losers.

Bush administration pushing for ratification in next 3 weeks
September 30, 2007
WASHINGTON – For the second time in three years, the Bush administration is putting on a major effort for Senate ratification of the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of 70 percent of the […]

Passport backlog kept officials from enforcement, but no more
By SUSAN CARROLL
Starting Monday, U.S. citizens will be required to carry passports when flying to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean for the first time since the State Department delayed new rules on air travel this summer.

Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
September 30, 2007
Recently, you have probably read a spate of justifiably angry Internet commentaries and watched some truly shocking and sickening videos reporting on and recording the scandal of the ever-increasing instances of senseless, sadistic rogue police brutality throughout the United States. Being provided with a badge, a gun, […]

By Tim Shipman
30/09/2007
The American air force is working with military leaders from the Gulf to train and prepare Arab air forces for a possible war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
An air warfare conference in Washington last week was told how American air chiefs have helped to co-ordinate intelligence-sharing with Gulf Arab nations and […]

(Gee…I wonder why…MAYBE ’cause they are the in lockstep with Satan…Just a thought…Ed.)
Dobson, others meet in Salt Lake City to plan options in presidential campaign
September 30, 2007
WASHINGTON – Some of the top leaders in Christian pro-family activism – including James Dobson of Focus on the Family – met in Salt Lake City yesterday to plot […]

Counters major premise of global warming theory
September 29, 2007
A new peer-reviewed scientific study counters a major premise of global warming theory, concluding carbon dioxide did not end the last ice age
The study, led by University of Southern California geologist Lowell Stott, concluded deep-sea temperatures rose 1,300 years before the rise in atmospheric CO2, which […]

By JEFF DONN and KIMBERLY HEFLING
Sat Sep 29
TEMECULA, Calif. - He was one of America’s first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq.
Today, he can’t keep a job, pay his bills, or chase thoughts of suicide from […]

New Testament Theology of the State
by Norman Horn
Israel cries to me, “My God, we – Israel – know you!” Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. They made kings, but not through me; they set up princes, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own […]

by Charles Cooper
Most Americans probably are not intimately familiar with Huawei (pronounced “Wa-way,” as if Gilda Radner of Saturday Night Live fame were asked to pronounce the name). The company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei is a former officer of the People’s Liberation Army.

Frankly, I’m floored. And very, very grateful. Our $500,000 online fundraising goal for the end of the quarter was reached so fast it took my breath away. But we can’t stop now. So I am raising the bar to $1 million by midnight, September 30th. I am so grateful for […]

Saturday, September 29, 2007
Libertarian-conservative presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex) is holding increasingly popular DC luncheons to educate sympathetic congressmen about the republic and the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. These luncheons may be part of a deliberate effort to help build a new, free-market, congressional Republican wing.

by Dana Gabriel
It is exciting to chronicle the Ron Paul revolution of hope, liberty, and freedom. You can never accurately gage how far any grassroots movement will go, but his campaign shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Although he has taken on the mantle of leader, it is our actions that have brought […]

by Charley Reese
The American government has come to resemble the characters in The Wizard of Oz. We have the Cowardly Congress, a president without a brain, and a foreign-policy establishment without a heart.
Our politicians are still trying to play the empire game long after the age of empires has ended. Blinded by arrogance, they […]

Living in an Imperial World
by Karen Kwiatkowski
The republic is dead. Not sick, not dying, not failing, or in a gradual decline, not waiting to be resuscitated, but already stone cold dead.
This death probably occurred as we began to win the Cold War, but long before we realized we had prevailed. The professionalization of politics, of […]

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
If you’d like to know what the first months of a Hillary Clinton administration would be like, just recall the first days of the Bill Clinton administration – or observe the antics of one of Hillary’s most slavish political supporters, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (dubbed “The Teflon Leprechan” by WBAL Radio talk […]

Annual U.S.-Mexico conference draws to close
Chris Hawley
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 29, 2007 12:00 AM
PUERTO PEÑASCO, Mexico - The federal government builds the fences. The migrants climb over them. And state politicians, it seems, sit on them.

By Tom DeWeese
September 29, 2007
In June, 2007 a solid eighty percent of the American people let Congress know they wanted the government to put the brakes on illegal immigration; they turned thumbs down on the President Bush’s guest worker amnesty plan; and they wanted tax-paid services to illegals stopped.

Pandemic of police and security violence continues unabated
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, Sept 28, 2007
UPDATE: High School Secuity Guards Attack Teen With Camera Then Frame Him
School security guards in Palmdale, CA have been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old girl and breaking her arm after she spilled some cake during lunch and left some crumbs […]

By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (UPI) — The company awarded a $25.4 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security for transportation services around the capital is not licensed to operate in the Washington area and does not pay its employees in line with federal wage determinations — which should […]

By Joseph Neff
RALEIGH, N.C. — In more fallout from the Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad that left 11 Iraqis dead, Blackwater USA apparently has stopped its expansion projects.
On Wednesday, the North Carolina private military contractor canceled a $5.5 million deal to buy 1,800 acres of farmland near Fort Bragg, where it was going to […]

By Danielle Rossingh
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Gold rose to the highest since 1980 in London as the dollar weakened against currencies including the euro, increasing demand for bullion as an alternative asset.
The dollar has fallen against all but two of the 16 most- active currencies this quarter, partly on concern the biggest housing slump […]

NEW YORK A new Gallup poll reveals that, as the organization puts it, Americans now “express less trust in the federal government than at any point in the past decade, and trust in many federal government institutions is now lower than it was during the Watergate era, generally recognized as the low point in American […]

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
28/09/2007
Goldman Sachs has abandoned its ultra-bullish view of the world economy, warning of a likely recession in Japan and mounting risks that US property slump could spread to parts of Europe.
In a new report, “The Global Economy Hits a Crunch”, the US investment bank said it was no longer sure that Asia […]

By Patrick J. Buchanan
September 28, 2007
All politics are local, said “Tip” O’Neill.
Not so. It is more true to say that all politics are tribal.
For the 1991 prediction of Arthur Schlesinger – “Ethnic and racial conflict, it now seems evident, will soon replace the conflict of ideologies as the explosive issue of our time” […]

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
September 28, 2007
“Bush quietly advising Hillary Clinton, top Democrats.” This is the title of a much under-reported news story, which appeared in The Examiner on September 24th. The Examiner opens the story by saying, “President Bush is quietly providing back-channel advice to Hillary Rodham Clinton, urging her to modulate her rhetoric so […]

By Andreas Hippin and Michael Patterson
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stock-index futures retreated after former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the housing slump has increased the odds of a recession in the world’s largest economy.
General Electric Co., which sells everything from appliances to jet engines, and Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest maker of […]

by Karen De Coster
Someone opined recently that you can test a person’s “fascist factor” by bringing up the issue of smoking bans with that person and gauging their reaction and listening to their take on the issue. I thought it was a strong point, and in fact I think it’s a good yardstick from which […]

by Dr. James N. Herndon
Let’s say it straight out: Virtually every architect and supporter of today’s neo-con-game of endless war is a coward.
Why? Because anyone who advocates a policy of military invasion, yet studiously avoids joining the soldiers on the battlefield, is, by definition, a coward.

by Ron Paul
Statement before the Financial Services Committee, September 20, 2007
Mr. Chairman, the situation facing us now in the mortgage industry has its roots in the Federal Reserve’s inflationary monetary policy. Without addressing the roots of the current crisis, any measures undertaken to improve the situation will be doomed to fail.

By Rev. Ted Pike
9-27-7
By a vote of 60 to 39 this morning, Sens. Kennedy and Smith’s hate crimes amendment was attached to the defense authorization act. After three days of virtual silence, several Republican senators spoke against the bill within the two hours of debate. Sen. Lindsey Graham briefly argued that, if passed, the President […]

By: Al Cronkrite
Racial integration in the United States has been a dismal failure just as those who arranged it knew it would be. Blacks and Whites have never been comfortable together. Blacks bused into White schools and Whites bused into Black schools segregate into their own groups on their own turf. In colleges Blacks want […]

Christine Malady
September 27
In case you were unaware, you have the great fortune to be witness to a centuries-in-the-making humanist political revolution currently gaining steam at this very moment.
I am in no way exaggerating when I use the word “revolution,” for the Ron Paul for president campaign is nothing less than a grassroots retaliation by […]

Carolyn Baker Interviews Rob Williams of Vermont Commons
I recently caught up with Rob Williams, volunteer editor of VERMONT COMMONS which is the online voice of Vermont Independence. The organization has been working for some time to establish The Second Vermont Republic which is a peaceful, democratic, grassroots, libertarian populist movement opposed to the tyranny […]

Several New York-based anti-Giuliani groups are readying media buys around the country that could dent the Giuliani presidential campaign in the critical “early states” holding GOP primaries. Giuliani is said not to be doing especially well in some of these states - such as Iowa, Nevada and even New Hampshire (though he is polling better […]

DISSENT IS NOT ALLOWED IN THIS CHURCH
By: Sean Scallon
Say what you want about Fox News but you cannot deny that both of the Republicans debates they have broadcasted had the most memorable moments, both of which involved Ron Paul. The Fox News debate moderators have allowed the debates to actually be debates rather than a […]

by Bill Bonner
That’s how Stephen Roach put it. The Morgan Stanley economist is in today’s paper, explaining why the fall of the dollar is bad news. In its simplest form, a weaker dollar means it takes more dollars to buy things on the open market. This year, for example, Americans will probably buy about $2.5 […]

By John Whitehead
Short of hiding out in a cave, far removed from any trace of modern technology, it would seem that there is no longer any escaping the electronic concentration camp in which we live.
Whether we’re crossing the street, queuing up at the ATM or picnicking in the park, we’re under constant scrutiny—our movements […]

Coach Dave Daubenmire
September 27, 2007
I’m swamped today. I really am. I don’t have the time to write a commentary, too much other business to attend to today.
But the Holy Spirit won’t leave me alone. So here I go, hunting and pecking out my heart to you.

By: Devvy
September 27, 2007
“An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mold the […]