by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
It’s been a grueling Fall 2007, with the continued shocks from the housing mess, the market sell-off, oil still sky high, the dollar hitting new lows, and the rising gold price giving that ever-ominous sign of trouble ahead. Business conditions have deteriorated dramatically.

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
November 30, 2007
Please consider this scenario. Several youngsters are drowning in a neighborhood lake. They are thrashing the water and crying out for help. There is a large, heavy raft nearby that could be used to rescue the drowning youths, but it would take several people to haul it into the water […]

Has the Third Reich reappeared in the Middle East?
Justin Raimondo
November 30, 2007
Never mind Hillary’s plants or that guitar-strumming singing wannabe pundit, the real news out of the Youtube/CNN GOP slugfest is that John McCain’s failing, cash-strapped campaign was dealt another heavy blow in his embarrassing tiff with antiwar Republican Ron Paul. As Paul […]

By Alison Vekshin and Craig Torres
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is trying to forge an agreement with lenders to stem a surge in foreclosures by giving troubled borrowers more affordable loans, according to people familiar with a meeting he led today.

By Craig Torres and David Mildenberg
Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said volatility in credit markets has “affected” the economy’s prospects and policy makers must decide whether the risks between growth and inflation have now shifted.

By Ryan Singel
The ACLU wants to know when and how federal agents are convincing courts to let them get real-time tracking information from U.S. citizens’ cell phones without actually proving probable cause to a judge.
The civil rights group filed a government sunshine request Friday asking for information on how often federal investigators asked for […]

By Patrick J. Buchanan
November 30, 2007
Our next president will likely face a Russia led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, determined to stand up to a West Russians believe played them for fools when they sought to be friends.
Americans who think Putin has never been anything but a KGB thug will reject accusations of any […]

(These “Mega” churches are nothing but cults…Ed)
Hillary gets standing ovation at Rick Warren’s summit
By Art Moore
LAKE FOREST, Calif. – Within days of introducing a $50 billion plan to combat AIDS, Sen. Hillary Clinton received a standing ovation at one of the nation’s most influential evangelical churches after addressing its “Global Summit on AIDS and the […]

By: Norman Liebmann
A HICK NAMED HUCKABEE
Mike Huckabee is not an atypical product of Arkansas - appropriately referred to more or less facetiously as Incest Farms. Arkansas is a place where you don’t have to do anything wrong in order to be lousy at it, hence the eligibility for the higher office, Governor Huckabee, yet another […]

By: John LeBoutillier
Friday, November 30, 2007
The so-called ‘front runners’ for their party’s presidential nominations - Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton - have just run into bad events that imperil their candidacies. Let us examine:
Late on Wednesday, Politico.com, which is filled with major league, credible political reporters, broke a sensational, well-documented story which shows that Rudy […]

Nov 30
JERUSALEM (AP) - A wall mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Nehemiah and long sought by archaeologists apparently has been found, an Israeli archaeologist says.
A team of archaeologists discovered the wall in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David during a rescue attempt on a tower that was in danger of collapse, said Eilat Mazar, head […]

Jill Del Greco
November 29, 2007
TROTWOOD, Ohio — The FBI is investigating after a Trotwood police officer used a Taser on a pregnant woman.
Trotwood Public Safety Director Michael Etter said the incident happened on Nov. 18. He said the woman arrived at the police department asking to give up custody of her 1-year-old son.

Larry Fester
The CNN/Youtube Republican debate held in St Petersburg Florida fell short. CNN’s host Anderson Cooper directed most of the questions to Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney and he continuously allowed Romney and Giuliani to speak longer than the time allotted to them. It was most noticeable that Ron Paul was given the least […]

By Joe Strupp
NEW YORK Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not trust press coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, according to a new Harvard University survey, which also revealed four out of five people believe coverage focuses too much on the trivial — and more than 60% believe coverage is politically biased.

Establishment engages in mass public deception in desperate effort to hoodwink Americans into believing march towards global government is a conspiracy theory
Paul Joseph Watson
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
The establishment media has promoted a consistent hoax and engaged in mass public deception by claiming that a plan for the political, social and economic integration of the U.S., […]

‘Bush, Harper, Calderon have punted to line bureaucrats’
By Jerome R. Corsi
An insider who presented a paper at a recent North American Forum meeting in Mexico is concluding that the Security and Prosperity Partnership plan has failed.
“The Security and Prosperity Partnership is dead,” reporter John Ibbitson of Canada’s Globe and Mail told WND in a […]

Arthur Silbur
Every now and then, when I am in a particularly self-punishing mood and feel I deserve some suffering for my sins, real or imagined, I read comment threads on various blogs, where commenters are debating the merits and failings of a minor league blogger who goes by the name Arthur Silber. As I say, […]

William N. Grigg
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take one against our own. I must fairly say I dread our own power and our own ambition. I dread our being too much dreaded…. Sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our […]

by Benjamin Gohs
Exclusive to STR
November 29, 2007
A few northern Michigan officers have recently been in the headlines for breaking laws they swore to uphold. Angered and intrigued, I wondered if this was a fluke or a growing problem.
While I have no love for our storm troopers in blue and brown—right or wrong, I have […]

By: John LeBoutillier
Thursday, November 29, 2007
With 39 days to go until the Iowa Caucuses, a new tactic of media coverage of the campaign begins this week: The Times of London - a Rupert Murdoch-owned paper - headlined an article Monday about how nasty the US Presidential race is getting. The accompanying picture is of Senator […]

by William S. Lind
November 29, 2007
One reason parts of Iraq have quieted down, at least for a while, has received widespread attention: the Sunni split from al-Qaeda. AI-Qaeda’s own tactics alienated its base, which is usually a fatal political mistake, and for once we were wise enough not to get in the way of […]

William Fisher
Thursday, November 29, 2007
NEW YORK, 27 Nov (IPS) - Civil libertarians are worried that a little-known anti-terrorism bill now making its way through the U.S. Congress with virtually no debate could be planting the seeds of another USA Patriot Act, which was hurriedly enacted into law after the al Qaeda attacks […]

Declan McCullagh
November 28, 2007
A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to divulge documents related to immunizing telecommunications companies from lawsuits, saying they illegally opened their networks to the National Security Agency.

Bloch Used Private Company,
Geeks on Call, to Delete Files
On His Office Computer
By JOHN R. WILKE
November 28, 2007
WASHINGTON — The head of the federal agency investigating Karl Rove’s White House political operation is facing allegations that he improperly deleted computer files during another probe, using a private computer-help company, Geeks on Call.

November 27th, 2007
London, November 27 (ANI): Are you afraid that using a credit card for shopping may make you a victim of an ID fraud? Well, now a new technology based on personalised fingerprints is here to address your worries.
With the revolutionary new system, which is being introduced in Europe, it will be […]

Information Operation Roadmap Part 4
Brent Jessop - Knowledge Driven Revolution.com
November 26, 2007
The Pentagon’s plans for psychological operations or PSYOP in the global information environment of the 21st century are wide ranging and aggressive. These desires are outlined in the 2003 Pentagon document signed by Donald Rumsfeld in his capacity as the Secretary of […]

By Paul Craig Roberts
11-27-7
Pat Buchanan is too patriotic to come right out and say it, but the message of his new book, Day of Reckoning, is that America, as we have known her, is finished. Moreover, Naomi Wolf agrees with him. These two writers of different political persuasions arrive at America’s demise from different directions. […]

(Hope SOMEBODY’S medical insurance is up to date!…Ed)
Kurt Nimmo
Now that the Supremes have agreed to rule on the Second Amendment, the corporate media has launched a full-court press to convince America it does not have a right to bear firearms.

By Cliff Kincaid
November 27, 2007
Rupert Murdoch, the so-called “conservative” owner of the Fox News Channel, made a dramatic turn to the Left when one of his major Australian newspapers endorsed the liberal pro-United Nations candidate, Kevin Rudd, in the Australian presidential contest.

By Grant Smith
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil fell for a second day on speculation OPEC will increase production as record prices threaten to stifle economic growth.
Saudi Arabia, the biggest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is pumping 9 million barrels a day, Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said in Singapore today. […]

By Will McSheehy and Bradley Keoun
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will receive a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Abu Dhabi to replenish capital after record mortgage losses wiped out almost half its market value.

Philip Giraldi
There has been a long tradition of fear-mongering legislation in the United States directed against groups and individuals believed to threaten the established order. The first such measures were the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress in 1798 during the administration of the second president of the United States John Adams. The Acts, […]

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
For more than a century now, Americans have lived in what pundit George Will once called “Hamilton’s Nation.” Will was referring to the fact that government policy has long been primarily guided by the Big Government, interventionist political philosophy of Alexander Hamilton. Liberal writer Michael Lind edited an entire book of essays […]

by Ron Paul
This past week Americans traveled approximately 2 billion miles to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with family and loved ones. While you cannot put a price on time with family, Americans sure felt the pain of higher fuel prices at the gas pump. It is time to take an honest look at the government’s […]

Wants euro-style currency to avoid exchange problems
By Jerome R. Corsi
November 27, 2007
Stephen Jarislowsky, a billionaire money manager and investor the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail bills as the Canadian Warren Buffet, has told a parliamentary committee Canada and the United States both should abandon their national dollar currencies and move to a regional North American […]

Glenn Greenwald
I titled yesterday’s post — regarding the multiple false claims in Joe Klein’s latest column — “Time Magazine’s FISA fiasco,” because episodes of severe journalistic malfeasance are rarely about one reporter. They typically reflect on the media institution as a whole, and that is absolutely the case for Time Magazine and Klein’s latest in […]

by Jack Kenny
For some Republicans, here in New Hampshire and elsewhere in the land, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is nothing less than the new Saint George, who will save our fair land by slaying the dragon named Hillary. Republicans who doubt it must not be reading their mail.

Ian Austin
VANCOUVER - The Canadian Border Services Agency promised sweeping changes to its treatment of international arrivals Monday as it released its internal report into the Taser incident that ended with the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski.

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
November 27, 2007
Many Christian conservatives see Mike Huckabee as the best candidate to deliver the GOP from an impending pro-abortion presidential nomination of either Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney. Huckabee is doing especially well in Iowa, particularly among evangelicals. Is Mike Huckabee worthy of this support, however? The facts say no.

By Les Kinsolving
November 27, 2007
From Cairo, the Associated Press reported:
“Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations grudgingly agreed today to attend next week’s peace conference despite failing to get any guarantee of Israeli concessions.
“In a sign of skepticism, even among close U.S. allies, the Saudi foreign minister cautioned that there would be no public […]

From Gary Franchi
RTR National Director
11-27-7
THIS IS AN URGENT ACTION ALERT
S 1959 “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007″ must be stopped at all costs.
Pick up your phone today and contact your US Senator’s office to instruct them to vote “NO” on S.1959.

Mon Nov 26, 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - The weak U.S. dollar helped oil rise above $99 a barrel on Monday, closing in on the $100 milestone, but it retreated from session highs on expectations that an OPEC meeting next week could decide to increase supply.

By Cotten Timberlake and Tiffany Kary
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Sales gained in the days after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday as retailers lured more customers with discounts even as individual shoppers spent less on average.
ShopperTrak RCT Corp. reported yesterday an 8.3 percent gain in sales the day after Thanksgiving, a bigger increase than it […]

BY Scott Horton
Bush press secretary Scott McClellan unleashed a new storm about the Valerie Plame investigation last week. McClellan’s publisher is about to release his new book, What Happened, and he picked what promised to be the juiciest morsel from the work to attract media attention. McClellan noted that he had “unknowingly passed along […]

by Robert Higgs
Discussions of calamitous government actions – engagements in pointless, costly, and bloody wars; counterproductive actions to avert or shorten economic recessions; botched relief and reconstruction efforts after natural disasters – often arrive at, if they do not begin with, condemnation of government leaders. Thus, in the United States, for example, people have blamed […]

by David Calderwood
How long does a condition last before people generally consider it permanent and adjust their behavior to accommodate it?
Credit inflation created by Federal Reserve Bank policy has been uninterrupted since prior to World War II. How permanent is that, and what kinds of perverse behaviors does such an assumption of permanence foster?

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
November 26, 2007
Bobby Jindal, son of immigrants from India, was recently elected Governor of Louisiana. He’s a Rhodes scholar. Why would anyone want a scholarship named for a man who paid blacks very little to extricate under awful conditions gold and diamonds for him? And remember Cecil Rhodes’ plan for world […]

$250,000 TO GIULIANI PROTÉGÉ?
By: Justin Raimondo
Monday, November 26, 2007
They say he’s the only one who can beat the Democrats in ‘08, the only one who’s tough enough to take on Hillary and keep the White House for the GOP, but the truth is quite the opposite. With at least two major scandals brewing under the […]

Ashcroft firm to monitor med-implant settlement
BY JOHN P. MARTIN AND JEFF WHELAN
When U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie announced a $311 million settlement to end a probe into kickbacks by leading manufacturers of knee and hip replacements, he touted the agreement as a groundbreaking development for consumers and the industry.

(The “Beast” will never stop, unless you stop it…Ed)
Critics cite privacy concerns as workers don’t need warrants to access areas
WASHINGTON - Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising concerns of eroding their standing as American icons and infringing on people’s privacy.