By Mary Starrett
January 31, 2008
Try this. Ask fellow “conservatives” who our next president should be. After you hear the candidate’s name ask: “Why?”
Nine times out of ten, you’ll hear some mutterings like: “He’s really conservative” or “We need a Christian in the White House” or “He’s the best qualified.” Ask for some specifics and [...]

By: Devvy
January 31, 2008
“If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The [...]

By Andreas Hippin and Michael Patterson
Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stock-index futures fell after a record loss at MBIA Inc., the largest bond insurer, spurred concern that interest-rate cuts won’t be enough to rescue banks from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market.

By Ian Chua
Thu Jan 31, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Jitters about further losses for the financial sector got the better of investors on Thursday, keeping global stocks under pressure and on track for their steepest monthly slide in over five years.
Wall Street looked set for a weak start with stock futures wallowing in the red [...]

by Tyler Watts
Doctor Ron Paul has always been a conservative. He first became politically active supporting Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign in 1964, while he was serving as an Air Force flight surgeon. Ron Paul was one of the few congressmen to rally behind Ronald Reagan’s 1976 bid for the GOP presidential nomination. He was first [...]

Written by Stu Norman
Thursday, 31 January 2008
The last televised Republican Debate before Super Tuesday took place at the Ronald Reagan Library in California and once again Ron Paul won. BodogLife.com has Ron Paul listed at 50 to 1 odds to become the President of the United States in 2008. Paul wanted to get [...]

by Colin Colenso
Only the most Panglossian Republican die-hard would not recognize the Republican party is in serious trouble. Regardless of whether one supports the war or not, it is pretty clear that Republicans are losing favor due to the war and the effect that war spending is having on the economy. The Republican party will [...]

Bush trying to sidestep Congress on permanent bases question
‘Signing statement’ attached to new defence bill seeks to reserve the right to build bases in Iraq
Elana Schor in Washington
Tuesday January 29, 2008
Guardian Unlimited
George Bush has resumed his practice of disregarding portions of new laws, quietly reserving the right to build permanent military bases in [...]

by Tim Case
“A great manufacturing country is peculiarly exposed to temporary reverses and contingencies, produced by the removal of capital from one employment to another. The demands for the produce of agriculture are uniform; they are not under the influence of fashion, prejudice, or caprice. To sustain life, food is necessary, and the demand for [...]

(Are you gonna have “Stasi Files”?…Ed)
By Andrew Curry
Ulrike Poppe used to be one of the most surveilled women in East Germany. For 15 years, agents of the Stasi (short for Staatssicherheitsdienst, or State Security Service) followed her, bugged her phone and home, and harassed her unremittingly, right up until she and other dissidents helped [...]

Foundation says ban impacts weapons for citizens, military, law enforcement
By Bob Unruh
January 31, 2008
A major credit card company has issued a letter to a gun dealer canceling his payment processing services because of corporate concerns firearms were being sold to consumers in other states, in “a non face-to-face environment.” Now the move has raised the [...]

bill to extend the Protect America Act of 2007 for 30 Days
30 January 2008
Rep. Ron Paul, M.D.
Madame Speaker, I rise in opposition to the extension of the Protect America Act of 2007 because the underlying legislation violates the US Constitution.

by Brian Wilson
Help me out here. This all seems so easy. When that happens, it makes me think I’ve overlooked the elephant in the bathtub, skunk at the picnic – and other embarrassing analogies indicating faulty logic, sheer stupidity, analytical blindness.

by Jacob G. Hornberger
Make no mistake about it: the central economic problem facing the United States is out-of-control federal spending and the massive federal debt that continues to pile up. As welfare-state spending and warfare-state spending have continued to soar for the past seven years, U.S. officials have gone on a massive borrowing spree to [...]

By Daniel Taylor
Comment: French TV was kind enough to inform us about the true decision makers behind Davos - the Bilderberg group. A video clip of this report and an English translation can be found here. The discussion which took place in Davos, Switzerland among several individuals who were themselves members of Bilderberg (such as [...]

By TODD LEWAN
Here’s a vision of the not-so-distant future:
_Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allowing retailers and law enforcement to track consumer items — and, by extension, consumers — wherever they go, from a distance.

By The Mogambo Guru
Jan 30, 2008
For a good reason why we are in such Big Freaking Trouble (BFT), I note that the Wall Street Journal, a big force in the financial world, is bizarrely out of touch with how things really work. And the reason I say this is not because I am jealous [...]

by Mike Whitney
“The current crisis is not only the bust that follows the housing boom, it’s basically the end of a 60-year period of continuing credit expansion based on the dollar as the reserve currency. Now the rest of the world is increasingly unwilling to accumulate dollars.”

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
January 29, 2008
When Glenn Beck interviewed Congressman Ron Paul a few weeks ago, he said that he had received death threats from people purporting to be Ron Paul supporters. I have heard other journalists make similar accusations against Congressman Paul’s supporters. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether any of [...]

by Laurence M. Vance
Ever since Ron Paul announced that he was seeking the nomination of the Republican Party for president, I have heard some assorted libertarians complain about his stance on abortion. This includes both libertarians who support Dr. Paul and libertarians who oppose him. Although the arguments of both groups differ, they basically end [...]

by Vedran Vuk
Why don’t we liberate these United States
We’re the ones who need it the worst
Let the rest of the world help us for a change
And let’s rebuild America first”
These strong words come from a new songwriter wishing for peace in Iraq. Well, actually calling him new is untruthful. These words are sung by none [...]

By JOANNE MARINER
Restrictions of all sorts have multiplied in the heightened security environment of the last six-and-a-half years, so it should be no surprise that, around the world, legal restrictions on speech have tightened. Since 2001, there has been a clear trend toward prohibiting speech perceived as supporting terrorism, and toward barring the dissemination [...]

By Elliot Cohen
Amid the controversy brewing in the Senate over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform, the Bush administration appears to have changed its strategy and is devising a bold new plan that would strip away FISA protections in favor of a system of wholesale government monitoring of every American’s Internet activities. Now the national [...]

By Ryan Singel
January 28, 2008
Senate Democrats defeated Monday a Republican attempt to ram through a bill that expands the government’s warrantless spying powers and give retroactive legal immunity to telecoms that aided the President’s secret warrantless wiretapping program. The attempt by the Republicans to prohibit amendments to the bill and limit debate time failed [...]

Luke Ryland
January 29, 2008
In the last few weeks, UK’s Times has run a series of articles about the so-called ‘Sibel Edmonds case.’ (’For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets, ‘FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft’ and ‘Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe’)

Ex Mormons expose the church’s deceptive doctrine and its goals for a dictatorship
Sonia Uribe
Monday January 28, 2008
Staggering revelations from ex Mormon insiders reveal the truth behind Republican presidential bidder Mitt Romney’s faith and the draconian future that possibly awaits Americans if he wins the presidency.

By Bill Walsh
Monday January 28, 2008
WASHINGTON - In a nod to the hurricane recovery along the Gulf Coast, President Bush is expected to announce tonight that New Orleans will host the annual summit of North American leaders in April.
A senior White House official said Bush chose New Orleans to honor the “resilience” of Gulf Coast [...]

A “HORROR SHOW” of Epic Proportions
by Joe Duarte, MD
Joe-Duarte.com & IntelligentForecasts.com
January 28, 2008
As the market’s volatility continues it’s important to keep a close eye on what’s going on and why.
In order to do that, we’re going to revisit our Market IQ column, written on August 16, 2007, in which we reported on a conversation [...]

By Santosh Menon
Mon Jan 28, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil fell more than a dollar towards $89 a barrel on Monday as falling global stock markets amid renewed worries about the health of the global economy spurred profit taking.
Expectations that OPEC is unlikely to agree to boost supply when ministers meet later this week prevented [...]

By Rich Miller
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. economy may already be in recession; other countries might not be far behind.
Japan, Britain, Spain and Singapore, which together represent about 12 percent of the world economy, are vulnerable as fallout from the U.S. worsens their economic weakness. Even emerging markets, including China, are likely [...]

By Chris Giles and Gillian Tett in Davos
January 28 2008
The intensifying credit crunch is so severe that lower interest rates alone will not be enough “to get out of the turmoil we are in”, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund warned at the weekend.

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
January 28, 2008
When Congressional Reece Committee research director Norman Dodd’s legal assistant Kathryn Casey looked at the planning documents for the founding the Carnegie Endowment, she found something quite revealing. She found that they determined war would be helpful in furthering their objectives. Relevant to this, Rene Wormser in FOUNDATIONS: THEIR [...]

Monday, January 28, 2008
During the recent South Carolina Republican debate, Ron Paul’s statements about the economy, the Iraq war, Iran and U.S. support for Israel were met with smirks and cackles from the other candidates. But your recent articles “Bush sells bombs to Saudis,” “Threat to Navy may have been a hoax,” and numerous other [...]

Small business owners everywhere should know that Ron Paul is by far the best candidate for president that you are likely to see in your lifetime.
I’ve voted for over 30 years, but in all that time I have never had the opportunity to vote FOR a major-party candidate. I was always voting against someone, in [...]

by Johnny Kramer
There’s no question that things so far haven’t gone the way we had hoped: Ron came in 5th in Iowa with 10%; 4th in New Hampshire with 8%; 4th in Michigan with 6%; and just finished 5th in South Carolina with 4% and 2nd in Nevada with 13%. He may have won the [...]

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
This talk was delivered at the 2008 Mises Circle in Houston.
The claim of the Austrian School that has scandalized members of other schools for 150 years is the following. The propositions of economics are universal. The principles apply in all times and all places, because they derive from the structure of [...]

by Paul Craig Roberts
“Your papers please” has long been a phrase associated with Hitler’s Gestapo. People without the Third Reich’s stamp of approval were hauled off to Nazi Germany’s version of Halliburton detention centers.
Today Americans are on the verge of being asked for their papers, although probably without the “please.”

by Glen Allport
Exclusive to STR
January 28, 2008
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This is the year the corrupt corporate media loses what little credibility it still has.
Not that the Old Media deserved much trust or respect in the past; it has always been, with rare exceptions, a way for rich white men (and a [...]

WHO IS STEALING OUR NUCLEAR SECRETS
By: Justin Raimondo
Monday, January 28, 2008
The Valerie Plame case is, by journalistic standards, ancient history, and naturally any follow-up on a once-important story is considered bad form. Yet there is an interesting – and rather scary – new twist to the narrative. It turns out that Scooter Libby and friends [...]

By: Roderick T. Beaman
Monday, January 28, 2008
A few months ago, the following list of questions made the rounds on the internet.
A little history lesson. If you don’t know the answer take
your best guess. Answer all the questions before looking
at the answers.

By Javier Blas
January 27 2008
Investors are shifting their bets towards oil prices weakening in the near future as the slowdown in US economic activity damps energy demand growth, traders in London and New York said.
The recent changes in trading positions could signal that oil prices have peaked after hitting a high of $100.09 a [...]

Don’t treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors
By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent
26/01/2008
Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.
Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot [...]

Sunday, January 27, 2008
Bloomberg is reporting SEC to Rework Rules After Funds Struggled With Subprime Prices.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is updating rules for how mutual funds value holdings after they struggled to price mortgage-backed investments during the subprime-lending crisis.

Rare uncertainty: Estimates range from aggressive half point cut to no change
By Greg Robb
Jan. 27, 2008
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Given the awe-inspiring events of the past week, including a surprise rate cut of once-in-a-generation magnitude — which might have been instigated by a rogue trader’s losing $7.1 billion of his French bank’s capital — maybe it [...]

By Rich Miller
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. economy may already be in recession; other countries might not be far behind.
Japan, Britain, Spain and Singapore, which together represent about 12 percent of the world economy, are vulnerable as fallout from the U.S. worsens their economic weakness. Even emerging markets, including China, are likely [...]

Rising beer prices could leave you tapped out
Small brewers line up to pay premium prices for scarce ingredients
‘Little guys’ especially hard hit
As large multinational brewers snap up increasingly scarce hops and barley, microbrewers are finding it particularly hard to get the ingredients the need to craft their specialty beers. Daniel Garza of NBC affiliate KNTV [...]

by Gary North
This week has been filled with surprises. It began with bad news for international stock markets. It got rolling with unprecedented news from the Federal Reserve System. It got wild with nutty news from a bureaucrat in New York. Then it settled down to wild swings on the American stock market.