ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
May 10, 2008
Tasers pose potentially fatal health risks that studies proving their safety don’t take into account, a U.S. doctor told the B.C. taser inquiry yesterday.
San Francisco cardiologist and electrophysiologist Zian Tseng became interested in the use and effects of tasers after a taser-related death in San Francisco in January, 2005. In […]

Benn gives go-ahead for new GM potato trial
By Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Ministers have given permission for thousands of GM potatoes to be grown in Britain, a decision that is bound to provoke a new confrontation with environmentalists.

No surprises in the market, gold rampage, yen strengthening, what to do with worthless paper, Bush remains in denial about the Economy, What Ted Kennedy told Obama
Bob Chapman
May 10 2008
Gold goes up, and the stock markets come down. At the risk of sounding like Jim Nabors’ character, USMC Private Gomer Pyle, we comment […]

(I don’t know how you tens of thousands of our readers view this…But, it disturbes the “Livin’ Crap” out of me…Paul…)
Sarah-Kate Templeton
May 11, 2008
Scientists have created what is believed to be the first genetically modified (GM) human embryo.

PART 1 of 2
By Steven Yates
May 11, 2008
Today—May 11, 2008—is not just Mother’s Day but REAL ID D-Day, so to speak: the day citizens of states not granted extensions to comply with the REAL ID Act of 2005 would find themselves unable to board planes, enter federal buildings, etc.

By Tom DeWeese
May 11, 2008
The Bush Administration has directly defied, not only the will and intent of Congress, but it is now openly ignoring legislation that the President himself signed into law. As a result a Constitutional crisis is rapidly developing over a project to let Mexican trucks on U.S. roads. As a result, many […]

PART 1 of 3
Deanna Spingola
May 11, 2008
Property seizures in other countries are considered totalitarian. When they occur at the hands of the corporate-controlled U.S. government they are apparently condoned and even facilitated by the courts whose job it is to reign in this kind of abuse. The monopoly media, including “conservative” talk radio, is […]

Bible is ‘hate,’ says State Department Office of Global Anti-Semitism
By Rev. Ted Pike
The State Department “Office of Global Anti-Semitism” says the New Testament claim that the Jews had Christ crucified is “classical anti-Semitism”—a historic form of hate. It included as an “anti-Semitic incident” the case of a Polish priest who said Jews killed Christ.

By Teri Weaver, Stars and Stripe
Sunday, May 11, 2008
TOKYO — The U.S. Navy air wing commander for the USS Kitty Hawk’s strike group was relieved of duty Friday after an admiral said he lost confidence in the commander’s ability, according to a Navy spokeswoman.

From Kimberly Dawley
5-10-8
The collapse of ANB Financial National Association is significant.
Population of Bentonville, Arkansas is 19,500 people …. and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Bentonville IS Wal-Mart !
For the past four months, Wal-Mart (Bentonville, Arkansas) has been canceling (Tip of the iceberg:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/wal-mart-cancels-45-super_b_94112.html) almost all of their (major) corporate projects into the future. We know the […]

By Barbara Lewis and Peg Mackey - Analysis
LONDON (Reuters) - From the poorest of Africa to the United States and big business, a breakneck rally that could take oil to $200 a barrel is likely to inflict pain on everyone.
The world was remarkably resilient to a series of record prices in 2007, but a roughly […]

Robin Pagnamenta and Peter Stiff
May 10, 2008
Oil prices soared to highs above $126 yesterday as the President of Brazil said that the South American country was considering joining Opec.
The latest record, the fifth in as many sessions, was driven by a new round of speculative buying as markets remained jittery about tight global […]

by Jacob G. Hornberger
Apparently not having enough to do to keep illegal immigrants from entering the country, U.S. officials are now also spending their time looking for illegal immigrants leaving the country. According to an article entitled “Border Busts Coming and Going in the Los Angeles Times, federal customs and immigration officials are setting […]

May 10, 2008
There is a view slowly emerging that the worst of the global credit crunch and sharemarket ructions has passed. But there are many reasons to believe predictions that the crisis has reached bottom are prematurely optimistic.
Are we there yet?

(Ahhhh…The Death of A Government…This Has Potential…Ed…)
Suzy Jagger
May 10, 2008
Vallejo, California, is notable for many things. It was the state capital, for example, if only briefly, in 1851. It is the home of Boomerang, Kong, ROAR! and V2: Vertical Velocity, evocatively named rollercoasters at the sprawling Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park. And, as of […]

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
10/05/2008
The global free market for food and energy is facing its biggest threat in decades as a host of countries push through draconian measures to hold down prices, raising fears of a new “resource nationalism” that could endanger world food security.

Federal regulators close Arkansas bank ANB Financial
Friday May 9
ANB Financial banks closed by federal regulators over ‘unsafe and unsound’ practices
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Federal regulators says they’ve closed ANB Financial National Association banks after discovering “unsafe and unsound” business practices there.
David Barr, a spokesman for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says many customers served […]

By J.H. HUEBERT
Friday, May 9, 2008
How frustrating it must be to be Ron Paul.
The Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate always said there was no justification for war with Iraq – no weapons of mass destruction, no threat to the United States – and his colleagues in Congress and most of the American people ignored […]

by J. H. Huebert
Amtrak – America’s socialized passenger rail service – is ever-desperate for passengers to justify its existence. For its latest futile publicity stunt, it wants us all to celebrate “National Train Day” at train stations across America today.

Glenn Greenwald
Friday May 9, 2008
The Pentagon has posted to its website the roughly 8,000 pages and audio tapes it was forced to provide to the New York Times regarding its “military analyst” program. Anyone who reads through them, as I’ve now done, can only be left with one conclusion (other than being extremely impressed […]

Contractor under scrutiny in killings
By James Risen
May 10, 2008
WASHINGTON - Last fall, Blackwater Worldwide was in deep peril.
more stories like thisGuards for the security company were involved in a shooting in September that left at least 17 Iraqis dead at a Baghdad intersection. Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand […]

Saturday, May 10, 2008
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Peter Dale Scott has warned:
“If members of the Homeland Security Committee cannot enforce their right to read secret plans of the Executive Branch, then the systems of checks and balances established by the U.S. Constitution would seem to be failing.

by Alan Stang
May 9, 2008
What form of government are we supposed to have? The Founders of this country bequeathed us a system we used to call Free Enterprise, in which the government was supposed to leave business alone. Because of that system, endorsed by scripture, we became the greatest nation known to history.

by Prof. David Ray Griffin
May 9, 2008
At the core of the official story about 9/11 is the claim that the four airliners that crashed that day had been taken over by a band of al-Qaeda hijackers led by Mohamed Atta. No proof was ever provided for this claim. But various kinds of evidence have been […]

By Eustice Mullins
5-9-8
Many American conservatives believe as a matter of faith that the Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations exercise absolute control over the government and the people of United States . This thesis can be accepted as a working formula if one remains conscious of the larger issues . Two writers for whom […]

By BINOY KAMPMARK
May 8, 2008
“I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food. No this is not a drill.”
–Brett Arends
There is a time for food, and a time for ethical appraisals. This was the case even before Bertolt Brecht gave life to that expression in Die […]

Brownshirt “community support officer” thugs preying upon law-abiding citizens, turning Britain into a hellhole using justification of insane environmental laws
Paul Joseph Watson
Friday, May 9, 2008

By WILLIAM PETROSKI • REGISTER STAFF WRITER • May 6, 2008
Federal officials have imposed a news blackout at the National Cattle Congress fairgrounds in Waterloo, where they have leased almost the entire property through May 25.
Tim Counts, a Midwest spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, declined to say Monday whether an […]

By PAT KINNEY
Courier News Editorand JENS KROGSTAD
Courier Staff Writer
WATERLOO— Normal operations on the National Cattle Congress fairgrounds have been suspended for most of May as the federal government has leased out virtually the entire facility for a training exercise, NCC general manager Doug Miller said Saturday.

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures rose to a fresh record high of $125.98 a barrel on Friday.
They were trading $2.11 higher at $125.80 by 7:09 a.m. EDT.
Reuters.com

By Steve Goldstein
May 9, 2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) - U.S. stock futures dropped on Friday, with American International Group’s $7.8 billion loss and plan to raise $12.5 billion in capital fueling doubts over whether the worst of the credit crunch is past, and another oil futures surge also weighing on sentiment.

Wal-Mart says ’paycheck cycle’ is more pronounced as high fuel and food costs hit Americans in the run up to pay-day
Suzy Jagger
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, today said that many of its customers were forced to cease spending towards the end of each month as high fuel and food costs left Americans penniless in […]

By Keith Bradsher
May 9, 2008
HONG KONG: After months of startling increases, the prices of rice, wheat, soybeans and several other foods have come down recently, a development that could ease some of the panic in global food markets.
Prices remain volatile and remarkably high by historical standards, and few agricultural experts expect the days of […]

by Glenn Greenwald
The following is an excerpt from Glenn Greenwald’s new book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. The excerpt is drawn from Chapter Five entitled “Small-Government Tyrants”:
Ever since Ronald Reagan famously declared in his 1980 inaugural address that “government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem,” […]

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
To the casual eye, Kevin Gutzman has written a scholarly book about Virginian political thought and practice from revolutionary times through 1840. But its scholarly merits do not exhaust the merits of Virginia’s American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840. Readers are also treated to the incidental pleasure of watching the […]

by Don Bacon
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps, was one of two Marines to receive two Congressional Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism. General Butler was born in 1881 and raised as a Quaker. He was still in his teens when he was […]

by Rev. Richard Skaff
What do war, Congressmen, Senators, and the defense/offense industry have in common? The answer, if you haven’t already guessed is “profits.”
Conflict makes money for the military industrial complex, and the cronies they place in Congress, the Senate, and the White House.

The Water Restoration Act of 2007, along with others, gives the federal government complete control over every waterway, river, stream, lake, aquifer, creek, slew, swamp, underground spring and even the rain that runs off your roof. Why? Well to better protect you from polluters and to ensure water safety, and of course “national security”.

By JR Raphael
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
It connects you to the world, but your cell phone could also be giving anyone from your boss to your wife a window into your every move. The same technology that lets you stay in touch on-the-go can now let others tap into your private world — without you ever […]

by Scott A. Hodge
ExxonMobil’s recent announcement of first quarter profits of $10.9 billion has prompted the predictable political demagoguery about “obscene” profits and the need for a new windfall profits tax. Exxon does not need our help to defend itself against such charges but I remain amazed that none of the major news outlets have […]

The White House has repeatedly insisted that the United States has “no desire for permanent bases” in Iraq. Nevertheless, the Bush administration is seeking to leave its footprint on Iraq through other means. The AP reports that the Pentagon is backing a $5 billion dollar plan to “transform the U.S.-protected Green Zone” into a “centerpiece […]

(O.K. class…Can You Say “Liberty Is Dead”…Good, I Knew You Could…Ed…)
(AP) — Emotion-detecting robot cars will face off against eavesdropping flying saucers in the English countryside when scientists, academics…
PhsyOrg.com

Lee Rogers
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) along with other government institutions are currently conducting an 8-day anti-terror and disaster exercise from May 1st through May 8th called National Level Exercise 2-08 in the United States. We recently covered this exercise in great detail using press releases from FEMA and U.S. Northern Command as source […]

Thu May 8, 2008
By Jane Merriman - Analysis
LONDON (Reuters) - Bears are a rare breed, but not yet extinct in an oil market where prices have doubled in the past 12 months and risen by a quarter this year.
History shows price booms do not usually run on uninterrupted.

Adrian Ash
“…Now that cheap money’s vanished, where will consumers find enough cash to pay the bills…?”
THE CHEAP MONEY BUBBLE might have gone pop. But everywhere we look, the mischief of cheap money continues to cause mayhem for investors, savers, retirees, even school children.

But rice rally a warning sign of things to come
By David Callaway
May 8, 2008
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — John Casey, rice pit chairman at The Chicago Board of Trade and a commodities trader for two decades, has seen worse.
The stunning rally in rice and other agriculture futures lately, in which rice prices on the exchange almost doubled […]

by Richard Spencer
Today I attended Paul’s talk about his great book, which is #1 by the way, with the great new organization called the American Conservative Defense Alliance. I asked Paul a question similar to the one I posed this morning regarding how us Paulians–more than a mere remnant but the makings of a mass […]

By William J Astore
When I first joined the US Air Force, its mission statement was straightforward: to fly and fight. The recruiting slogan was upbeat: the air force was “a great way of life” and the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program I enrolled in was the “gateway to a great way of life”.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Key war on terror architect Douglas Feith has now confirmed Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Wesley Clark in admitting that the so-called War on Terror is a hoax.
In fact, starting right after 9/11 — at the latest — the goal has always been to create “regime change” and instability in Iraq, […]

by Thomas E. Woods Jr
Under Consideration: Bill Kauffman, Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism, Metropolitan Book (2008), 304 pages.
Winston Churchill once described the Soviet Union as the only country in the world with an unpredictable past. It was an impressive racket, really, in which the official version […]

by A.D Lelong
have spent my entire life cringing at the stupidity, cowardice, and self serving fraud of the intellectual establishment in this country. And now that we have 24 hour cable news, and now that talk radio has become BIG MEDIA (it used to be honest when there was no money in it) the […]

by Phillip D. Collins
The Sirius Connection, Sociopolitical Utopianism, and Global Government
In Morals and Dogma, 33rd Degree Freemason Albert Pike bestows special honor upon Sirius, a heavenly body that ’still glitters in our Lodges as the Blazing Star’ (Pike, 486). Indeed, Sirius represents a foundational axiom of the Masonic Craft. Pike explains that the star […]

By: Devvy
May 8, 2008
Unfortunately, most Americans seem content to willfully believe lies to support their comfort zone. They’re too afraid to confront the reality of what’s right in front of their faces. My column, Do you have plan? earlier this week dealt with getting your personal affairs in order and planning for survival. Now, do […]

By Marisa Taylor
WASHINGTON — FBI agents investigating government watchdog Scott Bloch have subpoenaed any records that would reveal whether concerns about the 2004 elections prompted him to clear Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of ethics violations.

By: Henry Makow
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Under a thin veneer of Law, we are governed by a secret network of traitors, pedophiles, Satanists and criminals, masquerading as prominent lawyers and judges, politicians, businessmen and police chiefs.
They are often Freemasons who derive their power from the central banking cartel based in London which controls the mass […]