http://revolutionradio.org Your weapon of mass destruction Mon, 12 May 2008 04:17:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/11/studies-on-tasers-are-flawed-cardiologist-tells-inquiry/ 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. Hilary Benn, the Secretary of State for the Environment , has agreed ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/11/more-madness-uk-oks-new-gm-potato-trial/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/11/gold-suppression-job-one-at-the-fed/ (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. A team from Cornell University in New York produced the GM embryo ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/11/scientist-team-creates-first-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. ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/11/states-to-homeland-security-on-real-id-no-thanks/ 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. ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/11/fire-mary-peters/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/11/us-military-targets-southeast-colorado/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/global-thought-police-decree-passages-in-the-new-testament-are-%e2%80%98classical-anti-semitism%e2%80%99/ 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. Capt. Michael P. McNellis was relieved ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/kitty-hawk-air-wing-commander-removed-for-%e2%80%98loss-of-confidence%e2%80%99/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/wal-mart-cuts-way-back-arkansas-bank-fails/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/world-begins-to-smart-from-oils-too-rapid-rise/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/brazil-opec-plan-lifts-oil-to-126-per-barrel/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/sealed-borders-work-both-ways/ 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? There's still a way to go. Are we there yet? A ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/west-coast-dream-crashes-as-californian-city-vallejo-considers-going-bankrupt/ 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. India shocked the markets yesterday by suspending trading ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/global-free-market-for-food-and-energy-faces-biggest-threat-in-decades/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/can-you-saybank-runi-knew-you-could/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/jh-huebert-ron-pauls-manifesto-against-false-choice/ 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. At Union Station in Los Angeles, for example, you can ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/beware-the-amtrak-security-scam/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/cnn-the-pentagons-military-analyst-program-and-gitmo/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/blackwater-rehired-to-protect-us-officials-in-iraq/ 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. To put it another ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/10/continuity-of-government-planning-has-already-superseded-the-constitution-as-a-higher-authority/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/big-pharma-big-food-big-fuel-and-big-fascism/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/911-contradictions-mohamed-atta%e2%80%99s-mitsubishi-and-his-luggage/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/the-rockefeller-syndicate/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/food-riots-are-coming-to-the-us/ 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 A man with a heart condition was arrested, shackled, put in a DNA database, locked up for 18 hours and taken to court after police claim ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/man-arrested-put-in-dna-database-for-allegedly-dropping-apple-core/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/us-lease-of-waterloo-fairgrounds-raises-questions/ 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. Miller said he could release ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/feds-take-over-ncc-fairgrounds-for-may-training-exercise/ 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 http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/us-crude-sets-record-high-of-12598-a-barrel/ 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. S&P 500 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/us-stock-futures-drop-after-aigs-78-billion-loss/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/us-shoppers-slash-spending-at-end-of-month/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/high-prices-for-staple-foods-dip-but-volatile-markets-persist/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/the-republican-dictatorship/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/the-jeffersonians-were-right-after-all/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/an-interview-with-smedley-butler/ 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. An investigation by Ralph Forbes from ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/war-profits-taint-the-greedy-hands-of-more-than-25-of-members-of-the-us-house-and-senate/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/siezing-waterthe-water-restoration-act-of-2007/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/cell-phone-spying-is-your-life-being-monitored/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/record-taxes-paid-before-record-oil-profits/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/09/pentagon-backs-plan-to-build-us-%e2%80%98zone-of-influence%e2%80%99-of-hotels-and-resorts-in-baghdad/ (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 http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/flying-saucers-tiny-helicopters-compete-in-british-war-game/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/secretive-fema-camp-drill-running-in-iowa/ 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. But for ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/oil-bears-hard-to-find-after-markets-record-run/ 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. "I've been in school service for 27 years ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/inflation-wages-the-consumer-shutdown-of-2008/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/at-cbot-food-fight-well-flagged/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/paul-speaks/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/the-us-your-masters-of-the-universe/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/neocons-admit-that-war-on-terror-is-a-hoax/ 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, ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/come-home-conservatives%e2%80%94to-the-antiwar-conservative-movement/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/the-crucifixion-of-jeremiah-wright/ 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. ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/the-ascendancy-of-the-scientific-dictatorshippart-2/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/do-you-have-a-plan-for-freedom/ 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. Bloch, the U.S. special counsel who investigates federal employee whistleblower complaints, found no merit ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/fbi-seeking-records-of-2004-condoleeza-rice-ethics-probe/ 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 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/when-pedophile-judges-fear-exposure/ by Anne Broache May 7, 2008 The FBI has backed down on a secret request for information about a user of the Internet Archive digital library, thanks to a legal challenge from two prominent advocacy groups. The case, which was brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/08/fbi-rescinds-secret-order-for-internet-archive-records/ By Larry Pratt A Panamanian attorney and gun owner rights activist recently told me that George Soros was pushing gun confiscation in Panama, and that every time he adds another country to the gun control list, the position of the U.S. at the U.N. becomes more precarious. In other words, thanks ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/the-international-noose-is-tightening/ By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D. [Note: Relevant to the recent news about the polygamist sect in Texas, does it strike you as strange that a 16-year old girl brave enough to phone from the compound can’t be found though government protection is now available to her? On April 19, NBC News ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/foundations-and-a-close-look-at-fordpart-2/ http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/tv-licensing-its-all-in-the-database/ George Washington's Blog The main problem isn't that we are up against superior forces. In actuality, the American people outnumber the anti-American imperialists by millions to one. The main problem is that most people are asleep, and don't even realize that our flag-waving leaders are hell-bent on taking away our freedoms, our ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/how-to-beat-the-matrix/ May 6th, 2008 New disaster preparedness strategy announced New disaster proposal could legally protect physicians In an unprecedented initiative, US and Canadian experts have developed a comprehensive framework to optimize and manage critical care resources during times of pandemic outbreaks or other mass critical care disasters. The new proposal suggests legally protecting ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/new-disaster-preparedness-strategy-determines-who-lives-and-who-dies-be-ready-to-care-of-your-own/ Tuesday May 6 By Samantha Bomkamp Goldman analyst predicts $150 to $200 oil could soon be reality, but peak price still unclear NEW YORK (AP) -- A Goldman Sachs analyst predicts that oil prices could reach $150 to $200 a barrel over the next 6 months to two years, but said that ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/analyst-predicts-200-oil-could-happen-this-year/ By Bill Rochelle and Bob Willis May 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. business bankruptcy filings in April increased 49 percent from a year earlier, the biggest gain so far this year, as the slowing economy prompted more companies to shut down. Business filings rose to 5,173 during the month, according to statistics ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/us-april-business-bankruptcy-filings-increase-49/ By Grant Smith and Sophie Tan May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose to a record near $121 a barrel amid supply risks in Nigeria and Iran and signs of a stronger U.S. demand outlook. Royal Dutch Shell Plc confirmed today that a rebel attack this weekend damaged a flow-station in ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/oil-rises-to-a-record-near-121-on-nigeria-attack-us-demand/ By The Mogambo Guru May 6, 2008 I notice that the price ratios between the time spans of differing gold lease rates have been remarkably well behaved lately, almost as if they were locked together in precise bands. I think that this is interesting as hell, although I have no ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/gold-price-suppression-scheme/ Leo Lewis May 6, 2008 Central bankers across Asia are facing some hard choices as they confront the “silent tsunami” of surging food prices and what could be a decade of stubborn inflation. Economists are giving warning that interest-rate decisions made over the coming weeks and months may be critical factors in averting ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/central-banks-braced-for-a-storm-as-food-prices-soar/ Economics is not rocket science. Neither is power Darryl Robert Schoon May 6, 2008 Depressions are monetary phenomena caused by central bank issuance of excessive credit. In 1913, the newly created US central bank, the Federal Reserve, began issuing credit-based money in the US. Within ten years, the central bank flow of credit ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/the-great-depression-of-the-2010s/ Donald MacKenzie 8 May 2008 Last November, I spent several days in the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, in banks’ headquarters in the City and in the pale wood and glass of a hedge fund’s St James’s office trying to understand the credit crisis that had erupted over the previous four months. ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/end-of-the-world-trade/ by Tom Engelhardt Descending into Madness in Iraq – and Beyond The last war won't end, but in the Pentagon they're already arguing about the next one. Let's start with that "last war" and see if we can get things straight. Just over five years ago, American troops entered Baghdad in battle ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/the-last-war-and-the-next-one/ by Laurence M. Vance The Christian attitude toward the state and its leaders, it military, its wars, its imperialism, and its interventionism should be a no-brainer: contempt, disdain, disgust, revulsion, abhorrence, repugnance, loathing – take your pick. Yet, among Christians one continues to find some of the greatest apologists for the ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/christianity-in-eclipse/ by John T. Flynn Mussolini became premier in October 1922. With the innumerable arguments about the march on Rome or with the story of the violent, lawless, and outrageous tactics he used to come to power we are not concerned here. That history has been told many times. Our business is ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/what-is-fascism/ by L. Kent Wolgamott "Gashole" is a new documentary film about the history of Oil prices and the Thursday, Apr 24, 2008 - 11:48:19 pm CDT With the cheapest gasoline prices hovering near $3.50 a gallon, “GasHole” is about as timely as a documentary can get. TO VIEW TRAILER CLICK HERE Radio interview ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/gashole-the-history-of-oil-prices/ Pat Buchanan compares new agreement for peace to Bush team's bellicose rhetoric By Patrick J. Buchanan May 06, 2008 Is war with Iran inevitable, even imminent? Or is peace at hand? From the public diplomacy of the administration, either conclusion may be reached. Consider: "West Offers Iran 'Refreshed' Deal," ran the headline in the May ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/iran-will-it-be-jaw-jaw-or-war-war/ May 05, 2008 Sen. John McCain, the de facto Republican presidential nominee, announced today he will attend the national convention of La Raza, a radical Hispanic lobby tied to the movement to reconquer the Southwestern U.S. that was part of Mexico before the Mexican-American War that ended in 1848. The convention will ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/mccain-to-attend-convention-of-reconquista-group/ William N. Grigg Sixty years ago a young American named Alexander Dolgun was accosted on the streets of Moscow by a couple of affable fellows working for the Soviet secret police (known at the time as the MGB). Assuming he was the victim of mistaken identity or some innocent bureaucratic ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/an-american-gulag/ By Paul Kiel May 5, 2008 Congress is close to enacting the most significant boost in three decades in the independence of the cadre of government watchdogs -- federal inspectors general -- but the lawmakers have retreated from a key change involving the U.S. Department of Justice. The Senate on ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/06/senate-gop-blocks-doj-ig-from-investigating-torture/ (Revolution Radio says..."You Can Kiss My Rebel Ass"....) Monday, May 05, 2008. At a speech before the Heritage Foundation this week, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the U.S. needs to have a “nonpoliticized, serious discussion” while writing new laws to define the best way to combat terrorism. Chertoff said that once ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/homeland-security-update-chertoff-says-new-laws-needed/ By: Theresa Monday, 5 May 2008 Back in October we posted the following video: KSLA - CLERGY TO HELP GOVT. DURING MARTIAL LAW You can watch the first video for background on how the government is enlisting the clergy to assist them in having all submit should martial law be ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/you-are-free-to-submit-to-authority-clergy-sell-out-to-assist-with-martial-law-important-vids/ By Daniel Taylor In July of 1994 the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) produced the paper titled Revolution In Military Affairs And Conflict Short Of War that uncannily forecasted the future in a "hypothetical future history" written in the year 2010. The hypothetical situation contains many disturbing predictions, ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/revolution-in-military-affairs-from-computer-generated-insurgents-to-bioelectric-implants/ In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present eduction conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds, and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people, ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/more-blasts-from-the-past/ By Paul Craig Roberts 5-5-8 Americans traditionally thought of their country as a "city upon a hill," a "light unto the world." Today only the deluded think that. Polls show that the rest of the world regards the United States and Israel as the two greatest threats to peace. This ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/what-do-we-stand-for-3/ Rep. Ron Paul In the past few months, American workers, consumers, and businesses have experienced a sudden and dramatic rise in gasoline prices. In some parts of the country, gasoline costs as much as $4 per gallon. Some politicians claim that the way to reduce gas prices is by expanding the ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/big-government-responsible-for-high-gas-prices/ OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Sunday said he does not expect financial markets to panic as write-downs and losses for bad debts mount in the financial services industry, but said those losses were not over "by a long shot." The world's richest person, who runs Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N: ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/buffett-says-us-in-recession-banks-to-face-pain/ By Ayesha Daya and Christian Schmollinger May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose in New York on concern that production disruptions in Nigeria may limit supplies and Iran's commitment to its nuclear program will increase tensions with the U.S. Rebel attacks on an oil-transfer facility in Africa's biggest producer have forced ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/oil-rises-as-attacks-in-nigeria-raise-supply-concerns-iran/ by Dominick Last week's tape is evidence of how many traders let the news get to their head, got faked out by the post-Fed selloff, and were short stocks after the meeting only to be forced to cover later in the week, sparking a rally that now has ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/market-update-turn-off-the-tv/ By Dan Denning May 5th, 2008 The U.S. Federal Reserve got even more deeply involved in the credit crisis on Friday by offering more loans to the banks through two of its newly established "facilities." There's a famous poem we want to introduce you to. We thought of it today when ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/us-fed-now-accepts-credit-card-debt-as-collateral/ by Sheldon Richman The Law of Unintended Consequences is a fascinating thing. You can never be entirely sure what the second-, third-, etc. -order effects of any action will be. This is especially so with government policy because centralized decision-making can do so much damage to so many people. That ought ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/the-goal-is-freedom-government-schools-and-the-housing-mess/ by Mary Ruwart May 5, 2008 "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana On 9/11, we were told "this changes everything." The terror attacks on New York and Washington were painted as one-of-a-kind events without historical parallel. In reality, they were an all too familiar repeat ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/when-will-we-ever-learn/ By: Devvy May 5, 2008 Despite the propaganda coming out of Washington, DC., millions of Americans are in deep financial trouble. Last week the media cranked up the mantra that Wall Street may be getting more optimistic. Really? 1 - May 2, 2008. Linens 'n Things files for bankruptcy protection - 120 ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/do-you-have-a-plan-personal/ by Eric Englund Americans are feeling the pinch of stagflation. Going to the grocery store and to the gas station leaves consumers in a state of sticker-shock. Neighbors are losing their homes. Retailers, restaurants, and countless other businesses are closing their doors. Mass layoffs are being announced with alarming frequency. As ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/the-green-recession/ by Stefan M.I. Karlsson The latest GDP numbers, that supposedly showed that real GDP expanded 0.6% in the first quarter of 2008 after having expanded at the exact same rate the previous month, was used by a number of economists, mainly supply-side Republican ones, to deny that America is in a ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/why-the-us-recession-is-here/ by Linda Schrock Taylor On my recent flight home from Florida, I sat next to a very interesting and articulate gentleman. We talked nonstop, only pausing for shallow breaths, as we discussed the flaws and faults of public schooling. As many may well imagine, once that topic is opened – time ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/when-america-counts/ Can you survive for a week without splashing any cash? Our correspondent opted in to the freeconomy to give it a go Fleur Britten Rising food prices, soaring utility bills, credit crunch ... it’s all pretty depressing these days. Yet, as the country hurtles towards the locust years, I wonder if ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/how-to-live-without-money/ By: Al Cronkrite Monday, May 05, 2008 Each one of the state governments of the original 13 colonies in Colonial America made the Christian religion a prominent part of their constitutions. Some states made Christianity a requirement for elected office. At the time the Constitution was crafted the fledgling ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/the-anatomy-of-entropyshort-history-of-the-deterioration-of-the-usa/ Rally planned for farmer whose dairy swept by government By Bob Unruh May 04, 2008 A rally has been set for tomorrow in front of the magistrate's office in Mt. Holly, Pa., in support of a Mennonite farmer who has brought the wrath of the government on himself for selling raw milk and ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/05/feds-launch-gestapo-raid-over-raw-milk/ by George Washington As a new article by investigative reporter Christopher Ketcham reveals, a governmental unit operating in secret and with no oversight whatsoever is gathering massive amounts of data on every American and running artificial intelligence software to predict each American's behavior, including "what the target will do, where the ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/04/spying-artificial-intelligence-and-martial-law-2/ Sunday, May 4, 2008 Whenever any claim is made that the government has done anything wrong, government apologists say "that's a conspiracy theory!" Well, let's examine what the people trained to weigh evidence and reach conclusions think about "conspiracies". Let's look at what American judges think. Searching Westlaw, one of the 2 primary ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/04/tell-me-again-why-conspiracy-theory-is-a-dirty-label/ by Don Bacon The Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution, adopted at the end of the civil War in 1865, abolished slavery, but this same amendment expressly permits prison slavery and involuntary servitude. AMENDMENT XIII – SECTION 1 Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/04/slavery-and-involuntary-servitude/ Taser International Wins Lawsuit to Change Cause of Death "Taser International recently started a legal campaign against medical examiners who claimed tasers contributed to the cause of death for several people. On Friday, an Ohio judge ruled in favor of the stun gun manufacturer (free registration may be required). While ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/04/you-will-kneel-before-zod/ (Can You Say "Double Dippin'" Class...I knew you could...Ed...) Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Sunday, 4 May 2008 Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people ... http://revolutionradio.org/2008/05/04/multinationals-make-billions-in-profit-out-of-growing-global-food-crisis/