http://www.counterpunch.org/polk05172008.html
Bush Family Appeasement: The Power to Name
Laray Polk | May 17/18, 2008
We are living in a time where political leaders are issuing political descriptors with blunt force; the linguistic field has become the premier battlefield of a few in the 21st century. The 24-hour news cycle is a sleek and reliable message delivery system. Rapid fire sound bytes function as a new artillery.
http://www.counterpunch.org/worthington05172008.html
The Ongoing Collapse of the Gitmo Military Commissions: Betrayals, Backsliding and Boycotts
Andy Worthington | May 17/18, 2008
Anyone who has kept half an eye on the proceedings at the Military Commissions in Guantánamo — the unique system of trials for “terror suspects” that was conceived in the wake of the 9/11 attacks by Vice President Dick Cheney and his close advisers — will be aware that their progress has been faltering at best. After six and a half years, in which they have been ruled illegal by the Supreme Court, derailed by their own military judges, relentlessly savaged by their own military defense lawyers, and condemned as politically motivated by their own former chief prosecutor, they have only secured one contentious result: a plea bargain negotiated by the Australian David Hicks, who admitted to providing “material support for terrorism,” and dropped his well-chronicled claims of torture and abuse by US forces, in order to secure his return to Australia to serve out the remainder of a meager nine-month sentence last March.
In the last few weeks, however, Cheney’s dream has been souring at an even more alarming rate than usual. Following boycotts of pre-trial hearings in March and April by three prisoners — Mohamed Jawad, Ahmed al-Darbi and Ibrahim al-Qosi — the latest appearance by Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a driver for Osama bin Laden, spread the words “boycott” and “Guantánamo” around the world.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Huckabee_jokes_about_Obama_ducking_gunman_0516.html
Huckabee jokes about Obama ducking gunman
Raw Story | May 16, 2008
A top contender for the bottom half of the Republican presidential ticket cracked wise about the likely Democratic candidate on Friday.
Or perhaps not so wise.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1210668651104&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
‘Bush, Olmert discussed connecting Israel to anti-missile system’
Jerusalem Post | May 16, 2008
Israel has asked the US to allow it to connect to an advanced satellite warning system which would enable it to identify missile launches from anywhere in the world in real time, Army Radio reported Friday.
http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=12855
Iraq Veterans Describe Atrocities to Lawmakers
Aaron Glantz | May 17, 2008
Antiwar veterans of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan took their case to Capitol Hill Thursday, baring their souls with stories of killings of innocent civilians, torture and wrongful detentions.
“On several occasions our convoys came upon bodies that had been lying on the road, sometimes for weeks,” said Marine Corps veteran Vincent Emanuele, who served in al-Qaim near the Syrian border in 2004 and 2005.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/5780470.html
U.S.-trained forces reportedly helping Mexican cartels
Stewart M. Powell | May 14, 2008
As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday.
The renegade members of Mexico’s elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides, contributing to a wave of violence that has claimed some 6,000 victims over the past 30 months, including prominent law enforcement leaders, the Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_9176678?source=most_viewed
Pomona Police checkpoint angers residents
Monica Rodriguez | May 6, 2008
A weekend checkpoint caused residents to express concern and accusations to fly at a City Council meeting on Monday.
Councilwoman Cristina Carrizosa said residents were frightened and that the behavior of officers reminded her of movie scenes depicting the Gestapo.
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=9148
The Technocratic Control Grid Advances
Lee Rogers | May 15, 2008
The technological enslavement system is now being implemented on a grand scale by the architects of the global scientific dictatorship. Aviation News reported recently that the TSA will be installing 200 body scanners in airports around the United States. The body scanners are reminiscent out of something you’d see in the science fiction film Total Recall. The difference between the body scanners in Total Recall and the body scanners being deployed in real life is that the body scanners in Total Recall are actually less intrusive. The real life body scanners are a complete invasion of privacy and actually reveal a person’s naked body when they go through the scanners. In addition to the deployment of body scanners, there have been reports indicating that face scanning technology is now going to be used to prevent underage smoking and drinking. These are just some of the technological horrors that are being deployed and their purpose is not to keep people safe from terrorists. Instead, this technology is meant to enslave the people of the world in an Orwellian technocratic control grid.
http://www.infowars.com/?p=2199
FBI’s Mueller Asked Fatuous Facebook Question
Kurt Nimmo | May 17, 2008
It demonstrates the obvious – the airhead corporate media is no threat to the enemies of liberty.
Sylvia Smith, National Press Club president, asked FBI director Robert Mueller if he “ever posted anything on the Internet.” Mueller said no, he never has. Smith said: “So I guess I can’t invite you to be my Facebook friend?” Laughter all around at the National Press Club in Washington. In the background, you could smell what is left of the Constitution burning.
http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_05_05/article1.html
Mr. Zbig
Brzezinski brings wisdom—and controversy—to Barack Obama’s campaign
Philip Weiss | May 5, 2008
To meet Zbigniew Brzezinski is to have no doubt that he is an important man. The morning of our appointment, I was informed that I would have 15 minutes, and 14 minutes and 30 seconds into the interview Brzezinski glanced at his watch and said, “One more question.” Cordial, aristocratic, precise. He wore a fine pinstriped suit and black boots in a hunter’s style, with a black strap crossing the throat. The famous hooded eyes gazed out at the street.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north627.html
The $10,000 Atlanta Houses
Gary North | May 17, 2008
You read that right. You can buy a house in Atlanta for $10,000.
That’s if you’re a high roller. How about one for $5,900?
Whenever you see something like this, you should think to yourself: “This sounds crazy; so, the government has to be involved.” This may be incorrect, but you will save a lot of time barking up wrong trees by starting with this assumption.
In this case, it’s a conclusion, not just an assumption. I will get to this later on. But first. . . .
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080516/film_nm/cannes_moore_dc
Michael Moore sees danger in “Fahrenheit” follow-up
Bob Tourtellotte | May 16,2008
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Oscar-winning documentary maker Michael Moore, who this week unveiled plans for a follow-up to his anti-Bush polemic “Fahrenheit 9/11,” said on Friday the new film would cover topics so “toxic” he probably should not make it.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/may2008/gb20080512_795081.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories
German Beehives Hit by Mass Die-Off
Beekeepers are pointing the finger at a Bayer CropScience pesticide marketed under the name Poncho, but government tests aren’t conclusive.
Andrew Curry | May 12, 2008
In Germany’s bucolic Baden-Württemburg region, there is a curious silence this week. All up and down the Rhine river, farm fields usually buzzing with bees are quiet. Beginning late last week, helpless beekeepers could only watch as their hives were hit by an unprecedented die-off. Many say one of Germany’s biggest chemical companies is to blame.
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/5.08/witch.html
Melt the Witch…swap all your Gold for Silver!
Bix Weir | May 2008
(Editor’s note: Although the following piece is accurate (IMHO) the logistics of such actions might prove insurmountable. I have yet to take delivery on silver I ordered three weeks ago. I deal with a very reputable company who tells me there is no silver to be had at these seriously depressed prices. - JSB)
Attention GATA Army:
What would you do to take down the Gold Cabal? What would you sacrifice? How hard would you work if you KNEW that the culmination of your effort would end the long term manipulation of gold? As for me, I am very tired of fighting the Cabal, but I am also tired of watching all that I love about my country get washed out to sea by the Manmade Monsoon of Market Manipulation that is currently sloshing over the United States of America.
LET’S FINISH THIS THING!
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article4688.html
US Heading for Double-Digit Inflation
Martin D. Weiss | May 13, 2008
It was 1978. Jimmy Carter was president. Oil prices had been surging for nearly seven years. Other commodities — including silver, gold and food — were following closely behind. Wholesale prices, import prices and the price of critical resources were climbing swiftly.
Most important, the Fed’s pipe-smoking Chairman Arthur Burns, fearing a chain reaction of financial failures, pumped up the money supply with wild abandon, slashed interest rates — and set the stage for the worst U.S. inflation since the Civil War.
I saw it all, but I didn’t believe it. I assumed Burns would come to his senses, see the obvious danger of inflation and reverse course.
But I assumed wrong.
Burns plowed ahead regardless of all the signs. He gave lip service to fighting inflation, while continuing to print money. And sure enough, about a year and half after he left the Fed, consumer price inflation was roaring at double-digit rates.
