Fiona MacDonald and Matthew Brown - “Gulf States May End Dollar Pegs, Kuwait Minister Says”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKafZEdY2xF8&refer=worldwide

Gulf States May End Dollar Pegs, Kuwait Minister Says

Fiona MacDonald and Matthew Brown | May 1, 2008

Gulf states are considering dropping their pegs to the dollar after the U.S. currency’s decline stoked inflation across the region, Kuwaiti Finance Minister Mustafa al- Shimali said.

“Yes, there are some” Gulf Cooperation Council states considering dropping their pegs to the dollar, which has fallen 13 percent against the euro in the last 12 months, al-Shimali said in an interview in Kuwait late yesterday without naming the countries. “Some countries will do what we are doing.”

Dick Eastman - “Rockefellers - Big Oil, Ethanol And Big Global Warming”

http://www.rense.com/general81/big.htm

Rockefellers - Big Oil, Ethanol And Big Global Warming

Dick Eastman | May 1, 2008

We don’t have royalty or nobility, we have inherited corporation stock.

Exxon made $40 billion in profit last year, those profits going to more than 100 Rockefeller descendants through a variety of trusts — but don’t worry, the Rockefellers are on top of this global warming problem.

The Rockefeller family network — “own individually, act as one” — is removing the top hireling at ExxonMobil from power.

Joanne Waldron - “Merck Plant Dumps Vaccine Waste and Chemicals Into Water Supply”

http://www.naturalnews.com/023124.html

Merck Plant Dumps Vaccine Waste and Chemicals Into Water Supply

Joanne Waldron | April 29, 2008

Merck, the maker of the very controversial Gardasil vaccine, has a pharmaceutical plant located in West Point, Pennsylvania, that discards pollutants from this facility into the Upper Gwynedd Township Publicly Owned Treatment Works (UGT POTW), according to a press release by the U.S. Department of Justice. The treated wastewater is released into the Wissahickon Creek, a tributary of the Schuylkill River. A federal court complaint was filed alleging that Merck violated the Clean Water Act with various discharges that caused numerous pass through and interference violations at the UGT POTW.

Ashley Powdar - “One of History’s Great Atrocities: The Corporate Theft of the Public’s Natural Right to Water”

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/01/8655/

One of History’s Great Atrocities: The Corporate Theft of the Public’s Natural Right to Water

Ashley Powdar | May 1, 2008

The Growing Debate on who will Control the World’s Water Supply

The current 1.1 billion people worldwide without access to potable water only opens one of the smaller windows on the injustices and the multiple casualties being wrought by private water-related industries. In fact, many are clueless to the magnitude of the victims — present and projected — of the growing water crisis as well as to the inhumane implications of the role of the private sector in regards to treating water as a commodity that can be owned and sold for profit. As of now, 2.6 billion people are at high risk for not having access to potable and an additional 1.8 million children die each year from water-related diseases.

JC Garrett - “Bill O’Reilly Calls for Nuking ‘As Many Islamic fundamentalists As You Can’”

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3247.shtml

Bill O’Reilly Calls for Nuking “As Many Islamic fundamentalists As You Can”

JC Garrett | May 2, 2008

On Wednesday, I heard Bill O’Reilly tell actor/activist Matthew Modine that we must kill all the “Islamic fundamentalists” in the world — wipe them off the face of the Earth — in order to protect America.

Modine asked O’Reilly how he would win the “war on terror”.

O’Reilly replied, “You use every weapon you have to kill as many Islamic fundamentalists as you can, and then bring them to their knees, the same way we won WWII.”

Steve Watson - “Bush Signs Bill To Take All Newborns’ DNA”

http://www.infowars.com/?p=1896

Bush Signs Bill To Take All Newborns’ DNA

Steve Watson | May 2, 2008

President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.

Described as a “national contingency plan” the justification for the new law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of “public health emergency.”

Kurt Nimmo - “Hayden Gets Hillary Wrong”

http://www.truthnews.us/?p=2176

Hayden Gets Hillary Wrong

Kurt Nimmo | April 27, 2008

Jake Tapper writes the following for ABC News:

In The Nation, former 60s radical Tom Hayden — in an essay called “Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream” — hammers Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, for attacking Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, for his association with former Weather Underground member William Ayers. “Hillary is blind to her own roots in the sixties,” Hayden writes. “She was in Chicago for three nights during the 1968 street confrontations. She chaired the 1970 Yale law school meeting where students voted to join a national student strike again an ‘unconscionable expansion of a war that should never have been waged.’ She was involved in the New Haven defense of Bobby Seale during his murder trial in 1970…

I bet that drives “conservatives” nuts, especially the ones who spent the last twenty years listening to Rush Limbaugh, a master of the false left-right paradigm.

But things are never what they seem, especially in politics. The corporate media would have us believe the Clintons were 60s leftists. In fact, according to Roger Morris, author of Partners in Power who worked at the White House in both the Johnson and Nixon administrations, the Clintons were CIA operatives plotting against the antiwar and cultural movements of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Mark Morford - “10 ways to blow your tax rebate”

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/a/2008/05/02/notes050208.DTL

10 ways to blow your tax rebate
Gas, video games, meditation, booze. What, you were planning on paying bills? As if

Mark Morford | May 2, 2008

Here’s the bad news: Your little recession-deflecting tax rebate? No rebate at all. Not even close.

It’s more like this: You’ve been continuously mugged and beaten and robbed blind for the past seven years straight, and as you lay there on the cold, hard economic ground, bleeding and gasping and wondering what the hell happened to your vacation time and your health care plan and your mortgage payment, your attackers scoff and leer and toss a couple of bloodstained nickels on your pulverized face and mutter, here sucker, have some bus fare, and then they cackle and stomp away with all your loot and dignity and hope, back to the White House from whence they came.

Betty Martini - “Curtain Fall on the Aspartame Follies”

http://www.thenhf.com/articles/articles_699/articles_699.htm

Curtain Fall on the Aspartame Follies

Betty Martini, D.Hum | April 2008

Found in markets under the brand names NutraSweet, Equal, E951, Canderel, and Benevia, aspartame (“APM”) has been sold for many years now as a safer sweetener than sugar or saccharin. And since aspartame is made of two amino acids that naturally occur in many foods, it is easy to convince consumers that this “natural” product is safe. Too many years have gone by since aspartame was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for use as a sweetener, despite convincing evidence presented that this artificial product posed serious safety risks. New awareness of these risks, however, is bringing the curtain down on this charade.

D.W. MacKenzie - “The Relentless Process of Socializing Health Care”

http://www.mises.org/story/2946

The Relentless Process of Socializing Health Care

D.W. MacKenzie | May 1, 2008

The movement towards socialized medicine is strong but widely misunderstood. Many ordinary people see health care as a right and complain that it is too expensive. Some economists also see problems with the existing health care system and propose public-sector alternatives. One serious problem with those who want socialized medicine is that they fail to see the problems that already exist with governmental involvement in health care.

War On You - “Government is the Largest Employer: The Fading American Economy “

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=032284&From=News

Government is the Largest Employer: The Fading American Economy

War On You | April 10, 2008

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy lost 98,000 private sector jobs in March, half of which were in manufacturing. Today 13,643,000 Americans are employed in manufacturing, of which 9,849,000 are production workers.

Government employs 22,387,000 Americans, 8,744,000 more than manufacturing. Even the category leisure and hospitality employs 13,682,000 Americans, slightly more than manufacturing. There are as many waitresses and bartenders as production workers.

Parija B. Kavilanz - “Food price rise could last another two years”

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/30/news/economy/food_prices/index.htm

Food price rise could last another two years
Experts say there won’t be a food shortage in the U.S., but more consumers will trade down in their grocery shopping.

Parija B. Kavilanz | April 30, 2008

You may have to get used to paying more for your groceries for another two years or more.

Experts say an increase in global food consumption combined with increasing use of crops such as corn and soybeans for alternative fuel production are partly to blame.

Andrew W. Griffin - “Another convenient hanging”

http://www.reddirtreport.com/news.php?id=5116

Another convenient hanging

Andrew W. Griffin | May 2, 2008

If you’re the government and you have someone who is simply a “burr under the saddle” so to speak, what better way to get rid of them than have them “suicided” and make it look like “suicide.” It worked in the case of Vince Foster, so well, in fact, that according to my sources, Foster’s own wife believes the official story that he committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park, Va. in 1993.

Sadly, I was not shocked to hear Thursday’s news that former DC madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey -recently convicted on prostitution charges - was found dead, at the end of a nylon rope, in a shed on her mother’s property down in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Florida. Man, what a state. From the Pensacola to the Keys - corruption to the “nth” degree. Need to fix elections? Go to Florida. Need to train CIA operatives to fly suicide missions? Go to Florida. Need to use an international airport as a drop-off point for your multi-million dollar drug shipments? Go to Florida. Need to conveniently murder a woman connected to a case involving high-profile government officials who like it kinky? Go to Florida. It’s no surprise that a Bush was recently a governor of the Sunshine State.

Maeve Reston - “Ron Paul supporters not lining up behind McCain”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-trailgop2-2008may02,0,5989306.story

Ron Paul supporters not lining up behind McCain

Maeve Reston | May 2, 2008

As far as John McCain is concerned, the Republican presidential nomination is a done deal and the party is united behind him. But thousands of Republicans — particularly supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul — aren’t buying that.

Tom Engelhardt and Pepe Escobar - “Iran Under the Gun”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt332.html

Iran Under the Gun

Tom Engelhardt and Pepe Escobar | May 2, 2008

It’s like old times in the Persian Gulf. As of this week, a second aircraft carrier battle task force is being sent in – not long after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Michael Mullen highlighted planning for “potential military courses of action” against Iran; just as the Bush administration’s catechism of charges against the Iranians in Iraq reaches something like a fever pitch; at the moment when rumors of, leaks about, and denials of Pentagon back-to-the-drawing-board planning for new ways to attack Iran are zipping around (”Targets would include everything from the plants where weapons are made to the headquarters of the organization known as the Quds Force which directs operations in Iraq…”); and only days before the U.S. military in Iraq is supposed to conduct its latest media dog-and-pony show on Iranian support for Iraqi Shi’ite militias (”…including date stamps on newly found weapons caches showing that recently made Iranian weapons are flowing into Iraq at a steadily increasing rate…”). On the dispatching of that second aircraft carrier, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates offered the following comment: “I don’t see it as an escalation. I think it could be seen, though, as a reminder.”