Dennis Avery - “New Jason Satellite Indicates 23-Year Global Cooling”

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2871

New Jason Satellite Indicates 23-Year Global Cooling

Dennis Avery | May 5, 2008

Now it’s not just the sunspots that predict a 23-year global cooling. The new Jason oceanographic satellite shows that 2007 was a “cool” La Nina year—but Jason also says something more important is at work: The much larger and more persistent Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has turned into its cool phase, telling us to expect moderately lower global temperatures until 2030 or so.

Betsy Pisik - “Report: U.S. not as ‘free’ as touted”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080504/FOREIGN/811472213/1003

Report: U.S. not as ‘free’ as touted

Betsy Pisik | May 4, 2008

The U.S. political system is, at best, “a work in progress” according to an evaluation from the pro-democracy group Freedom House, which finds significant flaws in the U.S. criminal justice system, counterterrorism strategies and the treatment of minorities and immigrants.

In a 300-page report, titled “Today’s American: How Free?”, to be released tomorrow, the group subjects the United States to the scrutiny it more often applies to the Belaruses and Tajikistans of the world.

Despite concerns, today’s America is “quite free,” according to group, which constantly places the United States in the top tier with two dozen other nations based on civil liberties and political rights in its annual reports on freedoms around the world.

Warren Stewart - “MicroVote and ES&S Negligence Places Indiana Primaries in Jeopardy”

http://votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1212&Itemid=113

MicroVote and ES&S Negligence Places Indiana Primaries in Jeopardy

Warren Stewart | April 20, 2006

“In situations where we have not performed up to our own high expectations we apologize. Personally I apologize for that,” John Groh (pictured at right), vice president, Election Systems and Software (ES&S)

[The MicrVote Infinity equipment sold to 47 Indiana Counties] “is not an application capable of guaranteeing a primary election on May 2, 2006, without any problems … because of potential vote volatility issues.” MicroVote Infinity President James Reis

Brent Jessop - “Population Control and a World Food Authority: Reshaping the International Order”

http://intelstrike.com/?p=249

Population Control and a World Food Authority: Reshaping the International Order

Brent Jessop | May 5, 2008

“… it is of utmost importance that an equilibrium be established between the world’s total population and the capacity of ’spaceship earth’…” - RIO: Reshaping the International Order, 1976 (p124)

The establishment of a World Food Authority to control the food supply of the world is a major goal of The Club of Rome’s RIO report. This issue is intertwined with exaggerated fears of environmental collapse and the elite’s obsession with population control.

The Club of Rome is a premiere think tank composed of approximately 100 members including leading scientists, philosophers, political advisors, former politicians and many other influential bureaucrats and technocrats. This series of articles describes the major conclusions of the 1976 book Rio: Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome [1] coordinated by Nobel Laureate Jan Tinbergen. The RIO report “addresses the following question: what new international order should be recommended to the world’s statesmen and social groups so as to meet, to the extent practically and realistically possible, the urgent needs of today’s population and the probable needs of future generations?”

Levi Pulkkinen - “Using cell phones to find missing persons pushes law”

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/361775_missing05.html

Using cell phones to find missing persons pushes law

Levi Pulkkinen | May 4, 2008

The call came in to police just after midnight April 16.

Hours before, a distraught young man had phoned his mother, hinting he wanted to kill himself. When he didn’t meet her as planned, she telephoned Seattle police and reported her son missing.

Because of increasing advances in technology, officers were able to find the missing man’s cellular phone using his wireless network. Two hours after he was reported missing, the man was found alive but unwell lying on his desk and taken to University Hospital for a psychological evaluation.

Dr. Housing Bubble - “Don’t Mistake a Silent Mortgage Volcano for Being Inactive: The New Face of Alt-A and Subprime Mortgages”

http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/dont-mistake-a-silent-mortgage-volcano-for-being-inactive-the-new-face-of-alt-a-and-subprime-mortgages/

Don’t Mistake a Silent Mortgage Volcano for Being Inactive: The New Face of Alt-A and Subprime Mortgages

Dr. Housing Bubble | May 5, 2008

There seems to be a false sense of security that somehow, the credit (debt) crisis is now slowly floating away into space. The market rally is indicative of this false sense of security. All bad news is ignored while slim glimmers of good news are enough to spark a rally. We are starting to look like the first quarter of 2007 when the idea that sub-prime was going to be contained in a tightly sealed silo and the market rallied all the way through August, only to be slashed to its current level. I’m not sure what data the bulls are looking at but it really doesn’t point to a recovery for sometime. In fact, many states are now revising their budgets for the fiscal year and things are a lot worse than they once appeared. California is now looking at a $20 billion budget deficit revised from the earlier $14.5 billion deficit only a few months ago.

These are things that I hope most of you are already aware of. Yet the focus has been taken away from the actual data in these toxic mortgages. Have things reached their apex of crap? Unfortunately they have not and let us go through a few reasons for this.

Darryl Robert Schoon - “The Great Depression of the 2010s”

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1209999600.php

The Great Depression of the 2010s

Darryl Robert Schoon | May 5, 2008

Economics is not rocket science. Neither is power.

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 ignited the 1920s US stock market bubble; and shortly thereafter, following the collapse of the bubble in 1929, the world entered its first Great Depression in 1933.

Investment banks are the undoing of central banking. While all banks, central, commercial and investment, view credit as the opportunity to exploit society’s growth and productivity, investment bank exploitation of growth and productivity exposes society to extreme risks—for investment banks use society’s savings to make their volatile and speculative bets.

Kurt Nimmo - “Chertoff: Stop Complaining About the Fascist Control Grid”

http://www.infowars.com/?p=1938

Chertoff: Stop Complaining About the Fascist Control Grid

Kurt Nimmo | May 5, 2008

It makes sense Michael Chertoff would make his latest anti-liberty comments while addressing the Heritage Foundation. After all, the “conservative” foundation — read, neocon foundation — is funded by the beer magnate Joe Coors and CIA operative Richard Mellon Scaife, heir of the Mellon industrial and banking fortune. Heritage was on the ball after 9/11, as it created the Homeland Defense Project, a “task force” cranking out “recommendations” for Chertoff’s police state.

“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,” reports the HAI website.

Paul Joseph Watson - “Palfrey ‘Suicide Notes’ A Contradiction In Terms”

http://www.infowars.com/?p=1945

Palfrey “Suicide Notes” A Contradiction In Terms

Paul Joseph Watson | May 5, 2008

Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s alleged suicide notes were released today and given full court press by a corporate media that largely refused to cover her statements that she would never commit suicide and the statements of her friends and family who said she wasn’t suicidal, but Palfrey’s alleged reason for killing herself, that she would be “penniless” upon leaving prison, contradicts the fact that a multi-million dollar book deal was in the pipeline.

The alleged suicide notes are very short (the one addressed to Palfrey’s sister is little over 4 small paragraphs) and written in all capital letters.

Eric Englund - “The Mosquito: Environmentalism’s Weapon of Mass Destruction”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund28.html

The Mosquito: Environmentalism’s Weapon of Mass Destruction

Eric Englund | August 22, 2005

…when one swallows environmentalism, one inescapably swallows poison.

~ Dr. George Reisman

Environmentalists want you dead; and the sooner the better. Did that get your attention? I certainly hope so. For it is the environmental movement’s objective to radically reduce the human population. As mankind seeks to extend the division of labor, to further explore for and utilize natural resources, to develop new life-improving technologies, and to enhance our quality of life, environmentalists view humanity as nothing more than a voracious parasite raping, pillaging, and sucking the life out of Mother Earth. It is within this context – i.e. rescuing Mother Earth from the human parasite, via massive population reduction – that one comes to understand the environmental movement’s nihilistic push to permanently ban the use of DDT always and everywhere. Ultimately, banning DDT (a safe and cost-effective insecticide) is tantamount to cheering on the mosquitoes to kill as many people as possible with such diseases as malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, and West Nile virus.

Eric Englund - “The Green Recession”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund46.html

The Green Recession

Eric Englund | May 5, 2008

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 inflation and joblessness spiral upward, the economy plunges to greater depths. Opinions abound as to why America’s economic ship is taking on water. Just as certainly as John McCain has personally witnessed global warming, I have ascertained the cause of America’s economic malaise. Indeed, in a moment of deep insight, I have discovered that our economy is sinking in direct proportion to the rise of the environmental movement. The greener Americans become, the further our economy falls.

Stefan M.I. Karlsson - “Why the U.S. Recession Is Here”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/karlsson8.html

Why the U.S. Recession Is Here

Stefan M.I. Karlsson | May 5, 2008

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 recession. First and foremost among them was Larry Kudlow, along with Jerry Bowyer, whose book The Bush Boom Kudlow wrote the introduction of. The argument made is that since GDP supposedly still expands and since recession is supposedly defined as two consecutive quarters of falling GDP, this means that there aren’t no recession.

But as a matter of fact, both parts of this argument is wrong. First of all, recession is in fact usually not defined by two consecutive quarters of falling GDP. Although there were three quarters of falling GDP in 2000 and 2001, these declines were interrupted by quarters of rising GDP, so using the definition of two consecutive quarters of falling GDP there weren’t any recession in 2001. Instead, recession is usually declined as a broad based decline in economic activity, which specifically means falling industrial production, payroll employment, real disposable income excluding transfer payments and real business sales. This, together with some indicator of monthly GDP is how the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) define a recession.

Geoffrey Pike - “Green Idiocracy”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/pike7.html

Green Idiocracy

Geoffrey Pike | May 5, 2008

There is a movie called Idiocracy in which two average people partake in a hibernation project and end up 500 years in the future. To their surprise, the people in society have turned into complete idiots. Sometimes I feel like this is the world I am living in, especially lately with Earth Day.

The whole “green” movement is a joke and I am baffled by how many people have been swindled out there. I have nothing against others helping the environment or nature, provided that it is done peacefully, but all of this environmental anguish is out of control. Luckily, the average American is only talking about it and doing small symbolic gestures and is not ready to sacrifice their lifestyle.

Infowars - “Breaking: Palfrey May Have Had Information on 9/11″

http://www.infowars.com/?p=1923

Breaking: Palfrey May Have Had Information on 9/11

Infowars | May 4, 2008

On Alex Jones’ Sunday radio show, Wayne Madsen, the Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author, syndicated columnist, and former security analyst with the NSA, revealed that Deborah Jeane Palfrey may have had crucial information about the attacks of September 11, 2001. Specifically, Madsen indicated Palfrey may have had information concerning intelligence gathered prior to the attacks, information possibly gleaned from government insiders by one or a number of her escorts.

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