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“I’ve come to admire Michele Bachmann, especially since she nailed Timothy Geithner to the wall while repeatedly asking him what provision in the Constitution gave the Treasury Department the authority to manage markets and the financial services industry.”….

“Five-to-40-year-olds and Canada’s aboriginal communities should be the first to get vaccinated against human swine flu, experts say as Canadian officials decide who gets priority for the flu shots.

 Under Canada’s official pandemic plan, the entire population would ultimately be immunized against the H1N1 swine flu.”

 …..Over 31,478 American scientists signed a petition in the appendix citing “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”

“With recovery elusive, a population doddering into old age and perhaps a decade of deflation in prospect, Japan may start mulling the most radical monetary policy of all – the abolition of cash.”

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Tom Engelhardt:

‘Blowing Them Away Means Never To Having To Say You’re Sorry’

Victoria Hardy at American Chronicle:

‘Sometimes I’m pretty sure I’ve unknowingly fallen into an alternate universe and more and more, I know I am a stranger in a strange land. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when this odd change occurred in our society and when it became acceptable to arrest and handcuff young children, but in this brave new world we are living, it seems to be approaching the norm. I wonder where common sense has gone and I ache for the children growing up under these over-the-top rules that have become so popular these days.’

James Turk at Kitco.com:

…”In other words, gold is an inflation hedge. But that is only one of gold’s advantages. There is also another valuable reason to own gold, and significantly, this other reason is becoming increasingly important.

Gold is also a catastrophe hedge. Gold enables us to protect our wealth from a financial meltdown because it does not have counterparty risk.”…

From AP:
“Al-Qaida terrorists may be plotting more urgently to attack the United States to maintain their credibility and ability to recruit followers, the U.S. military commander in charge of domestic defense said.”

 Lew Rockwell:

“Nothing could be better for the country than cancelling the 2008 election. Leave the office of the presidency empty.

I can see only one possible justification for having a president of the United States: to preside over the dismantling of the federal government. If you think this is a radical idea, think again. This is, in part, what people have long voted for, even if they never actually get it. I can hardly remember a time when a president has been elected who didn’t promise to get the government off our backs.”

From Bloomberg:

“Crude oil may rise to $120 a barrel within six months due to the dollar weakness and global political tensions, the chief executive officer of Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. said.”

From Lew Rockwell:

Forget the Bush-Bernanke Greenback.

Yikes!
“A worldwide shortage of a key beer ingredient, hops, is causing beer prices to spike, beer batches to be delayed, and talk of your favorite pale ales being forced to (gulp) mellow out.”

“By their actions - and especially by their lack of action in the face of ever more outrageous provocation - it appears that more and more Americans cannot think. Or care to think. Or care to care as their unelected leaders act with extraordinary pathology, stealing elections in blatant disregard for contrary exit polls, telling lie after lie, ordering mass murder to be perpetrated on helpless populations by robotic uniformed zombies drugged on testosterone, amphetamines, fear, power and patriotism. Illegal mass surveillance, illegal gulags, illegal torture, illegal renditions of foreign citizens spirited out of supposedly sovereign countries in the dead of night and flown to distant torture prisons without charges or hearings.

Yet Bush and Cheney are not arrested, not impeached, not challenged by the Congress and courts enacted to keep their powers in check. Instead their most egregious acts are met without strenuous demur from a citizenry convinced that as unquestioning citizens the jackboots will never come for them.

A lot of good Germans thought so, too.”

“Seven years in the credit-counseling business didn’t prepare Ann Estes for the alarming trend she began noticing last fall: As her clients’ mortgage bills became unaffordable, a growing number of them began paying their credit card bills before — and sometimes instead of — their mortgages.”

“As readers may know, silver has put in a sterling performance this week and has outperformed gold into the bargain. The prediction that silver will eventually outperform gold as the precious metal bull market reaches a new zenith point is being fulfilled before our very eyes.”

“Polls released yesterday and today show that Antiwar congressmen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are well ahead in their reelection campaigns.”

“Lew Rockwell, proprietor of LewRockwell.com, discusses the life and death of William F. Buckley, his early CIA ties, exile of the antiwar Right …… the coming National Service Corps, whether or not war is good for the economy and the hope inspired by the Ron Paul Revolution.”

Animated bit of wartime anti-propaganda propaganda.

If we were to apply the cartoons character roles to today’s world players, whom would be playing the Wolf?

And what is your role, gentle reader?

 From Doug Cogswell:

“I recently had a conversation with a person I’ll just call “a successful writer,” and when I mentioned an idea that he classified as “conspiracy theory” he said this: “The trouble with conspiracy theories is that they really take a toll on readership. Many people write you off as a conspiracy nut and the result is that you don’t get to have your voice in the mainstream dialogue.” Now that gave me pause. It was a slap in the face that forced me to confront the question: Why write?”

“The collapse of US honeybee colonies this year is set to devastate America’s multibillion dollar agriculture and food industries.

Last year about 750,000 of the 2.5m hives in the US were wiped out in mysterious circumstances, and already this year the American Beekeeping Federation says there is evidence from its members that losses will be even greater this year.”

Professor was ‘prepared to die‘; students sent text messages to parents.

“Congressman Ron Paul slammed Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke during a House Financial Services Committee meeting today for following a policy of deliberately destroying the dollar and wiping out the American middle class”.

“Doctors urged patients to keep taking their anti-depressants Wednesday despite a scientific study showing that the drugs are little more effective than placebos in treating depression.”

Damage control from Big Pharma re: this.

‘The IMF goal appears to be to shove the price of gold back down into the $500 per ounce range, Bolser told WND in an exclusive telephone interview.

Bolser said a secondary goal is for the IMF to gain control of as much of the world’s gold reserves as possible.

“This grab of IMF sovereign gold held in central banks around the world matches what the Federal Reserve did in 1934 when the Treasury grabbed U.S. citizen’s wealth after a long and debilitating depression created by the Fed through excessive lending,” Bolser said”.

“They are among the biggest-selling drugs of all time, the “happiness pills” that supposedly lift the moods of those who suffer depression and are taken by millions of people in the UK every year.

But one of the largest studies of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they have no clinically significant effect. In other words, they don’t work”.