Drugmakers are racing to make a vaccine against the new flu strain but if the disease increases significantly in the northern hemisphere autumn, as many experts fear, there are unlikely to be enough shots to vaccinate entire populations.

The new clearing house, New York Portfolio Clearing, will combine the NYSE Euronext's U.S. futures exchange and DTCC's Fixed Income Clearing Corp to offer risk management, clearing and settlement efficiencies for U.S. fixed income securities and derivatives.

The federal government has failed to develop an coordinated strategy to stop the illegal trafficking of firearms into Mexico, according to a new government report.

The General Accountability Office investigation cites Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives data that approximates 87% of firearms seized by Mexican authorities and submitted to the U.S. for tracing in the last five years came from the U.S., and found that roughly one quarter of the guns seized are high-caliber, high-powered assault style weapons, including AK-47s and AR-15s.

After months of silence, former president George W. Bush launched a broad-scale critique of President Obama's approach to economic policy, national security and health care during a speech.

Have a message you've just GOT to text a friend right now?

Legislation approved by a Senate panel would make it illegal to use a cell phone while operating a motor vehicle. Violators would have to pay $50 if caught.

Today, June 17th, is a bittersweet day for me. My late husband, Harry Browne, was born on this day. To commemorate his birth each year of our marriage, I spent a great deal of time and effort planning a day full of special surprises. Consequently, it was always a happy day.

Harry has been gone for more than three years now. I miss him more than words can express.

I know many reading this Downsizer-Dispatch miss him too.

In these troubling times, we all miss Harry's voice.

* Harry understood Austrian economic theory and the business cycle.

* He also specialized in understanding the damage that Big Government does to our economy -- especially when the politicians try to "fix" it.

We wish we could directly access his wisdom right now, whether it was in his clear, persuasive columns, or his warm, convincing monologues on air.

Today's victims: Congressman Mark Kirk R-IL10 and Congressman Hal Rogers R-KY5. Both are Republican hold outs, so let's get them on board. You know what to do.

Info:
Mark Kirk R-IL10
Washington, DC Office
1030 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: 202-225-4835
Fax: 202-225-0837

Northbrook Office
707 Skokie Boulevard, Suite 350
Northbrook, IL 60062
Phone: 847-940-0202
Fax: 847-940-7143
http://www.house.gov/kirk...

Hal Rogers R-KY5
Washington,DC Office
2406 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-4601 -- phone
202-225-0940 -- fax

Hazard Office
601 Main Street
Hazard, KY 41701
606-439-0794 -- phone
606-439-4647 -- fax
http://halrogers.house.go...

Tools:
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“Most Western elites continue urging the wealthy West not to stem the migrant tide, but to absorb our global brothers and sisters until their horrid ordeal has been endured and shared by all--ten billion humans packed onto an ecologically devastated planet.”

Operation Blackjack has risen to the public eye once again. Thanks to a fellow patriot, and the Info Warrior Jason Bermas, we now understand that a hexadecimal code displayed on one of the Union of North America ID cards, actually spells the words “This is not simply entertainment.”

Upon receiving this revelation and actively following the Blackjack story, I felt obligated to decode the string myself. Returning to the site of origin, I found the slide on frame 15 of part 4 of the series.

Sure enough, once I copied the code and translated it, I found the gentleman on the Info Warrior to be correct. The code: (74686973206973206e6f742073696d706c7920656e7465727461696e6d656e74) does indeed translate into “this is not simply entertainment.”

Combing over the images, I happened upon what appeared to be a new slide. In part 4 frame 17 a seemingly new image emerged. This simple addition displayed the header, “Citizens of the Union of North America Permit Read Full Story
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It is my argument that, beneath our very noses, George Bush (and now Obama) and his administration are using time-tested tactics to close down an open society. It is time for us to be willing to think the unthinkable - as the author and political journalist Joe Conason, has put it, that it can happen here. And that we are further along than we realise.

Conason eloquently warned of the danger of American authoritarianism. I am arguing that we need also to look at the lessons of European and other kinds of fascism to understand the potential seriousness of the events we see unfolding in the US.