Bush: Welcomed In The Land of 15 Hijackers
• News.BBC.co.ukThe Bush administration has notified the U.S. Congress that it intends to go ahead with a major sale of sensitive military technology to Saudi Arabia.
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Mysterious $100 Counterfeit Bills Appear Across World
• KansasCityStar.comIt’s an illegal parallel print of a genuine note.” He claims that the supernotes are of such high quality and are updated so frequently that they could be produced only by a U.S. government agency such as the CIA.
GM to Make Biofuel Out of Garbage
• RawStory.comThe US automaker has entered into a partnership with Illinois-based Coskata Inc. which has developed a way to make ethanol from practically any renewable source, including old tires and plant waste.
Supreme Court: The Dying Have No Right to Experimental Drugs
• RawStory.comAs is customary when the court declines to take up a case, the nine justices gave no explanation of their reasoning.
GM to make biofuel out of garbage
• RawStory.comGeneral Motors Corp. is planning on making biofuel with garbage at a cost of less than a dollar a gallon, the company's chief has said."We will have our first commercial-scale plant making 50 to 100 million gallons of ethanol running in 2011."
Saudi State Bank Urges Govt. to Cut Dollar Exposure
• Reuters.comConcerns that state investors, including those in Gulf oil exporters would shift assets away from the dollar helped drive the U.S. unit to record lows on global markets last year.
H.R. 1955 misinformation spreads across the Internet
• Muckraker ReportJanuary 15, 2008 – Much has been written about H.R. 1955, The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, some of which is inaccurate. The inaccurate information being reported is causing [read more]
We've Run Out of Bubbles - by Bill Fleckenstein
• MoneyCentral.MSM.comIf we stop attempting to bypass the creative destruction of capitalism, we will finally be able to bring about a recovery built on a solid foundation instead of the quicksand underlying the 2003-7"recovery"....
The End of the Road for George W. Bush - by Chris Hedges
• TruthDig.comHe will return, I expect, to his ranch, where he will be able to spend the rest of his life doing the only task for which he has shown any aptitude—cutting down brush with a chain saw.
Courage! by Christine Smith
• Alien Love...the war against corruption- and its stripping and stealing of human dignity/civil liberties/property and all its assaults on the human spirit- will be won....
The Deflation Time Bomb
• OnlineJournal.comIn fact, real estate is quickly becoming the leper at the birthday party; everyone is staying away. That means that prices will fall -- and more rapidly than anyone imagined. The blood is in the water.
U.S. drafting plan to allow government access to any e-mail or Web search
• Rawstory.comNational Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," ....
CNBC: Citigroup to Announce $24 billion Write-Down, 17,000-24,000 Job Cuts
• CalculatedRisk.blogspot.comThe Chinese government's apparent rejection of a planned multi-billion-dollar investment in Citigroup Inc. by state-owned China Development Bank suggests there may be limits to Beijing's....
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Amnesty Politicians Running for President
Frosty WooldridgeWhich presidential candidate will stop unending, massive and unrelenting immigration into the United States? Which one will stop the next added 70 million immigrants from crashing like a "Human Katrina" onto our shores? Find out!
Credit Card Time Bomb Is Ticking Away
• MikeCash strapped consumers are increasingly turning to charge cards and home equity lines to support consumption. Some Debt Trends Are Good. This Isn’t One of Them. The trend towards treating credit card like ATMs is not going to end well for either the
President Bush visit paralyzes Dubai
• Arabian BusinessA public holiday was declared for Monday for Bush's visit. Most Dubai residents learned about the holiday on local radio stations as they sat stuck in traffic caused by roads closed by security personnel.
Option ARM Update: "This is a stated income crisis"
• CalculatedRisk.blogspot.comThe percentage of option ARMs with payments behind by at least 60 days in California is in double digits in the Inland Empire, San Diego County, Santa Barbara County, Sacramento, Salinas and Modesto....
Toward Militarism, War, Empire, Caskets, and Bankruptcy
• TheFutureofFreedomFoundation.orgWhat’s the point of sending a fleet of battleships and destroyers into the Middle East if it’s not to poke hornets’ nests?
Using Bhutto for Imperial Gain
Stephen LendmanExamining the real motives behind the Bhutto assassination.
Joint Chiefs chairman: Close Guantanamo
• APThe chief of the U.S. military said he favors closing the prison here as soon as possible. “I’d like to see it shut down,” Adm. Mike Mullen said, adding the negative publicity worldwide about treatment of terrorist suspects had been “pretty damaging”
Retail in a state of "anarchy" as consumers retreat
• Reuters"It's anarchy," said the chief executive of WSL Strategic Retail. "Americans cannot control the big things such as oil prices, falling home values, mortgage costs and rising property taxes, so they want to control the small things
UK: Organs to be taken without consent
• Telegraph.co.ukThe proposals would mean consent for organ donation after death would be automatically presumed, unless individuals had opted out of the national register or family members objected.
Guardsman guilty of illegally transferring 'machine gun' after firearm malfunctions
• WorldNetDailyThat means now that anyone who's weapon malfunctions is subject to charges of having or handling a banned gun, according to an expert witness
Housing gridlock: Trapped in Suburbia
• MikeThe Chicago Tribune is telling a story that's happening about 60 minutes from where I live, in booming Will County Illinois where miles and miles of cornfields were turned into miles and miles of houses. It had to end and so it did. Now many are
Who's worse, Al-Qaeda or the Tamil Tigers?
• Gulf TimesThe "ruthless tactics" of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers have inspired terrorist networks worldwide, including Al Qaeda in Iraq, says the FBI. In an appeal to the American public to report on Tiger operatives who might be lurking under cover,
Israel's Netanyahu Claims President Bush Promised a Nuclear Attack on Iran
• VeteransforCommomSense.orgPresident Bush issued a stark warning to Iran over the Strait of Hormuz incident, saying that "all options are on the table to protect our assets."
Bush: "Iran is Today the World's Leading Sponsor of Terror"
• News.Yahoo.com"One cause of instability is the extremists supported and embodied by the regime that sits in Tehran," Bush said. "Iran is today the world's leading state sponsor of terror.
Ron Paul’s campaign is about freeing minds
Michael SchwarzFear: a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.
Citi Merchant Services Refuses firearms transactions
• National Shooting Sports foundationCiti Merchant Services and First Data Corp. are refusing to process any credit card transactions between federally licensed firearms retailers, distributors and manufacturers
For Sale: One 300 square foot House
• GinnOur intrepid Go-To-Guy, RAPH, found this tiny gem of a house for sale in Toronto. At three hundred square feet and 7.25' wide, NBA Center, Yao Ming wouldn't be able to stretch out his 7.6' frame.
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