Things That Have Not Yet Happened
• Michael Shedlock / MishBernanke’s statements are like standing in front of a tsunami proclaiming "The Worst Is Over" before the wave even hits the shore.
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The Crazy World of Egg Stacking
• Mondoreb & RidesAPaleHorseApparently, stacking eggs is like a bad gambling habit: once you start, it’s hard to stop.
Inflation fears may push gold back to $1,000/oz
• ReutersGold is poised to climb back above $1,000 per ounce this year, as inflationary pressures and financial turmoil prompt investors to seek shelter in the metal used as a store of value. But the caveat is gold's fortunes are traditionally strongly
Golf Cart Injuries Soar
• LiveScience[not enough regulation of course] Putt-putt golf carts of yesteryear have given way to pimped-out street versions that are much speedier, and apparently more dangerous.
U.S. seeking 58 bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say
• McClatchy NewsIraqi lawmakers say the United States is demanding 58 bases as part of a proposed "status of forces" agreement that will allow U.S. troops to remain in the country indefinitely.
Fed blames inflation on increasing prices -- uuuhhhhhhh?
• ReutersBoston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren, also warned that inflationary pressures were being stoked by soaring energy and food prices, and after aggressive Fed interest rate cuts since September.
3 Internet providers agree to block child porn
• APThe companies also will pay $1.1 million to help fund efforts to remove the online child porn created and disseminated by users through their services, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said. The changes will affect customers nationwide.
Government’s Moral Compass (Yeah, I Laughed Too)<br>by Becky Akers
• LewRockwellIt’s always amusing when politicians, cops and other denizens of the dark side lecture the rest of us on morality. A hit-and-run accident has given everyone from the chief of police to the governor an excuse to scold the citizens who pay their salari
Some Call It 'Counterinsurgency'<br>by Don Bacon
• LewRockwell[It sounds better than 'brutal military occupation'] It is widely reported that the US military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing on for over 5 years, have been "counterinsurgencies" led in Iraq by the expert General Petra
Armed revolution in Latin America is over, says Chavez
• The IndependentCatching his critics off guard, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on the Marxist rebel army in neighboring Colombia to lay down its arms and release its hostages, declaring that guerrilla armies are now "out of place".
Russians predict $250 a barrel oil in 2009
• Financial TimesGazprom, the Russian group that supplies a quarter of Europe's natural gas, expects the price of crude oil to almost double within 18 months and to take gas prices higher with it. "We think it will reach $250 a barrel in the foreseeable futu
'Government misled us into war' less notable than lesbians kissing
• Rawstory VIDEOLast week, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the long-delayed Phase II of its report on prewar intelligence, detailing "administration prewar statements that, on numerous occasions, misrepresented the intelligence and the thre
Obama pushes National Fingerprint Registry
• Heritage FoundationSens. Diane Feinstein and Mel Martinez authored a bill (with 11 co-sponsors, including Sen. Barack Obama) that was incorporated into a housing bill passed by the Senate Banking Committee that creates a national fingerprint registry.
Toyota Prius 100 MPG conversion
• Rocky Mountain NewsScientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory spruced-up a Toyota Prius, a plug-in hybrid sedan complete with a solar panel attached to its oval roof and a bigger battery in the trunk to supply power in lieu of the gasoline-fueled engine.
Senator Karen Johnson's Speech to the Senate on 9/11 (VIDEO)
• BlipTVBrief introductory material, and then we switch to the floor speech.
RON PAUL 4409 -- Spreading DeMocraCy to Mars?
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Freedom Tour 2008 - Free Concert at San Tan Flat - Wed. June 18th
• Ed Vallejo via YouTube (well it's about time!)The Ron Paul for President - Phoenix Meetup Group is giving a free concert in Queen Creek next Wednesday featuring Lee Alexander, Marc Sibilia, and Element 115 - AND THERE WILL BE DANCING! Everyone is invited!
Honda FCX: What a Gas! A Week in Suburbia With a Hydrogen Honda
• www.nytimes.comFOR a decade or longer, the fuel-cell car has resembled the mirage that recedes as you draw closer to it. Hydrogen-powered vehicles always seemed at least 20 years away, the subject of news conferences in Washington and static displays at auto shows.
NBA Games Fixed? Well, duh!
• APNBA commissioner David "Arranger" Stern dismissed allegations from a former referee at the center of a gambling scandal that the 2002 playoff series was rigged by league referees and officials, calling the claims baseless.
Jonathan Turley: Dem's Protecting Bush From Impeachment
• Rawstory.comJonathan Turley says that America's founders "would have been astonished by the absolute passivity, if not the collusion, of the Democrats in protecting President Bush from impeachment."
CHRYSLER BUILDING ON THE BLOCK
• NY Post[When you are sitting on a huge pile of US dollars that nobody wants, where are you going to spend them?] Abu Dhabi is negotiating an $800 million deal for the Art Deco treasure that has defined the Midtown skyline since 1930.
Exposing Bush Administration Corruption
Stephen LendmanBush administration corruption levels are unimaginable.
Group Plans to Send Letters to Troops in Iraq on How U.S. Government Planned 9/11
• FOX NewsUS troops serving in Iraq may be getting more letters during mail call, but they won't be care packages — one group is sending them letters and DVDs claiming 9/11 was an “inside job” and that they should rethink why they’re fighting.
ASU to create largest university solar project
• www.eastvalleytribune.comThe Sun Devils will become sun harvesters after embarking on the largest-scale solar energy project of any university in the nation. Officials contracted three energy companies — Honeywell Building Systems, Independent Energy Group and SolEquity — to
Sheriff Refuses to Perform Duties
• Wall Street JournalWith the economy soft and thousands of Philadelphians delinquent on their mortgages, Sheriff Green this spring refused to hold a court-ordered foreclosure auction. [but still jailed pot smokers]
Patrick Cockburn and Jahangir Golestan-Parast on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
Mark Jokel
Stink Bugs Invade Washington D.C.
• Your WebmasterAuthorities were amazed at thousands of big black stink bugs surrounding the Capitol today, but visitors knew it was simply "business as usual for the politicians" there. [I thought lobbyists had invaded.] See photos of many of your lawmake
Ron Paul planning parallel convention to send GOP a 'strong message' in Minneapolis
• RawStory.comPaul's supporters are really "looking to build a national organization that is going to run at a grassroots level, be organized at a precinct level, and to identify candidates to support," Benton said, "real constitutionalist candi
Hell Drivers: A Movie Even a Crash Test Dummy Could Love
• MondorebAt last, a movie for the whole family–a family of crash test dummies. We got an email from the producer of “Hell Drivers: America’s Original Crash Test Dummies”. It opens next week–though likely not in a theater near you.
McClellan speaks out on testifying on CIA leak
• RawStory.comFormer White House spokesman Scott McClellan is agreeing to go where other former administration officials have feared to tread — before a congressional committee investigating his former boss’s misdeeds.
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