Gaza Aid Flotilla: Israel Will Once Again Get Away with Murder

Israel is immune to international condemnation of its murderous efforts to continue the illegal and immoral colonialist occupation of Palestine. Editorials of outrage and condemnation published in Europe, the Arab world, and the United States over the latest psychopathic episode will not deter Israel in the least, not so long as an AIPAC-mesmerized (and intimidated) Congress continues to shower Israel with billions of dollars and remains silent on its homicidal rampages. http://www.infowars.com/gaza-aid-flotilla-israel-will-once-again-get-away-with-murder/

How the MSM is Reporting the Assault on the Gaza Peace Ships

ABCNNBBCBS stands there with their hair on fire and insists they cannot smell any smoke. This explains why less than 10% of America gets their political news from the TV networks and why the blogs’ readership is exploding. http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=22127&start=0

Criminal Negligence by BP

Several weeks before the Gulf oil explosion, a key piece of safety equipment – the blowout preventer – was damaged. As the Times of London reports: [Mike Williams, the chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon, and one of the last workers to leave the doomed rig] claimed that the blowout preventer was then damaged when a crewman accidentally moved a joystick, applying hundreds of thousands of pounds of force. Pieces of rubber were found in the drilling fluid, which he said implied damage to a crucial seal. But a supervisor declared the find to be “not a big deal”, Mr Williams alleged. http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/05/despite-knowing-it-had-damaged-blowout.html

The Gathering Darkness and Its Inescapble Destiny

I could continue to list the crimes of these villains, long past the space restrictions of this essay. Together with other malevolent groups and individuals and with the assistance of those they have bought and paid for, they are behind most of the greater evils of our times, including organ theft, human trafficking, international drug dealing, the pornography and gambling empires as well as prostitution and assassinations across the globe. This is also supported by hard evidence. These are monsters. http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/2010/05/gathering-darkness-and-its-inescapable.html

Geithner Rushes To Sabotage German Derivatives Ban

The German government is now fully committed to escalating its ongoing counterattack against international financial speculation. These moves represent an historical watershed as Germany becomes the first major economic power to roll back the tide of financial globalization, under which crackdowns on hedge funds, derivatives, and the world gambling casino were branded as taboo for national governments. http://www.rense.com/general91/geit.htm

Is the U.S. Government Planning War to Quell the Tide of Economic Unrest?

United States wars are virtually all wars of aggression, so it is quite evident that U.S. wars are “fought” for reasons other than self-defense. That means there are ulterior motives involved that are not related to moral behavior, but instead to nefarious intent. This is a disturbing revelation, and one little understood by the American masses. It is one however, that if more understood, could literally blow the lid off the notion that the purposeful buildup of the military–industrial complex is for the defense of this nation! This thought scares the life out of those in power who need to keep the populace scared to death at all times in order to propagate their crimes. Our economy, as is the case for much of the rest of the world’s economies, is currently imploding. Since all major economies in the world are based on valueless, un-backed, and worthless money, this situation should have been evident to the mainstream long ago. Of course the failing economy is just one piece of the puzzle, but it is most definitely the most important piece. With a so-called vibrant economy over the past decade or so, even though it was based on lies and deceit, and was a complete sham, the general population was easy to control during these so-called “prosperous” times. With the real economy now being exposed for the fraud that it is, and the real risks becoming more evident, the once complacent citizen is now becoming angry. Because of this, the evil U.S. federal government must find a new method of fooling the masses into believing in “their” government and country. War is the obvious answer, as war solidifies the putrid and false nationalistic worship of the peasants more than any other ploy. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25575.htm

A Lullaby of Lies

While most Americans were sitting out on their decks barbecuing over the Memorial Day weekend, our leaders were planning to barbecue a few Pakistanis, as the Washington Post reported. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/05/30/a-lullaby-of-lies/

Israeli Butchery at Sea

As I write this piece the scale of the Israeli lethal slaughter at sea is yet to be clear. However we already know that at around 4am Gaza time, hundreds of IDF commandos stormed the Free Gaza international humanitarian fleet. We learn from the Arab press that at least 16 peace activists have been murdered and more than 50 were injured. Once again it is devastatingly obvious that Israel is not trying to hide its true nature: an inhuman murderous collective fuelled by a psychosis and driven by paranoia. http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/israeli-butchery-at-sea-by-gilad-atzmon.html#entry7817603

Israel’s Latest War Crime: Peace Flotilla Attacked Bringing Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Israel has done it again. (See news articles and videos compiled by Alison Weir at “If Americans Knew.”) Creating outrage on a daily basis seems to be its speciality. It has now launched an attack on international peace activists carrying humanitarian aid to besieged Gaza — “the world’s largest concentration camp” still recovering from war crimes committed by Israel almost 18 months ago. http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=2068

Sex and Politics

With or without this strange Levantine make-believe metaphysical mimicry of penile pseudo-castration, unbridled sexual activity has become today a quasi categorical imperative, largely dependent on the whims of the capitalist market. According to the logic of supply and demand one should not rule out that the liberal system may soon issue a decree for mandatory multiracial marriages. Marriage of White couples may be “scientifically” attested as an “unhealthy union at variance with democratic principles of ethnic sensitivity training.” Never has the West witnessed so much psycho-babble about “love”, “interracial tolerance,” “gender mainstreaming,” “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc. — at the time when suicidal loneliness, serial divorces, sexual narcissism, and sexual violence have become its only trademarks of survivability. http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Sunic-Sex&Politics.html#TS

The Wall Street Journal’s War On Gold

The case for a gold coin monetary standard is simple: no one should trust the United States government or the Federal Reserve System to maintain the purchasing power of the dollar. Since 1914, the dollar has declined in purchasing power by 96%. As Casey Stengel used to say, you can look it up. Unlike Casey, I’ll show you where to look it up. Here. The case for gold as an investment is different. First, it is an inflation hedge over long periods of time, though not necessarily in the medium term, e.g., 1980–2001. Second, it is a crisis hedge when the international capital markets are in turmoil. http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north849.html

‘Civil Rights’ and Total War

Although the post-war military dictatorship in the South ended in 1877, the 1964 “civil rights” act is a continuation – and expansion – of Reconstruction. That act was designed and intended to make every private institution, transaction, and relationship subject to federal scrutiny in the name of abolishing “discrimination.” In principle, and sometimes in practice, the federal “civil rights” apparatus is literally making war upon Americans whose hiring policies, business practices, and private associations don’t find favor with the exalted beings who have made themselves the arbiters of acceptable attitudes and social outcomes. http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w149.html

A Disgrace of Historic Proportions

And despite knowing how many people we are innocently imprisoning, the Obama administration continues to demand the power to imprison people with no judicial review: by indefinitely detaining them without charges, by insisting that Bagram detainees captured outside Afghanistan have no habeas rights, by refusing to release any Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo, including those whom the administration itself knows are being wrongfully detained. And in light of all this, who in their right mind would trust the President to assassinate fellow citizens based purely on his unchecked, unreviewed conclusion that the person is a Terrorist? It’s commonplace to label something a travesty of justice, but who can deny that knowingly imprisoning innocent people for years and years while scheming to deny them all judicial review is a disgrace of historic proportions? http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/28/guantanamo/index.html

Remembering Wars and Warriors

In 1917, we declared war on Germany “to make the world safe for democracy.” And our major allies were four of the largest empires on earth: the British, French, Russian and Japanese. We deposed the Kaiser, and got Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and World War II. As a result of these world wars, all the Western empires fell, and Western Civilization began its inexorable advance to the grave. Impending bankruptcy aside, not one Western nation has a birth rate that will enable its native-born to survive many more generations. We did it to ourselves. http://vdare.com/buchanan/100528_remembering_wars.htm

The Architecture of Terror: Mapping the Network Behind 9-11

“A faction, acting in disguise, was rising in America; they had lost sight of first principles,” Thomas Paine wrote. “They were beginning to contemplate government as a profitable monopoly, and the people as hereditary property.” Two hundred years later, as an American student of history, I made the same observation: A faction, acting in disguise, was rising in America. This faction also viewed government as a profitable monopoly, which they sought to control. The rising faction I noticed taking control in the 1980s was primarily Jewish by ethnicity, and Zionist by ideology. http://www.bushstole04.com/911/911_architecture.htm

China’s Currency Manipulation: About to Cause a Global Explosion?

China’s currency continues to be a subject the U.S. is willing to tap dance around diplomatically. Because when the gloves eventually do come off, U.S./China relations could rapidly collapse. http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/chinas-currency-manipulation-about-to-cause-a-global-explosion-39257?FIELD9=1

The Coming Iran War

Earlier in May, Turkey and Brazil — after months of intense negotiations — persuaded the Iranian regime to accept a deal that would have vastly reduced its ability to produce a nuclear weapon. The Turkish-Brazilian deal was almost identical to the one President Obama and our allies pushed the Iranians to accept back in October. Only this time, it wasn’t good enough. The Obama administration ignored the Turkish-Brazilian breakthrough, saying its goal was crippling sanctions and that it was close to achieving them. Of course, few believe sanctions will have any significant effect other than to punish ordinary Iranians, people who are suffering quite enough under a monstrous regime. http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2010/05/coming-iran-war.html

Bilderberg: The Open Conspiracy

Now that the agenda for global government and a centralized world economic system is public and out in the open, the importance of the Bilderberg Group’s annual conference rests on grooming political candidates. The lion’s share of Bilderberg’s 2010 agenda has already been announced by its members weeks before – it will revolve around a potential military strike on Iran as well as the future collapse of the euro. Trilateral Commission members, who routinely also attend Bilderberg’s annual confab, have let slip that a war on Iran is being seriously debated, while the elite continue to exploit the fallout from the economic crisis to push for centralized financial regulation. http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/may2010/052810_open_conspiracy.htm

Feminism and the S.A.D.

The connection between feminism and the Standard American Diet (appropriately referred to as S.A.D.), may not seem apparent to most. Bear with me in this rather long piece, as I belabor to make the point in showing this connection, and how it’s contributed to so much ill health in America today. http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/05/27/feminism-and-the-s-a-d/

Humanitarian Flotilla Vs. Evil Navy

Haaretz reports today that Israel will attempt to block the humanitarian Freedom Flotilla heading toward Gaza. However, according to the Israeli paper, the humanitarian cargo would then be unloaded, inspected and sent to Gaza overland via the United Nations.Typical for Israel, it tries to win a lost battle. On the one hand, by stopping the flotilla Israel attempts to maintain its regional status as an omnipotent super power that controls the land, the air and the sea. On the other hand, the Jewish state pathetically also wants to evoke sympathy for being ‘sensitive’ to humanitarian issues and the Palestinian plight. The Israeli government fails to gather that the tide has changed. We see through them. We all know what the Jewish state stands for. We all know about the devastation in Gaza, we know about the siege, the destruction and the crimes against humanity. We all watch the Israeli separation wall cutting through Palestinian family’s houses and olive orchards. We also follow the racist ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem. The Israelis better save us from their spins and manipulations. http://www.countercurrents.org/atzmon280510.htm

Switch On Your BS Detector

This annual national security strategy document is pure propaganda, aimed – first and foremost – at the American people. It is they, after all, who are paying for the implementation of this grand strategy: a world empire of bases, occupied countries, and interlocking alliances that enables U.S. hegemony. Reading these national security strategy documents in chronological order, from beginning to end, is not only sure to produce a splitting headache, but apt to impress the reader with the remarkable consistency with which our rulers pursue their dream of global domination. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/05/27/switch-on-your-b-s-detector/

Democrats and the McCarthyite Attack on Detainee Lawyers

This is yet another example of repellent, fear-based policies that could not be (or at least were not) enacted during the Bush years yet are finding new life under Democratic Party rule. Recall that Bush Pentagon official Cully Stimson was actually forced to apologize for suggesting that lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees were engaged in disloyal and improper acts. Yet with the Democrats in control of Washington, a provision grounded in exactly that rotted premise has now been unanimously reported out of a major House Committee. http://uruknet.com/?p=m66408&hd=&size=1&l=e

What is the Price for Your Child’s Life?

In exchange for money, a certain group of people have agreed to let your kids be killed. That group is the United States Congress. And for the last several years, many of them have been accepting money from AIPAC, a supposed lobbying group that stands exposed as a spy operation for a foreign government, in order to promote that foreign government’s agenda, which includes war in the Mideast, waged against that foreign government’s enemies. This selling of America’s children to a foreign government to be that government’s mercenaries has to rank as the greatest single betrayal of a people by their government in all of history. http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/priceofyourchild.html

U.S. Military Ratchets Up Iran Infiltration to Prepare for War

Officials today have admitted that Gen. David Petraeus signed a secret order months ago to dramatically escalate the number of covert military operations taking place in the Middle East. Special focus was said to have been given to Somalia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. http://news.antiwar.com/2010/05/25/us-military-ratchets-up-iran-infiltration-to-prepare-for-war/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AntiwarNews+%28News+From+Antiwar.com%29

Israel Keeping The World In Turmoil

The world is a funny place. With 95% of the worlds weapons design and development being done in the US, why is it that American technologies show up in enemy hands continually? Could the long history of Israeli spying against the US be involved? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25561.htm

Will Democrats’ Standing Ovations For Mexican Meddler Calderon Return To Haunt Them?

Felipe Calderon

Like a Roman emperor visiting a province, Mexican President Felipe Calderon paid a visit to his subjects in Washington, D.C. last week. He was received with pomp and circumstance, told his subjects what he wanted done, and returned home a conquering hero. Would we tolerate such arrogant behavior from Russia or China? Yet the president of Mexico is allowed to insult our laws and treat us with contempt. http://vdare.com/awall/100527_memo.htm

Is This What You Had in Mind?

Just in case you have been awakened enough at this point to begin wondering about some of these things — they are all true; verifiably true. So before you start screaming invectives at this messenger, if you have any intellectual honesty at all you should at least study these matters and investigate these issues for yourself. It will be quite a trip. http://koinenscorner.blogspot.com/2010/05/is-this-what-you-had-in-mind.html

Paul Craig Roberts: Government Abandoned Vietnam POWs

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home,” writes Schanberg. “Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. http://www.infowars.com/paul-craig-roberts-government-abandoned-vietnam-pows/

The Strategic Ally Myth

Morty

It is difficult to understand why anyone would take Mort Zuckerman seriously. He is a New York based but Canadian born Israel firster who made a fortune in real estate before buying The New York Daily News and the US News and World Report. He now fancies himself as a leading journalist and political commentator. Zuckerman is frequently spotted on the television talking head circuit where he dispenses analysis of international events that could have been crafted in Tel Aviv or Herzliya, where the Israeli intelligence service Mossad has its headquarters. Zuckerman’s latest contribution to international harmony is a lengthy piece in the US News & World Report entitled “Israel Is a Key Ally and Deserves US Support.” It is a propaganda piece that promotes one of the most persistent fictions put out by the mainstream media, that the relationship with Israel somehow benefits the United States. http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/05/26/the-strategic-ally-myth/

Ezra Pound on Money

Ezra Pound

We’re never far from money. We spend most of our time and energy in quest of money. But how did this thing become an intermediary between us and the world around us? Before money, we bartered. Why did money supplant barter and who is custodian of the money system? These questions are dangerous: they cost Ezra Pound twelve years. Pound was a victim of political persecution at the behest of financiers and their minions like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. These people feared Ezra because he asked “what is money for,” and came up with an inconvenient answer. http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Hartley-Ezra-Pound-on-Money.html

Elena Kagan’s Judicial Hero

Guess who Elena Kagan, Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, considers her judicial hero? Earl Warren? Nope. John Paul Stevens? Nope. Harry Blackmun? Nope. You’re not even close. And her hero makes those flaming liberals look like the essence of judicial restraint. http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/2010/05/25/elena-kagans-judicial-hero/

U.S. ‘Recession’ Breeds Escalating Violent Crime

Violent crime is out of control in Chicago

Shootings are way up in Chicago, and ordinary citizens — along with shorthanded police — are angry. Chicago has a gun ban, yet on Wednesday, May 19, Thomas Wortham IV, a Chicago police officer and Iraq War veteran, was shot when four gang members attempted to steal the new motorcycle the officer had brought to show his father, a retired police officer. Shots were fired, and his father saw the skirmish, ran for his gun, and managed to get off a few rounds. Two gang members were shot while two sped away dragging his fallen son’s body some distance in the process. Nine people were shot on Sunday night (May 24), and Chicago is currently in the grips of a massive crime wave that has overwhelmed our under funded police force. Gangland violence and shootings now occur up and down Chicago’s lakefront. An anonymous Chicago policeman reports what most of the mainstream media fails to report at secondcitycop.blogspot.com. The comments under the section titled “Lakefront Problems” are particularly illuminating. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-tavakoli/us-recession-breeds-escal_b_589674.html

U.S. Money Supply Plunges at 1930s Pace

The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7769126/US-money-supply-plunges-at-1930s-pace-as-Obama-eyes-fresh-stimulus.html

One Man’s Story of Arizona’s Nightmare

We find ourselves in the middle of importing incompatible cultures into our communities like a high school chemistry class throwing unknown chemicals together. Result: the mixture will either melt down or blow up. President Teddy Roosevelt said, “The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing as possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. We have one flag. We have one language, English.” http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty573.htm

Report From Occupied America: Free The Mizzou Two!

Sean Fitzgerald and Zachary Tucker are being persecuted

Criminalizing the mocking of certain individuals and groups is incompatible with a free society. But racially-motivated blacks and their white leftist allies have sought to impose tyranny on whites ever since the Civil Rights Movement began. Through hate crime hoaxes, blacks project their own racial hatred onto whites, and express their totalitarian will to power. http://vdare.com/stix/100526_mizzou_two.htm

Ten Things You Need (But Don’t Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill

How the owner of the exploded oil rig has made $270 million off the disaster, and nine other shocking, depressing facts about the oil spill. http://www.alternet.org/water/147014

Global Controllers

As difficult as it is for most people to deal with the savage events that shape and manipulate humanity, it is nearly impossible to get the multitude to admit that they are expendable bondage slaves to a global system of hideous design and sinister purpose. The illusion that governments serve the people is a total denial of history and especially, current events. http://www.batr.org/totalitariancollectivism/globalcontrollers.html

Teenager Sentenced to 25 Years for “Hate Crime”

Jeffrey Conroy

Jeffrey Conroy, 19, who was convicted last month in the November 2008 stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero, offered an apology before state Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle imposed the sentence.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100526/world/us_hate_crime_stabbing

Another Police Department Institutes “Tolerance Training”

Abe Foxman

Two dozen cadets, all of whom are being trained by Nassau County police and will work in various village police departments upon their graduation in several weeks, participated in the program, entitled Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust. The Glen Cove-based holocaust center is one of only three outside of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. that offers such classes in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a national civil rights/human relations nonprofit agency.

http://www.longislandpress.com/2010/05/25/nassau-police-cadets-attend-tolerance-training/

Poll: Is Los Angeles Right to Boycott Arizona

The Los Angeles City Council, protesting Arizona’s tough crackdown on illegal immigration, voted Wednesday to ban most city travel to Arizona and future contracts with companies in that state.

Council members argued that a new Arizona law, which will make it a state crime to lack immigration papers and requires police to determine whether people they stop are in the country illegally, would lead to racial profiling and discrimination. The law takes effect July 23. . . .

http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2010/05/boycott-arizona-immigration-poll.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpinionLa+(L.A.+Times+-+Opinion+Blog)

AP: Interracial Marriage Isn’t Rising Fast Enough

WASHINGTON – Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites.

The number of interracial marriages in the U.S. has risen 20 percent since 2000 to about 4.5 million, according to the latest census figures. While still growing, that number is a marked drop-off from the 65 percent increase between 1990 and 2000.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100526/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_interracial_marriage

Splitting the Chores?

The fact that men contribute to the chores in ways that are seldom classified under the traditional “housework” label is also essential to consider. Work need not take place in the four walls of the home to be essential. Mowing lawns, yard work, taking out the trash, handling car repairs, and keeping tabs on the finances are just as important as marketing, cleaning, and laundry. In many families this work is handled by the husband and is far too easily forgotten when an argument arrives over which spouse does what work. I’ve listen to many rants at women-only social functions about men who don’t fold the laundry or put their socks in the hamper but who get the oil changed in the car and never forget to take out the trash. More interesting is the fact that this is yet another study and resulting discussion that fails to highlight what might be the most important point in this debate. In many homes it is the man who pays for the mortgage or rent. He is the one who provides the place to cook, clean, and raise the children and the necessary tools for women to engage in “domestic drudgery”. Without his financial contribution, there would be no chores to do and for this reason providing the money for the check is arguably the most imperative housework of all. http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/05/24/splitting-the-chores/

Fear and Loathing (and Lost Wages)

The economy is dead.  Regardless of what anyone says about a recovery, there is no brining back to life something that has already breathed its last breath.  You can keep the patient on the operating table as long as you want, but eventually you’re going to have to put a sheet over its face.  The recovery is a lie. http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/fear-and-loathing-and-lost-wages/

The Prepper Movement — a Growing Network Preparing for the World’s End

There is a posse of self-sufficient men and women out there who make it their goal to be prepared when disaster strikes. They call themselves “preppers.” From natural catastrophes to economic meltdowns to nuclear blowouts, the preppers’ collective goal is quite simple: to carry on as usual, even when catastrophe strikes. Think backyard fallout shelters of the 1950s or Y2K shenanigans — only circa 2010. The whole prepper movement may seem pretty zany. So zany, in fact, that you’d think only a miniscule amount of people would actually be partaking in it. Wrong. Over recent years, a huge community of preppers has developed. Perform a simple Google search and you’ll turn up plenty of prepper-related stuff, including the Web television portal Prepper TV, survival blogs, podcasts (such as DoctorPrepper and PrepperPodcast), and forums that cover everything from a woman’s perspective to recycling to how to handle dead bodies. http://www.asylum.com/2010/05/19/preppers-a-growing-network-preparing-for-world-destruction

Top Construction Firm: WTC Destroyed By Controlled Demolition

Respected Middle East expert and former BBC presenter Alan Hart has broken his silence on 9/11, by revealing that the world’s most prominent civil engineering company told him directly that the collapse of the twin towers was a controlled demolition. Speaking on the Kevin Barrett show yesterday, Hart said he thought the 9/11 attack probably started as a Muslim operation headed up by Osama Bin Laden but that the plot was subsequently hijacked and carried out by Mossad agents in collusion with elements of the CIA, adding that since its formation, Israel has penetrated every Arab government and terrorist organization. http://www.prisonplanet.com/top-construction-firm-wtc-destroyed-by-controlled-demolition.html

Do Empires End In Afghanistan?

We now have a historical lesson which can be offered to U.S. and its European partners in NATO. Whether or not the west sees the historical writings on the wall, the fact of the matter is that the capitalist west is militarily, industrially, politically and economically considerably weakened by its nearly 9 year misadventure into Afghanistan and Iraq. The economic malaise which hit the U.S. has now crossed the eastern Atlantic shores of the U.S. into Europe and is causing fissures in the military control sphere in Afghanistan. Just as the west moved in to kill the Soviets in Europe, there is another wolf pack lingering in the shadows waiting for the kill. The world can only discern the blurring images of these non-uniformed wolves howling in the mountains of Khorasan. Another year and the U.S.-NATO alliance will match the 10 year Soviet record of its strategic mistake into Afghanistan. http://www.countercurrents.org/mitha250510.htm

‘Machete’: A New Front in the War on Whites

I wonder if “intimidate” is not too weak a word for what we are seeing. Evidence suggests that some parties seek to turn Hispanics in America into actual political murderers of “gringos.” In these anti-White times, such a murderous depiction of a war on Whites has lasting power, so the idea has now been turned into a movie. http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=1999

U.S. Raids West Kandahar as NATO Reels From Latest Attacks

U.S. troops marched through a poor neighborhood in western Kandahar this morning, searching homes and making promises of future aid in something officials are calling a “preview” of the summer offensive. The latest move comes as NATO continues to reel from a Taliban attack on the Kandahar Airport on Saturday night, their largest base in the region. The attack came as two top British officials, Foreign Secretary William Hague and Defense Secretary Liam Fox, were scheduled to fly into the base. http://news.antiwar.com/2010/05/23/us-raids-west-kandahar-as-nato-reels-from-latest-attack/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AntiwarNews+%28News+From+Antiwar.com%29

The Trouble With the 1964 Civil Rights Act

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave the federal government unprecedented power over the hiring, employee relations, and customer service practices of every business in the country. The result was a massive violation of the rights of private property and contract, which are the bedrocks of free society. The federal government has no legitimate authority to infringe on the rights of private property owners to use their property as they please and to form (or not form) contracts with terms mutually agreeable to all parties. The rights of all private property owners, even those whose actions decent people find abhorrent, must be respected if we are to maintain a free society. http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul188.html

Is Our Problem Political?

Our freedom would be more secure and we would have a better nation if our government would obey the restrictions of our Constitution. However, that is not the primary problem. The primary problem is moral; we are living under a despotic immoral government elected by a puffed up, immoral people. http://etherzone.com/2010/cron052510.shtml

Justice for Reggie?

Reginald Clemons

http://www.stlamerican.com/articles/2010/05/11/news/local_news/localnews0000000000000001.txt

Jewish Activist: “Media Should Declare Buchanan an ‘Anti-Semite’ When Introducing Him”

Like rancid salami, Patrick Buchanan is a gift that keeps on giving.

While he is careful — or under orders — to appear mainstream conservative and eminently reasonable in his frequent appearances on MSNBC, the three-time presidential candidate and former White House aide in the Nixon and Reagan administrations does not bother to hide his blatant anti-Semitism in his syndicated columns.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/menachem-rosensaft/patrick-buchanan-poster-b_b_588358.html

Obama to Send 1,200 Troops to Border

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on such a deployment.

Obama will also request $500 million for border protection and law enforcement activities, according to lawmakers and administration officials. The moves come as chances for action on comprehensive immigration reform, Obama’s long-stated goal, look increasingly small in this election year. But Obama is under pressure to do something with the issue front and center after Arizona’s passage of a tough crackdown law.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/25/ap/national/main6518120.shtml

Hispanic Company Creates “Gringo Masks” for Illegals

If you are looking for a way to beat Arizona’s new immigration law, look no further than Miami’s new Gringo Masks.

The new product, brainchild of Miami advertising agency Zubi Advertising, guarantees the cops won’t be stopping you or your loved ones after you put your best white face forward.

The product is simple. Choose from a cut out of a blue-eyed, sandy hair-colored white guy or a green-eyed, blond haired white woman.

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/Miami-Company-Creates-Gringo-Masks-for-Arizona-Illegals-94782694.html

17 States Now Filing Versions of Arizona’s Immigration Bill SB 1070

One of America’s national organizations fighting against illegal immigration is announcing that 17 states are now filing versions of Arizona’s SB 1070 law which is designed to help local police enforce America’s existing immigration laws. Numerous national and local polls indicated that 60-81% of Americans support local police enforcing immigration laws. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=8947

Nullifying Tyranny

The Kennedy brothers echo F.A. Hayek’s dictum from The Road to Serfdom that, under socialism, “the worst rise to the top.” This is also true in democracies in general, they say. In a democracy, “Successful leaders . . . tend to be those who are not hindered by strong moral principles.” That is because in a democracy, successful political candidates must do three immoral things: “promise to take money away from those who honestly earned it . . . and give it to those who have no legal right to it”; “make promises that most likely will not be kept”; and grant financial favors to individuals and groups who merely provide the financing for the winning campaign. “Only an unprincipled person can successfully piece together majority votes in a legislature made up of numerous conflicting special interest groups.” http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo187.html

Rand Paul Drinks Tea, Turns Into Hawk?

After months of a grueling primary, it is not yet clear where the younger Paul’s savvy campaigning ends and his true ideological impulses begin, particularly on national security and foreign policy. No one is entirely sure how to reconcile his more blistering critiques of the war during his father’s campaign with his more hawkish pronouncements – particularly on Iran as “a dangerous threat to the Middle East” and against closing the Guantanamo Bay prison – during his own campaign. http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/05/24/rand-paul/

Who Has a Right to Live in the U.S.?

There are close to 7 billion people on our planet. I’d like to know how the libertarians answer this question: Does each individual on the planet have a natural or God-given right to live in the U.S.? http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2010/05/immigration_and_5.php

25 Questions To Ask Anyone Who Is Delusional Enough To Believe That This Economic Recovery Is Real

If you listen to the mainstream media long enough, you just might be tempted to believe that the United States has emerged from the recession and is now in the middle of a full-fledged economic recovery. In fact, according to Obama administration officials, the great American economic machine has roared back to life, stronger and more vibrant than ever before. But is that really the case? Of course not. You would have to be delusional to believe that. What did happen was that all of the stimulus packages and government spending and new debt that Obama and the U.S. Congress pumped into the economy bought us a little bit of time. But they have also made our long-term economic problems far worse. The reality is that the U.S. cannot keep supporting an economy on an ocean of red ink forever. At some point the charade is going to come crashing down. http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8878-0-13-13–.html

Nuclear War Between Koreas: Brought To You By The U.S. Government

Just as with Saddam Hussein’s chemical and biological weapons program, it was Donald Rumsfeld who played a key role in arming Kim-Jong-Il. Rumsfeld was man who presided over a $200 million dollar contract to deliver equipment and services to build two light water reactor stations in North Korea in January 2000 when he was an executive director of ABB (Asea Brown Boveri). Wolfram Eberhardt, a spokesman for ABB confirmed that Rumsfeld was at nearly all the board meetings during his involvement with the company. Rumsfeld was merely picking up the baton from the Clinton administration, who in 1994 agreed to replace North Korea’s domestically built nuclear reactors with light water nuclear reactors. So-called government-funded ‘experts’ claimed that light water reactors couldn’t be used to make bombs. Not so according to Henry Sokolski, head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, who stated, “LWRs could be used to produce dozens of bombs’ worth of weapons-grade plutonium in both North Korea and Iran. This is true of all LWRs — a depressing fact U.S. policymakers have managed to block out.” http://www.prisonplanet.com/nuclear-war-between-koreas-brought-to-you-by-the-u-s-government.html

Totalitarianism Watch — British Teacher Being Persecuted for Beliefs

Adam Walker

A BNP activist described immigrants as ‘savage animals’ and ‘filth’ in an online forum while working as a technology teacher, a disciplinary panel heard today. Adam Walker, who also claimed that parts of Britain are a ‘dumping ground’ for the Third World, is the first teacher to appear before the General Teaching Council accused of racial intolerance. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280979/BNP-teacher-struck-calling-immigrants-filth-savage-online-forum.html

The Rand Paul Brouhaha and 21st Century Reality

For the last half dozen days, the punditry have been convulsed over hypothetical questions of — assuming the country got into a giant time machine and went a half century back into the past — would Senate candidate’s Rand Paul’s position on laws public accommodations be a good thing or not. Few seem to have noticed that we are actually living in the 21st Century, when the issues about discrimination law don’t revolve around disparate treatment but around disparate impact. Firefighter cases seem to provide the best examples of what the current law is, which isn’t anything like what everybody has been talking about. http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2010/05/24/the-rand-paul-brouhaha-and-21st-century-reality/

The Illuminati’s Covert War On America

The spill as viewed from space

The parallels between the oil spill and Katrina are uncanny. In both cases, the American Gulf coast was attacked, and the Presidential response was deemed tardy and ineffective. In the case of Katrina, the levees were blown up 12 hours after the hurricane had passed. The “tell” is the failure of the Obama Administration to declare a State of Emergency and take immediate action to stop the gusher. It is hard to believe that an Administration facing a national election in six months would sit on its hands while oil poured onto America’s Gulf coast. Last week, Obama was announcing a commission to study the causes while failing to address the blow-out itself. http://etherzone.com/2010/mako052510.shtml

The War Over America’s Past

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” That was the slogan of the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s “1984,” where Winston Smith worked ceaselessly revising the past to conform to the latest party line of Big Brother. And so we come to the battle over history books in the schools of Texas. Liberals are enraged that a Republican-dominated Board of Education is rewriting the texts. But is the rewrite being done to falsify history, or to undo a liberal bias embedded for decades? http://buchanan.org/blog/the-war-over-americas-past-4084

Foreigners Abandon South Africa’s World Cup

The World Cup is set to be a major financial disappointment for the host nation South Africa, after it became clear that international fans have decided to stay away and their tickets are being sold cheaply to South Africans.

Less than three weeks before kick-off on 11 June, South Africa’s revamped airports and spruced-up cities are staging an impressive show of readiness for the arrival of international fans – although now it seems there may be half a million fewer than expected.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/23/world-cup-visitor-blow-to-south-africa

Texas Schools Returning to the Fundamentals?

Education officials in the US state of Texas have adopted new guidelines to the school curriculum, which critics say will politicise teaching.

The changes include teaching that the UN could be a threat to American freedom, and that the Founding Fathers may not have intended a complete separation of church and state.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10141121.stm

Female Attorney: “It’s Natural for Men to Rape and Beat Women”

Deidre Clarke

Deidre Clark, 44, was sacked from her £126,000-a-year job with Allen & Overy for writing an erotic novel on the internet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280795/Lawyer-suing-firm-3-5m-sex-discrimination-claims-natural-men-rape-beat-women.html

From the Nanny State to the Bully State

During the course of this decade we will witness a global battle over the fate of the nascent Bully State. The Bully State will be this decade’s “bad cop” to the Nanny State’s “good cop” of past decades.

The past generation of welfare statism saw the unduly protective Nanny State bleed into every sinew of our daily lives. Sociologist David Marsland explains that, “Once you have a big welfare state in place, the excuse for state nannying is infinite in scale”, he says. “This … continues the process of reducing self-reliance and handing responsibility for ourselves to external bodies.”

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10457&page=1

7,000 Year-Old Swastika Unearthed in Northwestern Bulgaria

20 May 2010 | A pottery fragment with the image of a swastika, dating to 7,000 years ago, and an ancient female adornment with a phallus are among the artefacts shown for the first time as part of the on-going exhibition “Gods, Symbols and Ancient Signs” in the museum in Vratsa in north-western Bulgaria.

The swastika-decorated clay pottery fragment was found by archaeologists during excavations of a ritual pit around the village of Altimir near the town of Vratsa. The find dates back to the beginning of the Stone-Copper Age and shows that this symbol traverses the centuries and cannot be linked solely to Hitler’s party, archaeologists explained.

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1975

Peter Beinart on the Future of American Zionism

There are all sorts of issues besides Israeli racial nationalism where American media and politicians are completely out of touch with reality, particularly on issues related to race, multiculturalism, and immigration in the U.S. For example, elite consensus on immigration continues to shape media coverage and political rhetoric even though most Americans, particularly White Americans, oppose it. The media has already shown that it can maintain egregious fictions for a very long time as long as there is elite consensus. But how is the elite consensus going to change in the face of aggressive policing by the lobby? http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Peter-Beinart-American-Zionism.html

What Does the Future Hold for Rand and Ron?

Listen to Rand Paul talk and you will hear the unmistakable echoes of his father. His voice, intonation, and gestures indicate that this is the son of Rep. Ron Paul. But Tuesday night, the son pulled off a political feat that the father could never quite manage. He captured the Republican nomination for statewide office, by an overwhelming margin. In 1984, Ron Paul tried for an open Senate seat but didn’t get through the primary. He lost to that Texas titan of charisma Phil Gramm and didn’t reenter Congress again until 1997. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/20/rand_paul_ron_paul_kentucky_senate_president_2012_105662.html

No War for Israel in Iran – Keep Americans Safe

Zionist plans for war in the Middle East are detailed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxzZY4JycY

BP and the Audacity of Greed

Even as BP’s blown well a mile beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico continues to gush forth an estimated 70,000 barrels of oil a day into the sea, and the fragile wetlands along the Gulf begin to get coated with crude, which is also headed into the Gulf Stream for a trip past the Everglades and on up the East Coast, the company is demanding that Canada lift its tight rules for drilling in the icy Beaufort Sea portion of the Arctic Ocean. In an incredible display of corporate arrogance, BP is claiming that a current safety requirement that undersea wells drilled during the newly ice-free summer must also include a side relief well, so as to have a preventive measure in place that could shut down a blown well, is “too expensive” and should be eliminated. Yet clearly, if the U.S. had had such a provision in place, the Deepwater Horizon blowout could have been shut down right almost immediately after it blew out, just by turning of a valve or two, and then sealing off the blown wellhead. http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff05242010.html

A Man’s World, in Pink?

We need to fight cancer and not discriminate in finding a cure based on which sex receives treatment. But what is this new thing about men needing to wear pink to lend support to finding a cure for women’s cancer? Why can’t a man stand for something and still retain his male dignity in the process? The sad thing is many people, men included, won’t equally support finding a cure for men’s (prostate) cancer, regardless of what they wear! Why is it somehow deemed necessary for men to give up a part of their masculine image to support any cause? http://mensnewsdaily.com/2010/05/24/a-mans-world-in-pink/

Canadian Government Pays Organization To Troll Political Chat Forums

The next time you struggle to comprehend how someone could spend their time trolling the Internet in order to defend and downplay whatever government cover-up or abuse is in the news this week, consider the fact that they may be on a government payroll. The Canadian government has been caught paying a media group to monitor online political discussion and respond to “misinformation,” in order words to spread state-sanctioned propaganda, in the latest scandal to hit the Harper administration. http://www.prisonplanet.com/canadian-government-pays-organization-to-troll-political-chat-forums.html

No Consequences for Government Employees Who Charged Massive Shopping Spree to Taxpayers

Most employees caught stealing from a company would expect to be fired, forced to return what they took or worse. But a group of government employees accused of going on a massive shopping spree with taxpayer money have yet to face any disciplinary action. During an 18-month period while the Federal Protective Service was moved from the General Services Administration to the Department of Homeland Security, employees spent thousands of government dollars on everything from clothing and flat-screen TVs to gym memberships and tuition payments, according to the General Services Administration inspector general’s office. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/24/government-employees-reportedly-massive-shopping-spree-taxpayer-money-face/

Greed is Good, But Derivatives Are Better

The mysteries of complexity for exotic financial instruments disguise the pure simplicity of their shared origin; namely, gambling games where the house always wins. Who exactly is the casino host? Is it the exchange, the brokerage firm or the government regulators? What about the credit rating agencies, the insurance bookie companies like AIG or the too big to fail banksters? Surely, the Federal Reserve, foreign central banks or the infamous Bank of International Settlements, must be the bottom line keeper of the cage. http://batr.org/gulag/052310.html

Mexican President Urges U.S. to Ban Assault Rifles, Overhaul Immigration Policy

Mexican President Felipe Calderon implored a joint session of Congress on Thursday to ban assault weapons that are showing up in his country in great numbers, and he also denounced Arizona’s strict new immigration law. http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2010/05/mexican_preside_2.php

Clearing the Smoke on Obama’s Eligibility

Most people think of an original birth certificate as a state or hospital document containing a statement by a doctor or midwife. The hospital document usually is accompanied by a footprint. No one has ever presented any evidence that such a document has ever existed in the United States for Barack Obama. The Hawaii Dept of Health refuses to give a yes or no answer to the question whether they have such a document on file. http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=7263

Mind-War

The non-white and/or leftist intellectuals claim that the governments and the “system” overall is “white.” This is their reasoning as to why Whites are not supposed to have our own ethnic organizations — the System supposedly is “our” organization. Nonsense, of course. http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/05/22/mind-war/

Pentagon’s Cyber Command Prepares War Against the American People

The Pentagon considers cyberspace a warfighting domain equal to land, sea, air and space. In 2003, the Pentagon classified the internet as an enemy “weapons system” requiring a “robust offensive suite of capabilities to include full-range electronic and computer network attack.” In short, the mission of the Cyber Command will primarily offensive, not defensive. http://www.infowars.com/pentagons-cyber-command-prepares-war-against-the-american-people/

Frontier Feminism

Conservative female columnists have gone gaga over Sarah Palin. She’s a “conservative” feminist…aka a “pro-life feminist” that still believes women were oppressed by men, didn’t have “equal rights” and that suffrage and the social engineering that has propelled women en masse into what was once the male sphere of gender roles are all still “good” things. http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/05/21/frontier-feminism/

A Major Crash Lies Right Around The Bend

If you’re indebted to the federal government and its evil twin the industrial economy for your financial well-being or, like most Americans, for your very survival, the coming storm will not resemble a monsoon so much as a hurricane-style downspout. And of course it will come as a total surprise to the typical neoclassical economist, who has declared the recession over (and hasn’t recognized that the recession has been replaced with an ongoing depression that will be replaced by complete economic collapse). The industrial economy is circling the drain, and a hard rain is on the way. http://www.countercurrents.org/mcpherson220510.htm

Dictatorship Watch — Habeas Corpus Trashed, Again

Few issues highlight Barack Obama’s extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does. As everyone knows, one of George Bush’s most extreme policies was abducting people from all over the world — far away from any battlefield — and then detaining them at Guantanamo with no legal rights of any kind, not even the most minimal right to a habeas review in a federal court. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/21/bagram/index.html

The Unbelievably Rampant Corruption On Wall Street

The truth is that the corruption on Wall Street is much deeper and much more systemic than most of us ever dared to imagine. As the general public digests these recent scandals, it is going to result in a tremendous loss of faith in the U.S. financial system. Once faith in a financial system is lost, it can take years or even decades to get back. So how is the U.S. financial system supposed to work properly when large numbers of people simply do not believe in it anymore? http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-unbelievably-rampant-corruption-on-wall-street

The Israeli Role In The Plunder Of Iceland

Maurice Greenberg

Although it may come as an unpleasant surprise to some, it is a proven fact that the same network of Zionist Jews is behind the false-flag terrorism of 9-11 and the huge financial crimes of the past few years. http://rense.com/general90/isrole.htm

AIDS-Riddled D.C. to Begin Using More-Expensive Trojan Condoms in HIV Prevention Program

The District, where 3 percent of residents have HIV, studies show, recently received a grant to offer free female condoms. And, in what is thought to be a first for a local government, the city is mailing up to 10 free condoms at a time to residents who request them online. Free condoms are also available at more than 100 locations, including barbershops, liquor stores and youth centers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052003980.html

Rand Paul Strikes Back At Mainstream Media Smear Machine

Despite Paul’s repeated statements that he did not tolerate discrimination or racism in any form, and that he supported the Civil Rights Act in totality, MSNBC wheeled out its liberal attack dogs in the form of Jesse Jackson, Democratic Congressman James Clyburn, liberal professors Boyce Watkins and Michael Eric Dyson and Democratic strategist Karen Finney. The network aired eight different segments totaling 37 minutes, without a single guest to defend Rand Paul’s position or provide any balance whatsoever. http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-strikes-back-at-mainstream-media-smear-machine/

Cultural Boycott of Jewish Supremacist Israel Gaining Momentum

Elvis Costello declined to perform in Israel

A music industry insider confirmed that the winds could be shifting. The music executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity in light of his ongoing business ties with artists, said that in recent months he had approached more than 15 performing artists with proposals to give concerts in Israel. None had agreed. The contracts offered high levels of compensation. He called them “extreme, big numbers that could match any other gig.” http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/2010/05/boycott-targets-stars-from-elvis-to-elton/

It’s Official: U.S. Government Website Declares There Are No Conspiracies

Last week I posted a video commercial from the CFR that promotes all of the “wonderful” things it does. Now, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International (Dis-)Information Programs website has a whole page called, “Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation.” No, gang, there’s nothing on the page about Weapons of Mass Deception Destruction, the Warren Commission Whitewash Report, or how the “Federal” Reserve causes—not prevents—inflation. The site is referring to “misinformation” that many researchers have been dispensing in books, radio and TV shows, blog sites, etc. for the past decades. http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/58125.html

The Birth of Israel: A Tale of Lies, Deceit, and Terrorism

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either … There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population. http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may142010/israel-nakba-wc.php

That Bright, Dying Star, the American WASP

In the long downward spiral of what used to be known as America’s Protestant Establishment, there have been several momentous milestones: Harvard’s opening up its admissions policies after World War II. Corporate America’s rush in the 1980s to bring more diversity to the corner office. Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African-American president. A Kagan appointment would end the Protestants’ high-court run. History may reveal another milestone—Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court. If she is confirmed, the nation’s nine most powerful judges will all be Catholic or Jewish, leaving the court without a Protestant member for the first time. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704414504575244622954114574.html

One in Ten Mortgage Borrowers Will Lose Their Home To The Bank

The guesstimate that one-in-ten mortgage borrowers will lose their home is not a wild proclamation. It’s basic math based on the cure rate. What is wild is considering what will happen to real estate prices should mortgage failure gain greater momentum. Serious delinquencies are 30% greater today than a year ago. A crash has the same irrational exuberance as a mania. We have already lost 30 percent of house prices nationwide. There is simply no question that a radical loss in value may still lie ahead. Mortgage performance has gone down hill, and only a strong employment recovery can change the math. http://blog.ml-implode.com/2010/05/one-in-ten-mortgage-borrowers-will-lose-their-home-to-the-bank/

Attack of the Cyborg Insects

Militarism distorts the development of civilization, deforming the natural evolution of culture and even science: the end result is the birth of misshapen monsters, such as nuclear technology, the love child of war and the Leviathan. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/05/20/attack-of-the-cyborg-insects/

American Arrogance

History is now repeating itself in Afghanistan because the Americans repeated the mistake made by the Soviets. They are being made to pay for their folly of overestimating themselves and underestimating the skill and fortitude of the Afghan guerillas. Nine years on they have learned that it is far more difficult to withdraw than it was to go in. As a consequence, they have put in place a new strategy which seeks to create an environment that would allow them to commence the process of withdrawing the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) from Afghanistan in July 2011. To create this environment they would apply such force on the Taliban as would compel them to sue for peace, while at the same time enticing the Taliban rank and file into desertion; then negotiate from a position of strength, transfer security responsibilities to the Afghan army, and commence the withdrawal process. If the strategy succeeds President Obama would be hailed as the victor in Afghanistan and his party would not only sweep the November elections to the Congress, but also the presidential elections in 2012. But if it fails, their arrogance would once again be buried, this time in the valley of death that south Afghanistan is for invaders. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25510.htm

Another Radical Masquerading as a Moderate

The 'moderate' is on the left

While President Barack Obama’s sycophants within the mainstream media are attempting to paint the President’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, as a moderate, it’s the blogosphere and talk radio that are exposing her radical politics which are more akin to those of Obama than those of the Founding Fathers. http://www.newswithviews.com/Kouri/jim118.htm

Senate Rubberstamps the Dictatorship of the Big Banks

The U.S. Senate’s passage of the Obama administration’s financial reform bill Thursday was hailed in the media and by official Washington as a landmark effort to curb the power of the big banks. But on Wall Street itself, the news was greeted with a mixture of dismissal and applause. Bank stocks soared on Friday, with the share price of JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest finance houses, surging 5.9 percent and helping drive the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 125 points. Other bank stocks rose sharply: Bank of America up 4.7 percent, Goldman Sachs up 3.3 percent, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Citigroup. The S&P financial sector index was up 3.6 percent overall. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/may2010/bank-m22.shtml

Crist Would Confirm Kagan, Forgets Why He Opposed Sotomayor

Florida's (NeoCON) Governor Charlie Crist

St. Pete Times: (NeoCON/RINO) Charlie Crist says he would vote to confirm Elena Kagan, but talking to the Miami Herald editorial board the other day struggled to recall specifically why he opposed Sonia Sotomayor. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/21/crist_says_he_would_confirm_kagan_forgets_why_he_opposed_sotomayor.html

April Mass Layoffs Rise, Led by Manufacturing Sector

The number of mass layoffs by U.S. employers rose in April led by manufacturers who shed workers even as the economy began to recover. The Labor Department said the number of mass layoff events — defined as job cuts involving at least 50 people from a single employer — increased by 228 to 1,856 as employers shed 200,870 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63F2NT20100521

At West Point, Obama talks of a New “International Order”

WEST POINT, N.Y. — President Obama on Saturday pledged to shape a new “international order” as part of a national security strategy that emphasizes his belief in global institutions and America’s role in promoting democratic values around the world. Speaking to the graduating class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point — the ninth wartime commencement in a row, he said — the commander in chief who is leading two foreign wars expressed his faith in cooperation and partnerships to confront the economic, military and environmental challenges of the future.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/22/AR2010052201586.html