"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." -- Thomas Pynchon

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January 2008

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Insurgents Outdo U.S. Military, Says U.S. 3-Star

The Politics of Facebook

State spying that would make the Stasi proud

Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights

Gold Has Biggest Monthly Gain Since April 2006 as Dollar Drops

Chinook salmon runs in California collapse

Looming Water Crisis in Western U.S.

Lebanon says Israel report sets scene for new war

Economist: There will be odd rallies, but fear will continue to stalk the financial markets

UK: Warning over one million homes at risk

'Quite A Few' Suspect H5N1 Patients Taken To Calcutta

Third Cocaine Plane Surfaces and is Tied to Web of Government Connections

The Great Credit Unwind of 2008, by Mike Whitney

7 reasons the 21st century is making us miserable

Alone in the dark

North-American Monetary Integration: Here Comes the Amero

Optimists see recession, pessimists see depression

Weather chaos could trigger civil unrest: Report

Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt

Former Chief Global Strategist at Morgan Stanley: Head for the Hills

Washington Post Claims Identities of Storm Worm Operators Are Known to Authorities

Leaked UK gov't doc reveals plan to "coerce" Brits into national ID register

More Dead Goats In India - H5N1 Jump To Mammals?

UK: Phones tapped at the rate of 1,000 a day

The Fear Factory

Humans Crave Violence Just Like Sex

Negroponte: US has used Waterboarding in Past

How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness

The global battle for food, oil and water

Indonesia bird flu death toll hits 100

As Supplies Dry Up, California Growers Pass on Farming and Sell Water

Sibel Edmonds: "Buckle up, there's much more coming."

Foreclosures Prompt Cities to Make Plea for Aid

Covert bid to push US troops into Pakistan

Key Factor In Stress Effects On The Brain Identified

Empire State Building car zap mystery

Effects of RF/microwaves on birds

Largest asteroid to come near Earth in 22 years

Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens

India: Flu panic rises as goats drop dead

Threatening Phone Calls Cause Author Of Scientology Expose To Go Into Hiding

The Economic State Of The Union -- 2008

How the CIA Inflitrated the DEA

New Hampshire Primary — Sham Chain of Custody

Is misinformation influencing economic coverage?

Godzilla-sized Asteroid to pass within 1.4 lunar distances of Earth on Jan 29

Antarctic ice loss speeds up, nearly matches Greenland loss

"Foreclose me. . . I'll save money"

Company Offers Screwed Home Buyers "Walk Away Kit"

Soros predicts worst recession for 50 years

Self professed 'Mossad Agent' Arrested For Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes

Suspect H5N1 Spreads to Bihar and Jharkhand India

Raising Questions About 911 Gets Army Sergeant Demoted

Red Cross Warns of Gaza Crisis

Report: Dangerous Mercury Levels Found in Sushi Tuna

Federal Reserve slashes US rates on day when 'chaos reigned supreme'

Today's Market Bloodbath: Only a Small Taste of Things to Come

Disappearing topsoil rivals global warming as an environmental threat

Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told

NYC trying to ban Geiger counters

ID cards would benefit racketeers, not public

Pentagon Explores 'Human Fear' Chemicals; Scare-Sensors, 'Contagious' Stress in the Works?

The world is on the verge of a water crisis

Ireland: Privacy group slams stealth surveillance laws

New software that can detect when people are slacking off on the job is on the way

Mortgage Company Exec Jumps to Death

Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

Artificial Intelligence Suicides, by Loren Coleman

The Strange Case of the Dead AI Researchers - The Dead Scientists meme

Culture Fundamentally Alters the Brain

Black Monday: recession fears spark global share crash

Bank of America net sinks 95 percent

Scots police uniforms get spy cameras

When governments print money, buy gold

Israel may have to take military action against Iran: Bolton

Stocks Plummet in Germany, Hong Kong, India, Brazil in Rout

Paul Krassner asks, "Why they didn't arrest Charles Manson?"

UK: Is this the end of cheap food?

FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft

Economic uncertainty to dominate Davos

Gaza plunged into darkness as Israel blocks fuel

The CIA Eyes the Internet, by Alex Constantine

"Police use pepper spray on crowd as chants get too spicy . . ."

"Porton Down guinea-pigs get apology . . ."

Hundreds of plants used to make medicines are facing extinction, botanists warn.

UK: Honeybees may be wiped out in 10 years

Ocean floor sensors will warn of failing Gulf Stream: UK will be in a deep freeze if the current strays

Mobile phone radiation wrecks your sleep

Nuclear Revival Rekindles Waste Concerns

Black Monday as biggest FTSE crash since 9/11 wipes off nearly £60bn in shares

"This Is Going to Be Worse Than Anybody Thinks"

A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories

Bond insurers: Huge new problems in the capital markets?

UAV swarms

Chikungunya Virus Spreading - WHO

Facebook and the institutionalization of voyeurism: The corporate connection

Canada: Reporters ordered to reveal sources in CSIS leak

Feds plan digital spying on pigs, llamas, terrorcritters.

Mexico and Africa to become malware hotspots

Pentagon in $75m electropulse blast-ray programme

Warning lights: Recession talk is rising

The Ongoing Saga of Mordechai Vanunu

CIA Admits Cyberattacks Blacked Out Cities

CIA Claims Hackers Have Cut Power Grid

Tough Questions For Taser Exec In Toronto

Panic selling shuts £2bn fund

Bubble economics

Citigroup and Merrill Lynch take drastic steps over subprime fallout

Merrill Lynch posts worst quarter in its history

Opium fields spread across Iraq as farmers try to make ends meet

Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims, by Paul Craig Roberts

UK: Government targets extremist websites

Institutionalized Spying on Americans

Empire on the verge of a nervous breakdown

"Most people don’t realize how common brain implants have become in the last couple of years."

Wars, Pestilence, Witches and Asteroids

Blue-Collar Jobs Disappear, Taking Families' Way of Life Along

New Killer MRSA Attacks Lung Tissue - Death Follows

New Hampshire: Diebold Miscounts Discovered As Hand Count Begins

Plea deal in US body parts case

Doctor alleges plans underway to "Microchip" Newborns in U.S. and Europe

Operation Condor: unfinished business

Google is white bread for young minds, says university professor

Minnesota Man Dies After State Troopers Use Taser

Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code

Mortgage crisis to corporate debt crisis

Severe food shortages, price hikes threaten world population

Dave Lindorff: They're Scaring Us to Death

How the Pentagon concocted the Strait of Hormuz propaganda hoax

The Financial Tsunami: The Financial Foundations of the American Century, by F. William Engdahl

Russia Today: Fraud row hangs over U.S. primaries (vid.)

Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software

US Consumer Spending Drop Sharply

More of US Grain Crop to be Consumed by Family Car

UK: Food cost increase adds £750 to annual bill

UK: ID cards for foreigners within three years

Stocks Fall Sharply on Economic Woes

Citigroup may cut 24,000 jobs as loans crisis grows

Japan poised to rescue Wall Street banks

NAFTA and Mexico's Agrarian Apocalypse, by John Ross

New Staph Strain Circulating in Gay, Bisexual Men

Black death may plague the world yet again

Massive Die-Off Of Fish And Coral In Taiwan

The men behind Facebook

Lasers Zap With 'Nonlethal' Pulses

Aroma Of Chocolate Chip Cookies Prompts Splurging On Expensive Sweaters

Study Shows Price Influences Perception

US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand Building Biometric Database

Modeling Urban Panic

Cops Fired for Allegedly Holding Country Singer at Gunpoint Over Foosball Game

Verdict against 1933 Reichstag Arsonist Thrown Out

Computer hackers 'may be behind Hillary Clinton's shock New Hampshire victory'

A computer can tell with 78 percent accuracy when someone is thinking about a hammer and not pliers

Cocaine jet case colored with shades of Iran/Contra and 'House of Death'

Prisoners 'to be chipped like dogs'

US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search

Consumer confidence fell to an all-time low

Oil Shipments Missing from Strategic Petroleum Reserve

2008 presidential charade promises deepening of government criminality and expansion of war

REAL ID is one false flag incident away from smooth sailing throughout the realm.

Fraud US-Style: Fake Videos and Elections

Gold Hits Record $900 an Ounce

Reaper airborne war-droids to patrol 2012 Olympics

Seven Steps to a Homeland Security Campus

US FEMA Camps

Second Life Bans Traditional Banking

The psychology of the politics of fear

NY Times: Blackwater Killed Our Dog!

Mules, fraudsters and hitmen for hire just a click away in Japan's online underworld

New Risk to Earth Found in Supernova Explosions

Did Clinton really win New Hampshire?

What Happened to Polls in New Hampshire?

TSA searches, detains 5 year old because his name was on no-fly list

AT&T and Other I.S.P.’s May Be Getting Ready to Filter

New Power Meters in California Can Ration, or Cut Off Electricity by Remote Control

"Greeted as liberators"

Majesterium and the Tipping Point

The Hazard to Civilization from Fireballs and Comets

New product: taser with built in MP3 player

Gulf Of Tonkin Attack Never Happened - NSA Report

Why a "two-state solution" in Palestine is absurd

How Panic-Proof are you? (vid.)

More Courts Saying That Customs Officers Can Look Through Your Laptop

Hackers turn Cleveland into malware server

Hacking New Hampshire voting machines (vid.)

German hackers fight electronic voting

Housing Outlook Takes a Grim Turn

ACLU Rips Plan to Track R.I. Students

France is healthcare leader, US comes dead last: study

UDA chief is spy

Science Marches On: Researchers Find Women Drinking More, Wearing Less at College Parties

US 'doomed' if creationist president elected: scientists

Big Brother at the tip: Cameras read number plates to check if families are flouting waste rules

Food riots of the 21st century

Taser parties

US and UK rival China for government surveillance

"Sibel Edmonds, Turkey and the Bomb: A Real 9/11 Cover-Up?", by Dave Lindorff

Do Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don't?

Israeli minister offers to release Palestinians in return for Jonathan Pollard

Scientists Find Key to What Could Make Bird Flu a Human Pandemic

Jobs weak, unemployment soars

Jump in U.S. Jobless Rate Always Signaled Recessions

New York crow die-off linked to avian virus

Video of Sleeping Guards Shakes Nuclear Industry

Broke Britain: millions face struggle to stay afloat as financial crisis hits home

How doctors lie on death certificates to hide the true scale of the toll from hospital infections

Criminals With Badges: How the Police Create Crimes, by Paul Craig Roberts

Challenging the banality of evil

"Oddball" Weather Events Add to Record-Breaking 2007

A year of scares, quacks, and geeky truths

NASA Mars Images Reveals a "Doorway" Structure

Forget Oil, the New Global Crisis is Food

Japan to Increase Emergency Stockpiles of Grains

In 2008, Your Network Will Know Who You Are, What You Want

Sampling risk and judging personal danger

"From Complacency to Crisis: Financial Risk Taking in the Early 21st Century"

Microsoft Seeks To Patent System To Spy On Workers

'Ragtag' Russian army shows the new face of DDoS attacks: Semi-organized people just as dangerous as botnets

Alien Implant or Secret Government Control?

Scientists create machine that knows what you are thinking

Electronic Passports Raise Privacy Issues

Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007

Why the era of cheap food is over

Dollar extends early losses after downbeat ISM data

Asian Stocks Fall On Fears Of US Recession

Cryptogon: Some Guesses About 2008

Pentagon Doubles Use Of Drones

Ireland: Huge tanks of gas kept ready for bird flu cull

Spying Incorporated

RiverGlass

Conspiracy theories flourish following Bhutto assassination

Theresa Duncan: Dead Woman Blogging

Vanity Fair on Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake

DOJ launches criminal probe of CIA tapes

How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds

Air Force: Bug-Like Robo-Bombs for Indoor Ops

Wi-Spy spies on Wi-Fi

The World's Biggest Botnets - Desktop Security Report

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