Paranoid Press Review

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

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March 2008

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Following the blood trail

Killer fungus spells disaster for wheat

Bloomberg: Brace for $1 Trillion Writedown of 'Yertle the Turtle' Debt

Brain scan lie detectors 'may already be in use'

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record

Chaos on Wall Street

Chase mortgage memo pushes 'Cheats & Tricks'

Reuters: Marubeni employees' scam hit Lehman, others

Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'

Gates Orders Inventory of US Nukes

Bankruptcies in America: Waiting for Armageddon

MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes

Dystopia: Welcome to the crumbling future of the Vegas strip

Gray Wolf Hunts Planned After De-Listing

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest

Racist Profiling in Action: Locals Crack Down on Illegal Immigration

The coming food catastrophe, by Gwynne Dyer

Jump in rice price fuels fears of unrest

Germany: Lidl, the Big Brother supermarket, is watching you

Equity Loans as Next Round in Credit Crisis

Pentagon: Inventory ordered of all U.S. nukes

Credit crunch fallout: Germans Fear Meltdown of Financial System

Spain's property market suffers meltdown

UN rejects water as basic human right

Doomsday fears spark lawsuit

The Veep's Curious Investment Portfolio: Is Cheney Betting On Economic Collapse? by Mike Whitney

Wall Street May Face $460 Bln in Losses, Goldman Says

Brasscheck: American Dementia

Toxic Toys?

US Army admits "toying with" telepathic ray gun

What Created This Monster?

California freefall: Home prices down 26% in February

Banker Facing Prosecution Turns up Dead, Rest of Family Beaten to Death

Spy-in-the-sky drone sets sights on Miami

Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly

Four largest US banks' outlooks slashed

Goldman Sachs: The credit crunch will globally cost $1.2 trillion (£600bn)

UK: Sterilise parents on benefits, says Tory

ABC News Soundbite Version of NSA Intercept Story (vid.)

NSA Intercept Story in detail

Report Says Medicare Won't Be Able to Pay All Its Bills by 2019

Threat to millions as food aid scheme runs out of money

US Home Prices Drop 11.4 Pct in January

Patriot Act haunts Google service

Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses

Drop in consumer confidence leads to investor pessimism

Slump Moves From Wall St. to Main St.

Bottleneck ahead: Foreclosed houses for sale are piling up

Suprisingly enough, the rich tend to live longer

Site Suspended After Promoting Dutch Lawmaker’s Anti-Qur’an Movie

"Pay day" loans exacerbate housing crisis

NSA shifts to e-mail, Web, data-mining dragnet, by Declan McCullagh

Obstruction of justice: White House Computer Hard Drives Tossed

Will Homeland Security or the Militarized Police State Shock You Into Submission?

Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns UK minister

Banking crisis: it's déjà vu all over again

Clean, green fascism

Bear Stearns Bailout Proves US Fed is Merely an Extension of the Financial Industry

Mexico is about to clear the way for legal cultivation of transgenic crops

Police agencies all over the U.S. are going to bigger weapons

DC gun case: Did someone get to plaintiff's attorney?

WSJ: The condominium market is about to get worse

Silver Shortage: 19 dealers reported "Sold Out"

Tent cities popping up all over America

Whistleblower exposes insider trading program at JP Morgan

Melting glaciers will trigger food shortages

Hate preaching preachers of the other candidates.

Report: Bernanke's own home down 260K in value

Fears mount on jobless, factory data

Forbidden fields: Oil groups circle the prize of Iraq’s vast reserves

CCTV in class spies on teachers, says union

Another near catastrophe

Dick Cheney tour sparks Iran war rumours

Rachel Corrie is still dead

A word to the wise re: food supplies

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Here comes the worldwide currency debasement

Department of Homeland Security Wants Fingerprints Taken from Foreign Travelers as They Leave the U.S.

US blocks Venezuelan purchase of food

NY, VT Bat Die-Off Could Hurt Area Crops

UK facing worst financial crisis 'in decades'

UK Mortgage and Commercial Banks Decimated by Bear Stearns Bust

Gold: The Leading Indicator of Systemic Financial Collapse

Housing market: first-time buyers hit as lenders pull plug on all but the lowest-risk loans

Glaciers suffer record shrinkage

Beware an Attack on Iran

Dangerous wheat-killing fungus detected in Iran – UN

US Denies Making Bioweapons From Bird Flu

Dollars tough to sell on streets of Amsterdam

U.S. Economy: Production Shrinks More Than Forecast

UK: Teachers told to rewrite history of Iraq war

DARPA funds quadruped robot so stunning it's spooky

Japan cross-breeds cows and whales

Global crisis deepening: IMF Chief

Reuters: Banks face "new world order"

Sparks fly in Balkan tinderbox

Bread lines in Egypt

Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace

Bear Stearns bailout: Socialism for the rich

Cryptogon: I’m Through Calling it for Now

Financial Times: Wall St braced for buy-out loans pain

Pacemakers vulnerable to attack

Rice supplies set to fall to 25-year low

Bear Stearns exposed as a bank saddled with toxic sub-prime debt

Which bank is going to follow the Bear?

UK Billionaire Loses $800M In Bear Stearns Collapse

Bernanke Discards Monetary History With Bear Stearns Bailout

Weak dollar costs U.S. economy its No. 1 spot

Hundreds seeking housing money dispersed by riot cops

California: $5 gas

DU Radioactivity Found In Earthworms

MI5 Wants Total Public Travel Records

UK: Put young children on DNA list, urge police

Spitzer taken down by Mossad?

Goldman Sees 'Explosive' Commodity Rallies, $175 Oil

37 Big Financial Firms Sued - Fraud, Bid-Rigging

Global "Oil Shock" Rattles World Stock markets

U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq

Carlyle Capital Woes Signals Trouble

Dangerous Cracks Appearing in Job Market

Feb. Foreclosures Up 60% From Last Year: Nevada, California, Florida Had Highest Rates

Government Reports Warn Planners on Sea-Rise Threat to U.S. Coasts

FEMA Trailer formaldehyde: documents indicate feds knew

Fears of strike on Iran rise as admiral "quits"

Syria blasts "hypocritical" addition to US torture blacklist

Alex Constantine: Duncan & Blake "suicides" solved

Still Love Governments?

Right now, feds might be looking into your finances

Kenyans fearful after toxic spill

Price Of Flour Goes 4 Times Higher In Last 7 Mos

More Americans borrowing from 401(k) to pay bills

The Monstrous Monsanto Universe

NIH says drug-resistant infections now a ’serious threat’ to global health

U.S. gold hits $1,000 record high

Hedge fund on verge of collapse

Retail Sales Plunge by 0.6 Percent

Fed takes boldest action since the Depression to rescue US mortgage industry

Meltdown Looms Larger as Credit Markets Freeze, by Mike Whitney

US Bureau of labor Statistics: 63,000 Jobs Lost In February

Irish banks may need life-support as property prices crash

Ripple effect of the foreclosure crisis

Retail gasoline price hits record: AAA

Dollar Falls to Record Low on Concern Fed Package Won't Succeed

US corn biofuels will expand Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone': scientists

UK: Top cop who led CIA probe found dead at bottom of cliff

Tiger population critical, species at crossroads: WWF

Air Pollution Hinders Brain Processing

Is the evil plastic bag a myth started by shoddy journalism?

Badges of Secrecy

Israeli deaths matter more

Where Every Ad Knows Your Name

Gulf War Illness Strongly Linked to Chemical Exposure

World's biggest black market: $516 trillion dirivitive bubble is a disaster waiting to happen

Spitzer scandal: Emperors Club ringleader had two Israeli passports in addition to his US passport

Israeli at center of Spitzer scandal

Extortion through Systems Disruption

UK: Controversial ID card scheme will be rolled out by stealth this year

UK: Domestic Air Travelers to Be Photographed and Fingerprinted

JP Morgan: Banks face "systemic margin call," $325 billion hit

Drugs in Drinking Water

Times are already so hard that even the rich have turned to squatting

NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data

Britain makes camera that "sees" under clothes

New Instruments of Surveillance and Social Control: Wireless Technologies which Target the Neuronal Functioning of the Brain

Plutonium car ferry plan is 'madness'

FBI Stops Crime Fighting - Now Spying On US

FDIC reports second bank failure of 2008

Bear Stearns Denies 'Rumors' on Liquidity After Shares Plummet

2008: The year of global food crisis

Honey bees 'wiped out in 10 years'

Beekeepers get stung by hive heists as California nut trees bloom

Martial Law, Inc.

Crisis Over Teheran's Alleged Nuclear Plans Nearing Climax

Tiny spy helicopter can swoop on criminals and mark them with a squirt for capture

DARPA is well on its way to creating an army of cyborg insects.

Google Caves To Pentagon Wishes

Air Force Cyber Command's New Weapon: DMCA Notices

MTV Holocaust Commercials

Sharp Drop in Jobs Adds to Grim Economic Picture

Bush Vetoes Bill Banning Torture

Foreclosures set records as housing troubles worsen

Stocks tumble following jobs report

Stand by for new subprime crisis

How the French invented subprime in 1719

Housing in deepest decline since the Great Depression, economist says

Already we have riots, hoarding, panic: the sign of things to come?

US repossessions hit record high, sparking dollar sell-off

All UK citizens in ID database by 2017

Peak Oil - True or False, by Stephen Lendman

New Report Finds Gaza Humanitarian Situation is Worst in 40 years

"Plastic Soup" Debris in Pacific Ocean

Russian Mafia in bed with Wall Street, CEO says

The North American Union Farce

Mind-Reading Machines: How Far Should They Go?

Employers Slash Jobs by Most in 5 Years

CA Court: Teaching Credential Required To Home School

Bush says feds can open mail without warrant

26-Year Secret Kept Innocent Man In Prison

Why Does the Kremlin Need 3,200 White Mice?

FBI had privacy violations in 2006 before reforms

Ziff Davis Media Files for Bankruptcy to Cut Debt

Brain Scanner Can Tell What You're Looking At

Six Botnets Add Up For 85% Of All Spam

Binary 'deathstar' has Earth in its sights

In a massive disaster, care will be scarce: CA guidelines lay framework for deliberately letting some people die.

'Ninja' loans explode on sub-prime frontline

Increasing dependence on maize leaves the US vulnerable to drought-induced price spikes in food and fuel.

Putin Calls for Gold and Forex Reserves to Be Better Managed

Vehicle Sales Fell by 10% Last Month

'Predictably Irrational': Keeping (too many) options open

Rational Herding and the Housing Bubble

Terrorist robots dissected - anatomy of a scare

Top 5 Bomb-Packing, Gun-Toting War Bots the U.S. Doesn't Have

"It is not unprecedented for small planes to penetrate where bombers cannot go."

Bernanke Urges Banks to Forgive Portion of Mortgages, promises "Vigorous Response"

Gazan Holocaust, by Jennifer Loewenstein

"How to demonstrate to the average person that our world is run by pathological deviants?"

The timing of the Guantanamo trials is not an accident

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

Utah Home Is Searched for Evidence in Ricin Case

The 'why' of ricin cache is still a puzzle

I'm an anarchist with guns

Gaza: Where the children are forbidden happiness

'Official Conspiracy Theory' Believed Only by 'Hypocrites and Fools'

Spain's Reconquest of Mexico Through Deep Pocket Investments and High Fashion Clothing Lines

'Harry's War': The ugly truth

Coming Apart: Trauma and the Fragmentation of the Self

The Federal Reserve's rescue has failed, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The World's Growing Food-Price Crisis

Commodity prices at historic heights

Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too!

Ricin victim 'loner,' says ex-neighbor

Book warns 9/11 was a precursor to collapse of the world's fiscal superpowers, famine, plague and WWIII

Hacking electrical power systems--the facts

Steps towards warship invisibility

UK banks forced to write off record £6.8bn in household debt

Pentagon to test invisible gases in Crystal City

'9/11 attacks made up,' says French best actress Oscar-winner

185 Pages of Microsoft's Dirty Laundry

Marine exercise in Toledo, Ohio: an attack on democratic rights

Haaretz: An invention called 'the Jewish people'

Anarchist manual, firearms found in motel room with ricin (CNN version)

Guns, 'Anarchist Book' Found With Ricin (AP version)

ACLU: 900,000 Names on U.S. Terror Watch Lists

Iraq war 'caused slowdown in the US'

Food and the spectre of Malthus

Bernanke predicts bank failures

Are Your Savings and Investments Safe From Bank Failures?

Stocks Fall Sharply on Economic Worries

Billions of dollars of sales slam muni bonds

UK: Nearly 10 people are dying every day from the superbug Clostridium difficile.

Gazans cower under fire, anger at Israel mounts

Israel threatens to unleash 'holocaust' in Gaza

Academic Freedom? Not for Arabs in Israel, by Jonathan Cook

'Turing' Test for Killer Robots

U.S. banking sector headed for meltdown, official says

11 reasons Bernanke's recession lasts till 2011

Psychopathy and Corporations

TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib

More Americans using credit cards to stay afloat

Mortgaging the Nest Egg

Welcome to Kosovo! The World's Newest Narco State

BLF strikes again

Court gags ex-SAS man who made torture claims

Cyber-Searches in Europe

U.S. Researchers Trying to Create Pandemic Avian Flu

Ricin May Have Been Found In Las Vegas Motel; 7 Hospitalized

Meet Henry Okah

EFF being stymied in effort to explore Justice Department/Google coziness

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