"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." -- Thomas Pynchon
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April 2008
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Hyperinflation Special Report
Bloomberg: Consumer Confidence in U.S. Fell to Five-Year Low
Official says Iran quits using US dollar for oil deals
Foreclosures spike 112% - no end in sight
Cheney lawyer claims Congress has no authority over vice-president
Half of Yellowstone Bison Herd Dies
"Women Are Being Beheaded for Taking Their Veil Off": Honor Killings On Rise in Iraq
Buffett says recession may be worse than feared
Halifax Bank of Scotland asks shareholders for £4bn to bolster balance sheet
UK: Number Of Homebuyers Hits Record Low
Oil giants share £7bn profits as drivers feel pinch at pumps
Haiti and the black hole of debt
US uses cluster bombs in Sadr City
Food Riots and Speculators, by Mike Whitney
High oil prices could trigger recession: IEA
The Criminalization of Raw Milk: A Mennonite Farmer is Hauled Away
Vietnam's inflation hits 21.4 percent in April, statistics office says
The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke
UK: Bank bail-outs to be kept secret
Miracle berry suppressed
C.diff superbug kills one patient in British hospitals every hour
UK: Concern as Ministry of Defence's 'private' police quiz thousands of tourists
The food crisis begins to bite
Many states appear to be in recession
The New Economics of Hunger
New Orleans: Floodwalls stuffed with newspaper?
What is Really Causing 'Agflation'?
Japanese Govt Bonds Go Into Meltdown
Rice harvest shortages forecast troubled times ahead
US Fed To Blame for Global Food Crisis
Opec chief warns of $200 a barrel oil price
Have Scientists Discovered a Way of Peering Into the Future?
NYC getting a new high-tech defense perimeter
Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough
Global food crisis grips Latin America
Face scans for air passengers to begin in UK this summer
Why the credit crisis is still far from finished
Conflict follows device that drives away teen loiterers
'Gold is a currency that will go up to touch $1650'
Bank of England's dilemma: A house price crash or soaring inflation
Fungus known as Ug99 is spreading: US wheat crop failures could be total, experts warn
Bloomberg: Consumer Confidence Falls to Lowest Level in 26 Years
The trillion-dollar mortgage time bomb: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may need bailout
Oil prices to double by 2012: Canadian study
Pain of Foreclosures Spreads to the Affluent
Malaysia's ex-PM Mahathir wants Iraq war leaders on war crimes charges
Cutoffs and Pleas for Aid Rise With Heat Costs
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats
FBI wants widespread monitoring of 'illegal' Internet activity
Transcript: FBI director on surveillance of 'illegal' Internet activity
500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked
UK: £1.23 a litre for fuel (USD = approx $11.25)
Israeli warplanes intensify flights over Lebanon, in violation of international law
An action-man style doll of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has gone on sale in the Ukraine
Rationing of rice hits Britain’s Chinese and curry restaurants
US subprime lawsuits pick up steam in 2008
House GOP Candidate Spoke At Hitler Event
Shops ration sales of rice as US buyers panic
Robotic Body Scoopers: Bring Out Your Dead
Homemade robotic vigilante patrols in Atlanta
Buffalo launches crime cam program with 43 cameras doing surveillance
Could Soldiers Be Prosecuted for Thought Crime?
Florida Cops Disguise Cameras
Australia: Recycle cops 'freaking out' residents
CA: Royal Newfoundland Constabulary's public order unit conducts training drill
U.N.: Soaring food prices 'global crisis'
Thai rice hits record $US1,000 a tonne
Run on rice makes its way to U.S.
Levels of Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Increase
Hundreds of EPA scientists report political interference
Does the Earth's magnetic field cause suicides?
Indonesian fears over US Navy laboratory
Rupert Murdoch Firm Goes on Trial for Alleged Tech Sabotage
U.S. gasoline theft on the rise along with prices
US scientists say accumulation of greenhouse gases in atmosphere is accelerating
Doomsday police units to patrol NYC subways with automatic weapons
NYPD far more likely to stop and question black and Latino subway riders than white commuters, study finds
One law for them, another for us: NYC cops literally get away with murder, again
Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger
Merck Caught in Massive Scientific Fraud as In-House Authors were Disguised as Independent Scientists
Rice is being rationed in Britain
U.S.-contracted ship fires toward Iranian boat
Petraeus Promotion Frees Cheney to Threaten Iran
Climate change 'may put world at war'
Wal-Mart's Sam's Club limits rice purchases
Corn, rice surge as global food tensions mount
UK: Families' annual grocery bill rises by £800
Rice shortage threatens Asia
Hyperinflationary Depression
Surge in oil prices prompts warnings of global recession
In the Eye of the Housing Hurricane
Supreme Court broadens police searches
EPA scientists complain about political pressure
Detainees allege forced drugging during US interrogations
Sudden Oak Death Pathogen Is Evolving, Restriction On Movement Of Infected Plants Urged
US Life Expectancy Falls for Large Segment of Population
World Food Crisis Could Push Millions of People Into Poverty
Era of cheap food ends as prices surge
Glacial lake transformed to titanic torrent
Global food price increase forces World Vision to cut 1.5 million beneficiaries from its food aid program
WSJ: Time to start stockpiling food
Americans hoard food as industry seeks regs
China down to 12 days worth of coa
UK: Plan to test CCTV Cameras in exams
UK: Menace of new speed cameras
UK: Pilotless surveillance aircraft are being trialled across Britain
Credit Crisis Turning into Credit Armageddon
Housing slump hits Spain
Lawmakers: Terrorists May Tap Same Web 2.0 Tools as Military
Insurgents Outdo U.S. Military, Says U.S. 3-Star
The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours
New anti-terrorism rules 'allow US to spy on British motorists'
Israelis 'may have deliberately targeted Reuters cameraman'
Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World
Japan's hunger becomes a dire warning for other nations
Global Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World, by Stephen Lendman
'Perfect storm' food crisis grips globe
Minnesota's new ghost towns
UK: Why flowers have lost their scent
The sound of silence: Britain's lost birds
MI6 'halted bid to arrest bin Laden'
This One Goes to 11: Solar Cycle Heats Up, Threatens Satellites
Mystery Illnesses Rise Among Pig Workers
Church of Scientology warns Wikileaks over documents
Morgellons Disease May Be Linked to Genetically Modified Food
DARPA building insect cyborgs
Chinese troops are on the streets of Zimbabwean city, witnesses say
Behind Military Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
Exposed: the great GM crops myth
Germany to Allow Video Surveillance of Private Homes
Meat Inspectors Can't Keep Up, Official Says
Union head claims USDA tried to intimidate employees
Meat inspection is adequate, USDA official tells Congress
Dollar's plunge: Cui bono?
Citigroup May Need to Sell Assets to Bolster Capital
Merrill and Citigroup wield axe as 3,500 City jobs set to be cut
Royal Bank of Scotland poised to reveal £4bn loss
Bank of England preparing £50bn move to unlock mortgage market
Fraud was rampant in US housing bubble
Food Costs Rising Fastest in 17 Years
Sticker Shock in the Organic Aisles
Global food crisis looms as Asia's rice bowl empties and world price soars
Freshening of deep Antarctic waters worries experts
Lenders Swamped By Foreclosures Let Homeowners Stay
Capitalism is Causing Worker Destitution
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar: Gazans can do 'no less' than rise up like Warsaw Ghetto Jews
Will Bush Cancel The 2008 Elections?
DIY (do-it-yourself) Weapons
TEDs: DIY weapons circa 1998
Congress Quietly Repeals Martial Law Provision (and comments)
Infowars: Three States Subjected To "Martial Law Sweeps"
Warning: New American Civil Submission Theology (vid.)
Food Prices Soar Around the World
Food crisis the latest 'Eve of Destruction?'
As Australia dries, a global shortage of rice
Rice traders hit by panic as prices surge
Global Food Crisis: The Fury of the Poor
March the warmest on record over world land surfaces
Greenland Meltwater Can Drain Faster Than Niagara Falls
New kind of killer virus discovered in Bolivia
Flu Viruses Originate in Asia, Hitch Across Globe
Is This the Way the World Will End?
Could Israel use submarines against Iran?
Children tortured for Throwing Rocks
US: Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest
UK: Banks in line for £40bn bail-out - paid for by the taxpayer
UK: Innocent folk taking photos are being stopped by police
UK: Police charged Down's syndrome boy with mental age of five
Merck Wrote Drug Studies for Doctors
Man at center of Las Vegas ricin case arrested, charged
Canada: Potash (fertilizer) price rises more than 300 per cent
Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them
Unusual Earthquake Swarm Off Oregon Coast Puzzles Scientists
FBI home mortgage probe now targets 19 firms
U.S. lenders freeze home equity credit lines
Your Internet provider is watching you
In a bid to stem panic, grain exports halted
Soros spills the beans
Food riots 'an apocalyptic warning'
U.S. housing collapse spreads overseas
While the poor go hungry, the rich live large
Notorious Manhattan Hospital Involved in ID Theft
Melting Causes Lake in Chile to Empty
Largest U.S. Municipal Bankruptcy Looms in Alabama
Additives DO harm children - and a ban could cut child hyperactivity by a third, say scientists
Chain letters reveal surprising circulation patterns
Finance Ministers Emphasize Food Crisis Over Credit Crisis
We may already be eating the products of nanotechnology but we have no way of knowing
OZ: Bosses' power to check email
Armed Robots Malfunction in Iraq
Coming Ecological Collapse: Failing Ecosystems the Mother of All Bubbles, Dr. Glen Barry
Espionage Against Pro-Tibet Groups, Others, Spurred Microsoft Patches
Warning: Google Is In Your Driveway!
Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.
US banks Citigroup and Merrill Lynch reveal fresh $15bn loss
UK: Banks called to crisis summit
FT OpEd: Saving banking from the bankers
More turmoil feared as G7 ducks credit crunch
Global food prices have increased by over 80% since 2005
IMF head gives food price warning
Soaring Food Prices Unleash Chaos
World food shortages to stay, riots a risk - FAO
Rising food prices: We are all in deep trouble
"A hungry mob is a angry mob"
Starving Haitians riot as food prices soar
Zimbabwe faces starvation as mobs rampage through farms
As Prices Rise, Farmers Spurn Conservation
NYT: The World Food Crisis
Migratory Beekeepers Worry About Their Livelihood
More socialism for the rich: Wall St. puts up worthless paper as collateral, for loan from Fed
Fed making extraordinary contingency plans in case the credit crisis outlasts its its own dwindling reserves
Blackwater Bulks Up Air Power Using Little-Known Company
UK: Anti-Terror Laws Used to Place Family Under Surveillance so Council Could Verify School Enrollment Statements
Experts hack power grid in no time
More manipulation of gold market
UN: Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security
Philippines threatens rice hoarders with life imprisonment
Big banks in big trouble
UK: Child database will 'pry into family life'
Times oped: The secret surveillance of teenagers by parents is a sinister trend
Wall Street brokerages borrowing $38.1 billion a day from Federal Reserve
Fed's Yellen says US economy 'all but stalled'
US: 80,000 jobs lost, unemployment spikes
Rice at all-time high as African demand soars
UK: House prices 'will crash soon'
UK: The world is facing "the first truly global financial crisis", the prime minister has told leaders.
232,000 US Jobs Have Already Vanished In 2008
UK Telecom Giant Spying On Customers
New strain of deadly water-borne disease found in Amazon
Melting ice caps may trigger more volcanic eruptions
Immanentizing the Eschaton in order to save it (vid.)
81 percent of Americans have finally noticed the country is on "wrong track"
Will a pandemic bring down civilisation?
Doctors say global warming may bring malaria to Britain
Reading The Signs And Knowing When It’s Time To Prepare For A Major Food Crisis
Data Mining Software Predicts How Depressing the Future Will Be
Memo: Laws Didn't Apply to Interrogators
Bush Administration Memo Says Fourth Amendment Does Not Apply To Military Operations Within U.S.
Intelligence Centers Tap Into Personal Databases
Some homes worth less than their copper pipes
Celent: 200,000 US Banking Jobs at Risk
Space Wars - Coming to the Sky Near You?
Boeing: Black's the new black for black-helicopter projects
Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
US credit crunch hits education as banks abandon student loans
Analyst Predicts Corn Rationing in 2008
Google adds US intelligence to its list of clients
Tibet is one thing, but India and China tensions spell bigger disaster
Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'
US credit crunch hits education as banks abandon student loans
Analyst Predicts Corn Rationing in 2008
Google adds US intelligence to its list of clients
Tibet is one thing, but India and China tensions spell bigger disaster
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