February 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Feb 28, 6:42 PM (ET)
By DAVID CRARY
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NEW YORK (AP) - For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America’s rank as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars.
Using state-by-state data, the report says 2,319,258 Americans were in jail or prison at the start of 2008 - one out of every 99.1 adults. Whether per capita or in raw numbers, it’s more than any other nation. Continue reading »
February 28th, 2008 No Comments »
By: David Deschesne
Fort Fairfield Journal, February 27, 2008, p. 1
On May, 2005 U.S. President George W. Bush; Mexican President, Vicente Fox; and Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin met at Baylor University, in Texas and unveiled their plan for a North American Union (NAU) under the guise of a “security and prosperity partnership.”
According to the U.S. State Department, later that same year, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms launched its “Southwest Border Initiative” to attack the firearms-trafficking infrastructure of criminal organizations working across the border. The State Department press release describes a de facto hemispherical police force developing “new programs to share tracing capabilities with the Mexicans, close off trafficking corridors, expand actionable, real-time intelligence cooperation and aggressively pursue prosecution.” Continue reading »
February 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Alan Greenspan has again exposed himself as a traitor working against the interests of the American people by urging Gulf states to abandon the dollar peg, a move that could result in financial chaos and an economic depression in America.The dollar peg mandates Gulf nations to price their assets in U.S. dollars and follow U.S. monetary policy at a time when the Fed is cutting interest rates, a system that has produced a boom in oil revenues but led to high inflation as the dollar weakens. Continue reading »
February 26th, 2008 No Comments »
An A&E Billboard ‘Whispers’ a Spooky Message Audible Only in Your Head in Push to Promote Its New ‘Paranormal’ Program
By Andrew Hampp
http://adage.com/article?article_id=122491
Published: December 10, 2007
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — New Yorker Alison Wilson was walking down Prince Street in SoHo last week when she heard a woman’s voice right in her ear asking, “Who’s there? Who’s there?” She looked around to find no one in her immediate surroundings. Then the voice said, “It’s not your imagination.”
Indeed it isn’t. It’s an ad for “Paranormal State,” a ghost-themed series premiering on A&E this week. The billboard uses technology manufactured by Holosonic that transmits an “audio spotlight” from a rooftop speaker so that the sound is contained within your cranium. The technology, ideal for museums and libraries or environments that require a quiet atmosphere for isolated audio slideshows, has rarely been used on such a scale before. For random passersby and residents who have to walk unwittingly through the area where the voice will penetrate their inner peace, it’s another story. Continue reading »
February 25th, 2008 No Comments »
The last thing we need is another liberal neocon in the White House. If the Presidency of George W. Bush proved anything, it proved the hazard of electing phony Republican conservatives. At least one is able to clearly see a liberal for what he or she is when they have a “D” behind their name. But put an “R” behind the name and suddenly their liberal, Big-Government, anti-freedom agenda is barely recognized, which makes a liberal Republican much more dangerous than a liberal Democrat.
Let me say it straight out: a John McCain Presidency would be far worse than a Barack Obama Presidency. With a Democrat in the White House, conservatives and Christians suddenly find their principles Continue reading »
February 21st, 2008 No Comments »
“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”
- Winston Churchill, Nov. 21, 1943
Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of “an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.”
Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts Continue reading »
February 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Gun Owners of America filed its brief yesterday before the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of Dick Anthony Heller, who was denied the right to own a gun in the nations capital as a result of the draconian gun ban which exists there.
In this hard-hitting brief, GOA takes aim at the weak arguments put forth by both the DC government and the Bush Administration. But more than that, GOA examines the favorable text and context of the Second Amendment in great detail, while also documenting the pro-gun history that formed the backdrop of its inclusion into the Bill of Rights. Continue reading »
February 8th, 2008 No Comments »
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Spending hours on a cell phone each day may affect the quality of a man’s sperm, preliminary research suggests. In a study of 361 men seen at their infertility clinic, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic found an association between the patients’ cell phone use and their sperm quality.
On average, the more hours the men spent on their cell phones each day, the lower their sperm count and the greater their percentage of abnormal sperm. Continue reading »
February 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Texas Border Residents Take Homeland Security Chief to Court Over Land Seizures for Border Wall
By Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.
Inside the Checkpoints: Commentary from the Rio Grande
February 6, 2008
February is not a good month for Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff. He has just been sued by a team of legal experts headed by Peter Schey of the Los Angeles based Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law.

A stretch of the border wall in California. Chertoff hopes to build a similar one in Texas.
Photos: D.R. 2008 Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr. |
When Chertoff began wielding his power to build a border wall along the US-Mexico border, border residents knew it was an abuse of his power and that he was violating human rights and the Constitution. Finding someone to defend the owners of property along the border was not easy, especially when elected officials in highest offices of the respective states, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, in concert with the nationally elected officials, turned their heads, covered their eyes and failed to protect the people who elected them to protect them and their property rights from such abuses of power. Continue reading »
February 6th, 2008 No Comments »
A choice between Gold or Fiat Currency, free markets made to run wild, and a Fed that has been wrong about so many things. Greenspan’s ideas toxic, and exercises of banking and bailing
Wall Street and the Fed haven’t changed one bit since the 1980s, the decade of greed. The supposed free market is less free and since Ronald Reagan’s executive order creating the “Working Group on Financial Markets” the market is more manipulated in favor of the insiders at the Fed, banking, investment banking and in brokerage than ever before. They certainly learned well that greed is good. The game has been geared to major financial profits for the leveraged speculator community. In that process Wall Street has snatched control from the Fed and the banking community. As a result, we have no regulation and control over securitization, derivatives and hedge funds. We remember well 35 years ago when the banking community via the SEC put Investors Overseas Services out of business for having a Fund of Funds. Today that is absolute child’s play. The Rothschilds did not want the competition, so a great mutual fund selling organization was destroyed. This is also part of what Wall Street is all about. That is connections and corruption, we know, we spent 28 years in the brokerage business. Continue reading »