Big Brother in Basel: Are We Trading Financial Stability for National Sovereignty?

~Hat Tip Don Paul
By Ellen Brown~Web of Debt
Buried on page 83 of the 89-page Report on Financial Regulatory Reform issued by the U.S. Administration on June 17 is a recommendation that the new Financial Stability Board strengthen and institutionalize its mandate to promote global financial stability. Financial stability is a worthy goal, but the devil [...]

Canada Moves Forward To Vaccinate Entire Population

By Sharon Kirkey~The Windsor Star
Five-to-40-year-olds and Canada’s aboriginal communities should be the first to get vaccinated against human swine flu, experts say as Canadian officials decide who gets priority for the flu shots.
Under Canada’s official pandemic plan, the entire population would ultimately be immunized against the H1N1 swine flu.
But the vaccine will become available in [...]

Homeland Security drone patrolling NNY

~Newswatch50
A monitor inside an operations trailer shows a close-up view of a boat skimming across the water on Lake Ontario.
The image was taken from an unmanned aircraft more than three miles away.
A Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) has been temporarily based at Fort Drum since early June in an experiment by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection [...]

Senate panel okays energy bill

By John M. Broder~New York Times
A Senate panel approved an energy bill on Wednesday that opens large tracts of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling and provides federal loan guarantees for a gas pipeline project in Alaska.
The measure, which cleared the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on a 15-8 vote, also [...]

Cop vs. cop in Mexican drug war

Motorists flee as officers threaten to shoot it out
By Julie Watson~ASSOCIATED PRESS
In a hair-raising standoff that sent motorists scrambling for cover, municipal police pulled their guns on masked federal agents in one of Mexico’s biggest cities — a stark display of the tensions caused by a crackdown on drug corruption among the country’s lawmen.
Federal forces [...]

Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead

By Kevin Hasset~Bloomberg
I’ve finally figured out the Obama economic strategy. President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing “failed” firms, that they have developed a scheme to gain the same power over every business. The plan is to enact policies that are so anticompetitive that every [...]

Canadian Economy in Sharp Decline

~BBC News
Canada’s economy contracted at the fastest rate since 1991 in the first three months of 2009, according to official figures.
The economy shrank by 5.4% on an annualised basis during the quarter after the economy shrank by 3.7% in the last quarter of 2008.
Despite being the worst result for 18 years, it was better than [...]

Tucson man faces prison for leaving water jugs along border

Editor’s note: Torture, legal. Humanitarianism, illegal.
By Brian J. Pedersen~Arizona Daily Star
Tucson man convicted of littering on federal land said he will continue to leave water out for illegal immigrants walking through the desert, even if that means risking further citations.
“We’re committed to our humanitarian efforts,” said 27-year-old Walt Staton, who was found guilty Wednesday [...]

New Microchip ID rules begin June 1 for Mexico, Canada trips

By MANUEL VALDES~AP News
New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States’ northern and southern borders are taking effect Monday, as some rue the tightening of security and others hail it as long overdue.
The rules are being implemented nearly eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks and long after the 9/11 [...]

Architects Of Control: Program I

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Produced by Michael Tsarion and Blue Fire Film, Architects of Control: Program One, explores humankinds future and the posthuman world. Will the perfect human be a dumbed down, regimented inhabitant of a cyber purgatory created by unseen elites? Will the children of tomorrow be smiling depressives of [...]

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National Guard May Be Sent to US-Mexico Border

Editor’s note: Interesting timing.
By Mary Beth Sheridan, Spencer S. Hsu and Steve Fainaru~Washington Post
The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the U.S. military’s role in the drug war, according to Obama administration officials.
The circumstances under [...]

Mexican Doctor: Real Figure Is 200 Dead

~BBC News
Readers in Mexico have been emailing the BBC describing the sense of fear gripping the country as a result of a flu virus outbreak, which has so far claimed more than 80 lives.
The World Health Organization says the virus has the potential to become a pandemic.
Read a selection of BBC readers’ comments below.
I [...]

Obama’s health fine after trip to Mexico

Obama met and shook hands with an archaeologist who died a week later from symptoms similar to flu. Story here

~AP NEWS
President Barack Obama’s health is fine a little more than a week after he traveled to Mexico, where an outbreak of swine flu has killed at least 68 people and sickened more than 1,000, the [...]

Mexico City Launches Huge Vaccination Campaign Against Swine Flu

~AFP
The government of Mexico City said Friday it was launching a massive vaccination campaign against swine flu, after authorities said they were probing 45 deaths and 943 possible infections from the virus.

Rap Group Public Enemy Warn Of “The Obama Deception”

Seminal hip-hop outfit educates audience at huge California music festival
By Paul Joseph Watson~Prison Planet
Public Enemy – one of the most influential rap groups in music history – took an opportunity at the Coachella 2009 festival to warn their audience about “The Obama Deception,” in reference to Alex Jones’ recently released underground blockbuster documentary.
The L.A. Times [...]

Hopebroken and Hopesick: A Lexicon of Disappointment

By Naomi Klein~The Nation
All is not well in Obamafanland. It’s not clear exactly what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury’s latest bank bailout. Or the news that the president’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, earned millions from the very Wall Street banks and hedge funds he [...]

Obama’s First 100 Days: Worse Than Even We Predicted

By Paul Joseph Watson~Prison Planet
As President Barack Obama approaches his first 100 days in office, the corporate media prepares a new round of fawning idolatry about the Obama administration’s “achievements,” yet a summary glance at what Obama has actually done in that short time with regard to expanding the Bush police state and the Neo-Con [...]

Guest pitch for our beloved P.G.

By Don Paul
“Don’t look back. They might be gainin’ on ya”–
Satchel Paige.
Suppozin’–just suppozin’, now–old puppetgov here was a newspaper. Suppozin’ it was a newspaper you liked. Liked the range and depth and percipience–kind ‘a like that old Tolstoy used to season his narratives with percipience–it brought
you six days a week and sometimes on Sunday.
Hey! [...]

Constitution Free Zone: Suspicionless Checkpoint in New Mexico

~sanderson1611
Highlights:
(5:35) Agent whips out his nun chucks in anger
(7:45-8:00) The agent tells me in less than perfect English, “In the Border Patrol Checkpoint, the person’s rights doesn’t matter here.”
(16:50-17:10) I’m told that the police will arrive in less than 10 minutes to arrest me
(19:00-19:40) I’m accused of being a terrorist
(26:20) I’m told that I’m free [...]