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Jerome Corsi, WND senior staff reporter and editor of Red Alert, has fallen ill after he was forced to endure detention at the hands of armed Kenyan immigration authorities. WND founder and editor Joseph Farah said Corsi has arrived at his home in the United States and is now under care of a physician because he is very sick. "Corsi is still recovering from his traumatic abduction at the hands of Kenya security officials who halted his planned press conference in Nairobi and denied him and his party food for an entire day before allowing them to depart for London,"...

This evidence focuses on the time line of Ayer's own literary career and the period that Obama's books were published. Some may know that there has been strongly evidenced suggestions that Barack Obama may have had his two books ghostwritten by William Ayers, essentially refuting that there is no relationship between the two.

Someone once said that there is no such thing as coincidence in politics. My observation that the near inevitability of a weak, or failing, or disastrous (pick an adjective) economy when a Republican is in the White House leads me to believe that statement. I am of the opinion that a large part of the current crisis on Wall Street is due to manipulation. It's a gut feeling, like the feeling I had that Bob Rubin and crew were managing or at least assisting the market's rise during the Clinton years. I have the feeling that George Soros and gang...

BEHIND THE PANIC: Financial Warfare over future of global bank power by F. William Engdahl October 9, 2008 What’s clear from the behavior of European financial markets over the past two weeks is that the dramatic stories of financial meltdown and panic are deliberately being used by certain influential factions in and outside the EU to shape the future face of global banking in the wake of the US sub-prime and Asset-Backed Security (ABS) debacle. The most interesting development in recent days has been the unified and strong position of the German Chancellor, Finance Minister, Bundesbank and coalition Government, all...

Some myths refuse to die—like the one brewing now about Goldman Sachs pulling strings in the market meltdown and bailout. Here’s why.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The American author of a controversial book accusing Barack Obama of seething with "black rage" and of being unfit for the U.S. presidency was kicked out of Kenya on Tuesday. The deportation of Jerome Corsi came just hours before he was to launch his book in a country where the U.S. Democratic candidate for president is wildly popular. Corsi, who drew up in the Cleveland area and attended Case Western Reserve University, wrote "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality." Corsi was detained at immigration headquarters in Nairobi for not having a work permit...

Well, here we are, October 6, 2008. Less than a month before the most important election of our lifetime. For months now we've been hearing about, fearing, and even predicting a host of various October surprises. Well, it looks like we couldn't even wait till October. For in the past two weeks we have witnessed the "mortgage meltdown", "the Wall Street bailout", the first-ever deployment of a regular Army unit to respond to civil unrest, and arrogant mocking of the US by Putin, Chavez and Achmadinejad, complete with Russian wargames coming within a few miles of the Alaskan border. Meanwhile...

Wachovia, one of America's major banks, has seen its stock price plummet over the last few months and will be purchased either by Citibank for the proverbial song -- a few dollars a share for a stock that sold at more than $50 a share late last year -- or by Wells Fargo at a premium. What brought about the wreckage of Wachovia?

Did Hank Paulson subconsciously or consciously want to throw the election to Barack Obama. We don't know if the bailout will work as policy, but we know it worked as political theatre to turn the election.

With all the tools and time at Secretary Paulson's disposal to solve the subprime crisis, why did he wait until 5 weeks before the election to stage a brilliant piece of political theatre with the Democrats?

Another crop circle has appeared in the English countryside — and this one's clearly been made by someone, or something, that understands math.

The Paulson-Pelosi plan was a bizarre and somewhat inexplicable economic proposal given the vast array of tools the government had at its disposal to respond to the subprime mortgage debacle. However, it was a brilliant piece of political theatre designed to take down the McCain Palin campaign that had a victory at hand. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5p5XsZLxAo

You can say one thing about the Yes on 4 TV ad: It's sure to spark some strong reactions. The campaign to pass an abortion parental notification law aired an ad last night with a young man bragging about impregnating underage girls and then taking them to get secret abortions. The ad features a scruffy looking 20-something, wearing a white t-shirt and fleece jacket, talking straight into the camera about how, "I go out with some teenage girls." "OK, so I get a couple of them pregnant. What is the big deal? I can just take her to get an...

Madison - Former Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas will keynote Saturday's session of the 50th anniversary of the Appleton-based John Birch Society. Paul will be one of three speakers at the 8 p.m. Saturday event at the Best Western Bridgewood Resort Hotel in Neenah, according to spokesman Bill Hahn. Also speaking at that event will be Hilliard Welch, son of Society founder Robert Welch, and Society chief executive Arthur Thompson. A physician and an icon among some conservatives, Paul calls himself "America's No. 1 defender of liberty." He did not win any Republican presidential primaries, however....

Who is attacking the U.S.? The big casualty in this 21st century U.S. civil war is the Middle Class George Soros, Maurice Strong and company redefine the Middleclass George Soros, Al Gore, Warren Buffet, Maurice StrongThe Democrat-loving mainstream media is missing the boat on Warren Buffet’s take of America’s economic meltdown as …”a sort of economic Pearl Harbor we’re going through.” That being the case, then surely the first question should be: “Who is attacking the U.S.?” The billionaire’s $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. at the same time he’s touting the Treasury’s $700 billion bank rescue plan,...

Just wondering if anyone else smells a link b/w Goldman Sachs and the many people pushing this $700 billion dollar TAXPAYER bailout. Buffett offers his dire warnings re:the market and this bailout... but he just invested $5 billion into Goldman Sachs. It just seems EXTREMELY interesting to me that Paulson was the former CEO over at Goldman, the memo forwarded to Obama's team, regarding the House's Republican plan, before the meeting at the WH on Thursday afternoon came from a "reliable" sourse over at Goldman, Jim Johnson is on the board over at Goldman, Buffett is an advisor to the...

The Open Society Institute, a private foundation controlled by liberal billionaire and political activist George Soros, received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies between 1998 and 2003. Last year, Soros donated at least $20 million of his own money to such liberal groups as Moveon.org, in a failed attempt to block the re-election of President George W. Bush. Tax records the Open Society Institute (OSI) is required to file with the Internal Revenue Service list "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" as "Contributors" of amounts between $4.6 million and $8.9 million over a six year period: * 1998 - $4,611,617 *...

A rumor is swirling around the Internet that an inglorious end to the U.S. economy is imminent. Unlike previous rumors to this effect, this one carries the weight of recent events in the financial realm and has many believing the rumor will come to pass. Let's examine some of the claims being made: On March 18, 2008, a "closed door" session of Congress was held for only the fourth time in history. According to House Rule XVII, clause 9, it is forbidden for members of the U.S. House of Representatives to reveal the discussions held behind those doors. The penalty...

Barack Obama's campaign website is recommending that voters remain registered in battleground states even though they may not be living there on Nov. 4. The Republican National Committee (RNC) is raising questions about how Sen. Obama’s (Ill.) campaign is urging its supporters to vote in purple states despite living in red or blue states this fall. An RNC official said it is unclear whether that practice is illegal but argued that it is “out of compliance with the spirit of the law.” However, Columbia University law professor and election law expert Nathaniel Persily stated that “there is no problem” with...

It seems to be coming clear that the Obama campaign is involved in illegally accessing Sarah Palin's email (at least based on reports that "Rubico" may be one of Obama's Tennessee state chairs) QUESTION 1: how did they know, FOR SURE, that "gov.palin@yahoo.com" was Sarah Palin's Yahoo account? It's logical of course, but how did this Rubico know that for sure?. I mean, her email address could have been many things, such as "spalin", "sarahpalin", "governorpalin", "govpalin" or you get the point. How is it that they knew it was exactly "gov" "dot" "palin"? As all of the windbag leftists...

According to Jack Cashill (see this link), there is mounting evidence to indicate that Barack Obama was not the author of his now famous memoir, Dreams From My Father. His research into Obama's literary background shows that, prior to 1990, Obama had written nothing of note. Then like a bolt from the blue, Obama produces a work described by Time Magazine as "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."Cashill observes, "I had questioned whether the influential Muslim crackpot who paved Obama’s way into Harvard, Khalid al Mansour, might have greased his way into the world of publishing as...

....the Chinese - and the Japanese - are said to have insisted Washington act to protect their investments in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....... that the Chinese, or anyone for that matter, had any influence as to how our country conducts its financial affairs is by far the most important and long-ranging event. This is what it feels like to be poor. This is what it feels like to have people - or in this case a country that doesn't particularly like us - pushing us around. On Tuesday the Federal Reserve met and decided not to reduce interest rates....

You are clever and creative; it's time to find a target worthy of your talents. Like Sarah Palin. Start harassing her! ......PS: Don't blow up our servers. Thanks! .....and that it was time for them to find a new target. We even threw out a suggestion: Sarah Palin! And then yesterday, this happened........ Just last week, we posted a brief open letter to Anonymous, the Internet-based rabble-rousers who have made a name for themselves taking on Scientology, in which we said that they'd succeeded in ruining the Church's reputation, and that it was time for them to find a new...

The real tribe that matters, when it comes to fiat (notional) money is, as we all know, the PowersThatBe. I seem to call that Hank Greenberg, who largely built AIG (and who claimed in a TV interview Tuesday that AIG was a "national treasure") was a ranking bigwig in the Council on Foreign Relations - you know, that group which is pushing for a North American trading block and the agenda of www.spp.gov - which has never been voted on in CONgress? Am I the only one that recalls that Greenberg served as Chairman of the CFR's Task Force on...

“Zero: an investigation into 9/11,” a film by Italian journalist Giulietta Chiesa and his French colleague Thierry Meyssan, went practically unnoticed in the world. Its authors openly complained about this as they spoke on Channel One, hinting at machinations by America’s intelligence agencies. In Russia, on the other hand, the film was shown on TV on Friday evening, during prime-time – on the “Private Screening” program, which gave it an audience of many millions. In and of itself, this proves that the Cold War is in full swing, at least on Russian television.... Chiesa and Meyssan’s basic thesis is that...

PERM, Russia (AP) — The pilot of the Aeroflot jet that crashed killing all 88 people on board ignored commands from air traffic controllers, probably contributing to Russia's worst air disaster in two years, according to news reports Monday. Officials blamed a faulty engine for the crash Sunday of the Boeing 737-500 in the Ural Mountains city of Perm but wouldn't comment on the controllers' claim pending an official investigation. However, Alexander Bastrykin, the chief of the federal Investigative Committee, said the jet's right engine apparently failed and caught fire as the plane was preparing to land in rainy weather....

........... The professor of statistics at Texas A&M University organized a six-member team that compared the composition of bullet fragments from the JFK shooting with other bullets from the same manufacturer. The group found that those fragments weren't nearly as rare as the government's expert witness concluded in 1976, when Dr. Vincent P. Guinn determined that all five fragments came from two bullets fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. A third shot missed. "The claim was made that those five fragments could only have come from two bullets," Dr. Spiegelman said. "Our research showed it could have been two or more....

WITH all due deference to lipstick, let’s advance the story. A week ago the question was: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? The question today: What kind of president would Sarah Palin be? It’s an urgent matter, because if we’ve learned anything from the G.O.P. convention and its aftermath, it’s that the 2008 edition of John McCain is too weak to serve as America’s chief executive. This unmentionable truth, more than race, is now the real elephant in the room of this election. No longer able to remember his principles any better than he...

McCain or Obama - Secret Government Still in Control In Chapter One of The Shadows of Power by James Perloff, titled “A Primer on the CFR,” we glean the following details. Sir William Pitt, before the House of Lords in London in 1770, said, “There is something behind the throne greater than the king himself.” This gave birth to the phrase “power behind the throne.” In 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, England’s great statesman, wrote a novel entitled Coningsby in which he wrote: “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the...

It's been 17 years since the federal government banned the use of lead shot in shells used to hunt waterfowl. Back in 1991 the number of ducks and geese turning up dead from lead poisoning was on the increase, not so much as a result of being hit by lead pellets but as a result of ingesting pellets as they bottom fed in ponds and marshes. Swans and other non-game bottom feeders were also impacted. Hunters initially complained about the poor performance of non-toxic steel shot compared to lead, but it wasn't long before a number of non-toxic alternatives to...

Was Israel Behind 9/11? By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel --- September 11, 2008 ..... I can still smell death in the air. I can still hear the sound of jackhammers piercing the silence at Ground Zero. I can still hear police and soldiers weeping. I can still see the many memorial candles lighting up the streets of Manhattan. I can still see thousands of people walking up Second and Third Avenues covered in white dust as they made their way to the bridges to escape a raped New York. I can still see the hundreds of waving...

Top Obama fundraiser Jodie Evans stated she used C-SPAN credentials without the cable news outlet's knowledge at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul last week.Also, her Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin bragged to the press at the Democratic National Convention that she had convention press credentials under the name of a Christian radio netweork.Evans, who has been a part of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign finance operations since the beginning of his run for the White House in February 2007, charged the stage when Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was making her acceptance speech. She claimed to...

An Open Letter to Everybody Who Read My Book, Civil War Two By Thomas Chittum ©copyright 2008 When I wrote Civil War Two back in 1995 I had just returned from Croatia where I had fought in their civil war that resulted in the partition of the former Yugoslavia along ethnic lines. My book focused on demographic changes that I believed were driving this nation towards a similar breakup along ethnic lines. When I wrote my book I had never even heard of the Bilderberg Group or the Pilgrims Society or the Trilateral Commission or the Council on Foreign Relations...

Santa Clara, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Details have emerged from documents in a California appeals court case that a Planned Parenthood abortion business referred for an abortion on a sexually-abused teenager without telling authorities about the abuse. The case prompts pro-life advocates to say parental notification is needed.According to court documents, a Santa Clara County sexual predator impregnated his 13-year-old stepdaughter and forced her to have a late-term abortion.The man then continued to molest her for another seven months until the child's mother discovered the abuse and contacted police.Despite two visits to Planned Parenthood and a surgical abortion at San...

Sacramento, CA -- Details have emerged from documents in a California appeals court case that a Planned Parenthood abortion business referred for an abortion on a sexually-abused teenager without telling authorities about the abuse. The case prompts pro-life advocates to say parental notification is needed. According to court documents, a Santa Clara County sexual predator impregnated his 13-year-old stepdaughter and forced her to have a late-term abortion.

Why do the big deals always happen over the weekends? So the big boyz in government and finance can take off their neckties when they bargain with each other? So the markets will be closed and unable to register a response one way or another? So the shrinking fraction of the US public that pays attention to anything besides Nascar and pornography won't catch the news Saturday evening? This weekend's big deal was the US government taking over the "government sponsored enterprises" (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that guarantee trillions of dollars in mortgages. The "guarantee" is supposedly accomplished...

John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, as his Vice Presidential running mate for the 2008 election. While Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are watching the skies for bombing runs, and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is watching the rooftops for assassins, Alaska’s Sarah Palin is watching Fox News and minding her P’s and Q’s. The Globalists are closing the deal on the last 3 oil fields on the globe, and they are doing it in the name of America. ... cont.

The media have covered such recent events as the Olympics, the selection of Joe Biden as the Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, and what John McCain is going to do about the selection of the Vice President of the Republican Party. Now the media will focus on the national convention of the Democratic Party. The most important news for the month of August was the fact that President Bush has quietly sent the largest armada into the Persian Gulf since the Iraq war began in 2003, when there were six carrier groups. This is a huge number of...

THE HIDDEN AGENDA OF OBAMA AND McCAIN? PART DOS (Please see “The Hidden Agenda of Obama and McCain? Can You Spare an Amero?” [posted on my website on September 1st, 2008] ) I voted for George W. Bush in 2000 by choice. I voted for him in 2004 by default. As an old aunt used to say to express her utter contempt for someone, should the NAU take full effect in my lifetime and not in his, I will make every effort to pee on his grave. Say what you will about Wikipedia, it sometimes gets things straight as in...

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's unemployment rate bolted above the psychologically important 6 percent level last month for the first time in five years -- and it's likely to go even higher in the months ahead, possibly throwing the economy into a tailspin as Americans pick a new president....A blizzard of pink slips propelled the jobless rate from 5.7 percent in July to 6.1 percent in August, the Labor Department reported Friday....So far this year, a staggering 605,000 jobs have vanished -- slightly less than the population of Alaska.

from some good friends: GET READY, GET READY, GET READY!! An Urgent Letter of Warning, Preparation and Promises Dear Friends and Family, (This letter recently came to us from people we trust.. Please read prayerfully and be warned. Be ready! For in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh. Matt 24:44 The only thing the NWO people don't know is that the 4 angels of Rev 7 are still holding back the winds...till God's servants are sealed...Nonetheless, it behooves us to be ready. Europe is talking about the imminent US economic collapse which will spread...

A year ago, the Ramsey County sheriff's office began looking closely at a group called the Republican National Convention Welcoming Committee. What it found, according to an 18-page search warrant application and affidavit, led to weekend raids on two Minneapolis homes and a temporary St. Paul office for the self-described anarchist group. According to the document, investigation learned: The self-described anarchist group — whose main goal was to "crash" the Republican National Convention," according to its Web site — traveled to or communicated with affinity groups in 67 cities to recruit members and raise money. Group members discussed the possibility...

The nine people convicted in the Newsday circulation scandal were each sentenced Friday to 5 years' probation and up to $125,000 in fines, escaping potential restitution totaling $5.9 million and up to 20 years in prison. Those sentenced - in what federal prosecutors said was the end of their investigation - included Louis Sito, a former top Newsday executive who ran the newspaper's day-to-day business operations, and Robert Brennan, former vice president of circulation. Sito also served as vice president of Hispanic media at Tribune Co., which owned Newsday and the Spanish language Hoy, also implicated in the scandal. The...

A 23-year-old Michigan man faces up to 10 years in jail for illegally possessing bombs, which he allegedly intended to use to destroy the Xcel Energy Center during the Republican National Convention. Matthew Bradley DePalma, of Flint, Mich., was charged Aug. 30 with one count of possession of firearms. According to his criminal complaint, DePalma had several Molotov cocktails in his possession a week before the start of the RNC. DePalma had been under investigation by federal investigators after he attended a protester conference in Wisconsin in July. Officials said DePalma went to the Hennepin County Library on Aug. 18...

Since the leftists at Daily Kos want to declare that Sarah Palin didn’t have her last child, but her daughter did, I thought I might get some sort of evidence to show that she was actually pregnant. But before I do that, I want to you consider what the left would be saying if it were the right making these types of claims… Sarah Palin - February 10, 2008 (Harriett Fenerty) Sarah Palin - February 26, 2008 (Goodman/Van Riper Photography)

Carter: Oil Industry Will Hold Down Prices to Help Republicans Former President Jimmy Carter tells 'Early Show' crude costs will remain low to benefit GOP in 2008 election. By Paul Detrick Business & Media Institute 8/27/2008 4:57:00 PM Former president Jimmy Carter predicted on August 27 that “oil companies will hold down oil prices a little bit, you know, to try to help the Republican ticket.” Carter, who was talking to co-host Harry Smith on “The Early Show” that morning, also said that the economy would be the most important issue, “as it was when Bill Clinton was elected the...

Fire strikes Ukraine ammunition dump An ammunition dump was on fire near a town in the east Ukrainian region of Kharkiv today and some military personnel were evacuated from the area, the Emergencies Ministry and Defence Ministry said. "A fire broke out in the military depot near the town of Lozovaya, we are taking steps to localise the blaze, the size of which we are checking," said a Defence Ministry spokesman. The Defence Ministry said no one had been killed and military families had been evacuated from the area. An Emergencies Ministry spokeswoman said the situation was "very serious" and...

The Chicago bully tactics aren’t going to work. While Obama sics his lawyers and Kossack minions on TV stations that dare to air an independent ad about his close relationship with Weather Underground terrorist-turned-academic Bill Ayers, the truth is seeping out. Thanks to the efforts of NRO’s Stanley Kurtz, blogger Steve Diamond, and intense pressure from Internet readers and talk radio listeners, the University of Illinois - Chicago was forced to release a trove of papers that a former official attempted to shield from public view. There are some 140 boxes and 1,000 files to sift through — and MSM...

MOSCOW, August 25 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday sent a message of condolences to Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev in connection with the crash of a Boeing-737 plane at Bishkek’s international airport Manas, the Kremlin press service reported. The Boeing, belonging to Kyrgyz Itek Air carrier, was on a fight from Bishkek to Tehran. It took off from Manas at 18:30, Moscow time, on Sunday and several minutes later requested an emergency landing. However, it failed to reach the airport and went down five kilometres away from the landing strip, near the settlement of Dzhany-Dzher. According to official reports,...

We've all read that speculators are driving oil prices artificially high — a claim that gets more interesting in light of oil's recent fall below $115. But maybe we're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Suppose that major suppliers in the oil industry are these manipulative speculators. Is it possible that oil prices are rigged? You bet. Here's how: Just how would you raise prices if you were an oil supplier? Controlling the supply — as in the 1973 OPEC embargo — has become less effective with more sources of oil worldwide. And oil suppliers clearly cannot raise prices...