Kurt Nimmo | In New York they are erecting a huge surveillance and control grid, one cops and control freaks around the country will chomp at the bit to emulate.

Epoch Times | Studies indicate that credit card defaults and related write-offs increased drastically since 2006. Today, lenders write off 33 percent more in credit card debt than they did two years ago

BBC | The UN has covered up claims that its troops in Democratic Republic of Congo gave arms to militias and smuggled gold and ivory, the BBC has learned.

UK Daily Mail | The former head of MI6 is backing controversial Government plans to hold terror suspects for 42 days without charge, saying it might prevent a dirty-bomb attack on Britain.

Reuters | Iran said on Sunday a “disastrous situation” facing the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan coupled with Washington’s domestic issues made any U.S. attack on the Islamic Republic unlikely.

Lee Rogers | It is important that we shine as much light on these types of drills and exercises so if a terror attack takes place, we can expose the true culprits.

New York Post | Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions — a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon.

JonesReport.com | Bill Clinton is questioned about the Bush Administration’s investigation of 9/11. He admits it is lacking, but rules out the possibility of an ‘inside job’ despite the fact that both administrations aided in the cover-up and obfuscation of a legitimate investigation.

AAPS News of the Day | The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research.

You Tube | “Councilor Yukihisa Fujita of the Democratic Party of Japan, the main opposition party questions 9/11 in parliament again on April 24, 2008.”

You Tube | “If all he offers is more of the same….is John McCain the right choice for America’s future?”

Steve Watson | State Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, has come under fierce criticism for going on record with her doubts over the government’s version of events surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

Associated Press | “Real people and real lives are being affected by a dimension that is essentially speculative U.N. says speculators inflate food prices,” declares Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Program.

Mike Whitney | If Reverend Jeremiah Wright didn’t provide an avenue for denigrating Obama, he’d be treated with the same indifference as the thousands of other blacks who were herded at gunpoint into the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina.

TaxProf Blog | Why could families easily meet their financial obligations in the 1950s and 1960s, when only one parent worked outside the home, yet have great difficulty today, when two-income families are the norm?

Associated Press | New intrusive system will play “music to calm passengers” as full body scanner does its job.

OhMyGov! | Loud music “scafflaws” will have their cars hijacked and stolen by the state.

Fox 28 | Homeland Ministry grant for surveillance cameras allow Cleveland to catch common criminals, not terrorists.

Daily Mail | Surveillance powers designed to track terrorists are being deployed by councils to crack down on littering, dog fouling and planning law breaches.

Associated Press | Homeland Ministry pushes to license and regulate recreational boats because you never know when al-Qaeda might deliver a home-made nuke in one.

Alexander Cockburn | While the Democrats bicker in the playpen, McCain can issue statesmanlike bulletins on matters of national importance.

Missy Comley Beattie | President McCain. Say it. Get used to it.

Paul Joseph Watson | Says diminishing farmland will lead to food riots, despite being behind corn-based ethanol push.

Think Progress | Feinstein and Hoekstra attempt to forestall the neocon attack on Iran.

The Guardian | Air Force proposes using fuel made from coal with a “footprint” twice the size of oil as a way to combat “greenhouse gas emissions.”

Bob Chapman | What the US administration is playing for is perpetual war and occupation to keep control of the oil for the internationalist oil giants.

Daily Mail | The British police state is determined to wreck the tourist industry.

The Independent | Rioting in Haiti. Rationing in America. Queues in Egypt. Protests in Afghanistan. As the price of food continues to soar, the impact is being felt by people around the globe.

The Register | If you use the internet for any purpose that might be construed as other than respectable – be afraid. Be very afraid.

Boston Globe | Globe editorial states it was “foolish and dangerous” for Hillary to threaten to obliterate Iran. We’d go a couple steps further — it is criminal to suggest an entire country be destroyed in order to win an election.

Press TV | Cluster bombs are forbidden under international humanitarian law. But that has not stopped the neocons and the Israelis from using them against civilian populations.

YNet News | Does Israel sell U.S. manufactured helicopters to CIA spawned drug dealers? Does the sun come up in the morning?

Las Vegas Sun | Meeting reveals a party, in Nevada at least, far from united.

YouTube | “Death to the New World Order. Death to the idea of losing our sovereignty.”

Kurt Nimmo | Absurd specter of Iran passing nukes along to al-Qaeda cited.

YouTube | Transhumanism tries to sell you on the concept of abandoning humanity altogether.

The Independent | In Haiti, mudcookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening are one of the few options poor people have to stave off hunger.

The New York Times | Ms. Berg identified herself as a V.A. nurse when, soon after Katrina’s horrors, she sent her impassioned letter to The Alibi, a paper in Albuquerque.

Serbian Light | If you ever travel to Russia on business, and want to use your notebook’s Wi-Fi, or perhaps your brand new iPhone, you might want to think again.

Kurt Nimmo | Mayor uses street crime as an excuse to militarize the police.

YouTube | DHS blows millions in taxpayer dollars on failed “Virtual Fence” on US/Mexico border.

The Washington Post | So much for D.C.’s “common-sense regulations,” as the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency will centralize than 5,000 cameras, including those in schools, public housing and residential neighborhoods.

Associated Press | Mayor Daly blames the “gun industry” for increased violence.

Fox Tampa Bay | Yet another incident demonstrating you’re crazy to have your kids in a public school.

BBC | Much of the group’s activities centered on smuggling Colombian cocaine through Mexico to California.

Our Conservative Spirit | Despite major news media coverage fawningly supportive of the Texas FLDS police state raid and trial, thousands upon thousands, maybe millions of Americans are saying, “This is wrong!”

Jonathan Martin | “I’m a real candidate, but I try to keep everybody living in the real world,” Ron Paul said in an interview, alluding to the exuberance of his supporters.

Mike Whitney | The Commodity Futures Trading Commission takes a hands-off approach as Wall Street sharpies make a fortune jacking up the price of everything from soda crackers to toilet bowls.

Linn Cohen-Cole | Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers.

Congressional Quarterly | Ben-Ami Kadish was employed as a mechanical engineer at a U.S. Army weapons center in New Jersey when he allegedly supplied his Israeli handler with classified military documents.