Our Goose is Cooked



By Mike Whitney



June 02, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- This must be what it was like in Russia before the Soviet Union collapsed. The government's so crooked that nothing works right, the infrastructure's in…

COVINGTON, La. -- It's unusual, but not unheard of -- a 35-year-old Northshore man was sentenced this month to life in prison following his fourth conviction on marijuana charges.Cornell Hood's attorney said his client plans to appeal his sentence, which sends him to jail for life under the state's habitual offender law."The punishment is not so much for…

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Transit Administration says more training may be called for after three MTA officers detained a man for taking pictures at a light rail station.

Pat Warren has more on the incident.

According to the ACLU, this isn’t the first time MTA Police have overstepped their bounds.

In a YouTube posting, Christopher…

• Posted on 05.31.11
• By Stephen C. Webster
• Categories: Activism, Featured

A protest by the infamous Westboro Baptist Church was not…

Wednesday, June 01, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

Source: London Guardian

Food prices are expected to hit new highs in the coming weeks, tightening the squeeze on UK households and potentially triggering further unrest in developing countries unless there is heavy rainfall across drought-affected Europe, the…

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/SARAH-PALINS-STAR-122981193.html

(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

You couldn't miss it, the big Star of David hanging around Sarah Palin's neck as she toured the…

(Part one of a four-part series)

The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths.  But their…

Was Gov. Perry's 2007 attendance at the Bilderberg meeting a violation of the Logan Act?  Regardless, he's scheduled to attend this year's meeting in St. Moritz, Switzerland on June 9-12.  James P. Tucker, Jr, at American Free Press contemplates what might transpire at this meeting for Perry's political future.~Nikki

Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry the Bilderberg group’s Republican candidate-in-waiting in the 2012 presidential race? The…

Dean Henderson Global Research

June 1, 2011

(Part one of a four-part series)

The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths.  But…

Margo D. Beller

CNBC

June 1, 2011

Wall Street is having a hard time figuring out what to do now that the U.S. economy appears to be sputtering and yields are so low, Peter Yastrow, market strategist for Yastrow Origer, told CNBC.

“What we’ve got right now is almost near panic going on with money managers and people who are responsible for money,” he said. “They can not…

Interest in Rare Earths is starting to heat up once again, and it something you should keep on your radar. China’s Baotou Steel has announced its intention to start up the world’s first rare earths exchange. The move is expected to increase the liquidity and visibility of these valuable elements while reducing their trading costs. So named because they were hard to get in the 18th and 19th century, these once obscure elements have suddenly become the focus of several converging trends in the…