With credit to James M. Ackerman, Interest Rates and the Law: A History of Usury, 1981, Arizona St. L.J.61 (1981)
What do Hammurabi, Plato, Charlemagne, Dante and Queens Mary and Elizabeth have in common? They all condemned, outlawed or regulated the charging of interest on loans. In fact, until the early 1900s interest rates in the United States were kept at or near 10%. And until 1979, loan laws provided some interest rate cap in every… Continue
Added by Brian Cooper on July 11, 2009 at 3:09pm —
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For many years it has been debated and called conspiracy that the US Government has been using Biological warfare against the people of our planet. NOW they have been caught and used terrorism to get back one plane. Call every representative and start screaming!!!! This is planned destruction and mass genocide of humanity. Now come the forced vaccinations which will not work on the bird flu. Or you can go to prison for 10 years.
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture intertwined with smoking.
Jack Smith, head of the Pentagon's office of clinical and program policy, says he will recommend that Gates adopt proposals by a federal study that cites rising tobacco use and higher costs for the Pentagon and Department of Veterans… Continue
Added by Tara on July 11, 2009 at 11:21am —
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The former speaker of the US House of Representatives has said that the US should "sabotage" Iran's oil and gas infrastructure as part of its efforts to bring down the government.
In an interview with Al Jazeera's Avi Lewis for the Fault Lines programme, Republican Newt Gingrich said targeting Iran's refinery would spark an economic crisis that would destabilise the government in Tehran.
He said the US should "use covert operations … to create a gasoline-led crisis to try… Continue
Added by Tara on July 11, 2009 at 12:43am —
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When they finally cross the line and declare martial law for what ever myriad of reasons that may or may not be orchestrated by "them," will we have descended to the final stage that brings us…
Lawmaker won’t deny secret CIA program was ‘Cheney assassination ring’
Early Friday morning, MSNBC followed up on a theory posted Thursday on the Huffington Post which alleged that a secret CIA program shut down in June by director Leon Panetta could have been related to a purported effort led by Vice President Dick Cheney to assassinate intelligence targets abroad.
This past March, as RAW STORY reported, investigative reporter Seymour… Continue
I was searching for something else and this just showed up, I dont know how but it did LOL, this is what it says
"the default pass for each level of security on the smart meters is
pass1
pass2
pass3
pass4
each one is a higher level of security ,odds are they are still set to that but there is even a password reset utility program on that page incase you lost yours."
LMAO have fun smart meter owners GET IT WHILE YOU CAN… Continue
Added by Swtnlovabl on July 10, 2009 at 3:41pm —
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What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind -- peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law - George H.W. Bush, State of the Union Address, 29 January 1991.
There is a chance for the President of the United States to use this disaster to carry out what his father - a phrase his father… Continue
Though I don't subscribe to their beliefs and such....it is becoming quite clear that freedom of speech isn't so free anymore and what happens in the UK eventually makes its way to our shores. They don't even lock up pedophiles and rapists as long as they're locking up these two guys.
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Two men have been jailed after becoming the first in the UK to be convicted of inciting racial hatred online.
>>>>> MARKLAR:"Will somebody please hit this guy over the head and stuff him into a time machine so we can give him his wish of living in 1952. We can perform the emergency vasectomy while we're strapping him…Continue
A large portion of this episode was devoted, ... to British politicians cold heartedly deciding how to select the 10 per cent of the juvenile population, eventually settling on using school league tables to identify under-achievers who would probably never amount to anything except dole scroungers and criminals.… Continue
DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...