Nope, here is why we really need em:

Defendants Shenkman and Exigen appeared to be abusing the immigration visa system in order to procure a steady stream of young, eastern European women to satisfy Defendant Shenkman’s sexual desires…. these young women would find themselves tied to Exigen … trapped thousands of miles from home without families or friends, and at the mercy of a wealthy and influential sexual predator who does not know how to take “no” for an answer.

U.N. crime chief says drug money flowed into banks

VIENNA: The United Nations’ crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Vienna-based UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in an interview released by Austrian weekly Profil that drug money often became the only available capital when the crisis spiralled out of control last year.

“In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital,” Costa was quoted as saying by Profil. “In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system’s main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor.”

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime had found evidence that “interbank loans were funded by money that originated from drug trade and other illegal activities,” Costa was quoted as saying. There were “signs that some banks were rescued in that way.”

Profil said Costa declined to identify countries or banks which may have received drug money and gave no indication how much cash might be involved. He only said Austria was not on top of his list, Profil said.

A stimulus package?

An injection of cash?

Or do they distrust our currency and want to be showered with gold?

MIAMI (Reuters) – Police in Florida have arrested an activist for feeding the homeless in downtown Orlando.

Eric Montanez, 21, of the charity group Food Not Bombs, was charged with violating a controversial law against feeding large groups of destitute people in the city center, police said on Thursday.

Montanez was filmed by undercover officers on Wednesday as he served “30 unidentified persons food from a large pot utilizing a ladle,” according to an arrest affidavit. The Orlando area is home to Disney World and Universal Studios Florida.

Guess ladles will soon be classified as terrorist weapons, kind of like baking soda…

But look a bit more closely and notice that WalMart is merely spying on heterosexuals who might be having sex with each other.

And notice that, at the very same time, WalMart is trying to push its same sex employees into sleeping in the same room with each other in cheap motels.

Isn’t it clear that WalMart is simply trying to use its spy network to promote the gay rights agenda, and push as many of its employees as possible into situations where they will be tempted into having gay sex?

Next time you see one of your right-wing Christian friends buying something at WalMart, let them know that they are supporting WalMart and its pro-homosexual agenda. They’ll be glad you did.

A foremost proponent of the theory is Richard Duncan and here is his latest update:
http://www.warsocialism.com/duncan_tscq_07.pdf

The end of industrial civilization will commence between 2008 and 2012. Blackouts and brownouts will the the signal of the impending end. As petroleum declines, so will world population, until it reaches the earth’s carrying capacity (without oil) of about one billion people. We have six and a half billion people in the wiorkd now, and it will rise to nine billion…then everything caves in.

And there is nothing we can do to stop billions of people dying.

From the women and children of Mexico….
…..to the people of the U.S.A.

Enforce Your Laws.

Please
Close the United States Border to Illegal Migration.
Help us to Keep Our Husbands Home with our Families

Every time Bush wants to spy on us some more, his minions tell us that if we were honest and law-abiding then we should have nothing to hide. Wonder what Bush has to hide:

Even Bush’s crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bush’s recent trip to Vienna. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush’s visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House “toilet security” (“TOILSEC”), which has Austrians talking the most.

The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bush’s personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bush’s security, the veil of secrecy extends over the president’s bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bush’s feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bush’s waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop.
(From the Wayne Madsen Report)

Maybe, just maybe, honest, law-abiding people have good reasons not to want to be spied upon.

This is an impressive crowd – the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites; I call you my base.

The higher inflation is, the less your money can buy. To ease the pain, many government and business rates (like Social Security) are indexed to the inflation index. So when the folks who own the government want to screw you, how can they do it best? Of course, by lying about how high inflation is. And here is where you can find out how they lie to you:

Financial Sense:

The Boskin Commission recommended several changes to the CPI index which included:

* develop and publish two indexes
* abandon the fixed-weight formula for CPI goods
* change the weight of items in the index from arithmetic weighting to geometric weighting
* introduce substitutions in the index
* seasonal adjustments to account for price increases that occur on a seasonal basis, which would smooth out the fluctuations
* Reduce prices by quality improvements

The result of their implemented suggestions is the mish mash we have today, which bears no resemblance to reality.

Lying by one percent on the inflation rate can screw by middle and working classes by a huge amount over the decades, and that skimming will make the wealthiest one tenth of one percent incredibly wealthier. And you’re putting up with it. Suckers…