Topic: various news coverage...<br>
--- Economy: the FED; CIA tapes; McCain: Al Qaeda's economic problem-causing.....<br>
--- Issuing currency; interest rate cut + stock market drop (bad news); no M3 money supply reports.  Food prices: London Telegraph report (Office of National Statistics); bio-fuels scam (climate change).  McCain's comments on: climate change + Al Qaeda's economic threat (see American Free Press).  Intel Center (connection with al Qaeda's press releases).  Climate change: Canada Free Press cites natural causes (solar cycles etc.)<br>
---(cont.) Universities of Rochester; ...of Alabama;...of Virginia conclude cause of change: solar variability; UN intergovernmental panel on climate change; carbon footprint; legislation SB 2191: no provision for animals or humans.<br>
---CIA tapes: water-boarding: 'useful' torture;  'Commander-guy' G.W. Bush's lack of response led to tapes being destroyed says report.  Patriot Act + Military Commission Act + Homegrown Terror Act = no freedom + more secrets.  Gun ownership restrictions.  American empire.  NBC refunds advertisers for failure to reach rating levels; military-industrial media; internet.  Huckabee elevated to top-tier by media.  <br>
---Global police force: Thomas Barnett.  Spy court refuses to make public wire-tap document release.  Christi Todd Whitman wants free pass for court proceedings/ law suits: ground-zero air "safe to breathe."<br>