Headlines for the week ending May 31, 2008

1) Pupils 'will soon be able to download lessons directly into their brains'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1023153/Pupils-soon-able-download-lessons-directly-brains.html

Who will determine precisely what gets downloaded into British kids' brains, if and when this kind of technology evolves?

2) Oil will fall to $60 a barrel, says BDT manager

http://www.investmentweek.co.uk/public/showPage.html?page=796605

Some experts are claiming that oil will surpass $200.00 per barrel which will send gasoline higher than the $4.00 a gallon that we are paying now. If so, why? What does your own analysis conclude?

3) George Soros: 'We face the most serious recession of our lifetime.' George Soros, 'the man who broke the Bank of England', tells Edmund Conway of his fears for the economy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/money/2008/05/26/ccsoros126.xml

4) Dunkin' Donuts pulls Rachael Ray ad after complaints

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkFdO9qpFScDDhvQFAZUmcr3NCbQD90VDRK80

With all of the problems that we face in the world, the only thing that some people can find to do is to complain about a scarf. Many people have been conditioned to be a bunch of senseless, spoiled cry babies about meaningless matters. This is one story that proves that we have become a dumbed down society.

5) Foreign Ownership of Toll Roads

http://www.newsmax.com/weyrich/leasing_infrastructure/2008/05/28/99424.html

Public/Private partnerships, huh? Sounds like another way to tax the people and to control this nation’s infrastructure through foreigners. The people need to wake up and see what the politicians are not telling us.

6) Bush supporters denounce McClellan memoirs

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/443c653e-2d11-11dd-88c6-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

A former Bush staffer goes public about the “goings on” of the Bush (43) Presidency. Whether his allegations are true or false, he should enjoy his first Amendment rights to free speech; and those who don’t like his story aren’t obligated to listen to it, or buy his book. The attack of Scott McClellan is coming from the blindly obedient of the Republican Party, so hopefully he takes the attacks with a grain of salt.

7) Forget Bush, Rove and Cheney - Scott McClellan fingers the US media for its complicity in selling the Iraq war

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_tomasky/2008/05/mcclellans_other_villain.html

Every claim that Saddam had WMD all came from one source only. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/17/iraq.usa

And at least British Intelligence knew there were no WMDs before the invasion started.

Scott Ritter, Former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq in the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), said that “Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).”

Swedish Diplomat and Former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix said “There were about 700 inspections, and in no case did we find weapons of mass destruction.”

Canada's analysts said there were no Iraqi WMDs.

Former US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is on record admitting that the WMD issue was a 'bureaucratic reason' for war.

8) Louisiana State Government to Compulsorily Fluoridate Public Water

Senate Bill 312 will force fluoridation on the whole state of Louisiana. It has already past the Senate (without a single NO vote) and has just passed the House Health and Welfare Committee without opposition. It will go the House floor shortly. To read an article discussing the bill, click here. If the people are asking for their water to be fluoridated, then that is fine. But if politicians are going to fluoridate the public water without presenting full disclosure to the people of Louisiana regarding the effects of sodium fluoride, then that it not what representative government is all about.

9) Vatican celebrates Darwin: The Vatican is holding a conference next year to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3993823.ece

How can an organization who proposes to be God’s mouthpiece, support and celebrate a publication that totally refutes the reality of God creating humanity? Catholicism is wrong on so many topics of interest.

10) The Chemical Dumbing Down of America

VIEW THE VIDEO

11) San Antonio Cops Force Blood Test on Drivers

VIEW THE VIDEO

I am totally against drunk driving, but taking people's DNA by force is not the earmark of a free society. Drunk driving is inexcusable and should be punished if the driver endangers or injures people or property. But shouldn't the cops focus more on people who are killing, selling drugs, raping and stealing from people? Then once all of those truly heinous criminals are reigned in, then the cops can crack down on those evil speeders, seat belt violators and drunken drivers.

12) Passages in the New Testament Are ‘Classical Anti-Semitism.’ Bible is ‘hate,’ says US State Department Office of Global Anti-Semitism

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/new_testament_anti-semitism_13.html

13) Canton, Ohio fining and jailing people who don't mow their lawns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEfACDn6Tw&feature=dir

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