Top Picks ~ Week of June 4, 2007

Judge Halts Award of Iraq Contract
By Alec Klein & Steve Fainaru – Washington Post (Jun 4, 207)

Gold Joins the Mainstream
By James Grant – Forbes Magazine (Jun 18, 2007

Gold Thrives Despite Three Months of Record Bank Sales
By Neal Ryan – Goldseek (Jun 5, 2007)

John Crudele: I’ve Got a Hot Tip For the Financial Press
By John Crudele – New York Post (Jun 6, 2007)

Guiliani’s Staff Has Reporter Arrested in New Hampshire for Asking About 911
Press Release: Jones Report – Scoop Independent News (Jun 6, 2007)

GAO: Uncle Sam Favors Banks Over Credit Unions
Press Release – Senator Bernie Sanders (Jun 1, 207)

US Housing Slump May Trigger Crisis, Warns Morgan Stanley Financial Crisis
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – Telegraph.co.uk (Mar 28, 2007)

The Age of Atlantica: As Goes Mexico, so Goes the US and Canada
By Al Giordano – Narco News (Jun 6, 2007)

WNBC Catches Giuliani Getting ‘Tripped Up’ by 9/11 Activist
by David Edwards and Muriel Kane – rawstory.com

San Francisco’s Economy Reaps Big Benefits from Independent Merchants
The Hometown Advantage – newrules.org

2007 Renewable Energy Map
globalenergymaps.com

Bill Seeks New US Approach to Currency Battles
FT.com

The Next Enron Scandal
by Isaiah J. Poole and Rick Perlstein – tompaine.com

Rural Communities Exploited by Nestlé for Your Bottled Water
by Tara Lohan, AlterNet.org

Man Uses Pigs to Trash Own House After Foreclosure
by Nick Bradshaw – kgw.com

Friendly Fire
Raising questions about 9/11 gets an Army sergeant demoted for “disloyalty.”
by Stephen C. Webster – Fort Worth Weekly

GATA Tipoff: JP Morgan Chase Buys 11,628 Gold Contracts – 1.16 Million Ounces for $768 Million (PDF)
Our friends at GATA alerted us to the unusual act of JP Morgan taking delivery of gold on 11,628 futures contracts. A total of 13,436 were delivered. WHY did JP Morgan, reputedly a habitual seller of gold derivatives, take such a large delivery of gold?

Profit From the Plight of the Honeybee
By James Altucher – TheStreet.com
http://stockpickr.com/port/Disappearing-Honeybees/

The End of Dollar Hegemony, Part I
DailyReckoning.com

Heart Attack Chocolate
by Jon Christian Ryter – NewsWithViews.com

EPA Document Lists Firms Tied to Superfund Sites
100 Companies — and Federal Agencies — are Connected to 40 Percent of the Worst Toxic Waste Dumps
by Alex Knott – publicintegrity.org

Collateral Damage
U.S. Hands Out Vast Sums of Money to Combat Terrorism While Ignoring Human Rights Records
publicintegrity.org

Watch What You Eat
U.S. House May Prevent States from Protecting Food Supply
by Britt Bailey – solariactionnetwork.com

What I Admire Most About Cindy Sheehan
by Carolyn Baker – carolynbaker.org

A Commentary on Robert S. McElvaine’s “The Great Depression”
by Carolyn Baker – carolynbaker.org

Helium: A Vanishing Commodity
By Rui Namorado Rosa – sandersresearch.com

Why Is DRM-Free Music Tagged With Name and E-Mail?
Apple Keeps Mum
By Michael Calore – wired.com

Dazed, Confused And Celebrating One Year — I Need Your Help
by Carolyn Baker – carolynbaker.org