Top Picks ~ Week of November 5, 2007

Shock Doctrine’s Shocking Short Shrift
By Carolyn Baker – Speaking Truth to Power

New York’s $25,000 Dessert Sets Guinness Record
By Vivianne Rodrigues – Reuters (7 Nov 2007)

The Witches’ Brew of 1987 is Back Again
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (8 Nov 2007)

National Debt at Record $9 Trillion
By Martin Crutsinger – Associated Pres (7 Nov 2007)

Judiciary Hearing Cheney Impeachment
Free Market News (8 Nov 2007)

Salt Lake City Mayor: “We Won’t Take it Anymore”
Address by Mayor Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson on Oct 27, 2007

Risk of Mortgage Securities Fire Sale Mounts
By David Wighton, Saskia Scholes & Gillian Tett – Financial Times, London (6 Nov 2007)

Arms Makers Winning War on Terrorism
By Frank Walker – Sydney Morning Herald (4 Nov 2007)

Escape from Suburbia Returns to Willits, CA
YouTube

Take Action Campaign Against GMOs
The Campaign Grassroots Political Action

Real Estate Roller Coaster
Google Video (3 Apr 2007)

A “Paper Coup,” and Blackwater Eyes Midtown Manhattan
By Naomi Wolf – The Huffington Post (4 Nov 2007)

Market Insight: Basel is the Root of the Banking Crisis
By John Plender – Financial Times (6 Nov 2007)

OCC’s Quarterly Report on Bank Derivatives Activities Second Quarter 2007
Comptroller of the Currency – Administrator of National Banks

Gold’s Infallible Indicator – Six Months Later
By James Turk – Kitco (7 Nov 2007)

GOP Surprise in Cheney Impeachment
Capitol Hill Blue (7 Nov 2007)

AIG, Morgan Stanley Show Subprime Losses Aren’t Quite Over Yet
By Liam Pleven & Randall Smith – Wall Street Journal (8 Nov 2007)

On the Verge of a Worldwide Currency Crisis
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (8 Nov 2007)

Stealing Ohio 2004 – The Case Heats Up
By Michael Collins – Scoop Independent News (8 Nov 2007)

Solicitor General Announces “Terror” Charges Decision
Alastair Thompson – Scoop Independent News (8 Nov 2007)

AT&T Whistleblower: I was Forced to Connect ‘Big Brother Machine’
By David Edwards & Jason Rhyne – The Raw Story (7 Nov 2007)

The Avian Flu and Drugless Doctors
New Media Explorer (7 Feb 2004)

Cheney Pursuing Nuclear Ambitions of His Own
By Jason Leopold – Truthout.org (5 Nov 2007)

Wall Street Braced for $10bn More Credit Crunch Hits
By Miles Costello & Marcus Leroux – Times Online (2 Nov 2007)

$hift the $$$…Part I
By Jay Johnson-Castro – Rio Grande Guardian (4 Nov 2007)

H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
At GovTrack.us

Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Website and Information

Civilization! *Some Restrictions Apply
A Video at YouTube

Shocking: 18 Years on and Exxon Still Won’t Pay $2.5 Billion for Valdez Oil Spill
By Riki Ott – AlterNet (5 Nov 2007)

Mortgage Servicing Fraud.com – Help with the nightmare.

Ashes to Art: Kalispell Duo Turns Remains Into Glass Works
By Michael Jamison – Missoulian (4 Nov 2007)

Supermodel Joins Hedge Fund Managers in Dumping Dollars
By Bo Nielsen & Adriana Brasilerio – Bloomberg (5 Nov 2007)

Rubin Becomes Citigroup Chairman Amid Mounting Losses
By Madlen Read – Associated Press (4 Nov 2007)

Beijing Raises Pump Prices as Shortages Bite
By Jamil Anderlini – Financial Times (2 Nov 2007)

Credit Bubble Bulletin – Road to Ruin
By Doug Noland – PrudentBear.com (2 Nov 2007

Can You Do It Too?
A Video at YouTube.com

Train Drives Through a Bangkok Market
A Video at YouTube.com

Alastair Thompson – Scoop Independent News

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