USA

So.. Mrs Palin has managed to yet again demonstrate her superior intelligence during a prank call reminiscent (to me at least) of the this hour has 22 minutes "talking to Americans" segments.  read more »

Naomi Wolf, author of the incredibly critical The End of the America, declared in this video that the United States government is preparing to enact Martial Law. To put simply, this means: United States troops standing guard on American soil to help protect the peace. Since Oct 4th, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has found "sources that the Bush administration is putting the final touches on a plan that would see martial law declared in the United States with various scenarios anticipated as triggers." And a few days ago, Brad Sherman, a congressman, recently spoke publicly about various congresspeople that were told that Martial Law would be enacted, without the permission of congress, if the Bailout Plan for Wallstreet was not accepted by congress.  read more »

They set to work at once,
sowing the sky with fire. Bursts of light flashed everywhere in the
darkness like Christmas trees, lifting their flame high into the night,
then fell back to earth in whistling bouquets of jagged flame. Barely
quarter of an hour after the raid started, the fire, whipped by the
wind, began to scythe its way through the density of that wooden city.
As they fell, cylinders scattered a kind of flaming dew that skidded
along the roofs, setting fire to everything it splashed, and spreading  read more »