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"Up until now they have been able to use fear as their best tactic, and whether it's on foreign policy issues or domestic policy issues, that's how that first TARP fund went through… If things get worse, they'll say this is more reason than ever for the government to take over and of course we still have the threat of martial law coming in because they havn't forgotten about that and I don't think they'd hesitate to use it.

Mark Twain once opined, "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes."

Amid the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, few issues have sparked more outrage than executives on Wall Street taking home big bucks, even as their companies took risks that sent the country plunging into recession. Just this week, a report from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo revealed that the first nine banks to receive government bailout funds dished out nearly $33 billion in bonuses last year, with 4,800 employees taking home bonuses over $1 million.

The Associated Press reports today that the supposed North Carolina terrorism suspects may be tried with secret evidence. The case may involve "classified material that will raise national security issues if given to their defense attorneys," federal prosecutors told the AP. The men charged in the case are to appear in federal court on Tuesday.

Jurriaan Maessen | A new tactic has surfaced attempting to associate the Joker-poster with those in the habit of issuing death threats.

According to the Northeast Intelligence Network, there is a well-orchestrated cover-up regarding the Obama eligibility issue. They don't have evidence that Obama is ineligible, only that there is a massive cover-up.

A privately-run informant program operating nationwide encourages Americans to anonymously turn each other in to the authorities for cash rewards in a chilling echo of the Nazi "denunciations" of 1930's Germany, where neighbors would grass their neighbors up to the local Gestapo officer over petty issues.