May 2010 headlines in review...

It was a hell of a month, beginning with May Day...

Immigration protests throughout the Southwest... A failed terrorist attack on Times Square...

Meanwhile, with the benefit of comedic cover, Obama made several startling admissions in his Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner speech. Among them, he sent a message to citizen militias (aka "the Jonas Brothers") at time-stamp 4:57 of...

C-Span: President Obama Remarks at White House Correspontents' Dinner

Boys don't get any ideas; I have two words for you: predator drones... You will never see it coming... You think I'm joking.

And on the subject of illegal immigration, he made a crack that while his popularity ratings have dived in the U.S., he is still very popular "in the country of my birth" (time-stamp 1:30), finally giving a confirming nod - again, with comedic cover - to the "birthers" whose allegations of his foreign nativity have not subsided.

Andy Martin, the self-proclaimed "King of the Birthers," recounts a history of the movement...

Contrarian Commentary: The Birth of 'Birther Nation'

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Now on to more serious matters. In the aftermath of May the 6th...

AP (May 9): Federal Reserve opens credit line to Europe

Bloomberg (May 10): EU Crafts $962 Billion Show of Force to Halt Crisis

EU Chronicle: Euro's Death-Spiral

Reports of Euro death may be premature. For, as Washington caved to Wall St. pressure to maintain its financial arsenal, Deutschland fought back...

Businessweek (May 19): Germany Bans Naked Short-Selling, Swaps Speculation

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In other news: street battles in Bangkok. Here's a video that isn't quite getting as much attention as the Tehran Neda video of last year...

LiveLeak: Red Shirt Protestor Shot In Head With M-16 In Bangkok **VERY GRAPHIC**

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There has been much beating of war drums over the sinking of a South Korean ship in the Yellow Sea in March, but the case against North Korea is unconvincing...

Global Research: Did an American Mine Sink the South Korean Ship?

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By far the most depressing story of the year...

Gulf Tribunal: What in the hell is going on?

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Wired has been covering a good deal of DARPA's neuroprosthetic and soldier "enhancing" research...

Pentagon Turns to Brain Implants to Repair Damaged Minds

Total Recall: Pentagon Looks to ‘Optimize’ Troops’ Minds

Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push

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File under miscellaneous...

As UK elections were underway, Nigel Farage of the UK Independence party (anti-Euro and anti-EU) crashed into a field... and miraculously survived! A Phoenix?

Telegraph (May 7): Nigel Farage of Ukip Plane Crash - in pictures

More on the contra-Fed counterfeiter...

LA Downtown News: What Happened in Unit 701

FOX News provides evidential support - in the manner in which the cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was treated as an intelligence operative - for conspiracy theories surrounding everything from 9/11 to the Ft. Hood shooter to the X-mas undie bomber...

The American Terrorist

Either publicly admitting alien presence will destabilize society or will be used to institute a New World Order (or both)...

Examiner: UFODC-Obama adviser says documented UFO?ET landings on U.S. Capitol "could destabilize society"

But here is real potential for societal destabilization...

Gaurdian: Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

A case for revisiting Bernard Mandeville?

The Fable of the Bees