Stranger than fiction.

No matter what Nancy Pelosi does, she cannot grovel enough before AIPAC.

The Bush administration has carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor crooks and criminals, without as much as a whimper of protest from the public.

Like the war on terrorism, the new War on Climate Change serves to make us more sheep-like.

“Last year, it was the Gnostic nonsense of the ‘Da Vinci Code.’… This year it’s a variation on the ‘Da Vinci’ theme.

” … if you think about it, it doesn’t actually make much sense to go around and count the number of people who believe something in order to decide whether its a delusion or not.”

Britain’s collusion with the CIA rendition and black sites program has been well documented. However, what seems to be emerging now is not so much a story of collusion but full involvement.

Paying for goods with notes and coins could be consigned to history within five years, according to the chief executive of Visa Europe.

Nikola Tesla is increasingly coming into vogue — a hundred years after he was alive and thoroughly scorned and rejected by his peers. His recent genius portrayal in The Prestige, the box-office hit of last Fall, is but one example of many that illustrate a new interest in the man who transformed the 20th Century, and who may yet be considered the Father of the 21st Century.

Gradually the war on street drugs is shown to be similar to the current war on supplements in that Big Pharma wants its most expensive stuff used, and has gone to great lengths with both overt attacks, indirect attacks by entities not identifiable as B. P., and control of government and non-government agencies.

On Feb. 27, the world’s hedge funds, through their manipulation and miscalculation of the yen carry-trade, led to a violent unwinding of that carry-trade, which triggered disintegration of the world financial structure.