Sadly, most Americans are ignorant of the fact that the county sheriff, as the highest elected public servant within the county, has this kind of authority.  The high sheriff can also refuse to serve warrants for the likes of the Infernal Revenue Service, FBI, ICE, BATFE, etc., as the feds lack jurisdiction to do so without local cooperation.  Of course, his chance for re-election could be effected by his taking such actions.  Most likely, any re-election bid would be won in a landslide.  However, his county would see the end to all federal subsidies for assistance to law enforcement, too.  So, I guess it depends upon how much the sheriff craves machine guns, armored personel carriers, nerve gas, black helicopters, and Darth Vader outfits as to whether he will perform his one true duty of protecting his constituents against all enemies, foreign or domestic.

A tip of the three-pointed hat to Sheriff Tom Dart!

apnews.myway.com

Oct 8, 2:19 PM (ET)

CHICAGO
(AP) - Residents of foreclosed properties in Chicago and other parts of
Cook County don't have to worry about deputies forcing them out.
Sheriff Tom Dart says that starting Thursday his office won't take part
in evictions.

Dart says he's concerned that many of the people
being evicted are renters who were unaware that their landlords have
been failing to pay their mortgages. He says his deputies have no way
of knowing whether they're removing someone who has defaulted on a loan
or someone who has been faithfully paying rent.

Dart says he
thinks he's the first sheriff in a major metropolitan area to stop such
evictions during the ongoing foreclosure crisis.

Dart says the number of mortgage foreclosures in Cook County has skyrocketed and will probably keep rising.

I have been puzzled in the past on the role of Pakistan within the context of the bogus US War on Terror.

Pakistan's remote regions have previously been portrayed in the west as a haven for Taliban and AlQuaeda operatives from Afghanistan. The ISI intelligence service has also been portrayed as a sometimes rouge supporter of both (the Jon Gold version of LIHOP). This of course was a very incomplete and erroneous account.

New World Order

Global co-operation, nationalisation and state intervention - all in one day

thescotsman.scotsman.com

As the London stock market steeled itself to open again following days of
vicious battering, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, rose to stake the
future of the country and the Cabinet on an audacious £500 billion
banking bail-out.

And barely had the City begun to digest the
hugely complex and unorthodox scheme when it was sent reeling again by
an unscheduled interest rate cut – mirrored across the world – by the
Monetary Policy Committee. It was the first such co-ordinated approach
since the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 – yet another indicator, had one
been needed, of the gravity of the situation.

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Federal Register: October 6, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 194)]
[Notices] [Page 58239-58242] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr06oc08-76]

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Thai PM flees on foot to escape violent protests

The Prime Minister of Thailand was forced to scale a fence and flee
in a police helicopter yesterday as thousands of protesters barricaded
parliament in the latest twist in the country's seething political
turmoil.

When we gonna grow some "Big Balls in Cowtown"?

Don't tell me cancer hasn't commandeered his brain.

Bush to summon leaders to emergency finance summit

George Bush is expected to summon Gordon Brown and other European leaders to an emergency summit to discuss the economic crisis.

telegraph.co.uk

Bankers Want World Economic Government To Solve Financial Crisis They Created

propagandamatrix.com

The culprits who caused the problem offer their solution - more power for themselves

Laughing their asses off whilst getting lap dances?

thesmokinggun

After government rescue, insurance firm AIG partied at swank resort

OCTOBER 7--Days after federal officials agreed to an $85 billion
bailout of American International Group, the insurance firm spent more
than $440,000 for a corporate retreat at a swanky California resort. An
invoice from the week-long getaway, a copy of which you'll find below,
was obtained by the congressional panel that has been holding hearings
this week about Wall Street collapses and executive excess.

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Ex-Goldman Sachs executive Neel Kashkari, who has been appointed by Paulson to dole out the ill-gotten gains of the bailout to the rest of the corporate crooks.

(more to the pattern)

Asian stocks plunge on fears of global recession- AP

A
meltdown in confidence strangled Asian stock markets Wednesday on
accelerating fears that the widening financial crisis could spawn a
global recession.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/07/18543360.php

Dr. David Ray Griffin and everyone involved in the 9/11 truth movement have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The recipient of the Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, October 10.

From Torstein Viddal [1];

Dear friends,

this is the auto-translated Google English version of the story currently heading our truth site 9/11 Truth Norway.

http://www.911truth.no/ [2]

Spoke with my mother recently.  She told me that a friend's father had lost over $600,000 from his retirement accounts last week alone.  The bleeding shows no sign of slowing.

For months, I've heard a certain radio talk show host make claims that they would be coming for your pensions soon.

(knock, knock)

They're here.

Tuesday October 7, 6:22 pm ET

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Associated Press Writer

Retirement accounts have lost $2 trillion, leading Americans to keep working, stop saving
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans' retirement plans
have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months -- about 20
percent of their value -- Congress' top budget analyst estimated
Tuesday as lawmakers began investigating how turmoil in the financial
industry is whittling away workers' nest eggs.