1. Grant Schulte, ‘Feds say raid is nation’s largest’, in Des Moines Register.

[Largest ever roundup of "illegal" immigrants in the USA]

2. Enrico Piovesana, ‘The Manage The World’, in Peace Reporter.

[The Trilateral Commission, an unelected elite group, meets in secret to decide guidelines for the international politics and economics that the member governments are to follow.]

3. Bilderberg Group Meets in Greece, reported  in Patris, translated here.

[The Bilderbeg group, another unelected, elite, and even more secretive group, also meets each year in secret to decide on international political matters.]

4.a. ‘Military analysts named in Times exposé appeared or were quoted more than 4,500 times on broadcast nets, cables, NPR’, on MediaMatters.

[A New York Times article detailed the connection between numerous media military analysts and the Pentagon and defense industries, reporting that "the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform" media military analysts "into a kind of media Trojan horse — an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks." A Media Matters review found that since January 1, 2002, the analysts named in the Times article — many identified as having ties to the defense industry — collectively appeared or were quoted as experts more than 4,500 times on network channels.]

4.b. John Stewart calls out Douglas Feith’s claim that the public weren’t misled over the "case for war" on Iraq, on the Daily Show.

5. ‘JPMorgan Chase CEO: Recession Just Beginning’, on  MoneyNews

[JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chief executive says he believes a U.S. recession is just beginning.]

6. Noah Shachtman, ‘Air Force Aims for ‘Full Control’ of ‘Any and All’ Computers’, in Wired

[The US Air Force is developing a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to — and "full control" of — any kind of computer there is.]

7. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, ‘The crisis rotates from America to Europe, and Asia’, in The Telegraph

8. ‘Prisons for Profit’, from NOW on PBS (watch online).

[One in every hundred Americans is now locked behind bars. As the prison population grows faster than the government can build prisons, private companies see an opportunity for profit. Companies running prisons are lobbying for — and getting — harsher laws in the US that have more than doubled the prison population in ten years in one state. .]

9. Dave Gibson, ‘Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State’, in American Chronicle

10a. UK could suffer ‘housing bubble’, on BBC News.

[UK house prices could be set to fall 30%, City firm Durlacher has predicted.]

10b.[UK] ‘Ministers’ housing fears revealed’, in BBC News.

[The notes - prepared by officials for Caroline Flint - said: "We can’t know how bad it will get."]

11. ‘Blue Planet’s Murray predicting deep recession’, in Investment Week

[“In our opinion, stock markets are currently completely unhinged from reality and fail to appreciate what is going to happen"]