State sponsored Terrorism
• State of OklahomaThe craze in special license plates gets craizer!!
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Italy to use gold reserve to cut national debt
• Financial TimesPart of the gold and currency reserves of the Bank of Italy will be used to attack Italy's enormous national debt, current the equivalent of 107 percent of GNP, according to a resolution approved by parliament on Tuesday as part of Romano Prodi**
Martian Economists and BLS Moonbats
• Mish ShedlockMartian Economists and BLS Moonbats http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot .com/2007/08/martian-economists-and-bls-moonbats.html Economists at JPMorgan are stating the Bernake wants unemployment to rise to hold down inflation. Those economists are..
Keeping Your Home despite the New World Order - The Mortgage Crisis
Melinda Pillsbury-fosterWhen the power elite look at your home they see dollar signs and a way to tie you down to a grid of dependence. You see the place where life happens, where you love, laugh and watch your children grow up. You can come home to America; together we c
California Study: Voting Machines Vulnerable; Worse to Come?
• Freedom to TinkerA major study of 3 e-voting systems, commissioned by the California Secretary of State’s office, reported all 3 had multiple serious vulnerabilities. The study examined systems from Diebold, Hart InterCivic, and Sequoia; included a touch-screen mach
FAMILY DEMANDS THE TRUTH New inquiry may expose events that led to Pat Tillman’s death
• San Francisco ChronicleWere witnesses allowed to change their testimony on key details, as alleged by one investigator? Why did internal documents on the case, such as the initial casualty report, include false information? When did top Pentagon officials know that Tillman
Why does Saudi Arabia need military aid?
• Information Clearing houseThe Saudis are getting $13bn. How can they spend that? Have Prada moved into tanks? Here's something they sneaked out this week with hardly anyone noticing - the Americans have announced a "military aid package" of sixty billion
Message from Ron Paul
• Ron Paul 2008What a great time we had in San Antonio last weekend. An enthusiastic bunch of Texans thronged the Alamo for a rally, and then there was a fundraising dinner at an historic museum. More than a thousand people attended one or the other.
Chinese citizens go online to torture public officials
• Raw StoryAn online game in which players can torture and kill corrupt officials that a Chinese local government set up to teach people about the perils of graft is proving a roaring success, state media said Thursday.
When Dick Cheney smiles, an angel gets water-boarded
• Raw Story"Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were both on television last night, answering questions," said Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, comparing the rarity of the event to "a giant squid having sex with Bigfoot as the ghost of Jim Morrison cla
Attorney seeks jury trial in war protester case
• Downers Grove Sun2 antiwar protesters will have their day in court. Sarah Hartfield, 45, of Naperville and Jeff Zurawski, 39, of Downers Grove each are facing up to a year in prison for hanging a sign that read "Impeach Bush and Cheney - LIARS" above Inters
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 796
• US House of Representatives12 month leave for combat vets,maximum combat tours too much for GOP to sign off on. Support the troops unless Buish objects.
Water Taps Run Dry in Baghdad
• Washington PostAdel al-Ardawi, a spokesman for the Baghdad city government, said that even with sufficient electricity "it would take 24 hours for the water mains to refill so we can begin pumping to residents. And even then the water won't be clean for a
SKorea Focuses Anger Over Hostages on US
• USA DailySouth Korea's frustration over the plight of Christian volunteers seized by the Taliban is starting to focus on the United States, a frequent target of resentment here. Politicians and citizens are increasingly calling on Washington to help resol
Why Do They Hate Us? Start With John Bolton
• by Jim Lobe (AntiWar)Does former UN Amb. John Bolton – now with the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute — still speak for Dick Cheney? The new British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown must be scratching its collective head over that question given the
Do as we say, Iraq, not as we do in D.C.
• Cincinnati PostAs it leaves town for its August vacation with critical legislation left unfinished, the U.S. Congress is criticizing the Iraqi parliament for going on an August vacation with critical legislation left unpassed. The Iraqis tend to do the same as t
Bush wants more domestic surveillance all the time
• National InterestDuring his July 28 radio address, President George W. Bush’s reference to the recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was little more than a circular argument designed to reach a preordained conclusion. The NIE’s judgments on the state of Al-Qaed
Flying Saucers Go Into Production
• SkyA flying saucer that glides 10 feet off the ground and carries 2 passengers has gone into commerical production. US company Moller International has begun to manufacture parts for its Jetsons-like personal flying pod, the M200G Volantor.
Onward – Into Waziristan!
• by Patrick J. Buchanan (AntiWar)With Hillary Clinton's lead growing, Barack Obama appears to be overreaching to keep the spotlight and highlight their differences.
Uninterested US informed of Chiquita payments to Colombian paramilitaries
• AFPA board member of Chiquita International Brands, Roderick Hills, told Justice Department official Michael Chertoff, now the US secretary of homeland security, that the firm was paying a paramilitary group to secure its banana plantations in Colombia
TSA extending its tentacles to public buses
• WISH-TVThursday morning at a couple of downtown bus stops, riders who wanted to board had to go through a security checkpoint. It is a new effort from the Transportation Security Administration.
USPS Selling Private Employee Information for Profit
• Breitbart.comA Postal Service employee sued the agency Monday, accusing it of selling the personal information of its workers to credit card and other companies without consent.
Another SWAT raid, another wrong door
• Jasper NewsboyAccording to the amended lawsuit, the officers had obtained a search warrant on Sept. 28, 2006 to enter a residence at 126 Circle Drive in Brookeland. The Hunts reside in a mobile home located at 940 Church Street in Brookeland.
Enhanced interrogation is practiced by many democratic societies
• Atlantic Monthly blogThe phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung" is German for "enhanced interrogation". Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation". It's a phrase that appears to have been conco
Ron Paul Now has 20,000 Registered Volunteers
• National Expositor (audio link)On the Dale Williams Show, Jeff Greenspan, Western Regional Campaign Coordinator for the Ron Paul campaign made an astounding announcement that the Paul camp now has more than 20,000 registered volunteers. "I don't know any campaign in histo
MOTHER NATURE DOWN FOR THE COUNT: PART 1--ADDING A BILLION PEOPLE
Frosty WooldridgeHow many people can the earth hold? What warning signs on the "Global Dashboard" have you seen or read about? How many more billions can this planet sustain?
FBI to Congress: Wrongful imprisonment needed
• Reason(Radley Balko)Last week, a federal judge excoriated the FBI for not only hiding exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated four innocent men who served more than 30 years in prison, but for rewarding those who did the hiding and covering up
Speed kills(your wallet)
• Yahoo News(Ted Rall)The Sneaky War on American Motorists
"You can get arrested for that!!!"
• Random House2 Guys, 25 dumb laws, 1 absured American crime spree. Calling on Marc Victor!!!!
North Korea's Kim Jong-il bans smoking
• Telegrapah(Britain and America leads, tyrannts follow) In most cities, smoking bans are intended to protect the non-smoking majority from the minority who insist on lighting up. In Pyongyang, the latest and most unlikely international capital to be subject t
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