Blackwater and "The End of America"
• After Downing StreetBlackwater, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Gruman, and Arinc were awarded $15 billion to conduct global counter-narcotics operations, including inside the US.
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Hillary attacks Iowans on War
• Washington Post[Mrs. Clinton] said [the resolution] stressed robust diplomacy that could lead to imposing sanctions against Iran, and then pointedly said to Rolph that her view wasn't in "what you read to me, that somebody obviously sent to you."
US warns against Turkish action in Iraq
• ReutersThe US cautioned Turkey on Tuesday against making an incursion into northern Iraq after Kurdish rebels launched attacks from there and urged both countries to work together to resolve the conflict. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan
Sarbanes-Oxley: Helping to nationalize accouting and auditing
• Karen Decoster BlogSarbanes-Oxley, of course, was just a small step along the yellow brick road that will lead to total rule over private industry, especially in the realm of accouting and audit. Talk is heating up regarding the new Treasury Advisory Committee on the
US forces torture Press TV reporter
• Press TVPress TV correspondent in Afghanistan, Fayez Khurshid has said that he was tortured by US forces after his illegal detention last night. According to Khurshid, foreign soldiers stopped him on the way home, grabbed him by the collar and asked if he w
New Mexico: Photo enforcement generating millions
• The NewspaperAlbuquerque, New Mexico's photo enforcement program has generated more the $10.6 million in revenue over the past two years. The city's Office of Internal Audit and Investigations examined accounting records last month to determine
Another reason to distrust the MSM
• The Petrelis FilesDuring the women's downright sisterly chat, Braver giddily discloses a troubling conflict of interest, one that shouldn't be readily simply because the reporter has revealed it. Braver's husband, Robert Barnett, packaged Cheney's boo
Credit squeeze costs banks $18 billion
• Financial TimesThe toll of big bank losses from the credit squeeze toppled $18 bn on Friday after Merrill Lynch and Washington Mutual revealed heavy damage inflicted by financial market turmoil. Merrill Lynch said it would take a $5bn writedown and record a
State Secrets Privilege
Barbara PetersonWhat is the State Secrets Privilege, and why should it concern us?
Leak severed a link to Al-Qaeda's secrets
• Washington PostFirm says Adminstration's handling of video ruined its spying efforts. A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 am on
What is the State of US Nuclear Security?
• Star-Telegram(Texas)Last month, six W80-1 nuclear-armed AGM-129 advanced cruise missiles were flown from Minot Air Force Base, ND, to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana and sat on the tarmac for 10 hours undetected. Press reports initially cited the Air Force mistake of flying
TSA looks into using more airport body scans
• USA TodayThe TSA plans to expand its use of screening machines that look under passengers' clothing for hidden weapons. New York's Kennedy and Los Angeles International airports will get "backscatter" X-ray machines that the ACLU has called
Just what is needed, more bureaucracy
• TSAThe Transportation Security Adminstration today announced the creation of the Office of Global Strategies. The mission of this office is to increase security by working proactively with our foreign partners and overseas operations affecting the US
Wikileaks
WikileaksA place for journalists, truth tellers and everybody else; global defense of sources and press freedoms, circa now.
Entered By: Jean Carbonneau
Killer of Russian Journalist Is Known, but nothing is done
• NY TimesThe independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and Russian prosecutors know the identity of the man who killed Anna Politkovskaya, its correspondent who was slain in a contract-style killing one year ago.
21st Century Myths
Howard BlitzPaul Bunyan, Superman, and the Tooth Fairy are all myths that continue to this day. However, two myths that standout in today’s political climate are one, the political spectrum runs horizontally left to right from liberal to conservative and two, t
US Army cordons off al-Doura in preparation for massive attack
• KUNAUS troops on Sunday cordoned off various neighborhoods in the area of al-Doura southern Baghdad, in preparation for launching a military operation against militias using the area as a barricade. [destroy it to save it]
Hillary and her War
• Taki's Top DrawerLike John Kerry in 2004, Hillary has complained for years about "the way" the war has been prosecuted, but not about the real issue, which is "What are we doing there in the first place?" She avoids that issue. She does not disavo
The Ron Paul Breakthrough
• by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar)Ron Paul is breaking through. His call to return to the vision of the Founders, and the principles embodied in the Constitution, is piercing the wall of silence that surrounds the conduct of our disgraceful foreign policy. [Now the threats should sta
Delay in reapproving surveillance may be opening for civil liberties protection
• Raw StoryCongressional leaders delayed announcing permanent changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act Friday, giving civil liberties advocates more time to push for explicit judicial oversight of surveillance aimed at Americans.
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Dissolution of Our Culture: Ultimate Breakdown of America
Frosty WooldridgeKant said, "The two great dividers are religion and language." Massive, unrelenting immigration imports incompatible cultures and hundreds of languages that tear the fabric of our culture into shreds. Without bringing this "Human Kat
House hunters find "buyer's paradise" in Detroit
• Reutersis in heaven. "This is not a buyer's market, this is a buyer's paradise," said Robert Neal as he waited for a foreclosure auction to start in Detroit. Neal wants family homes with a market value of up to $90,000 and will pay up to $
Ron Paul: Foreign policy should follow Founding Fathers' ideals
• Raw StoryJust because Ron Paul doesn't want US troops traipsing across the globe doesn't mean he is an isolationist, the fiery libertarian argues in a column he wrote in response to a Union Leader editorial that argued he was naive for believin
Reflexiones Libertarias
LIBERACION DEL TELECOSMOS
Ricardo ValenzuelaCuando las profecías anunciando el fin del mundo al cierre del primer milenio no se hicieron realidad; teólogos, poetas, filósofos, pasaron a considerar el final del Siglo XX y el inicio del tercer milenio, como el evento que sería un parte aguas en
Cop Pepper Sprays, Punches, Nearly Breaks Girl's Arm During Curfew Arrest
• Prison PlanetAnother shocking example of police brutality has been caught on camera showing a cop nearly breaking a girl's arm, punching her and then pepper spraying her in the face as she cries after being arrested for violating a city curfew.
It's Not Just Wishful Thinking
• by Rick Fisk (LewRockwell)Ron Paul can win. Dr. Paul's latest accomplishments have created a great deal of buzz amongst the old media talking heads (let's stop calling them "mainstream" OK?) Most of those who have been predicting that Ron Paul is a long shot
Stand Down - The video about the missing nuclear warhead from Minot AFB
• After Downing StreetWhere is the missing nuke?
Romney confronted with medical marijuana issue
• CNN (video)"I am not in favor of medical marijuana being legal in the country," Romney said as he moved on to greet other people. Holton continued, "Excuse me, will you please answer my question?" "I am not in favor of legalizing medica
Continuity of the US government - Bush won't give congress the plan
• Prison PlanetThe Bush administration has denied the entire Homeland Security Committee access to the White House plan for continuity of government in the case of a major terrorist attack.
Secret Service shot at car of agent said protecting Ahmadinejad
• Raw StoryThe US Secret Service is investigating why one of its agents shot at the car of an agent said to be protecting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
