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Texas Lawyer Takes On Bloodthirsty Cops
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 07/04/2008
The prospect of cops forcibly jabbing a needle into your arm and taking a blood sample on the side of a highway in suspected DWI cases is perhaps the most egregious portend of police state America in history, but one Texas lawyer has taken a stand to denounce the program as completely illegal.

Law enforcement programs in Texas, Ohio and other areas have trained cops to pull suspected drunk drivers over and forcibly extract blood, even against their will, a form of legalized police brutality that outstrips anything in Soviet Russia or Communist China.  Read full article »
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." --Frederick Douglass
Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship (Recommended)
Source: American Free Press Submitted: 07/04/2008
--The plans made by the large telecom businesses would change the Internet into a cable-like system, where customers sign up for specific web sites, and must pay to see each individual site beyond a certain point. Subscription browsing would be limited, extra fees would be applied to access out-of-network sites. Many sites would be blocked altogether.

“We had inside sources from bigger companies who gave us the information on how exclusivity deals are being made at this moment between ISPs and big content providers (like TV production studios and major video game publishers) to decide which web sites will be in the ‘standard package’ offered to their customers, leaving all the rest of the Internet unreachable unless you pay extra subscription fees per every ‘non-standard’ site you visit,” Leysen said.

--The plans would in effect be economic censorship, with only the top 100 to 200 sites making the cut in the initial subscription package. Such plans would likely favor major news outlets and suppress smaller news outlets, as the major news outlets would be free (with subscription), and alternative news outlets, like AFP, would incur a fee for every visit.

“The Internet will become a playground for billion-dollar content providers just like television is,” said Leysen.  Read full article »
The Spirit of '76
Source: DownsizeDC Submitted: 07/03/2008
For weeks now we've been fighting, as hard as anyone, to stop the "FISA Amendments Act."

If this fight is lost, it will be because some folks forgot a unique and important thing about American history. On July 4, 1776, 56 men stood up and agreed to pay the price for our liberty. -They had spirit.

The politicians who walk the halls of Capitol Hill are home in their districts now. They'll ride in parades and give speeches in front of flags. But the symbolism is distracting. These men and women are NOT what America is all about. They are not leaders. They are not special. Frankly, they don't deserve the attention they'll get, because unlike the 56 men who birthed our country, they're not willing to pay a price for liberty.

They lack spirit. They are either fear-peddlers or just plain afraid.  Read full article »
2008 Update
Source: Strike The Root Submitted: 07/01/2008
--Is the trouble now behind us, or is more on the way? Is the glass half full, or about to shatter on the floor?

Unhappily, Scenario Number Two appears the more likely. My guess is that trouble has moved in for an extended stay: what I call the Perma-Depression. The reasons for this prediction are appallingly clear, even if the Corporatist Media (especially in the U.S. ) and their status-quo cheerleaders often paint a rosier picture. The underlying fundamentals nearly all point in the same direction: down. Hard times lie ahead, and it will take more than a short business-cycle correction to bring back the easy prosperity Americans once took for granted.

Far too much damage has been done to America since 1913 for a quick turnaround, and the policies being pushed by the Corporate Media and the Old Power Parties (as represented by Obama and McCain in particular) are just more of the same – war with Iran or Pakistan or some other Target of the Month; bigger government generally; a takeover of the banks by the Fed; more restrictions on business and on personal liberty, and so on. FDR, Johnson, and every other anti-liberty, war-mongering, "guns and butter"-promising, pseudo-compassionate pol in American history would be proud. Such policies are guaranteed to make things worse; they always have. Indeed: such policies are what brought us to where we are today.  Read full article »
Speculators as Scapegoats
Source: FFF.org Submitted: 06/29/2008
It seems that American statists are conjuring up new scapegoats for America’s economic woes, what with speculators, oil companies, and OPEC becoming the new national boogeymen. I suppose this was inevitable given that it might be difficult to blame ever-rising gasoline prices at the pump on illegal aliens.

First, though—a little personal history on this subject:

Three-and-a-half years ago — December 27, 2004 — I wrote an article entitled “The Federal Attack on the Dollar” in which I stated in part:

“In effect, Washington officials are doing what imperial powers have done throughout history — debasing the currency to finance massive military and welfare expenditures. The consequence will inevitably be ever-increasing prices, which is simply the market’s way of saying that the currency is falling in value in comparison with everything else. The advantage to public officials, obviously, is that the masses usually have no idea that government is behind the rising prices and so join the government’s chorus blaming the rising prices on rapacious businessmen, profiteers, and speculators.”  Read full article »
Lying cops busted by surveillance video
Source: Bad Cop News Submitted: 06/29/2008
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Undercover police officers who arrested four men on drug charges are under investigation after surveillance video proved the men they arrested committed no crime.

--Two hours of video showed no contact at all between the four men arrested and undercover officers - proof that lead prosecutors to drop charges against the four men, and even declare in court the men did not commit the crime.  Read full article »
Supreme Court: You have a right to a gun
Source: Digg Submitted: 06/26/2008
Answering a 217-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Although times have changed since 1791, Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority, “it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.”

Examining the words of the Amendment, the Court concluded “we find they guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weaons in case of confrontation” — in other words, for self-defense. “The inherent right of self-defense has been central to the Second Amendment right,” it added.

The individual right interpretation, the Court said, “is strongly confirmed by the historical background of the Second Amendment,” going back to 17th Century England, as well as by gun rights laws in the states before and immediately after the Amendment was put into the U.S. Constitution.  Read full article »
It's nice to have some GOOD NEWS mixed in with the daily Constitutional carnage.
Leaked NIST document regarding WTC 7 (Audio)
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 06/25/2008
Alex welcomes Richard Gage of Architects & Engineers For 9/11 Truth and Kevin Ryan of Underwriters Laboratory to discuss leaked confidential NIST documents concerning the investigation into the collapse of WTC 7.  Listen here »
At Last, Some Truth About Iraq and Afghanistan
Source: Lew Rockwell Submitted: 06/24/2008
After a sea of lies and a tsunami of propaganda, the ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally emerged into full view this week.

Four major western oil companies, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, BP and Total, are about to sign US-brokered no-bid contracts with the US-installed Baghdad regime to begin exploiting Iraq’s oil fields.

--Washington disguised its energy geopolitics by claiming the Afghan occupation was to fight "Islamic terrorism," liberate women, build schools, and promote democracy. Ironically, the Soviets made exactly the same claims when they occupied Afghanistan from 1979-1989. The cover story for Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, Saddam’s supposed links to 9/11, and promoting democracy.  Read full article »
From the Project For A New American Century (PNAC) "Rebuilding America's Defenses Report" (Authored one year prior to the attacks of September 11th, 2001)

Page 26
"Though the immediate mission of those forces is to enforce the no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq, they represent the long-term commitment of the United States and its major allies to a region of vital importance.

While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."

The NeoCons wanted Iraq from day one - 9/11 provided the excuse to seize it. It was never about connections to Bin Laden, it was never about "liberating Iraqis," and there was never any intention to leave.

These men DELIBERATELY led our nation to war under false pretenses. They initiated a "war of aggression." If we do not hold them accountable for their crimes, who will?
The Revolution Continues
Source: GiveMeLiberty.org Submitted: 06/22/2008
June 30, 2008 may go down in history as the day Americans began, in earnest, the moral and solemn process of holding their Government accountable to the Constitution by directly exercising their unalienable and individual Right of Redress, rather than depending upon the will of the majority of votes as cast in local precincts, the halls of Congress or the inner chambers of our courthouses.

June 30, 2008 marks the beginning of the People's Plan to Restore Constitutional Order - the righteous administration of divine government under the Constitution of the United States of America, without favor or exception.  Read full article »
Congress pats itself on back as it caves on telecom immunity
Source: ARS Technica Submitted: 06/22/2008
--The most extended apologia came from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who urged that the compromise be judged by comparison with the Senate bill, which she characterized as the only realistic alternative. She outlined several ways in which the current legislation is preferable to the Senate's version. First, the compromise bill reasserts that FISA is the "exclusive means" for conducting electronic surveillance, which would require the president to ignore such language twice in order to launch an extralegal surveillance program, rather than only once, as under traditional FISA rules. Second, it preserves prior judicial review of surveillance authorizations, except in "very, very rare" circumstances, such as when the attorney general asserts that waiting for a judge would entail delay. Third, it contains specific provisions barring the use of authorizations targeting parties abroad as a pretext for targeting U.S. persons, presumably to be enforced by a board of psychics. Finally, it provides for an internal investigation of the extent of past surveillance, which Congress will act upon with the same legendary zeal for civil liberties it has displayed over the past seven years.  Read full article »
You cannot destroy America by flying airplanes into buildings. You cannot destroy it with bombs in subways or in the streets. You can’t even destroy it with nuclear or other advanced weapons of mass destruction.

No, there are only two things powerful enough to destroy this country: A population willing to concede their rights, and a government that is willing to take them.
Massachusetts: Voter anger may lead to end of income tax
Source: Sun Chronicle Submitted: 06/21/2008
A weak economy, soaring gasoline prices and a frustration with government could cause voters to approve a ballot initiative to wipe out the state income tax, legislators said Thursday.

The legislators said they think the move is too drastic and would cripple state services, but believe voters are looking for a way to lower their costs and lash out at government.

"I think people are frustrated and are looking at a way of expressing it," said state Rep. John Lepper, R-Attleboro.
  Read full article »
Maybe they've noticed that our roads up here in New Hampshire are "working just fine," they're kept clear in the winter, if you have an emergency Police and Rescue are available 24 / 7, etc.

The funny thing about giving government more money is this: NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU HAND OVER, IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH! In fact, the more money it has, the easier it becomes to “create new ways” to spend it even faster.
2-star General Accuses WH of War Crimes
Source: Washington Post Submitted: 06/19/2008
The two-star general who led an Army investigation into the horrific detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of war crimes and is calling for accountability.

In his 2004 report on Abu Ghraib, then-Major General Anthony Taguba concluded that "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees." He called the abuse "systemic and illegal." And, as Seymour M. Hersh reported in the New Yorker, he was rewarded for his honesty by being forced into retirement.

"The profiles of these eleven former detainees, none of whom were ever charged with a crime or told why they were detained, are tragic and brutal rebuttals to those who claim that torture is ever justified. Through the experiences of these men in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, we can see the full-scope of the damage this illegal and unsound policy has inflicted --both on America's institutions and our nation's founding values, which the military, intelligence services, and our justice system are duty-bound to defend.

"In order for these individuals to suffer the wanton cruelty to which they were subjected, a government policy was promulgated to the field whereby the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice were disregarded. The UN Convention Against Torture was indiscriminately ignored. . . .

"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."  Read full article »
See Also:

LAW SCHOOL TO ORGANIZE BUSH WAR CRIMES TRIAL

"This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the school. "It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth."
Full Article Here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34171
SILVER, GOLD AND THE IRS
Source: News With Views Submitted: 06/19/2008
I began a recent presentation before a large group of cattle producers (R-CALFUSA) by showing a paper dollar bill and a silver coin. The words “one dollar” is inscribed on both the coin and the paper, yet the paper dollar will only pay for about one quart of gasoline at today’s prices, while the silver dollar will pay for well over five gallons. I explained to my audience that consumer prices are not high – the paper dollar has lost most of its value. It makes no difference how high the price of gasoline goes, a silver dollar will continue to buy gas for 20 cents a gallon, exactly the price gas was during the Great Depression. Based on 1940 prices, a paper dollar is worth about two pennies.

Today in America, we are being systematically robbed of our property because we have allowed the Federal Reserve to flood our banks with fiat, worthless paper money. There is actually a law against paper money but nobody seems to know about it. The Supreme law of the land is the US Constitution, which stated in Article I Section 10: Individual states are “not allowed to make any things but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.” The Constitution also states that “Congress has the power to COIN money and regulate the value thereof.” Our Founding Fathers knew how a central bank printing paper money would collapse our economy.

--Robert Kahre owns a family business and instead of using paper money he paid his workers with gold and silver coins minted by the United States government. He paid them based on the “face value” of the coins. If he paid a worker a dollar an hour he paid with a silver dollar, which states on the coin that it is “one dollar” regardless of today’s value. His wages were so low that he didn’t have to file W-2 income tax forms or withhold taxes or pay workman’s comp. This upset the IRS, which charged him and his family with 161 federal tax crimes.  Read full article »
-As you would have them do unto you
Source: Downsize DC Submitted: 06/18/2008
"George W. Bush brought death and chaos to Iraq on the basis of lies. Now, as he staggers through the last months of his failed presidency, he is trying one more bit of trickery — forcing the Nuri Al-Maliki government to legitimize a long-term military occupation of Iraq in a treaty, which will make that sovereign country an American colony."

--The above quote of the day reflects widespread Arab and Muslim reaction to the Bush administration's proposed "treaty of permanent occupation" with Iraq. We believe the Golden Rule requires us to give these reactions respectful consideration. Would we accept what we're asking the Iraqi people to accept? The proposed treaty requires that Iraq . . .

* Allow the U.S. to build 58 permanent military bases on their soil

* Grant U.S. control of Iraqi airspace up to 30,000 feet

* Establish immunity from prosecution for U.S. troops and contractors

* Permit the U.S. to determine when Iraq is at war with another country (Iran for instance)

* Agree to a two year notice to cancel the treaty

Please notice that President Bush wants to impose his preferred policy on the next president. He also asserts that his "agreement" with Iraq will be an "executive accord," NOT subject to ratification by the Senate.

--These treaty proposals, coming in the wake of everything else our government has done -- invasions, renditions, torture, lack of due process -- massively increase the danger of blowback against the American people. We believe it's time to downsize the President's reckless and overreaching foreign policy.  Read full article »
CIA Gave Torture Tips to Pentagon
Source: Alternet Submitted: 06/18/2008
Documents released by a Senate committee investigating the Pentagon's torture-based interrogation methods reveal that CIA advisers had a larger role in shaping the program than previously thought.

According to the Washington Post, a CIA legal expert gave the Pentagon a torture tutorial in October of 2002:

A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late 2002, defending waterboarding and other methods as permissible despite U.S. and international laws banning torture, according to documents released yesterday by congressional investigators.

Torture "is basically subject to perception," CIA counterterrorism lawyer Jonathan Fredman told a group of military and intelligence officials gathered at the U.S.-run detention camp in Cuba on Oct. 2, 2002, according to minutes of the meeting. "If the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong." [WaPo]  Read full article »
Chemical Dumbing Down of America (Video)
Source: YouTube Submitted: 06/17/2008
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When "Sorry" Is Not Good Enough
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 06/16/2008
--Last week on his nationally syndicated show, Reagan stated, "We ought to find the people who are doing this, take them out and shoot them. Really. You take them out, they are traitors to this country, and shoot them. You have a problem with that? Deal with it. You shoot them. You call them traitors, that’s what they are, and you shoot them dead. I’ll pay for the bullets.”

Why do Neo-Cons think they can solicit murder against Americans for their political beliefs, as well as advocating terrorist attacks and get away with it?

Imagine if Alex Jones encouraged on-air assassinations of Neo-Con figureheads. He'd be SWAT teamed quicker than you can say "double standard".

Neo-Cons claim that our free speech should be restricted because we are expressing radical opinions yet they think its perfectly within the remit of their free speech to advocate lining people up in front of firing squads and blowing their brains out.

--Imagine if someone like Keith Olbermann or an Air America radio host had openly called for the murder of "conservative" activists and volunteered to fund the contract hit. The FCC would shut them down in an instant, the FBI and Secret Service would descend and the corporate media would be all over the story.

Yet nearly a week after Reagan's disgusting comments and not one single mainstream media source has covered the issue. Just one "liberal" blog - Raw Story - has mentioned the story.  Read full article »
Just what the doctor ordered
Source: We The People Submitted: 06/15/2008
In announcing the end to his campaign for political office last Thursday, Ron Paul called upon the People to do something that really makes a difference in the fight for freedom, to give the establishment the fight of its life, to save the country.

“[T]he last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them,” said Paul. “The time has come to act on these words. May future generations look back on our work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great crisis, stood up to the politicians, the opinion-molders, and the establishment, and saved their country.”  Read full article »
Italy defends move to patrol streets with soldiers
Source: ABC News Submitted: 06/14/2008
"There is a strong call from citizens for better control of the streets, for improved safety," Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa told Sky Italia television.

"My hope is that particularly in the evening, in the cities, these troops can ensure greater safety."

The government announced on Friday that up to 2,500 soldiers, some of whom have served in Afghanistan and Kosovo, would be made available for a trial period of six months to bolster the police in difficult urban areas.  Read full article »
Ron Paul Launches "Campaign for Liberty"
Source: Campaign For Liberty Submitted: 06/13/2008
These past 17 months have been among the most exciting and eventful of my life. Together you and I delivered a message of freedom the likes of which American politics had not seen in decades. I wasn’t sure the country was ready for it. But it was a message, I discovered, that many Americans had been waiting for a long time to hear.

I have been blessed with the most informed, well read, and enthusiastic supporters of any presidential campaign. Your extraordinary efforts in organizing and fundraising grabbed the attention of millions of Americans and shocked just about everyone in politics and the media. I still cannot get over all the fantastic work you did.

Something of great significance has just occurred in our country’s history.

With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign is at an end. But the larger campaign for freedom is just getting started. Therefore, I am happy to announce the official launch of the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty.  Read full article »
They want to reach 100,000 members by September...I'm pretty sure we can do better than that.
Teachers intentionally traumatize students
Source: Fox News Submitted: 06/12/2008
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.

Classmates wept. Some became hysterical.

A few hours and many tears later, though, the pain turned to fury when the teenagers learned that it was all a hoax — a scared-straight exercise designed by school officials to dramatize the consequences of drinking and driving.

--Michelle de Gracia, 16, was in physics class when an officer announced that her missing classmate David, a popular basketball player, had died instantly after being rear-ended by a drunken driver. She said she felt nauseated but was too stunned to cry.  Read full article »
Supreme Court Rules Suspects have Rights
Source: Huffington Post Submitted: 06/12/2008
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

The justices handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The vote was 5-4, with the court's liberal justices in the majority.  Read full article »
Wow! - You mean it’s illegal for the government to label anyone they want a “suspect” and then, using only that label, lock people up forever without proving guilt of a crime? My God, what is this country coming to?

Sarcasm aside...

"If the thought of innocent people being SOLD into secret dungeons and held without charges doesn’t bother you; if the idea of those same people being tortured (sometimes to death) doesn’t bother you; if you’re so hopelessly terrified that the thought of desecrating everything enshrined in our Constitution doesn’t bother you, maybe this final fact will. These policies CANNOT and WILL NOT "keep our nation safe." In fact, the reverse is true. In implementing them we weaken our standing in the world, and destroy for ourselves the very essence of what our "leaders" claim to be protecting."
Constitutional scholar on impeachment: 'It's time to pony up' (Video)
Source: Raw Story Submitted: 06/11/2008
Law professor and constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley says that America's founders "would have been astonished by the absolute passivity, if not the collusion, of the Democrats in protecting President Bush from impeachment."  Watch here »
Mainstream media yawns as Kucinich offers impeachment
Source: Raw Story Submitted: 06/11/2008
On Monday evening, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to read out 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush in an almost five-hour marathon.

Kucinich's action made an immediate splash on the Internet. For example, at progressive website Democratic Underground, the historic performance quickly garnered an astonishing 56 separate threads on the most-recommended list.

By noon on Tuesday, RAW STORY's article on the subject was the top political story of the day at digg.com and the 10th most popular for the last year. A separate article at afterdowningstreet.org was also high in the ratings. Both sites, as well as Kucinich's own webpage, were experiencing slowdowns due to the volume of traffic.

However, the mainstream media were far more reticent in their coverage of Kucinich's resolution -- much as they were following the release last week of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the administration's misuse of prewar intelligence.  Read full article »
Ron Paul plans his own convention
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Submitted: 06/10/2008
--A Paul campaign aide said the Texas congressman hopes to pack about 11,000 supporters into the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 2, which coincides with the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in neighboring St. Paul.

--The campaign hopes the daylong event will "send a message to the Republican Party," Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton tells the Tribune-Review.

"There is a growing surge of people out there just craving" for a return "to traditional American government, limited government that places personal liberty first and places an emphasis on personal responsibility and essentially gets out of the way after that," Benton said. "The buzz we get from supporters is that they are very eager to come to St. Paul and very eager to send a strong message."  Read full article »
You can "digg" the story and comment here: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Ron_Paul_plans_his_own_convention_2
Tell Congress You Want Direct Dialogue -- Not War with Iran
Source: Downsize DC Submitted: 06/09/2008
DownsizeDC.org is one of about 35 organizations participating in a "National Call-In Day on Iran" that will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, June 10th.

This is a major national campaign, with press events and photo ops. Details about tomorrow's events are available at the coalition website NewIranPolicy.org.  Read full article »
Brain Games (Lumosity Review)
Source: JoePlummer.com Submitted: 06/09/2008
Let me start by saying "it works!"

As of this writing, I've gone through 20 Lumosity training sessions. I have not only seen a HUGE improvement in the areas measured by Lumosity (Attention, Memory, Processing Speed, and Cognitive Control) but the website's claims of boosting memory, mental clarity, and "mood" (outside of the game) have proven 100% true.

Work out with weights and you become physically stronger. Do these "mental workouts" and you can expect the same effect on your mental muscles. They say an increase in your BPI of 200 is good, but rest assured (with some effort) you can do much better than that. If you like the idea of increasing your "mental lifting capacity," I highly recommend Lumosity. (The first handful of training sessions are free...I honestly didn't think I'd end up subscribing, but after experiencing the benefits, I was happy to.)

Now, all that said, here are a couple things I wish I would have known prior to going in. Hopefully, you'll find this information useful.  Read full article »
The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium and The Dying Children (Video)
Source: Uruknet Submitted: 06/08/2008
An award winning documentary film produced for German television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn. The film exposes the use and impact of radioactive weapons during the current war against Iraq. The story is told by citizens of many nations. It opens with comments by two British veterans, Kenny Duncan and Jenny Moore, describing their exposure to radioactive, so-called depleted uranium (DU), weapons and the congenital abnormalities of their children. Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, a former colleague of Albert Schweitzer, and Tedd Weyman of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) traveled to Iraq, from Germany and Canada respectively, to assess uranium contamination in Iraq.  Watch here »
Bilderberg meeting
Source: Raw Story Submitted: 06/07/2008
The 56th Bilderberg Meeting, an annual conference of influential politicians and businessmen, began Thursday in Chantilly, Virgina, according to a press release from the organization.

The Conference will end Sunday and deals mainly with a nuclear free world, cyber terrorism, Africa, Russia, finance, protectionism, US-EU relations, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islam and Iran.  Read full article »
The unelected "Global Superclass" getting together to set policy for the rest of us.

It wasn't too long ago that "The Bilderberg Group" was written off as just another "crazy conspiracy theory." My, how times have changed (no thanks to the controlled mainstream media.) Speaking of which, see also:

"U.S. Corporate Media Blackout On Bilderberg Meeting"
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2008/060708_media_blackout.htm
U.S. Government Sought Customer Book Purchasing Records from Amazon.com
Source: Natural News Submitted: 06/07/2008
(NaturalNews) Recently unsealed court records shed more light on the federal government's attempts to secure the online book purchase records of 24,000 Amazon.com customers.

In 2006, federal prosecutors investigating Robert D'Angelo, a Madison, WI official accused of fraud and tax evasion, subpoenaed online book retailer Amazon.com for transaction records on anyone who had purchased books from him through Amazon Marketplace since 1999. Prosecutors said they were hoping to find witnesses to testify against D'Angelo.

Amazon agreed to tell prosecutors what books D'Angelo had sold, but refused to turn over information on the buyers, citing its customers' First Amendment rights to privacy. The government came back with a request for only 120 customers, but Amazon still refused. The case went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker, who ruled in June to strike down the subpoena on First Amendment grounds.  Read full article »
FlashBack: USS Liberty, New revelations regarding the attack
Source: Chicago Tribune Submitted: 06/07/2008
Bryce Lockwood, Marine staff sergeant, Russian-language expert, recipient of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister, is shouting into the phone.

"I'm angry! I'm seething with anger! Forty years, and I'm seething with anger!"

Lockwood was aboard the USS Liberty, a super-secret spy ship on station in the eastern Mediterranean, when four Israeli fighter jets flew out of the afternoon sun to strafe and bomb the virtually defenseless vessel on June 8, 1967, the fourth day of what would become known as the Six-Day War.

For Lockwood and many other survivors, the anger is mixed with incredulity: that Israel would attack an important ally, then attribute the attack to a case of mistaken identity by Israeli pilots who had confused the U.S. Navy's most distinctive ship with an Egyptian horse-cavalry transport that was half its size and had a dissimilar profile. And they're also incredulous that, for years, their own government would reject their calls for a thorough investigation.  Read full article »
You don't have to be a "conspiracy theorist" to understand the concept of False Flag operations. Nor do you need to be a "conspiracy theorist" to understand that the government of Israel has been caught in the past using them. (Look up the "Lavon Affair.")

Just curious: Has anyone coined a term for those who believe so deeply in the "goodness" of men in power (government) that they become intellectually blind? -Able to ignore all evidence, no matter how damning, and accept any lie at face value without an ounce of critical thought?
10 airports install body scanners
Source: USA Today Submitted: 06/07/2008
BALTIMORE — Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of the nation's busiest airports in one of the biggest public uses of security devices that reveal intimate body parts.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently started using body scans on randomly chosen passengers in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and at New York's Kennedy airport.

Airports in Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas and Miami will be added this month. Reagan National Airport in Washington starts using a body scanner today. A total of 38 machines will be in use within weeks.

"It's the wave of the future," said James Schear, the TSA security director at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, where two body scanners are in use at one checkpoint.  Read full article »
Millions of innocent dead because of lies – still no accountability
Source: Consortium News Submitted: 06/07/2008
"To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked," Dean wrote in a June 6, 2003 column for findlaw.com.

"Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be ‘a high crime’ under the Constitution's impeachment clause. It would also be a violation of federal criminal law, including the broad federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony ‘to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose.’”  Read full article »
Mercury teeth fillings may harm some: U.S. FDA
Source: Reuters Submitted: 06/04/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Silver-colored metal dental fillings contain mercury that may cause health problems in pregnant women, children and fetuses, the Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday after settling a related lawsuit.  Read full article »
I can't believe all of this stuff is FINALLY starting to come out. First Fluoride, now mercury teeth fillings – next thing you know they'll admit that injecting a deadly neurotoxin into your blood