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Countdown: Anthrax Investigation (Video - 08/04/08)
Source: MSNBC Submitted: 08/05/2008
Keith further reports on the anthrax investigation or lack there of and how the administration was pushing the FBI to link the attacks to Osama bin Laden. Gerald Posner weighs in.  Watch here »
Chance to Win thousands and Educate Millions
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 08/05/2008
In response to increasing flagrant attempts to censor political websites, including Infowars and Prison Planet, not in Communist China, but in the U.S. and the UK, we are running a special contest with a top prize of $5,000 in order to encourage people to get active and educate others about the growing threats to Internet freedom.

As we reported yesterday, major transportation hubs like St. Pancras International, as well as libraries, big businesses, hospitals and other public outlets that offer wi-fi Internet, are blacklisting alternative news websites and making them completely inaccessible to their users.

On weekly basis we receive e mails from across the US and the UK from people who have attempted to visit our websites yet found them to be blocked by filtration software that lists them as “hate” or “violence”.  Read full article »
Here is Audio of the "on air" announcement:
http://tree3.com/sound/aj/contest.mp3
Kucinich Responds to Pelosi regarding impeachment (Video)
Source: PrisonPlanet.com Submitted: 08/04/2008
WARNING: Pelosi's obfuscation may cause projectile vomiting! Put on a wetsuit!  Watch here »
Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News
Source: Salon Submitted: 08/02/2008
--The 2001 anthrax attacks remain one of the great mysteries of the post-9/11 era. After 9/11 itself, the anthrax attacks were probably the most consequential event of the Bush presidency. One could make a persuasive case that they were actually more consequential. The 9/11 attacks were obviously traumatic for the country, but in the absence of the anthrax attacks, 9/11 could easily have been perceived as a single, isolated event. It was really the anthrax letters -- with the first one sent on September 18, just one week after 9/11 -- that severely ratcheted up the fear levels and created the climate that would dominate in this country for the next several years after. It was anthrax -- sent directly into the heart of the country's elite political and media institutions, to then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt), NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, and other leading media outlets -- that created the impression that social order itself was genuinely threatened by Islamic radicalism.

If the now-deceased Ivins really was the culprit behind the attacks, then that means that the anthrax came from a U.S. Government lab, sent by a top U.S. Army scientist at Ft. Detrick. Without resort to any speculation or inferences at all, it is hard to overstate the significance of that fact. From the beginning, there was a clear intent on the part of the anthrax attacker to create a link between the anthrax attacks and both Islamic radicals and the 9/11 attacks.  Read full article »
SWAT team kills 2 dogs in pot bust on Md. mayor's home
Source: Digg Submitted: 08/02/2008
Yes, this is real: 36lbs of concealed pot get delivered to the home of the Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Md. by officers posing as couriers, and the box is left outside. As soon as it is taken inside, SWAT storms the house, seizes the pot, arrests the Mayor and his family, and kills 2 of their dogs.  Read full article »
Killing people's dogs is the next worst thing to killing their human loved ones - and the punishment (when no threat existed) should be equally SEVERE.
Ron Paul: Against Jingoism and Hypocrisy
Source: Lew Rockwell Submitted: 08/01/2008
Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution, which is yet another meaningless but provocative condemnation of China. It is this kind of jingoism that has led to such a low opinion of the United States abroad. Certainly I do not condone human rights abuses, wherever they may occur, but as Members of the US House of Representatives we have no authority over the Chinese government. It is our Constitutional responsibility to deal with abuses in our own country or those created abroad by our own foreign policies. Yet we are not debating a bill to close Guantanamo, where abuses have been documented. We are not debating a bill to withdraw from Iraq, where scores of innocents have been killed, injured, and abused due to our unprovoked attack on that country. We are not debating a bill to reverse the odious FISA bill passed recently which will result in extreme abuses of Americans by gutting the Fourth Amendment.  Read full article »
Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border - No Suspicion Required
Source: Washington Post Submitted: 08/01/2008
--The policies state that officers may "detain" laptops "for a reasonable period of time" to "review and analyze information." This may take place "absent individualized suspicion."

The policies cover "any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form," including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover "all papers and other written documentation," including books, pamphlets and "written materials commonly referred to as 'pocket trash' or 'pocket litter.' "  Read full article »
Cheney Considered Using Navy Seals For False Flag Attack
Source: ThinkProgress Submitted: 07/31/2008
HERSH: There was a meeting. Among the items considered and rejected — which is why the New Yorker did not publish it, on grounds that it wasn’t accepted — one of the items was why not…

There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.  Read full article »
Ron Paul's "Campaign for Liberty" update (Video)
Source: Campaign for Liberty Submitted: 07/31/2008
"I consider this event equal to, if not more important, than anything I have done over all these years," said Dr. Paul in his video message.  Watch here »
Using Terrorists to "Get er done"
Source: Information Clearing House Submitted: 07/31/2008
--During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, the US funded large numbers of jihadists through Pakistan's secret intelligence service, the ISI. Later the US wanted to raise another jihadi corps, again using proxies, to help Bosnian Muslims fight to weaken the Serb government's hold on Yugoslavia. Those they turned to included Pakistanis in Britain

--As the 2002 Dutch government report on Bosnia makes clear, the US provided a green light to groups on the state department list of terrorist organisations, including the Lebanese-based Hizbullah, to operate in Bosnia - an episode that calls into question the credibility of the subsequent "war on terror".

For nearly a decade the US helped Islamist insurgents linked to Chechnya, Iran and Saudi Arabia destabilise the former Yugoslavia. The insurgents were also allowed to move further east to Kosovo. By the end of the fighting in Bosnia there were tens of thousands of Islamist insurgents in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo; many then moved west to Austria, Germany and Switzerland.  Read full article »
They do it because it works - and they'll keep on until it doesn't
Source: WhatReallyHappened.com Submitted: 07/31/2008
--The Germans were hoaxed into surrendering their Republic, and accepting the total rule of Der Fuehrer. Hitler had German troops dressed in Polish uniforms attack the radio station at Gliewitz, then lied to the Germans, telling them Poland had invaded, and marched Germany off into World War Two

The state-sponsored schools will never tell you this, but governments routinely rely on hoaxes to sell their agendas to an otherwise reluctant public. The Romans accepted the Emperors and the Germans accepted Hitler not because they wanted to, but because the carefully crafted illusions of threat appeared to leave no other choice.  Read full article »
See also "Operation Gladio" and "Strategy of Tension"
Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use
Source: CNN Submitted: 07/30/2008
(CNN) -- The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams, almost a quarter-pound, of the substance.

Current laws targeting marijuana users place undue burdens on law enforcement resources, punish ill Americans whose doctors have prescribed the substance and unfairly affect African-Americans, said Frank, flanked by legislators and representatives from advocacy groups.

"The vast amount of human activity ought to be none of the government's business," Frank said on Capitol Hill. "I don't think it is the government's business to tell you how to spend your leisure time."

--There have been 20 million marijuana-related arrests since 1965, he said, and 11 million since 1990, and "every 38 seconds, a marijuana smoker is arrested."

Rob Kampia, director of the Marijuana Policy Project, said marijuana arrests outnumber arrests for "all violent crimes combined," meaning police are spending inordinate amounts of time chasing nonviolent criminals.  Read full article »
See also "Law Enforcement Against Prohibition" (Leap) at: http://leap.cc

And "Marijuana Policy Project" at: http://www.mpp.org/
Cop lies on report; video shows what really happened
Source: TheSmokingGun.com Submitted: 07/30/2008
JULY 29--You've probably seen that YouTube video of the New York cop viciously knocking down a bicyclist in Times Square last week. Officer Patrick Pogan's blindside hit on Christopher Long led NYPD brass yesterday to strip the rookie cop of his gun and badge pending a department probe. That review will surely focus on the 22-year-old Pogan's sworn account of the takedown, which led to Manhattan prosecutors filing three misdemeanor charges against the 29-year-old Long, who was participating in a monthly bike ride organized by transportation activists. As seen in the below Criminal Court complaint filed against Long (who spent 26 hours in jail after his arrest Friday night), Pogan offered a fantastical version of the incident. Pogan claimed that Long drove his bicycle directly into him, knocking the cop to the ground and causing "lacerations on deponent's forearm." The video, of course, shows Pogan delivering a blow that would have made former Oakland Raider Jack Tatum proud.  Read full article »
Barack Obama and the UN's drive for global governance
Source: EnterStageRight.com Submitted: 07/29/2008
Senator Barack Obama has introduced a dangerous bill and it's on the fast track to Senate passage, probably because of his high profile position as the expected Democrat presidential nominee. Obama hasn't done much legislatively in his freshman Senate term, but this one is very telling about what we can expect from a President Obama.

The bill is the "Global Poverty Act" (S.2433) and is not just a compassionate bit of fluff that Obama dreamed up to help the poor of the world. This bill is directly tied to the United Nations and serves as little more than a shakedown of American taxpayers in a massive wealth redistribution scheme. In fact, if passed, The Global Poverty Act will provide the United Nations with 0.7% of the United States gross national product. Estimates are that it will add up to at least $845 billion of taxpayer money for welfare to third world countries, in addition to the $300 billion Americans spent for the same thing in 2006.  Read full article »
Before the globalists can have their "New World Order" America must be brought to its knees economically. -And via the Warfare / Welfare State, that is exactly what our "leaders" are doing. Take your pick (the "Establishment Right" or the "Establishment Left") it all leads to the same thing.

See also: http://MeetTheSystem.org
Mandatory Gun Ownership Law in GA Town Resulted in Low Crime
Source: Reuters Submitted: 07/29/2008
KENNESAW, Georgia (Reuters) - The Virginia Tech killings have set off calls for tighter U.S. gun laws but anyone wanting to know why those demands likely will make little headway should visit Kennesaw, a town where owning a gun is both popular and mandatory.

The town north of Atlanta had little prominence until it passed a gun ordinance in 1982 that required all heads of a household to own a firearm and ammunition.  Read full article »
Since this article comes from the "Pro-Establishment" (Anti-American ) mainstream media, it only makes sense that they interview a racist for the piece. They've got to maintain their bullshit narrative at all costs (that those who believe it is THEIR responsibility to protect themselves are all red neck, racist, paranoid "gun nuts.")

Check out the comments at digg; it's good to see that few people are falling for it these days: http://digg.com/politics/Mandatory_Gun_Ownership_Law_in_GA_Town_Resulted_in_Low_Crime
Military recruiters caught threatening high school students (Recommended - with Video)
Source: KHOU.com Submitted: 07/29/2008
--“They were offering me school, they were offering me bonuses,” he said.

So Gonzales signed up – but only to “pre-enlist” in the Delayed Entry Program. DEP allows kids to try out the military without a binding commitment.

But the 11 News Defenders have found there is a problem: Army recruiters aren’t sticking to the program and are bullying and even lying to potential recruits and their families to keep them from dropping out.  Read full article »
Manipulation in Education
Source: Knowledge Driven Revolution Submitted: 07/29/2008
--“It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. But in his day this was an unattainable ideal: what he regarded as the best system in existence produced Karl Marx. In future such failures are not likely to occur where there is dictatorship. Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.” - 61  Read full article »
Big Brother: The Big Picture (3-hour Video)
Source: StopTheNorthAmericanUnion.com Submitted: 07/27/2008
.  Watch here »
David Icke has said some pretty wacky things in the past (about aliens and the like.) I don't know much about that, but I know plenty about the things he discusses in this 3-hour presentation. It's very well done and aside from one reference about physically controlling high ranking intelligence officers with some kind of “patch,” most of what he mentions in this presentation can be easily verified.

Even if you need to watch it "in parts" (a half hour or an hour at a time) I recommend watching the whole video. (I have no idea if the “patch” thing is disinfo given to him or if it’s real…I can say that NOTHING would surprise me at this point.)
Cell Regeneration (Video)
Source: CBS Submitted: 07/27/2008
.  Watch here »
...pretty amazing stuff.
Top DOJ Lawyers Spoke ‘In Codes’ For Fear Of Being Wiretapped By White House ‘Lunatics’
Source: ThinkProgress Submitted: 07/26/2008
Last night on PBS, Bill Moyers interviewed investigative journalist Jane Mayer and mentioned that in Mayer’s new book, she notes that FBI agents refused to participate in the CIA’s interrogation of terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay because they determined it to be “borderline torture.” Moyers then asked, “Who were some of the other conservative heroes, as you call them, in your book?”

Mayer remembered one top Justice Department lawyer and “very conservative member of this administration” who said that after participating in White House meetings authorizing torture, he believed that “lunatics had taken over the country.”

Mayer said two other top DOJ lawyers had to develop a system of speaking codes because they feared they were being wiretapped while others described an “atmosphere of intimidation,” mainly from Vice President Dick Cheney:  Read full article »
Fox News Busted (Video)
Source: YouTube Submitted: 07/26/2008
Ex-White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan exposed Fox News as a propaganda tool for the White House on Chris Mathews Hardball.  Watch here »
End Asset Forfeiture
Source: DownsizeDC Submitted: 07/23/2008
Civil asset forfeiture is government seizure of property or cash owned by individuals not charged with any crime. Law enforcement agents can seize a piece of property if they merely suspect it was used in a crime, whereas its owner must prove innocence to get it back. This is an inversion of justice and a gross violation of the Bill of Rights. But if you think the federal courts will protect innocent property owners, think again . . .  Read full article »
An American Hero
Source: Richard C. Cook Submitted: 07/22/2008
Dr. Ron Paul, the Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential nomination, is not the first U.S. politician to point to the abuses of the Federal Reserve System and call for its abolishment. Similar pleas to get rid of the Fed were made by Reps. Wright Patman (1893-1976) and Henry Gonzales (1916-2000), both Democratic congressmen from Texas and chairmen of the House Banking Committee.

Few recall, however, how controversial the Fed was when it was first proposed and then maneuvered through a recessing Congress just before Christmas 1913. Rep. Charles Lindbergh, Sr., R-MN and father of the future aviator, called the Federal Reserve Act “the worst legislative crime of the ages.”

But the strongest opposition came later, during the Great Depression. The source was Rep. Louis T. McFadden, a Republican representative from Pennsylvania who, as a former bank cashier and president, knew the financial system intimately.  Read full article »
Don't understand the Federal Reserve System? This book will help. (And it's free) http://MeetTheSystem.ORG
My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies
Source: Alternet Submitted: 07/21/2008
--Veteran peace activist in Baltimore, Max Obuszewski, who initiated the suit, was as well consistently shadowed as he walked down the streets. His "primary crime" (their lingo) was entered into the homeland security database as "terrorism - anti govern(ment)." His "secondary crime" was listed as "terrorism -- anti-war protesters." The database is known as the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, or HIDTA. Yes, a respected peace organizer of many decades standing is checked as a terrorist, his actions listed as criminal, for doing nothing more than exercising his rights. It boggles the mind.  Read full article »
"Terrorism" is a weapon wielded by the state against its own people.

It provides a pretext for every conceivable violation of "inalienable" rights.

If you're not killing or conspiring to kill innocent civilians, you are not a terrorist.

It is our duty as Americans (and as sovereign human beings) to resist these criminals.
Zimbabwe introduces 100-billion-dollar note
Source: CNN Submitted: 07/19/2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's troubled central bank introduced $100 billion banknotes Saturday in a desperate bid to ease the recurrent cash shortages plaguing the inflation-ravaged economy.

The bills officially come into circulation Monday, although they were on the foreign currency dealers market Saturday. --As high as they are, though, the bills still aren't enough to buy a loaf of bread. They can buy only four oranges.

The new note is equal to just one U.S. dollar.  Read full article »
Myth of "Global Warming Consensus" Explodes
Source: Daily Tech Submitted: 07/18/2008
--In a posting to the APS forum, editor Jeffrey Marque explains,"There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution."

The APS is opening its debate with the publication of a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, which concludes that climate sensitivity -- the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause -- has been grossly overstated by IPCC modeling. A low sensitivity implies additional atmospheric CO2 will have little effect on global climate.

Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chairman of the New England Section of the APS, called Monckton's paper an "expose of the IPCC that details numerous exaggerations and "extensive errors"  Read full article »
Micro Generation and Micro Farming
Source: GeorgeWashington2.Blogspot Submitted: 07/17/2008
One of the world's leading experts on trend forecasting says that producing our own energy for our homes and cars (called "micro generation") will become a huge trend in the next couple of decades. -What's he talking about?

Well, energy and food prices will keep going up. Every dollar we don't have to pay to the energy utility or food producers is a dollar we get to keep. And the technology for producing it ourselves is getting better and better.  Read full article »
Stop The (Printing) Press!
Source: Lew Rockwell Submitted: 07/17/2008
Ron Paul's statement before the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, Humphrey Hawkins Hearing on Monetary Policy, July 16, 2008

"Mr. Chairman, today we find ourselves on the verge of an economic crisis the likes of which the United States has not seen in decades. Our economy is very clearly in a recession, and every time someone tells us that the worst has passed, another serious event takes place, as we saw once again last week and early this week. Everyone now realizes that the situation is dire, yet either no one understands the cause behind the credit crisis, or no one is willing to take the necessary steps to ensure as orderly an end to the crisis as possible. Instead, we hear talk of further bailouts. The Fed-brokered takeover of Bear Stearns, a supposed one-off incident, has now been joined by a potential bailout of the Government-Sponsored Enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."  Read full article »
America, Get a Grip...
Source: GeorgeWashington2.Blogspot Submitted: 07/15/2008
Former deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats, a 23-year senior CIA analyst, who "drafted or was involved in many of the government's most senior assessments of the threats facing our country [and who] devoted years to understanding and combating the jihadist threat", writes today in the Washington Post that the neocons have whipped us into an irrational fear of the terrorism. In reality, "Osama bin Laden and his disciples are small men and secondary threats whose shadows are made large by our fears" and our leaders.

This is no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. The BBC produced a documentary called The Power of Nightmares in 2005 that showed that politicians were greatly exaggerating the terrorist threat for political ends. FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, Time Magazine, K eith Olbermann (and here), The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and many others have all documented the intentional fearmongering tactics which the neocons have used to drum up support for their wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran.  Read full article »
Jim Rogers: Fannie Plan a "disaster"
Source: Bloomberg Submitted: 07/14/2008
``They're ruining what has been one of the greatest economies in the world,'' Rogers said. Bernanke and Paulson ``are bailing out their friends on Wall Street but there are 300 million Americans that are going to have to pay for this.''  Read full article »
Bob Barr put through the "Paul-O-meter"
Source: Liberty Maven Submitted: 07/13/2008
It is now Libertarian candidate Bob Barr’s turn to be spun through the Paul-O-Meter. We rate the candidates on 20 criteria to see how closely they match up with Ron Paul on the issues.  Read full article »
Homeland Security Aide Caught Offering Access For Donations (With Video)
Source: ThinkProgress Submitted: 07/13/2008
The Sunday Times reports Stephen Payne, a Bush pioneer and a political appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was caught on tape offering access to key members of the Bush administration inner circle in exchange for “six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.”

In an undercover video, Payne is seen promising to arrange a meeting for an exiled leader of Krygystan with Dick Cheney or Condoleezza Rice. (Not President Bush because “he doesn’t meet with a lot of former Presidents these days,” Payne says. “I don’t think he meets with hardly anyone.”) All it will take for him to arrange this high-level meeting, says Payne, is “a couple hundred thousand dollars, or something like that”:  Watch here »
Larken Rose: Kicking the Dragon
Source: JoePlummer.com Submitted: 07/12/2008
We have all heard the horror stories of men convicted and locked away in prison for crimes they did not commit; decades of their lives lost to a “system of justice” that failed to protect them. What we rarely hear is HOW such a thing can happen. Without a “step-by-step” account of what went wrong, it’s easy to believe it was just a “bad prosecutor,” or “bad cop,” or maybe even the occasional “bad judge” that led to the wrongful conviction.

Larken Rose was convicted of a crime he did not commit. Fortunately for him, his crime (“willful” failure to file Income Taxes) did not carry a death sentence or life in prison. “Justice” only claimed about a year of his life. However, in this case the victim DOES provide us a step-by-step account. It might surprise you to find that government officials aren’t always interested in “justice.” It might surprise you to find out; those who benefit from the system will sometimes lie and manipulate to “protect it” (at the expense of the truth.)  Read full article »
Formerly “CIA-funded” Warlords Turn Their Guns On U.S. Troops
Source: USnews.com Submitted: 07/11/2008
KABUL—The war in Afghanistan reached a wrenching milestone this summer: For the second month in a row, U.S. and coalition troop deaths in the country surpassed casualties in Iraq.

--Indeed, along with a smattering of Afghan tribal groups, Pakistani extremists, and drug kingpins, two of the most dangerous players are violent Afghan Islamists named Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Jalaluddin Haqqani, according to U.S. officials. In recent weeks, Hekmatyar has called upon Pakistani militants to attack U.S. targets, while the Haqqani network is blamed for three large vehicle bombings, along with the attempted assassination of Karzai in April.

Ironically, these two warlords—currently at the top of America's list of most wanted men in Afghanistan—were once among America's most valued allies. In the 1980s, the CIA funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in weapons and ammunition to help them battle the Soviet Army during its occupation of Afghanistan.  Read full article »
Want some torture with your peanuts?
Source: Washington Times Submitted: 07/10/2008
A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers (video also shown below).

This bracelet would:

• Take the place of an airline boarding pass

• Contain personal information about the traveler

• Be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage

• Shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes  Read full article »
The 2006 election was a failure
Source: DownsizeDC Submitted: 07/10/2008
The Republicans used to claim they wanted smaller government. They also claimed that they couldn't really deliver this until they controlled both the Congress and the White House. In 2000 temporarily, and again in 2002, they gained that control, but they didn't deliver smaller government. Instead, they increased government by gargantuan amounts.

In 2006 the electorate punished the Republicans. Voters gave the Democrats majorities in the House and Senate. Polls showed several reasons for this. Voters objected to Republican spending, Republican corruption, Republican lawlessness, and a reckless Republican foreign policy.

Democrats were elected to change these Republican policies. Now, two years later, all the Republican's Big Government policies remain in place. Indeed, the Democrats have actually expanded those policies. --Partisan electoral politics has failed us again.

The Democrat controlled Congress also sent a strong message of toleration for government sanctioned lawbreaking. They did this by immunizing the tele-communications companies that had collaborated with President Bush to illegally spy on American citizens.  Read full article »
PLEASE take a minute to send your "representative" a message (using the DownsizeDC electronic message system.) Let them know how you feel about their vote. The vote record is available here: ( "AYE" = yes, "NAY" = no)
http://action.downsizedc.org/background.php?cid=95#list

Here is my personal message (feel free to use all or part of it if you like.)

"Thank you SO MUCH for giving the telecoms retroactive immunity. Thank you also for effectively sanctioning the actions of a lawless Executive branch. Thank you for betraying your sworn oath to “PRESERVE, PROTECT and DEFEND” the constitution of these United States. THANK YOU SENATOR for proving that you, like so many of those you rub elbows with, care NOTHING for truth, justice, or the rule of law that you’ve been elected to uphold. Keep up the great work! Each and every betrayal unites more Americans against the corrupt system you serve."

You can send your message here: http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=95
The Worst of All Worlds
Source: DownsizeDC Submitted: 07/09/2008
Why did nearly half the Democrats in the House vote for the "FISA Amendments Act" that's now pending in the Senate, when most of them had opposed warrantless spying and telecom immunity before? The answer is that they were bribed, using your tax dollars.

The Washington Post claims a deal was cut: the Democratic Leadership would support the FISA bill if the President would agree to add $95 billion in DOMESTIC spending to the latest Iraq appropriation.

In other words, House Democrats voted to continue the war and sold the Fourth Amendment for $95 billion.

Republicans say they want less spending. Democrats say they want less war. What's their compromise? More spending and more war.  Read full article »
Perverting "Justice"
Source: Huffington Post Submitted: 07/08/2008
--The nonsexual torture that was committed ranged from beatings and suffocation, electrodes attached to sensitive areas, and forced sleep deprivation, to prisoners being hung by the wrists from the ceiling and placed in solitary confinement until psychosis was induced. These abuses violate both US and international law. Three former military attorneys, recognizing this blunt truth, refused to participate in the "military tribunals" -- rather, "show trials" -- aimed at condemning men whose confessions were elicited through torture.

Though we can now debate what the penalty for waterboarding should be, America as a nation, maintaining an odd silence, still cannot seem to discuss the sex crimes involved.

Why? It's not as if the sex crimes that US leaders either authorized or tolerated are not staring Americans in the face: the images of male prisoners with their heads hooded with women's underwear; the documented reports of female US soldiers deployed to smear menstrual blood on the faces of male prisoners, and of military interrogators or contractors forcing prisoners to simulate sex with each other, to penetrate themselves with objects, or to submit to being penetrated by objects. Indeed, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was written deliberately with loopholes that gave immunity to perpetrators of many kinds of sexual humiliation and abuse.  Read full article »
Ripping the 4th
Source: Huffington Post Submitted: 07/06/2008
Early next week the U.S. Senate will vote on an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with a few small amendments intended to immunize telecommunications corporations that assisted our government in the warrantless and illegal wiretapping it has grown to love.

That such a gutting of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution even made it out of committee is yet another stain on the gutless and seemingly powerless Democratic majority in both houses of Congress.  Read full article »
US drug policy: How does it stack up?
Source: StopTheDrugWar.org Submitted: 07/06/2008
…it's striking that the lifetime marijuana use rate in the U.S. (42.4 percent) is more than twice as high as the rate in the Netherlands (19.8 percent), despite the latter country's famously (or notoriously, depending on your perspective) tolerant cannabis policies. The difference for lifetime cocaine use is even bigger: The U.S. rate (16.2 percent) is eight times the Dutch rate (1.9 percet).  Read full article »
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 »
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