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Papua New Guinea Forests Being Cut And Burned Away |
At the same time that the government of Papua New Guinea is seeking compensation for conserving the carbon-trapping capacity of its the world's third largest expanse of tropical forests, destruction of these forests is occurring so fast that by 2021 most of the areas accessible to loggers will have been cleared or degraded, a new report based on satellite images reveals. full story |
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Lawmaker Asks McCain to Talk with 9/11 Theorists |
State Sen. Karen Johnson, a Mesa Republican, delivered a letter to McCain's Senate office Tuesday asking that he sit down with Scottsdale activist Blair Gadsby and a pair of leading members of the 9/11 Truth Movement to consider alternative explanations for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Gadsby's fast outside McCain's Senate office entered its 10th day today. full story |
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Icelandic Whale Meat Destined for a House in Tokyo |
Tonnes of endangered fin whale meat from Iceland and minke whale meat from Norway have been exported to Japan has been left sitting in deep freezers in customs, despite claims by the Icelandic exporter that there is a market for the meat. The export has been condemned internationally and currently has no import license. Greenpeace is calling on the government of Japan to refuse to grant the required permits. full story |
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Rice Calls Dialogue with Iran Pointless |
Condoleezza Rice escalated the Bush admin's anti-Iran rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing its govt. of pursuing nuclear weapons and calling any dialogue with its leaders pointless until they suspend the country’s enrichment of uranium. While Ms. Rice’s message was familiar, the tone of her speech, before AIPAC, was unusually sharp, taking oblique aim at Sen. Obama and other Dem. leaders who have called for the US to engage Iran diplomatically. full story |
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Forced Vaccinations Part of Dark Eugenics Agenda |
Government terrorists are continuing their dark eugenics agenda of enslavement and death. The New York State Assembly has proposed a bill that would make all vaccines recommended by the CDC mandatory for any children attending the government’s brainwashing camps. These government brainwashing camps are more commonly referred to by the corporate controlled media as the public school system. full story |
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Economic Depression in America: Evidence
of a Withering Economy Is Everywhere |
In Santa Barbara parking lots are being converted into hostels so that families that lost their homes in the subprime fiasco can sleep in their cars and not be hassled by the cops. The same is true in LA where tent cities have sprung up around the railroad yards to accommodate the growing number of people who've lost their jobs or can't afford to rent a room on service-industry wages. full story |
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Hemp For Vermont Bill Becomes Law |
The bill overwhelmingly passed both the House (126 to 9) and the Senate (25 to 1). The new law sets up a state-regulated program for farmers to grow non-drug industrial hemp, which is used in a wide variety of products, including nutritious foods, cosmetics, body care, clothing, tree-free paper, auto parts, building materials and much more. full story |
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Indianapolis to Become "Mock Battlefield" |
"Our aim in Indianapolis is to expose our Marines to realistic scenarios and stresses posed by operating in an actual urban community, thereby increasing their proficiency in built-up areas," Col. Mark J. Desens, commander of the 26th MEU, said in a statement. "While some of the activity will take place around Camp Atterbury, residents in many areas can expect to see helicopters flying overhead, military vehicles on the roads and Marines patrolling on foot," Desens said. full story |
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RFID-Enabled Tix to Olympics' Opening
Ceremonies to Include Passport Data |
The Chinese Olympic Committee for the 2008 Games has revealed that all tickets to the opening and closing ceremonies will include RFID-enabled microchips with spectators' passport information and home and e-mail addresses, among other sensitive personal info. This high-level precaution is in response to the increasingly sensitive security issues surrounding the games, due largely in part to the host's controversial positions on human rights and freedom of speech. full story |
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Former High-Ranking Bush Officials Enjoy War Profits |
Over the past decade, contracting for America's spy agencies has grown into a $50 billion industry that eats up seven of every 10 dollars spent by the U.S. government on its intelligence services. Today, unbeknownst to most Americans, agencies once renowned for their prowess in analysis, covert operations, electronic surveillance and overhead reconnaissance outsource many of their core tasks to the private sector. full story |
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Big Brother's Candid Camera at 30,000 Feet |
As Privacy International documents, the United Kingdom is an endemic surveillance society -- on par with Russia and China -- with the United States close behind. Germany, Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands and the rest of Europe do a somewhat better job at protecting privacy, although it appears things will change as the EU gets its act together. full story |
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151 Congressmen Derive Financial Profit from War |
Who profits from the Iraq war? More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq. According to the latest reports, 151 members of Congress invested close to a quarter-billion in companies that received defense contracts of at least $5 million in 2006. full story |
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Plan Mexico: Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico |
It's planned behind closed doors - to militarize and annex the continent. Corporate giants are in charge, mostly US ones. The idea is for an unregulated open field for profit. The Bush administration, Canada and Mexico support it. Things are moving toward implementation. Three nations will become one. National sovereignty eliminated. Worker rights as well. Opposition is building, but moves are planned to quash it. That's the militarization part. full story |
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Bush 'Plans Iran Air Strike by August' |
The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently. Two key US senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according to the source, but their projected New York Times op-ed piece has yet to appear. full story |
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GOP Leaders Struggle to Contain 'Revolution' |
As news of what happened in Texas Senate District 25 (where Paul supporters completely took over) and in Nevada has spread, state party bosses have drawn up their counter-strategies which include changes to how conventions are run which reduce direct input from delegates and motions from the floor, draconian measures to remove anyone they think is "disruptive" and in some cases special meetings of credentials committees to disqualify Ron Paul delegates before the convention convenes. full story |
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John Bolton to be Target of
Citizen's Arrest at Hay Festival |
John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, faces a citizen's arrest when he addresses an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales this evening. George Monbiot, the journalist and activist, is planning the action because he believes Mr Bolton is a "war criminal". Mr Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian newspaper, plans to detain him as he steps off stage at the end of his talk. He said he was prepared to jump on stage and perform the citizen's arrest there if necessary. full story |
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Bush Claims More Powers Than George III |
The Bush admin has arrogated powers to itself that the British people even refused to grant King George III at the time of the Revolutionary War, an eminent political scientist says. "No executive in the history of the Anglo-American world since the Civil War in England in the 17th century has laid claim to such broad power," said David Adler, a prolific author of articles on the U.S. Constitution. "George Bush has exceeded the claims of Oliver Cromwell who anointed himself Lord Protector of England." full story |
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Americans Embracing the Iron Fist
of Totalitarian Government |
Despite the massive, overwhelming documentation proving that elite groups around the world have been planning the complete annihilation of this constitutional republic for a more than a hundred years, Americans continue to deny, deny, deny. Let me give you this example. It's an email I received a few days ago regarding a January 7, 2005, column I wrote titled, President Bush supporting global communist domination. full story |
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George Soros: 'We Face the Most
Serious Recession of Our Lifetime' |
"I think this is probably more serious than anything in our lifetime," he says. In short, his feeling is that the US and Britain are facing a recession of a scale greater than the early-90s, greater even than the 70s. "I think the dislocations will be greater because you also have the implications of the house price decline, which you didn't have in the 70s, so you had stagflation and transfer of purchasing power to the oil producing countries, but here you also have the housing crisis in addition to that." full story |
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German Telecom Rocked By Spy Scandal |
Lidl even recorded employees when they used the toilet, their conversations while on break, and kept track on who their friends outside work were, reports said in March. Anti-terrorism surveillance measures introduced by the government such as installing secret cameras in terror suspects' homes and including biometric data on passports have also riled civil liberties group. full story |
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Tories Plan Boot Camps for Jobless Youths |
Under the Tory proposals, unemployed young people who do not find a job within three months will be referred automatically to a specialist employment provider, where they will be expected to take part in an intensive programme of work-related activity. If they spend 12 months out of work, they will then be moved on to a full-time community work programme lasting a further year full story |
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SAIC Energy Expert: Gas Could Reach $15 Per Gallon |
Robert Hirsch addressed the timeframe in which the US could see $15/gallon gas: "It could happen within a matter of months. It could happen within a matter of a few years. But it’s essentially certain that we are at the maximum of world oil production. And after that, we’ll go into decline, and when there’s much less oil available, then, of course, the price of oil is going to increase dramatically." full story |
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10 Most Imperiled U.S. Wildlife Refuges
All at Risk of Politics |
National Wildlife Refuges are supposed to shelter wild animals and plants but many refuges themselves are under siege, according to a new survey of refuge managers and staff by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER, a service org. assisting federal and state workers in natural resource agencies. The overwhelming threat to all refuges, PEER says is, "political pressure to put the interests of wildlife second." full story |
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Unmarked Chopper Patrols NYC from High Above |
The helicopter's powers of observation come from a high-powered robotic camera mounted on a turret projecting from its nose like a periscope. The camera has infrared night-vision capabilities and a satellite navigation system that allows police to automatically zoom in on a location by typing in the address on a computer keyboard. The surveillance system can beam live footage to police command centers or even to wireless hand-held devices. full story |
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Surging Inflation Will Stoke Riots And Conflict between Nations |
Riots, protests and political unrest could multiply in the developing world as soaring inflation widens the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots", an investment bank predicted yesterday. The cost of food and fuel has already been cited as a factor leading to violence in Haiti, protests by Argentinian farmers and riots in sub-Saharan Africa, including attacks on immigrants in South African townships. Alex Patelis, said this could be the tip of the iceberg, warning of more trouble "between nations and within nations" as people struggle to pay for everyday goods. full story |
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Fingerprint Registry in Housing Bill |
Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and proposed in the name of national security have generated much debate. Recently, “Server in the Sky”, a proposed international database of the fingerprints of suspected criminals and terrorists to be shared among the U.S., U.K. and Canada, has ignited a firestorm of controversy. full story |
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Bilderberg Luminary to Select Obama's Running Mate |
It has been announced that Bilderberg luminary and top corporate elitist James A. Johnson will select Democratic candidate Barack Obama's running mate for the 2008 election and in turn potentially act as kingmaker for America's future President. The news further puts to rest any delusions that Bilderberg is a mere talking shop where no decisions are made. full story |
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CNBC Guest: $12 to $15 Gas Possible |
It may be the mother of all doom and gloom gas price predictions: $12 for a gallon of gas is "inevitable." Robert Hirsch, Management Information Services Senior Energy Advisor, gave a dire warning about the potential future of gas prices on CNBC's May 20 "Squawk Box". He told host Becky Quick there was no single thing that would solve the problem, due to the enormity of the problem. full story |
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FBI Wants Informants to Spy on RNC Protesters |
What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort's primary mission is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups... full story |
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PNAC Think Tank Web Site Shut Down |
In 2000, the think tank released a 90 page document entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses. In the document, the think tank actually advocates a catastrophic and catalyzing Pearl Harbor event in order to seek faster global transformation using U.S. military might. In addition, one of the core missions outlined in the report is "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars." What luck for the neocons that a catastrophic and catalyzing event occurred on 9/11/01 that made one of their core missions in their report become a reality. full story |
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The Bushes And Hitler's Appeasement | |
The archival evidence is now clear that Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from and collaborated with key financial backers of Nazi Germany. That business relationship continued after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 and even after Germany declared war on the United States following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. full story |
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Britain Sleepwalking into Big Brother Society |
A digital vault containing information about every email, internet visit and phone call made in Britain is to be created in a European bid to battle terrorism. The plan, which will widen legislation governing the record-keeping responsibilities of telecommunications and internet companies, has alarmed civil libertarians who are already anxious about a proposed ID card scheme. full story |
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Government Insider: Bush Authorized 911 Attacks | |
"Our case is alleging that Bush and his puppets Rice and Cheney and Mueller and Rumsfeld and so forth, Tenet, were all involved not only in aiding and abetting and allowing 9/11 to happen but in actually ordering it to happen. Bush personally ordered it to happen. We have some very incriminating documents as well as eye-witnesses, that Bush personally ordered this event to happen." full story |
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China's All-Seeing Eye |
Over the past two years, some 200,000 surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the city of Shenzhen. Many are in public spaces, disguised as lampposts. The closed-circuit TV cameras will soon be connected to a single, nationwide network, an all-seeing system that will be capable of tracking and identifying anyone who comes within its range -- a project driven in part by U.S. technology and investment. full story |
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The War On Terror Does Not Apply to Mexico |
The U.S. border with Mexico is starting to resemble a combat zone. The U.S. State Dept. recently issued an alert, stating that the equivalent of military small-unit combat is taking place around the border. There has also been a recent report of 4 American citizens being executed in this area. This is more proof that the global war on terror is a complete fraud and the current admin. has no desire to protect this nation’s borders or the American people. full story |
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Lieberman Sends Letter to Google,
Demands YouTube Censorship |
Joe Lieberman, senator and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chairman, wants to censor what you watch on Google and YouTube. Lieberman has sent a letter to Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, accusing the corporation of allowing "offensive material” on its site, namely "videos produced by al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups." Joe wants these taken down immediately and demands Google “prevent them from reappearing." full story |
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Main Core: Eight Million Americans A Security Threat? |
The U.S. Govt has, almost certainly, established a database and tracking system for something like 8 million Americans who have been designated as threats to national security. The system is called MAIN CORE and it is being run under the auspices of highly classified COG operations. In the event of a major national security crisis, it is alleged that Americans listed in the MAIN CORE database, "Could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and possibly even detention." full story |
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Israel Must Be Held to Same Nuclear Scrutiny as Iran |
"After a group of nuclear scientists verified my photos as proving Israeli nuclear weapons production, my story was published in England. A few months later, I was kidnapped by the Israelis in Rome and sent secretly by ship to Israel, where I was subjected to a closed military trial without counsel. I was sentenced to 18 years in prison. I spent 12 years in solitary confinement." full story |
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Rumsfeld: "Why Not Another 911?" |
Rumsfeld declared that the American people lack "the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the 'threats'" -- and need another 9/11. When DeLong complained about a "lack of sympathetic ears" in Congress, and a lack of interest among the general American public, Rumsfeld responded, "What's to be done? The correction for that, I suppose, is another attack." full story |
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Gordon Brown Backs Animal-human Hybrids |
"Britain is at the forefront of this research and responsible for much of the worldwide progress," he wrote in The Observer newspaper. The premier supports scientists who want to insert the nuclei of human cells into animal eggs, creating hybrid embryos which are allowed to grow for a few days. Stem cells can then be harvested and used to create brain, skin, heart and other tissue for treating diseases before the embryos are destroyed. full story |
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A Forensic Analysis of September 11th, 2001:
Questioning the Official Story |
A Google video portraying Alexander Dewdney and Graeme MacQueen who speak at University of Waterloo, on March 19, 2008. Approximately 400 people filled Hagey Hall and both speakers received roaring applause for their lectures. full story |
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Concerns over Posse Comitatus Violations |
"Specifically, we believe the NAO raises major issues under the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C. § 1385) as it involves the use of military satellites for surveillance of American citizens inside the US for law enforcement and other purposes. Having been burned before on the Terrorist Surveillance Program and knowing of this Administration’s disdain for obeying the laws Congress passes, we need to be extraordinarily careful." full story |
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Chicago's Top Cop Wants Semi-automatic
Weapons, an Armor-plated Vehicle.. |
Weis is also moving ahead with plans to equip, within the next 3 years, all 1,700 of the dept's patrol cars with M-4 carbines, a semi-automatic rifle that SWAT team members now carry. Putting them in squads will require training for every officer authorized to use an M-4. Weis said he wants the M-4's for officer safety, and because, in certain deadly force situations, they are more accurate and reliable than a standard issue sidearm. full story |
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Chalabi-gate: None Dare Call It Treason |
The fallout from Chalabi-gate continues to rain down on the heads of the War Party, opening up the exciting prospect that some neocons might well wind up behind bars." FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential espionage, according to intelligence sources. Who gave Ahmed Chalabi classified information about the plans of the U.S. government and military?" full story |
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Speeders Face Vehicle Confisication & Prison |
As of October 1st, anyone caught doing 30mph over the speed limit in Florida faces vehicle confiscation, five to ten years in prison and a ten-year license suspension. Bill HB 137, which was signed into law earlier today, was originally targeted at motorcyclists, but was amended at the last minute to include all vehicles. The full text of the bill follows the jump. full story |
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Senate Moves Forward on Thought Crimes Bill |
In the wake of Sen. Lieberman and Susan Collins alarmist report, Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat, "the Senate may be moving towards passage of the Orwellian Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (S. 1959). The legislation would create a domestic commission, a university-based Center of Excellence "that would study and then, target domestic radicalization"as a threat "to the homeland." full story |
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Congressmen Highlight Mexican
Commando Incursions into U.S. |
Rep. Ted Poe has urged the Congress to take action regarding the frequent incursions of military style Mexican commandos into the U.S. that has seen over 6000 deaths in the past 2 1/2 years according to conservative estimates. The Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that members of Mexico's elite counter-narcotics teams, trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have defected and are now in the pay of drug cartels. full story |
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The Technocratic Control Grid Advances |
TSA will be installing 200 body scanners in airports around the US. The body scanners are reminiscent out of something you’d see in the sci fi film Total Recall. The difference between the body scanners in Total Recall and the ones being deployed in real life is that the body scanners in Total Recall are less intrusive. The real life body scanners are a complete invasion of privacy and actually reveal a person’s naked body when they go through the scanners. full story |
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Detainees Drugged against Their Will for Deportation |
In day 4 of a Washington Post series, Careless Detention, it is revealed that the United States has injected hundreds of foreigners without their consent with dangerous mind-altering drugs for trips returning them to their home countries, according to government documents, medical records, and interviews with some of the actual people who were drugged. full story |
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In 'Spies for Hire,' U.S. Security Gets Outsourced |
It's become a $50 billion a year industry: Corporations like Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, and IBM are being paid to do things the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Pentagon usually do, including analysis, covert operations, electronic surveillance and reconnaissance. Outsourcing was out of control. Contractors deployed in Iraq and other hotspots overseas were making decisions and handling documents that, in earlier times, had been the sole responsibility of U.S. military and intelligence officers. full story |
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Globalists Take a Step Closer to $200 Dollar Oil |
Globalists hell-bent on reducing the living standards of westerners by jacking up oil prices to a whopping $200 dollars a barrel took a step closer to their target yesterday after JPMorgan Chase & Co announced that they will begin trading oil by the end of the year. "JPMorgan Chase & Co will begin trading physical oil by year-end, increasing its exposure in a market that could rise to $200 a barrel reports Reuters. full story |
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Air Force Aims for 'Full Control'
of 'Any And All' Computers |
The government is growing increasingly interested in waging war online. The Air Force recently put together a "Cyberspace Command," with a charter to rule networks the way its fighter jets rule the skies. The Department of Homeland Security, Darpa, and other agencies are teaming up for a five-year, $30 billion "national cybersecurity iniative." full story |
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It Is Definitely Fascism When It Happens to You |
In Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's world of an "Israelized" America, the terms SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) and BDO (Behavior Detection Officer) are the new acronyms of Stasi-like control of the American citizenry by a government that treats anyone as a suspicious person in the same manner that Israel mistreats its own Arab citizens and Palestinians. full story |
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Climate Change Plea from Tribe of
Herders Who Face Extinction |
Olav Mathias-Eira is a reindeer-herder. So was his father. And his father's father. He is a member of the Sami community, one of the largest indigenous groups remaining in Europe, and his family have been herding reindeer in the same stretch of the Norwegian Arctic since the 1400s. But, because of climate change, their lifestyle, unchanged for centuries, is now at risk. full story |
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The Ordinary Face of Everyday Evil |
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends. In periods when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object. full story |
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Fox News Caught Flashing McCain TV Subliminal |
Fox News has been caught flashing up a subliminal image of presidential candidate John McCain during its TV intro sequence in what appears to be a deliberate, criminal, and underhanded propaganda ploy. Blink and you’ll miss it, but the image of a smiling John McCain and his wife Cindy is sure to register in your subconscious as it flashes up behind the logo of Fox 5 News, a Fox News affiliate. full story |
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Man Spends 18 Hours in Police Cell, Has
DNA Taken for 'Dropping an Apple Core' |
He only popped out to run a couple of errands for his disabled wife. But Keith Hirst ended up spending the night in a police cell after being accused of dropping an apple core. Despite strenuously denying the allegation, the former plumber, who has a heart condition, was taken into custody by up to five uniformed officers and had his DNA and fingerprints taken. full story |
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Student Threatened For Teaching Constitution |
On the Alex Jones Show today, a bible student at a large Christian college in Mount Vernon, Texas, related a story of intimidation as Department of Homeland Security goons dressed in black accused him of engaging in terrorism for teaching a group of Boy Scouts about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Jeff’s talk was “terror and espionage” and if he continued to engage in such behavior he would be arrested and "we can have your head on a silver platter." full story |
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The Truth About Veteran Suicide |
Eighteen American war veterans kill themselves every day. One thousand former soldiers receiving care from the Department of Veterans Affairs attempt suicide every month. More veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas. These are statistics that most Americans don't know, because the Bush admin. has refused to tell them. Since the start of the Iraq War, the govt. has tried to present it as a war without casualties. full story |
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Scientist Team Creates First GM Human Embryo |
Scientists have created what is believed to be the first genetically modified (GM) human embryo. Dr David King director of Human Genetics Alert, warned: “This is the first step on the road that will lead to the nightmare of designer babies and a new eugenics. The HFEA is right to say that the creation and legalisation of GM embryos raises 'large ethical and public interest issues' but neglects to mention that these have not been debated at all.” full story |
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Lawmakers Propose Ankle Bracelets
for Truant Students in Maryland |
In its recently concluded session, the Maryland General Assembly passed a measure that would make it possible to deny driver's licenses to students who have too many unexcused absences. Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) is expected to sign it.During the same session, some lawmakers in Prince George's proposed strapping ankle bracelets on students to electronically monitor the whereabouts of those who constantly skip school. full story |
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The Subprime House of Cards |
One of the biggest crime waves in the last decade had nothing to do with guns or drugs or gangs. The criminal tools were houses and lousy loans. The ringleaders, critics contend, earned seven-figure salaries and hatched their plots from inside well-appointed boardrooms. The crime was mortgage fraud. The damage it created is still being calculated. There are estimates that at least $7 billion in fraudulent loans were originated nationally in 2007. full story |
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House Approves New Property Seizure Law |
The criminals in the federal government are now trying to legalize the seizure of computers and other property under the guise of strengthening intellectual property laws. HR 4279 or the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 which was recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, will give the government draconian powers to do just this. full story |
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Homeland Security: School Kids Need to Be Surveilled |
"Homeland security is too federally focused," Stone said. "The best security is not homeland security but hometown security." "There is not one solution to addressing security. It should be based on your school's risk assessment," Stone said, noting that some schools might need X-ray machines to check every backpack and metal detectors to screen every student. full story |
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Immigration Raids Catch Citizens And Legal Residents | |
Two U.S. citizens and one legal permanent resident were among those arrested last month in Mount Pleasant, Texas, during a federal immigration crackdown targeting identity fraud at poultry giant Pilgrim's Pride. One 19-year-old citizen was taken from her home while still in her pajamas, and an 18-year-old citizen was shackled at his ankles, handcuffed at his wrists and tied at his waist, said the arrested workers and a relative. full story |
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Canada's Bill C-51 May Outlaw
Natural Health Food Products |
A newly proposed law in Canada, Bill C-51, just may outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada and criminalize people who use them. Bill C-51 which makes significant changes to Canada's Food and Drugs Act, was introduced into the House of Commons by the Canadian Minister of Health. It will be the government's delegates who will decide on the regulation, licensing, marketing, inspecting, and enforcing of all changes listed in the new bill. full story |
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Bloomberg's End-run Around the Second Amendment |
In other words, New York is a Constitution free zone. But then so is much of the rest of the country, thanks to Bush, who considers the Constitution "just a goddamned piece of paper." Bush and his coterie of Straussian neocons need to get rid of the Second Amendment in particular because militarized police states don't go far if people have guns. Come marital law, Bush and crew may want to begin with NYC, Chicago, and D.C., where restrictive gun laws rule. full story |
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Beam Weapons Almost Ready for Battle |
There is a new breed of weaponry fast approaching and at the speed of light, no less. Directed-energy weapons take the form of lasers, high-powered microwaves and particle beams. Their adoption for ground, air, sea, and space warfare depends not only on using the electromagnetic spectrum, but also upon favorable political and budgetary wavelengths too. full story |
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Koalas Under Threat from Climate Change |
New research shows increased temperatures and carbon dioxide levels are a threat to the Australian national icon, the koala. Professor Ian Hume, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and his students from the University of Sydney have been researching the effects of CO2 increases and temperature rises on eucalypts. full story |
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Report Pushes Passage of Thought Crimes Bill |
The Internet is now becoming a new front in the phony terror war. Legislation like the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 which seek to give the govt powers to define thoughts and belief systems as homegrown terrorism, is on the brink of being pushed down our throats. The U.S. Senate homeland security committee lead by war mongering fascist Joesph Lieberman, investigated the so called growing threat of terrorists using the Internet for recruiting and training purposes. full story |
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Raw Sewage Pouring into Rivers, Streams across US |
America's aging sewer systems continue to dump human waste into rivers and streams, despite years of fines and penalties targeting publicly owned agencies responsible for sewage overflows. The analysis of EPA data found that since 2003, hundreds of municipal sewer authorities have been fined for violations, including spills that make people sick, threaten local drinking water and kill aquatic animals and plants. full story |
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Continuity of Government Drill: Largest Post 9/11 |
Thousands of key federal employees are being whisked from the Washington area by helicopter and car for a 3-day test of their ability to run the government from remote locations during a disaster. The exodus, which began yesterday and will continue today, involves the White House and other parts of the executive branch. Congress and the judiciary are not part of the exercise, which is being overseen by the Dept of Homeland Security. full story |
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Gorbachev Laments New World Order Behind Schedule |
Delivering one of his most scathing attacks on the US, Mr Gorbachev told The Daily Telegraph that a US military build-up was under way to contain a resurgent Russia. From Nato's expansion plans in the former Soviet Union to Washington's proposals for a bigger defence budget and a missile shield in central Europe, the US was deliberately quashing hopes for permanent peace with Russia, Mr Gorbachev said. "We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them." full story |
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Secretive FEMA Camp Drill Running in Iowa |
The secrecy around this drill and the lack of any formal press release or announcement by the federal government on what is happening is incredibly disturbing. In fact, an ICE spokesman declined to comment on the drill and a news blackout has been imposed at the National Cattle Congress fairgrounds where all of this activity is taking place. full story |
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The Crucifixion of Jeremiah Wright |
Now that we have 24 hour cable news, and now that talk radio has become BIG MEDIA (it used to be honest when there was no money in it) the intellectual level of political and social criticism in this republic aspires to Olympian heights of fatuity. Nothing is allowed in political discourse except the bromidic, the stupid, the superficial. Any attempt at truth or honesty is attacked as extreme, even insane. full story |
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Philly Cops Caught Beating Motorists on Video |
Yet another instance of cops acting like predatory pack animals. It should be obvious by now the police are out of control, a parasitical force unleashed on society at large. Cops no longer help granny across the street or respond to burglary. Cops are like the Crips, Bloods, or Mara Salvatrucha, another violent street gang, but one armed and supported by the state. full story |
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US Plan to Protect Right Whale
from Shipping Blocked by Cheney |
Efforts to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from being killed by ships are being blocked by Cheney according to leaked documents. A behind the scenes struggle is raging between the White House and US govt. scientists who want to force ships to slow down near the calving grounds of the almost extinct right whale. The controversy is the latest example of the Bush Admin. sidestepping the advice of its own scientists. full story |
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Man Arrested for Turning without Signaling |
Mark Robinson was driving through downtown Melissa last week when he was pulled over for failing the use his turn signal. But instead of getting a ticket, the officer took the 24-year-old to jail. He was booked, strip searched, and sat for 3 hours with criminals. “People talking about using drugs and shooting heroine. They asked me what I was in there for and I said a turn signal violation,” said Robinson. full story |
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Military And Homeland Security Dictate
Who Lives And Who Dies in a Pandemic |
A new report compiled by a medical "task force" comprising physicians from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and govt agencies has outlined that specific groups of people should not be treated and be left to die should a deadly disease disaster infect millions throughout the US. Doctors in the pay of federal govt agencies including the Dept of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Dept of Health and Human Services have concluded that the already ill, the weak, the severely injured and the elderly will have to "forgo" life. full story |
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Soldier Suicides May Top War Tolls |
Suicides and "psychological mortality" among US soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan could exceed battlefield deaths if their mental scars are left untreated, the head of the US Institute of Mental Health warned Monday. Of the 1.6 million US soldiers who have been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, 18-20 %, or around 300,000, show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression or both. full story |
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Global Elite Gather in D.C |
While they are confident they can deal with any “potential president,” the Trilateralists paid huge tribute to Ron Paul in an equally large twist of irony, by expressing alarm that he is causing “significant future damage.” They expressed concern that Paul’s rallies have attracted multitudes of young people who are getting “their political education.” They want Republicans to pressure Paul to drop out now and stop his education rallies. full story |
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Missouri GOP Targeting 300 Pro-Ron Paul
at Monday 'Credentials Meeting' |
According to an email from some Missouri supporters of Ron Paul the state Republican Party has scheduled a special 'credentials meeting' for 10 a.m. Monday in Jefferson City. "The state Central Committee spent approx. $1,000 on certified mailings that do not even state the allegations," said the email sent from one challenged delegate. "A small group of insiders in the Mo Republican Party are attempting to prevent delegates, properly elected at their county caucuses, from attending the state Convention." full story |
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Congress to Transform America to Socialism? |
The classic definition of socialism is: govt control of the sources of production. A bill now before Congress, H.R. 2421, will give the federal govt absolute control over all sources of production. This bill, if enacted, will instantly convert the US into a socialist nation. Water is essential in the production of virtually everything. If the govt controls water, and all "activities affecting these waters," then the govt controls the sources of production. full story |
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Multinationals Make Billions in Profit
out of Growing Global Food Crisis |
Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry. The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving the world's poor, who already spend about 80% of their income on food, into hunger and destitution. full story |
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Sheriff Candidate Says Campaign Signs
Being Defaced, Stolen |
A campaign slogan may have sparked a string of vandalism aimed at a candidate for Orange County sheriff. The vandalism was first spotted on sheriff candidate Malone Stewart's campaign sign in Winter Park. Someone had circled the slogan "crime is terrorism." Later, the sign was stolen. Stewart's campaign manager said the trouble started when a website posted a commentary bashing the "crime is terrorism" slogan. full story |
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Slavery and Involuntary Servitude |
A US prison population of over 2 million, mostly Black and Hispanic, are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don’t have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover, if they don’t like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked up in isolation cells. full story |
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National Propaganda Radio (NPR) |
Apparently when one becomes recognized as a "constitutional expert," all rules are off. This was demonstrated on Nov. 5, '07 when Professor Daniel A. Farber was given an opportunity to comment on Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf’s justification of the imposition of emergency powers in his country. Musharraf had referred to Lincoln’s similar actions during our War between the States and Farber was commenting on NPR's All Things Considered. full story |
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Arrest Bush |
"Why are we talking about this in the White House?" John Ashcroft nervously asked his fellow members of the National Security Council's Principals Committee. (The Principals were Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General Ashcroft.) "History will not judge this kindly," Ashcroft predicted. full story |
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The New Bandit in Town -- Gas Thieves |
Dave Glavis of Cherry Hill, New Jersey parks his 1996 Ford F-150 right in front of his home. Monday night he spent 94 dollars to fill his tank so he could be ready to head off to work as a rental property manager. But overnight someone had siphoned the gas out of his truck. "What it turned out being, someone had stolen the gas from my entire front tank," said Glavis. full story |
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Did the US Supreme Court Just Elect John McCain? |
The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU's School of Law in its “Friend of the Court” brief noted that between 10% and 13% of eligible voters lack the id now required in Indiana. People without an official photo ID tend to be disproportionately minorities and poor, ushering a new Jim Crow era based on race and class apartheid. One study found that 13.3% of registered Indiana voters lacked the now-required ID, but the numbers were significantly higher for black voters at 18% and young voters age 18-34 at more than 20%. full story |
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