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Emptying the Breadbasket |
Breaking the dollar barrier "scares me," said the Bronx-born owner of Bethesda Bagels. But with 100-pound bags of North Dakota flour now above $50 -- more than double what they were a few months ago -- he sees no alternative to a hefty increase in the price of his signature product, a bagel made by hand in the back of the store. "I've never seen anything like this in 20 years," he said. "It's a nightmare." full story |
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National "DNA Warehouse" Bill Passes |
Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn Genetic Screening bill was passed by the Senate last December. The bill violates the U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, writes Twila Brase, president of the Citizen’s Council on Health Care (CCHC). "The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research." full story |
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Green Scare State Terrorism |
What's going on, and is there anything to these charges? Coming from FBI sources makes them highly suspect, especially when there are two types of documented cases: - people guilty of non-violent offenses called "terrorism" and given excessively harsh sentences; and most disturbing. - innocent people targeted, accused, convicted and sentenced to hard time for environmental activism or supporting animal rights. full story |
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Stop the Shameful Treatment of Our Soldiers |
Please watch the following video, witness the deplorable condition that our heros are subjected to, and then contact your congressman and your senators. Tell them to stop this horrendous neglect now. full story |
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Radio Antennas under Skin Could Act as
Remote Sensors of Humans' Emotional State |
Scientists at the dept of Applied Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a method for remote sensing of the physiological and emotional state of human beings. The researchers believe the discovery could theoretically help remotely monitor medical patients, evaluate athletic performance, diagnose disease and remotely sense the level of excitation, which could have significant implications for technology in the biomedical engineering, anti-terror and security technology fields. full story |
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McCain Under Investigation for Rothschild Campaign Donations |
Recent news events suggest that Senator John McCain and John McCain for President may have accepted an in-kind contribution from foreign nationals Lord Rothschild OM GBE and the honorable Nathaniel Rothshchild of Great Britain, in contravention of federal election laws. full story |
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Analysts Say Gas May Soon Be $10 a Gallon |
Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions, a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon. That's the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil prices, see considerably more pain at the pump than most drivers realize. These increases are taking place before the all-important summer driving season, signaling even higher prices ahead. full story |
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UN Troops 'Armed Democratic Republic of Congo Rebels' |
The UN has covered up claims that its troops in Democratic Republic of Congo gave arms to militias and smuggled gold and ivory, the BBC has learned. The allegations, based on confidential UN sources, involve Pakistani and Indian troops working as peacekeepers. The United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monuc) is the global body's largest, with 17,000 troops spread across the country. full story |
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How to Stop the SPP |
What is the driving force behind this integration? Not the people of the three countries. Congress had no say in the formation of the SPP. Instead, these government bureaucrats are working hand-in-hand with the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC). And who are the members of the NACC? Representatives from some of the largest companies on the continent, including Wal-Mart, General Motors, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Chevron, New York Life, and Home Depot. full story |
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The World According to Monsanto
Expose Disappears from the Internet! |
If left to its own devices it (Monsanto) will most certainly destroy the livelihood of millions of farmers, a process begun a decade ago in India and certainly in many other countries as well. The planet's ecosystems will be seriously threatened by unnatural ways of changing agricultural patterns. The dangers of GMO cultivation to the environment come in many forms. full story |
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Ted Turner Repeats Call For Population Curb |
Billionaire Globalist Ted Turner, who earlier this month predicted that global warming would eventually lead to cannibalism, has repeated his call to curb population growth, claiming that disappearing farmland will cause food riots, despite the fact that Turner himself is behind the push to grow corn-based ethanol, an industry the UN has blamed for food shortages and increased poverty. full story |
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U.S. Supreme Court OKs Search And Seizure
Even When Arrests Are Invalid |
Police have the power to search arrestees and seize evidence even if the arrest is later found illegal, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday, April 23. The ruling stems from a traffic stop in Portsmouth, VA. David Lee Moore was pulled over for driving on a suspended license, a minor crime in Virginia, which typically results in police issuing a court summons before letting drivers leave the scene. full story |
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The Criminalization of Raw Milk:
A Mennonite Farmer Is Hauled Away |
On 4/25/08, in Cumberland County, Pa, Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers. "According to reports from neighbors and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, several officials of the Pennsylvania Dept. of Agric. participated in the raid, and while Mark was being transported by police car to the courthouse, PDA officials confiscated $20,000 to $25,000 worth of dairy products and production equipment." full story |
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It's Time NOW! |
This message will contain no photos of happy people or crowds of adoring people waving signs and flags. This message is a absolute plea for help in continuing the quest for a better government. The Revolution cannot be allowed to dwindle down to a small useless whimper. We have to continue shouting and making a statement for our elected officials to see and hear. Our only chance is to make as much noise as possible with as many people as will stand for their principles and fight. full story |
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Says US
Preparing Military Options Against Iran |
The nation's top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq. Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a conflict with Iran would be "extremely stressing" but not impossible for U.S. forces, pointing specifically to reserve capabilities in the Navy and Air Force. full story |
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Outspoken Arizona Senator Questions
9/11 Official Version Of Events |
State Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, has come under fierce criticism for going on record with her doubts over the government's version of events surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Following a vote in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Arizona's 9/11 Memorial, Johnson told Capitol reporters "There are many of us that believe there's been a cover-up." full story |
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Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically
Engineered Crops May Cause Disease |
Organic farmers use the natural form of the bacterium as an insecticide, spraying it occasionally during times of high pest infestation. Monsanto engineers, however, isolated and then altered the gene that produces the Bt-toxin, and inserted it into the DNA of the cotton plant. Now every cell of their Bt cotton produces a toxic protein. The other variety was Roundup Ready® cotton. It contains another bacterial gene that enables the plant to survive an otherwise toxic dose of Monsanto’s Roundup® herbicide. full story |
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9/11 Contradictions: When Did
Cheney Enter the Underground Bunker? |
With regard to the morning of 9/11, everyone agrees that at some time after 9:03 (when the South Tower of the WTC was struck) and before 10:00, Dick Cheney went down to the PEOC, sometimes called the “bunker,” under the east wing of the White House. Everyone also agrees that, once there, Cheney was in charge, that he was either making decisions or relaying decisions from Bush. But there is enormous disagreement as to exactly when Cheney entered the PEOC. full story |
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Medical Miracles Slipping Away
as Extinction Claims Species |
New new cancer treatments, new painkillers, a new generation of antibiotics, new treatments for HIV, thinning bones, kidney failure, and macular degeneration - even ways to regrow limbs - may all be lost unless the present alarming rate of biodiversity loss is halted, according to a new book containing the work of more than 100 experts. full story |
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U.S. Prison Population Dwarfs That of Other Nations |
The United States has less than 5% of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. Indeed, the US leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes, from writing bad checks to using drugs, that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations. full story |
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Blatant Corruption - GOP Ignoring Own Rules:
Nueces County Republican Convention |
Do you still think we elect our president and other officials? Watch this video and then decide for yourself. full story |
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Out of Control Fraud |
The United States government is supplying Afghan fighters with cheap, useless arms with extravagant amounts of taxpayer money. For 4 generations now, the Bush family has been involved in supporting the country's enemies (most notably the Nazi Party in Germany) and robbing the country blind. The family was directly involved and profited from the Savings and Loan scandal of the '80s and has participated in security fraud as well. full story |
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Machine-Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway |
More protection against terrorists is coming to a subway station near you. Starting Thursday, special bomb teams - "Torch Teams" - will be toting submachine guns and bringing bomb-sniffing dogs onto the platforms and into the trains. CBS 2 was out first thing Thursday morning on the lookout for these significant security measure improvements. full story |
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CIA Has 7,000 Documents Relating to
Rendition, Detention And Torture Programs |
The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged having 7,000 pages of documents pertaining to President George W. Bush's secret rendition and detention programs, according to three international human rights groups. “For the first time, the CIA has acknowledged that extensive records exist relating to its use of enforced disappearances and secret prisons,” Curt Goering, AIUSA senior deputy executive director, said in a statement. full story |
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Sheriff Candidate Believes Crime Is Terrorism |
The blurring of lines between crime and terrorism continues. According to section 802 of the Patriot Act, minor criminal offenses can be interpreted as terrorism by government officials. The recent implementation of Operation Sudden Impactin Memphis and surrounding areas had various people from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies go on a fishing expedition searching for terrorists. full story |
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Crisis in Food Prices Threatens
Worldwide Starvation: Is it Genocide? |
Rising worldwide food prices are resulting in shortages, riots and protests, promises by governments to expand food aid, expressions of concern by international bodies like the World Bank, and stress on household budgets even in developed countries like the U.S. Did this just 'happen' or is there a plan? full story |
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Limbaugh Calls for Riots at Denver DNC |
"Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don’t elect Democrats," Limbaugh said during Wednesday’s radio broadcast. He then went on to say that’s the best thing that could happen to the country. In normal, non-Bushzarro times, Limbaugh would be arrested for inciting terrorism. But instead we live in times horrifically misshapen by a neocon reality, a reality of mass murder, torture of children, and the wholesale trashing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. full story |
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Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World |
Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks. full story |
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The Song That Is Irresistible: How the State
Leads People to Their Own Destruction |
Our rulers know how to sing that song, and they sing it day and night. The beached skulls are those of our fathers and our sons, our friends and our neighbors, for whom the song proved not only irresistible, but fatal. The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised, a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps its improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide. full story |
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Paul Uses NA Leaders' Summit To Announce
Stronger Opposition to NAFTA Super Highway |
Even as leaders from the United States, Canada and Mexico opened their Security and Prosperity Partnership summit in New Orleans yesterday, local congressman Ron Paul (R-Lake Jackson) vowed to continue his fight against expanding the free trade alliance between the three countries and the Trans-Texas Corridor and NAFTA Super Highway. full story |
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Pope Blesses U.N. Flag, Calls for
"Binding International Rules" |
"Countries that act unilaterally on the world stage undermine the authority of the United Nations and weaken the broad consensus needed to confront global problems", Pope Benedict said on Friday. The international community must be "capable of responding to the demands of the human family through binding international rules." The Pope also found time to bless the U.N. flag. full story |
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Alaska Legislature Stops Real ID Act Implementation |
The Alaska Legislature approved legislation rejecting implementation of the federal Real ID Act. Lawmakers believe the federal law infringes on the fundamental right to privacy of Alaskans and would effectively bring about a national ID card system. The legislation SB202- opts Alaska out of REAL ID by forbidding the funding of anything that would further REAL ID compliance. full story |
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Wake Up, Or You Will Die Homeless And Hungry |
Most people are just like those in Nazi Germany under Hitler, some see the evil affecting others, but will ignore it until it's too late, but a majority of Americans are as uninformed as a box of rocks because they rely on the controlled media propaganda for information. Our media is really amazing, run by Liberals who do not have a clue that their liberal leaders are communists and their corporate employers are Fascists, with no loyalty to any country. full story |
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Dropping Your Child off at School?
That'll be £75... Just to Park |
In Richmond, where the plans have already drawn fire from families and motoring organisations, the permits will allow parents to park in bays near the school for 15 minutes. The price will be linked to the car's carbon dioxide emissions - drivers of small, low-polluting cars will get a free permit, but parents with people carriers or four-wheel drives will be charged the maximum £75. full story |
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Operation Sudden Impact |
Law-enforcement agencies in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas took part in what was described by local media as "an anti-crime and anti-terrorism initiative" involving officers from more than 50 federal, state and local agencies. Given the military style name "Operation Sudden Impact", the initiative saw officers from six counties rounding up fugitives, conducting traffic checkpoints, climbing on boats on the Mississippi River and doing other "crime-abatement" programs all under the label of "anti-terrorism". full story |
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Revolution, Flashmobs, And Brain Chips.
A Grim Vision of the Future |
Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe's drops as fertility falls. "Flashmobs" - groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups. full story |
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Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger |
Haiti’s hunger, that burn in the belly that so many here feel, has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, spiking as much as 45 percent since the end of 2006 and turning Haitian staples like beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures. Saint Louis Meriska’s children ate two spoonfuls of rice apiece as their only meal recently and then went without any food the following day. full story |
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Report: Netanyahu Says 9/11 Terror Attacks Good for Israel |
"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor." Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians. full story |
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The Israeli Spy Ring |
Prior to 9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring inside the United States run by the government of Israel. This seems a harsh gratitude from a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget from the American taxpayer, $3+ billion a year. Over the years, American taxpayers have been required to send Israel more than four times what the US spent to go to the moon. full story |
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Neo-Con Calls for Shredding Constitution,
Imposing World Government |
A recent Austin-American Statesman review of Neo-Con Philip Bobbitt's new book Terror and Consent features an image of a shredded Constitution under the words "Everything must go," which acts as a suitable entrée to a disgusting diatribe which praises Bobbitt's call for the end of America and its replacement with a de facto world government in the name of fighting terror. The words, "How to Fight Terrorism" are in place of a torn piece of the Bill of Rights. full story |
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Pentagon Seeks Authority Over Training Foreign Militaries |
The Pentagon asked Congress Tuesday to give it permanent authority over training and equipping foreign militaries, in a shifting of roles from the State Department. Both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought Congressional approval for the change, as well as authorization for the Pentagon to spend 750 million dollars in 2009 in helping foreign militaries. full story |
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Vancouver Transit Riders Tasered for Not Paying Fares |
According to documents provided in response to a Freedom of Information request, police patrolling public transit in the Metro Vancouver area have used tasers 10 times in the past 18 months, including five occasions when victims had been accosted for riding free. In one incident, a non-paying passenger was tasered after he held onto a railing on the SkyTrain platform and refused to let go. full story |
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Welcome to Slipperyslopeville, Texas! It’s Close to Waco |
Do "protective services" operate on a straight commission basis? In effect, Yes! Law Enforcement and the Judicial Rackets are growth industries in the Fascist State. Check out your own county. Look for new larger jails and court houses often built with grant money. The conversion of local law enforcement to a military discipline and mindset at variance with local interests and the rights of citizens will continue to result in more and more Wacos. full story |
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U.S. Foreclosures Jump 57% as Homeowners Walk Away |
More than 234,000 properties were in some stage of foreclosure, or one in every 538 U.S. households, Irvine, California-based RealtyTrac Inc., a seller of default data, said today in a statement. Nevada, California and Florida had the highest foreclosure rates. Filings rose 5 percent from February. full story |
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Retailing Chains Caught in a Wave of Bankruptcies |
The consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are unleashing a widening wave of bankruptcies in American retailing, prompting thousands of store closings that are expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across the country. Since last fall, eight mostly midsize chains, as diverse as the furniture store Levitz and the electronics seller Sharper Image, have filed for bankruptcy protection as they staggered under mounting debt and declining sales. full story |
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Iraqi Government Corruption
Funds Insurgents Who Kill Americans |
"According to the report, these are some of the ministries where corruption seemed to be rampant: the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Oil, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Water Resources, Finance, Electricity, Labor, and Social Affairs, Displacement and Migration, Science and Technology. I mean, what's left?" Kroft asked. full story |
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Government Stakes Claim to Every Newborn's DNA |
An Orwellian plan that has state and federal governments staking claim to the ownership of every newborn's DNA in perpetuity is advancing under the radar of most privacy rights activists, but would turn the United States' citizenry into a huge pool of subjects for involuntary scientific experimentation, according to one organization alarmed over the issue. "Such DNA databases could spark the next wave of demands for eugenics, the concept of improving the human race through the control of various inherited traits." full story |
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The Mask Slips |
My occasion for spending a little time once again with the old Communist was Barack Obama's now-famous comment at an April 6 San Francisco fund-raiser. Obama was explaining his trouble winning over small-town, working-class voters: "It's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." full story |
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Questions for Petraeus |
"I am concerned about claims that a new enemy in Iraq has emerged with ties to Iran. First we were told that the enemy was Saddam Hussein and his Baathist Party. Then we were told the enemy was the "dead-enders" from Saddam's former government. Then the prime enemy became "al-Qaeda in Iraq," a prime focus of the presentation by Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus last September. Now we are told that the new enemies are mysterious "Special Groups" that are said to have spun off from al-Sadr's Mahdi Army." full story |
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Monsanto's Harvest of Fear |
As Rinehart would recall, the man began verbally attacking him, saying he had proof that Rinehart had planted Monsanto's genetically modified (G.M.) soybeans in violation of the company's patent. Better come clean and settle with Monsanto, Rinehart says the man told him -- or face the consequences. Rinehart was incredulous, listening to the words as puzzled customers and employees looked on. full story |
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The World According to Monsanto. A Documentary That Americans Won't Ever See |
On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE - French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film ... all » maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. full story |
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NATO Forces in Afghanistan Supply the Taliban with Weapons |
A coalition helicopter trying to supply Afghan police with munitions dropped supplies in the wrong location and Taliban fighters later recovered the weaponry, an intelligence official said Sunday. A member of parliament, however, said he didn't believe the arms drop was an accident. full story |
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Planned Parenthood: Wanting Fewer Blacks 'Understandable' |
A student-run magazine at UCLA has revealed an undercover investigation in which representatives of Planned Parenthood, the nation's abortion industry leader, admitted willingness to accepting a financial donation targeting the destruction of an unborn black baby. Sanger supported eugenics to cull those she considered unfit from the population. In 1921, she said eugenics is "the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems." full story |
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Don't Let Them Intimidate You into Not Speaking the Truth |
Dale Williams interviews Mike Rivero, webmaster of WhatReallyHappened.com. Most of the content on Mike's site has been banned by Digg. Why the censorship? Find out with this in-depth interview. H.R. 1955 - the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 and the Truth and Freedom Movements are just a few of the topics discussed. full story |
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The Alien Cooks, Aristocracy And Freedom |
There are many today who argue that the Articles of Confederation are still in effect because those implementing the Constitution did not follow the rules set forth in the said Articles for their supersession. That might be true except those making such claim do not understand that those who make the rules for others are not bound by those rules but in this instance there is some additional explanation. The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Legislatures of the Several States. Those states did not create themselves. They were created by, guess who, the People of the United States. full story |
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Cops and Former Secret Service Agents
Ran Black Ops on Green Groups |
A private security company organized and managed by former Secret Service officers spied on Greenpeace and other environmental organizations from the late 1990s through at least 2000, pilfering documents from trash bins, attempting to plant undercover operatives within groups, casing offices, collecting phone records of activists, and penetrating confidential meetings. full story |
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NH House Should Vote for Impeachment Bill |
The deepest core of every American soul holds a painful shame, an embarrassed humiliation that most today feel impotent to address. Our forefathers recognized that there would be times when the government's executive and legislative branches could become so corrupted and unreliable to protect the Constitution that it would be up to the people. So they gave us a special tool, mentioned no less than six times in our Constitution, to use for a remedy. full story |
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D.C. Police Set to Monitor 5,000 Cameras |
D.C. officials are giving police access to more than 5,000 closed-circuit TV cameras citywide that monitor traffic, schools and public housing, a move that will give the District one of the largest surveillance networks in the country. "We've been sort of sounding the alarm on this stuff for a long time, saying these little pieces, they grow," said Art Spitzer, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area. full story |
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Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S. |
The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department's new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages. full story |
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U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked |
The California audit examined systems from Diebold Elections Systems, Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems, ultimately permitting their use in 2008, but only under certain conditions. In testing, Wagner and his team found that they could introduce a computer virus to any of the three systems, which would then spread throughout the county and ultimately skew the vote count. full story |
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The Neocon Credo in a Nutshell |
"The view that 9/11 'changed everything' did not hold up under the weight of our politics." Advocates of the dialectic insist that reality can change, and that, after an apocalyptic event like 9-11, reality should change. That explains why the Constitution, the separation of powers, the primacy of Congress, the limits on governmental power, and the danger of the lust for power are all dismissed by the neocons as passé. full story |
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John McCain 'Would Confront Russia And China' | |
A John McCain presidency would take to a more forceful approach to Russia and China, according to senior foreign policy advisers to the Republican candidate. The Arizona senator has already signalled that he intends to confront Russian president Vladimir Putin more directly than George W Bush if he wins the White House in November. full story |
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Homeland Security Invokes Bomb as Bush
Quietly Links Cybersecurity Program to NSA |
Chertoff cites a little-noticed presidential order: "In January, President Bush signed a presidential order expanding the role of DHS and the NSA in government computer security," Singel writes. "Its contents are classified, but the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has said he wants the NSA to monitor America's internet traffic and Google searches for signs of cyber attack." full story |
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Study Shows Lawmakers Have as Much as
$196 Million Invested in Defense Companies |
Members of Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in co.s doing business with the Defense Dept., earning millions since the onset of the Iraq war, according to a study by a nonpartisan research group. Members' holdings could pose a conflict of interest as they decide the fate of Iraq war spending. Several members earning money from these contractors have plum committee or leadership assignments, including D Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Joseph Lieberman and R Whip Roy Blunt. full story |
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Chinese Paramilitary Cops Police Americans |
A 30 man squad of crack trained Chinese paramilitary cops will today march through the streets of San Francisco, policing the one and only US stop on the Olympic torch relay, and tackling any American protesters who get in their way. The news follows revelations that the London and Paris Olympic torch relay stops were policed by an elite "Flame Protection Unit", hand picked from special police units of the People’s Armed Police, China’s internal security force. full story |
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Top Chinese Cops Protect Olympic Flame -- in Britain! |
They wear bright blue tracksuits and Beijing Olympic organizers call them "flame attendants." But a military bearing hints at their true pedigree: paramilitary police sent by Beijing to guard the Olympic flame during its journey around the world. Torchbearers have criticized the security detail for aggressive behavior, and a top London Olympics official simply called them "thugs." full story |
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U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 | |
A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created position to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. full story |
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U.S. Says It Will Increase Efforts Against 'Tax Defiers' |
A tax defier is not a wealthy individual who buys a sophisticated tax shelter in a fraudulent effort to shield legitimate income from taxes. Nor is a defier a taxpayer who has a difference of opinion with the I.R.S. over deductions, or one who challenges specific tax policies enacted by Congress. A tax defier, according to a Justice Department statement, is someone who "seeks to deny and defy the fundamental validity of the tax laws." full story |
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Oakland Cops: Mind If We Search Your House for Guns? |
A six-month pilot program where Oakland police officers would knock on doors and ask permission to search homes for guns got the green light from the City Council's public safety committee Tuesday night. The consent-to-search program, as it is called, is based closely on a similar effort launched in St. Louis in 1994 and on ongoing programs in Boston and Washington, D.C. full story |
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The Emerging Surveillance State |
In communist East Germany , one in every 100 citizens was an informer for the dreaded secret police, the Stasi. They either volunteered or were compelled by their government to spy on their customers, their neighbors, their families, and their friends. When we think of the evil of totalitarianism, such networks of state spies are usually what comes to mind. Yet, with modern technology, what once took tens of thousands of informants can now be achieved by a few companies being coerced by the government to allow it to listen in to our communications. full story |
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Big Brother: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Putting "Radio Tags" on Americans |
Some University of Washington students, faculty and staff are being tracked as they move about the computer-science building, with details of where they've been, and with whom, stored in a database. Professor Gaetano Borriello checks a computer to find graduate student Evan Welbourne's last location: 4rth floor, outside room 452 at 10:38 a.m. Wed. He opens another screen to reveal the building's floor plan, and a blinking green dot representing Welbourne shows him walking down the hall. full story |
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Tranquillisers Putting Children's Lives at Risk |
A number of children in the US, given stimulants - which also act on the dopamine system - after being diagnosed with ADHD have suddenly died, said Healy. He was asked by lawyers in the US to give an opinion on a child who was diagnosed when she was a baby first with ADHD, then depression and finally bipolar disorder (manic depression). "Having spent 75% of her life on one of these drugs, she dropped dead at the age of two," he said. full story |
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Going Fishing? Pack Your Passport |
When the 2008 charter season begins next month, U.S. citizens paying to fish on Lake Erie will have to bring either a passport or two other IDs if they plan to cross the northern border's invisible watery line. When they get back to shore in the USA, they'll have to drive to a local government reporting station and pose for pictures. They won't be posing with their fish, but for Customs officers via a videophone connection. full story |
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Stop the Social Security Surveillance Act (HR 5405) |
Yet another plot to enslave the American people in an unconstitutional framework of databases under the guise of "security". Recently Congressman Mark Kirk from Illinois 10th District introduced a bill to create a "Secure Social Security Card". This new card is clearly a run around to the state's opposition to Real ID and we must do all in our power to prevent it from becoming law. full story |
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More States Join in Battle to Stop National ID Card |
A PA legislative committee’s hearing on 3/13 about the so-called Real ID Act was packed with people most of whom oppose this federal legislation to create a national ID system by nationalizing a new form of state-issued drivers licenses and loading them with sensitive personal information. Only 2 members of the 29-member Intergovernmental Affairs Committee showed up to hear the public, even though many citizens went to much expense to be there. The regular media also were absent. full story |
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Petraeus Testimony Next Week Will Signal Iran Attack |
Today the London Telegraph reported that "British officials gave warning yesterday that America’s commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran’s intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian militiary facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment." full story |
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The Associated Press Fails to Reveal Mukasey's Favorite Color |
In the short time he's been Attorney General, Michael Mukasey has become one of the most divisive political figures in the country. He's been in the middle of numerous controversies, steadfastly defending even the most radical Bush policies, from torture to warrantless spying, and demonstrating himself to be as blindly loyal to the White House as his predecessor, Alberto Gonzales, and every bit as willing to subvert the powers of the DOJ for political ends. full story |
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The Great Carbon Con: Can Offsetting
Really Help to Save the Planet? |
Today, protecting forests has acquired a more international purpose. Climate change, rather than assuring the livelihoods of local people, has become the issue. Celebrities and politicians, and many others just in search of a quick buck, are falling over each other to advocate plant-a-tree conservationism as a salve to global warming. full story |
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End the Ethanol Scam |
The politicians want us to burn more ethanol in our cars. Like most plans concocted by politicians, this one is a terrible idea that is having devastating consequences. Here are the facts about ethanol. Ethanol consumes more energy than it produces. A study by Cornell and UC Berkeley found that corn converted to ethanol consumes 29% more energy than it creates. Most of these energy losses come from the burning of extra fossil fuels. full story |
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Neo - CONNED ! |
Neo-conservatism has been around for decades and, strangely, has connections to past generations as far back as Machiavelli. Modern-day neo-conservatism was introduced to us in the 60s. It entails both a detailed strategy as well as a philosophy of govt. The ideas of Teddy Roosevelt, and certainly Woodrow Wilson, were quite similar to many of the views of present-day neocons. More recently, the modern-day neocons have come from the far left, a group historically identified as former Trotskyites. full story |
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Bush Administration Delays Decision on Polar Bear's Fate! |
The Bush Administration has postponed a decision, due in early January, on whether to grant federal protection to the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. In response, NRDC, the Center for Biological Diversity, and other groups are preparing to head back to court to defend this magnificent species against the ravages of global warming. full story |
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TSA Deploys Airport Behavior Screeners |
To the untrained eye, the man looked like any other traveler as he waited in line at Kennedy Airport. But something about the way he was acting caught the attention of two security screeners. For 16 minutes, they questioned him, scanned every inch of his body twice with a metal-detecting wand and emptied his carry-on bag onto a table. Out came a car stereo with wires dangling from it. full story |
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Our Authoritarian Kleptocracy |
What terms do capture the central thrust of America's government over the course of many decades? The U.S.A. has (in alphabetic order) elements of authoritarianism, fascism, kleptocracy, meritocracy, plutocracy, socialism, and totalitarianism. These co-exist with its being a constitutional federal republic with representative democracy. full story |
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Yellowstone Bison Slaughter Tops 1,100 |
Bison once numbered in the tens of millions across the Great Plains until a wholesale slaughter nearly wiped them out. Now some of America's last free-roaming wild bison are being slaughtered on a scale not seen since the 1800s. And hundreds more could to be killed. Each winter, Yellowstone National Park bison migrate from snow-covered highlands to lower elevations outside the park's boundaries in search of food. full story |
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Obama Comes Out Against Concealed Carry |
Barack Obama is embracing anti-gun policies in the run-up to a Democratic presidential debate scheduled on the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings. "I am not in favor of concealed weapons," Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune. "I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations." These remarks break from Obama's previous moderate rhetoric on gun control. full story |
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The Nightmare of the New Deal |
If you ask a random sample of Americans who know (or think they know) something about U.S. history to discuss the twin subjects of the Great Depression and the New Deal, most will say something like this: "The Depression hit the country because capitalism has a tendency to sometimes collapse, but luckily Roosevelt was elected and his brilliant New Deal policies got the economy moving again." That view is not just mistaken, it's a key component of the statist mythology in America. full story |
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Marci Kaptur North American Union Cintra |
The Security and Prosperity Partnership, an extension of NAFTA, is being held behind closed doors by the Bush Admin. along with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Mexican president Vicente Fox, for the purpose of creating a North American Union. Not only does it further threaten to wipe out existing jobs for US citizens it undermines our very sovereignty as a nation. Watch this C-Span video with speaker Ohio (D) Representative Marci Kaptur. full story |
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Ted Olson's Report of Phone Calls from Barbara Olson on 9/11: Three Official Denials |
Late in the day on 9/11, CNN put out a story that began: "Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN." According to this story, Olson reported that his wife had "called him twice on a cell phone from American Airlines Flight 77" full story |
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Oil, Water and Wheat ... |
Over the past 8 years, the price of food worldwide has increased 75%; the price of wheat has gone up 200%. And the rate of inflation is accelerating. The UN predicted that food prices are likely to remain high for a decade. As of December, 37 countries faced food crises, and 20 had imposed some sort of food-price controls. The prices of the world's 3 main grains, rice, wheat and corn, have all more than doubled in the past year. full story |
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There Stands Schweitzer Like a Stone Wall |
Schweitzer is a leading opponent of REAL ID, which he has called "another harebrained scheme, an unfunded mandate to tell us that our life is going to be better if we'll just buckle under on some other kind of rule or regulation." Among America's governors, he is easily the most outspoken on the issue, and has promised that Montana will not yield. full story |
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Hayden: White Boy Al-Qaeda on the Rise |
"Al-Qaeda, in its haven in western Pakistan, is training operatives who are 'western' in appearance, making it easier for them to get past U.S. airport security, Central Intelligence Director Michael Hayden said," reports Bloomberg. Mr. Hayden needs to visit an airport and see for himself -- just about everybody, from grandmothers to toddlers, are under suspicion, even if they look Scandinavian. full story |
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USA 2008: The Great Depression |
Emblematic of the downturn until now has been the parades of houses seized in foreclosure all across the country, and myriad families separated from their homes. But now the crisis is starting to hit the country in its gut. Getting food on the table is a challenge many Americans are finding harder to meet. As a barometer of the country's economic health, food stamp usage may not be perfect, but can certainly tell a story. full story |
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Obama: I Don't Carry a CFR Card And No Such Thing as NAU |
Worries about One World Order and a North American Union have been "ginned up by the blogs and the Internet," Sen. Barack Obama told a Lancaster, Pennsylvania audience in a stump speech as he continued his tour through the battleground state. Obama said he opposed NAFTA because it didn’t offer enough protections to American workers but he defended portions of the Patriot Act which he said he worked on to cut out some of the most objectionable portions. full story |
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