New Study Reveals Signs of Toxicity of GE
Maize Approved for Human Consumption |
Laboratory rats, fed with a genetically engineered (GE) maize produced by Monsanto, have shown signs of toxicity in kidney and liver, according to a new study. This is the first time that a GE product which has been cleared for use as food for humans and animals has shown signs of toxic effects on internal organs. full story |
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Colorado 'Fusion Center' to Step up
Intelligence Gathering During DNC |
Federal and state law enforcement officials will increase intelligence operations during the DNC, overseeing an information war room that will be staffed around the clock with analysts who access a dozen databases while receiving reports of "suspicious activity" - activity that some civil libertarians claim could be nothing more than engaging in anti-war protests or photographing federal facilities that could be targeted for terrorist attack. full story |
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Britons Skipping Meals Due to Money Worries |
Many households have been hit so hard by rising food prices that they are skipping meals, a new survey reported in the Sun newspaper shows. Barclays and children’s charity NCH released a joint survey yesterday, which found that 12 percent of people have gone hungry in this way recently - a figure which goes up to 19 percent among vulnerable low-income groups. full story |
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Another Al-Qaeda Operative Reported Dead Twice |
As originally revealed by the Citizens for Legitimate Government, the corporate controlled media has now reported yet again that the U.S. government has killed the same Al-Qaeda operative twice. In 2006 it was reported by ABC News and other media outlets that Abu Khabab al-Masri a so-called Al-Qaeda operative was killed by a U.S. missile strike. full story |
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To Provoke War Cheney Wanted to Dress Up
Navy Seals as Iranians And Shoot Them |
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker, revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran. An idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. full story |
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Welcome to the 21st Century Police State |
It is becoming increasingly clear that we are living in a police state the likes of which Adolf Hitler would have approved of. In the past week, a couple of disturbing news stories detailing extreme police brutality has been reported. In Arkansas a young man was tasered 19 times while he was incapacitated on the ground injured with a broken back. The young man had fallen off a bridge and instead of the police helping him, they decided it was necessary to taser him multiple times.. full story |
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School to Put Students in 'Prison' Jumpsuits as Punishment |
A school in Texas will force students who don't follow the rules to wear prison-like jumpsuits in a controversial move this coming school year. Gonzales High School has new navy blue jumpsuits that students will wear if they break the dress code. Violators will be forced to wear the jumpsuit for the day, the report said. full story |
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America's House Price Time Bomb |
With the American housing market in its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Bush is authorising new legislation to pave the way for massive new government intervention designed to slow the slide. Faced with seemingly never-ending falls in the value of their properties, some American home-owners are taking radical action; they are choosing to walk away from homes and their mortgages. full story |
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DNA Database Turns 'Innocents into Criminals' |
The national DNA database is being used by ministers to "criminalise the innocent", it was claimed yesterday. The database was originally a register of those convicted of a crime. But under laws quietly passed by Labour, anybody arrested for a serious offence and later cleared can have their genetic data stored for life. Panel member Javed Aslam said: "For me, that is the first step towards a totalitarian state." full story |
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ACLU Warns Against No Rules Surveillance |
The ACLU is calling for increased oversight of the Bush admin's National Strategy for Information Sharing, which calls for "fusion centers" to allow local, state and federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies to share information on Americans. The group warns that the Bush strategy essentially deputizes every police officer into the intelligence community and points to protocols that encourage officers to report innocent everyday activities as evidence of the strategy's potential for abuse. full story |
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Government to Test Moms for Baby Blues? |
Pregnant and new mothers may be required to submit to government screening and treatment for depression if Democrats in Congress have their way. The Mother's Act would provide federal funding for a program to test women for depression, mood and anxiety disorders and postpartum psychosis. It would also supply government-determined "at-risk" mothers with antidepressant drugs. full story |
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Charlie Rangel And Obama's "Civilian Defense Corps" |
Charles Rangel's National Service Act, which is languishing before Congress, provides for a universal draft with two years [service] for virtually all persons aged 18-42, with no deferment for college. The purpose of Rangel's bill is: "To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security". full story |
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IPirates Risk Jail Time in Customs Frisk |
Music fans might soon have their iPods searched by Customs officers at airport checks and face jail if a large amount of pirated music is found on them. The push for the unprecedented searches of travellers' laptops and MP3 players has been revealed in a leaked discussion paper relating to a treaty being negotiated by the Federal Government. It suggests criminal sanctions for infringements on a commercial scale. full story |
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Army Recruiters Threaten High Schoolers |
Irving Gonzales signed up - but only to "pre-enlist" in the Delayed Entry Program. DEP allows kids to try out the military without a binding commitment. But the 11 News Defenders have found there is a problem: Army recruiters aren't sticking to the program and are bullying and even lying to potential recruits and their families to keep them from dropping out. After he had a change of heart, Gonzalez became one such victim. full story |
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EPA Tells Its Staff: Don't Answer Watchdogs' Queries |
The Environmental Protection Agency has told its staff not to answer questions from the agency's internal watchdog, news reporters or the nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, according an internal memo that an environmental group released Monday. "Please do not respond to questions or make any statements," it adds. The memo sets down the same procedure, with different contact people, for queries from reporters. full story |
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Suicide Hot Line Got Calls from 22,000 Veterans |
According to a recent RAND Corp. study, roughly one in five soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan displays symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, putting them at a higher risk for suicide. Researchers at Portland State University found that male veterans are twice as likely to commit suicide than men who are not veterans. full story |
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Judicial Watch Sues US Gov't. on
Behalf of Imprisoned Border Agents |
Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, the two Border Patrol agents shamelessly prosecuted by the U.S. government for shooting and wounding a Mexican drug smuggler, Oswald Aldrete-Davila, on February 17, 2005, have not been forgotten by many Americans -- such as attorney's from Judicial Watch -- who are actively pursuing their release from captivity. full story |
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Iran Says Oil Could Reach $500 |
"If the dollar's value continues to decrease and if the political crisis becomes worse, the oil price would reach up to $500," Mohammad Ali Khatibi told Shahrvand-e Emrooz in an interview published on Saturday. Khatibi also said oil exports from the whole Middle East region would be at risk if the Islamic state came under any military attack over its disputed nuclear programme full story |
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Too Young for a Cell Phone |
The brains of young children absorb twice as much as radio frequency energy from a cell phone as those of adults, according to a set of new calculations carried out by Joe Wiart's research group at France Telecom in the suburbs of Paris. "[Our] analysis confirms that peripheral brain tissues of children seem to be higher exposed than the peripheral brain tissue of adults." full story |
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Congress Taps Paulson's Helmet |
Once signed into law, the budget busting legislation will hand the Administration a blank check to prop up the ailing home lenders. The ultimate cost is anybody's guess. I believe that the price tag will be higher than just about anyone imagines. Paulson's Bazooka will be locked and loaded with enough fire power to blow what's left of our economy into the dustbin of history. full story |
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Millions of Profiles from DNA Database Passed to Private Firms |
Papers obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that on five occasions since 2004 private firms with police contracts have successfully applied to use the database to help them develop computer programs. The DNA database contains records of 4.2 million people, of which a million have never been convicted of an offence. Records are rarely deleted, even if a person is not charged. full story |
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This Project Is Sponsored by George Orwell And His Big Brother |
The screens, Bob Belam said, would be used to "provide important information and will be able to get out messages about antisocial behaviour". They are less about entertaining us than about control – another part of the Orwellian machinery of the modern British city. It isn’t hard to imagine how they will be used: "We are interrupting coverage to remind you that bathing in the fountains is prohibited." full story |
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4,000 U.S. Deaths, and Just a Handful of Public Images |
If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists -- too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts -- the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers. full story |
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Conference to Lay Plans to Prosecute
High Level US War Criminals |
A two-day conference on obtaining prosecutions of high level American war criminals will open 9/13, in Andover, Mass. The conference will explore the legal grounds for, and plan for, obtaining prosecutions of President Bush and top officials of his Administration for war crimes. In the tradition of America’s Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials after World War II, Justice Robert Jackson, the Conference’s purpose is “to hold high U.S. officials accountable in courts of law and, if guilt is found, to obtain appropriate punishments. full story |
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Lewis Black: It's the End of an
Empire Sale And Everything Must Go |
Comedian Lewis Black is dismayed by the number of American landmarks that have been falling into foreign hands due to the country's economic problems. In a segment on Tuesday's Daily Show, Black complained that "America's gone from a beacon of hope to a beacon of insane deals. It's the End of an Empire sale -- and everything must go!" "We're so hard up for cash, we're dismantling America and selling it for scrap." full story |
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Globalists Angle to Hijack Children with "Pre-K Education" Bills |
Two bills now in the House of Representatives provide further evidence the government wants to tell you how to raise your children. The Pre-K Act (HR 3289) and the Education Begins at Home Act (HR 2343) aim to micromanage families in the military and those that fall below the poverty line. full story |
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UK First to Restrict Internet Access for Illegal Downloaders |
From here forward, individuals that continue to flout download rules and persistently copy music, movies or any other form of media over the internet without paying will be blacklisted and subject to strict traffic management controls; reducing the amount of information they can download significantly. full story |
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Oil Spill Closes 80 Miles of the Mississippi River |
Crews are struggling to contain and clean more than 419,000 gallons of fuel oil from an 80 mile closed stretch of the Mississippi River that extends from New Orleans downstream to the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spilled early Wednesday near downtown New Orleans when the 600-foot Liberian-flagged oil tanker Tintomara collided with an American Commercial Lines barge that was being pushed by a tug, the Mel Oliver. full story |
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Media Hails Obama's Speech as Call for "New World Order" |
"Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe," Obama said. “No doubt, there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more -- not less. full story |
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Ich Bin Ein Tool for the NWO |
Indeed, there are "burdens of global citizenship" and under Herr Obama such burdens will only increase, as his wife indicated when she spoke of sacrifice. It's time to run for the hills when members of the CFR talk about sacrifice. Of course, it will be sacrifice for us, the little people, and not for the global elitists and their minions. But then we never learn, do we? full story |
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Willie Nelson Announces 9/11, Anti-War
Event on the Alex Jones Show |
Calling in from a music tour venue in Council Bluff, Iowa, Willie stated that George Bush and his neocon minions cannot be allowed to get away with fraudulently invading Iraq and engaging in mass murder without "even a slap on the wrist." Impeachment, according to Nelson, is a "minor way" to deal with crimes of such a horrific magnitude. full story |
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Watchdog: Leaked Photos Show Troops Fly in Squalor |
A govt. watchdog has uncovered pictures that suggest US troops on their way to battlefields in Afghanistan travel in squalor while top military and government officials are cocooned in "comfort capsules" with reclining leather seats and flat-screen TVs. Last week, the Project on Government Oversight asked for photos of the dilapidated airline seats; it wasn't long before pictures of torn, moldy, stained seats started rolling in. full story |
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The Mother of All Messes |
Republicans have run roughshod over the US Constitution, Congress, the courts and civil liberties. Republicans have made it perfectly clear that they believe that our civil liberties make us unsafe, precisely the opposite view of our Founding Fathers. The Republicans have violated the Nuremberg prohibitions against war crimes, and they have violated the Geneva Conventions against torture and abuse of prisoners. Republican disregard for human rights ranks with that of history’s great tyrants. full story |
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House Judiciary Committee to Hear Kucinich
Impeachment Resolution on Friday |
On Friday, Dennis Kucinich will take his impeachment resolution against Bush to the House Judiciary Committee. Kucinich argues that Bush has violated his oath of office, violated U.S. and international law, has trashed the Constitution, and poses a serious threat to the nation. On July 10, Kucinich pared down his 35 articles of impeachment to one and the House voted 238 to 180 to send this single article to the Judiciary Committee, which buried Kucinich’s previous 35-article effort in June. full story |
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Local Authorities Launched 10,000
Snooping Operations Last Year |
Councils have been accused of abusing anti-terror laws after it emerged that local authorities launched almost 10,000 spying missions last year to investigate such petty offences as dog fouling and under-age smoking. More than half a million requests for highly personal communications data, such as records of private telephone calls and e-mails, were also lodged by councils and law enforcement agencies. full story |
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Pakistan Accused of Disappearing Terrorism Suspects |
Pakistan's intelligence agencies and police have disappeared hundreds of Pakistanis, including children as young as 9, as part of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Amnesty International charged Wednesday. The missing Pakistanis frequently were tortured and have been moved among secret detention centers regularly so that they become impossible to trace, the human rights group said. full story |
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The TSA Is Undoubtedly a Terrorist Organization |
The TSA continues to show the American people that they are one of the most evil terrorist organizations on the face of the planet. This diabolical terrorist group claims that they are keeping people safe from non-existent threats by continually violating the 4rth Amendment rights of airline passengers. Body scanners are being deployed in airports that reveal the naked bodies of airline passengers and now there are additional complaints of Nazi TSA agents conducting x-rated searches.0 full story |
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REAL ID - A Very Real Threat to Gun Rights |
The long-term plan for REAL ID is to force its biometric ID functions on federal, state, local and private entities for all transactions. Thus, ID confirmation by a distant bureaucracy becomes permission for essential daily activities including banking, doctor visits, transit, school attendance and purchases -- including guns full story |
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Iraq: Fallujah Braces for Another Assault |
"Ruling powers in the city fighting to gain full control seem willing to use the security collapse to accuse each other of either conspiracy (in lawlessness) or incapability of control," Sufian Ahmed, a lawyer and human rights activist in Fallujah told IPS. "They suddenly changed their tone from saying that the city was the safest in Iraq to claiming that al-Qaeda is a serious threat. full story |
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American Fascism in the Ascendant |
The Federal government has detailed and sophisticated operations and means to quiet criticism and opposition. There are not yet concentration camps filled with dissidents, although we are coming nearer to that in the treatment of suspected terrorists. But the mainstream media has, nevertheless, been brought into a condition of remarkable quietude and docility. full story |
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Blacks Bullied in Beijing as Olympics Approach |
Chinese police officials have been forcing some bar owners in Beijing to sign secret pledges to ban blacks and Mongolians from entering their premises during the Olympic games next month, according to the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper. While police denied any such activity, and most bars denied knowing about the prohibition, African residents in the city say that harassment by the authorities and discrimination at the bars has increased. full story |
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The Democrats Are the Real Problem |
The Democrats are a party of blood just like the Republicans, they're just more discreet about it. That's why people who are serious about ending the war have to support candidates outside the two-party charade. The Democrat/Republican duopoly will not deliver the goods; it's as simple as that. The point is to stop the killing, not to provide blind support for smooth-talking politicos who try to mask their real intentions. Obama made his choice, now he can suffer the consequences. full story |
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Think Tank Calls for Bush to Be Dictator for Life |
The article written by Philip Atkinson states that Bush would fail his country by becoming an ex-President or can achieve greatness by becoming President-for-Life Bush in order to bring sense to Congress and sanity to the Supreme Court. Atkinson is bluntly advocating that Bush should become dictator for life with these outrageously anti-American statements... full story |
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Emerging Killer Virus Starts Like a Cold, But Kills Many |
The virus was discovered by infectious-disease expert David N. Gilbert, who noticed that otherwise healthy patients were being stricken by pneumonia so severe that they would die without oxygen treatment. The dangerous symptoms developed within only one or two days of initial cough and fever symptoms. In the first outbreak examined by Gilbert, seven of 30 hospitalized patients died. full story |
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Police to Use Metal Scanners on Street |
Police chiefs in South Yorkshire are to use airport-style metal detectors in areas where they suspect people to be carrying guns and knives. Officers have already taken delivery of a number of new scanners. They will be used to support specific police intelligence - if police receive a tip-off about violence at a certain nightclub, for example. full story |
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Status Report on the Collapse of the U.S. Economy |
The producing economy of people who work for a living simply can no longer generate enough purchasing power for people either to pay their debts or allow them to purchase what is being sold in the marketplace. In turn it is the debt burden and the loss of societal purchasing power that are crashing the stock market. Thus the collapse of the financial economy has started to destroy the producing economy as well. full story |
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Hydrogen Cars Will Need Multi-Billion
Dollar Jumpstart, Experts Warn |
It will take massive subsidies from the U.S. government to make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles a significant part of the nation's transportation future, according to a National Research Council report released Thursday. The study finds that even under a best-case scenario only about two million hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be on American roads by 2020, less than 1% of the nation's estimated total number of cars and trucks. full story |
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Now There Are 1,000 Laws That Will
Let the State into Your Home |
The march of the Big Brother state under Labour was highlighted last night as it was revealed that there are now 1,043 laws that give the authorities the power to enter a home or business. Nearly half have been introduced since Labour came to power 11 years ago. They include the right to: to see if your pot plants have pests or do not have a 'plant passport', survey your home and garden to see if your hedge is too high... full story |
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Armed And Dangerous |
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the quasi-govt. entities that form the backbone of America's gargantuan mortgage market, appeared to be cracking. To the somewhat bewildered members of Congress, Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson offered radical remedies to save the lenders. Despite the fact that the proposed policies would thoroughly redefine America's supposedly capitalistic pedigree, the moves were presented as wholly inevitable, and in the end, benevolent and costless. full story |
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Woodland Birds on Route to Extinction as Numbers Dive |
Birds of Britain's woodlands are declining so rapidly that some appear to be on the road to extinction, a study reveals today. Over the past 30 years declines of Britain's farmland birds have been the main concern, with grey partridge and corn bunting falling nearly 90 per cent because of the intensification of agriculture. Now woodland birds seem to be going the same way - but the causes are much less obvious. full story |
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Ohio Attorney Files to Lift Stay '04 Election Case, Cites Allegations Massive Fraud by GOP |
This case has the potential to put some of the most powerful people in the country in jail, according to Arnebeck, as he was joined by a well-respected, life-long Republican computer security expert who charged that the red flags seen during Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election would have been cause for "a fraud investigation in a bank, but it doesn't when it comes to our vote." full story |
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Police Spied on Activists in Maryland |
Organizational meetings, public forums, prison vigils, rallies outside the State House in Annapolis and e-mail group lists were infiltrated by police posing as peace activists and death penalty opponents, the records show. The surveillance continued even though the logs contained no reports of illegal activity and consistently indicated that the activists were not planning violent protests. full story |
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The Martial Law Agenda Continues |
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has recently proposed turning Chicago into a militarized police zone to fight gun crime and save children. Blagojevich has stated that he wants to bring in the National Guard and use military helicopters for the purposes of domestic law enforcement in the city. This is part and parcel of a larger plan to turn the United States into a militarized police state. full story |
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Obama Calls for National Civilian Stasi |
Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama has called for a "civilian national security force" as powerful as the U.S. military, comments that were ignored by the vast majority of the corporate media but compared by one journalist to the Nazi Hitler Youth. "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." full story |
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Nine House Republicans Vote for Impeachment Hearing |
There will be a hearing related to Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Article of Impeachment against George Bush in the House Judiciary Committee. That was assured by a vote of 238 to 180 on Tuesday. But, according to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's "Countdown" last night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has mandated that questioning in the hearing be relegated to Bush's abuses of power, not his criminal wrongdoing. full story |
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Airport Gestapo |
The Bush Regime's "terrorist" protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defends the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect, there are now one million names on the "terrorist" watch list. full story |
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Contaminated U.S. Site Faces 'Catastrophic' Nuclear Leak |
One of "the most contaminated places on Earth" will only get dirtier if the US govt. doesn't get its act together - clean-up plans are already 19 years behind schedule and not due for completion until 2050. More than 210 million litres of radioactive and chemical waste are stored in 177 underground tanks at Hanford in Washington State. Most are over 50 years old. Already 67 of the tanks have failed, leaking almost 4 million litres of waste into the ground. full story |
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Federal Court: Bush Can Indefinitely Detain Civilians |
The court effectively ruled that President Bush has the same right to indefinitely detain a civilian on American soil as he does an enemy soldier on a battlefield. "This decision," countered Jonathan L. Hafetz, counsel for al-Marri, means the president can pick up any person in the country--citizen or legal resident--and lock them up for years without the most basic safeguard in the Constitution, the right to a criminal trial. full story |
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Wolfowitz: U.S. Confidence Hinges on Another 'Crisis' |
In a response to PNAC associate Robert Kagan, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz has suggested that a 'compelling crisis' such as Pearl Harbor or 9/11 may help bolster America's stature in the world, which, Wolfowitz clearly hints, has been damaged by the Bush administration. Such a role would imply even more U.S. troops around the world and the need to maintain and even expand the state of crisis. full story |
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Bush on Economy: Pay No Attention
to the Man Behind the Curtain |
Like an idiot savant parroting the words of his master, Bush tells us the faltering economy and gas prices over $4 a gallon are the fault of the Democrats. “On Saturday, President Bush tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices and said lawmakers need to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in pristine lands and offshore tracts believed to hold huge reserves of fuel. full story |
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Author: Some in Congress Calling for War Crimes Trials |
The Bush administration's laxity towards torture of prisoners could expose its top officials to war crimes charges, said investigative journalist and New Yorker writer Jane Mayer to CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "I think that's more a political question than a legal question, really," Mayer said. "It's a question of whether there's a political appetite for this. There are Democrats on the Hill who are calling for these kinds of hearings and trials." full story |
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The U.S. Economic Meltdown Continues |
There is little doubt that the United States economy is edging closer to collapse. The U.S. is facing not just a recession but a depression and almost everyone in the U.S. mainstream press is in denial. The major cable news networks prefer to run story after story on celebrity sex scandals and other perversions than to talk seriously about the tanking U.S. economy. full story |
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Democrats Don't Care about You |
As the presumptive nominee, Obama could have rallied all the Democrats into a cohesive voting block to stop this further erosion of people's civil liberties; he would have raised his political capital by millions. One would have expected fiery speeches in support of a change from the totalitarian path set by the Bush administration to a situation where people's rights were restored, secured and hopefully expanded. full story |
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ACLU: Terrorist Watch List His 1 Million Names |
"Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and other 'suspicious characters,' with names like Robert Johnson and Gary Smith, have become trapped in the Kafkaesque clutches of this list, with little hope of escape," said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. "Congress needs to fix it, the Terrorist Screening Center needs to fix it, or the next president needs to fix it, but it has to be done soon." full story |
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Will the Antiwar Movement Strangle the State? |
In describing Great Britain - arguably near the height of her glory - Paine told the truth. A nation blessed with great wealth, and great commerce, had proudly idolized her own "thunder," ripping up the bowels of whole countries for what she could get - this country would and should receive its due in this world, not in the next one. This, of course, happens to be the legacy of our current president, George W. Bush. full story |
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Enabling Tyranny |
The position of the US Government is that the rights granted Americans by the Constitution facilitate terrorism. To be safe from terrorists, the argument goes, we must allow the government to take liberties with the Constitution. This argument gives government the power to set aside the Constitution, and, thus, enables tyranny. As Milton Friedman and many others taught us, rules are the essence of freedom, and discretionary power is the essence of tyranny. full story |
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Marine's Graphic Interview Describes Killing of Iraqi Prisoners |
Nelson said that he watched in shock as Nazario shot a kneeling prisoner at point-blank range: "He hit the dude in the forehead, the dude went down and there was blood . . . all over [Nazario's] boots." Weemer then used his service pistol to shoot one of the prisoners, Nelson said. "He shot him and the dude was on the ground and rolling, and [Weemer] was shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting." full story |
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British Soldiers Accused of Sickening
Sex Assault on Iraqi Boy, 14 |
British soldiers forced a boy of 14 to carry out an act of oral sex on a fellow male prisoner in Iraq, according to shocking new allegations made about the behaviour of British troops. The victim, now 19, says he was rounded up with a friend while trying to steal milk cartons from a food distribution centre. He was whipped, beaten and forced to strip naked. full story |
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Analysts Say More U.S. Banks Will Fail |
As home prices continue to decline and loan defaults mount, U.S. regulators are bracing for dozens of American banks to fail over the next year. But after a large mortgage lender in California collapsed late Friday, Wall Street analysts began posing two crucial questions: Just how many banks might falter? And, more urgently, which one could be next? full story |
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President George W Bush Backs
Israeli Plan for Strike on Iran |
Despite the opposition of his own generals and widespread scepticism that America is ready to risk the military, political and economic consequences of an airborne strike on Iran, the president has given an "amber light" to an Israeli plan to attack Iran’s main nuclear sites with long-range bombing sorties, the official told The Sunday Times. full story |
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Europe Faces Russian Nuclear Missile Threat |
Russia is thinking of aiming nuclear weapons at western Europe for the first time since the end of the cold war, according to defence sources in Moscow. The move is being considered in response to American plans to develop a defence shield against missiles from Iran and other countries. The plans under discussion include the possible deployment of ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave between the EU countries of Lithuania and Poland. full story |
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15-20,000 People Marched on DC July 12th 2008 |
15-20,000 People Marched on Washington DC in a show of mass grass-root's support for Ron Paul's Message of Liberty and Dedication to the US Constitution! He highlighted any plans to bomb Iran as complete Insanity and as un-constitutional and blatantly illegal. He also reminded everyone that throughout history revolutions have always been a success through the efforts of only 3-5% of the population. full story |
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Greens Nominate McKinney for President |
The Green Party of the United States today nominated truth activist and seasoned politician Cynthia McKinney for U.S. President. In her 12 years in Congress, McKinney distinguished herself for questioning Donald Rumsfeld under oath about missing trillions at the Pentagon. She introduced articles of impeachment and asked questions about the 9/11 attacks, in 2002, when such skepticism was not tolerated from public figures. full story |
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Police State USA: Spying as Law of the Land |
Between the false flag mass murder of 9/11 and the creation of the "war on terrorism", the USA Patriot Act and this new FISA revision, the Bush-Cheney admin. and its enthusiastically complicit congressional partners, have achieved total victory--world war, open criminality, and the end of law itself. It gives the US govt. unprecedented new spying powers and sweeping new legal cover for spying that goes well beyond even the original FISA law. full story |
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Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship |
A net-neutrality activist group has uncovered plans for the demise of the free Internet by 2010 in Canada. By 2012, the group says, the trend will be global. Bell Canada and TELUS, Canada’s two largest Internet service providers (ISPs), will begin charging per-site fees on most Internet sites, reports anonymous sources within TELUS. full story |
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UK Braced for US Banking Backlash |
A move by the Federal Reserve to nationalise Fannie May and Freddie Mac, which together account for 40% of all US mortgages, would send dire signals around the world. The two lenders urgently need to raise billions of dollars to offset expected losses stemming from mortgage defaults, but cannot seek additional cash from their shareholders. Between them, the two guarantee or own mortgages worth more than $5 trillion. full story |
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There Is No Fourth Amendment |
Skull and Bones member, war criminal and traitor George W. Bush recently signed HR 6304 or the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 into law that effectively makes the 4rth Amendment null and void. The new law disregards the protections guaranteed in the 4rth Amendment and allows the govt. to spy on people without a warrant so long as the govt. reasonably believes that they are gathering information on somebody from a foreign country. full story |
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Pesticides Persist in Ground Water |
Pesticides, which are typically applied at the land surface, can move downward through the unsaturated zone to reach the water table at detectable concentrations. The downward movement of pesticide degradation products, formed in situ, can also contribute to the contamination of ground water. Once in ground water, pesticides and their degradation products can persist for years, depending upon the chemical structure of the compounds and the environmental conditions. full story |
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Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of
C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives |
Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001. full story |
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U.S. Defends Laptop Searches at the Border |
Is a laptop searchable in the same way as a piece of luggage? The Department of Homeland Security believes it is. For the past 18 months, immigration officials at border entries have been searching and seizing some citizens’ laptops, cellphones, and BlackBerry devices when they return from international trips. full story |
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Federal Judge Ruling: George W. Bush Is a Felon |
Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the US District Court in California has ruled that President George W. Bush is a felon. The ruling stems from the case of Al-Harmain Islamic Foundation Inc. v Bush, a case which will now be remembered as making it official that Bush's program of 'warrantless spying' is illegal. Judge Walker held that the president lacks the authority to disregard FISA which means Bush's warrantless electronic surveillance program was illegal. full story |
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Do You Know All the Drugs in Your Milk? |
Dairy products from cows treated with Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST) could sharply increase the risk of cancer and other diseases, especially in children. The chemicals are already banned in most industrialized nations, and it was approved in the United States on the backs of fired whistleblowers, manipulated research, and a corporate takeover at the FDA. full story |
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Ex-NYT Correspondent: FISA Update
Is 'Giant Step toward Fascism' |
Hedges is one of more than a dozen plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the US government brought by the American Civil Liberties Union that seeks to scuttle an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act signed by President Bush Thursday. The ACLU says the FISA update allows the government to engage in massive, unconstitutional dragnet surveillance of Americans' phone calls and e-mails with anyone abroad. full story |
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Antarctic Ice Shelf 'Hanging by Thread': European Scientists |
New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat remote-sensing satellite show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is "hanging by its last thread" to Charcot Island, one of the plate's key anchors to the Antarctic peninsula, ESA said in a press release. full story |
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Mother Prevented from Taking Own Son to
School Because of Criminal Record Checks |
Jayne Jones had been escorting 14-year-old severely epileptic Alex each day by taxi, taking specialist equipment with her in case he had a fit. But the mother-of-two was told she would not be allowed to continue doing so until her details had been run through a Criminal Record Bureau check. The case came to light only days after it emerged that hundreds of innocent people were branded criminals by the CRB, which was set up to vet people working with children. full story |
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6700 Tons of Radioactive Debris
Shipped from Kuwait to Idaho |
During the summer of '91, the US military had collected artillery, tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, conventional and unconventional munitions, trucks, etc. at Camp Doha in Kuwait. As result of carelessness this weapons depot caught fire with consequent catastrophic explosion resulting in death, injury, illness and extensive environmental contamination from depleted uranium and conventional explosives. Recently Kuwait required the US DoD to remove the contamination. full story |
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WTC 7 Emergency Head Was Building Collapse Specialist |
The former New York City chief emergency manager Jerome Hauer, whose office was on the 23d floor of WTC 7, was also a building collapse specialist, according to a recently uncovered New York Times article. Hauer has attracted suspicion from the 9/11 truth movement because of his zeal to push the official story in the hours after the attack when details were still sketchy. full story |
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World Bank Secret Report Confirms
Biofuel Cause of World Food Crisis |
A secret study by the World Bank, which reportedly has not been made public on pressure from the Bush Admin., concludes that bio-fuel cultivation in especially the US and EU are directly responsible for the current explosion in grain and food prices worldwide. The report says that at least 75% of the recent price rises are due to land being removed from agriculture, mainly maize in N. America and rapeseed and corn in the EU, in order to grow crops to be burned for vehicle fuel. full story |
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"Non-Lethal" Weapons: Where Science
and Technology Service Repression |
Acoustic microwave armaments? Laser induced plasma channels? Vortex ring guns? Are these high-tech MacGuffins spiffing-up the latest Hollywood near-future thriller? Regrettably, no. Welcome to the twisted world of “non-lethal” weapons research brought to you by the “fun” folks at the Pentagon’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate. full story |
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Nearly Half of Americans Think
President Can Suspend Constitution |
We are indeed screwed. Because the populace is woefully ignorant of the very foundation of our constitutional republic -- a trias politica, the three branches of government, intended to prevent one branch from reigning supreme and ushering in tyranny, a situation now manifest as Bush, the neocon puppet, essentially declares the executive a dictatorship. full story |
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FISA and the Decline of America |
Jonathan Swift, the great Irish political writer and satirist, is not alone in observing that great nations rarely fall from outside threats or attack. More often they decline and fall from internal corruption. The Congress is deaf to this warning it appears, for last week they passed legislation that is advertised as reforming FISA. FISA is the law that allows the government to snoop on us with blanket impunity. full story |
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Forced Servitude in America? |
In his speech on national service Wednesday at the University of Colorado, Obama promised that as president he would "set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year." He would see that these goals are met by, among other things, attaching strings to federal education dollars. full story |
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Convention Cities Sued by Protesters |
The cities hosting the Democratic and Republican conventions also will inevitably host thousands of protesters, and those visitors have already taken Denver and St. Paul to court. Both cities have been sued by the ACLU and protest groups planning to mobilize at the political confabs. At issue: where and when demonstrations and marches can be held. full story |
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'Top secret' Weapons To Be Used at Political Conventions |
CNN's Ed Lavendera reports that Congress is giving $100 million to pay security expenses for this summer's political conventions. Denver and St. Paul officials have said that the types of weapons being purchased are "top secret." The ACLU is suing both cities to disclose how security money is being spent. full story |
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Want Some Torture with Your Peanuts? |
The Electronic ID Bracelet, as it’s referred to as, would be worn by every traveler "until they disembark the flight at their destination." Yes, you read that correctly. Every airline passenger would be tracked by a government-funded GPS, containing personal, private and confidential information, and that it would shock the customer worse than an electronic dog collar if he/she got out of line. full story |
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The Decline and Fall of America |
Video showing the decline of America into a fascist state. full story |
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'Big Brother' Government Costs Us £20billion |
"This is yet further damning evidence of Big Brother’s expensive tastes. ID cards, CCTV, the DNA database and other measures are a huge waste of taxpayers' money on policies that undermine freedom and are utterly ineffective in fighting crime or terrorism. At the same time, the Government has failed to deal robustly with extremists and terrorists, like Abu Hamza. Yet again, this government penalise the innocent, and is a soft touch for the guilty." full story |
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Iran to "Hit Tel Aviv, U.S. Ships" If Attacked |
"The Zionist regime is pressuring White House officials to attack Iran. If they commit such a stupidity, Tel Aviv and U.S. shipping in the Persian Gulf will be Iran's first targets and they will be burned," Shirazi was quoted as saying. Shirazi, a mid-level cleric, is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's representative to the Revolutionary Guards. full story |
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The Real Meaning of the Fourth of July |
Not even the patriotism and courage of these English citizens constitutes the foremost significance of the Fourth of July, any more than the military victory over their government’s forces at Yorktown does. Instead, the real significance of the Fourth of July lies in the expression of what is undoubtedly the most revolutionary political declaration in history: that man’s rights are inherent, God-given, and natural and, thus, do not come from government. full story |
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Oil's Rapid Rise Stirs Talk of $200 a Barrel This Year |
Oil's historic ascent from $100 to nearly $150 a barrel in just six months is lending weight to a far grimmer prediction: Crude could reach $200 a barrel by the end of the year. In the U.S., $200 crude would push the price of gasoline to well over $6 a gallon, causing commuters to alter their driving habits more sharply than they have already, while putting extreme strains on large sectors of the U.S. economy. full story |
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US Contractor Leads Torture Training in Mexico |
Exactly one day after George Bush signed the first year of the $1.6 billion Plan Mexico into law--giving Mexican military and police US training, armament, and resources--videos surfaced showing Mexican police undergoing torture training in León, Guanajuato. The torture training is directed by a British man from an unidentified US private security company. full story |
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Public Online Spaces Don't Carry Speech Rights |
Say it on the Internet, and you'll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed. Companies in charge of seemingly public spaces online wipe out content that's controversial but otherwise legal. Service providers write their own rules for users worldwide and set foreign policy when they cooperate with regimes like China. They serve as prosecutor, judge and jury in handling disputes behind closed doors. full story |
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The JFK Assassination and 9/11:
the Designated Suspects in Both Cases |
It is clear, as everyone who has studied these matters closely and impartially concurs, that there have been cover-ups of the CIA’s relationships to first Oswald and later al-Mihdar, cover-ups which in both cases have not yet been adequately resolved. A reasonable conclusion from the available evidence is that the cover-ups were in order to conceal prior CIA operational interest in the designated subjects, just as in the case of Ali Mohamed in the early 1990s. full story |
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar |
Former congressman Curt Weldon is helping broker deals between Russian and Ukranian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments as part of his new job with a private American defense consulting firm. Weldon, who is currently being investigated by the FBI over alleged corruption during his time in office, visited Libya in March to discuss a possible military deal, according to a letter describing the trip from Weldon to Defense Solutions CEO Timothy Ringgold. full story |
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Orang-utans 'on Fast Track to Extinction' |
The orang-utan could be the first great ape to become extinct if urgent action is not taken to protect the species from human encroachment in South-east Asia, according to a new study. Orang-utan numbers in Indonesia and Malaysia have declined sharply since 2004, mostly because of illegal logging and the expansion of palm oil plantations. The study discovered the orang-utan population on Borneo had fallen by 10%, to 49,600 apes. full story |
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Electric Shock for Air Passengers? |
You check in at the airline ticket counter. But instead of a boarding pass, you get shackled with an electronic bracelet which tracks your every move, contains all your personal information, and can shock you senseless. This vision of the future of air security is being floated around the Department of Homeland Security’s research and development office. All airline passengers would be required to wear it "until they disembark the flight at their destination." full story |
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The 'Higher Powers': Martial Law vs. Christian Responsibility |
Since 9/11, the federal govt. has been busily advancing preparations for the day when it might impose martial law throughout the US, thus presenting us with the specter of the sort of thuggery we witnessed in New Orleans being carried out all across this "land of the free." A quasi-legal apparatus has already been put into place for this, via such legislation as the PATRIOT Act, the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the National Security and Homeland Security Directive. full story |
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FBI Could Investigate You with No Evidence of Wrongdoing |
FBI Agents could soon be allowed to investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, according to the Justice Department. Justice Department officials say FBI Agents would rely on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial groups. full story |
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Children 'to Be Given Compulsory
Sex Education from Age Four' |
Children as young as four are set to be given compulsory sex education in primary school. They will be taught the names of body parts and basic ideas about different relationships. Government advisers claim that 'gradual education' from such a young age would help to stop children from rushing into sex when they are older. They argue that the sex education that children receive in science classes does not go far enough. full story |
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NSA Spying Judge Defends Rule of Law, Congress Set to Strip His Power |
Just days before the Senate will convene to give a final blessing to President Bush's secret, warrantless wiretapping program, a federal court judge ruled that his legal justification for the surveillance has no legal merit. He's the same judge Congress is trying to save the nation's telecoms, such as AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, from having to face in court. full story |
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China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo |
The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in 12/02 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep deprivation," "prolonged constraint," and "exposure." The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the US long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay and by the CIA full story |
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Groups Sue U.S. for Data on Tracking by Cellphone |
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the government in federal court in Washington under the Freedom of Information Act. Last November, the ACLU had filed a FOIA request with the Justice Department for documents, memos and guides regarding the policies for tracking people through the use of their cellphones. full story |
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Utility Workers Hired as Stasi Informants
in Colorado, California, Arizona |
Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as "Terrorism Liaison Officers" in Colorado, Arizona and California to watch for "suspicious activity" which is later fed into a secret govt. database. "Suspicious activity" is broadly defined in TLO training as behavior that could lead to terrorism: taking photos of no apparent aesthetic value, making measurements or notes, espousing extremist beliefs or conversing in code. full story |
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The Reece Committee: Social Science as a Tool for Control |
A predominant theme found in the Committee's findings is the desire of the foundations and those behind them to create a system of world governance. The use of propaganda and social engineering was identified as a means to and end to achieve this goal. In 1932, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, Max Mason, stated that "The social sciences... will concern themselves with the rationalization of social control..." full story |
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High Gas Prices Threaten to Drain Small Towns' Populations |
These days, they're also cussing and shaking their heads about the price of that gasoline. People are doing that everywhere, but in small towns such as Leeton, population 619, it's even more of a gut punch because nearly every working adult commutes to jobs elsewhere. These days, there had better be a really good job on the other end of that trip. full story |
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U.K. to Begin Microchipping Prisoners |
The Ministry of Justice is exploring the possibility of injecting prisoners in the back of the arm with a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that contains information about their name, address and criminal record. Such chips, which contain a built-in antenna, could be scanned by special readers. The implantation of RFID chips in luggage, pets and livestock has become increasingly popular in recent years. full story |
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Obama's National Security Group Teaming with Globalists | |
Obama's recently-announced 'Senior Working Group on National Security' is little more than a consortium of top globalists, secret society members, former Clinton & Bush officials and war-engineers at large. It was revealed yesterday that Obama may retain Defense Secretary Robert Gates if he gains the presidency. Gates co-wrote the CFR report 'Iran: Time for a New Approach' with Zbigniew Brzezinski, already an Obama adviser. full story |
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ACLU Prepares Lawsuit Against Denver
DNC Plans for 'Free Speech Zone' |
The infamous "free speech zone," set to make a comeback at Denver's upcoming Democratic National Convention, needs to be within earshot of delegates, a coalition of civil liberties advocates backed by the ACLU said Monday. Chain link fencing or chicken wire at the end of the parade route, about 700 feet away from the Pepsi Center under the current plan, would separate demonstrators and protesters from other convention attendees. full story |
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Death Toll Linked to Gardasil Vaccine Rises |
"Anaphylactic shock," "foaming at mouth," "grand mal convulsion," "coma" and "now paralyzed" are a few of the startling descriptions included in a new federal report describing the complications from Merck & Co.'s Gardasil medication for sexually transmitted human papillomavirus -- which has been proposed as mandatory for all schoolgirls. full story |
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An Algae-based Fuel |
In the context of climactic changes and of soaring prices for a barrel of petroleum, biofuels are now being presented as a renewable energy alternative. Presently, research is being done on microscopic algae which are particularly rich in oils and whose yield per hectare is considerably higher than that of sunflower or rapeseed. full story |
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FBI's Next-Gen ID Databank to Store Face Scans |
The FBI's Next Generation Identification system will create an unprecedented database of biometric markers, such as facial images and iris scans. For criminal investigators, NGI could be as useful as DNA some day, a distinctive scar or a lopsided jaw line could mean the difference between a cold case and closed one. And for privacy watchdogs, it's a duel threat, seen as a step toward a police state, and a gold mine of personal data waiting to be plundered by cybercriminals. full story |
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US to Get Access to Your Personal Files -
Bank Details, Visited Websites, Salaries... |
American intelligence agencies may soon be able to access the most private and personal details of British citizens. Under an agreement being negotiated between the EU and Washington., U.S. agencies including the CIA will be allowed to view details of bank accounts, travel plans and even the sites individuals visit on the internet. full story |
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Pentagon Official Warns of Israeli Attack on Iran |
Senior Pentagon officials are concerned that Israel could carry out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of the year, an action that would have enormous security and economic repercussions for the US and the rest of the world. A senior defense official told ABC News there is an "increasing likelihood" that Israel will carry out such an attack, a move that likely would prompt Iranian retaliation against, not just Israel, but against the US as well. full story |
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