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Victory for Free Speech Rights - $2 Million Settlement
Source: CenterForConstitutionalRights.com Submitted: 08/19/2008
August 19, 2008, New York, NY – A group of 52 local activists today announced a $2 million settlement in their lawsuit against the City of New York. The activists were illegally arrested on April 7, 2003 while protesting against the Iraq war in front of a military contractor's offices in midtown. The settlement in Kunstler et al v. New York City follows the dismissal in 2003 of all criminal charges brought against these individuals and four costly years of delays by the City in negotiating an end to the civil lawsuit.  Read full article »
Zimbabwe inflation hits 11,200,000 percent
Source: CNN Submitted: 08/19/2008
--In February, the price of a loaf of bread in the country was less than 200,000 Zimbabwe dollars. On Monday, that same loaf of bread cost 1.6 trillion Zimbabwe dollars.

Analysts have said the Zimbabwean government's official inflation rate figures are conservative. Last week, one of Zimbabwe's leading banks, Kingdom Bank, said the country's inflation rate was now more than 20 million percent.  Read full article »
Campaign for Liberty - Transportation
Source: Campaign for Liberty Submitted: 08/19/2008
So you want to be at the big "Rally for the Republic," but you can't afford airfare? Then go by "RonVoy."

What is a RonVoy?

ANSWER: A RonVoy is basically a "van - pool" or "charter bus - pool". Our team has secured the lowest possible rental rates by brokering a deal for vehicles across the country. When you buy your ticket on the RonVoy you are paying your share of the price of the rental and fuel (tolls are not included in the price).

Ronvoy is coming to a city near you. Take the easy, inexpensive way to the Rally events in Minneapolis. This is your last chance to hop on board with your fellow Revolutionaries to witness these historic events!  Read full article »
Russian General Says Georgia May Commit False Flag Attacks
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 08/18/2008
Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Anatoly Nogovitsyn warns that Georgia may be planning to commit false flag terror attacks by using mercenaries dressed in Russian uniforms, as Russia moved to guard sensitive infrastructure against terrorist attacks.

In a news briefing on Monday, he said: “I cannot rule out that they might use mercenaries with Slavic appearance for a provocation, clad in the uniform of Russian servicemen, in order to commit subversive acts both on Ossetian and Russian territory.”  Read full article »
Permanent Fear, Permanent War, Permanent Profit (Recommended)
Source: Chris-Floyd.com Submitted: 08/17/2008
When it comes to determining the true thrust and implication of world events, the old adage is still valid: "Follow the money."

--The decades-long quest for military-enforced dominance of geopolitical affairs has been has been both producer and product of this ravenous system. And now, the war machine is pretty much the only thing left. It has eaten all our seed corn, and must keep prowling constantly in foreign lands to feast on the resources of others. So war and the ever-present threat of war will continue to be the driving forces of American policy, at home and abroad, both in the public and private sectors – because that's where the money is. Big money, gargantuan money, money out the wazoo. And what's more, it's free money – because most of it comes from the taxpayers, through insider sweetheart deals that very often guarantee profits for the crony contractor. No muss, no fuss, no risk – just gravy.  Read full article »
Kucinich seeks 1 MILLION signatures this time around
Source: Kucinich Submitted: 08/17/2008
On August 1st, I delivered to Speaker Nancy Pelosi; a petition bearing the names of over 100,000 Americans that, like us, feel that the President must be held accountable for abusing executive power and disregarding his Constitutional obligations.

Your voices have been heard and your support continues to send a powerful message to lawmakers. That is why I call on you again to help us in a new effort to deliver 1 Million signatures to Speaker Pelosi on September 10, 2008.  Read full article »
Juror Becomes Fly in the Ointment
Source: Cato-at-liberty.org Submitted: 08/16/2008
--It is an extraordinary thing for a judge to meddle with the jury in the middle of its deliberations. So, to justify his removal of the “problem juror,” a man named Thomas Eddlem, Judge Young issued a 40-page memorandum of law (pdf). I happen to know and respect Judge Young. I invited him to speak here at Cato about the awful federal sentencing guidelines, but his legal memorandum in this case is remarkably thin. I will briefly respond to his substantive arguments below.

1. Court precedents say jurors have no right to nullify.

Well, yes, that is undeniable. But that’s like someone saying in 1950 that court precedents tell us that ”separate, but equal” is the law of the land–go read Plessy v. Ferguson. The real question is whether those court rulings are truly consistent with the Constitution. I would also point out that even though many modern court rulings express hostility toward jury nullification, no court has yet dared try to reverse a not guilty verdict or attempt to punish any juror who cast a not guilty vote in a jury room where the result was deadlock (not an untoward outcome, by the way). Judges do remove jurors from time to time, but there is no punishment. At least not yet.  Read full article »
Flashback: We Have the Advantage
Source: JoePlummer.com Submitted: 08/16/2008
Taking a serious look at government wrong doing is no easy task. Not because the damning evidence is hard to find, but because the truth (once found) is very hard to swallow. How does one reconcile the fact that we are being led into slavery (and to slaughter) by a group of pathological liars who, ironically, have been appointed to "protect us?"

How does one come to grips with the fact there are still millions of Americans who believe there is a good half of the government and a bad half? -An intellectual twilight zone where good has nothing to do with the ACTIONS of elected officials and everything to do with whether or not they've dressed themselves in blue or red.  Read full article »
Majority Want Libertarian Bob Barr Included in Presidential Debates
Source: Zogby Submitted: 08/16/2008
UTICA, New York - More than half of likely voters nationwide - 55% - want Republican-turned-Libertarian Bob Barr to participate in presidential debates this fall, while nearly half - 46% - said they think Ralph Nader should be allowed into the on-stage fray, the latest Zogby Interactive polling shows.  Read full article »
Blowback From Bear-Baiting
Source: Antiwar Submitted: 08/15/2008
-by Patrick J. Buchanan

For a decade, some of us have warned about the folly of getting into Russia's space and getting into Russia's face. The chickens of democratic imperialism have now come home to roost...  Read full article »
The Depleted Uranium Threat
Source: Truth Out Submitted: 08/14/2008
--U.S. Army regulation 700-48 and its Technical Bulletin 9-1300-278 have for years required cleanups of the residue of depleted uranium firings and destruction. "Radioactive material and waste will not be locally disposed of through burial, submersion, incineration, destruction in place, or abandonment without approval from overall commander," says the regulation. "If local disposal is approved, the responsible commander must document the general nature of the disposed material and the exact location of the disposal." Radioactive equipment under that same regulation must be cleaned up and disposed of as soon as practicable. Other crucial military regulations call for DU tank drivers to be medically examined if they are exposed to dust or other radioactive debris. Similar British requirements prohibit unauthorized collection of radioactive waste.

One of the most salient examples of the problems with depleted uranium munitions and their dangers to the public recently opened a new chapter in the munition's long, nagging history. In the face of the Pentagon's and the Army's repeated denials of the need to follow their own regulations, that very same leadership was involved this spring in one final large and expensive DU munitions cleanup of Camp Doha, a 500-acre base in Kuwait.  Read full article »
Newsflash: DU contamination is bad for human beings. (Whether they're "foreign" or "domestic.")
Global Warming, Global Myth
Source: LibertyUnbound.com Submitted: 08/13/2008
Not only is carbon dioxide's total greenhouse effect puny, mankind's contribution to it is minuscule. The overwhelming majority (97%) of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere comes from nature, not from man.  Read full article »
If the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is approximately “97 parts naturally occurring” and “3 parts man-made,” we could all drop dead tomorrow and the impact on total carbon dioxide would be negligible.

More importantly, the “naturally occurring” carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is currently much lower than what it has been during most of earth’s history. Long before mankind set foot on this planet, naturally occurring carbon dioxide reached levels more than TEN TIMES higher than they are today.

To put that in perspective: If naturally occurring carbon dioxide were to again rise by only 10% (hardly a drastic fluctuation) the resulting increase would be equal to humans TRIPLING their current “carbon footprint.”

(Total current carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere is approximately 380 parts per million (PPM.) Of that total, roughly 368 PPM is “naturally occurring” and only 12 PPM is “man-made.” An increase of 10% in naturally occurring carbon dioxide would result in an increase of 36 PPM...three times the current "man-made" contribution.)

I’m “all for” getting off fossil fuels – I’m all for cleaning up the environment. What I’m tired of is liars seizing power and wealth for themselves under the guise of manufactured / hyped threats.
Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
Source: RadarOnline.com Submitted: 08/13/2008
ARE YOU ON THE LIST? The federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that will override the Constitution in the event of a major terrorist attack.

--Under law, during a national emergency, FEMA and its parent organization, the Department of Homeland Security, would be empowered to seize private and public property, all forms of transport, and all food supplies. The agency could dispatch military commanders to run state and local governments, and it could order the arrest of citizens without a warrant, holding them without trial for as long as the acting government deems necessary.  Read full article »
Horse Hormones
Source: DownsizeDC Submitted: 08/13/2008
Estrogen hormones derived from animals have dangerous side-effects.

Estriol doesn't.

But the FDA has banned Estriol in favor of the animal derived hormones. Here's why ...

Wyeth Pharmaceutical makes animal derived hormone medications. On October 6, 2005 Wyeth petitioned the FDA to prohibit the use of Estriol, a competitor to Wyeth's "horse hormones."

Estriol is chemically identical to human estrogen, while Wyeth's horse hormones are not. Animal derived hormones are associated with a number of health risks, such as blood clots and cancer, while Estriol is associated with a vast number of health benefits, and NO negative side-effects.

On January 9, 2008 the FDA responded to Wyeth's petition by banning the use of Estriol.  Read full article »
Welcome to the REAL WORLD of "government regulation."

Established "special interests" use their deep pockets, power and influence to severely limit (or kill off) emerging competition. They do this “legally” with help from their friends in Washington.
The Pentagon's $1 Trillion dollar "problem"
Source: Portfolio.com Submitted: 08/12/2008
On a winter afternoon in Indianapolis, Jessica Hilligoss, a young Defense Department worker, types long strings of numbers and letters into a computer, helping the United States armed forces transfer the billions of dollars it draws each week from the Federal Reserve to contractors, vendors, and military and civilian personnel.

Her job is to review invoices for everything from construction projects to lawnmowing, and to approve payment. Within a few days, another computer system—behind locked doors in the building's basement—deposits the money in the recipients' bank accounts.

--Since 2004, the Pentagon has spent roughly $16 billion annually to maintain and modernize the military's business systems, but most are as unreliable as ever—even as the surge in defense spending is creating more room for error. The basic defense budget for 2007 was $439.3 billion, up 48 percent from 2001, excluding the vast additional sums appropriated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to federal regulators and current and former Pentagon officials, the accounting process is so obsolete and error prone that it's virtually impossible to tell where much of this money ends up. While the department's brass has made a few patchwork improvements, billions are still unaccounted for.  Read full article »
"Problem" my ass. The system allows millions (and BILLIONS) to "disappear." Does anyone REALLY BELIEVE that's an accident?

Remember these BILLIONS that got "lost?"
http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_24/cover.html
If you were in a position to make 12 billion dollars in cash disappear in the desert and nobody would bat an eye, would you? How about if you only shaved 500 million off for you and your buddies; that would still leave 11.5 billion. -And it would be rather generous of you since technically, you could simply steal it all. To date I have heard nothing of anyone being held accountable for these "lost funds." Think about it.
Cell Phones and Cancer
Source: Mercola Submitted: 08/12/2008
Tumor immunologist Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is the last in a recent succession of authorities that are speaking out publicly about the potential dangers of cell phones.

Dr. Herberman’s complete article, which was sent out with his advisory, includes a summary analysis of the recent studies that form the basis of his decision to issue precautionary measures. It also includes this illustration, showing just how much higher the absorption rates are in a 5- and 10-year old’s brain versus that of an adult. It’s an impressive visual, showing how electromagnetic radiation can penetrate almost straight through the entire brain of a 5-year old child!  Read full article »
Ron Paul's "Rally for the Republic)
Source: Campaign for Liberty Submitted: 08/12/2008
Dear Friend of Liberty,

I wanted to personally write you today to urge you to make plans to attend my Campaign for Liberty's Rally for the Republic in Minneapolis, MN on September 2.

Our Campaign for Liberty is causing quite a stir in the country's political establishment. The Rally for the Republic will be the official kick off of this organization which will be a true grassroots activists organization dedicated to taking back our freedoms from a government and political establishment run amok.

I urge you to purchase your tickets now, before its too late.

The event is already about two-thirds of the way sold out only two weeks into ticket sales. Liberty lovers from across the nation are planning their pilgrimages via air, car or Ronvoy, many willing to camp out under the stars just to join us in Minnesota for the historic-to-be Rally for the Republic.  Read full article »
Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation?
Source: Global Research Submitted: 08/11/2008
During the night of August 7, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia's president Saakashvili ordered an all-out military attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.

The aerial bombardments and ground attacks were largely directed against civilian targets including residential areas, hospitals and the university. The provincial capital Tskhinvali was destroyed. The attacks resulted in some 1500 civilian deaths, according to both Russian and Western sources. "The air and artillery bombardment left the provincial capital without water, food, electricity and gas. Horrified civilians crawled out of the basements into the streets as fighting eased, looking for supplies." (AP, August 9, 2008). According to reports, some 34,000 people from South Ossetia have fled to Russia. (Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City, August 10, 2008)

--Let us be under no illusions. This is not a civil war. The attacks are an integral part of the broader Middle East Central Asian war, including US-NATO-Israeli war preparations in relation to Iran.  Read full article »
This article provides a very disturbing "alternative perspective" that we're not getting from the mainstream press.

For more, here is an Audio interview with the author:
http://tree3.com/sound/aj/chossudovski.mp3
Fort Detrick Scientist: Ivins Innocent, FBI Worse Than KGB!
Source: Kevin Barrett Submitted: 08/10/2008
--By blaming Ivins, who was not Muslim, the government is admitting that the anthrax scare was a false-flag terror attack, presumably one designed to demonize Muslims and grease the skids for war and fascism. The anthrax attacks targeted Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, the two biggest obstacles in the path of the Patriot Act, and helped convince ordinary Americans who have mailboxes, but who don't work in skyscrapers, that their lives were endangered by murderous Muslim madmen.  Read full article »
On Secession (the nation of Idaho)
Source: Lew Rockwell Submitted: 08/09/2008
--"Mr. President, thank you for the heads-up but we have taken certain precautions to ensure that any rash measures on your part have a disproportionate impact in the DC/Virginia corridor. Please don’t press us on the issue. I would like to offer one more rather moderate important proposal to our future business. These United States as administered by DC are now essentially bankrupt. War on the world, out of control spending and borrowing, debt and deficit, non-funded future liabilities in the tens of trillions and a banking infrastructure rotten at every level has pushed the US to an economic abyss from which it cannot shrink. We will provide you a demonstration project of tiny government, free banking and a formerly enslaved citizenry unleashed to realize their potential with no government interference. We simply wish to go our own way untethered from the Remora Nation DC came to symbolize."  Read full article »
Flashback: Feds Train Clergy To "Quell Dissent" During Martial Law
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 08/09/2008
Shocking KSLA 12 news report confirms story we broke last year, Pastors to cite Romans 13 as reason for public to obey government orders, relinquish guns and be taken to camps during state of emergency.  Read full article »
Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery
Source: Raw Story Submitted: 08/09/2008
--Suskind posted the transcript at his blog, saying, "This posting is contrary to my practice across 25 years as a journalist. But the issues, in this matter, are simply too important to stand as discredited in any way."

Suskind's new book asserts that senior Bush officials ordered the CIA to forge a document "proving" that Saddam Hussein had been trying to manufacture nuclear weapons and was collaborating with al Qaeda. The alleged result was a faked memorandum from then chief of Saddam's intelligence service Tahir Jalil Habbush dated July 1, 2001, and written to Hussein.  Read full article »
The Knowledge Problem (Recommended)
Source: DownsizeDC Submitted: 08/07/2008
--To what extent does knowledge even guide the decisions politicians make? How often do politicians make a careful study of competing claims and act accordingly? And how many decisions are instead made because of political expediency or self-interest?

If our politicians lack the time to read the bills they pass, do they have the time to read competing studies on complex subjects before deciding how to vote on the bills they haven't read?  Read full article »
WHY I CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT WATER FLUORIDATION
Source: Fluoride-journal.com Submitted: 08/06/2008
To explain how I came to change my opinion about water fluoridation, I must go back to when I was an ardent advocate of the procedure. I now realize that I had learned, in my training in dentistry, only one side of the scientific controversy over fluoridation. I had been taught, and believed, that there was really no scientific case against fluoridation, and that only misinformed lay people and a few crackpot professionals were foolish enough to oppose it. I recall how, after I had been elected to a local government in Auckland (New Zealand's largest city, where I practised dentistry for many years and where I eventually became the Principal Dental Officer) I had fiercely — and, I now regret, rather arrogantly — poured scorn on another Council member (a lay person who had heard and accepted the case against fluoridation) and persuaded the Mayor and majority of my fellow councillors to agree to fluoridation of our water supply.  Read full article »
Experimenting on the soldiers? (Video)
Source: News 5 Submitted: 08/06/2008
.  Watch here »
"...support the troops."
How the West (Except for the U.S.) Ended Slavery
Source: Lew Rockwell Submitted: 08/06/2008
When Jim Powell wrote an article for the Web site "History News Network" (HNN) regarding his new book, Greatest Emancipations: How the West Ended Slavery, he was immediately denounced by some of the commentators on the site. One Lewis Bernstein said he was sick and tired of "those like Jim Powell" distorting history and taking it "out of context." John Edward Phillips accused Powell, a senior fellow of the CATO Institute, of being a liar: "You think you can lie . . . and get away with it," he snarled. "Maybe you can at the Cato Institute . . . but not here on HNN."

-- This is why Powell has been denounced by some at HNN. As academic historians, most of them have "invested" their careers in the view that in order to end slavery 620,000 Americans had to die (the equivalent of about 6 million deaths standardizing for today’s population); more than double that number had to be maimed for life; dozens of Southern cities and towns had to be bombed into rubble; tens of thousands of Southern civilians were justifiably murdered by the U.S. Army; the Constitution had to be suspended in the North; tens of thousands of Northern civilian political dissenters were justly imprisoned without due process; hundreds of opposition newspapers were rightly shut down or destroyed; tens of millions of dollars in private property were justifiably looted by Sherman’s army (and others); and although the North’s financial cost of the war alone would have been enough to purchase the freedom of all the slaves, that was not an option.

The fact that the British, Spanish, French and others ended slavery peacefully – as did the Northern states in the U.S., where slavery existed for over 200 years – is perhaps the court historians’ best-kept secret. Most Americans have only heard of how slavery was ended in the Southern states and are unaware of how it was ended peacefully in the Northern states and in the rest of the Western Hemisphere during the 19th century.  Read full article »
White House Ordered Forged, Backdated Letter After Invasion To Concoct Saddam-9/11 Link
Source: ThinkProgress.org Submitted: 08/05/2008
A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind claims that, after the Iraq war began, the White House ordered the CIA to forge a “backdated, handwritten letter” from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein, in an attempt to tie Hussein to the 9/11 attacks. Here’s what Suskind reports:

– Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, told U.S. and British officials there was no WMD in Iraq, “intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”

– In the fall of 2003, the White House ordered CIA Director George Tenet to forge a “fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001,” Suskind writes. “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq” and that Iraq bought yellowcake uranium from Niger with the help of al Qaeda.

– The letter was commissioned “from the highest reaches of the White House.” “It would have to come from the very top,” Suskind told NPR today.  Read full article »
The Middle East (and the American people's freedom) was the target, 9/11 was the pretext.

From the Project For a New American Century (PNAC) "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report; PDF page 26, September 2000 (1 year prior to 9/11)

"In the Persian Gulf region, the presence of American forces, along with British and French units, has become a semipermanent fact of life.

Though the immediate mission of those forces is to enforce the no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq, they represent the long-term commitment of the United States and its major allies to a region of vital importance. Indeed, the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security.

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

And from page 63:

"...the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."

The document is available here: http://tree3.com/rebuilding.pdf

Use the PDF search feature to find quotes, like this:
http://tree3.com/Video/pnacquote.wmv
Countdown: Anthrax Investigation (Video - 08/04/08)
Source: MSNBC Submitted: 08/05/2008
Keith further reports on the anthrax investigation or lack there of and how the administration was pushing the FBI to link the attacks to Osama bin Laden. Gerald Posner weighs in.  Watch here »
Chance to Win thousands and Educate Millions
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 08/05/2008
In response to increasing flagrant attempts to censor political websites, including Infowars and Prison Planet, not in Communist China, but in the U.S. and the UK, we are running a special contest with a top prize of $5,000 in order to encourage people to get active and educate others about the growing threats to Internet freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The state-sponsored schools will never tell you this, but governments routinely rely on hoaxes to sell their agendas to an otherwise reluctant public. The Romans accepted the Emperors and the Germans accepted Hitler not because they wanted to, but because the carefully crafted illusions of threat appeared to leave no other choice.  Read full article »
See also "Operation Gladio" and "Strategy of Tension"
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