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Monday, December 1, 2008
CIA Foreknowledge of the Mumbai Attacks | 911Blogger.com
"In mid-September this year, the CIA station chief in Delhi sought an urgent meeting with his counterpart in R&AW to pass on some critical inputs." Reprehensor of 911Blogger.com analyzes recent news reporting on the Mumbai attacks.

Monday, December 1, 2008
Conspiracies and Confabulation: Tales from two Naomis [about 9/11]
(3 comments) Learning about self-deception is important for all people today. That's because many of our problems, both as individuals and as a society, are rooted in self-deception, and many of the ways in which others abuse us relate to our inherent tendency to self-deceive. We can overcome these problems, and have a decent chance at long-term survival as a species, only if we learn about such limitations, and strive to control them.

Monday, December 1, 2008
India's 9/11. Who was Behind the Mumbai Attacks? by Michel Chossudovsky
What interests are served by these attacks? Washington is intent on using the Mumbai attacks to: 1) Foster divisions between Pakistan and India and shunt the process of bilateral cooperation and trade between the two countries; 2) Promote internal social, ethnic and sectarian divisions in both India and Pakistan; (see article for the rest)

Monday, December 1, 2008
Pentagon plans to station 20,000 troops for 'domestic security'
The US Department of Defense plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to terror or nuclear attacks and emergencies, The Washington Post said Monday.

Monday, December 1, 2008
CEOs "cashed out"� prior to economic crisis
Balzac's maxim that "behind every great fortune lies a great crime" may yet prove a fitting epitaph for American capitalism. A recent survey by the Wall Street Journal reveals that CEOs at major US financial and real estate firms converted tens of millions of dollars of overvalued stock into cash prior to the eruption of the current financial crisis, even as many of their corporations approached the precipice.

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Change.org- Conduct a new, independent investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001
(1 comments) Change.org, a social change web platform: Given the hundreds of inconsistencies and contradictions that abound in the formal explanations provided to the world by the Bush Administration, it behooves the Obama administration to conduct a true, unbiased, independent investigation into what transpired on 9/11/01, which has since served as a pretext to start wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and roll back civil liberties

Saturday, November 29, 2008
No Clean Feed - Stop Internet Censorship in Australia
The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access. Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISPs, State Governments, Media and censorship experts, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to force this filter

Sunday, November 23, 2008
Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat
(4 comments) Senator James Inhofe has revealed that Henry Paulson was behind the threats of martial law and a new great depression prior to the passage of the bailout bill, having made such warnings during a conference call on September 19th, around two weeks before the legislation was eventually approved by both the Senate and Congress.

Sunday, November 23, 2008
Zinn: 9/11 Truth Is For "Fanatics", Has "No Practical Political Significance"
(43 comments) Just days after left-wing anti-war icon Howard Zinn told an audience that he didn't care if 9/11 was an inside job, he has repeated the sentiment, stating that questions regarding the attacks have "no practical political significance" and that 9/11 truth activists are "fanatics" who are wasting their time.

Sunday, November 23, 2008
Vigilant Shield 09: A Cover for Illegal Domestic Operations?
Link collection and analysis tracing connections between various military drills and programs, and their corporate state sponsors and beneficiaries.

Friday, November 21, 2008
This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House by Jeremy Scahill
(15 comments) Blackwater watchdog Jeremy Scahill comments on Obama's cabinet picks

Friday, November 21, 2008
Canada Sleeps Through War to 'Save the Internet'
War on Net Neutrality in Canada; links to petition, action form, and commentary by Michael Tippet of NowPublic.com and Bryan Zandberg in TheTyee.ca

Saturday, November 15, 2008
Election Irregularities Surfacing Re: California's Proposition 8!
Was the Prop 8 vote rigged? Exit polls show that Prop 8 lost.

Friday, November 14, 2008
We Are Hard-Wired to Care and Connect
America isn't Red and Blue; we're Purple, and the proof of this is that caring and community are in our genes.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
CNN Poll: Bush is most unpopular "President" EVER
CNN Poll: "President Bush is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago. Seventy-six percent of those questioned in the poll disapprove of how he is handling his job."

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Matt: Dancing Around the World (video)
(4 comments) Video of "accidental professional dancer" Matt Harding dancing around the world with the different peoples of the nations. I don't know where the hell you are, Matt, but thanks for the LOL. Inspiring. Laughter, music, dance and love are a universal language.

Monday, November 10, 2008
Top MD Elections Official Rips Off Microphone When Asked About Diebold Voting Machines
MD Elections Administrator Lamone lies, attacks, rips off mike and refuses more questions about Diebold lies and DRE vulnerabilities. This is the same person who suppressed and apparently altered the SAIC report which documented Diebold voting machines are fraud and error-prone junk.

Monday, November 10, 2008
InternetforEveryone.org to Kick Off National Town Hall Series in L.A.
InternetforEveryone.org -- a public-private sector initiative to connect every American to a fast, open and affordable Internet -- will hold its first town hall meeting on Dec. 6 in Los Angeles. This event is the first of a nationwide series designed to build popular support for making universal Internet access a top priority for the new administration and Congress.

Monday, November 10, 2008
RAND Lobbies Pentagon: Start War To Save U.S. Economy
(3 comments) According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started with a major foreign power in an attempt to stimulate the American economy and prevent a recession.

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse? by Michel Chossudovsky
(1 comments) The October 2008 financial meltdown is not the result of a cyclical economic phenomenon. It is the deliberate result of US government policy instrumented through the Treasury and the US Federal Reserve Board. This is the most serious economic crisis in World history. The "bailout" proposed by the US Treasury does not constitute a "solution" to the crisis. In fact quite the opposite: it is the cause of further collapse.

Saturday, November 8, 2008
Change.gov - Contact Obama's Transition Team
(1 comments) Obama is president elect; let him know what he needs to do in the next 4 years in order to get your vote in 2012.

Saturday, November 8, 2008
3 'superbanks' now dominate industry
(2 comments) Two results of the economic meltdown and trillion dollar Wall Street Bailout; criminal banks are getting bigger, and consumers are getting shafted with higher fees, on top of having to bail out the corporate socialists who can't manage their money or yours. Ditch Chase and BofAss; go with a local credit union, better rates and fees, and your money stays in your community. www.co-opfs.org

Friday, November 7, 2008
All Diebold Touch-Screen Systems Impounded by Judge in PA County
(2 comments) All 185 of the completely unverifiable Diebold touch-screen voting machines used in Northumberland County, PA's election were ordered impounded by a judge Tuesday night after complaints from both the Republican and Democratic parties. Officials from both parties had filed requested action following reports from voters that straight-party ticket votes were not showing voters the names of their selection for President

Thursday, November 6, 2008
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE REAL OBAMA NOW? by Sam Smith
(20 comments) Sam Smith of the Progressive Review has compiled a list of over 30 examples from Obama's history that make him seem more like a neocon and corporate tool than the "man of the People" his campaign ads portrayed him as, including his support for the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping with immunity for the Telcoms that broke the law, Wall Street Bailout, death penalty, Blackwater in Iraq, corporate insiders in his cabinet, more

Friday, October 31, 2008
Hope for Change or Change Your Hopes? - by Michael Collins | 911blogger.com
Michael Collins, journalist and election integrity activist, has written an article for 911Blogger.com on the security and prospects of the United States electoral process in which he details five elements of electoral fraud

Thursday, October 23, 2008
The BRAD BLOG : Vote Flips 5 Times From Dem to Rep for Voter in Yet Another WV County
(1 comments) More reports of votes being flipped from Dems to Reps; can Obamania and the flood of newly registered voters beat the computer? Why aren't Obama and the Dems demanding accountability?

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
9/11: Extreme NSA, CIA, FBI Incompetence- or Policy Maker Intent?
What's the difference between incompetence and intent? Do the 9/11 victims families and the people of the USA and the world have a right to answers? Kevin Fenton of HistoryCommons.org breaks down 7 points related to James Bamford's interview with Amy Goodman and new revelations about the NSA and CIA's failure to do really obvious things; like notify the FBI that 9/11 terrorists known to be plotting attacks were in the US

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Chicago's Cook County won't evict in foreclosures
(1 comments) The sheriff here said Wednesday that he's ordering his deputies to stop evicting people from foreclosed properties because many people his office has helped throw out on the street are renters who did nothing wrong. "We will no longer be a party to something that's so unjust," a visibly angry Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said at a news conference.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Bush Job Approval at 25%, His Lowest Yet - Gallup Poll
(2 comments) President Bush's job approval rating is at 25% in the latest Oct. 3-5 Gallup Poll, the lowest of the Bush administration, and only three percentage points above the lowest presidential approval rating in Gallup Poll history.

Friday, October 3, 2008
Who could have ever seen this financial mess coming? Comic: Tom Tomorrow
Political Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow explains the logic behind the bailout in 6 quick panels. Would be funnier if it wasn't so true.

Thursday, October 2, 2008
FBI Prevents Agents from Telling 'Truth' About 9/11 on PBS
The FBI has blocked two of its veteran counterterrorism agents from going public with accusations that the CIA deliberately withheld crucial intelligence before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
House rejects financial bailout bill
The federal government was constitutionally authorized in 1787 to create its own legal tender and issue credit.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
YouTube - Let's Play "WALLSTREET BAILOUT" The Rules Are... Rep Kaptur
Video of Rep. Marcy Kaptur D-OH speaking in the House; she pulls the covers on the latest shock doctrine power/money grab and proposes a much more sensible plan.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
DEBATE: WTC Controlled Demolition? RicDEBATE: 9/11 World Trade Center Controlled Demolition - Architect Richard Gage v
Exciting on-air debate with Richard Gage, AIA, of Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth and Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine on Oakland's KKGN 960am radio this last Thursday, September 18th. Don't miss this one!!!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Scientists, Scholars, Architects & Engineers respond to NIST
(5 comments) Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice and Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth submitted comments 9/15/08 to NIST on their recent release of their final draft report on the destruction of WTC 7 on 9/11.

Sunday, September 7, 2008
The failure of the NIST WTC 7 report to address concerns raised in Appendix C of the 2002 FEMA Building Performance Stud
(1 comments) The NIST WTC 7 report does not attempt to explain the "severe high-temperature corrosion attack" on apparently the only piece of WTC 7 steel which was tested, as documented in Appendix C, "Limited Metallurgical Examination" of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Building Performance Study

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The Bush Administration Is an Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy Under International Law and U.S. Domestic Law
Francis A. Boyle indictment of the Bush Administration- Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference: Planning for the Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals Massachusetts Law School September 13-14, 2008 Andover, Massachusetts

Monday, September 1, 2008
Experts Predict Slew of Torture Suits
Last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals announced that its full court would reconsider the disturbing case of Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen arrested by U.S. authorities at JFK airport in 2002 and forcibly extradited to Syria for interrogation. As U.S. officials surely expected, Arar was questioned under torture for the next year in a Syrian prison. He was eventually released without charge.

Monday, September 1, 2008
Arabesque: 9/11 Misinformation: Flight "Passenger Lists"� Show "No Hijacker Names"�
- Misinformation: Passenger "Manifests" Contain "No Arab or Alleged Hijacker Names" - Passenger Manifests versus Victim Lists - Who Had Access to Flight Manifests on 9/11? - When was the List of Alleged Hijackers Finalized? - What about the Security Videos? - Other Problems with the Hijackers - Conclusions

Sunday, August 31, 2008
YouTube and The New Classroom
(2 comments) Since it was virtually impossible to ignore, I have decided to allow yet another unconventional entity into my classroom. You guessed it YOUTUBE. (this kid has lungs from his heart- check out the other videos from the main article)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
NIST to Release Report on B7 via Public Webcast - Thurs, Aug 21st | 911blogger.com
(1 comments) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 18, 2008 CONTACT: Ben Stein (301) 975-3097 NIST to Release Report and Recommendations from Investigation of World Trade Center Building 7 *** Agency Will Hold Public Webcast on August 21 ***

Sunday, August 17, 2008
Taking on terrorists: Is military force the best means to defeat terrorist groups? RAND Corp finds "Not in most cases"
MANY studies have asked how terrorist groups are born; relatively few have described how such groups are best put out of business. A recent effort to do the latter, by RAND Corporation, an American think-tank, is therefore welcome. It considers the fate of some 650 groups (defined widely), between 1968 and 2006, asking in particular what put an end to them. In the process it casts some useful light on a hoary old question

Saturday, August 16, 2008
Think Your Internet Provider Might Be Spying On You? Just Check Our List
Ever wonder which ISPs and portals are collecting and storing your surfing data? Thanks to a Congressional committee, you can find out.

Saturday, August 16, 2008
7 Myths of Crowd Psychology
(2 comments) 7 common myths about crowd psychology debunked

Saturday, August 16, 2008
Colorado Creating US's First Fossil Fuel-Free Community
The latest trend in the green movement – other than EVs – seems to be greenhousing communities. Considering everyone needs a place to live, this is a perfect focus for injecting green technology into daily living. Arvada, Colorado is all over this concept, going farther than solar roofing, or LEED certification goals. They're setting up a community that will completely eliminate the use of fossil fuels.

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Pelosi Clashes With Protesters Over Impeachment
(8 comments) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's appearance Monday at a West Los Angeles college to discuss her recently published book was marred by dozens of protesters and several angry outbursts by audience members who demanded Pelosi immediately authorize a House committee to hold impeachment hearings against George W. Bush.

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Conyers Announces Review of Allegations of Bush Administration's Forged Iraq Intelligence
(3 comments) House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today announced plans to review allegations that senior Bush Administration officials ordered the forgery and dissemination of false intelligence documents as reported by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Ron Suskind, in his new book, "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism."

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Meryl Nass, M.D.: Conclusive evidence of means, motive and opportunity are missing [against Ivins in the FBI's Anthrax c
[Anthrax] Case Analysis in a Nutshell: 13 serious problems with the FBI's joke of a circumstantial case against Ivins; apparently, he was a patsy.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Arabesque: 9/11 Activists, Start Your Own 9/11 Blog! (If you are fed up with the silent Corporate Media)
(2 comments) Advice, ideas and links for starting your own blog. "Think about this for a second: if you are serious about exposing the 9/11 cover-up, this means you are going to have to get your voice heard by effectively promoting 9/11 information. Joining a forum is a start, but if you are tired about the MSM not reporting 9/11 information, why not do something about it by starting your own blog?"

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Giant Flying Dog Turd Electrocuted, Breaks Window- Breitbart
(1 comments) Up in the sky! It's a Bush...it's a Cheney... No, it's an inflatable piece of art that was on display in Switzerland

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Peak Oil Crisis: Masking the Peak
As world oil production has never peaked before, there is no historical basis for making informed judgments as to what is going to happen. All we know is that some six billion people, living in some 200 economies on this earth are soon going to be confronted with getting by on less than the 86 million barrels of oil per day (b/d) that we currently consume. The outcome of the interaction among all those people...

Monday, August 11, 2008
Secret of invisibilty unravelled by US researchers | The Register
Scientists at the University of California in Berkeley have engineered a material that can bend visible light around objects. This development could soon result in technology that can render tanks, ships and troops invisible to the eye. Results of the US military-funded research are expected to appear in the scientific journals Science and Nature this week.

Sunday, August 10, 2008
What's the answer to this? - Glenn Greenwald
(3 comments) Another hole in the FBI's case against Ivins has turned up; why was a letter postmarked a day later than when the FBI said he mailed it? Also, a short review of some of the latest differing opinions, and similarities between the FBI's "case" against Ivins, and their "case" against Hatfill.

Sunday, August 10, 2008
Capitol Hill Questions FBI Anthrax Investigation: Where's The Polygraph?
(1 comments) Concerns about the FBI's circumstantial case against military microbiologist Bruce Ivins are reaching Capitol Hill.

Sunday, August 10, 2008
"Mad Scientist"� Ivins, and Other 9/11 Legends
(2 comments) The biggest hole in the current news story is that we all are expected now to reverse seven years of thinking, and suddenly believe that the anthrax attacks had no connection to 9/11. They were the work of an American insider, a psycho killer inside the US Army's Fort Detrick, the Maryland headquarters of tax-payer funded chemical warfare.

Sunday, August 10, 2008
230,000 homes get solar power [in Bangladesh]
Millions in Bangladesh are taking to solar power to light up their homes at night. Officials said, over 230,000 rural households in Bangladesh have been brought under the solar power system in last five years by the Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL).

Sunday, August 10, 2008
Ford told FBI about panel's doubts on JFK murder- AP
Former President Ford secretly advised the FBI that two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI's conclusion that John F. Kennedy was shot from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas, according to newly released records from Ford's FBI files.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act
(4 comments) Lawrence Lessig, a respected Law Professor from Stanford University told an audience at this years Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California, that "There's going to be an i-9/11 event" which will act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
The Anthrax Follies and the Bizarro Effect- by Justin Raimondo
(1 comments) The release of the FBI's "evidence" against Bruce Ivins, the now-deceased Ft. Detrick scientist targeted by the FBI as the alleged culprit in the 2001 anthrax letters case, demonstrates either (1) the FBI is covering for the real culprits, or (2) what we are witnessing is a dramatic drop in the intelligence of the average FBI official – maybe it's something in the water.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Thought Crimes Agenda Already Being Implemented
(2 comments) The Department of Homeland Security is moving towards implementing a provision of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 otherwise known as the thought crimes bill. This is despite the fact that the legislation has not been signed into law. The House version of the bill HR 1955 was passed by a margin of 404-6 where as the Senate version of the bill S 1959 is still awaiting action.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Bush classifies $200 million cybersecurity program, redacts questions about contractors
(6 comments) As Americans focus on the Olympics and the 2008 presidential campaign, the Bush Administration is finalizing plans to establish yet another massive surveillance program -- and has classified almost every single detail.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Cynthia McKinney - Inventing Terror at Home
"Tonight, I want to talk a little bit about how a bad idea can get out of control and almost even become law, and what we all can do to prevent these things from happening." Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader are the best candidates running, when the internet is easily accessible thru TV, as it will be now that digital's becoming standard, all the money of the establishment hacks will be less influential.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
The Elections Are Coming. Is Al-Qaeda? -[Obama Advisor]
(4 comments) Obama foreign policy advisor and "former" CIA Bruce Riedel has written a piece in the Washington Post today warning of a pre-election attack from al-Qaeda. October surprise?

Friday, August 8, 2008
Arabesque: Paul Thompson's Complete 9/11 Timeline: A Short Review
A quick overview of the Complete 9/11 Timeline, some of the material it contains, and tips for using it. The Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory is contradicted the government's own statements, policies/procedures and reports, as well as thousands of credible MSM reports:

Friday, August 8, 2008
(Smarter than Human?) Why We Can Be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter Century
(4 comments) The advent of strong AI (exceeding human intelligence) is the most important transformation this century will see, and it will happen within [23] years, says Ray Kurzweil

Friday, August 8, 2008
DARPA-linked Cycorp "Predicted" the Anthrax Attacks - 6 months before they happened.
Only sheer brilliance or a crystal ball could foretell the next terrorist attack, right? Nope, says the inventor of a computer program that predicted anthrax might be sent through the mail six months before it happened. Cyc (as in encyclopedia), a project that is now part of the Pentagon's research on sniffing out terrorist plots, comes up with scenarios that could help focus screening efforts. It works by applying common sens

Friday, August 8, 2008
THERE IS NO LAW making the typical working American liable for any income tax.
(2 comments) July 11, 2007 Attorney Tom Cryer was acquitted by a Shreveport, LA jury of failing to pay income taxes; the IRS failed to prove he was liable. This link is an overview of the situation. I am posting it to invite public discussion; I have not researched all the facts involved, and have no position on this issue, other than that, if true, people who are NOT liable for paying US income tax should not be held liable.

Friday, August 8, 2008
WTC 7 Emergency Head Was Building Collapse Specialist [Jerome Hauer; Kroll, Anthrax, 9/11, SAIC, etc.]
(2 comments) 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.

Friday, August 8, 2008
Salon Radio: Anthrax edition - Glenn Greenwald
We discussed the impossibility of assessing the scientific validity of the FBI's assertions in the Ivins case due to their ongoing concealment of the underlying scientific data relevant to those claims; the numerous scientific gaps in the FBI's public disclosure of its case; and the multiple other private and public institutions where anthrax of the type sent by the attacker could very well be produced -- such as the Dugway Pr

Friday, August 8, 2008
Group offering $100K reward for right-wing 527 takedowns
Launching a new political organization called 'Accountable America' this week, he hopes to stifle the traditionally lucrative donations to GOP-leaning 527 advocacy groups by Republican donors. Matzzie, along with partner Judd Legum -- former research director to Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- is offering a high dollar reward. In this case, $100,000 for information which leads to the takedown or federal punishm

Thursday, August 7, 2008
The FBI's New Anthrax Evidence | Kevin Fenton
The FBI has just released a bunch of evidence it thinks is bad for Bruce Ivins in the anthrax case. However, none of this proves Ivins guilt or that he acted alone. Also, did Ivins really have "hundreds" of letters in his house similar to the ones that were sent, when he knew he might be a suspect? Everyone at Fort Detrick got interviewed, and the FBI had traced the Anthrax back to there- when did they confiscate the letters?

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Arabesque: 9/11 Truth: No Speculation Required: 9/11 Was an Inside Job
(5 comments) Speculation is one of the favorite pastimes among those who like to play "armchair conspiracy theorists". This is especially true when it comes to 9/11. As seen in the Scientific Method, speculation is indispensable,[1] and is always valuable when used in the right context. Indeed, theory would be impossible.

Thursday, August 7, 2008
George Washington: Hey, Hot-Shot
(3 comments) I'm posting this as a shout out to the trolls and fakes that cruise opednews.com (no, i am not accusing you; why, are you one?), and also because I can no longer find this in a google web search for "hey, hot shot", although it was a top hit a few months ago- why would Google de-index it? Can you find it?

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Internet Questioning the coming Internet clog
One of the nation's top authorities on global Internet traffic growth says his latest data show no reason to fear network capacity shortages, as traffic growth may even be slightly decelerating.

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Statement from Venable Attorneys Representing Dr. Bruce Ivins Responding to Justice Department Press Conference Naming D
"What the public demanded today was concrete evidence. Instead, it was deluged with everything but. The government released search warrants -- investigative tools designed to discover evidence, not to serve as evidence and treated these warrants as smoking guns. The government's press conference was an orchestrated dance of carefully worded statements, heaps of innuendo and a staggering lack of real evidence..."

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Meryl Nass: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor said at a Justice Department news conference, "We regret that we will not have the opportunity to present evidence to the jury." Everybody else regrets it too--since what came out today was another pastiche of innuendo and circumstantial evidence, with an awful lot of holes. Time for the FBI to present all of what it has to the court of public opinion, don't you think?

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Who pays when lenders fail? / Don't foreclose - keep borrowers in their homes
If there is any silver lining to the second largest thrift failure in U.S. history, it is this: the IndyMac bank collapse has ironically resulted in the nation's first foreclosure moratorium. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, after taking over IndyMac, declared it would halt all foreclosures on the $15 billon worth of IndyMac mortgages and modify the loans to keep borrowers in their homes.

Thursday, August 7, 2008
BRAD BLOG : Missouri Voter Refuses Illegal Demand to Show Photo ID at Poll, Gets Thrown in Jail
A voter in Kansas City on Tuesday --- one I [Brad Friedman] happen to know, because he's an Election Integrity advocate in the Show Me State --- was arrested and sent to jail after he refused to show a driver's license at the polling place before attempting to vote during the state's Primary Election.

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Experts Question FBI's Genetic Test in Anthrax Case
Scientists and legal experts questioned the reliability of novel genetic tests that the FBI says link deadly anthrax letters to an Army bioweapons scientist who authorities allege carried out the 2001 killings by himself.

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Anthrax suspect passed 2 polygraphs:Handwriting analysis also failed to tie Ivins to letters
Casting further doubt on the FBI's anthrax case, accused government scientist Bruce Ivins passed two polygraph tests and a handwriting analysis comparing samples of his handwriting to writing contained in the anthrax letters, U.S. officials familiar with the investigation say. [+ more than 100 people had access, fibers found on the tape couldn't be linked to Ivins, selective email quoting by DOJ and no explanation.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Additional key facts re: the anthrax investigation - Glenn Greenwald
It's perfectly possible that Bruce Ivins really is the anthrax attacker -- that he perpetrated the attacks and did so alone. Perhaps the FBI is in possession of mountains of conclusive evidence that, once revealed, will leave no doubt that Ivins is the guilty party. But no rational person could possibly assume that to be the case given the paltry amount of facts -- many of which contradict one another -- that are now known.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Should ABC News Reveal Anonymous Sources in Anthrax Probe? Bloggers Say Yes
News organizations are accustomed to fending off demands from judges and law enforcement agencies that they reveal their confidential sources. But what happens when this demand comes from news-savvy bloggers? Currently, ABC News is facing this quandary. This blog "meme" was sparked by two noted journalism professors: Jay Rosen and Dan Gillmor, in response to Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald's criticisms (Aug 1 and Aug 3) of ABC

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Stop the 'war' on terror: Calling it a 'war' is a boon to terrorist recruiters.
(1 comments) Military might against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups isn't working – and no wonder. After studying the record of 648 terrorist groups between 1968 and 2006, we've found that military force has rarely been effective in defeating this enemy.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The Anthrax Attacks: Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant
If we've learned anything in the United States during the Bush era, it's that we have to resist rushing to judgment in the face of catastrophic events. The exercise of careful, independent judgment is the best tool available - we should use it.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The BRAD BLOG : Exclusive: Government's Purported 'Anthrax Killer' Was a Registered Democrat
Bruce E. Ivins, reportedly on the verge of being indicted for capital murder in the anthrax killings, was a registered Democrat, according to the Fredrick County, MD, Board of Elections. He had been registered there since 1982 and records indicate that he voted in "every election since 1996," including Democratic primaries, according to the official who responded to a request from West Virginia-based radio host Bob Kincaid.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The BRAD BLOG : Radio Free Anthrax, AP's Sorority Girls and Other Toxic Odds & Ends...
The case against the supposed "Anthrax Killer", Bruce E. Ivins, a researcher who worked at the Army lab confirmed by the government as being the source for the dry, powdered anthrax used in the letters targeted mainly at Democrats and other perceived "liberals," is going from bad to worse. At least the coverage of it from mainstream outlets such as AP.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad
(1 comments) "An ad for The Paris Hilton Presidential Campaign. Paid for by Funny Or Die." Her energy policy is better than McCain's, but she appears unaware that drilling likely won't change the price of oil due to OPEC policies of limiting supply, that the oil will take 10 years to get to market, that Big Oil already has leases on US LAND that they're not drilling- renewables & conservation can do more. But she's hot.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Refusing to be silenced (by MD police spying on protests)
On July 24, about 100 people gathered in Baltimore for a forum to stand up against a long-term spying operation conducted by the Maryland State Police against anti-death penalty and antiwar activists. The surveillance and infiltration of the groups took place while Republican Robert Ehrlich was governor, according to 43 pages of state police reports recently released to the ACLU.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
How to Perform a Citizen's Arrest of A Bush Administration Official
The news that 4 people had been arrested in Iowa while trying to perform a citizen's arrest on Karl Rove got me wondering: Can we arrest Bush administration officials ourselves? So I slogged through a slew of state statutes, and as it turns out, the answer is yes. But only if you live in certain particular states.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Journalist detained for reporting
It is becoming less unusual to hear of American journalists abroad who are detained, kidnapped or even killed in the line of duty. But for local journalists across Africa, Asia and the Mideast, kidnapping, detentions and threats to their families are disturbingly familiar.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
The FBI's emerging, leaking case against Ivins - Glenn Greenwald
It's certainly possible that once the FBI closes its investigation and then formally unveils its evidence -- which apparently will happen tomorrow -- a very convincing case will be made that Bruce Ivins perpetrated the anthrax attacks and did so alone. But what has been revealed thus far -- through the standard ritual of selected Government leaks which the establishment media, with some exceptions, just mindlessly re-prints no

Monday, August 4, 2008
Intel reveals design for fast, efficient future chips
Intel has revealed details of a new generation of chips designed for video game lovers, multi-taskers, and people seeking power-sipping computers adapted to increasingly mobile lifestyles. The world's largest chip maker provided a glimpse of "multi-core" computer processing technology code-named "Larrabee" that it plans to showcase next week at an industry conference in Los Angeles.

Monday, August 4, 2008
Meryl Nass, M.D.: Looking closer at Jean Duley's statements [Anthrax & Ivins]
"As a physician who is called to assess psychiatric patients presenting to the ER, I find her statements troubling: if any of these psychiatrists diagnosed Ivins as homicidal, that physician would be required to start immediate proceedings for psychiatric hospital commitment. Patients who are a danger to themselves or others must not be allowed to carry out such activities. That is the law."

Monday, August 4, 2008
FBI seizes local Md. library computers [without a warrant]
(2 comments) Without a warrant issued by a judge, i.e. illegally, but under color of law, "The FBI removed computer records from the C. Burr Artz Library this week, a library official confirmed Saturday." "This was the third time in his 10 years with FCPL that the FBI has come to the library seeking records, Batson said. It was the first time they came without a court order."

Monday, August 4, 2008
Violent Acres: Self Imposed Insomnia
"They called me on a Saturday. 'Please come and get her,' they said, 'Please. There's no one else.' I turned to my husband. 'Absolutely not,' he said. But when they opened up the evidence folder and showed him the pictures of her broken malnourished body, he relented.

Monday, August 4, 2008
Democracy Now! | Anthrax Mystery: Questions Raised over Whether Government Is Framing Dead Army Scientist for 2001 Attac
The FBI's prime suspect in the October 2001 anthrax letters case died last week in an apparent suicide. Bruce Ivins was an elite government scientist at the biodefense research lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. He was among the nation's top experts on the military use of anthrax. But many of his colleagues have expressed deep skepticism over the FBI's claims. We speak to anthrax expert Dr. Meryl Nass and blogger Glenn Greenwald.

Monday, August 4, 2008
Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: Evidence for Energetic Materials byKevin R. Ryan, James R. Gourley, a
Scientists known for hypothesizing the World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 & 7 were destroyed by controlled demolition have a new paper published in open access peer-reviewed journal, The Environmentalist. this one focuses on "spikes" of volatile organic compounds and new "species" not seen before in structure fires, but detected by the EPA while monitoring the air at Ground Zero. Let the public debate begin, truth will out.

Monday, August 4, 2008
Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation - Glenn Greenwald
The death of government scientist Bruce Ivins has generated far more questions about the anthrax attacks than it has answered. I want to return to the role the establishment media played in obfuscating the anthrax investigation for so long and, at times, aiding in what was clearly the deliberate deceit on the part of Government sources.

Monday, August 4, 2008
What is a "False-Flag"?
"False flag terrorism" is defined as a government attacking its own people, then blaming others in order to justify going to war against the people it blames.

Sunday, August 3, 2008
Ivins's suicide makes anthrax case a "slam dunk"???
A succession of Associated Press stories has portrayed a former government scientist as the source of the 2001 anthrax-laced letters, even though no proof has been brought forward as to the scientist's guilt. An incredible stream of anonymous government sources have been cited, with the accompanying reasons why they have requested anonymity. Of course Associated Press never mentions the unstated reason, & the most obvious 1

Saturday, August 2, 2008
A Surge on the Homefront? [McCain thinks cops should be like the military in Iraq]
John McCain is insane or clueless about Posse Comitatus- and he supports the Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory - instead of transparency & accountability in govt, and social justice: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has concocted a remarkable new policy: It reserves the right to seize for an indefinite period of time laptops taken across the border."

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Watchdog: Bush turning intelligence agencies on Americans
President Bush seems to be slowly turning the nation's massive surveillance apparatus upon its citizens, and some worry that administration assurances to protect civil liberties are nothing but empty promises.

Saturday, August 2, 2008
How US can get its groove back [transparency & accountability]
ONE OF THE biggest challenges facing the next president is how to restore US credibility in the world. Despite military assets unparalleled in history, US global standing hit rock bottom. The United States government is widely perceived today to be a violator of human rights. A poll conducted by the British Broadcasting Corp. last year in 18 countries on all continents revealed that 67 percent disapproved of US detention

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Smart People, Stupid Networks: The Internet's Equalizing Influence on Political Discourse and Engagement
A study of how the internet is empowering the People with information and technology for communicating and organizing, diluting the power of the political elites and leveling the playing field.

Saturday, August 2, 2008
U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S.
(6 comments) Iran won't have a working nuke bomb for a decade (if they're even trying to develop one), but that apparently hasn't stopped the neocons from plotting how to keep a Rethug majority and prevent criminal investigations; by attacking the US with a nuke, destroying tech infrastructure, causing 70-80% depopulation- and blaming it on Iran. God bless any patriot in a position to stop the next false-flag attack.

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Countdown: Anthrax Attacks Inside Job?
(1 comments) youtube video: Olbermann notes that the US govt is now confirming it was their own Anthrax used in 2001, asks why the FBI was so focused on Hatfill and why was the blame was being put on Iraq, without evidence- when they knew by mid 2002 that Ivins had cleaned Anthrax from a coworker's desk in December 2001 and hadn't reported it until 2002?

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Bush Unveils Spy Guidelines, Angering House Overseers
The Bush administration unveiled new operating guidelines for the nation's intelligence community yesterday in a move that boosted the authority of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) while triggering protests from lawmakers who complained that they weren't properly consulted.

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Giant kites to tap power of the high wind
Scientists from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands harnessed energy from the wind by flying a 10-sq metre kite tethered to a generator, producing 10 kilowatts of power. The experiment generated enough electricity to power 10 family homes, and the researchers have plans to test a 50kW version of their invention, called Laddermill, eventually building [a 100 MW that could power 100K homes]

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Homeland Security: We can seize laptops for an indefinite period
(2 comments) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has concocted a remarkable new policy: It reserves the right to seize for an indefinite period of time laptops taken across the border.

Friday, August 1, 2008
"It's My Country, Too."� [ACLU on the sham Guantanamo trials
On Wednesday, we discovered that the government may actually be more intent on covering up its own criminality than in establishing Hamdan's. Or perhaps the prosecution simply recognizes that an acquittal is virtually inconceivable in any military commission trial. Whatever the reason, the government demonstrated that it would rather lose the testimony of a key witness than allow Guantánamo's secret interrogation regime to be

Friday, August 1, 2008
BRAD BLOG : Media Fail to Report on 'Liberal' Targets of 'Anthrax Killer'
With the mainstream corporate media reports today on the apparent suicide of Bruce E. Ivins of the U.S. Government's bio weapons lab at Ft. Detrick, MD, who was reportedly about to be charged with the Anthrax murders of late 2001, it's curious --- if hardly surprising --- that none of the major outlets reporting the news bothered to note that the attacks were all made on perceived "liberals".

Friday, August 1, 2008
Scahill: Blackwater now in the private intelligence business
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm's latest foray into private intelligence. "They're marketing their services to not only foreign governments, but to Fortune 500 corporations," he recently told an interviewer.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Busting the Anthrax Myth
We must admit to being among those who do not perceive the threat of bioterrorism to be as significant as that posed by a nuclear strike. In fact, based on the past history of nonstate actors conducting attacks using biological weapons, we remain skeptical that a nonstate actor could conduct a biological weapons strike capable of creating as many casualties as a large strike using conventional explosives

Thursday, July 31, 2008
McKinney wants to change the Federal Reserve System
(3 comments) Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney says to 'Nationalize' the Federal Reserve, "remove the economic middle men" and put the process of currency back into the hands of the United States of America.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Al-Qaeda expert re-killed by CIA
Abu Khabab al-Masri 'died' in January 2006 and again on Monday. Once again, the 'mainstream' media announces the re-killing of another 'key al-Qaeda operative' by a 'CIA-operated unpiloted drone!' These top al-Qaeda operatives - and their subsequent deaths - are more bountiful than poppy fields in Afghanistan and oil smuggling routes in Iraq. BTW, who keeps picking up the US $5 million reward?

Thursday, July 31, 2008
New turbine to harness wave power
A turbine designed to be the forerunner of the UK's first commercial wave power station has been officially switched on in Argyll and Bute.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wind Breaker: Senate Again Rejects Tax Breaks for Clean Energy
Rethugs think nothing of investing a couple $Trillion and killing hundreds of thousands in wars based on false pretenses to grab oil and enrich their campaign contributors- but they don't want to pass a bill unless big oil gets to drill the coasts; even though big oil isn't drilling where they ALREADY have leases on US land! Call your "representatives" and tell them to pass the "use it or lose it" and clean energy bills.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
MIT claims 24/7 solar power
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have combined a liquid catalyst with photovoltaic cells to achieve what they claim is a solar energy system that could generate electricity around the clock. A liquid catalyst was added to water before electrolysis to achieve what the researchers claim is almost 100-percent efficiency. When combined with photovoltaic cells to store energy chemically, the resulting ...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
ACLU: Fusion Centers: Mysteries Wrapped in Enigmas of Horrible, Horrible Privacy Risks
Two of the ACLU's brightest stars on privacy and law enforcement, Jay Stanley and Mike German, wrote a great report last year entitled "What's Wrong with Fusion Centers?" that outlined, well, what's wrong with fusion centers. Fusion centers - also known as one-stop shopping for identity thieves - were brought about in a post-9/11 effort to get federal and local law enforcement talking to each other.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Explosive Interview: Richard Gage on Omni TV in Canada
In this 20 minute Satellite TV interview, Richard Gage, AIA, of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth lays out all the evidence for the controlled demolition of the 3 WTC high-rises on 9/11 . The next day Vancouver 9/11 Truth had to turn away 50 people in this standing room only venue of 300 at the famous Public Library.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Buyers of bogus degrees named [incl. people in govt., military, education]
Hundreds of people working in the military, government and education are on a list of almost 10,000 people who spent $7.3 million buying phony and counterfeit high school and college degrees from a Spokane diploma mill.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
CIA confronts ISI over alleged al-Qaeda links
Pot calls Kettle black; CIA Deputy Director Stephen R Kappes makes secret trip to Islmabad, Pakistan to warn them about their links to Al Qaeda, after suicide bombing in India is linked to the ISI

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Public Citizen- Oil Companies Escape Billions in Royalty Payments to Americans; Drilling Expansion Will Enrich U.S. and
A bureaucratic oversight has allowed 24 oil companies to avoid more than $1.3 billion in royalties for the privilege of extracting oil and natural gas from U.S. territory in the Gulf of Mexico - with foreign companies responsible for 55 percent of that total. But this $1.3 billion in forgone royalties pales in comparison to the $60 billion that Americans stand to lose in royalty revenue over the life of these leases.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Robert Scheer- Sucking Up to the Bankers: A Bipartisan Lovefest
This is a time to condemn the bankers, not to embrace them. They are the scoundrels who got us into the biggest economic mess since the Great Depression, lining their own pockets while destroying the life savings of those who trusted them. Yet both of our leading presidential candidates are scrambling to enlist not only the big-dollar contributions but, more frighteningly, the "expertise" of the very folks who advocated the...

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: The interrogator who made him talk
A CIA interrogator developed such a rapport with the mastermind of the September 11 attacks that he not only gave up vast amounts of information about al Qa'eda but even began writing poems for his wife.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Congress Blows Hot and Cold Over Tax Breaks for Wind Energy
Last year alone, wind-power capacity jumped 21 percent in the United States. Wind is now one of the country's fastest-growing electricity sources, buoyed by strong consumer demand, mounting concerns about fossil fuels, and-perhaps most notable-vital government support. But uncertainty about key federal tax credits threatens to knock the wind out of the wind-power industry.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
truthaction.org :Mission Statement and Guiding Principles
"truthaction.org is dedicated to achieving justice for the crimes of 9/11. To this end our primary focus is promoting activism to raise awareness about the lies of the official 9/11 story and to push for an independent criminal investigation into those events. It is our aim to grow the movement for truth on a global level through the promotion of International Days of Truth Action on the Eleventh Day of Every Month" [more]

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
How direct democracy makes Switzerland a better place
(1 comments) "there is one country that does more than any other to embody popular sovereignty within a multi-ethnic, multilingual and multi-confessional society: Switzerland. In this alpine republic with just seven million people, citizens' law-making is exercised on all political levels - including almost 3,000 autonomous municipalities, 26 sovereign states and on the common, federal level."

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
ACLU warns against 'no rules' surveillance apparatus
(1 comments) Troubling indications are emerging that the government is building a massive, virtually oversight-free domestic surveillance apparatus that could be cataloging private information on untold numbers of innocent Americans all under the guise of fighting terrorism, a new report warns.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors
Growing a mixed "lawn" of two kinds of nanowires can make a new kind of light-sensing array that could be made in metre-scale sheets. The researchers behind the prototype say such cheap, high-quality image sensors would allow uses not conceivable using today's more expensive technology.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Sen. Stevens indicted: 7 false statements counts
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Tidal Power Comes to Market [In Ireland]
The world's first commercial tidal-power system has been connected to the National Grid in Northern Ireland. Built by the British tidal-energy company Marine Current Technologies (MCT), the 1.2-megawatt system consists of two submerged turbines that are harvesting energy from Strangford Lough's tidal currents.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Training for Change: Can't governments crush nonviolent movements?
No, judging from the behavior of military dictatorships that have been overthrown by nonviolent action. Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic had overwhelming military power in 2000, and was thrown out by a nonviolent movement. Same with Philippines dictator Marcos in 1986. Same with the East German, Hungarian, Czech, and Polish dictatorships in 1989. The Shah of Iran had one of the ten most powerful armies in the world and ...

Monday, July 28, 2008
Bipartisan FCC Majority Votes to Punish Comcast
A bipartisan majority of the Federal Communications Commission has reportedly voted to punish Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, for blocking consumers' access to the open Internet. According to press reports, Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein have voted with Chairman Kevin Martin for an "enforcement order" that would require Comcast to stop blocking and publicly disclose its "network management"

Monday, July 28, 2008
The Answer's in the Wind -- and Sun
While politicians and environmentalists have been busy arguing about how best to require that greenhouse gases be curtailed, the world around them has changed. The precipitous rise in oil and gas prices over the past year has made the debate on greenhouse gas emissions moot. The reduction in the output of those gases will move forward at warp speed, not because of rules, regulations and cap-and-trade decrees but because of fre

Monday, July 28, 2008
Arabesque: 9/11 Truth: Iraq, 9/11 and Oil
What exactly do Iraq, 9/11, and oil have to do with each other?

Sunday, July 27, 2008
Activists charged with trespassing after attempt to arrest Karl Rove
"It should be Karl Rove in that van. War criminal!" one demonstrator shouted as police rounded up the four men. Chet Guinn, a retired Methodist Minister, was among those led away. "To be silent when major crimes are being committed against all humanity makes us accomplices," Gwinn said. Rove flaunted his absence from hearings he [was subpoenaed to attend and] called a "circus" on The O'Reilly Factor last week.

Saturday, July 26, 2008
54% Back Military Tribunals for Terrorists over U.S. Courts
this is from Rasmussen (Republican) Reports, so adjust accordingly. However, check this: "Seventy-one percent (71%) say the suspects should not be given the rights U.S. citizens have in court, while only 18% think they should, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national survey." Sounds like at least some Dems need to realize the neocons want the President to have the power to hold ANYONE indefinitely without charge

Saturday, July 26, 2008
Afghan civilian airstrike deaths probed [78 civilians killed this month]
KABUL - U.S. and NATO military officials in Afghanistan have launched investigations into three separate U.S.-led airstrikes that Afghan officials say killed at least 78 civilians this month.

Saturday, July 26, 2008
The 25 Most Vicious Iraq War Profiteers
The Iraq war is many things to different people. It is called a strategic blunder and a monstrous injustice and sometimes even a patriotic mission, much to the chagrin of rational human beings. For many big companies, however, the war is something far different: a lucrative cash-cow.

Saturday, July 26, 2008
2 more U.S. banks fail [7 total this year- so far]
"Federal regulators closed two small Western banks Friday, bringing to seven the number of U.S. banks that have failed this year." Doesn't this prove that putting the fox in charge of the hen house is a bad idea? "Money" is a public good, like clean air and water, and should not be controlled by private, secretive, corrupt interests, like the Rockefellers, Morgans and the Federal Reserve. Honest people don't fear transparency.

Saturday, July 26, 2008
As Cost Goes Down, Solar Energy Rises
Solar power is getting cheaper, edging it closer to being cost competitive with electricity generated by burning fossil fuels. For firms and homeowners in California and the Southwest, the cost of solar-cell power will fall 25%, to 25¢ per kilowatt-hour (kWh), by 2011.

Friday, July 25, 2008
Guantanamo testimony: U.S. let bin Laden's top bodyguard go
Was Bin Laden's top bodyguard a CIA mole? "Soon after Osama bin Laden's driver got here in 2002, he told interrogators the identity of the al Qaeda chief's most senior bodyguard - then a fellow prison camp detainee. But, inexplicably, the U.S. let the bodyguard go."

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Air Travelers Accuse TSA Agents Of 'Humiliating' Security Screenings At Airports
(2 comments) At that point, Perry was standing in his underwear in public view. He asked to see a supervisor. That made things worse. "She was yelling 'I have power, I have power, I have power," Perry said. The power to stop him from flying to Florida with his wife that day to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Arabesque: 9/11 Truth: Scientific Method versus Political Method: The US administration and its interpretation of the e
(11 comments) 9/11 was a terrorist attack-or was it?

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Col. Jenny Sparks: Black PR and proof of Paid Internet Shills
(20 comments) Ever wonder where some of "those" commenters are coming from? It may not just be a hobby for them. They may not have a personality disorder. They may be "Rent-A-Trolls".

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Could You be on U.S. Terror Watch List?
(3 comments) JIM ROBINSON, FORMER ASST. ATTORNEY GENERAL: his name is on the terrorist watch list; is yours, too? The list recently passed the 1 million name mark

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Aidan Monaghan - NTSB: No Records Pertaining To Process Of Positive Identification Of 9/11 Aircraft Wreckage
(1 comments) Within a July 18, 2008 Freedom of Information Act response from the National Transportation Safety Board, the NTSB indicates that it possesses no records indicating how wreckage recovered from the 4 aircraft used during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 was positively identified as belonging to the 4 planes reportedly hijacked that day or even if such wreckage was positively identified at all.

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Mukasey: Congress Must "Urgently" Delay Guantánamo Cases
Attorney General Mukasey gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute on Monday morning (repeated before Congress yesterday) in which he issued an "urgent" call for a third round of Congressional legislation to ensure that this administration will never have to explain to a federal court why they have held our clients in Guantánamo for over six years

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe's electricity, says EU
A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing the fierce power of the desert sun. Dwarfed by any of the north African nations, it represents an area slightly smaller than Wales but scientists claimed yesterday it could one day generate enough solar energy to supply all of Europe with clean electricity.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Lame-Duck Attorney General Wants New Declaration of War - and Takes Aim at the Constitution
"Mukasey offered a multi-part plan to violate the Constitution. He demanded that Congress declare a new "armed conflict" (which is Bush-speak for a new declaration of war) that would give a president worldwide power to declare anyone a terrorist and hold the person forever - without ever charging anyone with a crime"

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
How to harvest solar power? Beam it down from space!
Improving solar technology and the skyrocketing price of oil are making space-based solar power a feasible option.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Booming oil means record 2Q sales for Halliburton
War profiteers are cleaning up as the economy flounders thanks to crony capitalist mismanagement

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Col. Jenny Sparks: You are the media--so start your own 911Activist Blog today
(2 comments) Col. Jenny Sparks lists a numbers of reasons, with inspiring commentary, on why we should all start our own blog. Be the Media; you can start right here on OpEdNews.com with diaries and article submissions- even by submitting quicklinks. If you're not confident about your writing skills, posting comments is good practice. I don't have my own blog set up yet, but it's in the works.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Gitmo judge excludes coerced evidence
The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence on Monday that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver following his capture in Afghanistan.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Why make your own fuel? Because you can!
(1 comments) Alcohol is a remarkable substance: it gives us pleasure, can be used as medicine, and has many commercial uses, including automotive and aviation fuel. I like to think of it as "sunlight in a bottle". You can get better performance from your engine, and it doesn't pollute! It has been used in racing engines in the Indianapolis 500 for over 80 years!

Monday, July 21, 2008
The Pentagon Honey Pot
A collection of quotes on the Pentagon Controversy "A honey pot, in intelligence jargon, is a tempting source of information or 'dangle' that is set out to lure intended victims into a trap. Ultimately the honey pot is violently and maliciously discredited so as to destroy the credibility of anything stuck to it by association" – Michael Ruppert, "Crossing the Rubicon," p. 184

Monday, July 21, 2008
9/11 - A CRUISE MISSILE AT THE PENTAGON
(4 comments) This is an article that purports to prove that a cruise missile hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Read and consider the claims for yourself. I disagree, and am only submitting because it mentions me, Erik Larson, by name and has my photo. It provides the correct web address for my "Pentagon Hole" Psyop article, but not a link, and the text is not possible to copy, making it less likely people will visit and read my article.

Monday, July 21, 2008
9/11 and the Pentagon Attack: What Eyewitnesses Described
(36 comments) A breakdown of what eyewitnesses saw at the Pentagon on 9/11. At least 100 saw a jet hit the Pentagon, and many more saw a jet flying at the Pentagon. No one saw a missile; witnesses that thought the plane was a smaller plane than a jumbo jet were further away than those who were close. Many remembered it being silver, with red and blue markings, even an AA logo.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality
Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Are You Getting What You're Paying For? 25 Online Tools to Test Your Internet Service
Most people pay a hefty amount of money every month to ensure that they have a quality connection to the Internet. But are you really getting what you pay for? Your speed, quality of service, and even the sites you're allowed to use may be interfered with. Put these tools to work to make sure you're getting everything you've been promised.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Author: Officials against torture memo feared wiretaps, physical danger
According to Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, two top lawyers in the Justice Department who attempted to push back against the authorization of torture by Vice President Cheney's staff became so paranoid that they worried they were being wiretapped and even feared they might be in physical danger.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Congress: Make-Up from Year 1855-to-Present
(1 comments) During pivotal moments in US history, the voters have rousted large numbers of incumbents; the Great Depression was the largest turnover. With the Bush Administration's record, with what's happening in the economy and Iraq, with Republocrats making threats against Iran, and with Congress at its lowest ever approval ratings for failing to hold the Bush Administration accountable for anything; what will happen this November?

Monday, July 21, 2008
Persistence is Key to Victory by George Washington
In the battle for truth and justice, those who are most persistent will ultimately win. Being right isn't enough. If we speak the truth ninety times, but then stop speaking the truth, those spreading propaganda will win when they repeat their false statements for the ninety-first time.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Quarter of the planet to be online by 2012
(2 comments) According to the report by Jupiter Research, the total number of people online will climb to 1.8 billion by 2012, encompassing roughly 25 percent of the planet.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Truth Squadding--Doing it Effectively by Col. Jenny Sparks
A "How To": "Truth Squadding" for the uninitiated, is "Bird Dogging" in 911 activism. "Bird dogging" is a journalist term for an organized coordinated attempt to get a public figure on record about a position:

Sunday, July 20, 2008
Cui Bono? The 9/11 Promotions
(2 comments) Cui Bono; who benefits? The FBI and CIA failed to stop the alleged 9/11 hijackers when they could have, and NORAD & the Air Force failed to intercept the off-course planes. No one was held accountable; in fact, certain principals were promoted.

Sunday, July 20, 2008
Video: Jane Mayer on Terror Politics And War Crimes after 9/11
The fact that hardly anyone has heard of David Addington is no accident. As chief of staff to Dick Cheney, he shares his boss's fetish for secrecy. But as reporters are finally zeroing in on what Bush officials have really been up to these last seven years, evidence continues to pile up about the key role Addington has played in the skullduggery. Some are even suggesting he could be tried for war crimes for his [torture role]

Saturday, July 19, 2008
Explosive and Revealing Quotations about 9/11 Completely Ignored by the Mainstream Media
(1 comments) These explosive and revealing comments about 9/11 have been completely ignored by the Mainstream Media. While talking about the 9/11 commission, 9/11 family member Patty Casazza reveals that FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds had incriminating insider information about the 9/11 attacks:

Saturday, July 19, 2008
Swiss Man, Moved By the Sun, Produces Solar-Powered Car
(2 comments) A car with Swiss license plates cruising along roads on the sunburned hills of Merced County isn't exactly common sight. An even less common sight is a solar-powered car that produces zero carbon emissions. That's exactly what a small group of residents saw Friday, as Swiss schoolteacher and world traveler Louis Palmer rolled into UC Merced with his Solar Taxi.

Saturday, July 19, 2008
'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies by Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
Lie #1: The Bush Administration claims they tortured out of concern for protecting American lives, and to disrupt Al Qaeda- but they blocked the FBI from interviewing Moussaoui for years after 9/11. Lie #2: Torture "saves lives"; the Bush Administration has claimed torture has prevented attacks, but has never offered any evidence to back up the claim. Torture's counter-productive effects have been documented

Friday, July 18, 2008
Texas approves major new wind power project
(2 comments) Texas, headquarters of America's oil industry, is about to stake a fortune on wind power. In what experts say is the biggest investment in the clean and renewable energy in U.S. history, utility officials in the Lone Star State gave preliminary approval Thursday to a $4.9 billion plan to build new transmission lines to carry wind-generated electricity from gusty West Texas to urban areas like Dallas.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Tidal power feeds electricity to National Grid in world first
The first ever commercial electricity powered by the tides has been put on the National Grid, project managers said today. The £10million SeaGen turbine based in Northern Ireland's Strangford Lough generated enough green energy to supply 150 homes in a test. Full-blown production is expected in a few weeks' time.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Automated Precision Satellite Guidance Of 9/11 Type Aircraft Largely Possible Just Before Attacks
Because information collected after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 has raised questions about the alleged ability and motivation of the people accused of piloting Boeing 757 and 767 planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, speculation has since lingered regarding the covert use of technology to precisely self-navigate all 4 airliners into targets that day.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Gore Calls for Carbon-Free Electric Power
(3 comments) Former Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday that Americans must abandon electricity generated by fossil fuels within a decade and rely on the sun, the winds and other environmentally friendly sources of power, or risk losing their national security as well as their creature comforts.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Quantum Leap: Researchers have controlled the position of a single electron in a silicon circuit.
An international team of researchers has shown that it can control the quantum state of a single electron in a silicon transistor--even putting the electron in two places at once. Their discovery could help pave the way toward a practical quantum computer.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Strongest Material Ever Tested: Graphene, praised for its electrical properties, has been proven the strongest known mat
Materials scientists have been singing graphene's praises since it was first isolated in 2005. The one-atom-thick sheets of carbon conduct electrons better than silicon and have been made into fast, low-power transistors. Now, for the first time, researchers have measured the intrinsic strength of graphene, and they've confirmed it to be the strongest material ever tested.

Friday, July 18, 2008
SolarCity provides SF power below grid price
If you are a San Francisco resident considering solar panels, now is the time for action, says Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity, a start-up that leases panels to homeowners. Since the city solar-incentive program came into effect in July, it has become financially viable for even small energy consumers to install solar-power systems.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Concern grows over a fiscal crisis for U.S.
As the Bush administration proposes backstopping mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a $300 billion line of credit and Congress contemplates another economic stimulus, the question is who will bail out the government?

Thursday, July 17, 2008
10+ Abuses for the Past 30+ Years
These 10+ abuses (below) did not all come about by mere coincidence. These 10+ abuses are gradually eroding the future and security of the nation. It takes a lot of abuse before a country decays into lawlessness and economic disaster, and the past 30+ years are evidence of that. That is, the U.S. is still one of the 26 best nations (of the hundreds) in the world to live. But for how much longer?

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Seven years on, no answer from White House on anthrax attacks
It's been almost seven years since - in the weeks immediately following 9/11 - anthrax powder sent through the mail killed five people, threatened the lives of two Democratic senators, terrorized the entire nation, and helped prod a panicky Congress into passing the so-called Patriot Act.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Cracking down on Comcast: The FCC's proposal to punish America's largest cable company for blocking internet traffic is
Though funded with taxpayer dollars, the FCC has a long history of backroom deals, special favours and massive giveaways to the industries it's supposed to monitor. Which is why it's so refreshing to see chairman Kevin Martin - a Republican Bush appointee, no less - ready to hold the nation's largest cable company accountable for secretly blocking internet traffic.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
FBI probing failed IndyMac bank (and 20 others for possible mortgage fraud)
The FBI is investigating failed IndyMac Bank for possible mortgage fraud, US media reported on Thursday, citing US officials. The California-based IndyMac Bank, which government regulators seized last week, is among 21 banks being probed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Power of Solar Communities
The great innovations of the 21st Century will be social. I predict that the solutions to our greatest challenges will emerge through new ways of coming together. Case in point, the Drake Landing Solar Community is a fully integrated housing development that takes solar to the next level. Solar panels channel heat through a series of underground pipes to produce a reservoir of energy for warming the 52 home neighborhood

Thursday, July 17, 2008
High Density Vertical Growth (HDVG) Garden
An intro to "vertical gardening"; beat the high cost of good by growing your own- and break the corporate stranglehold on human life at the same time.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Greener power to the people: the real energy alternative?
Ministers could avoid building nuclear reactors by encouraging families to fit solar panels and other renewable energy equipment to their homes, a startling official report concludes. The government-backed report, to be published tomorrow, says that, with changed policies, the number of British homes producing their own clean energy could multiply to one million – about one in every three – within 12 years.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
German Expert Predicts US Solar Energy Boom
There's something incongruous about experts from normally cloudy Germany coming to California, the land of eternal sunshine, to teach the locals about how to harness solar power. But that's was happening this week in San Francisco, where organizers of the world's largest solar exhibition, Germany's Intersolar, launched an American version of their confab amid predictions of a massive solar boom in the ailing US economy.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
How You Can Turn a Vacant Lot Into a Community Garden
(1 comments) If you see a vacant lot in your neighborhood that would make a great garden, here's how to get started:

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Microgeneration could rival nuclear power, report shows
British buildings equipped with solar, wind and other micro power equipment could generate as much electricity in a year as five nuclear power stations, a government-backed industry report showed today.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Unique business aims to spread solar power
Blake Jones' business plan for his company, Namaste Solar Electric, was so unusual, he confounded a lot of business experts.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
IndyMac fallout hits other banks
The fallout of IndyMac Bank prompted investors to dump the stocks of many mortgage lenders, precipitating the steepest one-day decline in banking shares since 1989, a newspaper report said on Tuesday. Southern California fixtures Downey Financial Corp. and First Fed Financial Corp., were among the hardest hit, with their stock prices down 24 percent and 19 percent respectively, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Who Hijacked Our Country: Oil Company Leases: "Use It Or Lose It"�
While the Repubs are screaming about drilling US coasts NOW!!! for oil that'll take 10 years to get to market, they didn't vote for a "use it or lose it" bill that would've compelled oil companies to drill where they ALREADY HAVE leases. It was emergency legislation and needed a 2/3 vote; some Dems are working on another version, while Repugs scream.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - film by John Albanese
one of the best films ever made about 9/11; focuses on established facts, the many questions raised by the families and ignored by the 9/11 Commission, and additional questions raised since.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
No George Monbiot, These Are The Facts of September 11th 2001
(2 comments) 70 disturbing facts about the 9/11 attacks

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Third Tower 1/2 [Video clip compilation]
(3 comments) This just under 9" minute video has a lot of different footage from different angles of the now famous WTC7 "collapse", which happened at 5:20pm on 9/11. See for yourself if you believe fires and structural damage are what made this building drop just like a controlled demolition

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
White-power groups recruiting from military
White-supremacist groups have recruited 203 people who served in the U.S. military or who claim to have U.S. military backgrounds, according to a new report by the FBI. The unclassified FBI Intelligence Assessment, issued last week and obtained by NBC News, cautions that white-power extremists are trying hard to recruit active-duty soldiers and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Big Brother database recording all our calls, texts and e-mails will 'ruin British way of life'
Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a 'step too far for the British way of life'. In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to detail every phone call, e-mail, text message, internet search and online purchase in the fight against terrorism and other serious crime.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Digg - International Protest Sept 11th, 2008 w/ Cynthia McKinney
This years protest will feature Green Party Presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney. Rallies will be held in cities around the world. Cynthia will be in NYC. If you are not able to make it to New York City, plan a protest in your city locally.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Schumer Deflects Blame to IndyMac, Regulator
Sen. Charles Schumer, hit with criticism from a federal regulator that he contributed to the failure of IndyMac Bank, said he may have caused some depositors to withdraw their money but said he wasn't responsible for the bank's downfall.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
We've seen the future ... and we may Not be doomed (UN Report)
(5 comments) Humanity stands on the threshold of a peaceful and prosperous future, with an unprecedented ability to extend lifespans and increase the power of ordinary people – but is likely to blow it through inequality, violence and environmental degradation. And governments are not equipped to ensure that the opportunities are seized and disasters averted.

Monday, July 14, 2008
Bush to hasten Iraq troop withdrawal in bid to help McCain win White House
President George Bush wants to speed up the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq, a move that could help to quell the anti-war anxieties of voters before November's presidential election.

Sunday, July 13, 2008
BUSH ADMINISTRATION LOSES APPEAL ON VISITOR RECORDS LAWSUIT FILED BY CREW
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) successfully moved ahead in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for public access to Secret Service records of top conservative religious leaders who have visited the White House or Vice President Cheney's residence. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a decision in CREW v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security, dismissing the government's appeal

Sunday, July 13, 2008
Nouri al-Maliki ready to oust US from Iraq green zone
(4 comments) The green zone of Baghdad, a highly fortified slice of American suburbia on the banks of the Tigris river, may soon be handed over to Iraqi control if the increasingly assertive government of Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, gets its way.

Friday, July 11, 2008
Did Iran doctor missile photos?
Images of Iran's latest round of missile tests have been proudly posted on official media outlets in the Islamic Republic and circulated around the world, but an attentive American blogger was the first to notice something fishy about the identical formations of dust and smoke that appear underneath the rising projectiles in a launch photograph.

Friday, July 11, 2008
Stop Big Media: Tell the House to Veto the FCC
The Senate voted in overwhelming numbers to reject an FCC ruling that would unleash a new wave of media consolidation across America. More than a quarter-million people took action and sent a powerful message to Washington: Big Media is big enough.

Friday, July 11, 2008
Technology could streamline solar power: 'Solar concentrators' are more efficient, cost-effective than panels
A new, compact way to collect sunlight from windows and focus it to generate more electricity could make those multiple expensive rooftop solar panels a thing of the past.

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Thursday, 7/10 -- 911Truth.org Hosts Truth Movement Conference Call with Rep. Dennis Kucinich
911Truth.org is pleased to invite you to join us for a Truth Movement Conference Call with Dennis Kucinich, Thursday evening, July 10, 9pmEastern/6pmPacific. A small panel will ask questions of interest to every American who wants to reclaim our government. You are invited to listen in via phone (details below) or live, at NoLiesRadio.org. After the call we'll post the audio, with a list of the questions and links to more info

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Aussie science to make net 100 times faster
(1 comments) COMPUTER users frustrated by slow internet connections could soon be surfing the w