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Monday, October 26, 2009
MERS Losing! Stop Your Foreclosure, Share with Others
In court cases in KS, OH, NY, NV and MA human beings are saving their homes from foreclosure by demanding that banks produce the Note. Judges in some of these cases have ruled that MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration System) which has acted as a 'straw man' to simply the process of selling Notes on the Secondary Market, has no standing to foreclose- potentially 60 million mortgages are affected.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Who's Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
Sibel Edmonds interview with Philip Giraldi for The American Conservative- members of Congress, top State and DOD officials, Turkish, Israeli, Saudi and Pakistani agents involved in treason, nuclear trafficking, drug smuggling, bribery, blackmail, money laundering, pre-9/11 discussions to divide up Iraq- etc.

Monday, September 21, 2009
BradBlog Sneak Preview of Explosive Sibel Edmonds Cover Story
Bradblog: Upcoming Cover Story on Edmonds 'Outs' Video-taped, 'Blackmailed' Dem Congresswoman; Alleges State Dept. Mole at NYTimes; MUCH MORE... 'American Conservative' mag's description of interview with previously-gagged FBI whistleblower as 'explosive' may prove to be a gross understatement - Blackmail, bribery, infiltration, theft and sale of nuke secrets by Turkey, Israel explained in clearer detail than ever before..

Sunday, September 6, 2009
Newly Found Document Indicates Bush Administration Knew Repeat of 9/11 Unlikely by 2003
(1 comments) The title of a 2003 Senior Executive Intelligence Brief (SEIB) item indicates that by late 2003 the CIA had concluded it would be hard for al-Qaeda to pull off another 9/11. The item was entitled “Terrorism Complexities Make Repeating September 11 Difficult” and was circulated to top policy officials on December 16, 2003.

Monday, June 15, 2009
Two Days Before 9/11, Military Exercise Simulated Suicide Hijack Targeting New York
(1 comments) The US military conducted a training exercise in the five days before the September 11 attacks that included simulated aircraft hijackings by terrorists, according to a 9/11 Commission document recently found in the US National Archives. In one of the scenarios, implemented on September 9, terrorists hijacked a London to New York flight, planning to blow it up with explosives over New York.

Saturday, June 13, 2009
Let's Blame Everybody Except the Guilty Party [Von Brunn]
9/11 Truthers: Glenn Beck declared he has been been warning his fans about Truthers "for a very long time", and said "early reports" indicate Von Brunn was a "hero" of the Truth movement.... This is a case of the crackpot calling the kettle black, because ... he went out of his way to point out that while it's okay to "protest the Federal Reserve", it's just crazy to be a Truther.

Friday, May 29, 2009
Those 9/11 Commission Minders Again - Kevin Fenton
New details have emerged about minders who sat in on 9/11 Commission interviews during a fact-finding trip to Canada....The three-page memo, entitled "Canada Trip Lessons Learned" and apparently drafted by staffer Gordon Lederman in the autumn of 2003, highlights how the minders behaved.

Monday, May 25, 2009
gulli: World Trade Center destruction: Interview with Dr. Harrit
Gulli, a German media, interviews Dr. Niels Harrit, primary author of the 'Active Thermitic Material Discovered' paper recently published in the refereed Open Chemical Physics Journal

Saturday, May 16, 2009
9-11 Conspiracy Theorists Sue St. Louis
(1 comments) ST. LOUIS (CN) - Two 9-11 conspiracy theorists say St. Louis used an unconstitutional ordinance to violate their right to free speech. Donald Stahl and William Demsar say city police arrested them on Feb. 6 for carrying a banner that stated, "911 Was An Inside Job!"

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Dissecting the US Mainstream Media by Sibel Edmonds
(1 comments) Sibel Edmonds has started a blog- discussion going on with here on her latest article: "It's impossible to pinpoint the current sorry state of the MSM to one or two factors, since, at least to me, it seems to be caused by several factors, but here are the usual theories we hear out there on the mainstream media's current state:"

Thursday, May 7, 2009
Center for Public Integrity names 25 lenders responsible for economic meltdown
The Center for Public Integrity named 25 "subprime" mortgage companies whose risky lending was blamed for the US property market collapse and the subsequent global economic crisis.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Single-payer healthcare protesters disrupt Senate hearing; Chairman calls for more police
Want single payer universal healthcare? Don't try to bring it up in the Senate.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Hastert Getting $35,000 per Month to Lobby for Turkey
Justice Department records indicate that Hastert will now be "principally involved" on a $35,000-a-month contract providing representation for the Turkish government. He will work as a subcontractor for another former House speaker, Dick Gephardt, who runs the eponymous Gephardt Group.

Monday, May 4, 2009
Proof the FBI Changed Documents, and Vincent Bugliosi Was Wrong
In 2007, the legendary true crime writer Vincent Bugliosi released Reclaiming History, a Bible-sized book designed to answer all the questions regarding a possible conspiracy in the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, his "answers" provoked more questions. This short essay examines both the way Bugliosi dealt with one controversial matter, and the truth about this matter, as recently discovered by the author.

Friday, May 1, 2009
Contractors paid $1,000 a day to supervise, design torture program
(1 comments) Two former military officers, both psychologists, were paid $1,000 a day by the Central Intelligence Agency to supervise the torture and waterboarding of US detainees, according to a report published late Thursday.

Friday, May 1, 2009
NYT Public Editor tap dances around 'Brutal Truth' of torture
Clark Hoyt's New York Times public editor column on Sunday, "Telling the Brutal Truth," brings the ongoing "debate" over whether waterboarding is torture to brave new heights of absurdity.

Friday, May 1, 2009
Rice may have admitted to conspiracy, former Nixon counsel says
In little-noticed comments Thursday, the former White House counsel for President Richard Nixon John Dean said Thursday that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have unwittingly admitted to a criminal conspiracy when questioned about torture by a group of student videographers at Stanford.

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Editor-In-Chief Quits Over 'Active Thermitic Material'
(3 comments) Professor Marie-Paule Pileni has resigned as editor-in-chief of the Open Chemical Physics Journal over the publication of the Niels Harrit et al paper, Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, which she says she was unaware of. In an interview with videnskab.dk (Danish science news service) she said she believes the publication was "political"

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Lawsuit: Detainee was tortured by US in late '01
A Tunisian man detained after the Sept. 11 attacks was tortured at CIA-operated secret prisons in Afghanistan months before a Justice Department memo sanctioned the practices, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

Saturday, April 25, 2009
Torturing detainee may have produced false terror alerts
(1 comments) As the nation struggles to make sense of a wave of new revelations regarding the "harsh interrogation techniques" brought to bear on detainees by the CIA, two very different narratives are shaping up to describe the treatment of captured al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah in April and May of 2002.

Friday, April 24, 2009
First Merchant Bank exposed - Luke Ryland
A partial transcript of Sibel's recent interview is now up at Let Sibel Edmonds Speak. The most interesting news involves First Merchant Bank (FMB) in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). The TRNC is only recognized by one country, Turkey. In August 2004, US Treasury blacklisted First Merchant Bank because:

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Active Thermitics Made Simple
Three Points of Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe that Anyone Can Understand

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Same people defending torture' ignored 9/11 warnings- Larisa Alexandrovna
"the very same people who are out defending torture as a necessary tool in their falsely constructed "war on terror" are the very same people who had the intelligence to stop the 9/11 attacks literally delivered to them and did nothing. These people who ignored multiple and various warnings from the CIA, foreign governments, and so forth, did nothing and that intelligence was obtained without the use of torture."

Sunday, April 19, 2009
The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency
(1 comments) The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity.

Sunday, April 19, 2009
Transcript from Visibility 9-11; A Basic Chemistry Lesson with Dr. Niels Harrit | 911Blogger.com
(1 comments) April 11 Michael Wolsey podcast an interview with the lead author of the paper "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe". Read the full transcript here, and follow the link to listen to the podcast. Harrit explains the chemistry of nano-thermite and their experiments on the red-gray chips, and talks about why he got involved.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Wikipedia editors livid over new paper: censor Active Thermitic Material
The new paper has pulled the rug out from under the wikipedia front lines defending the official story and they have now suddenly changed the title of the demolition page [and are deleting references to the paper from numerous different pages]

Monday, April 13, 2009
The Poppy Palace- Electric Politics Interview w/ Sibel Edmonds
Connect the dots. According to the UN's latest report, under U.S. occupation 92% of the world's opium production comes from Afghan poppies. Most of the heroin going to Europe is manufactured in or transits Turkey. The exact value to Turkey of its heroin exports is unknown but experts estimate a range in the tens of billions of dollars per year. The neocons helped establish and remain closely associated with Turkish lobbying...

Sunday, April 12, 2009
9/11 Media Breakthrough in Denmark
The excellent work by Niels Harrit, Farrer, Jones and Ryan et. al in the recent journal article (Thermitic Material Discovered in WTC Dust) has paved the way for some very good media coverage in Denmark. At around 10:30 pm on Monday April 6, Harrit was interviewed for 10 minutes during the late news program on one of the two most respected Danish television channels (TV2). On Wednesday April 8, Harrit was interviewed for 6 min

Sunday, April 12, 2009
Do firefighters believe 9/11 conspiracy theories?
(3 comments) In the new season of the FX drama Rescue Me, firefighter Franco Rivera espouses the belief that 9/11 was "an inside job." According to a Sunday New York Times article, the show's writers added this assertion because actor Daniel Sunjata is a "truther"; but the real firefighters on set-who work as script advisers-were offended by his allegations. This got the Explainer wondering: Do any firefighters believe in 9/11 conspiracy..

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Obama to release Reagan records kept secret by Bush
The Obama administration is about to release 244,966 pages of documents from the Reagan White House that the Bush administration had held back for years during a review of whether to assert executive privilege.

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Should Obama Control the Internet? | Mother Jones
(1 comments) Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor-an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats...

Saturday, April 11, 2009
US munitions delivered to Israel | Amnesty International
A massive consignment of US munitions was delivered to Israel in recent weeks, according to information revealed by Amnesty International. The organization received information that the Wehr Elbe, a German cargo ship, chartered and controlled by US Military Sealift Command, docked and unloaded its cargo of reportedly over 300 containers at the Israeli port of Ashdod, just 40km north of Gaza by road on 22 March.

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Schumer: DOJ should investigate Red Cross reports of torture
(2 comments) In light of the startling revelations that came to light this week with the publishing of a Red Cross report, which documented in gruesome detail interrogation practices such as suffocation by water, beating by collar and prolonged nudity, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that he would support a Department of Justice investigation into the reported torture.

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wake Up and Smell the Aluminothermic Nanocomposite Explosives- Jim Hoffman
(16 comments) A timeline of the growing documentation from official sources of evidence of controlled demolition- and of the dissembling from the same sources about the evidence.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Traces of explosives in 9/11 dust, scientists say- Deseret News
Tiny red and gray chips found in the dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center contain highly explosive materials - proof, according to a former BYU professor, that 9/11 is still a sinister mystery.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
What's crazier, believing the U.S. orchestrated 9/11 or that Saddam did?
"...there can no longer be any serious argument about whether Saddam Hussein's Iraq worked with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to plot against Americans." -Stephen F. Hayes, The Weekly Standard, 2003 When discussing politics, if there's one thing that sends people running for the hills, it's conspiracy theories - or worse, conspiracy theorists.

Monday, April 6, 2009
Following Bush lead, Obama moves to block challenge to wiretapping program
President Barack Obama invoked "state secrets" to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency's warantless wiretapping program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program dismissed.

Sunday, April 5, 2009
Explosive Residues: Energetic Materials and the World Trade Center Destruction - 911Research.WTC7.net
The scientific paper Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe conclusively shows the presence of unignited aluminothermic explosives in dust samples from the Twin Towers, whose chemical signature matches previously documented aluminothermic residues found in the same dust samples. The present review of the paper and related research is intended to summarize those findings...

Saturday, April 4, 2009
The Ones Who Got It Right by Ralph Nader
Why is it that well regarded people working the fields of corporate power and performance who repeatedly predicted the Wall Street bubble and its bursting receive so little media and attention?

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe- The Open Chemical Physics Jou
New paper published in the peer-reviewed Open Chemical Physics Journal by Dr. Steven Jones and 8 others discusses the red-gray chips found in World Trade Center dust following the destruction on 9/11. Their conclusion: Thermite. Debunkers: submit your work for peer-review and publication.

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
The British authorities seemed to have little problem with allowing a group of violent black bloc anarchists to smash up the RBS building while provoking police yesterday, despite the group announcing their target in advance, yet a legitimate anti-poverty organization has had its "accreditation" to protest at the G20 removed on the orders of Downing Street.

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Cyber Security Act- Bill Proposes Giving President Power to Shut Down the Internet
(2 comments) Cybersecurity Bill Proposes Unprecedented Government Power Over the Internet - A cybersecurity bill introduced today in the Senate would give the federal government extraordinary power over private sector Internet services, applications and software. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would, for example, give the President unfettered power to shut down Internet traffic in emergencies or disconnect any critical infrastructure system

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Economist: US collapse driven by 'fraud,' Geithner covering up bank insolvency
In an explosive interview on PBS' Bill Moyers Journal, William K. Black, a professor of economics and law with the University of Missouri, alleged that American banks and credit agencies conspired to create a system in which so-called "liars loans" could receive AAA ratings and zero oversight, amounting to a massive "fraud" at the epicenter of US finance.

Friday, April 3, 2009
Court Smacks Down Obama on Indefinite Detention
Upholding the centuries-old right of Habeus Corpus, a US Federal Judge has blocked the Obama Administration 'shades of Bush' attempt to hold detainees indefinitely without charge, simply by transferring them to a US created and maintained war zone.

Friday, April 3, 2009
Geithner Admits His Failure to Regulate Led to Current Crisis
Before Timothy Geithner became Treasury chief, he regulated major U.S. banks. Now he says: "We're having a major financial crisis in part because of failures of supervision."

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Cheney has moles in Obama Administration, [Hersh] says
(3 comments) Former Vice President Dick Cheney has moles in the Obama government which report back to him from the Pentagon, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh told NPR and MSNBC on Tuesday.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Afghan Escalation OK with MoveOn, Anti-War Insiders
Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent notes that "President Obama's announcement today of an escalation in the American presence in Afghanistan is being met with mostly silence - and even some support - from the most influential liberal groups who opposed the Iraq War. ... MoveOn.org ... declined to make any public statement about Obama's Afghan policies in response to my queries.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
'Dead' Pakistan Taleban Chief Takes Credit for Lahore Terror Attack --By Lori Price
It's a miracle! Pakistan Taleban chief Baitullah Mehsud -- who supposedly died from kidney failure six months ago -- takes credit for three recent deadly terror attacks, including Monday's attack on a police academy in Lahore. He spoke to the BBC by phone.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President by Ray McGovern
I was wrong. I had been saying that it would be na�ve to take too seriously presidential candidate Barack Obama's rhetoric regarding the need to escalate the war in Afghanistan. I kept thinking to myself that when he got briefed on the history of Afghanistan and the oft proven ability of Afghan "militants" to drive out foreign invaders-from Alexander the Great, to the Persians, the Mongolians, Indians, British, Russians...

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Flim-Flam Obama Man: The "New Democrat[ic]" President's Wall Street Loyalties Get Clearer Every Day
Many on what passes for a left in the United States have been led to believe that Barack Obama is a "Mr. Smith-goes- to-Washington" character eager and ready to struggle against entrenched corporate and financial interests. A considerable number of so-called "left liberals" make curious bedfellows with right-wing noisemakers (including dangerous reactionary nut-jobs like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Bernard Goldberg)...

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Pinochet judge seeks criminal probe of Bush 'torture lawyers'
(1 comments) Six Bush-era officials responsible for crafting the legal justifications permitting the military prison at Guantanamo Bay are the subject of a potential Spanish criminal probe which could place the men under serious risk of arrest if they travel outside the United States.

Sunday, March 29, 2009
TARP funds come back to Washington as campaign donations
(1 comments) Recent filings in the Federal Election Commission's database revealed that in the first two months of this year, at least $250,000 of bail-out funds returned to Washington in the form of campaign finances.

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Pentagon exploring robot killers that can fire on their own
The Defense Department is financing studies of autonomous, or self-governing, armed robots that could find and destroy targets on their own. On-board computer programs, not flesh-and-blood people, would decide whether to fire their weapons

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Does anybody else pull their long nose hairs out the manly way - just yanking them and enduring the pain?
(6 comments) This was posted directly to Reddit.com and has 1942 "up" votes so far, and 801 comments; while Rome burns. Check the comment thread of deliriously stoopid one-liners- It's the first LOL i've had in a week. I confess to both plucking and clipping. I bet Type-A Mr. M's a plucker- unless he just lets them grow? I wonder how Rob Kall handles them pesky nose hairs! And how bout Obama and Bush?

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
TARP Helps Banks for Rich
The Troubled Asset Relief Program helps those banks that cater to the rich, which had no problem with subprime mortgages or other toxic assets.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Force Congress To Observe the Law on National Emergencies!!!
"On 9/11 the Bush administration declared a State of Emergency (SOE), which was formally proclaimed on SeOn 9/11 the Bush administration declared a State of Emergency (SOE), which was formally proclaimed on September 14, 2001, and extended by Bush repeatedly thereafter, most recently on August 28, 2008." Congress has been derelict in its duty to meet every 6 months to consider a vote on whether to end the state of emergency.

Monday, March 23, 2009
Death Squad Leader Was Top Cia Agent - Sunday Herald
THE LATE President Milosevic's secret police chief and organiser of Serb death squads during the genocidal ethnic cleansing of disintegrating Yugoslavia was the United States' top CIA agent in Belgrade, according to the independent Belgrade Radio B92. The claim that from 1992 until the end of the decade, Jovica Stanisic, head of Serbia's murderous DB Secret Police, was regularly informing his CIA handlers...

Monday, March 23, 2009
Crawling the Web to Foretell Ecosystem Collapse
The Interwebs could become an early warning system for when the web of life is about to fray. By trawling scientific list-serves, Chinese fish market websites, and local news sources, ecologists think they can use human beings as sensors by mining their communications.

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Mark Danner on Democracy Now!: Bush Lied About Torture of Prisoners
(1 comments) Amy Goodman interviews Mark Danner about the leaked ICRC report on Bush torture

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Perp Walks Instead of Bonuses by Robert Scheer
the $165 million in taxpayer funds used to reward them is but a sideshow in a far larger drama of moral decay swirling around the banking bailout. It should not distract from the many billions, not paltry millions, of our dollars being diverted to reward the very folks who brought us such misery.

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Ralph Nader and Robert Kuttner on Democracy Now!: Public Outcry Forces Lawmakers to Say They'll Recoup Millions in AIG B
Amy Goodman interviews Ralph Nader and economist Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect about the Wall Street Bailout(s) and AIG bonus smokescreen

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Norwegian Daily: Terrorists Working for Western Countries
Nafeez Ahmed posts translation of a Norwegian article based on research in his book The War on Truth; 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Obama's "enemy combatant" policy: following a familiar pattern - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
(2 comments) First: Denounce your presidential predecessor for a given policy, energizing your party's base and capitalizing on his abiding unpopularity. Second: Pretend to have reversed that policy upon taking office with a symbolic act or high-profile statement. Third: Adopt a version of that same policy, knowing that it's the only way to govern responsibly or believing that doing otherwise is too difficult.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Politico: Obama Ties to Bilderberg
(3 comments) The highest levels of the Obama administration are infested with members of a shadowy, elitist cabal intent on installing a one-world government that subverts the will of the American people. It sounds crazy, but that's what a group of very persistent conspiracy theorists insists, and they point to President Obama's nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, as the latest...

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The sanctity of AIG's contracts - Glenn Greenwald
(1 comments) Apparently, the supreme sanctity of employment contracts applies only to some types of employees but not others. Either way, the Obama administration's claim that nothing could be done about the AIG bonuses because AIG has solid, sacred contractual commitments to pay them is, for so many reasons, absurd on its face.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
JURIST - Hotline: Obama's continued use of presidential signing statements undermines system of checks and balances
Are Obama's (and Bush's) use of signing statements- to declare their interpretation and intended application of laws passed by Congress, without going through the Courts- treason?

Sunday, March 15, 2009
ACLU Report Examines Patriot Act Abuses
The American Civil Liberties Union has released a comprehensive report examining widespread abuses that have occurred under the USA Patriot Act, a law that was rushed through Congress just 45 days after 9/11. In the almost eight years since the passage of the controversial national security law, the Patriot Act has led to egregious government misconduct, the ACLU says. [ACLU report at ReformThePatriotAct.org]

Sunday, March 15, 2009
Decades of Disparity:Drug Arrests and Race in the United States- Human Rights Watch Report
This 20-page report says that adult African Americans were arrested on drug charges at rates that were 2.8 to 5.5 times as high as those of white adults in every year from 1980 through 2007, the last year for which complete data were available. About one in three of the more than 25.4 million adult drug arrestees during that period was African American.

Saturday, March 14, 2009
United Nations condemns US, Britain and other states over rendition
A report issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council this week strongly condemns the United States, Britain and other states for breaching basic human rights and international law. The document, drafted for the UN General Assembly by Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinen, indicts the US specifically for numerous violations of international law, including the use of torture.

Friday, March 13, 2009
Our world may be a giant hologram - New Scientist
(3 comments) "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram." The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.

Friday, March 13, 2009
Americans Losing Their Faith in Faith ... And Everything Else [Except the Military]
The longstanding project called the General Social Survey, which has polled Americans about their feelings on a variety of political and social issues for more than 35 years, just recently came out with their preliminary 2008 data

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Obama's first signing statement: Claiming too much power?
(1 comments) Two days after releasing a heavily-cushioned memo concerning his position on presidential signing statements, President Obama today went to town with a doozie of a signing statement accompanying his ratification of the omnibus spending bill.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Italy's high court sinks CIA rendition case
Italy's highest court sided with the government Wednesday and threw out key evidence in an alleged CIA kidnapping of an Eygptian terrorism suspect in Italy, dealing a blow to the trial of 26 Americans charged in the case.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Harold Meyerson - Building a Better Capitalism
So what kind of capitalism shall we craft? Now that the market fundamentalism to which we've adhered for the past 30 years has -- by its own criterion of increasing shareholder value -- totally failed? Now that Alan Greenspan has proclaimed himself "shocked" that "the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity" proved to be an illusion?

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Harold Meyerson - Building a Better Capitalism
(1 comments) So what kind of capitalism shall we craft? Now that the market fundamentalism to which we've adhered for the past 30 years has -- by its own criterion of increasing shareholder value -- totally failed? Now that Alan Greenspan has proclaimed himself "shocked" that "the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity" proved to be an illusion?

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Col. Jenny Sparks- Heroes: The Metaphor and Evolution in 911 Activism Part 1
The premise of the TV series Heroes is people who discover they have special powers hunted by those who want to control them before they do something radical-like save the world. Needless to say I found metaphors...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
UK government pushes for discriminated Internet
[UK govt] proposal would turn the Internet into a Cable-TV network. First, there is a proposal to introduce conditions of access, alluding to the Conditional Access Directive regulating that very market. It is a subcription-TV-like concept reading through the lines. Second, there is language which overrides the end-to-end principle of the internet.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Report: Slain US Nazi hated Obama, had parts for 'dirty bomb'
Trust fund millionaire James G. Cummings, an American Nazi sympathizer from Maine who was slain by his wife Amber in December, allegedly had the radioactive components necessary to construct a "dirty bomb," a newly released threat analysis report states. The man, allegedly furious over the election of President Obama, purchased depleted uranium over the Internet from an American company.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows
A newly leaked military document appears to show the Pentagon knowingly exposed US troops to toxic chemicals that cause cancer, while publicly downplaying the risks exposure might cause,

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
A Convenient Scapegoat - by Philip Giraldi
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi summarizes some of the bogus reasons attack Iran invented by the Bush Administration and Israel- some of which are being perpetuated by Obama and his CIA director, Leon Panetta

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Breaking the Taboo on Israel's Spying Efforts on the United States
(2 comments) Scratch a counterintelligence officer in the U.S. government and they'll tell you that Israel is not a friend to the [US] This is because Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage networks targeting the U.S.. The fact of Israeli penetration into the country is not a subject oft-discussed in the media or in the circles of governance, due to the extreme sensitivity of the U.S.-Israel relationship

Saturday, March 7, 2009
Energy vampires: Fact versus fiction
It's well-known that most electronic devices in our homes are sucking up energy even while they are turned off. But for all the information out there, many questions remain. I got hundreds of reader questions after writing the post What's wasting energy in your home right now. Below are answers to the five most common inquiries:

Thursday, March 5, 2009
E-VOTE BOMBSHELL: Diebold Tabulator Drops Votes, Allows Undetectable Audit Log Deletion
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has released a remarkable 13-page report [PDF] of her office's investigation into how the Diebold/Premier GEMS software silently dropped all votes contained on 197 ballots from Humboldt County, California's November 2008 general election.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Human & Bird Flu Mixed and Distributed in Europe
(2 comments) The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic ...

Thursday, March 5, 2009
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project
Electronic Frontier Foundation launches a "Surveillance Self-Defense" website to educate the public about what the US govt. might be doing to surveil you, and what you can do about it. Remember, Obama voted for the warrantless wiretapping/Telco immunity bill.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Scholars and Military Experts Call for Presidential Commission on Post-9/11 Detention Policy
A day before the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on whether to investigate post-9/11 detention policies, a group of leading scholars, human rights specialists and retired military officers has issued a statement calling on President Obama to create a commission of inquiry to investigate those matters.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Obama administration releases secret Bush anti-terror memos
The Justice Department on Monday released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants. The legal memo was written about a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It says constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure would not apply to terror suspects in the U.S.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Former Blair aide says government covering up Iraq war meetings
The British government has refused to release minutes of a cabinet meeting held by Prime Minister Tony Blair in the lead-up to the Iraq war, which a former cabinet member says is being done because there was "no discussion" on the merits of invading Iraq.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Obama - Change we can Deceive In - A listing of parallels [with Bush]
(3 comments) This grouping of items, mainly foreign policy issues, suggests that there isn't going to be much change in the years to come, with the notable exception that the pitchman, Obama, is undoubtedly a superior speaker and source of inspiration to those easily misled

Monday, March 2, 2009
Anthrax spores don't match dead researcher's samples
(2 comments) Poisonous anthrax that killed five Americans in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks doesn't match bacteria from a flask linked to Bruce Ivins, the researcher who committed suicide after being implicated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a scientist said.

Monday, March 2, 2009
CIA destroyed 92 interrogation tapes
New documents show the CIA destroyed nearly 100 tapes of terror interrogations. The acknowledgment of dozens of destroyed tapes came in a letter filed by government lawyers in New York, where the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking more details of terror interrogation programs.

Friday, February 27, 2009
How a [14 year old] Outsmarted a Governor
14 year old Ty'Sheoma Bethea wrote a letter to Obama about the state of public schools where she lives in South Carolina, an area known as the "Corridor of Shame". Picked to make a point about education, Bethea is now a national phenomena, and the state's governor is being put to shame; he threatened to refuse stimulus money.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Obama administration defends telecom immunity in new brief
More of the same: "The Obama Justice Department continues to stand behind a Bush era law meant to prevent lawsuits against telecommunications companies accused of illegally sharing private customer information with intelligence agencies."

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Oregon state secrets case is Bush leftover for Obama
For the second time since Attorney General Eric Holder ordered a review of Bush administration state secrets claims, the Obama administration finds itself defending the doctrine used to protect anti-terrorism programs accused of illegal spying....The case began when the Bush administration accidentally turned over documents to Al-Haramain attorneys. Lawyers for the defunct charity said the papers showed illegal wiretapping

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Pelosi: Bush Administration lawbreakers should face prosecution, not immunity
Bush administration officials who broke the law should face criminal prosecution and shouldn't get immunity in exchange for testimony under a proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission being discussed in the Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in an interview broadcast late Wednesday.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Replacing Doctors With Robots
[Hopefully soon, politicians and CEO's will be obsolete as well] A computerized kiosk under development at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) can take a patient's medical history, weight, pulse, blood pressure, and other vital signs, and even perform simple blood tests for glucose and cholesterol.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
U.S. Energy Department Cannot Account for Nuclear Materials at 15 Locations
A number of U.S. institutions with licenses to hold nuclear material reported to the Energy Department in 2004 that the amount of material they held was less than agency records indicated. But rather than investigating the discrepancies, Energy officials wrote off significant quantities of nuclear material from the department's inventory records.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Computer components shrinking faster than predicted
[Are predictions of a "technological singularity" in 2045 behind the curve?] Two US groups have announced transistors almost 1000 times smaller than those in use today, and a version of flash memory that could store all the books in the US Library of Congress in a square 4 inches (10 cm) across.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
10 Years of Bin Laden Statements: Leaked to FAS from the CIA
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Secrecy News Blog has published a report on alleged/documented Bin Laden statements from 94-04, compiled by the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Includes Bin Laden's 9/16 and 9/28 statements after 9/11, where he denies involvement and points to US parties, including the intelligence services. Transcribed and translated into English by the CIA- alternate sources available.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Obama is right to take on the very rich
The amount of money that goes into executive pockets is staggering. So is the amount that comes out of those pockets in taxes: precious little. America's super-rich are paying far less of their incomes in taxes than average Americans who punch time clocks. This is grossly unfair. The good news: Under Mr. Obama's new plan to cut the deficit in half, the very richest Americans will start paying something closer to their fair tax

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
UK: Straw 'will veto' Iraq minutes
British Justice Secretary Jack Straw will veto release of FOIA'd minutes on Iraq from 2003; says it will 'damage' 'democracy'; i.e., if the public gets proof that Tony Bliar lied the UK into the Iraq War, the Labor Party will be politically damaged. Tory Dominic Grieve backs his decision, but says it leaves "overwhelming case" for full review (with no public disclosure?).

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Of Pork and Payback by Jeff Flake-R, AZ
AS we watch Senator Roland Burris take the lead role in the latest episode of "The Rod Blagojevich Show," a question arises: Is there a substantive difference between a governor promising a Senate appointment in exchange for campaign contributions, and a member of Congress securing an earmark for the same - aside from a vulgar telephone call discussing the transaction? Perhaps not.

Monday, February 23, 2009
Obama administration backs Bush, tries to kill 'lost' White House emails lawsuit
The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails in a stunning reversal of Obama's rhetoric about Bush secrecy on the campaign trail.

Monday, February 23, 2009
McDonald's: No workers comp for employee shot protecting patron
Fast food giant McDonald's has denied workers compensation benefits to a minimum wage employee who was shot when he ejected a customer who had been beating a woman inside the restaurant.

Sunday, February 22, 2009
BRAD BLOG : New Version of Holt's Election Reform Bill Would Institutionalize Touch-Screen Voting, Secret Software
(2 comments) 3rd Holt voting bill- bans DRE's in favor of computer marked paper ballots, which often have errors and voters don't check. Permits proprietary secret software. Why is Holt so determined to avoid making sure elections are accountable to voter will and intent?

Saturday, February 21, 2009
Banking on Credit Unions by Ralph Nader
Kick your bank to the curbWhile the reckless giant banks are shattering like an over-heated glacier day by day, the nation's credit unions are a relative island of calm largely apart from the vortex of casino capitalism. Eighty five million Americans belong to credit unions which are not-for-profit cooperatives owned by their members who are depositors and borrowers.

Saturday, February 21, 2009
Barack Obama Administration Continues US Military Global Dominance by Peter Phillips
The Barack Obama administration is continuing the neo-conservative agenda of US military domination of the world- albeit with perhaps a kinder-gentler face. While overt torture is now forbidden for the CIA and Pentagon, and symbolic gestures like the closing of the Guantanamo prison are in evidence, a unilateral military dominance policy, expanding military budget, and wars of occupation and aggression will likely continue...

Thursday, February 12, 2009
MichaelMoore.com : Will You Help Me With My Next Film?
(1 comments) Michael Moore is seeking Wall Street Whistleblowers for his next film

Thursday, January 1, 2009
Pew Research: Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source
The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
EARLY 9-11 REPORTAGE REVEALS SURPRISES
Columnist Robert Novak among the first to use the phrase "inside job" in connection with the events of September 11, 2001 (and other stuff from the day; see Peter Duveen's comment for a link to scans of the articles)

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship
(2 comments) Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War. But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915. Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.

Monday, December 22, 2008
Democracy Now! | Linda Bilmes: "The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for Eight Years of Bush"
(1 comments) In a new article in Harper's Magazine, Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz estimate that the cost of undoing the Bush administration's economic choices, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the collapse of the financial system, soaring debt, and new commitments to interest payments and Medicare, all add up to over $10 trillion. [includes rush transcript]

Sunday, December 21, 2008
Cheney: If president does it during wartime, it's legal
Cheney not sure if bin Laden is alive. Also, says problems with auto industry fall to Obama. All of President Bush's actions during his years as a wartime leader were done with full legal authority, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Fox News Sunday. Asked by Chris Wallace if it's legal when the president makes a decision to help the country when it's fighting a war, Cheney said, "As a general proposition, I'd say yes"

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Olbermann refers to Bush 9/11 'lies' as 'Insult the Dead-gate'
As the departing Bush administration frantically attempts to shore up its place in history, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann stands ready to kick the props out from under it again. A renewed claim that "no one could have anticipated" the attacks of 9/11 attracted his scorn in particular on Thursday's Countdown.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Bush Administration created executive pay loophole
The Bush Administration inserted an eleventh-hour provision into the $750 billion bailout bill to protect executive bonuses, a single sentence that will torpedo efforts to reduce bonuses even as companies slash tens of thousands of jobs and use taxpayer money to gobble up other companies at fire-sale prices.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
YouTube - Playing For Change: Song Around the World "Stand By Me"
(1 comments) From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Senate torture report confirms Bush, top officials guilty of war crimes
(9 comments) A report issued Thursday by the Senate Armed Services Committee has provided official and bipartisan confirmation that the infamous acts of torture carried out by US personnel at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo were planned, ordered and orchestrated by the highest-ranking officials in the US government. Based on the Senate's own conclusions, those named in the document, including President George W. Bush, etc.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Louisiana man says he was beaten for wearing Obama t-shirt
A Barack Obama supporter in Shreveport, LA says he was badly beaten by two men at a gas station just because of his Obama bumper stickers and t-shirt. "They were screaming 'fuck Obama, fuck Obama,' you know, and something about a 'nigger president' -- and basically I was hit," Kaylon Johnson told KSLA News.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
A Democratic insider's call for a new presidential secrecy power - Glenn Greenwald
(1 comments) Matt Miller, a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress (CAP) and former official in the Clinton OMB, has an Op-Ed in The Washington Post decrying the "kiss-and-tell" books written by top presidential aides once they leave the White House...Far beyond mere disapproval, he actually wants to vest presidents -- or at least the new President -- with the formal legal power to block publication of these books

Sunday, December 7, 2008
New World Trade Center Collapse Videos
(82 comments) An anonymous source has released high resolution DVD mpg2 footage of the North Tower & Building 7 collapse clips, reported [at 911Blogger] on November 1st, 2008. Also the source has allowed the release of video of the South Tower, and made all 3 available in high quality downloadable DVD file mpg's.

Sunday, December 7, 2008
Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale
(2 comments) President-elect Barack Obama promised Saturday to create the largest public works construction program since the inception of the interstate highway system a half century ago as he seeks to put together a plan to resuscitate the reeling economy.

Friday, December 5, 2008
Suit claims Halliburton, KBR sickened base - Army Times
The lawsuit also accuses KBR of shipping ice in mortuary trucks that "still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them when they were loaded with ice. This ice was served to U.S. forces." "Wild dogs in the area raided the burn pit and carried off human remains," the lawsuit states. "The wild dogs could be seen roaming the base with body parts in their mouths, to the great distress of the U.S. forces."

Friday, December 5, 2008
Study: Nearly half of world's jailed journalists come from Web
More than print, TV or any other medium, online journalists are now the most-jailed category of journalists worldwide. A study by the Committee to Protect Journalists said that the online reporters, editors and bloggers make up 45% of the 125 journalists it found behind bars, the first time the Web category has eclipsed print (42%) since the study began in 1997.

Friday, December 5, 2008
The Data Explosion and the Scientific Method
(3 comments) Data-driven science: "Scientists in an increasing number of fields are doing science in new ways, exploiting powerful new data-collection technologies with the aid of computational methods and a little humility."

Thursday, December 4, 2008
Feds ignored clear meltdown warnings (shades of 9/11 and Katrina)
The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents. (and the same people are being appointed to Obama's cabinet and staff)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The WMD Terror Report Is Crap
"The Congress Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism published a report titled The World At Risk." "The Commission believes that unless the world community acts decisively and with great urgency, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013." "But nowhere in the report is there any assessment of likelihood."

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
White House Christmas tree to feature 'impeach Bush' message
(1 comments) The White House has been loathe to discuss any attempts by lefty members of Congress to impeach President Bush, but the final Christmas tree erected during the Bush administration will feature a pro-impeachment message.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
FOXNews.com - Is the United States Creating More Terrorists Than We're Killing?
Faux News interviews Deepak Chopra, and former secretary of defense under the Clinton administration, William Cohen. [Cohen] was in Mumbai, India when the attacks began. What was Cohen doing in Mumbai? Interview doesn't say, but Chopra disturbs Hannity with common sense approach; stop the foreign policies that violate human rights and make the US hated.

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"
(46 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 Guant�namo'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 Guant�namo 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 web 100 times faster, all thanks to new Australian technology

Thursday, July 10, 2008
What The New NSA Spying Decision Means for the Immunity Debate
Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California has just issued a key ruling in Al Haramain v. Bush, one of the cases challenging the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program. Judge Walker is also overseeing the consolidated litigation against the telecoms. With the Senate poised to vote on the FISA Amendments Act and immunity this Tuesday, this decision is particularly timely, as it demolishes key arguments made

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Iran's top nuclear negotiator faces charges over Halliburton ties
Iran's judiciary has arrested several executives of a privately-owned oil drilling company over their dealings with the U.S.-based oil giant Halliburton and one of the country's top nuclear negotiators is facing charges of involvement in an oil scam, a semi-official news agency reported.

Thursday, July 10, 2008
New Study Finds 4 out of 5 Sunscreens May Be Ineffective or Harmful
Does your sunscreen work? An investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that 4 out of 5 contain chemicals that may pose health hazards or don't adequately protect skin from the sun's damaging rays. Some of the worst offenders are leading brands like Coppertone, Banana Boat, and Neutrogena.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Bush: Telecom Immunity More Important Than Surveillance Powers
[July 7] the Bush Administration released a letter threatening to veto the upcoming FISA legislation if it included the Bingaman Amendment, which puts both telecom immunity and the court cases on hold until after the Inspector General reports about the warrantless wiretapping program.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Congress votes to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, legalize warrantless eavesdropping - Glenn Greenwald
[Including Obama] The Democratic-led Congress this afternoon voted to put an end to the NSA spying scandal, as the Senate approved a bill -- approved last week by the House -- to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, terminate all pending lawsuits against them, and vest whole new warrantless eavesdropping powers in the President. The vote in favor of the new FISA bill was 69-28.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on FISA
Former intelligence officer Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who in the early 1970s released the Pentagon Papers, has spoken out against the Senate's version of FISA reform and warrantless wiretapping.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
U.S. military to patrol Internet
(2 comments) The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Pakistani scientist (AQ Khan) says government knew about nuclear shipment to North Korea
(4 comments) Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who has been under house arrest since 2004 for his alleged involvement in exporting nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran, and Libya, says that North Korea's shipment of gas centrifuges in 2000 was under the supervision of Pakistan's army.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Who Planned the Anthrax Attacks?
Who sent the letter to military police at Quantico before the Anthrax attacks, trying to pin them in advance on Ayaad Assaad? Why didn't the FBI investigate the letter sender, who it appears had foreknowledge? Instead, they cleared Assaad and tried to frame Hatfill.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
How Renewable Energy Can Resolve the Iranian Nuclear Issue
If Iran Wants Electricity, Give It Renewable Power Iran claims that "its nuclear [program] is solely aimed at generating electricity so that it can sell more of its oil and gas." If that's the case, then all Iran really needs is a means of generating electricity that doesn't involve oil, gas or nuclear power, since the international community is staunchly opposed to a nuclear Iran.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Sibel Edmonds' Redacted IG Report Released
DOJ IG's redacted report on Sibel Edmonds finally released, and exerpts/commentary on Ms. Edmonds and Luke Ryland appearance on Scott Horton's radio show in June.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
22 Steps Toward Energy Efficiency (in your home)
From CoopAmerica.org: Take these actions and save up to 33 percent of your energy use!

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The JFK Assassination and 9/11: the Designated Suspects in Both Cases
(2 comments) by Peter Dale Scott. Summaries and analysis of the many similarities in how the suspects were identified in both the JFK assassination and 9/11

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
"Want some torture with your peanuts?"
A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
"The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites"
(4 comments) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has had considerable difficulty determining a politically correct sequence of events for the unprecedented destruction of three World Trade Center buildings on 9/11. But despite a number of variations in NIST's story, it never considered explosives or pyrotechnic materials in any of its hypotheses. This omission is at odds with several other striking facts;

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Democratic National Convention Looks Like A Good Place Not To Be
If you go, be on guard: "We Are Change Colorado has now become aware that another group, Unconventional Action, is planning on being violent at the DNC protests. Violence is a broad term. Some argue that property damage is violent, others might tell you it sends a message. To most of the Truth Alliance and We Are Change Colorado activists, there is no message to property damage and is in fact, a form of violent behavior."

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Free Association: Unquotable Words (AP attempts to intimidate free speech)
(1 comments) Column: A new Associated Press policy says you're at risk if you quote their work or diss them. How are young bloggers and writers reacting?

Sunday, July 6, 2008
Vermont Hemp Farming Bill Becomes Law: Controversy Resolved by Opinion of Attorney General's Office
(3 comments) Final legal hurdle passd: The new (Vermont) law sets up a state-regulated program for farmers to grow non-drug industrial hemp which is used in a wide variety of products, including nutritious foods, cosmetics, body care, clothing, tree-free paper, auto parts, building materials and much more.

Sunday, July 6, 2008
U.S. Lifts Moratorium on New Solar Projects
(6 comments) The Oil Lobby bows before the will of the People: "Under increasing public pressure over its decision to temporarily halt all new solar development on public land, the Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday that it was lifting the freeze, barely a month after it was put into effect."

Saturday, July 5, 2008
John McCain Wants to Drill in Your Toilet
That is not true, as far I know, but it makes about as much sense as McCain's plans to drill off the coast of Florida and in other

Saturday, July 5, 2008
A Backlog Of Cases Alleging Fraud: Whistle-Blower Suits Languish at Justice
More than 900 cases alleging that government contractors and drugmakers have defrauded taxpayers out of billions of dollars are languishing in a backlog that has built up over the past decade because the Justice Department cannot keep pace with the surge in charges brought by whistle-blowers, according to lawyers involved in the disputes.

Saturday, July 5, 2008
Fed's Bullard says bank's credibility on line
The Federal Reserve's use of core inflation measures is harming its credibility, the new president of the St. Louis Fed wrote in an editorial released on Thursday.

Thursday, July 3, 2008
Solar power tax credit heading for sunset
(1 comments) The potential loss of a federal tax credit is a cloud hanging over the solar power industry and local efforts to harness clean energy. The renewable energy tax credit, which can amount to as much as $2,000 for residential projects and a third of the cost of commercial projects, has been a major driver of investment in solar power. But the credit sunsets Dec. 31, and Congress has failed to extend the incentive amid partisan

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding
Just in case the news that American torturers have been revealed to have taken their cues from that model of moral clarity that was the Chinese Communist regime hasn't fully convinced you that the practice is unquestionably, incontrovertibly evil, Christopher Hitchens' column in the August 2008 Vanity Fair, "Believe Me, It's Torture," ought to drive it home.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
A Plane Identified in the 9/11 Pentagon Security Video
(33 comments) Is this a 757 hitting the Pentagon? Don't believe WRH; check the photos for yourself, as well as the rest of the evidence.

Monday, June 30, 2008
Bush Declares National Emergency
(3 comments) As of the 26th of June, 2008, George W. Bush has signed an Executive Order stating that the United States is in a State of National Emergency...

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Educators and 9/11: Learning to teach the unthinkable
(7 comments) A symposium is being held in Jersey City July 1 on how to teach 9/11. The Net generation is wise to the corporate govt/media agenda & has already rejected the Official Conspiracy Theory. Children are the future of our nation and our posterity; submit your comments if you have kids and you care about the quality of their education, or if you don't and just care about the health of society and the future of humanity.

Saturday, June 28, 2008
Tapping Solar for Places Where the Sun Don't Shine
(2 comments) Researchers on four continents are putting their money on a new way of harnessing solar energy that, they say, could render fossil fuels obsolete. Some renewables, notably solar and wind, stay in the backfield because they don't provide power on a 24/7 basis. If the energy they generate could be stored and doled out around the clock, there might be some new favorites.

Friday, June 27, 2008
Computer scientist turns his face into a remote control
A UC San Diego computer science Ph.D. student can turn his face into a remote control that speeds and slows video playback. The proof-of-concept demonstration is part of a larger project to use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers. Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Friday, June 27, 2008
75% blame Bush's policies for deteriorating economy
Three out of four Americans, including large numbers of Republicans, blame President Bush's economic policies for making the country worse off during the last eight years, according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Wednesday, reflecting a sharp increase in public pessimism during the last year.

Friday, June 27, 2008
Bush approval rating at record low - 23%
(1 comments) In the just-released Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll, the president won approval from 23% of all registered voters -- including 3% of Democrats and 58% of Republicans. Those numbers are down from February, when he had an approval rating of 35%. His high mark, according to the poll, was in November 2001, just after the 9/11 terror attacks, when the president's popularity rating among registered voters was at 85%.

Friday, June 27, 2008
AI could power next-gen CCTV cameras
UK researchers are working on fitting CCTV cameras with artificial intelligence, allowing them to more quickly respond to crimes. The technology, being developed by University of Portsmouth scientists, would allow cameras to "hear" violent sounds and react, swiveling quickly in the direction of a broken window or somebody shouting abusively for example, before alerting an operator.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
San Jose, CA Leading the Country in Sustainable City Living
San Jose likes to be the center of innovation. You'd almost think the city craves it, considering the latest vision set forth by city officials. Last October, Mayor Chuck Reed announced San Jose's Green Vision, a quest to be a sustainable city thriving on 100% renewable energy and clean living. And they're looking to accomplish this through a set of 10 goals to be achieved by 2023.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Shooting the Messenger
William Jasper in the conservative New American: a review of the history of FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds case; called a credible witness by Congress and the DOJ's IG, she exposed corruption in the FBi translation unit and has alleged US officials in Congress, State and the Pentagon were trafficking in arms, drugs and nuclear secrets

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Treasury Department has at least contemplated gold swaps: Fed/Treasury Response to GATA FOIA
After seven months, the U.S. Treasury Department this week answered GATA's request for access to any records of the department involving gold swaps. While Treasury, like the Federal Reserve, is refusing to disclose any relevant records, the department's answer, like the Fed's in April, does reveal something of interest: that Treasury has at least contemplated gold swaps, as signified in documents considered exempt

Monday, June 23, 2008
Bush 'war crimes conference' to convene in Mass., plan prosecution of admin. officials
On September 13-14, 2008, Lawrence Velvel, the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, plans to convene a 'convention' at the school's facilities; the attendees of which will plan strategies to prosecute members of the Bush administration for war crimes.

Friday, June 20, 2008
Quantum images have entangled features
(2 comments) GAITHERSBURG, MD –Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers have produced "quantum images," pairs of information-rich visual patterns whose features are "entangled," or inextricably linked by the laws of quantum physics.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Gitmo Model For US Trials After the Next Attack? Speak Out!
A military attorney for one of the Sept. 11 defendants at Guantanamo Bay predicted on Tuesday the Pakistani would at best see only a sliver of classified evidence and would be convicted in what amounts to "a top secret trial." "I cannot rebut evidence that I cannot see, and we can lose legal motions based upon evidence that is not available to defense attorneys with the highest levels of security clearance," Mizer said.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Plutonium found in sink, city says water safe (Not far from the Dem Convention...)
The city of Boulder said Wednesday there is no known risk to the public from plutionium accidentally released into the wastewater system at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology last week [but that's what the People know government will say, whether or not it's the truth- and considering the bogus NIST report on the World Trade Center 9/11 destruction, no one should believe anything NIST says without proof.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Supreme Court to decide 9-11 abuse case
The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether a lawsuit can proceed against the former U.S. attorney general and the FBI director in a case brought by a Pakistani man who said he was abused in detention after the September 11 attacks.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Report on ex-Guantanamo Prisoners Reveals Systematic Abuse and Chronic Failures of Intelligence
(1 comments) On Sunday, just two days after the Supreme Court's momentous ruling that the prisoners at Guant�namo have constitutional habeas corpus rights -- and as John McCain started a right-wing backlash by declaring, with Cheney-like hyperbole, that it was "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country" -- McClatchy Newspapers, whose 31 titles include the Miami Herald and the Kansas City Star, unveiled the timely results

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Queensland eyes solar thermal industry: Premier
Queensland could develop its own solar thermal industry which could drastically reduce the state's reliance on coal-generated electricity. Premier Anna Bligh toured solar energy facilities in Nevada in the United States today and was bullish about the prospects of similar developments in Queensland. Don't let the US get left behind; don't let the Solar Tax Credits expire!!! Oil is obsolete, and so are resource wars

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Perfecting A Solar Cell By Adding Imperfections
Nanotechnology is paving the way toward improved solar cells. New research shows that a film of carbon nanotubes may be able to replace two of the layers normally used in a solar cell, with improved performance at a lower cost. Researchers have found a surprising way to give the nanotubes the properties they need: add defects.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
IBM adds thin-film process to burgeoning cleantech business
Big Blue has been on a cleantech tear of late. Starting with a touchy-feely virtual world it released for Earth Day in April, the company has made a succession of announcements: A technology for cooling concentrating solar arrays, a new line of modular, energy-efficient data-centers, and the latest, its entrance into the thin-film solar cell market. *Note- Nanosolar is already selling thin-film at .99/kw; IBM won't be first

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Protesters clash with police in attempt to storm Whitehall
The Brits have less patience for Bush than the Americans: Police wielding batons clashed with protesters last night when a demonstration against George Bush's farewell visit to Britain turned violent a few hundred metres from where the US President was dining with Gordon Brown.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Truth or Terrorism? The Real Story Behind Five Years of High Alerts
(1 comments) The Bush administration has never shied from playing the fear card to distract the American public from scandal or goad them into supporting a deeply flawed foreign policy. Here a history of the administration's most-dubious terror alerts - including three consecutive Memorial Day scare-a-thons - all of which proved far less terrifying than the screamer headlines they inspired.

Monday, June 16, 2008
Activists Preparing Against Use of "˜Brown Note' at Dem Convention
Political activists planning protest rallies at the upcoming Democratic Convention in Denver have their stomachs in knots over a rumor about a crowd control weapon - known as the "crap cannon" - that might be unleashed against them.

Monday, June 16, 2008
House panel subpoenas FBI interviews of Bush, Cheney
(1 comments) A House committee issued a subpoena Monday for FBI reports from interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in the CIA leak investigation. The subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is the latest move by Congress to shed light on Cheney's precise role in the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity.

Monday, June 16, 2008
Gingrich raises alarm at event honoring those who stand up for freedom of speech - Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006
(3 comments) Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday in Manchester said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.

Sunday, June 15, 2008
In The Great Tradition: Obama Is A Hawk by John Pilger
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger reaches back into the history of the Democratic Party and describes the tradition of war-making and expansionism that Barack Obama has now left little doubt he will honour.

Sunday, June 15, 2008
YouTube - 9/11: Total Proof That Bombs Were Planted In The Buildings!
(3 comments) 10" trailer for The Ultimate Con; non-stop news footage of reports of explosions and bombs at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Over 5 million views

Sunday, June 15, 2008
An Important Reminder about 9/11
(1 comments) I often find that if I don't remind myself of the facts, I tend to lose solid belief in the truth. I know that the facts are there, but the things they stand for become far-fetched in my mind. The government attacking the World Trade Center? Attacking the most decorated US naval ship in history? Funding both side of every war? A secret society taking over the world? None of it could be true...But it is. So, here is the top 11:

Sunday, June 15, 2008
YouTube - Free Bees Funky Disco - 9/11 Staying Alive - BANNED-REPOST!!
(3 comments) Since the link from the Wired article is dead due to Youtube/unknown parties censtoring 9/11's a Lie (Staying Alive), i thought it appropriate, in the name of freedom of speech, to submit this again. BANNED-REPOST will likely get taken down soon, but 9/11 Truth is viral; download it, post it, share it- while you have the "Right"; before the neocons stage a pretext and attack Iran

Saturday, June 14, 2008
"Big Brother" Presidential Directive: "Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security"
(1 comments) The latest Big Brother police state measure emanating from the Bush administration, with virtually no press coverage, is NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) entitled Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security [Complete text of NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) in Annex below]

Saturday, June 14, 2008
Solar power finally ready to shine
After decades on the fringe, solar power is closing in on America's mainstream as surging fossil fuel prices and mounting concern over climate change spur states, businesses and homeowners to embrace alternative energy.

Saturday, June 14, 2008
How To Heat Up Solar
(2 comments) Perhaps the most interesting place where solar energy is making inroads is in utilities. Not only are they setting up solar power plants of their own, they are also buying solar energy from others. There are 4,500 megawatts of solar power plant projects in the works as we speak.

Saturday, June 14, 2008
Clean Energy Crunch Time: The Clock's Running Out on Solar Tax Credits
Solar, wind and other renewable energy companies are getting anxious as the clock runs out on important tax credits. The credits expire at the end of the year but Congress can't reach an agreement to extend them. Living on Earth's Jeff Young tells us what's holding them up and what's at stake for clean energy.

Friday, June 13, 2008
Solar Power's New [thin-film] Style - TIME Magazine
(1 comments) Everywhere you look, thin-film solar companies are opening new, more efficient factories. Today thin film is the hottest part of the fastest-growing new energy source in the world. BCC Research, which charts technology markets, expects the global solar market to grow from $13 billion to $32 billion by 2012, with thin film expanding 45% a year.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Accelerating the Great Broadband Migration
We're number 2! We're number 2! China has now topped the United States in total number of broadband subscribers and its growth rate in this field doubles ours. In the U. S., we're not used to being the runner-up. But when it comes to the Internet, we've become an "also ran" on the international scene. We now rank 15th out of 30 developed nations in per capita broadband penetration.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network
Does the FBI track cellphone users' physical movements without a warrant? Does the Bureau store recordings of innocent Americans caught up in wiretaps in a searchable database? Does the FBI's wiretap equipment store information like voicemail passwords and bank account numbers without legal authorization to do so?

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Study: consumers lust after high-speed broadband, not HDTV
Broadband services and speeds are ranked higher than any other "new" service when it comes to their importance to consumers. New survey results from Pike & Fischer Broadband Advisory Services show that while HDTV and digital phone service were important to some consumers, high-speed data came out ahead of the rest. The report is titled "Communications Industry Survey: Views on the U.S. Economic and Regulatory Climate"

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Coalinga [CA] solar plant would also burn manure
A proposed Central Valley [CA] power plant will tap three potent sources of renewable energy at once - the sun, crop stubble and cow manure/Bush policy.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Poll Reports 94% of Americans Say It's Important for the U.S. to Develop and Use Solar Energy
• 98% of Independents, 97% of Democrats, and 91% of Republicans support development of solar • 74% of Independents, 72% of Democrats and 72% of Republicans favor extension of Federal tax credits for renewable technologies • 77% of Americans feel Federal government should make solar power development a national priority

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Hints of structure beyond the visible universe
Colossal structures larger than the visible universe – forged during the period of cosmic inflation nearly 14 billion years ago – may be responsible for a strange pattern seen in the big bang's afterglow, says a team of cosmologists. If confirmed, the structures could provide precious information about the universe's earliest moments.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Plan for quake 'warning system'
(6 comments) Nasa scientists have said they could be on the verge of a breakthrough in their efforts to forecast earthquakes. Researchers say they have found a close link between electrical disturbances on the edge of our atmosphere and impending quakes on the ground below.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Paralysed man takes a walk in virtual world
A paralysed man using only his brain waves has been able to manipulate a virtual Internet character, Japanese researchers said Monday, calling it a world first. The 41-year-old patient used his imagination to make his character take a walk and chat to another virtual person on the popular Second Life website.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
9/11 Conspiracy Song Borrows Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' (Priceless!)
(5 comments) A YouTube-based political cover/parody act calling itself The Free Bees rewrote the lyrics of the 1970s disco anthem and Saturday Night Fever theme "Stayin' Alive" to promote the theory that the tragedy of 9/11 was a home-grown conspiracy.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Casinos on Wall Street
Move over Las Vegas. The big time gamblers are on Wall Street and they are gambling with your money, your pensions, and your livelihoods.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Wyo. Guard [Dirty Bomb] Team Heading to Denver for Dem Convention
"The civil-support team will support the Secret Service in the event of a weapon of mass destruction deployment or threat at the Democratic National Convention." Training exercise in WA state this wkend: "Seelye is the Survey Team Leader for the 84th and said the exercises will involve actual radiological materials."

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Cost of Solar Panels Expected To Plummet
Solar photovoltaics have their challenges, from shortages of silicon to the sheer cost of purchasing and installing solar panels, but a new report from the Prometheus Institute says that both these problems will be addressed over the next few years, leading to cheaper solar and an abundance of capacity to produce.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Thin-film solar market to reach 9GW in 2012
Thin-film solar production will grow from 1GW this year to more than 9GW in 2012, forecasts the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, according to preliminary figures presented at a recent Greentech Media conference.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Roswell residences a new definition for a green, solar community
From top to bottom, inside and out, Weatherford Place is developing a new definition for a green residential community. It eventually will have eight homes on 1.6 acres of land bordering Crossville Creek. The three visionaries behind the development call it a "solar community of net-zero energy homes," built to the greenest building standards. They call their home designs EcoCraft: designed and built to nature's code.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The "War on Terror" Hits the Web
Thwarted in an attempt to pass the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, which critics say could redefine some First Amendment and traditional protest activities as terrorism, members of Congress are pushing forward with measures such as censoring the Internet to combat what they claim is a grave threat of "homegrown terrorism" by Islamic extremists.

Sunday, June 8, 2008
Partisanship unwisely restrained Senate panel's Iraq inquiry
(1 comments) It may be tempting to dismiss the final Sen ate Intelligence Committee report on how politicians oversold the war against Iraq as just another partisan rehash. Mostly, it is. Focused entirely on a narrow group of public statements U.S. officials made before war started in March 2003, and whether they gibed with U.S. intelligence at the time, the committee's final Phase II report only skims the surface of lies and manipulations

Sunday, June 8, 2008
Senate report on Bush war lies: Another cover-up of war crimes
(3 comments) The Senate Intelligence Committee report issued Thursday on the Bush administration's use of phony intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq is yet another exercise in damage control, aimed at concealing the full scope of the criminal conspiracy to drag the American people into a war of aggression.

Saturday, June 7, 2008
"We Should Not Let Them Back into Polite Society" - Richard Clarke on GWB and His Cronies
"On Countdown last night, Keith went after GWB and his administration over the new Phase 2 Report on Iraq intelligence issued yesterday under chairman Jay Rockefeller... The report documents the manipulation of intelligence, the distortions, and the outright lies told to the world to whip up a war against a country that had not harmed us and was no threat to us."

Saturday, June 7, 2008
Media critics with a goal in mind
More than 3,000 people are expected in Minneapolis this weekend for the annual National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) organized by the nonprofit Free Press. The gathering will tackle press coverage, media policy, new media and other topics in over 70 panels.

Saturday, June 7, 2008
Bilderberg meeting attracts prominent politicians, businessmen
(2 comments) The 56th Bilderberg Meeting, an annual conference of influential politicians and businessmen, began Thursday in Chantilly, Virgina, according to a press release from the organization.

Saturday, June 7, 2008
The Propaganda Campaign Dissected
Commentary and news round up by WaPo Dan Froomkin on the Senate Iraq Intel report

Saturday, June 7, 2008
The White House used false intel "" which they knew was false
We've been waiting for the Senate Intelligence Committee to report on the misuse of pre-war intelligence for so long, it's easy to forget what a debacle the endeavor really is. Here's a quick primer:

Saturday, June 7, 2008
IEEE Spectrum: Special Report: The Singularity
(1 comments) The June 08 issues of the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is devoted to the theory of the "technological singularity" that may be one result of the increasingly rapid pace of technological evolution. Inventor, researcher & author Ray Kurzweil has predicted humanity will transcend all biological limits by 2045

Friday, June 6, 2008
"Three Days in Rome," and Other Details from New Senate Intelligence Phase II Report
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has finally released the long-awaited "Phase II" report (.pdf) detailing its investigation of highly contentious pre-war intelligence issues. The investigation had been stalled for years by former Republican chairman of the committee Pat Roberts (R-KS), who had sought to protect the White House and in particular the office of the vice president from closer scrutiny

Friday, June 6, 2008
The Three Amigos on 9/11
Video and Text: New examination of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld whereabouts on 9/11 turns up many troubling questions

Friday, June 6, 2008
Senate Report: Bush Used Iraq Intel He Knew Was False
(4 comments) More than five years after the initial invasion of Iraq, the Senate Intelligence Committee has finally gone on the record: the Bush administration misused, and in some cases disregarded, intelligence which led the nation into war.

Friday, June 6, 2008
The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least
Summary of some of futurist/inventor/best-selling author Ray Kurzweil's predictions and demonstrations at the World Science Festival last week in New York, such as: eat what you want, no weight gain. Solar will be as cheap as oil in 5 years, all energy will be clean in 20. Ray Kurzweil has made dozens of accurate predictions, mostly about trends in technology.

Friday, June 6, 2008
The Truth About Kos (DailyKos): The Indictment of Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚ�'IGA by Justice and History (Updated with A
Markos C. A.Moulitsas Z��IGA (MAMZ), (founder and owner of DailyKos) has a long history of participation in and support of the Republican Party and, moreover, trained or worked or "interviewed" with the US Central Intelligence Agency in 2001, among many other troubling questions about his past and who he is.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Kovio to Print Greener Silicon in the Valley (printed chips)
"Kovio's technology combines silicon ink with inkjet-style fabrication. The process allows the company to print low-cost, albeit low-intelligence, silicon circuits directly onto cheap, and potentially flexible, substrates. This means RFID and item-level intelligence can be built directly into products and labeling. Consumers will be seeing these circuits far more frequently and demanding green processes"

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Korea, Libya to Jointly Harness Solar Power
If North Korea tried to teach Libya how to go nuclear, then South Korea may be able to help the Middle-Eastern country divert to a safer, cleaner and more plentiful type of energy ― the sun.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Airlines face crisis that could rival 9/11
With record-high fuel prices driving the industry into the red again, the world's airlines face a crisis that has the potential to be even worse than the historic downturn that followed the 9/11 attacks, airline and industry leaders were told here Monday.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Prototype of machine that copies itself goes on show
A University of Bath academic, who oversees a global effort to develop an open-source machine that 'prints' three-dimensional objects, is celebrating after the prototype machine succeeded in making a set of its own printed parts. The machine, named RepRap, will be exhibited publicly at the Cheltenham Science Festival (June 4-8, 2008).

Thursday, June 5, 2008
DC checkpoint plan latest 'police state' tactic: Councilman
Over the last few months, city officials in Washington, DC, have instituted an array of tactics that has civil libertarians fearing the nation's capital is looking at the Bill of Rights as little more than a suggestion.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Edison gives ESolar its first major power deal
Southern California Edison said Tuesday that it agreed to buy 245 megawatts of power from solar plants to be built in the Antelope Valley by ESolar Inc., a unit of Pasadena-based business incubator Idealab. The plants, which are expected to begin operating in 2011, will provide enough electricity for about 160,000 homes, said Stuart Hemphill, the Rosemead utility's vice president of renewable and alternative power.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Long-Promised, (computer) Voice Commands Are Finally Going Mainstream
"A whole host of highly advanced speech technologies, including emotion and lie detection, are moving from the lab to the marketplace."

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Donald Rumsfeld on 9/11: An enemy within
On September 11, 2001, the United States suffered its worst attack since Pearl Harbor. Yet, as evidence shows, the country was in many ways undefended for the entire duration of the assault. "What was Rumsfeld doing on 9/11? He deserted his post. He disappeared. The country was under attack. Where was the guy who controls America's defense? Out of touch!" --A senior White House official

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Venezuelan intelligence law draws protests, seen as potential tool against dissent
(1 comments) A new intelligence law that President Hugo Chavez enacted by decree is drawing protests from human rights activists who say it could lead to serious violations of civil liberties and become a tool for cracking down on dissent.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Study shows hybrids of bird flu and human flu viruses fit well, could occur
An experiment mating H5N1 avian flu viruses and a strain of human flu in a laboratory produced a surprising number of hybrid viruses that were biologically fit, a new study reveals.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
New Research on Media Habits of Youth Breaks Stereotypes
A new study on the media habits of young people in three countries found that television continues to be the most important source of news and information for the young, despite the rise of the internet - and newspapers can win their attention as well.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
(1 comments) Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home. The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, which would be illegal in the United States.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Michelle Malkin thinks Rachael Ray's a Terrorist; Dunkin Donuts Ad Pulled! (NOT Satire)
(3 comments) Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

Monday, June 2, 2008
Air Force Unit's Nuclear Weapons Security Is 'Unacceptable'
(1 comments) The same Air Force unit at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota that was responsible for mishandling six nuclear cruise missiles last August failed key parts of a nuclear safety inspection this past weekend, according to a Defense Department report.

Monday, June 2, 2008
Judge critical of Guantanamo war crimes case is dismissed
(1 comments) A judge hearing a war crimes case at Guantanamo Bay who publicly expressed frustration with military prosecutors' refusal to give evidence to the defense has been dismissed, tribunal officials confirmed Friday. Army Col. Peter Brownback III was presiding over the case of Canadian detainee Omar Khadr. Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann, in his role as chief judge at Guantanamo, ordered the dismissal without explanation

Monday, June 2, 2008
Karl Rove & 9/11 Truth?
(4 comments) Karl Rove showing his support for the 9/11 truth movement in Rochester Minnesota today shortly after the Minnesota Republican Convention. Rove was leaving the event and saw a young man with a T-shirt that reads "Investigate 9/11" stopping the driver of the car he got out to take a picture with the young man.

Sunday, June 1, 2008
No evidence that Muslims hijacked planes on 9/11
(15 comments) The United States government has alleged that 19 individuals with Arab names, deemed fanatic Muslims, hijacked four passenger planes on 11 September 2001 and crashed them in a suicide-operation that killed approximately 3,000 people. In this Note, the author shows that there is no evidence that these individuals boarded any of these passenger planes. Absent such evidence for over six years, the official account must [be a lie]

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Comcast Is Hiring an Internet Snoop for the Feds
(2 comments) Wanna tap e-mail, voice and Web traffic for the government? Well, here's your chance. Comcast, the country's second-largest Internet provider, is looking for an engineer to handle "reconnaissance" and "analysis" of "subscriber intelligence" for the company's "National Security Operations."

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Optical boffins cut the cost of quantum cryptography
(2 comments) "Quantum cryptography allows two users on an optical fibre network to exchange secret keys. Each bit of the key is encoded upon a single light particle (or 'photon'). Intercepting this data randomly changes the polarization of the light, irreversibly altering the data." "The new quantum key distribution approach reduces the required number of single photon detectors, which can cost anything between $5K-$20K"

Sunday, June 1, 2008
White House doesn't deny McClellan's Bush-to-Libby leak allegation
(1 comments) In Scott McClellan's recent statements to the press regarding his apostasy, he says that one of the things that pushed him over the edge was the revelation on April 6, 2006, that President Bush had secretly authorized the selective release to reporters of classified information, something that both the president and his then-spokesman McClellan had been vigorously condemning in their public statements about the Valerie Plame l

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Reporter Ordered To Testify About Sources
A leading reporter on the national security beat, William Gertz of the Washington Times, has been ordered to appear before a federal judge next month to identify the sources for a news article about the prosecution of a Chinese spy ring based in southern California.

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Probe of Crude Oil Trading Disclosed: Agency Has Been Examining Market For Past 6 Months
"federal regulators said yesterday that they had been investigating crude oil trading, storage and transportation for the past six months with a focus on possible "futures market manipulation." CFTC, normally keeps investigations confidential, said in a statement that it was "taking the extraordinary step of disclosing this investigation because of today's unprecedented market conditions."

Sunday, June 1, 2008
McClellan would be skeptical of White House on Iran
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann in his first prime time interview since the release of his book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington, that he was disillusioned by his realization of his role in the White House's outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Sunday, June 1, 2008
How the Pentagon Shapes the World
(1 comments) 1. The budget-busting Pentagon: 2. The Pentagon as diplomat: 3. The Pentagon as arms dealer: 4. The Pentagon as intelligence analyst and spy: 5. The Pentagon as domestic disaster manager: 6. The Pentagon as humanitarian caregiver abroad: 7. The Pentagon as global viceroy and ruler of the heavens:

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Pinning the blame for 9/11: : A Phila. law firm wages an epic legal battle to win billions from Saudi Arabia
(1 comments) With a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit imminent, Cozen and his partners have unearthed facts and made connections missed not only by the 9/11 Commission but also by Congress in its investigations. At the heart of the suit, the biggest and most complex legal action ever undertaken by the law firm, are warnings from U.S. and European officials that the charities were serving as terror fronts.

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Pinning the blame for 9/11
(1 comments) "With a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit imminent, Cozen and his partners have unearthed facts and made connections missed not only by the 9/11 Commission but also by Congress in its investigations. At the heart of the suit, the biggest and most complex legal action ever undertaken by the law firm, are warnings from U.S. and European officials that the charities were serving as terror fronts."

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Can Truth Retain Its Independence?
Paul Craig Roberts describes how corrupt and immoral financial interests control of the media, universities, government, policy, and ultimately speech, thought and "truth"

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Solar, Zero-Carbon, Zero-Waste, and Fully Sustainable City
If there wasn't enough cool stuff about the Masdar Initiative (concept pictured above from aerial perspective), theres more. For those of you who haven't heard, the project is headed by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, and is a plan to build an entire city costing $22B and housing over 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses, and it would be zero-carbon, zero-waste, and fully sustainable.

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Secrecy-obsessed administration now more so
The Bush administration, whose obsession with secrecy even has Republican lawmakers outraged, has created a new category of security for government data that doesn't rise to the level of secret. It's called "Controlled Unclassified Information," or CUI.

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Conyers Mulls Hearings Over McClellan Revelations
(3 comments) Lawyers working for the House Judiciary Committee are meeting with former White House spokesman Scott McClellan regarding the explosive revelations contained in his new tell-all memoir, and the committee's chairman says he may renew hearings on the administration's leak of a CIA officer's identity now that new details have been published.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Stop the Oil Speculators
(1 comments) "A sane government would drop all subsidies and tax loopholes for Big Oil's huge profits and other fossil fuels and promote a national mission to solarize our economy to achieve major savings from energy conservation technology, retrofitting buildings, and upgrading efficiency standards for motor vehicles, home appliances, industrial engines and electric generating plants."

Friday, May 30, 2008
Around the World with Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
5 breakthrough developments in solar efficiency: Dr Zervos at IDTechEx looks at the global picture for dye-sensitized solar cells.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Scientists Cast Doubt on Kennedy Bullet Analysis
In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot the two bullets that struck and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Finkelstein to Shin Bet: Osama Sent Me
Richard Silverstein of Tikun Olam comments on Israel's recent arrest and deportation of Norman Finkelstein, Jewish American professor and critic of Israel's policies re: the Palestinians

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
House Votes to Ban Pentagon Propaganda: Networks Still Silent
"[in a surprise move, a 2009 defense policy bill passed with an amendment, sponsored by Rep. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.), that outlaws the Defense Department from engaging in "a concerted effort to propagandize" the American people. The measure would also force an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into efforts to plant positive news stories about the war in U.S. media."

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Human Rights Report Assails U.S.
Sixty years after the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, governments in scores of countries still torture or mistreat their people, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a report that again urged the United States to close down the Guant�namo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Kids in America(n Torture Camps): Why Does the Media Cover Up War Crimes? by Ted Rall
(2 comments) At the same time journo-wimp Lichtblau (NY Times) was penning his "balanced" take on the Justice Department's bombshell report, the U.S. government admitted that it has more than 500 children in its torture and concentration camps. More than 2,500 children have gone through U.S. secret prisons since 2002, including at least eight at Guant�namo.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
(3 comments) Wars in an imperialist democracy cannot simply be dictated by executive fiat, they require the consent of highly motivated masses who will make the human and material sacrifices. Imperialist leaders have to create a visible and highly charged emotional sense of injustice and righteousness to secure national cohesion and overcome the natural opposition to early death, destruction and disruption of civilian life and to the bruta

Sunday, May 25, 2008
Student researching al-Qaida tactics held for six days | higher news | EducationGuardian.co.uk
A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the "psychological torture" he endured in custody.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
B.C. researchers say death toll in Iraq distorts decline in global terrorism
(2 comments) Terrorist violence is on the decline around the world, contrary to belief, says a new report by researchers at Simon Fraser University. The report released Wednesday said previous data suggesting steep increases in global terrorism were distorted by the high death toll from the war in Iraq, hiding the fact that terrorist violence is actually on the decline.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Associated Press: US residents in military brigs? Govt says it's war
"Authorities say [Al-Marri] was an al-Qaida sleeper agent living in middle America, researching poisonous gasses and plotting a cyberattack. To justify holding him, the government claimed a broad interpretation of the president's wartime powers, one that goes beyond warrantless wiretapping or monitoring banking transactions."

Saturday, May 24, 2008
The Fed's deformed maturity
(1 comments) The results of Fed policies: High prices and shortages of energy and food, resulting in riots and higher risks of widespread hunger and malnutrition, have become recognizable threats to global economic and political stability. The US dollar has collapsed to a point of triggering flight out of that currency to more stable currencies and to commodities. Inflation has become rampant.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Bahrain World Trade Center: Powered by Wind
The Atkins designed Bahrain World Trade Center (BWTC) made history today as the turbines were turned together for the first time.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Is the Internets Radicalizing You?
(11 comments) "The rapid radicalization is something of concern, the speed with which people can be converted to violent acts," Hindle said. "Police have pointed to this being something that can happen in a matter of weeks. "It points to the fear that there is a lot of use of the Internet - people can almost become self-radicalized," he said. "If that is what has happened in Bristol or in Exeter, it is very worrying."

Friday, May 23, 2008
The Last Roundup: Are You on the List?
Article by Christopher Ketcham. James Comey, Gonzalez and Ashcroft; planning for Continuity of Government and martial law; history's lessons.

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Is the U.S. falling behind in broadband?
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development came out with its latest figures on broadband penetration and the situation appears to be getting worse for the U.S. According to the study, the U.S. has slipped to 15th in the world at the end of last year, with a penetration rate of 23.3 percent among the OECD member nations. That's down from 12th in 2006 and 4th in 2001.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Endgame: Bush/Cheney's desperate measures
Mark Crispin Miller Vlog: There's no doubt that the GOP is in big trouble, facing catastrophic losses in the House and Senate this November. But if you believe that Bush and Cheney will observe the law and honor the traditions of American democracy, and therefore let themselves be forced from power, you're living in a world of happy dreams.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Justice Department Report Reveals Senior Government Officials Knew Early On Of Interrogation Abuse But Did Not Stop It
NEW YORK - The results of an internal Justice Department investigation released today reveal that officials at the highest level of government - including the White House - received reports on the abuse of prisoners in U.S. military custody overseas as early as 2002.

Saturday, May 17, 2008
Historic Senate Vote Rejects FCC's Rules
In a near-unanimous voice vote tonight, the Senate passed a "resolution of disapproval" that would nullify the Federal Communications Commission's latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Using Fruit To Aid The Sun's Work
Currently, commercially available solar cells are efficient and robust but expensive, according to the team. "To develop efficient-and most importantly inexpensive-solar cells, scientists are following the design of photosynthetic systems," the professor said. "Research on so-called 'third-generation' solar cells is being carried out at Rowan University."

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
ACLU Skeptical of Senate Report on "Homegrown" Terrorism
(2 comments) WASHINGTON, DC - May 8 - After Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced a report on Islamic homegrown terrorism today, the American Civil Liberties Union strongly urged Congress to use caution when moving forward on related legislation, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (S. 1959).

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Broadband: other countries do it better, but how?
One of the ironies of the current broadband situation in the US is that staunch free marketeers defend the status quo even though the result of their views has been duopoly and high prices. Meanwhile, other countries (including those with a reputation in some quarters for "socialism") have taken aggressive steps to create a robust, competitive, consumer-friendly marketplace with the help of regulation and national investment.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
To Curb Truancy, Dallas Tries Electronic Monitoring
Dallas is using GPS tracking systems to monitor chronic class-cutters; does the power of Big Brother's all-seeing eye really improve attendance?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Cheney lawyer claims Congress lacks power to conduct oversight over vice president
In what appears yet another effort to strengthen his position in the executive branch, the attorney for Vice President Dick Cheney said in a letter released by Congress Thursday that the Congress "lacks the constitutional power" to conduct oversight over his job.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
9/11 Conspiracy Theories May Contain the Truth
Letter to the Editor published by the W Va. Cumberland Times by Gloria Freeland, in support of Hamilton Co. Library's March 14 9/11 Truth presentation; THIS ROCKS!!!

Saturday, April 26, 2008
FBI wants widespread monitoring of 'illegal' Internet activity
WASHINGTON--The FBI on Wednesday called for new legislation that would allow federal police to monitor the Internet for "illegal activity." The suggestion from FBI Director Robert Mueller, which came during a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing, appears to go beyond a current plan to monitor traffic on federal-government networks.

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Disjointed effort: After seven years, the U.S. still lacks a comprehensive anti-terror strategy
(2 comments) The investigative arm of Congress scolded the Bush administration last week for its failure to craft a single, comprehensive, interagency strategy against terrorism. It's not that the administration lacks plans. In fact, the Government Accountability Office concluded, the problem is just the opposite: an excess of disjointed efforts. The CIA has one plan, the State Department another - and the military probably has 50.

Thursday, April 24, 2008
FCC's Martin: Comcast Blocking Was Widespread
(1 comments) Comcast's slowing of peer-to-peer traffic appeared to be more widespread than the company has disclosed, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Senate Committee Votes to Throw Out FCC Rules
Today, the Senate Commerce Committee passed a "resolution of disapproval" that would veto the Federal Communications Commission's latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits.

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Bin Laden: Key enabler of "imperial mobilization"
The abominable shared fates that unite Iran ("Bush and Iran, again", WSJ April 15, 2008), and Pakistan, from President Bush calling Pakistan "Terror Central" in 2007, to this week, April 13, 2008, 'clairvoyantly' asserting that "If another September 11 style attack is being planned, it probably is being plotted in Pakistan, and not Afghanistan".

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Murdoch's Newsday Deal Is Bad News for New York
According to numerous press reports, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is close to completing a $580 million deal to purchase the Long Island daily Newsday from Tribune Company. S. Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, made the following statement:

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Bank of America Net Income Falls 77% on Writedowns
April 21 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., the second- largest U.S. bank, said profit dropped for a third straight quarter as the company set aside $6.01 billion for bad loans.

Sunday, April 20, 2008
EU to Criminalize Internet-Based Incitement to Terrorism
(1 comments) European Union justice ministers have agreed that using the Internet to publish bomb recipes or call for acts of terrorism to be committed should count as a criminal offence. The 27 member states agreed on Friday, April 18, to introduce as new offences "public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment, and training for terrorism" which would be punishable "also when committed through the Internet."

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction
(3 comments) Published in the peer-reviewed Open Civil Engineering Journal - Reports by FEMA and NIST lay out the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. Several popular myths about the WTC collapses are discussed.

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Sex For Diploma Offer Caught On Tape
(2 comments) The founder of a Christian school is confronted after 13 Undercover catches him soliciting sex from a parent, who's trying to get her daughter a high school diploma. At graduation ceremonies he talks about God, but you'll hear the founder of a Houston-area Christian school not only talk about sex, but ask for it on tape.

Friday, April 18, 2008
How to Judge a Would-Be Justice (SCOTUS "activist" judges more likely to be Republican)
Supreme Court nominees present themselves one way at confirmation hearings but act differently on the court. That makes it difficult for senators to cast informed votes or for the public to play a meaningful role in the process. [according to a new] study - with the unwieldy title "An Empirical Analysis of the Confirmation Hearings of the Justices of the Rehnquist Natural Court" -published in Constitutional Commentary,

Friday, April 18, 2008
GAO: Terrorists operating freely on Pakistan border
Terrorists are still operating freely in Pakistan along the country's Afghanistan border, despite the U.S. giving Pakistan more than $10.5 billion in military and economic aid, according to a government watchdog agency. The Government Accountability Office says in a report released Thursday that the U.S. lacks a comprehensive plan to deal with the terrorist threat.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Global Blowback: New American cover story on how US policies foster terrorism
(5 comments) Unfortunately, aiding al-Qaeda is far from the only "mistake" of this sort to be made by our government. In fact, the top policymakers at the State Department and National Security Council - in both Republican and Democratic administrations - seem to have a perverse proclivity for backing some of the most brutal terrorist organizations and terror-sponsoring regimes, time after time after time.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Public must fight to maintain net neutrality
(1 comments) The Internet is an engine of economic growth and innovation because of a simple principle: net neutrality, which assures innovators that their next great idea will be available to consumers, regardless of what the network owners think about it.

Friday, April 18, 2008
U.S. to Expand Collection Of Crime Suspects' DNA: Policy Adds People Arrested but Not Convicted
The U.S. government will soon begin collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and from many immigrants detained by federal authorities, adding genetic identifiers from more than 1 million individuals a year to the swiftly growing federal law enforcement DNA database.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Pentagon docs reveal 'murder,' 'torture' charges: ACLU
Documents released by the Pentagon detail charges that detainees in Afghan prisons were beaten and doused with cold water before being forced into the snow, the ACLU charges. The American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained the documents, says they provide the first "on-the-ground reports of torture" at a detention facility in Gardez, Afghanistan.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Mukasey dishonesty update
There are several updates in the ongoing fallout from Michael Mukasey's patently false claims made in the speech he delivered several weeks ago in San Francisco regarding FISA and the 9/11 attacks.

Friday, April 18, 2008
The next president should open up the Bush Administration's record
(1 comments) By now no one expects the Bush Administration to make itself accountable for its controversial and possibly illegal practices. But the next President will have a unique opportunity to reveal what has been kept hidden for the last seven years. Secrecy watchdog Steven Aftergood suggests a few questions for the presidential candidates about their willingness to disclose just what the current Administration has done.

Friday, April 18, 2008
FCC Gets an Earful From Open-Net Defenders at Stanford
(1 comments) Stanford professor Larry Lessig brought down the house at a net neutrality hearing Thursday, calling for the Federal Communications Commission to finally move to make sure that the internet's architecture remain open and neutral, with the goal of having the internet become as uncomplicated as the electrical grid.

Friday, April 18, 2008
The ABC Debate and the Danger to Democracy
(2 comments) Despairing, disgusting and disheartening – those words are flying around today to describe ABC's irresponsible Democratic presidential debate Wednesday night. Here's another one – dangerous. ABC's failure to ask tough questions, act as a watchdog and hold our leaders accountable is not an anomaly. It is a testament to our broken media system.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
ABC Hosts Heckled After Debate: "The Crowd Is Turning On Me"
(1 comments) Reflecting what seemed to be the main consensus of the night - that ABC botched this debate, big time - Charlie Gibson tells the crowd there will be one more, superfluous commercial break of the night and is subsequently jeered.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Blogosphere buzzing with criticism of ABC News debate
USA Today notes the corporate media blogs are all criticizing ABC's charade of a debate.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
300,000 vets have mental problem, 320,000 had brain injuries
Some 300,000 U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post traumatic stress from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received brain injuries, a new study estimates.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
FCC Public Hearing on the Future of the Internet: Stanford, CA 12p-7p
We are at a unique moment in history when we can help to decide whether we have a closed Internet controlled by a small handful of giant corporations, or an open Internet controlled by the people who use it. Now is the time to speak up for an open Internet free from corporate gatekeepers. It is rare for all five members of the Federal Communications Commission to leave Washington, D.C., and they want to hear from you.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Polygamist sect gets millions from U.S. government
(3 comments) "Hypocrisy-based initiatives": American taxpayers have unwittingly helped finance a polygamist sect that is now the focus of a massive child abuse investigation in West Texas, with a business tied to the group receiving a nearly $1 million loan from the federal government and $1.2 million in military contracts.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Pakistan opposes US nuke oversight
A PLAN by the US to seek direct "oversight" of Pakistan's powerful nuclear arsenal and the command structure that controls it was heading for rejection last night after it was denounced in Islamabad as "outright interference" in the country's affairs.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Democrats blast Mukasey for 9/11 call remarks
Attorney General Michael Mukasey's assertion that an unmonitored terrorist phone call before the Sept. 11 attacks showed the need for more government wiretapping authority drew a scathing retort Monday from Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, who accused him of rewriting history and ducking questions.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Nano "Popcorn Balls" Increase Dye Solar Efficiency 250%
A team of academics based at the University of Washington have announced an exciting breakthrough in dye-sensitized solar cell technology. Researchers studying solar cell configurations discovered that by using a design based on a popcorn ball (tiny spheres grouped into bigger porous spheres), efficiency in cheap solar cells was more than doubled.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Poll Shows Erosion Of Trust in Clinton
Lost in the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign's aggressive attacks on Barack Obama in recent days is a deep and enduring problem that threatens to undercut any inroads Clinton has made in her struggle to overtake him in the Democratic presidential race: She has lost trust among voters, a majority of whom now view her as dishonest.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Senator Harry Reid seeks answers on tax treatment of American Gold Eagle
The IRS says if you're paid wages in American Eagles, you pay income tax on the face value ($50), not the gold value (over $900). Senior Senator Harry Reid, D-NV, won't take the IRS at their word and demands an explanation from them in writing, as to why they don't tax you on the gold value

Sunday, April 13, 2008
Credit Default Swaps: Evolving Financial Meltdown and Derivative Disaster Du Jour
(1 comments) When the smartest guys in the room designed their credit default swaps, they forgot to ask one thing - what if the parties on the other side of the bet don't have the money to pay up? Credit default swaps (CDS) are insurance-like contracts that are sold as protection against default on loans, but CDS are not ordinary insurance.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, NRA hired 'black ops' company that targeted environmental groups
(1 comments) A private security firm managed by former Secret Service officers spied on myriad environmental organizations throughout the 1990s and the year 2000, thieving documents, trying to plant undercover operations and collecting phone records of members, according to a new report.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
Cheney, Others OK'd Harsh Interrogations
Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned. The officials also took care to insulate President Bush from a series of meetings where CIA interrogation methods, including waterboarding, which simulates drowning, were discussed

Saturday, April 12, 2008
Calls against big CEO pay grow louder: Shareholders Want 'Say on Pay' in Push Against Excessive CEO Compensation
Fund managers and individual investors alike are campaigning for a "say on pay" rule giving shareholders a vote on executive compensation at major corporations, especially America's biggest banks. This is the latest salvo in the battle against Wall Street's exorbitance, and this time it appears shareholders might stand a chance.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.
The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
G-7 Endorses Proposals Intended to Ease Crisis
Top economic officials from the world's major industrial countries yesterday embraced a set of proposals aimed at increasing the transparency of banks and other financial institutions in hopes of calming tumultuous global markets.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
PBS series- Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
A body of evidence that has been growing for decades conclusively establishes the link between inequality and health; this is why the US ranks so low on quality of life measures, compared with most other industrialized nations, despite being the most wealthy and powerful nation in the world

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Law Center graduate battles IRS about income tax
(1 comments) Tom Cryer, a Shreveport attorney, challenged the income tax law this past summer (he was prosecuted by the IRS for failure to file, and acquitted by a jury). And he is not alone in his dispute with the IRS. On April 15, the last day to file income tax, tax protesters will gather at 400 post offices to distribute information about why they think the average American is not responsible to pay income tax.

Sunday, April 6, 2008
NBC: Secretive DC prayer group has worldwide reach
Coe, leader of a group called The Fellowship, is a powerful, secretive and well-connected religious leader, widely known among senators across the aisles, and across faiths; but not by the general public. Coe's services have been attended by all three of the major 2008 presidential hopefuls: Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).

Saturday, April 5, 2008
The DOJ comments on the Mukasey controversy
Letter from Mukasey to Reyes proves he meant his claim to be about a real call, further entrenches Mukasey in his lies about FISA preventing interception. Also remaining is the question, if he's not lying about this call, why didn't the Bush Administration intercept it?

Friday, April 4, 2008
VIDEO: Law Professor: 'The President Ordered War Crimes'
(1 comments) Jonathan Turley: Congress, including the Democrats, have avoided any type of investigation into torture because they do not want to deal with the fact that the President ordered war crimes. Every time we see more evidence we have more and more high ranking people at the scene of the crime. This was a premeditated and carefully orchestrated torture program. Not torture, but a torture program.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior
(1 comments) As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying. [Jerry Zeifman] The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary's history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther

Friday, April 4, 2008
Increasing efficiencies for thin film solar cells
Recently, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced that they have moved closer to creating a thin-film solar cell that can compete with the efficiency of the more common silicon-based solar cell. The Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cell recently reached 19.9% efficiency in testing at the lab, setting a new world record

Friday, April 4, 2008
How the open net closed its doors
BOOK REVIEW. Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering challenges the long-standing assumption that the internet is an unfettered space where citizens from around the world can freely communicate and mobilise. In fact, the book makes it clear that the scope, scale and sophistication of net censorship are growing.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Bush officials oppose media shield bill
Bush Officials Mount Campaign Against Media Shield Bill, Say It Could Harm National Security. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and three other top Bush administration officials are weighing in against legislation that would allow reporters to protect the identities of confidential sources who provide sensitive, sometimes embarrassing information about the government.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Building a Legal Framework for Torture
Earlier this week, the Defense Department turned over an 81-page document to the American Civil Liberties Union in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that provides further insight into the extraordinary Executive Branch powers granted to President George W. Bush following the 9/11 attacks.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Administration Asserted a Terror Exception on Search and Seizure
The Justice Department concluded in October 2001 that military operations combating terrorism inside the United States are not limited by Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, in one of several secret memos containing new and controversial assertions of presidential power.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
"Ask Zawarhi" responses coming soon from Qaeda leader
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri's responses to Internet questions submitted by the public will be released soon, probably within the next three days, a terrorism monitoring service said on Wednesday. More than 2,000 questions were submitted in response to the offer, according to the SITE Institute monitoring group.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Countdown: FISA Fables
Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow comment on Mukasey's lies about FISA and his claim that the Bush Administration didn't monitor a terrorist call they knew of, & had legal authority to monitor. They agree the House needs to get Mukasey under oath on whether he was lying about the call- otherwise, isn't this evidence the Bush Admin was criminally negligent re: 9/11 Search the Complete 9/11 Timeline cooperativeresearch.org

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Bill Clinton's tirade stunned some delegates
(1 comments) "before his speech Clinton had one of his famous meltdowns Sunday, blasting away at former presidential contender Bill Richardson for having endorsed Obama, the media and the entire nomination process." "Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Obama's Oil Spill
(1 comments) Clinton and McCain have taken even more from oil companies, btw- Obama's the least evil, but that ain't saying much Obama has accepted more than $213,000 from individuals who work for companies in the oil and gas industry and their spouses. Two of Obama's bundlers are top executives at oil companies and are listed on his Web site as raising between $50,000 and $100,000 for the presidential hopeful.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Former Governor Jesse Ventura: WTC Collapse A Controlled Demolition
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura vehemently savaged the official 9/11 story on a syndicated national radio show today, saying the WTC collapsed like a controlled demolition and was pulverized to dust as he also highlighted the impossible 10 second free fall speed of the towers.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Mukasey backs Bush efforts on wiretapping
Attorney General Michael Mukasey defended the Bush administration's wiretapping program Thursday to a San Francisco audience and suggested the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could have been prevented if the government had been able to monitor an overseas phone call to the United States.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Obama, Clinton and McCain Are Backed by the Oil Industry
(1 comments) As of Feb. 29, Obama's presidential campaign had received nearly $214,000 from oil and gas industry employees and their families, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Clinton had received nearly $307,000 from industry workers and their families and Republican Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, received nearly $394,000, according to the center's totals.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Top Bush Administration officials pressured underlings to use torture tactics at Guantanamo
(1 comments) Of Guantanamo interrogators: "You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they got new ideas." "Torture at Guant�namo was sanctioned by the most senior advisers to the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense, according to the international lawyer and professor of law at University College London Philippe Sands, who has conducted a forensic examination of the chain of command

Thursday, April 3, 2008
CNN founder rebukes US military spending, says global warming could spark cannibalism
CNN founder Ted Turner, who bills himself as the largest private landowner in the country, has a message on global warming. "We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow," Turner said, speaking in a little-noticed interview on PBS' Charlie Rose Thursday. "Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals... Civilization will have broken down.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Top Democrats demand Attorney General provide 9/11 memorandum
A letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey demands he explain a recent public statement in favor of warrantless wiretapping that suggests that federal authorities, prior to the 9/11 attacks, failed to intercept a call from suspected terrorists in Afghanistan, when doing so could have prevented the attacks from taking place.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Coal Boss: If You Take Photos, 'You're Liable to Get Shot'
(1 comments) "If you're going to start taking pictures of me, you're liable to get shot," the chairman of one of the country's biggest coal mining companies, Don Blankenship of Massey Energy, told an ABC News reporter before grabbing the reporter's camera.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
British Judge Rules Against Exxon Mobil
(1 comments) A British judge ruled against Exxon Mobil Corp. on Tuesday, tossing out an order to freeze $12 billion in assets belonging to Venezuela's state oil company in a case that stemmed from the nationalization of a project last year. Judge Paul Walker noted that such freezing orders are rare and occur in cases where there is "usually compelling evidence of serious international fraud."

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Senators Seek Details About Bear Stearns Deal
(1 comments) **Senate Banking Committee Hearing in DC April 3*** Senior senators signaled their unease on Wednesday with the Federal Reserve's shotgun marriage of JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns, demanding detailed information by next week about how the $30 billion deal was reached.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Air Traffic Controllers Do Track Planes Even with Transponders Off
With the systems in place on 9/11, the FAA and NORAD were able to track airliners with transponders off- the claim that this significantly complicated air defense is not credible, and is contracted by the reports from numerous credible, mainstream sources

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Countdown: Bushed! March 31, 2008
Keith Olbermann- Murat Kurnaz; tortured to prompt confession creating Iraq/Al Qaeda link? Housing Secretary Alfonso Jackson under criminal investigation, resigns. Mukasey; lying, or admitted Bush Admin 9/11 foreknowledge and criminal negligence at the Commonwealth Club?

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Articles of Impeachment? Bear Stearns Buyout Illegal?
(9 comments) The Federal Reserve Act does not authorize the Fed's $30 billion bail out of Bear-Stearns- another ground for impeachment of GW Bush

Sunday, March 30, 2008
GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com -- Update
A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Bear Stearns, Jim Cramer, The Federal Reserve, JP Morgan
Video (10 mins) Don Harrold comments on the Bear Stearns bailout, establishment shills, the Federal Reserve and the corrupt insiders who are manipulating our economy, politics and posterity against our interests.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Treasury regulatory overhaul plan "timely": Fed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Upcoming Treasury Department proposals to make the Federal Reserve the chief regulator of U.S. financial markets and give it sweeping new powers won praise on Saturday from the central bank and the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Housing group challenges Fed's Bear Stearns deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A housing and fair lending activist group has challenged the legality of the Federal Reserve's quick approval of financing for Bear Stearns (BSC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) via JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), questioning the Fed's authority to approve the deal because it involves a non-bank institution

Saturday, March 29, 2008
The 9/11 Stand Down in 2 Minutes
(4 comments) short summary of the lies and contradictions about the lack of air defense on 9/11

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Net Neutrality's Quiet Crusader: Free Press's Ben Scott Faces Down Titans, Regulators in Battle Over Internet Control
FreePress.org / net and Ben Scott, organizers of the SaveTheInternet.com coalition that prevented Net Neutrality from being gutted by Congress in 2005, gets favorable interview by the Washington Post

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Rising Gasoline Prices: Why Can't Consumers Catch a Break
(1 comments) other than C-Span, a total MSM blackout- "It is critical for policy makers to ensure that the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act" is implemented vigorously since it emphasized the two key long-term elements that can help consumers escape from the grip of both the domestic refining oligopoly and the crude oil cartel – expansion of alternative fuels and reduction of demand through increased fuel economy."

Thursday, March 27, 2008
Spy in the Sky Drone Sets Sights on Miami
(1 comments) miniature unmanned aerial drones will be deployed in Miami to keep tabs on people opposing the encroaching police state and fascist wars of the Democrats and Republicans

Thursday, March 27, 2008
New evidence suggests second shooter killed RFK
(5 comments) Forensic scientists met at a conference in Connecticut this week to discuss their independent findings that cast serious doubt on the Kennedy assassination. Sirhan Sirhan is serving a life sentence in Kennedy's death, but the conference presenters argue he could not have fired the fatal shot that killed Kennedy. Their reasoning is Sirhan couldn't shoot RFK in the back from the front, or fire 13 shots from an 8 shooter.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
U.S. and Allied Intelligence Services Had Penetrated The Very Highest Levels of Al Qaeda Prior to 9/11
the public record shows that Al Qaeda was penetrated to the highest levels by US and Allied intelligence well before 9/11

Monday, March 17, 2008
Military Poll: Armed Forces -- And U.S. -- Highly Vulnerable
More than 3,400 active and retired officers -- 10 percent of whom served in Iraq, Afghanistan or both -- were surveyed by Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for a New American Security [PDF], a centrist think tank. When asked whether the war in Iraq had stretched the military "dangerously thin," a whopping 88 percent of respondents said yes.

Monday, March 17, 2008
Roasting on a Slow Spitz
Scott Horton oped- Republican operative Roger Stone claims to have known of the Spitzer case prior to Feb 26; is the Spitzer case evidence that the national surveillance state is being used to target uncooperative Democrats? The potential for abuse, and the willingness to abuse is evident.

Monday, March 17, 2008
Inside the Minds of Muslims
Gallup poll of 50,000 Muslims in 35 countries- US News & World Report interviews the author of a new book "Even in places like Iran and Saudi Arabia, there were only percentages in the single digits that said they admired nothing about the West. When we asked Americans what they admired about the Muslim world, the most frequent response was "nothing".

Saturday, March 15, 2008
Jim Rogers Calls for Abolition of the Federal Reserve
(2 comments) On CNBC's Squawk Box, billionaire investor-author-commentator Jim Rogers calls for the Federal Reserve to be abolished and criticized Bernanke's latest $200B inflation as being helpful to investment bankers and him, but destructive to the 300 mil rest of us

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Dollar Trades at Record Low Versus Euro as Fed Plan Disappoints
The dollar fell to a record below $1.55 per euro on concern that the Federal Reserve's plan to provide funds to banks won't be enough to break the gridlock in money-market lending and stem credit losses.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
September 11th Advocates Comment on the Impending Release of Philip Shenons Book
(1 comments) With the release of "The Commission" by Philip Shenon, the "Jersey Girls" renew their call for a new investigation of 9/11. Forward by Kyle Hence, 9/11 Citizens Watch

Saturday, January 12, 2008
Mysterious crowd suddenly stopped Bhutto's car, officer says
Two new reports on the assassination last month of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto suggest that the killing may have been an ambitious plot rather than an isolated act of violence and that the government of President Pervez Musharraf knows far more than it's admitted about the murder.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Sam Adams' dream of freedom imperiled
OpEd by Marty Luster- analyzes some of the threats to civil liberties posed by the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act aka the "Thought Crime" Bill, HR 1955 S 1959. Call your Senators and tell them to kill this dangerous bill, they may be scheduling hearings soon

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
9/11 Contradictions: Bush in the Classroom
(1 comments) David Ray Griffin analyzes the Secret Service's failure to guard the President in Sarasota, FL on 9/11, and the White House's revisionist history regarding the incident

Thursday, December 20, 2007
FBI Recorded 27 Million FISA 'Sessions' in 2006
In 2006, FBI's software for recording telephone surveillance of suspected spies and terrorists intercepted 27,728,675 sessions. But, the FBI only got 2,176 FISA court orders. Last paragraph links to a primer on the FBI's Digital Collection System and how it works with wiretap-friendly telecom switches.

Thursday, December 20, 2007
DHS finalizing plans for domestic spy satellite program
A plan to dramatically widen US law enforcement agencies' access to data from powerful spy satellites is moving toward implementation, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff expects to finalize a charter for the program this week, according to a new report.

Sunday, December 9, 2007
Facebook group protests U.S. House bill (Thought Crime S. 1959)
5 Facebook groups have been organized in opposition to S. 1959/ H.R. 1955, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, dubbed the "Thought Crime" Bill

Sunday, December 9, 2007
Global Derivatives Market Expands to $516 Trillion
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The market for derivatives grew at the fastest pace in at least nine years to $516 trillion in the first half of 2007, the Bank for International Settlements said. Credit-default swaps, contracts designed to protect investors against default and used to speculate on credit quality, led the increase, expanding 49 percent to cover a notional $43 trillion of debt in the six months ended June 30

Sunday, December 9, 2007
Petition Opposing H.R. 1955/S. 1959 Thought Crime Bill
If you oppose the "Thought Crime" Bill, here's a petition you can sign. Please also call your Senators, write the media, and most important, tell you friends, family and co-workers what's wrong with this bill

Sunday, December 9, 2007
Iran drops dollar from oil deals: report
TEHRAN (AFP) - Major crude producer Iran has completely stopped carrying out its oil transactions in dollars, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said on Saturday, labelling the greenback an "unreliable" currency. "At the moment, selling oil in dollars has been completely halted, in line with the policy of selling crude in non-dollar currencies," Nozari was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.

Saturday, December 8, 2007
Don't Blame Blacks for the Crisis of Capital
(2 comments) A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford What is behind the global credit crisis; is it bigger than the sub-prime meltdown covered by the MSM? "Trading in speculative derivatives amounted to more than ten times the yearly value of all goods and services on Earth!"

Saturday, December 8, 2007
Ron Paul's Remarks on "Thought Crime" Bill
(5 comments) Before the House of Representatives, December 5, 2007 Mr. Speaker, I regret that I was unavoidably out of town on October 23, 2007, when a vote was taken on HR 1955, the Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. Had I been able to vote, I would have voted against this misguided and dangerous piece of legislation.

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Iran Intelligence Report: More Psychological Warfare?
The latest NIE says that Iran had a nuclear weapons program that was halted in 2003; what is the evidence that they had such a program?

Thursday, December 6, 2007
New bill wastes cash, breeds due suspicion
op-ed by Brett Pruitt for the Dixie Sun online newspaper of the Dixie State College of Utah Commentary on the "Thought Crime" Bill, S. 1959- makes the points that the proposed research has already been done by more experienced people, this will be a waste of money, and may be dangerous to liberty, while producing nothing good

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Local attorney acquitted on federal income tax charges
Cryer stopped filing income taxes more than 10 years ago A Shreveport attorney who has challenged the government for years on the legality of filing federal income taxes has been acquitted on charges he failed to file returns. A federal jury unanimously found Tommy Cryer not guilty this week on two misdemeanor counts of failure to file. Google this one "1040 Checkmate?" givemeliberty.org

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Jersey Girls Deliver Petitions, Request Support
September 11th Advocates Regarding Declassification and Release of Documents June 18, 2007 The Public's Right to Know - Declassification and Release of Documents petition at petitiononline.com surpassed 15,000 signatures. As promised, we have hand delivered it to lawmakers in Washington, DC.

Saturday, June 16, 2007
CIA letter supports assertion that OBL "confession video" was a sting operation
CIA won't confirm or deny it has any records related to the Bin Laden "confession" video- was the tape actually obtained by a sting operation, and not faked, or "found" by accident in Jalalbad?