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Member Registration is not turned on yet, and the test login page some of you founs is just that, for testing. Trust me,when we are open for business, you will know it! :)   July 24, 2008   adsonar_pid=115755;adsonar_ps=412674;adsonar_zw=568;adsonar_zh=100;adsonar_jv='ads.adsonar.com'; Precious Metals & Financial Market News: Protect Yourself By Staying Informed The Real Reason that the U.S. Tortures People If torture doesn't do anything useful, and instead does alot of harmful things like dramatically weakening our national security an putting our troops in harms way, why are we doing it?Well, listen to the testimony to Congress by a representative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: "Governments that use torture intend to intimidate their citizens in order to maintain control; those who are tortured become examples of the consequences of dissent." Posted Jul 24, 2008 06:20 PM PST Category: TORTURE SCANDAL In other words, the US Government is torturing Iraqis to make YOU afraid to speak out! Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power Salon has uncovered new evidence of post-9/11 spying on Americans. Obtained documents point to a potential investigation of the White House that could rival Watergate. Posted Jul 24, 2008 05:05 PM PST Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION International Olympic Committee says Iraq will not compete at Beijing Games The International Olympic Committee said Thursday that Iraq will not compete at the Beijing Games because of government interference.The IOC suspended Iraq's national Olympic committee in June after the Iraqi government dismissed and installed its own group chaired by the sports minister. The IOC told officials in Baghdad that it was upholding the suspension. Posted Jul 24, 2008 04:46 PM PST Category: IRAQ Mystery vibrations have Green Bay couple spinning For two years now, the Ehrfurths have been enduring an annoying, persistent noise in their home -- a low, motor-like rumble accompanied by a vibration. They can't figure out what's causing it, and it's been a challenge getting others to believe them because the problem starts and stops. Posted Jul 24, 2008 04:11 PM PST Category: CURRENT EVENTS There is no mystery here. I have heard that sound myself and know what it is. it is the sound of deep earth boring machines making tunnels for the military. Click for larger image Bolton: U.S. should help Israel hit Iran Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton said the United States should assist Israel in any strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Posted Jul 24, 2008 02:34 PM PST Category: IRAN , Category: ISRAEL Download this Military Enlistment Form and FAX it to Josh Bolton care of the American Enterprise Institute at 202-862-7177.Or, you can send the enlistment form as an attachment to his email at jbolton@kirkland.com Nov. 22, 1963 And right here -- in just the fifth paragraph! -- you already have the overwhelming desire to take him by the collar and shout: Max!!! Buddy!!! SNAP OUT OF IT!!! Abort, abort! Entire human beings have disappeared in Dealey Plaza!! It's the Bermuda Triangle of pop culture! Posted Jul 24, 2008 02:32 PM PST Category: CORPORATE MEDIA , Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS I'll go you one better, between JFK rehashes and UFO stories, there seems to be an awful lot of DISTRACTIONS in the American media all of a sudden! Tornado ravages Central New Hampshire; Recovery effort underway in Barnstead Governor John Lynch has declared a state of emergency and is dispatching the National Guard after tornadoes formed in Southeastern Belknap County and Northwestern Stafford County shortly before Noon Thursday, causing significant damage in the Barnstead and Alton areas and prompting emergency crews to respond from as far away as Laconia, Bristol and Waterville Valley.Multiple tornado strikes were reported in Barnstead, Alton and New Durham. The most severe damage occurred in Barnstead, where there were reports of multiple building collapses with individuals trapped along with a fuel tanker overturned and spilling its contents onto Route 126. Reports of individuals trapped in cars by downed live electrical wires also came in from Alton. Posted Jul 24, 2008 12:32 PM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH I am still trying to reach family I have in that area. Willie Nelson In Talks To Hold Concert For 9/11 Truth In an exclusive interview today on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones show, iconic musician Willie Nelson volunteered to take part in a concert for 9/11 truth and as part of a campaign to stave off an attack on Iran. Posted Jul 24, 2008 12:29 PM PST Category: 911 CONYERS TARGETED Ex-aide: FBI tapped phone, checked bank records Sam Riddle, a political consultant who worked as Conyers' chief of staff after she was elected in 2005, said Monday that agents also told his attorney they had been tapping Riddle's cell phone for the past year."After leaving that interview, I became firmly convinced there are council people that are clearly targeted," he said, adding of Conyers: "I believe they're looking at her real hard." Posted Jul 24, 2008 11:35 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP ACLU: Memos authorized CIA torture Bybee outlined the definition of torture in Section 2340A of the United States code, focusing in part on its caveat that an act be "specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering." Elaborating on his definition of the "specific intent" provision, Bybee narrows the definition to the point where it become functionally meaningless.All that is required to avoid prosecution is a CIA agent's "good faith belief" that his actions will not cause torturous pain and suffering. Such a belief "need not be reasonable," Bybee writes. Posted Jul 24, 2008 10:30 AM PST Category: TORTURE SCANDAL Unflipping believable. Ron Paul: Housing Rescue Bill Has Provison That Will Require All Credit Card Transactions Be Reported To The IRS The bill is some 600 pages long. Sneaked into the bill is a provison that will require that all credit card transactions be reported to the IRS. Posted Jul 24, 2008 10:25 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP , Category: TAXES Years ago I warned you all that when the government went broke, it's "Final Solution" would be to drag the American people down with them by taxing the people into a hole of unpayable debts. Evidence of the US Banking System Teetering on the Brink of Collapse Paulson appears on Face The Nation and says "Our banking system is a safe and a sound one." If the banking system was safe and sound, everyone would know it (or at least think it). There would be no need to say it. Posted Jul 24, 2008 10:16 AM PST Category: ECONOMY "They" were saying the same thing in early October 1929. Death Spiral Financing at Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, WaMu... Reuters is reporting WaMu has $3.33 bln loss, may be cut to "junk" .Washington Mutual Inc, the largest U.S. savings and loan, posted a $3.33 billion second-quarter loss on Tuesday as souring mortgages forced it to set aside more money for loan losses. Posted Jul 24, 2008 10:14 AM PST Category: ECONOMY America's Middle Class Can't Take Much More Punishment America's Middle Class Can't Take Much More Punishment... Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:35 AM PST Category: CURRENT EVENTS Kagan: 'The only way' to 'force' Iran to halt its nuclear program is an 'attack.' Appearing on MSNBC this afternoon, Iraq surge architect Fred Kagan criticized direct talks with Iran and made his case for attacking Iran, claiming it is the only means to "force" the country to halt its nuclear program Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:20 AM PST Category: IRAN Memo to Fred Kagan: Iran is only enriching uranium at a 3% level, perfectly consistent with creating a nuclear power plant.In order to create weapons, they'd have to be enriching uranium at a 98% level. The only thing a US and/or Israeli attack will teach both Iran and the region, is that they are dead meat if in fact they do not have a nuclear deterrent.What you are suggesting will only encourage a further regional arms race: is that your intention?Oh, and just one last question: what will Russia do to protect its geopolitical and financial interests in Iran if Iran is hit with an attack?War with Russia, Fred?How swell would that be? Group claims 100,000 signatures in 'Send Rove to Jail' campaign That's the name of the website now claiming to have over 101,000 signatures in their campaign to urge the House Judiciary Committee to cite former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for contempt. Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:24 AM PST Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION If they really have 100,000 people ready to support them, maybe they don;t need a petition. Maybe they should go right to the tar and feathers! Mosley wins court case over orgy World motorsport boss Max Mosley has won a legal action against a Sunday newspaper over claims an orgy he took part in had Nazi overtones. Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:14 AM PST Category: CORPORATE MEDIA Normally I would not cover this kind of crap. What two (or in this case six) people do in the privacy of their own home is not news, because it does not affect our everyday lives. The lesson here is that Rupert Murdoch, in trying to MAKE it news (so as to avoid reporting on those things that really do affect our everyday lives) got well and truly burned. As he should have. Big Box Mart Big Box Mart... Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:12 AM PST Category: ECONOMY Humor. Sort of. Maybe... Conyers Tries To Kill Impeachment Hearings Before They Start John Conyers is now taking the position that no one at Friday's impeachment hearing can accuse Bush or Cheney of any crime, or any impeachable offense, or dishonorable conduct, or even lying.Moreover, Conyers is now saying that he will shut the hearing down if anyone does accuse the boys of crimes, impeachable offenses, or otherwise being naughty. Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:10 AM PST Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS Conyers has absolutely earned the "Bush/Cheney Enabler of the Week" award! Newspaper misspells name on front page No media organisation can claim to be immune from spelling mistakes, but a local paper in the United States may have set a new standard for most glaring typo. Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:10 AM PST Category: CORPORATE MEDIA Fresh scent may hide toxic secret The scented fabric sheet makes your shirts and socks smell flowery fresh and clean. That plug-in air freshener fills your home with inviting fragrances of apple and cinnamon or a country garden.But those common household items are potentially exposing your family and friends to dangerous chemicals, a University of Washington study has found. Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:04 AM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH Bust, Bail, Repeat: The U.S. Enters into an Ever-Worsening Cycle We are a year into the financial pain and virtually no systemic problem has been solved. Markets have entered into a new unsustainable cycle. The new dance is a two-step. Home prices slide, delinquencies rise, defaults rise. This puts additional pressure on housing going forward. Financial firms announce greater write-offs. Retailers slump and contagion goes global. Selling grips the markets, the good and the bad are sold off indiscriminately. Commodities rise, fear escalates and reaches a crescendo as at least one major institution nears or reaches insolvency. Forecasts of impossible return to the good old days are debated and rebound timetables are pushed back. In the depths of the swoon, the Fed opens the discount window to some new and previously barred set of institutions. Bail-outs are readied, Treasury checks are cut and we rebound off the lows. Bad news becomes good, commodities sell-off and financials soar. Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:03 AM PST Category: ECONOMY THE PALESTINIAN BAR MITZVAH The following essay was written by Bassam Aramin, the father of the gorgeous child pictured at the left. Abir was only 10 years old when she was brutally murdered by Israeli soldiers while at play in her schoolyard. Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:00 AM PST Category: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE War Party in a Bind: After Nuclear Talks in Geneva, Iran Will Likely Agree Let us hope that this author is correct in their assessment.The alternative could very easily devolve into a complete world war. Posted Jul 24, 2008 09:00 AM PST Category: IRAN PHOTO OF THE DAY ~~ 24/7/08 ~~ OBAMA AT THE WALL The 25-foot wall is built down the middle of the main street in Abu Dis, a town adjacent to and now cut off from East Jerusalem. The main street has been divided in half by the wall. After the wall is completed, many students and teachers will not be able to reach their schools, which lie on either side of the wall. Access to private, UN, and PA clinics, hospitals, and doctors will be impeded. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:57 AM PST Category: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE I notice that the writings on the wall are being painted over. I guess Israel did not like seeing things like this. THE ORDEAL OF MOHAMMED OMER We are used to hearing about the hazards, often fatal, of being a journalist these days. Everyone is familiar with accounts of courageous Russian journalists who have been assassinated and of course with stories of war correspondents who have been killed or gravely wounded in the course of reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan. But what about the dangers of just being a Palestinian journalist who is simply trying to return to his own hometown in Gaza after being abroad? Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:56 AM PST Category: ISRAEL OBAMA, ISRAEL AND PALESTINE Barack Obama has finally made his long-awaited pilgrimage to Israel, a rite of passage that no aspiring American politician, let alone a presidential candidate, can afford to miss or ignore.There (or rather here), Obama uttered all the politically-correct words that Israeli leaders and especially Israel-firsters back home would want to hear. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:54 AM PST Category: ISRAEL , Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule making it tougher to regulate workers' on-the-job exposure to chemicals and toxins. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:46 AM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH You just have to love how expendable US workers have become under Bush's watch.This is more of his true "legacy" for this country, and its people. The Other Donald Duck Tax Propaganda Film A year after the United States entered the Second World War the federal government needed additional revenues to pay for the war effort. Congress had given away much of the government's usual means of financing itself, printing its own money, when it created the Federal Reserve in 1913. A voluntary income tax had been in place for 29 years, but for Constitutional reasons, fewer than 11 percent of Americans had to pay the income tax at that time. As a result, Congress enacted into law the Victory Tax Act of 1942, which included concurrent law for automatic wage withholding. The Victory Tax was a direct tax on income. However Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution requires that direct taxes be apportioned to the several states, not citizens directly, and therefore it was unconstitutional. The government attempted to legitimize these new laws by citing Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2 of the Constitution: "To support Armies but no apportionment for money to that use shall be a longer term than 2 years."The new legislation gave Henry Morgenthau, then Secretary of the Treasury, two voluntary income taxes to which he needed the voluntary compliance of US citizens. In December 1942, Morgenthau came up with a brilliant idea to encourage Americans to volunteer to pay by making the income tax a patriotic duty. To help implement this idea, Morgenthau ordered John J. Sullivan, a Treasury Department official, to contact Walt Disney. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:48 AM PST Category: ENTERTAINMENT , Category: TAXES The irony of all this is that Disney got stiffed by the US Government for all those training films they made during WW2. Bank Gave Counterfeit Bills, Couple Says Ulises Garcia said he was withdrawing cash from a Wachovia Bank and depositing it into a Bank of America so he could pay his bills online.However, the Bank of America teller noticed something funny about 10 of the 36 $100 bills Garcia said he received from Wachovia Bank -- they were counterfeit, Local 6's Tony Pipitone reported. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:45 AM PST Category: ECONOMY WHEN SADDAM HUSSEIN MET APRIL GLASPIE Eighteen years ago, the infamous meeting between Saddam Hussein and April Glaspie took place. Most people only recall that April Glaspie, in her ambiguity, may have given Saddam a "green light" to enter Kuwait. But, there was much more to the meeting than this oft-told allegation. Saddam let Glaspie know that he and his government were well aware that the U.S. and Kuwait were attempting to undermine Iraq's economy. Hindsight shows us today that this meeting dealt with many issues that were involved in the U.S. aggression against Iraq, not just the border problem with Kuwait. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:43 AM PST Category: HIDDEN HISTORY , Category: IRAQ TSA Now Conducting Random Behavioral Screening TSA Now Conducting Random Behavioral Screening... Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:37 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP If you've been thinking about flying to - or within the US, just please don't until there is some semblance of sanity in security procedures. US Military Recruits Children "America's Army" is not a game; it is a recruitment and training tool that the Army uses in violation of international law. While soldiers and civilians continue to kill and die in Iraq and Afghanistan, private corporations like Ubisoft reap handsome profits from the Army's project to train and recruit children. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:26 AM PST Category: WAR/DRAFT There is no "reset button" for death in real life. Ford Posts Loss of $8.7 Billion on Asset Woes The Ford Motor Company, stunned by abysmal sales of its most profitable vehicles and a sudden shift in consumers' tastes, said Thursday that it lost $8.7 billion in the quarter, its worst ever, and would overhaul its North American plants to focus on small cars. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:18 AM PST Category: ECONOMY Are You On the Terror Watch List? Good Luck Getting Off It The TSA's "no fly" terrorism watch list contains between 400,000 and 1,000,000 names. If you're on the list by mistake, good luck getting off of it. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:28 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP It's not a terror watch list, it's a "harass this person because we don't like them" list. Housing bailout bill - another $800 billion gift from the taxpayer to Wall Street Housing bailout bill - another $800 billion gift from the taxpayer to Wall Street... Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:26 AM PST Category: ECONOMY "Prisoner Boxes" in Iraq In Iraq, some prisoners/detainees are kept in wooden crates known as "prisoner boxes," Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:24 AM PST Category: TORTURE SCANDAL Look just like the one they had Alec Guinness in in "Bridge on the River Kwai." Why No Trial by Jury at Gitmo? As the Gitmo proceedings unfold, Americans are going to have the opportunity to witness what America's federal judicial system would look like in the absence of the Bill of Rights. Hopefully, the Gitmo spectacle will give the American people a renewed understanding and appreciation for why our ancestors were so determined to secure passage of the Bill of Rights. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:13 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP The way the Constitution and Bill of Rights have been eviscerated by this administration, coupled with recent court decisions where any American citizen can be described as an "enemy combatant" and held indefinitely, one has to wonder just how long those rights and guarantees will last. Flashback - 1970 Bertrand Russell Statement: Palestine "The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:17 AM PST Category: PALESTINE Investors worldwide are betting more than $1 trillion on a collapse in American stock prices Americans should be experiencing nausea about right now, that's being induced from swirling around the toilet bowl faster and faster.Add in the that loud plunk you just heard, which was the sound of that extra-large turd of another 800 BILLION dollars in debt being added to our total debt, now being approved by our cowardly, immoral and craven Congress. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:14 AM PST Category: ECONOMY Jewish settlers smash village Palestinian security says more than 20 Jewish settlers have attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank, smashing cars and windows and cutting electricity wires. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:13 AM PST Category: ISRAEL Russia says opposes deadlines for Iran response Russia said on Thursday it opposed any artificial deadlines being issued to Iran to force it to respond to incentives from world powers on suspending its nuclear activities. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:12 AM PST Category: IRAN , Category: RUSSIA VIDEO - Disney Propaganda: Pay your taxes or you're a NAZI! VIDEO - Disney Propaganda: Pay your taxes or you're a NAZI!... Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:11 AM PST Category: ENTERTAINMENT , Category: HIDDEN HISTORY , Category: TAXES YouTube pulled the first one. Let's see how long this stays up. Ron Paul on the Housing Bill 7/23/08 - "The Mother of All Bailouts" All credit card transactions will now be reported to the IRS. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:06 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP , Category: ECONOMY Barack Obama: 'hopelessness and despair' growing in Middle East Barack Obama: 'hopelessness and despair' growing in Middle East... Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:05 AM PST Category: MIDDLE EAST Reward offered for citizen's arrest of Rice A $5000 reward is being offered to any Auckland University student who can make a successful citizen's arrest of United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the country this weekend. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:04 AM PST Category: CURRENT EVENTS Realists Urge Bush to Drop Iran Precondition And both men warned that repeated U.S. threats to use military force against Iran were counterproductive and strengthened hard-line forces in the regime led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. They said an actual military attack - whether by the U.S. or by Israel - would likely be disastrous for U.S. interests in the region. Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:03 AM PST Category: IRAN BUSH: Stock Market is drunk BUSH: Stock Market is drunk... Posted Jul 24, 2008 08:01 AM PST Category: ECONOMY America's Cyborg Warriors America's techno-warriors and their corporatist masters most certainly plan to field such systems in the "homeland" itself. Viewed as exemplary means to control "restless natives" in the imperialist metropolis, surveillance technologies replete with biometric "smart cards," highly politicized terrorist "watch lists," sensor and tracking equipment are the "speartip" of a technical-scientific counterrevolution, neoliberal globalization's "dark side."Deployed in U.S. and European cities along with the other accoutrements of an emerging police state--data mining, internet and cell phone surveillance--in the final analysis, these systems represent not the strength, but rather the precarious nature of capitalism's entire geopolitical project. However, that doesn't make them any less deadly--or dangerous--to a functioning democracy. Posted Jul 24, 2008 07:57 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP Asprox computer virus infects key government and consumer websites Cyber-criminals have attacked key government and consumer websites, allowing them to steal the personal details of anyone browsing the sites, The Times has learnt.Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, including those run by the NHS and a local council, in the past two weeks. Posted Jul 24, 2008 07:54 AM PST Category: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY Folks, the fact that hackers are able to do what they do is proof that the United States has lost the war on terror. No amount of confessions extracted under torture can conceal the fact that a nation unable to track down and jail script kiddies does not stand a chance against really determined terrorists operating with the resources of a nation-state (and I don't mean the Mossad guys pretending to be Al Qaeda for the media). Anti-War Movement Successfully Pushes Back Against Military Confrontation With Iran Anti-War Movement Successfully Pushes Back Against Military Confrontation With Iran... Posted Jul 24, 2008 07:55 AM PST Category: IRAN the battleground for the hearts and minds of thinking Americans can no longer be found in street demonstrations or corporate news media: it is found on the internet. Navy Prosecutor In Gitmo Case: "If they hadn't shot down the fourth plane it would've hit the dome" Though the trial the man, dubbed "Osama bin Laden's driver", is primarily functioning as a show piece for the Bush administration's "war on terror", some interesting information emerged from the Guantanamo Bay naval base yesterday in the form of a direct admission from a US prosecutor that the fourth plane was "shot down". Posted Jul 24, 2008 07:53 AM PST Category: 911 Bush will revive arms sales US-Taiwan Business Council chairman Paul Wolfowitz told a gathering of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei yesterday that he believed the administration of US President George W. Bush would recommence arms sales to Taiwan before Bush leaves office in January. Posted Jul 24, 2008 07:18 AM PST Category: CHINA , Category: DUBYA U.S. government: We know parenting better than you The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children - even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems. Posted Jul 24, 2008 07:16 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP Hiding Leviev The Village of Bil'in in the West Bank in Occupied Palestine is suing two Canadian corporations in Quebec Superior Court for committing war crimes connected with the construction of illegal settlements. The interesting aspect is that the Canadian companies, Green Mount International Inc. and Green Park International Inc., are allegedly fronts, through an elaborate series of holding companies, nominees and trustees, for none other than our old friend Lev Leviev, the guy who sells blood diamonds and uses the proceeds to fund the building of illegal settlements: Posted Jul 24, 2008 07:15 AM PST Category: ISRAEL Source: Novak's Victim Worse Than First Thought Bono dismissed Novak's assertion that he never saw the struck pedestrian."There was a pedestrian splayed on his windshield -- I don't think there is any way you can miss that," Bono said.Bono also said that the pedestrian was in a crosswalk and had the right of way. Posted Jul 24, 2008 07:06 AM PST Category: CORPORATE MEDIA Well, thi smight be one reason History Channel and National Geographic are so full of UFO crap these days Not to mention Ed Mitchell's interview from yesterday. Posted Jul 24, 2008 06:59 AM PST Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS July 23, 2008 adsonar_pid=115755;adsonar_ps=412674;adsonar_zw=568;adsonar_zh=100;adsonar_jv='ads.adsonar.com'; Precious Metals & Financial Market News: Protect Yourself By Staying Informed Histatin: Why 'Licking Your Wounds' Actually Works A report by scientists from The Netherlands published in The FASEB Journal identifies a compound in human saliva that greatly speeds wound healing. Posted Jul 23, 2008 10:44 PM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH Anbar Sheik Cited By McCain Was Assassinated Last Year The major Sunni sheik who John McCain said was protected by the surge and subsequently helped lead the Anbar Awakening, was actually assassinated by an al-Qaeda led group in midst of the surge. Posted Jul 23, 2008 10:42 PM PST Category: IRAQ , Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION Kagan: 'The only way' to 'force' Iran to halt its nuclear program is an 'attack.' Appearing on MSNBC this afternoon, Iraq surge architect Fred Kagan criticized direct talks with Iran and made his case for attacking Iran, claiming it is the only means to "force" the country to halt its nuclear program Posted Jul 23, 2008 10:36 PM PST Category: IRAN Okay folks, here is what we do., If Kagen is so convinced that attacking Iran is the right thing to do, we should help him out. I want you to download this Military Enlistment Form and FAX it to Fred Kagan care of the American Enterprise Institute at 202-862-7177. CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER TO CUT STATE WORKER PAY TO $6.55 AN HOUR Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sign an executive order next week that will temporarily reduce pay for more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour to preserve cash in the midst of a month-long budget standoff, according to a draft copy of the order obtained by The Bee. Posted Jul 23, 2008 10:28 PM PST Category: ECONOMY But only six months ago ... New superintendent says Carrollton can't make payroll The Carrollton School District's projected ending balance in the Education Fund for August shows a deficit of $190,798, and the district will not be able to make payroll. Posted Jul 23, 2008 10:27 PM PST Category: ECONOMY Police director sues for critical bloggers' names Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of Godwin and his department.The lawsuit asks AOL to produce all information related to the identity of an e-mail address linked to MPD Enforcer 2.0, a blog popular with police officers that has been extremely critical of police leadership at 201 Poplar. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:36 PM PST Category: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY Man dies after cop hits him with Taser 9 times Dr. Randolph Williams, the Winn Parish coroner, told CNN the 21-year-old sawmill worker was jolted so many times by the 50,000-volt Taser that he might have been dead before the last two shocks were delivered. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:33 PM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP No doubt some in-the-pocket judge will order the cause of death changed to "undetermined". Apollo 14 astronaut claims aliens HAVE made contact - but it has been covered up for 60 years Aliens have contacted humans several times but governments have hidden the truth for 60 years, the sixth man to walk on the moon has claimed. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:31 PM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH ... who appears to be trying to compete for attention with the FIRST man to walk on the moon. No Bottom Yet for Ailing Financials In recent months, even the most blindly optimistic forecasters have come to grips with how our banks and investment banks took wildly imprudent risks that will result in horrific losses. The resulting sell-off in financial shares has tempted many investors to scoop up these companies at apparently fire sale prices. Wise investors should resist the temptation, as the pain for financials is just getting started. Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:51 PM PST Category: ECONOMY Proof that Angels, Aliens and Gods Do Not Exist. Of course it could be that there are no angels, aliens or gods. This would go a long way explaining the situation we find ourselves in, here on planet Earth. Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:47 PM PST Category: RELIGION San Diego sues Bank of America to block foreclosures San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre said on Wednesday he filed a lawsuit against Bank of America Corp (BAC.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and its Countrywide unit to prevent the mortgage lenders from foreclosing on homes in his city, which he aims to make a "foreclosure sanctuary." Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:39 PM PST Category: ECONOMY Mass. woman commits suicide as home foreclosed A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself soon after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead. Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:38 PM PST Category: ECONOMY RFID chipmaker loses suit, says users must take 'urgent' action A Dutch court has given university researchers the OK to publish their research about security flaws in the radio frequency identification (RFID) chips used in up to 2 billion smart cards. The cards are used to open doors in corporate and government buildings and to board public transportation systems. Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:36 PM PST Category: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY "Spam king" walks away from prison An inmate known as the "spam king" for sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mails has walked away from a federal prison camp in Colorado. Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:34 PM PST Category: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY Are you @#$%ing kidding me? This guy cost all of America billions of dollars in internet costs and annoyance factor and gets "Club Fed" with an open door, while Muslims have done nothing at all are being tortured to death? U.S. lawmakers strike deal on housing rescue package A major rescue package for the U.S. housing market is scheduled to come to a vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, after lawmakers agreed on the final language late on Tuesday. Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:23 PM PST Category: ECONOMY This article couches the bill as "rescue" and tris to spin this as a positive, and no doubt for the mortage lending industry it is, but all this bill really does is raise the government debt ceiling to new heights, allows the government to borrow that extra money and hand it to Fannie May and Freddie Mac.Guess who gets to pay it all back. Brown criticized for misquoting Iranian president on Israel "It has been mentioned in the press so often that the 'wipe off the map' statement about Israel by Ahmadinejad was a mistranslation, yet Gordon Brown repeated the same mistranslation in his speech to the Israeli parliament," said Anthony McRoy. Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:21 PM PST Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS , Category: GREAT BRITAIN , Category: IRAN , Category: ISRAEL And he knew EXACTLY what he was doing when he did it, too! New York Times to raise newsstand price to $1.50 New York Times to raise newsstand price to $1.50 Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:15 PM PST Category: CORPORATE MEDIA The New York Times just does not get it! Their revenues and ad rates are in decline because nobody likes a liar, and the New York Times stood up to be counted with every other media outlet which helped the US Government lie this nation into a war of conquest. Raising their rates will just accelerate the flight of readers away from the wood-pulp prevaricators and to the blogs. See I AM BLOGGER,HEAR ME ROAR! Iran claims US acknowledges its nuclear rights Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today claimed that US participation in the latest round of talks was recognition of Iran's right to acquire nuclear technology.And he added that Iran would not "retreat one iota" over its disputed nuclear ambitions. Posted Jul 23, 2008 04:12 PM PST Category: IRAN Both the United States and Iran (but not Israel) have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement. Under that agreement Iran does have a legal right to build power stations and to make the fuel rods for them. AND NOBODY HAS FOUND ANY PROOF THAT IRAN IS DOING ANYTHING ELSE. Magnitude 6.8 quake hits Japan No tsunami watch issued after temblor Posted Jul 23, 2008 03:59 PM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH Super Losses, Super Layoffs, Super Bailouts So far this week we saw Wachovia get socked for an $8.86 billion loss with a layoff announcement of 10,750 employees, while Washington Mutual got hammered for a $3.3 billion loss and increased its beleaguered loan-loss reserves by $3.74 billion to $8.46 billion as it announced expense cuts and asset sales. This is nothing. This is just the beginning. This is just window dressing to protect incumbents. Together with the science fiction and fantasy we got last week from the banking sector, these latest financial statements from the banking sector should receive a Nebula Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Gene Roddenberry could not have dreamt up financial statements that were more phantasmagoric. Posted Jul 23, 2008 03:56 PM PST Category: ECONOMY TSA Now Conducting Random Behavioral Screening Got fear of flying? Better try to suppress it, at least until you're on the airplane, because the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has started conducting random additional at-gate screening of airline passenger who display "involuntary physical and physiological" actions indicating stress, fear or deception. Posted Jul 23, 2008 03:53 PM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP How about "seriously pissed off at having to watch my wife get fondled by the same clowns who trashed my laptop"? That gonna register on your @#$%ing screening? McCain Hints Minn. Governor May Be His Running Mate Mr. Pawlenty is one of the more intriguing names for the Republican ticket in the past few years. At the 2004 GOP convention, he was one of a handful of rising stars having sit-down meetings with the conservative press, cultivating the seeds of "Hey, this guy might make a good president someday" columns. During his first term, Mr. Pawlenty made trips to Bosnia, Kosovo, Poland, Iraq, and the Czech Republic; visited soldiers from Minnesota, and led a delegation to China in 2005, encouraging investment in his state. He also welcomed President Fox of Mexico in 2004, and a year later, Mexico opened a new consulate in St. Paul. Posted Jul 23, 2008 11:21 AM PST Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION This is a pathetic attempt to draw attention away from Obama's mideast trip, but the choice of Pawlenty is troubling for a scandal-ridden GOP in that he has a poor record for keeping mandated documentation of his activities in office! Quotes from the great depression September 1929"There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue." -- Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury. Posted Jul 23, 2008 11:19 AM PST Category: ECONOMY The Money Myth Exploded The Money Myth Exploded... Posted Jul 23, 2008 11:15 AM PST Category: ECONOMY Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran - National Geographic Magazine One of the great crimes committed against the people of Iraq was the looting of the Baghdad Museum and the destruction of many important ancient sites inside Iraq. As the drums beat for more war in Iran, there is a valid concern that Iran's ancient archeological sites face risk of destruction. I agree. And more to the point, I think that destruction of ancient sites is deliberate policy. Egypt is literally littered with the ruins of the ancient temples and palaces of her rulers. As much as has been found, it is estimated that only 1/3 of Egypt's archeological wonders have been uncovered. A newly discovered temple was uncovered while digging a sewer line, and a cache of finely preserved mummies was literally stumbled over by a cow in a pasture. Iraq's ancient heritage was enshrined in its ancient sites and museum. As a result of the war, many of those sites have been damaged or destroyed. Part of the ancient city or Ur now lies underneath a US air base runway. The treasures of the museum have only partly been recovered. The treasures from the looted archaeological sites have been scattered to the world. Now we take aim at Persia, and as the illustrations in this National Geographic article show, there is a rich cultural heritage of artifacts and ancient sites facing the bombs. All of this wealth of archaeological treasures must of course annoy Israel. We are raised from birth with Old Testament tales of the greatness of the ancient Israelites, of the powerful kingdoms of Solomon and David and the first temple. Yet Israel, while rich in antiquities, is almost totally devoid of artifacts from this supposedly glorious time in her history. The existence of the fabled First Temple was supported with just two artifacts, a carved staff ornament in the shape of a pomegranate and the Jehoash tablet. Both of these artifacts have been exposed as frauds. We are told that once there was a magnificent temple on that hill, but it "all went away." The wonders emerging from the soil of Egypt, Iraq, and Iran serve as a constant reminder that ancient buildings of such a scale as we are told the First Temple was simply do not vanish without a trace. There is considerable reason to suspect that the tales told in the Old Testament are just that; tales. The Bible is not science, it is the collected stories of a primitive tribal people telling each other how important they are. And like fishermen talking about the won that got away, or Ramses with his temple carvings of the did-not-really-happen victory over the Hittites at Kadesh, the writers of the ancient testaments assumed that the people they were telling stories to had no way to verify the claims for themselves. So "embellishment" was a low-risk activity. We do know from the available archaeological evidence that the Exodus probably actually happened to the Hyksos, not the Israelites. We know that the story of Moses is suspect because no Egyptian princess would hide a Hebrew child inside Pharaoh's household, then give the kid a Hebrew name ("Moses" is actually an Egyptian title meaning "Prince" and is included in the names of many Pharaoh's names such as Tut-Moses, Ah-Moses, Ra-Moses (Ramses) etc.) But a good story is a good story and the writers of the ancient texts were probably not thinking much further into the future than the guys who pen the "Celebrity dates space alien" stories you see at supermarket checkout lines. The fact that the celebrity is a real person does not prove the space alien exists. It's just a story. But, over time, entire religions with attendant wealth and power structures have been built on the premise that these stories really happened exactly as written. And today, here in the 21st century world, technology has started to catch up with these ancient legends and call many of them into doubt. So, for a nation that justifies its existence on the writings of the Old Torah, the plethora of sites and artifacts confirming the ancient histories of Egypt, Iraq, Iran, etc. etc. etc. must seem a dire political threat for a nation whose own ancient history seems to have left little if any traces. In that context, the strange behavior of the US military which posted guards around the Iraq oil ministry while leaving the Baghdad museum unguarded suddenly starts to make sense, if the supporters of a very insecure nation decide that leveling the archaeological playing field is preferable to allowing the obvious disparity in archaeological proofs of claimed ancient histories to stand clear in the world's view! Posted Jul 23, 2008 10:30 AM PST Category: IRAN Fresh scent may hide toxic secret The scented fabric sheet makes your shirts and socks smell flowery fresh and clean. That plug-in air freshener fills your home with inviting fragrances of apple and cinnamon or a country garden.But those common household items are potentially exposing your family and friends to dangerous chemicals, a University of Washington study has found. Posted Jul 23, 2008 10:22 AM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH The problem is simple. These chemicals are legally considered "external" even though you breath them into your lungs, sinuses and potentially absorb them through your skin. Because they are legally "external" companies are free from legal requirements to list all ingredients or to test the chemicals for toxicity. There are some 400 different artificial scent chemicals, of which less than 50 have actually been tested for toxic effects on humans. Israeli settlers spray chemicals on Palestinian farmers during attack Israeli settlers sprayed chemicals on a group of Palestinian farmers while attacking them in the Qalqilia area of the northern West Bank on Monday, human rights fieldworkers reported. Posted Jul 23, 2008 10:18 AM PST Category: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE black project aircraft caught on vid black project aircraft caught on vid... Posted Jul 23, 2008 10:10 AM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH What's the buzz about all our missing bees? Meanwhile, America has a more perplexing bee problem. Colonies there really are disappearing. There is even a name for it - collapsing colony disorder (CCD) - and it is getting worse."There is no explanation for it as yet," said Mr Inson. "The bees just abandon their hives and vanish. There is no sign of disease, no sign of anything."Oh, there have been theories. Climate change hasn't been dismissed, but the notion that electrical impulses from mobile phones were affecting the bees' navigation was quickly dismissed." Posted Jul 23, 2008 09:58 AM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH In 1999, Nature Magazine published a study that proved pollen from transgenic crops was harming beneficial insects. But of course the companies that are behind GM crops are wealthy and powerful, spend billions in advertising, and so the GM link to CCD is dutifully ignored by the corporate media. WHEN BARACK MET BARAK Barack Obama held talks with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Wednesday as the Democratic White House hopeful began a day of meetings in Israel and the Palestinian territories on the latest leg of his international campaign trail. Posted Jul 23, 2008 09:56 AM PST Category: ISRAEL , Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION ISRAELI STYLE JUSTICE An Israeli soldier detained after being filmed opening fire at a bound and blindfolded Palestinian from close range has been released from custody.The soldier was sent back to his unit after lawyers argued he did not pose a danger to anyone, Israeli reports said. Posted Jul 23, 2008 09:55 AM PST Category: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE PALESTINE IS BURNING Zionist settlers set fire to Palestinian farms planted with olive trees northeast of Qalqilia district on Monday evening in an area called Abul Jud valley, locals reported. Posted Jul 23, 2008 09:54 AM PST Category: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE The Israeli army released the soldier who shot a bound Palestinian in Ni'lin two weeks ago The Israeli National Radio reported on Monday evening that the Israeli Army District Attorney has released the Israeli soldier who shot a bound Palestinian civilian in Ni'lin village near Ramallah in the northern part of the West Bank two weeks ago. Posted Jul 23, 2008 09:53 AM PST Category: ISRAEL FDIC Faces Mortgage MessAfter Running Failed Bank It turns out that the U.S. government itself was one of the lenders giving out high-interest, subprime mortgages, some of them predatory, according to government documents filed in federal court. Posted Jul 23, 2008 09:45 AM PST Category: ECONOMY Palestine and Israel: What's Iran Got to Do with It? Responding to the Israeli voices and actions noisily advocating a preemptive strike against Iran, Ha-Aretz columnist Uzi Benziman (July 21, 2008) writes, "Before bombing Iran, it would be best [for Israel] to solve the conflict with the Palestinians. By the way, there does appear to be a link between the two threats." Posted Jul 23, 2008 09:41 AM PST Category: IRAN , Category: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE Fannie and Freddie Own A Record $6.9 Billion Foreclosed Homes Fannie Mae acquired twice as many homes through foreclosure in the first quarter as it sold, regulatory filings show. ... Late payments on the company's home loans, a harbinger of foreclosures, almost doubled in the past year. Posted Jul 23, 2008 09:31 AM PST Category: ECONOMY And here is the problem; if they start flooding those foreclosed homes into the market it will drive down property values, which means more homeowners will be stuck in negative equity, which will trigger another round of foreclosures. US Mortgage Lenders Implode Wachovia mortgage unit halting loans via brokers . Wachovia Corp (WB), the fourth-largest U.S. bank, on Monday said its main mortgage unit will stop offering home loans through brokers this week, joining a growing number of lenders to curb wholesale lending. Posted Jul 23, 2008 09:02 AM PST Category: ECONOMY Malware Destroyed a Man's Life It seems that the laptop was so poorly configured when it was given to Fiola by the DIA, that its antivirus could not offer any kind of protection. It wasn't long before the computer was badly infected, and one of the malware that attacked it was downloading child pornography content in a file that Fiola had no idea existed. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:57 AM PST Category: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY So, the government gives this guy a laptop with the security screwed up, then fires him after someone breaks into the laptop and uses it to store child pornography files, then after it is proven that hackers (and the poor security) are to blame, they won't hire him back because of his "reputation?"That about sum it up? Folks, the fact that hackers are able to do what they do is proof that the United States has lost the war on terror. No amount of confessions extracted under torture can conceal the fact that a nation unable to track down and jail script kiddies does not stand a chance against really determined terrorists operating with the resources of a nation-state (and I don't mean the Mossad guys pretending to be Al Qaeda for the media). **RED ALERT** RAPE BY CONGRESS IMMINENT Henry Paulson is about to be given an $800 BILLION dollar blank check in the form of an increased Federal Debt Ceiling which he can spend on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac IN ANY WAY HE CHOOSES, INCLUDING BUYING THE CRAPPIEST LOANS THEY HAVE AND STICKING A ONE HUNDRED PERCENT LOSS, $800 BILLION WORTH, ON YOUR TAX BILL.A huge percentage of the debt issued by Freddie and Fannie - about $1.5 trillion worth - is held by foreign central banks. Paulson is proposing to bail out the Chinese and Japanese governments with our tax money! Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:34 AM PST Category: ECONOMY Folks, I mentioned this on the radio show the other day. The US Government keeps foreign investment inside the US with a promise that no matter what bone-headed choices the country-club MBAs running our corporations make, the US taxpayer will be forced to cover the losses. That promise was demonstrated during the S&L Debacle of the late 80s and early 90s (from which sprang the whole Whitewater mess), in which deposit accounts, many of them linked to the Iran-Contra drug running operations, were refilled on the backs of you the taxpayer. And if you let them, they will do it again."If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched."-- George H. W. Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter CAR LOAN CALLED-ASSET SEIZURE BY BANK IN SPITE OF PERFECT PAYMENT RECORD!!! Now WHY would a bank do this UNLESS they were in SERIOUS financial trouble and needed to raise QUICK CAPITAL!!!! Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:29 AM PST Category: ECONOMY I am looking for confirmation no this story or others like it. But if you read the fine print on that loan you have, you may be surprised at the "rights" the lender has reserved to themselves. British study links IMF loans to tuberculosis Austerity measures attached to International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans may have contributed to a resurgence in tuberculosis in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, researchers said on Tuesday.Governments may be reducing funding for health services such as hospitals and clinics to meet strict IMF economic targets, the British researchers said. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:27 AM PST Category: ECONOMY , Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH In other words, go ahead and let your people die horribly; just don't miss a loan payment! Ukraine to probe whether 1932 famine was genocide Ukraine plans to open a formal investigation into a Soviet-era famine that killed millions of people to see if it can prove the famine was an act of genocide. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:24 AM PST Category: HIDDEN HISTORY Expect a big "ho-hum" form the American corporate media which brooks no distraction from the endless recapitulation of the crimes of the Nazis. 'Spying' requests exceed 500,000 More than 500,000 official "spying" requests for private communications data such as telephone records were made last year, a report says. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:21 AM PST Category: DICTATORSHIP "No, really, we're only using these laws to chase terrorists!' Honest!" Last Plane Account Not only would you and your family not be able to live in the manner in which you had become accustomed, but as a person of wealth, you became a target - a criminal even - in the eyes of the communist State. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:18 AM PST Category: ECONOMY Kinda sounds like what is happening to the middle class here in the US! Jewish lobby threatens Candy brothers' US deal Christian and Nick Candy, who with a £6,000 loan from their grandmother built a property design business worth an estimated £9bn, are now trying to allay the fears of members of the influential Jewish community in Beverly Hills over their associations with Middle Eastern financial backers.At the heart of the controversy is a prime eight-acre £250m development in Beverly Hills, California, which the brothers are using as a first foothold in Hollywood's high-end property market. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:13 AM PST Category: ECONOMY There is TOO Global Warming! There is, there is there IS!!!!! There is TOO Global Warming! There is, there is there IS!!!!!... Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:10 AM PST Category: CORPORATE MEDIA , Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH Long on insults and mercifully spared the ravages of any actual facts, George Monbiot offers to burn those heretics who dare doubt Saint Al of the Gore War crime suit filed against Israelis The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) filed lawsuit in the National Criminal Court of Spain against the Israeli officials who authorized the al-Daraj bloodshed.The list includes former Israel's war minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, his former military advisor Michael Herzog, former chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon, and former air force commander Dan Halutz, Ma'an News Agency reported on Tuesday.The National Criminal Court of Spain has agreed to consider the case for further examination that may lead to a formal prosecution. Those charged would then be arrested upon entering the Spanish territory if the case is won by the Palestinians, the news agency added. Posted Jul 23, 2008 08:05 AM PST Category: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE Ex-US advisors: Iran attack 'disaster' Two former senior White House security advisors have warned that a military attack against Iran would be a catastrophe for the US."If we get into a war with Iran, we know there would be disaster, we know there would be a disaster," said Zbigniew Brzezinski, ex-president Jimmy Carter's national security advisor on Tuesday. Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:57 AM PST Rolling the Dice Once Again - in Iran Most sane people think a U.S. attack on Iran would invite catastrophic consequences - some of which, like skyrocketing oil prices, have already occurred as a direct result of mere threats to attack Iran. Yet a school of thought holds there is a threshold of risk that even the Bush regime will not cross, and that "every day that passes makes an attack on Iran harder to pull off." That's a comforting thought, but what if the Lords of Capital - George Bush's bosses - truly believe their very existence as a ruling class requires courting Armageddon? History shows they would rather risk igniting a global inferno than go quietly into the night. "The grand vision of corporate globalism - the finance capitalists' imperial heaven - cannot exist in the real world except through the application of terror." Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:54 AM PST Category: IRAN Scottish couple barred from delivering Gaza medical supplies Ten days after setting out from Edinburgh, five days pasttheir projected July 15 arrival, Scottish humanitarian Khalil AlNiss and his wife Linda Willis finally pulled up Sunday afternoon atthe Gaza-Egypt Rafah crossing only to be denied entry to Gaza. TheGazan side, just over 100 meters from the Egyptian gate and Israeli-constructed wall, is visible from where the couple's van sits idle;doctors inside Gaza wait for the expected delivery of essentialmedical aid. Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:51 AM PST Category: ISRAEL , Category: PALESTINE BAYER SPREADS AIDS HIV SEX Hemopheliac medicine children Bayer Corporation put live H.I.V. Virus in their hemopheliac medicine for children- and shipped it all over the world. Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:48 AM PST Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH 'If you want to get wealthy, invest in drugs. If you want to be healthy, don't take them.' How Scores of Black Men Were Tortured Into Giving False Confessions by Chicago Police More than 20 years after being tortured into giving confessions by Chicago police officers, dozens of black men remain behind bars. Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:42 AM PST Category: TORTURE SCANDAL DNC host's tax-free gas The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention has used the city's gas pumps to fill up and apparently avoided paying state and federal fuel taxes.The practice, which began four months ago, may have ended hours after its disclosure. An aide to Mayor John Hickenlooper released a statement Tuesday evening saying that Denver 2008 Host Committee members would pay market prices for fuel and would also be liable for all applicable taxes. Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:40 AM PST Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION McFadden's Attempts to Abolish the Federal Reserve System Dr. Ron Paul, the Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential nomination, is not the first U.S. politician to point to the abuses of the Federal Reserve System and call for its abolishment. Similar pleas to get rid of the Fed were made by Reps. Wright Patman (1893-1976) and Henry Gonzales (1916-2000), both Democratic congressmen from Texas and chairmen of the House Banking Committee.Few recall, however, how controversial the Fed was when it was first proposed and then maneuvered through a recessing Congress just before Christmas 1913. Rep. Charles Lindbergh, Sr., R-MN and father of the future aviator, called the Federal Reserve Act "the worst legislative crime of the ages." Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:38 AM PST John F. Kennedy also sought to reduce the Federal Reserve's stranglehold on the US economy. Kucinich vs. The Establishment: Impeachment Hearing On Friday Congressman Dennis Kucinich will this Friday present his single article of impeachment concerning the Bush administration's deliberate and unconstitutional lies that led us to war in Iraq, putting him in tandem with the majority of the American people, yet in the cross hairs of both Neo-Cons and Democrats who have tried to block his efforts at every turn. Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:34 AM PST Category: IMPEACHMENT Congress cannot allow an investigation into the President's war crimes without ripping the lid off of their own. Nobody will believe that congresscritters, with budgets in the millions and staffs in the thousands, all missed the obvious signs of deception that bloggers operating on spare change found under seat cushions were reporting on. Farm Bureau: Crop Damage Pushing $8 Billion Officials with the America Farm Bureau Federation said Wednesday that weather-related crop damage is now pushing the $8 billion mark. Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:31 AM PST Category: ECONOMY Which together with the shortage produced by the cultists' demand we all put ethanol in our cars, means higher food prices for the lucky people, and starvation for everyone else. As for the weather, see Buy-Bull Bangers:Regular, or Extra-Crispy? The Abu Ghraib Prison - A Gift From the Sons of The Devil and Raping Iraqi's There is now a disease - a malady so pervasively evil - among our youth, that it can only be described as demonic. This shameful phenomenon did NOT happen over night but was the result of decades of moral rot in our schools homes and everyday lives. I was once proud to be called an American and would have laid down my life to preserve those freedoms and ideals which were the wellspring of American tradition in the very best spirit of the memories of our Founding Fathers and their Christian based foundations for this brave new world in which I was raised. All that has changed and we are now nothing more than a zoo of wild soulless mindless compassionless materialistic ignorant animals. We have evolved into a race of sadistic monsters capable of any crime and any horror in our new 'improved' world of Zionist incited 'relative morality - Godless to THE EXTREME! Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:26 AM PST Category: TORTURE SCANDAL Bin Laden's driver knew 9/11 target, lawyer says As the government began calling witnesses against Hamdan, two U.S. soldiers testified about the tense and chaotic backdrop to his capture and early interrogation near Kandahar, Afghanistan, including three violent incidents involving cars stopped at a vehicle checkpoint in the village of Takhteh Pol. Prosecutors have alleged that two SA-7 surface-to-air missiles were found there in Hamdan's car.Maj. Henry Smith, who was in command of 15 U.S. soldiers and at least 600 Afghans, told the court that he had seen Hamdan at the checkpoint, where he was arrested Nov. 24, 2001. Smith testified that a man behind the wheel of a Toyota was stopped at the roadblock by local Afghans, who chased down the fleeing driver and dragged him to a local jail. Smith said in direct testimony that the man was Hamdan. But on cross-examination, Smith admitted that he didn't know what car the fleeing man had exited.A U.S. Special Forces soldier identified only as Sgt. Maj. A conceded that he hadn't witnessed the checkpoint encounter but said that the local Afghans were thoroughly trustworthy.Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer, Hamdan's military defense lawyer, showed the senior enlisted man in Delta Force a classified military cable in which Afghanistan-based forces reported to higher-ups that two missiles had been found in a vehicle seized at the same checkpoint that day but from Arab suspects who had fought back and been killed. Posted Jul 23, 2008 07:18 AM PST Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS , Category: TORTURE SCANDAL In other words, the US Government does not have a real case against this man. July 22, 2008 adsonar_pid=115755;adsonar_ps=412674;adsonar_zw=568;adsonar_zh=100;adsonar_jv='ads.adsonar.com'; Precious Metals & Financial Market News: Protect Yourself By Staying Informed Central Valley water shortage may cost $175 Million in crop losses Cutbacks in water deliveries to farmers in the Westlands Water District of the Central Valley during the peak of this year's irrigation season are likely to cost workers and businesses in the region $84.6 million in reduced economic activity plus an estimated $33.9 million loss in farm income, according to a new study done for the San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority. Posted Jul 22, 2008 05:51 PM PST Category: ECONOMY Between water cutoffs and ethanol production, our food supply is being "Enron-ized." Flight carrying members of Congress makes emergency landing Poe and fellow Congressmen Nick Lampson, Ron Paul, John Carter, Ciro Rodriguez, Solomon Ortiz and Henry Cuellar were aboard the flight, said Poe's press secretary DeeAnn Thigpen. Posted Jul 22, 2008 05:37 PM PST Category: CURRENT EVENTS Hmmmm. Lot of problems with airplanes, this campaign season! Conservative Lawyers Urge Bush To Issue 'Pre-Emptive Pardons' To Officials Involved In Illegal Programs According to the Times, "several members of the conservative legal community" in Washington D.C. are urging Bush to issue "pre-emptive pardons" to those involved so as to "not be exposed even to the risk of an investigation and expensive legal bills": Such a pardon would reduce the risk that a future administration might undertake a criminal investigation of operatives or policy makers involved in programs that administration lawyers have said were legal but that critics say violated laws regarding torture and surveillance. Posted Jul 22, 2008 05:30 PM PST Category: DUBYA , Category: TORTURE SCANDAL The problem is that the administration lawyers cannot SAY something is legal if it is not. And yes, the issuance of such "pre-emptive" pardons is a flashing neon sign that blinks "guilty" for all the world to see. Collapsing Fiat Currency In Need of a Golden Parachute with a Silver Lining Money served throughout history as a medium of exchange and as a storehouse of value. But when gold and silver coins were replaced by paper currencies, money no longer was the same. Paper money, no longer having intrinsic value, now functions only as a medium of exchange, a function that degrades over time. Posted Jul 22, 2008 04:45 PM PST Category: ECONOMY GM, Ford `On the Verge of Bankruptcy,' Altman Says GM, Ford `On the Verge of Bankruptcy,' Altman Says... 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