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Ex-State officials allege corruption in Iraq
Source: USA Today Submitted: 05/13/2008
Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department's Office of Accountability and Transparency last year, and James Mattil, who worked as the chief of staff, told Senate Democrats on Monday that their office was understaffed and its warnings and recommendations ignored.

Brennan also alleges the State Department prevented a congressional aide visiting Baghdad from talking with staffers by insisting they were too busy. In reality, Brennan said, office members were watching movies at the embassy and on their computers. The staffers' workload had been cut dramatically because of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's "evisceration" of Iraq's top anti-corruption office, he said.

The State Department's policies "not only contradicted the anti-corruption mission but indirectly contributed to and has allowed corruption to fester at the highest levels of the Iraqi government," Brennan told the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.  Read full article »
Take the Red Pill
Source: Lew Rockwell Submitted: 05/11/2008
In The Revolution: A Manifesto, Ron Paul says he doesn’t believe the claim that most people are indifferent about freedom as long as they’re kept entertained and well fed. It’s more a lack of knowledge, he says, that keeps people from embracing the free society.

I’ve gone back and forth on this, and I’m inclined to think the truth is somewhere in between. But I think the cynics, who hold out no hope for the American people at all, are surely wrong.

Case in point: this thread.

This nurse had accidentally left her copy of The Revolution: A Manifesto at her nurses’ station overnight. When she arrived the next morning, fearing the book might be lost, she found to her amazement that the overnight nurse had actually read the entire thing. Not only that, but she had become an instant convert, wanting to spread Ron Paul’s message to her friends and family, and get extra copies of his book.

This is a person who, just a day earlier, had supported Hillary Clinton on the grounds that she wanted to see a woman in the White House.  Read full article »
Daniel Sunjata - New England 9/11 Symposium Promo
Source: YouTube Submitted: 05/11/2008
.  Watch here »
More details here: http://www.sst911.org/newsite/events.htm
Government doesn't work (literally)
Source: Downsize DC Submitted: 05/09/2008
In 1871 the city of Chicago burned to the ground. There was no FEMA or large federal funding to rebuild it. Instead, the people of Chicago rebuilt their own city and in short order it soared to new heights.

In 1906, after a major earthquake, the city of San Francisco also burned down. There was no FEMA or large federal funding to rebuild it. Instead, the people of San Francisco did it themselves and the city was soon restored.

In 2005 a large part of the city of New Orleans was destroyed when a levy, designed, built, and maintained by government, proved inadequate to protect against a hurricane that was far from the worst that could have struck the city. Private citizens and businesses such as Wal-Mart rushed to the city's aid, but were largely blocked by federal officials. FEMA and large federal funding were there to rebuild the city, but today much of New Orleans still lies in ruins.  Read full article »
...well written, well reasoned; exactly what you'd expect from these guys.

Please support Downsize DC. Unlike the government, this organization WORKS for every dime it gets.
-On Torture
Source: JoePlummer.com Submitted: 05/08/2008
--If the thought of innocent people being SOLD into secret dungeons and held without charges doesn’t bother you; if the idea of those same people being tortured (sometimes to death) doesn’t bother you; if you’re so hopelessly terrified that the thought of desecrating everything enshrined in our Constitution doesn’t bother you, maybe this will...  Read full article »
Exposed: the great GM crops myth
Source: The Independent Submitted: 05/04/2008
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.

The study – carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt – has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.  Read full article »
Bush Signs Bill To Take All Newborns' DNA
Source: InfoWars Submitted: 05/02/2008
--"Soon, under this bill, the DNA of all citizens will be housed in government genomic biobanks and considered governmental property for government research," Brase writes. "The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research."

"The public is clueless. S. 1858 imposes a federal agenda of DNA databanking and population-wide genetic research. It does not require consent and there are no requirements to fully inform parents about the warehousing of their child's DNA for the purpose of genetic research."  Read full article »
Palfrey Considered Call Girl's "Suicide" Possible Murder
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 05/01/2008
--During several recent appearances on The Alex Jones Show, Palfrey conceded that she was at risk of being killed and that authorities would make it look like suicide. She made it clear that she was not suicidal and if she was found dead it would be murder.

"No I'm not planning to commit suicide," Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance in March, "I'm planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing the government," she said.  Read full article »
UPDATE 05/04/2008: See also this video segment (Geraldo Rivera raises the question with Alex Jones and two other guests) http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/040508Jones.htm
Iran Ends Oil Transactions In U.S. Dollars
Source: AP Submitted: 04/30/2008
(AP) Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has completely stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official said Wednesday, a concerted attempt to reduce reliance on Washington at a time of tension over Tehran's nuclear program and suspected involvement in Iraq.

Iran has dramatically reduced dependence on the dollar over the past year in the face of increasing U.S. pressure on its financial system and the fall in the value of the American currency.

Oil is priced in U.S. dollars on the world market, and the currency's depreciation has concerned producers because it has contributed to rising crude prices and eroded the value of their dollar reserves.  Read full article »
For decades now, oil producing nations have demanded "US dollars" in exchange for their oil. This arrangement enabled the Federal government (via the Federal Reserve System) to create absurd amounts of “new money” without suffering the natural consequences. (Too many “new dollars” in our economy, without a corresponding increase in products and services, would naturally dilute the value of our currency and send prices through the roof – however, so long as other nations had to “stockpile dollars” to purchase their oil, this helped soak up a lot of that “new money.” …it helped keep the effects of inflation under control.)

If China, India, Russia, (etc. etc.) no longer have to hold ever-depreciating US dollars to purchase their oil, there is very little reason for them to do so. (Every time the value of the dollar “ticks down” another notch, they lose a fortune in purchasing power.) If they can buy their oil in other currencies; currencies that are more stable / valuable, it makes sense for them to do just that. …dump their dollar reserves and “stockpile” Euros or Yen instead.

…And if you think inflation is bad now, wait until that happens. Wait until those trillions of additional dollars start flooding into our economy (bidding up prices.) It could spark a monetary collapse unlike anything seen in recent history – at least, unlike anything recently seen in the US. Check out Zimbabwe for a “current example” of what happens when a fiat currency (like our dollar) hits bottom.

For more information on the Federal Reserve System (and how, with the help of our government, it created this mess) check out: http://MeetTheSystem.ORG
How to stop the SPP
Source: Downsize DC Submitted: 04/28/2008
--What's the goal (of the SPP?) Simply, if something is manufactured in Mexico or Canada, it won't have to be inspected when entering the United States. In addition, if something is imported into Mexico or Canada, their inspections will be "good enough" and the goods can be trucked into the United States with no further inspections.

What is the driving force behind this integration? Not the people of the three countries. Congress had no say in the formation of the SPP. Instead, these government bureaucrats are working hand-in-hand with the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC). And who are the members of the NACC? Representatives from some of the largest companies on the continent, including Wal-Mart, General Motors, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Chevron, New York Life, and Home Depot.

For some strange reason, you weren't invited.

The SPP isn't government by the people, for the people, but rather government by bureaucrats, for Big Business. It seeks to harmonize regulations in the three countries to make it easier for the largest companies to do business. Whether or not these new regulations will benefit the people is beside the point. Whether or not these regulations would be good for small business is beside the point.  Read full article »
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Ron Paul's Revolution
Source: Strike The Root Submitted: 04/27/2008
--In this article, I review in some detail Paul’s philosophy as he presents it in his recently released book, The Revolution: a Manifesto, with the hope that readers will be motivated to study the book itself to decide whether he is freedom’s friend or foe.

False Choices of American Politics

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers," Thomas Pynchon wrote in Gravity’s Rainbow. In 2008 America , almost all the political questions are wrong; they present false choices, Paul contends.

"Should we launch preemptive wars against this country or that one? Should every American neighborhood live under this social policy or that one? Should a third of our income be taken away by an income tax or a national sales tax? The shared assumptions behind these questions . . . are never cast in doubt, or even raised."

He continues:

"The supposedly conservative candidate tells us about “waste” in government, and ticks off $10 million in frivolous pork-barrel projects that outrage him . . . All right, so that’s 0.00045 percent of the federal budget dealt with; what does he propose to do with the other 99.99955 percent . . .? Not a word." [p. 2]

Neither is Paul impressed with the liberal Left. “Although they posture as critical thinkers,” he writes, “their confidence in government is inexcusably naive, based as it is on civics-textbook platitudes that bear absolutely zero resemblance to realty.” [p. 3]  Read full article »
To members of the EAC and participants of the Round Table:
Source: BBV Submitted: 04/25/2008
The entire premise of technology-based elections is based on support for the "verifiable voting" concept. But before designing technology for elections, we must first determine how it will empower citizen controls, enabling the counting of votes in public rather than counting them in secret. We do not consent to any form of secret vote counting, administered and controlled by government insiders and their vendors.

Any system that forces the citizenry to trust government insiders to count their votes represents a change in the original design of this nation. The United States of America was designed to uphold the right of citizen sovereignty over the government. In addition to hiding the counting of votes from public view, computer-counted elections hide the chain of custody of the vote data. Citizens are never allowed to view the original input in order to compare it to the output, and are relegated to trusting circumstantial evidence controlled by insiders. Such a system is, in fact, a transfer of power.

The people were never asked to approve such a transfer of power, have never consented to it, and indeed cannot consent, because the right of sovereignty over the instruments of government which we have created is an inalienable right, one which cannot be given away, nor can this right be removed through legislation. It is, admittedly, possible for a government to decline to honor this right, but such an act would justify extreme measures by the people subjected to such abuse of power.  Read full article »
If not a complete solution to electronic vote fraud, I believe this would be a step in the right direction:
http://joeplummer.com/fair_elections.html
The Double Trouble of Taxation (Recommended)
Source: Lew Rockwell Submitted: 04/22/2008
-by Ron Paul

Taxes were on the forefront of many Americans’ minds this week as they scrambled to meet the April 15th deadline to file their returns. Tax policy in this country hurts taxpayers twice – once when they pay taxes, and then when the government spends the money. Americans are sick and tired of the financial burden and the endless forms to fill out. To add insult to injury, after collecting this money the government does some very detrimental things to the economy.

The burden of complying with the income tax is tremendous. Since its inception in 1913, the tax code has gone from 400 pages to over 67,000. The Tax Foundation estimates that around $265 billion dollars and 6 billion hours are spent just on compliance. That expense amounts to about 22 cents of every dollar the IRS collects. Imagine the boon to the economy if we spent that time and money expanding our businesses and creating jobs!  Read full article »
"Waterboarding" (Video)
Source: The Independent Submitted: 04/22/2008
An American expert in torture techniques has denounced his government for allowing "waterboarding" to be practiced against terror suspects...

Malcolm Nance, who trained hundreds of US servicemen and women to resist interrogation by putting them through "waterboarding" exercises, demanded an immediate end to the practice by all US personnel.

He said: "They seem to think it is worth throwing the honour of 220 years of American decency in war out of the window. Waterboarding is out-and-out torture, and I'm deeply ashamed President Bush has authorised its use and dragged the US's reputation into the mud."

--Mr Nance said: "You have a purpose-built table with straps in a pattern so that people can be strapped and unstrapped quickly. The head is strapped down in such a way so they cannot resist the water. The head is elevated so the water goes down the esophagus.

"The water is poured very carefully over the nose – you keep a constant pour. You are drowning in water but you don't have the ability to hold your breath. You feel the water going in, you understand that water is filling your lungs."  Watch here »
Taken from a letter I wrote a few months back:

"If you have so much faith in our government that you support "SUSPECTS" being rounded up (many of them sold to the military by DRUG LORDS for up to $250,000 "Afghan dollars" each) put in secret prisons, denied the long-established and BASIC human right to confront those who've accused them of a crime and challenge their detention...then fine.

(However) pointing to a group of barbarians who ARE guilty of a crime, and then saying THEIR ACT somehow justifies what has been done to people who are guilty of NO CRIME at all (save the "crime" of being arbitrarily named a "suspect" in a lawless land) demonstrates a lack of critical thinking skills I can hardly fathom. Worse, it invariably spills over into justifying all sorts of other indefensible actions (like the slaughter of hundreds of thousands / millions of people who haven’t even been ACCUSED of a crime.)"
Tell Congress: Investigate the Propaganda Pundits (Video)
Source: FreePress Submitted: 04/21/2008
On April 20th, the New York Times exposed a secret Pentagon campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda. Free Press Action Fund is gathering 50,000 signatures to tell the Bush Administration to knock it off. This is not a partisan issue. This is a violation of conceivable standard of journalism -- and possibly of federal law!  Watch here »
See also this article from Salon.com:

--"The most incredible aspect of the NYT story is that most of the news organizations which deceived their readers and viewers by using these "objective" analysts -- CBS, NBC, Fox -- simply refused to comment on what they knew about any of this or what their procedures are for safeguarding against it. Just ponder what that says about these organizations -- there is a major expose in the NYT documenting that these news outlets misleadingly shoveled government propaganda down the throats of their viewers on matters of war and terrorism and they don't feel the least bit obliged to answer for what they did or knew about any of it. (And it doesn't appear that Barstow even asked the NYT itself to comment about what they knew or what their procedures were when using these sources)."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/20/nyt/index.html
Civil Engineering Journal publishes peer-reviewed "9/11 Truth" paper
Source: JoePlummer.com Submitted: 04/20/2008
--We have enumerated fourteen areas where we are in agreement with FEMA and NIST in their investigations of the tragic and shocking destruction of the World Trade Center. We agree that the Towers fell at near free-fall speed and that is an important starting point. We agree that several popular myths have been shown to be wrong, such as the idea that steel in the buildings melted due to the fires, or that the Towers were hollow tubes, or that floors “pancaked” to account for total Tower collapses. We agree that the collapse of the 47-story WTC 7 (which was not hit by a jet) is hard to explain from the point of view of a fire-induced mechanism and that NIST has refused (so far) to look for residues of explosives.3, 22, 27 Our investigative team would like to build from this foundation and correspond with the NIST investigation team, especially since they have candidly conceded (in a reply to some of us in September 2007):  Read full article »
Well written and certainly worth 5 - 10 minutes of your time. Please read and forward to others.
Feds to collect DNA from every person they arrest
Source: Associated Press Submitted: 04/17/2008
WASHINGTON - The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency — a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.

Using authority granted by Congress, the government also plans to collect DNA samples from foreigners who are detained, whether they have been charged or not. The DNA would be collected through a cheek swab, Justice Department spokesman Erik Ablin said Wednesday. That would be a departure from current practice, which limits DNA collection to convicted felons  Read full article »
Digg comments can be read here:
http://digg.com/world_news/Feds_to_collect_DNA_from_every_person_they_arrest
Palestinian homes demolished without warning
Source: Amnesty International Submitted: 04/16/2008
--"In all the places, most of the people are children. These homes mostly have three generations – the grandparents, parents and children. In Hadidiya, there were four families, in Furush Beit Dajan, five families.

"All of the people have had homes demolished before, but this time they had no warning. The people were very, very upset. They were running to get their things out of their homes, but the bulldozer just went on demolishing."

Soldiers of the Israeli army arrived early in the morning in jeeps accompanied by a bulldozer and then demolished the buildings where the four families were living.  Read full article »
Comment on this story / read comments here:
http://digg.com/world_news/Palestinian_homes_demolished_without_warning

And if you haven't yet seen the documentary: "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land," now would be a good time to get the side of the story "unheard" in the U.S.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6604775898578139565
Ron Paul on "Bailing Out Banks"
Source: Lew Rockwell Submitted: 04/16/2008
There has been a lot of talk in the news recently about the Federal Reserve and the actions it has taken over the past few months. Many media pundits have been bending over backwards to praise the Fed for supposedly restoring stability to the market. This interpretation of the Fed's actions couldn't be further from the truth.

The current market crisis began because of Federal Reserve monetary policy during the early 2000s in which the Fed lowered the interest rate to a below-market rate. The artificially low rates led to overinvestment in housing and other malinvestments. When the first indications of market trouble began back in August of 2007, instead of holding back and allowing bad decision-makers to suffer the consequences of their actions, the Federal Reserve took aggressive, inflationary action to ensure that large Wall Street firms would not lose money.  Read full article »
Mercenaries Training US Local Police Officers
Source: CFP Submitted: 04/15/2008
--But Lexington isn’t the only city using hired guns to help local police officers. In New Orleans, heavily armed operatives from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of that beleaguered city.

Some of the mercenaries were reportedly “deputized” by the Louisiana governor and were issued gold Louisiana State law enforcement badges to wear on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards to be worn on their arms.

While they are working in Louisiana, Blackwater officials say they are on contract with the Department of Homeland Security and have been given the authority to use lethal force if necessary. Some of the mercenaries assigned to patrol the streets of New Orleans recently returned from Iraq, where they provided personal security details for the former head of the US occupation, L. Paul Bremer, and the former US ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte.  Read full article »
We're making progress on "Enumerated Powers Act"
Source: Downsize DC Submitted: 04/14/2008
The "Enumerated Powers Act" would force Congress to cite its Constitutional authority for every law it passes. When we last reported to you on this bill in mid-March it had 44 co-sponsors. Since then the bill has gained 3 more co-sponsors. Perhaps the 12,534 messages sent by DC Downsizers (up from 8,328 in our last report) helped generate this progress.

Let's keep pushing.

If you think Congress should have to quote "chapter and verse" from the Constitution before it creates a new law or program, please ask Congress to pass the "Enumerated Powers Act."  Read full article »
Downsize DC is a great organization - they're working their butt off and their numbers (and power) have been steadily growing as a result.

Sign up and use their "electronic lobbying system" today! Remind your "representatives" who they are SUPPOSED TO be working for.
Survivalism Goes Mainstream As Middle Class And Wealthy Fear Breakdown Of Society
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 04/10/2008
The traditional face of survivalism is that of a shaggy loner in camouflage, holed up in a cabin in the wilderness and surrounded by cases of canned goods and ammunition.

It is not that of Barton M. Biggs, the former chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley.
“Your safe haven must be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food,” Mr. Biggs writes. “It should be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc. Think Swiss Family Robinson. Even in America and Europe there could be moments of riot and rebellion when law and order temporarily completely breaks down.”

Survivalism, it seems, is not just for survivalists anymore.  Read full article »
Repackaging, Renaming, Relaunching the SPP
Source: IntelStrike.com Submitted: 04/10/2008
With the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America Leader Summit in New Orleans fast approaching, there are calls to rename and relaunch this whole process. This could be in an effort to try and kickstart the SPP as it is encountering fierce resistance. Beware because any new incarnation could be seen as a victory when in reality nothing would have changed except for the name.

There is little doubt that the SPP is in need of a drastic makeover in order to give it a new lease on life. The U.S. think tank Hudson Institute has stated, “it may ultimately be necessary to redesign and relaunch a new process to take up the work of the SPP under a new acronym.” This follows a recent report by the Fraser Institute which called for expanding and fast tracking the SPP. Co-author of the report, Alexander Moens, said of the SPP, “the time has come to rebrand the talks and give them a clear mandate.” The report also called for changing the SPP’s name to the North American Standards and Regulations Area (NASRA).  Read full article »
G. Edward Griffin: “The objective is to draw the United States, Mexico, Canada, Japan, and Western Europe into political and economic union. Under slogans such as free trade and environmental protection, each nation is to surrender its sovereignty “piece by piece” until a full-blown regional government emerges from the process. …Once that has happened, it will be a relatively simple step to merge the regional governments into global government. That is the reality behind the so-called trade treaties within the European Union (EU) the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation agreement (APEC), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). "

Expanding on Griffin’s assertion, the EU (European Union) provides a perfect example. What we now call the EU began as a simple trade agreement in 1951 between six European countries. That agreement was called The European Coal and Steel Community and it established a “free trade area” where coal and steel could be bought and sold without import/export duties. -In that very limited sense, the agreement “erased the borders” between those member nations.

But in 1957, a new agreement was signed and the concept of cooperation among member nations was greatly expanded. The new agreement was called the European Economic Community and its ultimate aim was the economic and eventual political merger of its member nations. (Policies on labor, social welfare, agriculture, transportation, foreign trade, etc. were to be “harmonized.”)

In 1992, the word “economic” was dropped and the organization became known as simply the European Community. And finally, in 1993, the European Community became the European Union.

http://joeplummer.com/chapter_5_building_a_new_world_order.html
Judge rules schools’ purpose is to train loyalty to the state
Source: Proliberty.com Submitted: 04/09/2008
--"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare," the judge wrote, quoting from a 1961 case on a similar issue.  Read full article »
No Vaccinations, No Autism
Source: UPI Submitted: 04/07/2008
--"We have a fairly large practice. We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines," said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director who founded the practice in 1973. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.

The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their families became patients, Eisenstein said. "I can think of two or three autistic children who we've delivered their mother's next baby, and we aren't really totally taking care of that child -- they have special care needs. But they bring the younger children to us. I don't have a single case that I can think of that wasn't vaccinated."

--the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the national rate of autism spectrum disorders at 1 in 166 -- 60 per 10,000.

--Medical practices with Homefirst's approach to immunizations are rare. "Because of that, we tend to attract families that have questions about that issue," said Dr. Paul Schattauer, who has been with Homefirst for 20 years and treats "at least" 100 children a week.

Schattauer seconded Eisenstein's observations. "All I know is in my practice I don't see autism. There is no striking 1-in-166," he said.  Read full article »
Meet "The Creature from Jekyll Island" (Audio)
Source: JoePlummer.com Submitted: 04/04/2008
What is the Federal Reserve System? How does it operate? Who conspired to create it and what is the ultimate price WE pay? “The Creature from Jekyll Island” tells the story you haven’t heard. And now, there are three ways to get this very important information.  Listen here »
Military still studying clandestine use of blogs
Source: Raw Story Submitted: 04/04/2008
It was revealed this week by Wired that a study written for the U.S. Special Operations Command in 2006 recommended "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers" in order to promote messages favorable to the military. It also raised the possibility of altering an "enemy blog" by hacking to destroy its credibility or use it to spread false information.

The military has downplayed this study as an "academic exercise," but its conclusions appear to match closely with a strong and growing focus by the Pentagon on what it calls "information warfare."  Read full article »
22,000 Students Are trying to Make Guns Legal on Campus
Source: Digg Submitted: 04/02/2008
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Linked to Digg so you could read the comments.

It seems most people (at least from what I can tell) have finally realized that a person who has decided to commit mass murder does not care whether or not guns are legally permitted in the "gun free zone" where his murders will take place.

If anything, it appears many of these psychos intentionally choose “gun free zones.”. -These mass murders never seem to take place at a gun show.
The Myth of the Surge
Source: Rolling Stone Submitted: 04/01/2008
Hoping to turn enemies into allies, U.S. forces are arming Iraqis who fought with the insurgents. But it's already starting to backfire. A report from the front lines of the new Iraq:

--The U.S. has not only added 30,000 more troops in Iraq — it has essentially bribed the opposition, arming the very Sunni militants who only months ago were waging deadly assaults on American forces. To engineer a fragile peace, the U.S. military has created and backed dozens of new Sunni militias, which now operate beyond the control of Iraq's central government. The Americans call the units by a variety of euphemisms: Iraqi Security Volunteers (ISVs), neighborhood watch groups, Concerned Local Citizens, Critical Infrastructure Security. The militias prefer a simpler and more dramatic name: They call themselves Sahwa, or "the Awakening."

At least 80,000 men across Iraq are now employed by the Americans as ISVs. Nearly all are Sunnis, with the exception of a few thousand Shiites. Operating as a contractor, Osama runs 300 of these new militiamen, former resistance fighters whom the U.S. now counts as allies because they are cashing our checks. The Americans pay Osama once a month; he in turn provides his men with uniforms and pays them ten dollars a day to man checkpoints in the Dora district — a paltry sum even by Iraqi standards. A former contractor for KBR, Osama is now running an armed network on behalf of the United States government.

--But loyalty that can be purchased is by its very nature fickle. Only months ago, members of the Awakening were planting IEDs and ambushing U.S. soldiers. They were snipers and assassins, singing songs in honor of Fallujah and fighting what they viewed as a war of national liberation against the foreign occupiers. These are men the Americans described as terrorists, Saddam loyalists, dead-enders, evildoers, Baathists, insurgents. There is little doubt what will happen when the massive influx of American money stops...  Read full article »
Wyoming sheriffs put feds in their place
Source: wordpress Submitted: 03/30/2008
Here’s one the mainstream media isn’t going to tell you: County sheriffs in Wyoming are demanding that federal agents actually abide by the Constitution, or face arrest. Even better, a U.S. District Court agreed according to the Keene Free Press...

--Bighorn County Sheriff Dave Mattis comments:

--“I am reacting in response to the actions of federal employees who have attempted to deprive citizens of my county of their privacy, their liberty, and their property without regard to constitutional safeguards. I hope that more sheriffs all across America will join us in protecting their citizens from the illegal activities of the IRS, EPA, BATF, FBI, or any other federal agency that is operating outside the confines of constitutional law. Employees of the IRS and the EPA are no longer welcome in Bighorn County unless they intend to operate in conformance to constitutional law.”  Read full article »
Real ID: States standing their ground
Source: Downsize DC Submitted: 03/26/2008
The federal government is slowly but surely losing the fight to impose REAL ID identity cards on the American people. The people do not want REAL ID. Fourteen other state governments have either neglected to authorize cooperation and implementation, or have passed resolutions of official opposition to the Real ID Act.

In response, the Feds have tried everything. They've tried to bribe the states, offering money in return for compliance. They've tried extortion too, threatening to deny the states federal funds, or to make it impossible for their citizens to board airplanes.

None of these strong-arm tactics are working.  Read full article »
I'm sure the airline industry is ready to apply some "pressure" of its own.

How many millions of customers can it afford to "turn away" in support of the federal government's push for a "National ID Card."
Architect speaks out about 9/11 "controlled demolitions" (Video)
Source: Prison Planet Submitted: 03/25/2008
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This is 10 minutes of a 30 minute interview. The full interview is available to PrisonPlanet.TV members.

See also "Fire Initiated Collapse - Primary Arguments Against"
http://stopthelie.com/fire_initiated_collapse.html#FireInitiatedCollapse
25 Intolerable Contradictions: The Final Undoing of the Official 9/11 Story
Source: GlobalResearch.ca Submitted: 03/23/2008
At last there is a book about 9/11 that politicians and journalists can openly discuss without fear of being labeled "conspiracy theorists".

9/11 Contradictions advances no theories. It simply exposes 25 astonishing internal contradictions that will haunt the public story of this unparalleled event for all time.  Read full article »
Ron Paul on CNBC: "Abolish The Fed" (Video - Recommended)