Ron Paul Wins Maryland Straw Poll

Establishment Terrified By Ron Paul

"Ron Paul is striking a phenomenal emotional chord with voters -- when they have access to his message. The mainstream political and media machines are terrified. And global financial controllers are in an outright panic. Every effort is being made -- and will be made -- to marginalize him.

Twenty-Two Things We Now Know Six Years After 9/11

Each year around the anniversary of 9/11, I summarize what we ordinary citizens have learned since that awful day in 2001. This is the sixth annual look backwards, an update based on new information about those horrific events and what followed.

Why Is This Man Smiling?

OK, throw another $50 billion down the rat hole that is the Iraq occupation. It’s only money, if you ignore the lives being destroyed. That’s what the White House is asking for, in addition to the $147 billion in supplementary funds already requested, and Congress will grant it after Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker follow President Bush’s photo op in Iraq’s Anbar province with a dog and pony show of their own.

US Iraq casualties rise to 58,918

US military occupation forces in Iraq suffered at least 132 combat casulties in the eight days ending Sept. 5, as total casualties reached at least 58,918.

The Surge Has Been Completely Useless

It's maddening how effective Bush administration propaganda is. They say the surge has been working. They repeat it a million times. Then they get a couple of their cronies inside think tanks, who are paid to say how great they are, say the surge is working. Then they get a couple of generals, who were promoted to say how great they are, say the surge is working. And voila, all you hear in the news is how well the surge is working.

IRAQ: With Donkeys for Transport, All Is Well

"The media in the west are lying about Fallujah by saying everything is well," said the journalist. "What is so good about a city that lives with no electricity, no water, no fuel, very expensive life necessities, and most important, with no vehicles? Moreover the unemployment is incredibly high."

Tears of a clown

“I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I’ll bet I’ve shed more tears than you can count, as president,” Bush told Draper.

Mr. President, with you in office, I’m sure you’re not the only one who’s been shedding tears.

Countdown Special Comment: You have no remaining credibility about Iraq, sir.

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment tonight is without a doubt, one of his hardest hitting and most emotional to date. Keith absolutely lays waste to President Bush’s lies and rhetoric about the surge. He contrasts his callous disregard for the truth and the troops between his six hour photo op in Iraq and the interview with Draper released this weekend.

Staging Nukes for Iran?

Then he told me something I had not heard before.

Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can’t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?

The “Insurgent Tax”: How we are funding the Iraqi insurgents

BAGHDAD — Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against U.S. troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province.

U.S. Troops Thought Killing Civilians Was Legal

The documents, released yesterday by the American Civil Liberties Union ahead of a lawsuit, total nearly 10,000 pages of courts martial summaries, transcripts and military reports about 22 incidents.

Sept. 11 General Strike Events Nationwide

9/11 is used as the excuse for pre-emptive war, for the conquest of Iraq and Afghanistan, for spying on U.S. citizenry, for the destruction of the Constitution, and for torture. The fascists in charge promise us "permanent war" and more repressive tactics by the state against the citizenry because of this lie. We must reject this construct they have fabricated for us if we are ever to live free.

The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror: ACLU Head Anthony Romero on Civilian Killings in Iraq, Domestic Spying, Torture, John Walker Lindh and More

Bush ‘Still Believed Saddam Possessed WMD’ In April 2006

In Oct. 2004, President Bush finally admitted that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction: “Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there.”

Yet according to former White House chief of staff Andy Card, this statement was just rhetoric.

Russian Leader Calls For Urgent Delivery Of Anti-aircraft Missile Systems To Iran

(RTTNews) - Vice Chairman of Russia's Parliament Duma, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has urged the fast delivery of the sophisticated S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran to enable the Middle Eastern country to defend its air space, the Press TV reported. Zhirinovsky was addressing the open session of Duma on Wednesday.

‘Fresh Air’ Probes ‘The Israel Lobby’

Terry Gross chats up Stephen Walt of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, whose controversial new book, “The Israel Lobby,” challenges the basis of the United States’ staunch support of its biggest ally in the Middle East.

Is China quietly dumping US Treasuries?

A sharp drop in foreign holdings of US Treasury bonds over the last five weeks has raised concerns that China is quietly withdrawing its funds from the United States, leaving the dollar increasingly vulnerable.

End It, Don’t Mend It: What to Do with No Child Left Behind

The “No Child Left Behind” act is about to expire, and the question of renewal will be coming up. The Cato Institute has released a study on the act and its effects, and urges that NCLB be repealed.

CBS Early Show Removes Anti-War Protesters from View in Kansas City

New revelation: Almost 98 per cent of errors in US newspapers go uncorrected

Almost half of the articles published by daily newspapers in the US contain one or more factual errors, and less than two per cent end up being corrected.

NORTHCOM Plans 5 Day Martial Law Exercise

The United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has just announced plans for an anti-terrorism exercise called Vigilant Shield 08. The exercise which is slated to run from October 15th to October 20th is described as a way to prepare, prevent and respond to any number of national crises. The exercise is simply a test case scenario for the implementation of martial law.

Real ID will 'strengthen' Americans' privacy, Chertoff says

WASHINGTON--In another attempt to head off privacy advocates' attacks on the Bush administration's Real ID plans, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the national-identification scheme will actually "strengthen" personal privacy by providing added protection against identity theft.

By now i hope you have all seen how anything "digital" can be hacked, be it firmware, software, DVD players, cell phones, vending machines, credit cards, etc., etc., etc.. The REAL ID is no exception. Zionist Chertoff (you didn't know he holds a dual citizenship? Now you do) is full of New World Order shit, plain and simple. If in doubt, buy a subscription to 2600. Of course since the REAL ID is slated to appear as your drivers license, most will accept it, regardless of the fact that you don't need a drivers license to operate a motor vehicle (hopefully i'll get around to that in a later issue).

Video on PNAC

PNAC is the Project for the New American Century

It is a think tank founded by, among others, Dick Cheney, that wrote a document titled "Rebuilding America's Defenses"

Another Day, Another False Flag Op Foiled

Monika Harms, the German federal prosecutor, “said the three suspects arrested Tuesday belonged to a German cell of the Islamic Jihad Union, a radical Sunni group based in Central Asia that split from the extremist Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan,” thus making the “connections to Al Qaeda” suspect—or maybe not so suspect, as “al-Qaeda” has served for some time now as a handy-dandy false flag operative, a fact well documented, never mind a fact strenuously ignored by the corporate media.

Top judge: put everyone in UK on the DNA database

One of the UK's top judges has thrown a grenade into the smouldering debate around the national DNA database, saying that everyone in the UK - including visitors from overseas - should be on file.

White House - Fact Sheet: U.S.-Australia Alliance: Steadfast and Growing

And all it took was a steel reinforced concrete wall to keep protesters out.

White House had daily audits of e-mails, which suggests missing e-mails were destroyed

Mike Ferner: I Will Salute No More Forever

Now we have: preemptive war, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, stop loss, neglect of returning veterans, ignored infrastructure, billions of dollars squandered on war and occupation, extraordinary rendition, secret imprisonment, warrantless domestic spying, disenfranchisement of voters, stolen elections, torture, suspension of habeas corpus, and denial of due process.

Bush’s staged chat with the troops

White house caught training the troops before question/answer by Bush. Something they have denied all the time.

A Day with PTSD

Suddenly a terrifying explosion occurs in front of me. A fireball of the deepest orange soars through the sky. The smell of something burning is putrid, and now I am living in slow motion. Everything around me is burning, and I begin to prepare my soul so that I may face God.

The killing of Jamie Dean

He had already served a year in Afghanistan. He'd done and seen things over there he couldn't talk about, and now they were sending him to Iraq. Like tens of thousands of soldiers fighting the post-9/11 wars, Dean was being treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs for post-traumatic stress disorder -- but the Army didn't know that because the Army and the V.A. don't typically share medical records.

Sacramento School District fires teacher for serving in Iraq

Anti-war protesters detained after leaving without resistance from Senate gallery

Chevron puts on its game face with Energyville

They rarely tell you that you need to use more petroleum. But then, most games weren't developed by energy analysts and an oil company.

Energyville is the exception.

Nepal fixes Boeing 757 with goat sacrifice

Nepal Airlines has apparently fixed an electrical fault on one of its Boeing 757s by sacrificing two goats in appeasement of Hindu sky god Akash Bhairab, Reuters reports.

Wal-Mart's prices are higher than their competitors' 80% of the time.