AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM

Time for a repost -- ZDN

FED-UP TAXPAYERS RALLY FOR SMALLER GOVERNMENT

Signs with messages like, "Democrats you're not my spouse, stop spending my money," and "I am not an ATM," were found everywhere. The poor economic climate nationwide and a recent statewide gas-tax increase had many at the rally seeing red.

NATION’S LARGEST TAXPAYERS GROUP HONORS CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL

“While many Members of Congress talked about reducing the size of government last year, Congressman Ron Paul backed up those words with votes,” NTU President Duane Parde said. “This award proves that Congressman Paul is a staunch ally we can count on in our battle to restore fiscal responsibility to Washington .”

NADER SUPPORTS NEW INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO 9-11

On the morning of September 11, 2001, airliners collided with each of the twin towers of New York City�s World Trade Center, after which they and a third nearby office building mysteriously collapsed. Other incidents on the same day at the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania were also attributed to aircraft collisions. �All were pitched by the government as the result of a terrorist conspiracy, although it is widely believed that the government may have played a direct role in orchestrating the events.

WHAT HILLARY CLINTON AND THE MEDIA ARE HIDING FROM THE VOTERS

While Senator Clinton is on the campaign trail telling reporters that the use of her opponents' 'bitter' remarks could damage Senator Obama's chances to win the general election if he should win the nomination, a California superior judge will soon be setting a trial date for the historic civil landmark case in Paul vs. Clinton.

WHAT WOULD A HILLARY CLINTON PRESIDENCY LOOK LIKE?

By: Carl Bernstein

And endless psychodrama: the essential Clintonian experience that mesmerizes the press, confuses the citizenry, confounds members of both parties in Congress (not to mention the Clintons themselves, at times) and pretty much keeps the rest of the world constantly amused and fixated.

OBAMA CLAIMS HE DOES NOT ACCEPT PAC AND LOBBYIST MONEY; REMARKABLY KEEPS A STRAIGHT FACE

OBAMA

This one worries me. How Obama can lie this brazenly to the millions of lay people that trust him with their hard-earned contributions is to say the least disturbing. And if he can lie so easily to his adoring supporters, what would he do to the rest of us who are not as willing to simply bury our heads in the sand, and blindly elect him because he talks eloquently and creates great photo ops by posing with Superman.

WHY OBAMA'S BAD COMPANY IS BAD FOR AMERICA

This well-written lays out in easy to understand language the people Obama chooses to surrounds himself with and why his having such aquaintances, friends and/or mentors is not in the best interest of the American people.

PETRAEUS' SELF-DEMOTION

Ron Paul has once again exposed gross negligence in the neocon ranks. This time, the target wasn't just any warfare-statist or empire-apologist: it was the top military commander in Iraq

IRS EASES PRESSURE ON BIG U.S. COMPANIES, STUDY SAYS

NEW YORK: Most Americans dread tax season. But corporate America seems to have less to fear from the Internal Revenue Service than it used to, according to a new study.

US BANKS CITIGROUP AND MERRILL LYNCH REVEAL FRESH $15BN LOSS

CITIGROUP and Merrill Lynch will heap further pain on Wall Street this week as they reveal additional sub-prime write-downs totalling $15 billion (£7.6 billion) or more.

U.S. HOUSING COLLAPSE SPREADS OVERSEAS

DUBLIN: The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices down from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even in parts of India.

BUSH'S CONSPIRACY TO CREATE AN AMERICAN POLICE STATE: PART I, POLICE STATES BEGIN WITH FALSE FLAG ATTACKS

BUSH'S CONSPIRACY TO CREATE AN AMERICAN POLICE STATE

1. The Police State Almost Always Follows a False-Flag Terrorist Attack
2. A Climate of Fear is Maintained.
3. The state forces upon its citizens an 'existential' choice: "You are either for me or for the terrorists!".
4. Public Opinion Becomes Irrelevant
5. The government places itself above the law
6. The Government Denies 'Due Process of Law'
7. Atrocities are justified with lies, myths or propaganda
8. Dissent is crushed with arbitrary power
9. War is begun upon a pack of lies
10. The 'state' becomes 'absolute' and absurdly self-justifying'

60 YEARS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING, LAND THEFT

At 4:00 P.M. on May 14, 1948, "State of Israel" was proclaimed in Tel Aviv. About 8 hours later, the White House announced: "This government has been informed that a Jewish State has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The U.S. recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel."

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON. THE COVER-UP CONTINUES ON THE USS LIBERTY

When Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., Commander in Chief, United States Naval Forces, Europe, ordered the cover-up on the attack of the USS LIBERTY GTR-5 it was a sure act of treason perpetrated on the American people and the crew of the LIBERTY to hide the true facts surrounding the unprovoked attack by the Government of Israel on our ship, the USS LIBERTY.

As most of you know, the Government of Israel attacked our ship in international waters on June 8, 1967. On this bright, sunny day our ship had been positively identified as American and friendly.

GENOCIDE ANNOUNCED

"All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts." This was the religious opinion issued one week ago by Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute, a long-established religious institute attended by students and soldiers in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank.

FIVE YEARS ON, FALLUJAH IN TATTERS

"We wonder why we have been targeted by Americans since the first days of the occupation," Dr. Mohammad Abed from al-Anbar University told IPS. "This city sacrificed thousands of its citizens through five years of occupation just because they said 'no' to a project that threatens their country's future."

THE GREEN LIGHT

Bush administration

As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army’s own Field Manual.

NATO FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN SUPPLY THE TALIBAN WITH WEAPONS

KABUL, Afghanistan: A coalition helicopter trying to supply Afghan police with munitions dropped supplies in the wrong location and Taliban fighters later recovered the weaponry, an intelligence official said Sunday.

MUKASEY DEFENDS BUSH REGIME SPYING, DOMESTIC MILITARY OPERATIONS

During an emotional speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on March 27, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey asserted that the September 11 attacks could have been prevented "if the government had been able to wiretap a phone call from Afghanistan," the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

As I wrote March 30, we know that Mukasey's declaration was factually false, yet the USAG continues to claim that the government should be able to monitor communications from "terrorists," without seeking permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) whose brief from Congress, under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), does precisely that.

U.S. MAY NOT RELEASE GUANTANAMO PRISONERS: EVEN IF FOUND INNOCENT OF CHARGES AGAINST THEM

Even if a Guantanamo prisoner is acquitted on all counts at his trial, the Pentagon may still not release him on grounds he might return to the battlefield, according to an article in the April 14th issue of The New Yorker.

THE WORLD BANK’S CARBON DEALS

It was the first day in a long week of the consultations, PowerPoint presentations and high-level cocktail parties that accompany the World Bank’s Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. Already tensions were running high in a tightly-packed conference room downtown. Bank staff huddled on one side and non-profit groups on the other. The topic that drew so much attention first thing Monday morning: Climate change and the Bank’s plans for plunging its fingers deeper into the expanding multi-billion-dollar carbon-trading pie.

NEW BORDER FENCE BREACHED WITH TORCHES, HACKSAWS

New fencing along a previously open desert stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border has repeatedly been breached by northbound illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and bungee cords.

SATURDAY: 1 US SOLDIER, 65 IRAQIS KILLED; 48 IRAQIS WOUNDED

At least 65 Iraqis were killed and 48 more were injured in the latest violence. More fighting took place overnight in Sadr City, and a news mass grave was found in Mahmudiya. Also, an IED killed an American soldier northwest of Baghdad today.

SUNDAY: 46 IRAQIS KILLED, 29 WOUNDED

At least 46 Iraqis were killed and 29 were wounded in the latest violence. Sadr City finally quieted down after a couple weeks of intense fighting, but light clashing was still reported. No Coalition deaths were reported, but at least two Coalition soldiers were injured during a friendly fire incident in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD BATTLE AFTER AL-SADR AIDE'S DEATH

Heavy fighting between American and Iraqi forces and fighters loyal to the Shia religious leader Moqtada al-Sadr have killed at least 13 people in the huge and impoverished Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. The fighting, which followed the assassination of a senior aide to al-Sadr, continued despite a call for calm by the cleric, who is a fierce opponent of the US-led occupation.

US FAILS TO MOVE ON IRAQ SEXUAL ASSAULT COMPLAINTS

Washington, DC -- While working in Iraq as a ''morale coordinator'' for a U.S. government contractor, a Tampa woman says, she was raped by a drunken colleague who secured a key to her apartment from an unlocked storage box.

THE TORTURE DRAWINGS THE PENTAGON DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE

Sami al-Haj is a journalist, but one unlike any other. For over six years since December 15, 2001 -- when he was seized by Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan border while on assignment as a cameraman for the Qatar-based broadcaster al-Jazeera -- he has been in a disturbing but unique position: a trained journalist held as an "enemy combatant" on the frontline of the Bush administration's "War on Terror," first in Afghanistan, and then in Guantánamo.

STRATEGIC ASSETS

Defense contracts

The Investors: Lawmakers with the most money invested in companies with Department of Defense contracts

Member of Congress Minimum Value of Investment - Maximum Value of Investment

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) $28,872,067 - $38,209,020
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) $12,081,050 - $49,140,000
Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) $9,232,037 - $37,105,000
Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis) $5,207,668 - $7,612,653
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif) $2,684,050 - $6,260,000
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich) $2,469,029 - $8,360,000
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $2,000,002 - $2,000,002
Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis) $1,365,004 - $5,800,000
Rep. Kenny Ewell Marchant (R-Texas) $1,163,231 - $1,163,231
Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) $1,000,001 - $5,000,000

OBAMA'S DECEPTIVE ANTI-OIL AD: 'I DON'T TAKE $ FROM OIL COMPANIES'

Barack Obama has been airing a shamelessly anti-business TV ad in Pennsylvania for a while now. In the ad Obama himself, in his own voice, makes the claim that he doesn't "take money from oil companies." But there is a two-fold deception in this claim that Obama doesn't tell his sycophantic fans.

OAKLAND CA. GESTAPO MAY SEARCH HOMES FOR GUNS WITHOUT WARRANT

OAKLAND _ A six-month pilot program where Oakland police officers would knock on doors and ask permission to search homes for guns got the green light from the City Council's public safety committee Tuesday night.

THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO WRAP ITS MIND AROUND YOURS

Imagine a world of streets lined with video cameras that alert authorities to any suspicious activity. A world where police officers can read the minds of potential criminals and arrest them before they commit any crimes. A world in which a suspect who lies under questioning gets nabbed immediately because his brain has given him away.

Though that may sound a lot like the plot of the 2002 movie "Minority Report," starring Tom Cruise and based on a Philip K. Dick novel, I'm not talking about science fiction here; it turns out we're not so far away from that world.

HAITI'S GOVERNMENT FALLS AFTER FOOD RIOTS

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's government fell on Saturday when senators fired the prime minister after more than a week of riots over food prices, ignoring a plan presented by the president to slash the cost of rice.

AT SIX FLAGS, THE WAR IS A VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE

The teenagers crowding Six Flags Over Georgia during this week's spring break have an alternative to the endless lines for the Georgia Scorcher: a virtual combat zone set up by the U.S. Army to thrill these kids, entertain them and maybe even recruit them.

DIED HANGING FROM WRISTS AND GAGGED, WITH OVER 25 RIB FRACTURES

Yes, our tax dollars are paying for this. Hung up by the wrists and beaten so badly that he not only had over 25 separate rib fractures, many slicing into his lungs, he also had a fractured sternum. The thick, solid bone protecting your heart.

U.S. LENDERS FREEZE HOME EQUITY CREDIT LINES

NEW YORK: It was the lending institutions and mortgage originators that got the United States into this credit mess, but it is the American consumers, taxpayers and those companies' shareholders who will end up shouldering most of the costs.

ESPIONAGE AGAINST PRO-TIBET GROUPS, OTHERS, SPURRED MICROSOFT PATCHES

The Pentagon and pro-Tibet groups have previously acknowledged the intrusions, but Hyppönen is the first to link the cyber espionage to a series of patches that Microsoft pushed out without explanation. Microsoft did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

MOSQUE BLAST KILLS 9, INJURES SCORES IN IRAN

A homemade bomb was reportedly the cause of a deadly explosion Saturday at a mosque in Shiraz, about 560 miles south of Iran’s capital city, Tehran. According to Iran’s Fars news agency, nine people were killed and 105 wounded by the blast.

BASIC TRAINING

THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP: PAT BUCHANAN SAYS THERE’S A 50/50 CHANCE OF AIR STRIKES AGAINST IRAN BY FALL

Buchanan: That’s no longer true. We have held off defeat. But Petraeus is right, we don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. But I’ll tell you what’s coming, John: Petraeus pointed right at the special groups, supported by Iran as the main problem now, said they’re firing rockets into the Green Zone. They’re responsible for Basra. The president said Iran better not make the wrong choice. We are looking at 140,000 troops here at the end of the year and very possibly, air strikes on Iran before this fall.

JAPAN KILLS 551 ANTARCTIC WHALES, SHORT OF TARGET

"Sabotage by activists is a major factor behind our failure to achieve our target," the official said.

WILL THE CONSTITUTION BE ALTERED TO ELIMINATE KEY LIBERTIES?

Though little discussed on the campaign trail, a crucial issue to be decided in November is whether the United States will return to its traditions as a constitutional Republic respecting "unalienable" human rights or whether it will finish a transformation into a frightened nation governed by an all-powerful President who can do whatever he wants during the open-ended "war on terror."

PROPOSED CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEWSTATES OF AMERICA

SECTION 8. There shall be a responsibility to avoid violence and to keep the peace; for this reason the bearing of arms or the possession of lethal weapons shall be confined to the police, members of the armed forces, and those licensed under law.

DANIEL ELLSBERG TO HEADLINE IMPEACHMENT EVENT IN CONCORD

Brookline, NH - NH State Representative Betty Hall is hosting Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, Vietnam War critic, for a special event at the Capitol Center for the Arts Monday April 14 at 7pm. It was Ellsberg who released the Pentagon papers which helped end the Vietnam War.

JESUS CAMP & HITLER YOUTH - A LITTLE HISTORY REPEATING

Let us not forget how Hitler used youth indoctrination to accomplish his transformation of Germany from a power house Democracy to a Totalitarian Regime. He did it using the children.

WACHOVIA POSTS LOSS AND SEEKS $7 BILLION IN CAPITAL

Excluding items, the loss was $270 million, or 14 cents per share. Revenue on a taxable equivalent basis fell 5 percent to $7.9 billion.

RON PAUL SLAMS FEDERAL RESERVE AS US MONEY PRINTING DE-STABILIZE WORLD

Texas Congressman Ron Paul has slammed the Federal Reserve for printing money to manipulate interest rates and undermining the salaries of workers and savings of older people.

Paper money from pure fiat central banking, backed by nothing other than government debt - a process that was born after the gold standard was lifted by the United States which has led to rampant inflation since then - is a mystery to most ordinary people.

WHILE YOU SLEPT YOUR CONGRESS TOOK AWAY YOUR CONSTITUTION

THE UNITED STATES IS TORTURING CHILDREN AND THEN FALSIFYING EVIDENCE AGAINST THEM

Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, born 19 September 1986 in Ottawa Canada, “has been detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps since he was captured at the age of 15 following a 2002 firefight between American troops and militants in Afghanistan.” He has been accused by the United States of “throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier, leading to charges of war crimes and providing support to terrorism.” That, of course, is what the Bush administration is officially stating, the truth however is proving to be anything but.

THE 5 MOST RIDICULOUS LIES YOU WERE TAUGHT IN HISTORY CLASS

Columbus Discovered the Earth is Round

BOTTOM’S UP

Hillary Clinton, January:

“In 2000 we ended up with a president who people said they wanted to have a beer with…. And you know, I think there are the majority of Americans who think that was not the right choice.”

Hillary Clinton

THE DOLLAR HASN'T BOUNCED

I first presented the following chart with its downward pointing arrow in my alert on November 11, 2007, and made the following observation. "When taken together, the eerie calm as the dollar collapses and the arrow in the above chart pointing to the building downside momentum suggest that the dollar is nowhere near its final low."

THE DOLLAR

JULY 9-10, 2001: CIA RECEIVES SEVERAL NEW PIECES OF INTELLIGENCE INDICATING AL-QAEDA WILL ATTACK SOON

The CIA receives several pieces of intelligence over a 24-hour period, all of which predict an imminent attack.

JANUARY 1996-SEPTEMBER 10, 2001: CANADA TAKES NO ACTION AGAINST FOUNDING AL-QAEDA LEADER, DESPITE EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM

In late 1995, Ahmed Said Khadr is arrested in Pakistan for a suspected role in the November 1995 bombing of the Egyptian embassy in that country (see November 19, 1995). Khadr was born an Egyptian and became a Canadian citizen, and is an employee of Human Concern International (HCI), a Canadian-based charity.