REPUBLIC MAGAZINE ISSUE 5 "THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX SCAM"

Slaying the Beast - Tommy Cryer's win against the IRS, Tax Honesty Movement - a history by Michael Lemieux, Exposing IRS Tactical and Psycological Warfare on Americans- Peymon Mottahedeh, Flex Your Rights, Activist Profile: We the People Foundation, The IRS and the Federal Reserve.. Fraternal Twins - G. Edward Griffin, Joe Banister - His Legal Defense, 60 Sec Activism: Republic Magazine, Constitutional Discipline - 16th Amendment by Michael Badnarik, Tyranny in America - Jeff Dickstein, Why an Income Tax is Not Necessary to Fund... - Devvy Kidd, Militia and the Economy - Mark Keornke, No Law! - Marcy Brooks, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and more...

NORTHWOODS

See with your own eyes "Operation Northwoods" and how the US Military was going to stage "False Flag" events to enrage the US citizens into war with Cuba.

You will see how they planned to stage "terrorist" acts in Miami making it look like Cubans.
You will see the plans for a "Staged" Cuban attack on Gitmo.
You will see the staged shooting down of US Military Aircraft.
You will see that staged shootdown of a "Remote Contolled' plane staged to appear like a plane of of US College kids.

THE GOP CAN'T SHUT ME OUT!

MONDAY: 4 US SOLDIERS, 43 IRAQIS KILLED; 112 IRAQIS WOUNDED

At least 43 Iraqis were killed and another 112 were wounded in the latest attacks, most of them in Baghdad and Sadr City. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also four U.S. servicemembers were killed.

FASTENED TO A DYING ANIMAL

Here in this crumbling empire once known as the American Republic, here in a nation that, at present, for all practical purposes, only produces Cheetos and killer drones, whose architecture is being winnowed down to thriving rural meth houses and foreclosed upon suburban mchouses, whose corrupt corporate culture has bequeathed upon our suffering planet dying oceans and the hyper-caffeinated tsunami of Red Bull Capitalism -- the essential question confronts us -- how does one retain (not retail) one's humanity amid the catastrophic machinery and inane accouterment of our age?

LIFE IN THE SEALED GAZA

The first and ever lasting stage is crawling between two status of calmness and escalations, controlled by the Israelis despite of all our illusions of controlling it, in which the Israelis are moving us easily like a puppet. They start calling for a hudna (truce) whenever they want to enjoy some quiet times and at the moment they feel bored they send us their surprising gifts holding death with it.

THE WORLD MUST STEP IN

Gaza Strip

This morning, seven residents of the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun were killed in Israeli shelling. The tank shell directly hit a home in the Azbat Abed Rabbo quarter of the town, taking the lives of an entire family. Khadra Abu Muteq was killed along with her four children: one year old Musaab Abu Muteq, Hana’ Abu Muteq, 3, Saleh Abu Muteq 4, and Rudeineh Abu Muteq, 6. One teen, 17-year old Ayoub Atallah was also killed by the shelling and his friend Mutassem Sweilem injured as they were walking to school. Nine others were injured in the attack, several of them in serious condition.

JUDGE MUNOZ SAVES HILLARY’S PRESIDENTIAL BID IN LA COURT ACTION

In the landmark civil fraud case against Bill Clinton in Los Angeles, where the former President is charged with defrauding a Hollywood dot com millionaire to help Hillary Clinton obtain more than $1.2 million from him for her 2000 Senate campaign, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz ruled on Friday, April 25 that Hillary Clinton would not be required to testify in sworn deposition as a material witness in the case until AFTER the November election!

BUSH'S CONSPIRACY TO CREATE AN AMERICAN POLICE STATE: PART VII, THE GOVERNMENT DENIES 'DUE PROCESS OF LAW'

BUSH'S CONSPIRACY TO CREATE AN AMERICAN POLICE STATE

The Bush administration is credibly compared to a cult. Like Hitler's 'Third Reich', its assault on civil liberties and democracy have resulted in a 'state' bearing no resemblance to the one created or envisioned by the 'founders' and ratified September 17, 1787. Like the history of any 'police state', a history of the Bush administration must chronicle its methodical, deliberate dismantling of 'Due Process of Law'

CONSIDER THE CONSEQUENCES OF BOMBING IRAN’S NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, AND PRAY

Two offensive aircraft carriers fleets are now on station near Iran and another is reportedly en route. In late March, Saudi Arabia practiced how it will cope with nuclear fallout following a US attack on Iran. In early April, Israel practiced how it will cope with retaliatory missiles following a US attack on Iran. Everyone in the region is getting ready for the bombing of Iran’s nuclear power plant and enrichment facilities. Iran, too, is ready for war.

WAR PROPAGANDA: DISNEYLAND GOES TO WAR-TORN IRAQ

The occupation forces are of the opinion that Baghdad is "lacking in entertainment". General David Petraeus, is said to be a “big supporter” of bringing Disneyland to Baghdad.

FOOD CRISIS: "THE GREATEST DEMONSTRATION OF THE HISTORICAL FAILURE OF THE CAPITALIST MODEL"

In Haiti, where most people get 22% fewer calories than the minimum needed for good health, some are staving off their hunger pangs by eating "mud biscuits" made by mixing clay and water with a bit of vegetable oil and salt.

MORE IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION WASTE

One year after congressional investigators said the government wasted $10 billion in fraudulent Iraq reconstruction contracts, a separate but equally alarming audit reveals that the problem persists with no end in sight.

THE MANHATTAN PROJECT: NEW YORK’S HIGH TECH PANOPTICON

It’s something we best pay attention to, as this “thick web of security” will eventually reach Everytown, U.S.A. New York, following London, is America’s beta test site for all kinds of police state technology, including:

Helicopters in the sky with high-powered cameras, “looking for unusual activity.” Noah Shachtman does not tell us what this “unusual activity” might be, but let us hazard a guess: al-Qaeda guys in turbans, mounted on donkeys, casing Manhattan for targets. Minus that, the NYPD can use their big cameras to ferret out pot smokers and prostitutes, or as in the case of Britain, people who litter or engaged in what is considered anti-social behavior — determined by the state, of course.

IDF CHOPPERS IN SERVICE OF DRUG CARTEL

Another diplomatic incident threatens to taint U.S.-Israeli relations: The American government has recently demanded Israel clarify how five U.S.-made helicopters sold to Israel in the mid-70s found their way into the hands of a Columbian drug cartel.

CONNECT THE DOTS: GLOBAL BANKING CRISIS-WHO IS REALLY BEHIND THE FINANCIAL TERRORISM?

As the SAUDI'S try to take over U.S. BANKING and U.S. HOMES, FARMS, BUSINESS'S forcing everything to a "stand still" with high gasoline prices... CHINA drops the U.S. Federal Reserve Note.. the pretender of the U.S. DOLLAR.

CLINTON'S THREAT TO "OBLITERATE" IRAN

Clinton told the Mullahs in charge of Iran to take a good look at their society since she'd evaporate it if they launched a nuclear attack on Israel.

Iran does not have nuclear weapons now and may not until 2015 according to the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate.

"We judge with high confidence that Iran will not be technically capable of producing and reprocessing enough plutonium for a weapon before about 2015." National Intelligence Estimate Nov. 2007

SCOTT RITTER: BY RELEASING INTEL, US ENDORSES ISRAEL’S ILLEGAL BOMBING OF ALLEGED SYRIAN NUKE SITE

The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog group, Mohamed ElBaradei, has criticized the United States for withholding intelligence that it says showed the construction of a nuclear reactor in Syria that Israel bombed in September. The International Atomic Energy Agency chief was critical of both the US delay in releasing the information and of Israel’s bombing of the site before the IAEA could inspect it.

PLEASE SUPPORT THE GLOBAL ONLINE FREEDOM ACT, H.R. 275

Repressive governments are making Internet and technology companies allies in their efforts to censor the Internet. Without any U.S. regulation to specifically prevent this, companies like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have sacrificed international human rights standards, and their own corporate missions, in pursuit of new and lucrative markets. Ask your Representative to support H.R. 275, the Global Online Freedom Act of 2007, which would prevent U.S. companies from carrying out or facilitating the suppression of online speech in repressive countries.

PSYCHOPATHS ALWAYS BLAME THEIR VICTIMS

I’m sure you haven’t heard on TV news that the IDF killed a Palestinian family of four small children and their mother, among others, as they were getting ready to eat breakfast. I mean, if an Israeli family was killed we’d be hearing about it non-stop; but this was just a Palestinian mother and her four little children. Just some collateral damage

Scott RITTER: US WILL TARGET IRAN NEXT

RITTER: US WILL TARGET IRAN NEXT

"There's no doubt in my mind that the United States is planning right now, as we speak, a military strike against Iran. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and almost every senior US military official has pretty much acknowledged the same," he told Democracy Now on Monday.

APR. 24: VCS LAWSUIT REVEALS VETS CALL SUICIDE HOTLINE IN RECORD NUMBERS - 5,000 CALLS IN MARCH 2008

The number of Iraq war veterans contacting a suicide hotline soared last month, according to information revealed Thursday during a federal trial in San Francisco.

VCS LAWSUIT FALLOUT - EDITORIAL COLUMN: VETERANS DIE WAITING FOR CARE

Shh," began the e-mail referring to 12,000 veterans who attempt suicide each year while the Department of Veterans Affairs tries to provide for their care. It continued with a question: "Is this something we should (carefully) address ourselves in some sort of release before someone stumbles on it?"

REPORT: PROSECUTORS LOOK AT WACHOVIA

Wachovia WB is being investigated by federal prosecutors as part of a larger probe of alleged laundering of drug money, according to a published media report.

Looks like someone doesn't like the competition -- ZDN

IS THERE ANY WAY TO STOP WAL-MART & CO. FROM SWEATSHOP PROFITEERING?

I remember one particularly bad factory in China. It produced outdoor tables, parasols, and gazebos, and the place was a mess. Work floors were so crowded with production materials that I could barely make my way from one end to the other. In one area, where metals were being chemically treated, workers squatted at the edge of steaming pools as if contemplating a sudden, final swim. The dormitories were filthy: the hallways were strewn with garbage—orange peels, tea leaves—and the only way for anyone to bathe was to fill a bucket with cold water.

GASOLINE MAY SOON COST A SAWBUCK

Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions — a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon.

OPEC PRESIDENT SEES $200 OIL POSSIBLE

ALGIERS (Reuters) - OPEC President Chakib Khelil does not rule out oil prices reaching $200 a barrel, even though supply is adequate, because the market is driven by the dollar's slide, Algerian government newspaper El Moudjahid reported on Monday.

NATIONAL “DNA WAREHOUSE” BILL PASSES

“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,” she states. “It does not require consent and there are no requirements to inform parents about the warehousing of their child’s DNA for the purpose of genetic research. Already, in Minnesota, the state health department reports that 42,210 children of the 780,000 whose DNA is housed in the Minnesota ‘DNA warehouse’ have been subjected to genetic research without their parents’ knowledge or consent.”

U.S. CREDIT CARD DEBT SOARS TO UNPRECEDENTED HEIGHTS

WASHINGTON—Studies indicate that credit card defaults and related write-offs increased drastically since 2006. Today, lenders write off 33 percent more in credit card debt than they did two years ago.

SCALIA: TORTURE IS NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL

END THE WAR

GIVE ME A "D"

By Cindy Sheehan

What a sorry state we find ourselves in today. We can't get on an airplane without having our rights violated. We can't send an email or make a phone call without risking being spied on by our own government. We can't protest an elected official without being confined to pens in "free speech zones," or blocked from even getting anywhere near an event at all. We can't buy over the counter allergy medication without having our personal info going into a governmental database and landlords of medicinal marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco are being harassed by the feds for something that has been approved by the people of the State of California.

However, we can be arrested and held indefinitely in torture camps with no rights to a fair trial or habeas corpus. Our hard earned money can be forcefully taken from us by that very same government who then uses the money to violate our rights and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people in wars of aggression for empire. We get a few crumbs of bread from Uncle George and Aunt Nancy so we are supposed to feel protected and warm and fuzzy about our "benefactors."

REPORT FROM OAKLAND TOWN HALL ON IMPEACHMENT

CodePink presented a Town Hall the Peoples' Email Network called "The Biggest Progressive Event of the Year." So are peace and impeachment possible? The answer is "yes, no doubt about it". The goal was to mobilize the audience, mainly anti-war activists, to take action because it's up to us to make impeachment happen. The beautiful art-deco Grand Lake Theater was filled with 400 people who listened to peace and impeachment leaders call for impeaching Cheney first! for war crimes, violations of the Constitution, economic crimes and more.

UK: BANK BAIL-OUTS TO BE KEPT SECRET

Ferocious and unprecedented secrecy means taxpayers will never know the names of the banks that have been supported through the special liquidity scheme, which was unveiled by Bank Governor Mervyn King last week.

BLOATED IN BAGHDAD

Where, for instance, do the mountains of beef patties, pecan pies and Coco Puffs come from? The Houston-based KBR farms out most of its $27-billion government contract to Gulf states middlemen, who greet initial food shipments in Kuwait. Low-wage Pakistani and Nepali subcontractors then distribute the goods to U.S. mess halls, where even lower-wage Indians and Sri Lankans prepare them for the troops. All along the route are markups galore, sometimes exceeding 500 percent.

JOHN MCCAIN, ALLEGED CHAMPION OF THE POOR

Just 10 days ago, John McCain admitted, on national television, that his idea for a “gas-tax holiday” wouldn’t really make any difference, but the policy “might” give Americans “a little psychological boost.” I guess he’s changed his mind?

For that matter, isn’t McCain the guy who, just last year, voted for the abolishment of a federal minimum wage standard?

MAVERICK MCCAIN EXPLOITS LOOPHOLE TO FLY CHEAPLY ON CINDY’S PLANE

Given Senator John McCain’s signature stance on campaign finance reform, it was not surprising that he backed legislation last year requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate jets. The law, which requires campaigns to pay charter rates when using such jets rather than cheaper first-class fares, was intended to reduce the influence of lobbyists and create a level financial playing field.

But over a seven-month period beginning last summer, Mr. McCain’s cash-short campaign gave itself an advantage by using a corporate jet owned by a company headed by his wife, Cindy McCain, according to public records. For five of those months, the plane was used almost exclusively for campaign-related purposes, those records show.

ONE ANGRY MAN

McCain

He combines the body of an ox with the brains of a gnat. Indeed, if his brains were made of gunpowder and were to accidentally explode, the resulting bang would not even be enough to disarrange his hair.

'TINY RADIO ANTENNAS' UNDER SKIN COULD ACT AS REMOTE SENSORS OF HUMANS' EMOTIONAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE

ScienceDaily (Apr. 28, 2008) — Scientists at the department of Applied Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a method for remote sensing of the physiological and emotional state of human beings.

MAKING TROUBLE FOR THE REPUBLICANS

The Republican party continues to be terrified that Ron Paul will run as an independent. Their own internal polling show he'd get so many votes he'd cause the defeat of McCain. Such a run is not in the cards, but the trouble the Paulians continue to give the red-state fascists is thrilling.

STORM BREWING FOR WILLIAM GRAY

Among other comments, Gray has said global warming scientists are "brainwashing our children."

THREATS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE INCREASE IN NYC

Shockwaves from the Sean Bell verdict which reverberated throughout New York City this weekend are now rolling across the country, and Congress has taken notice.

LARRY CRAIG CAMPAIGN MONEY PAID BATHROOM LEGAL BILLS

Dan Abrams takes shots at what’s wrong with our nation’s capital, including how Idaho Sen. Larry Craig used campaign funds to pay for part of his legal defense when he was accused of soliciting sex in a men’s bathroom.

DYNCORP MANAGER USED ARMORED CAR TO TRANSPORT HOOKERS IN IRAQ

A contractor died when a DynCorp manager used an employee’s armored car to transport prostitutes, according to Barry Halley, a Worldwide Network Services employee working under a DynCorp subcontract.

THE NEW MCCARTHYISM

Today we are seeing once again the heavy hand of the war profiteers trying to reshape the film industry into a tool to propagandize the public into a high war-fever such that they will gladly trade their own blood for gold to line the pockets of the defense establishment. And those individuals who have the courage to speak out are attacked, and once again they are smeared to silence them. In the 1940s it was "Communist", today it is "Anti-Semite", but aside from the particular label used, the methods, goals, and morality are little changed from the days of Joseph McCarthy.

HACKERS SHUT DOWN BANK OF ISRAEL

HACKERS HAVE MANAGED to shut down the Bank of Israel for two whole days, taking advantage of the Jewish festival of Passover, when senior staff members were out of the office.