WHITE HOUSE IN PANIC OVER SIBEL EDMONDS?

Sixteen days after the UK Times' published a blockbuster article, For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets, about how certain top US government officials were enabling Turkish and Israeli interests in supplying the nuclear black market, President Bush quietly announced on Tuesday that he wants Congress to approve sales of nuclear technology to Turkey.

ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP

As the slug fest continues to win the White House, it is painfully clear that the next President will be anti gun ownership. JPFO can't change their Guns are bad mentality, but we can make it easier for you to educate others about the evils ofgun control.

RON PAUL MAKING WAVES (AGAIN)

Who stood out from the pack: Ron Paul won with 51%

TEN MOST WANTED CORRUPT POLITICIANS FOR 2007

1. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY): In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 and rightly so for blocking the release her official White House records. Many suspect these records contain a treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious Clinton-era scandals. Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure forms with the U.S. Senate (again). And Hillary's top campaign contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in 2007. Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for defrauding investors as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

Also included: Obama and Huckabee -- ZDN

LIFE ON MARS? AMAZING PHOTOS FROM NASA PROBE REVEAL MYSTERY FIGURE ON RED PLANET

This popped up on ATS yesterday and i ignored it. Others are picking it up now. -- ZDN

This photo of what looks remarkably like a female figure with her arm outstretched, was taken on Mars.

WINDMILLS PROVIDE INEXPENSIVE WATER SOURCE FOR AFGHAN FARMERS

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Jan. 19, 2006 Coalition forces are installing windmills across southern Afghanistan to provide farmers with water 24 hours a day.

And what is it they're farming? Poppies. Before we invaded Afghanistan, the Taliban destroyed over 90% of the poppy fields. After the invasion, the farmers plowed under their corn and went back to poppies, which is more profitable. About 80%, according to Sibel Edmonds (former Turkish translator for the FBI), of Europe's heroin comes from Afghan farmers. The CIA is in on the action. -- ZDN

LIKE FBI, CIA HAS USED SECRET 'LETTERS'

The spy agency has employed them to obtain financial information about U.S. residents and does so under extraordinary secrecy, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained copies of CIA letters under the Freedom of Information Act.

FORECLOSURES PROMPT CITIES TO MAKE PLEA FOR AID

WASHINGTON Facing a collapse in the subprime mortgage market that has pockmarked their cities with vacant houses and crippled their budgets, the nation's mayors pleaded Wednesday for a huge infusion of federal aid.

COUNCIL OF EUROPE BASHES EU AND UN TERROR BLACKLISTING PRACTICE

The parliamentarian assembly of the Council of Europe on Wednesday (23 January) backed a report saying the use of terrorist black-lists by the UN and the EU violate fundamental rights.

NEW RECORD FOR GOLD PRICE AT $923

The price of gold has set another record high, reaching $923, after power cuts in South Africa closed mines and fuelled supply fears.

9IU11IANI THE BIG LOSER

That Giuliani was unwilling to take any direct shots at his opponents seems to signal that either his campaign knows something the pollsters don't or that he is content to make his policy points and let the chips fall where they may even if that means a third-place finish, which would badly hamstring his chances at the nomination.

HUCKABEE: IRAQ'S WMD WERE HIDDEN LIKE 'EASTER EGGS' AND THEN MOVED TO JORDAN

Everybody can look back and say, oh well we didn't find the weapons. Doesn't meet that they weren't there. Just because you didn't find every Easter egg didn't mean it wasn't planted.

...and just because Huckabee isn't able to say anything intelligent doesn't mean he doesn't have a brain. -- ZDN

'US THE BIGGEST PRODUCER OF TERROR'

Many people in Baquba, capital of Diyala 40 km northeast of Baghdad, had supported U.S. forces when they ousted former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But failed reconstruction projects and muddled policies mean the U.S. has lost that support.

Indeed, many Iraqis now say they had it better with Saddam. -- ZDN

THE END OF PRIVACY

Amid the controversy brewing in the Senate over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform, the Bush administration appears to have changed its strategy and is devising a bold new plan that would strip away FISA protections in favor of a system of wholesale government monitoring of every American's Internet activities. Now the national director of intelligence is predicting a disastrous cyber-terrorist attack on the U.S. if this scheme isn't instituted.

DUDE, WHERE'D THAT $70 BILLION GO?

That's right, forget the middle class, let's make sure that the businesses get another tax break. Gotta love those priorities, I'm sure that the $300 check will really stimulate the economy right out of a recession.

ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE AND THE TELECOMS - JUST THE FACTS

In December 2005, the New York Times reported that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans have had their phones wiretapped by the National Security Agency (NSA) without any judicial review.

THE STIMULUS SWINDLE

Following government reports showing a surge in income inequality, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson last year gushed that the economy isas strong as I have seen it in any time. In the summer, as the housing crisis exploded, President Bush said the economy wasthriving.

EXXON GUNS FOR ALL-TIME PROFIT RECORD

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is within striking distance of setting an all-time profit record - again.

EVENTS PLANNED FOR MARCH 10-19, 2008, TO RESIST THE U.S. OCCUPATION OF IRAQ, OPPOSE NEW WARS, DEMAND IMPEACHMENT

This March, while tens of thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C., and all over the United States will be participating in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and involuntarily deployed U.S. soldiers and innocent civilian victims will begin another year of occupation, torture, and murder, U.S. congress members will be on vacation (from the 15th to 30th, technically a "district work period"), ignoring the killing and suffering they have enabled, supported, and financed.

SOUTH CAROLINA WILL USE SAME LOUSY MACHINES THAT JUST FAILED

STATE OF THE UNION

ROMNEY, LIKE GEORGE W. BUSH, USING A WIRE

The sound of Romney's prompter was in the original broadcast. MSNBC even blogged about it, but has since removed the post.

REAL ID: YOU WILL NEED IT TO USE THE INTERNET

And then if you've got the tamper-proof ID card, you'd be allowed to work, pay taxes, get online

ATTENTION BLOGOSPHERE!

As of November 2006, only 26 million Americans watched any nightly news program on television (down from 52 million in 1980). And the percentage of people who believed "all or most of what news organizations say" fell dramatically between 1996 and 2006.

72,000 AMERICAN CASUALTIES: TOLL OF WAR ON TERROR

January 25, 2008 - The US has suffered more than 72,000 battlefield casualties since the start of the war on terror in 2001, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.

FIREFIGHTERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST RUDY 9/11 MYTH

They said Giuliani is a fraud when he claims to be a leader in the wake of the terrorist attacks, and a liar for claiming to protect firefighters during the excavation of ground zero.

JUDGE WANTS ANSWERS ON CIA VIDEOTAPES

A federal judge on Thursday said the CIA interrogation tapes destroyed in 2005 were relevelant to his case. He's given the Bush administration three weeks to explain why they were destroyed.

CORPORATE MEDIA IGNORES RON PAUL'S SECOND PLACE IN LOUISIANA

Presidential candidate Ron Paul has finished second in yet another state caucus this week yet there has barely been a murmur from the mainstream media once again.

CONTEXT OF 'FEBRUARY 2001 AND BEYOND: THREE US TELECOM FIRMS COOPERATE WITH NSA SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; QWEST REFUSES'

AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth all cooperate with the NSA in monitoring US citizens’ phone and Internet communications (see October 2001).

CONTEXT OF 'FEBRUARY 2001: NSA DISCUSSES SURREPTITIOUS MONITORING OF DOMESTIC ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS WITH AT&T'

According to a 2006 lawsuit against three major US telecommunications firms that alleges the companies illegally cooperated with the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program (see May 12, 2006), NSA officials meet with AT&T officials to discuss that firm’s participation.

BUSH SPEEDS UP LICENSES FOR MILITARY EXPORTS TO US ALLIES

President George W. Bush signed secret orders Tuesday aimed at accelerating the approvals process for exports of military equipment to US allies without undermining national security.

US HIRES 'FAKE' SOVIET WEAPONS EXPERTS

A plan drawn by Washington to divert Soviet Union weapons technology away from other countries has proven to be no more than a US scam.

VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST JOHN MCCAIN

RON PAUL MSNBC - REPORTER REFERENCES AMERICA FREEDOM TO FASCISM!

TEAR DOWN THAT WALL

Taking a play from the Nazi play book, the Israeli war party has walled in Palestinians attempting to starve and degrade them much the same way the Nazis locked Jews in ghettos throughout Germany and elsewhere.

CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW TO DEMAND THAT HARRY REID STEP DOWN

You can call your members of Congress right now on one of these toll-free numbers, 800-828-0498, 877-851-6437 or 800-614-2803. There are operators on duty 24 hours a day. Just ask to be connected to one of your senators and they'll put you through. Tell them to "Reid Must Step Down As Majority Leader Over His Telecom Immunity Surrender".

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