TUESDAY: 8 IRAQIS KILLED, 29 WOUNDED

At least eight Iraqis were killed and 29 were wounded. A unknown number of wounded were left after an armed attack in Tikrit. No Coalition deaths were reported.

WEDNESDAY: 7 IRAQIS KILLED, 5 WOUNDED

As predicted President Talabani rejected a controversial elections law. This will likely delay provincial elections until next year. Today's light violence was marked by a significant amount of arrests, particularly in Babel province. Overall, at least seven Iraqis were killed and five more were wounded.

THURSDAY: 19 IRAQIS KILLED, 33 WOUNDED

A female suicide bomber ended this week's relatively peaceful quiet streak when she attacked an Awakening Council patrol in Baquba today. Overall, at least 19 Iraqis were killed and 33 more were wounded in the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported, but U.S. forces came under fire in Kirkuk and killed a teenager in retaliatory gunfire. Meanwhile, Turkey targeted PKK locations in northern Iraq, but the number of casualties there is unknown.

FLASHBACK: RON PAUL EDUCATES JOHN MCCAIN

RON PAUL: ‘THE MOTHER OF ALL BAILOUTS’

Yesterday on the House floor

OPERATION SPY AND PRY DOME WAS PASSED IN THE HOUSING BILL

Ron Said, they made the provision in the housing bill, that every credit card transaction you make will be reported to the IRS. ALL Transactions.

IS OBAMA THE 'ANTIWAR CANDIDATE'?

So, you thought we'd be rid of the endless "war on terrorism" once we got George W. Bush out of the White House, and ensconced a Democrat in his place? Well, think again, and get ready for an escalation of the Other War – the one in Afghanistan, a much tougher and more intractable prospect than Iraq by a longshot.

CONYERS TRIES TO KILL IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS

John Conyers is now taking the position that no one at Friday’s impeachment hearing can accuse Bush or Cheney of any crime, or any impeachable offense, or dishonorable conduct, or even lying.

OBAMA LIES

Presented as examples of Obama's blatant lying are everything from his descriptions of his personal relationships to his political positions.

LIE #76 OBAMA TELLS THE ISRAELIS HE'S A MEMBER OF THE SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE; CNN CONFIRMS HE'S DELUSIONAL

(CNN) – Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question Wednesday on his commitment to protect the Jewish state, Barack Obama pointed to a bill “we passed” in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that tightens sanctions and authorizes divestment from Iran. “My committee,” he called it.

Except that he isn’t a member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF THE 911 MYTH

What was discovered in the end, was that the sequence of numbers on Atta's credit card revealed a unique application only found on U.S. Government Credit cards.

ISRAELI OCCUPATION SOLDIER SHOOTS BLINDFOLDED, HANDCUFFED PALESTINIAN DETAINEE

An Israeli occupation army soldier earlier this month shot from a close range and injured a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee, an Israeli human rights group revealed Sunday.

THE SILENCE OF THE JEWS

After the collapse of the Soviet empire, a group of Zionists in Russia seemingly steeped in ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, lied, cheated, stole, and murdered, their way into virtually all positions of power throughout the country.

MICHAEL MUKASEY CALLS ON CONGRESS TO TAKE DRAMATIC STEPS TO SUBVERT THE CONSTITUTION

Mukasey is demanding that Congress issue a new declaration of war that would make the entire globe -- including the United States itself -- a “battlefield” where the president decides who will be locked up forever.

STOP WAR ON IRAN CAMPAIGN: HOW MANY WRONG WARS ARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO FIGHT?

If you swallowed the Bush lie he struck Iraq based on faulty CIA analysis doesn’t his motivation become clear when he rejects the new National Intelligence Estimate’s report that told him there is no basis for attacking Iran?

GM, FORD `ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY,'

July 22 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the two biggest U.S. automakers, have about a 46 percent chance of default within five years, according to Edward Altman, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

U.S. PERPETUATES MASS KILLINGS IN IRAQ

The United States is directly responsible for over one million Iraqi deaths since the invasion five and half years ago.

THE ABUSES OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Dr. Ron Paul, the Republican candidate for the 2008 presidential nomination, is not the first U.S. politician to point to the abuses of the Federal Reserve System and call for its abolishment. Similar pleas to get rid of the Fed were made by Reps. Wright Patman (1893-1976) and Henry Gonzales (1916-2000), both Democratic congressmen from Texas and chairmen of the House Banking Committee.

DEATH OF FREE INTERNET IS IMMINENT

Our country is being used as a test case to drastically change the delivery of Internet service forever. The change will be so radical that it has the potential to send us back to the horse and buggy days of information sharing and access.

US PEACE AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ADDED TO DATA BASE OF TERRORIST SUSPECTS

Undercover Maryland state troopers infiltrated three groups advocating peace and protesting the death penalty — attending meetings and sending reports on their activities to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, according to documents released Thursday.

ALIENS EXIST, BUT NASA COVERS THEM UP SAYS ASTRONAUT

The 77-year-old, who was a crew member of the Apollo 14 mission, said sources at the space agency had described aliens as resembling "little people who look strange to us".

WACHOVIA BANK IN FLORIDA DISTRIBUTING COUNTERFEIT $100 BILLS

And there is no way that this is a coincidence. Ten counterfeit $100 bills in one transaction, from a struggling bank, in the middle of a banking crisis!? No way.

KEY BENAZIR BHUTTO ASSASSINATION WITNESS SHOT DEAD

Khalid Shahenshah, who was the former Pakistan prime minister's security chief at the time of her assassination, was killed in a drive-by shooting as he left his house in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, police said.

FEMA SEEKS IMMUNITY FROM SUITS OVER TRAILER FUMES

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is requesting immunity from lawsuits filed on behalf of Gulf Coast hurricane victims who claim they were exposed to dangerous fumes while living in government-issued trailers.

GITMO PROSECUTOR REPEATS AL QAEDA DEPUTY'S CLAIM: FLIGHT 93 WAS SHOT DOWN ON 9/11

"If they hadn't shot down the fourth plane it would've hit the dome," Stone, a Navy officer, said in his opening remarks, repeating Bin Laden's deputy's claim.

WAR CRIME SUIT FILED AGAINST ISRAELIS

A Palestinian human rights group has brought war crime charges against former high ranking Israeli officials in a Spanish court.

MCCAIN DROPS IRAN IN FAVOR OF ISRAEL

“I would hope that would never happen, I would hope that Israel would not feel that threatened,'' said McCain, referring to a possible Israeli military assault on Iran, a country that has repeatedly said it has no intention of initiating an attack against Tel Aviv or building an atomic bomb.

HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO HEAR KUCINICH IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION ON FRIDAY

Kucinich argues that Bush has violated his oath of office, violated U.S. and international law, has trashed the Constitution, and poses a serious threat to the nation.

RUSSIA AND VENEZUELA IN DEAL TO COUNTER 'US AGGRESSION'

With a long shopping list for state-of-the-art defence equipment under his arm, Mr Chavez did his best to ingratiate himself with his hosts.

TWO TROUBLED U.S. BANKS EACH POST BILLIONS IN LOSSES

NEW YORK: Moving quickly to put an end to the constant spill of red ink, Wachovia, the banking giant, booked an $8.9 billion loss and slashed its dividend in its first quarter under new leadership.

THE TSA IS UNDOUBTEDLY A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

The Transportation Security Administration continues to show the American people that they are one of the most evil terrorist organizations on the face of the planet.

REAL ID – A VERY REAL THREAT TO GUN RIGHTS

Harrisburg, PA - Pennsylvania gun owners breathed a sigh of relief at the Heller vs. DC Supreme Court ruling, but the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania (LPPa) warns that major threats to gun rights still exist. One such threat is REAL ID, the federal mandate turning driver's licenses into national ID cards.

RFID CRACK AFFECTS 2 BILLION SMART CARDS

NXP Semiconductors is currently filing suit in The Netherlands against Radboud University in Nijmegen, in an attempt to keep its researchers from publishing a paper about reported security flaws in NXP’s widely distributed MiFare Classic RFID chip.

GOVERNOR PROPOSES MARTIAL LAW CHOPPERS FOR CHICAGO

The gun control capital of America - Chicago - where only the criminals are allowed to own firearms - has been hit by a fresh wave of crime and violence, prompting Governor Rod Blagojevich to call for National Guard helicopters to be used in law enforcement operations.

THINK TANK CALLS FOR BUSH TO BE DICTATOR FOR LIFE

Family Security Matters a neo-conservative based think tank has published an article advocating that George W. Bush should be a dictator for life.

SUICIDE OF A 20-YEAR-OLD MARINE IN IRAQ WAR IS SADLY COMMON TALE

Through the Freedom of Information Act, The Times obtained the investigatory report on the death of the 20-year-old lance corporal -- one of at least 168 young Marines who have killed themselves since the Marines were ordered in early 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein.

U.S. GOVERNMENT WANTS TOTAL UNPRECEDENTED CONTROL OVER RAISING YOUR KIDS

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems.

SECRET PLAN FOR IRAQ REVEALED

A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.

COURT CONFIRMS BUSH'S DICTATORIAL POWERS

On July 15, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled by 5 votes to 4 in the case of Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli (PDF) that the president can arrest US citizens and legal residents inside the United States and imprison them indefinitely, without charge or trial, based solely on his assertion that they are "enemy combatants."

AMERICANS EMBRACING THEIR OWN DEMISE

The master plans for inculcating the communist morality (communitarianism) into the American landscape has been underway for a century and that's exactly what it does to people: takes away their self-esteem, individualism, their drive for success and lumps them in with the "community."

OBAMA CALLS FOR NATIONAL CIVILIAN STASI

Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama has called for a “civilian national security force” as powerful as the U.S. military, comments that were ignored by the vast majority of the corporate media but compared by one journalist to the Nazi Hitler Youth.

RON PAUL VS. THE CORPORATE WELFARE-POLICE STATE

OHIO ATTORNEYS SEEK PROTECTION FOR MIKE CONNELL AND HIS FAMILY AGAINST ALLEGED THREATS FROM KARL ROVE

Rove is believed to be the strategic mastermind behind the Bush 2004 re-election campaign and the possible Ohio election improprieties.

10 BANKS THAT COULD BE NEXT TO GO UNDER

IndyMac bank going under probably has you wondering, is my bank next? Various analysts are predicting that hundreds of small and regional banks could collapse in the next year.

COLLAPSE OF THE UNITED STATES MAY LEAD TO A NORTH AMERICAN UNION

How is it possible that plans for this project have been in the works for the last 13 years but Stephen Harper and George Bush continue to deny its existence?

21 YEAR OLD BLACK MAN TASERED 9 TIMES IN 14 MINUTES BY A WHITE POLICE OFFICER AFTER BEING ARRESTED AND HANDCUFFED

An autopsy determined that there were no drugs in Pikes' system, and according to reports he did not resist arrest.

NEW FORM FOR SCHOOL REGISTRATION

We had a new one passed by us this year when registering the kids (1st & 7th graders) for school. It was giving the school permission to have psych evaluations done on my children by our local hospitial if they deemed necessary. We refused to sign this one; along with a couple of other concent forms. I don't think most parents even read what their signing.