DC CHECKPOINTS: SOVIET POLICE STATE IN THE NATIONS CAPITOL

Over the last few months, city officials in Washington, DC, have instituted an array of tactics that has civil libertarians fearing the nation’s capital is looking at the Bill of Rights as little more than a suggestion.

CASPIAN - NEW EVIDENCE OF VERICHIP LIES AND DECEPTION

A new report titled “Microchip Implants: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions” released today by CASPIAN Consumer Privacy reveals dirty laundry the company would probably rather keep hidden as it seeks a buyer for its beleaguered product.

TOWN HALLS USING ANTI-TERROR POWERS TO BUG RESIDENTS’ CALLS, EMAILS

Town hall snoopers used controversial anti-terror powers to delve into the phone and email records of thousands of people last year.

IRAN: US-IRAQ SECURITY DEAL AIMS TO ENSLAVE IRAQIS

The deal, which the Iraqis and Americans hope to finish in midsummer, would establish a long-term security relationship between Iraq and the United States, and a parallel agreement would provide a legal basis to keep U.S. troops in Iraq after the U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year.

THE SECOND GREAT DEPRESSION VISITS DETROIT

What is most interesting to me is the information in the comments from other readers around the country, saying the same thing is happening in their regions.

OBAMA'S CAREER-LONG FINANCIAL BACKER, FRIEND, TONY REZKO FOUND GUILTY OF CORRUPTION

CHICAGO (AP) — A prominent political fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been found guilty of fraud and money laundering.

SIBEL EDMONDS CASE: DENNIS HASTERT TO RECEIVE PAYOFFS FOR 'SERVICES RENDERED'

Dennis Hastert, who is listed in Sibel's "Rogues Gallery," was caught on FBI wiretaps accepting bribes from Turkish criminal elements associated with the Turkish government, as documented in Vanity Fair in 2005 and elsewhere.

WINTER SOLDIERS HIT THE STREETS

SEATTLE - In a clear change of strategy to energize public antiwar sentiment, Iraq veterans led a determined demonstration of hundreds through the streets of downtown Seattle last Saturday, following regional Winter Soldier hearings at the Seattle Town Hall.

AUSTRALIA BOLTS IRAQ OVER BUSH'S LIES

Announcing the withdrawal of the 550 Australian troops still in Iraq on Monday, Rudd echoed recent charges by former White House spokesman Scott McClellan about the Bush administration's "shading" of intelligence to "justify" an unnecessary war.

TUESDAY: 1 US SOLDIER, 18 IRAQIS KILLED; 34 IRAQIS WOUNDED

At least 18 Iraqis were killed and 34 more were wounded in the latest violence. One U.S. soldier died from non-combat-related causes this morning. Also, Iran resumed shelling suspected Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) rebel locations northeast of Arbil.

WEDNESDAY: 3 US SOLDIERS, 70 IRAQIS KILLED; 124 IRAQIS WOUNDED

At least 70 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 124 more were injured in the latest violence. The deadliest bombing in months bombing occurred in the capital, while two mass graves were found. Also, gunmen killed three American soldiers during an attack in Hawija today.

HOMELAND SECURITY'S SPACE-BASED SPIES

When The Wall Street Journal broke a story last August on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) decision to provide state and local authorities access to information gathered by the U.S. military's fleet of spy satellites, it ignited a minor firestorm in Congress.

U.S. COMMERCIAL BANKRUPTCIES RISE TO RECORD LEVELS

NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) - U.S. commercial bankruptcies soared 46 percent in May from a year ago and many more are expected as the slowing economy chokes consumers and businesses, according to a bankruptcy management firm.

UNUSUAL CLOUDS PRIOR TO CHINA EARTHQUAKE

PERUVIANS TO PROTEST US MILITARY PRESENCE

Social organizations called to a general strike to protest against the presence of US troops in Ayacucho, in central Peru.

PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ WARNS OF US PLAN TO DIVIDE VENEZUELA

“To be united is our best emblem. We must be alert to the attempts made by counterrevolutionary forces to promote division in this country,” pointed out Chavez at a political rally with Socialist Party members in the state of Zulia.

EX-US PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER HAS SAID ISRAEL HAS AT LEAST 150 ATOMIC WEAPONS IN ITS ARSENAL

The Israelis have never confirmed they have nuclear weapons, but this has been widely assumed since a scientist leaked details in the 1980s.

IRAQ DEATH TOLL 'ABOVE HIGHEST ESTIMATES'

A study by doctors from the Johns Hopkins School of Health in conjunction with Iraqi doctors from al-Mustanceriya University in Baghdad, published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006, estimated the number of excess deaths as a result of the occupation at above 655,000.

AS THINGS LOOK, ISRAEL MAY WELL ATTACK IRAN SOON

As a result of misguided American policy, the threat of another military confrontation hangs like a dark cloud over the Middle East.

HAARP CBC BROADCAST WEATHER CONTROL

NEO-CON CONFERENCE PUSHES FOR WAR ON IRAN

Pallaschke branded Iran the “biggest threat in the history of mankind” and as such “to all civilized states.” The next speaker was Charles A. Small, professor of history at Yale University, who argued that Nazism and “radical Islam” had a common ideology. Even Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli politician and longtime Brigadier-General, had alluded to the possibility of a “second Holocaust,” he stressed.

TOP CONGRESSIONAL AIDE GUILTY IN LOBBYING SCANDAL

Another top congressional aide has pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, marking the 13th conviction of a lawmaker, congressional staff member or Bush Administration official associated with the jailed lobbyist.

LOUISIANA JUDGES GUILTY OF TAKING BRIBES

Two Louisiana judges have been convicted by a jury for taking bribes to reduce bonds, recall arrest warrants and remove probation holds on defendants.

'UNTIMELY DEATHS' THAT BENEFITED R. M. SCAIFE, THE CIA, AND THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY

The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.--Henry Adams

CONDOLEEZZA RICE AND IRAN’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Condoleezza and other administration officials will always be able to grab headlines with this sort of alarmist rubbish which the media gleefully report verbatim.

AMERICAN COMPLICITY

The majority of the people in America today have basically said yes to corporate ownership of the government. The majority of Americans seem to have decided to let the corporate media do their thinking for them.

AMERICAN PLANS TO LOOT IRAQI OIL AND OTHER BUSH WAR CRIMES

Though Bush has given every other lie and cover story to justify the US war of aggression against Iraq, the real reasons for the 'war' are now openly admitted.

SOLDIERS DISCUSS USING "DROP WEAPONS" TO COVER UP KILLING INNOCENT IRAQI CIVILIANS

Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using "drop weapons" to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

BABIES EXPOSED TO CHLORINATED WATER AT RISK OF HEART PROBLEMS

Babies born in areas where drinking water is heavily disinfected with chlorine are at double the risk of heart problems, cleft palate or major brain defects, according to a new study.

US ACCUSED OF HOLDING TERROR SUSPECTS ON PRISON SHIPS

The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.

AIR FORCE AIMS FOR 'FULL CONTROL' OF 'ANY AND ALL' COMPUTERS

The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is.

ARMY: SUN, NOT MAN, IS CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE

Dr. Bruce West, with the Army Research Office, argues that "changes in the earth’s average surface temperature are directly linked to ... the short-term statistical fluctuations in the Sun’s irradiance and the longer-term solar cycles."

MCCAIN: I'D SPY ON AMERICANS SECRETLY, TOO

If elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the right to run his own warrantless wiretapping program against Americans, based on the theory that the president's wartime powers trump federal criminal statutes and court oversight, according to a statement released by his campaign Monday.

AND THE WINNER IS ... THE ISRAEL LOBBY

Few books in recent years have been as explosive or controversial as The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, written by Stephen Walt from Harvard University and John Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago, published in 2007. In it, professors Walt and Mearsheimer argued the case of the Israeli lobby not as "a cabal or conspiracy that 'controls' US foreign policy", but as an extremely powerful interest group made up of Jews and non-Jews, a "loose coalition of individuals and organizations tirelessly working to move US foreign policy in Israel's direction".

FORCED VACCINATIONS PART OF DARK EUGENICS AGENDA

Government terrorists are continuing their dark eugenics agenda of enslavement and death.

GPS GADGETS CAN REVEAL MORE THAN YOUR LOCATION

However, Peterson told New Scientist that he has concerns about the privacy implications of a technology that reveals details of where we go and how we travel.

"Displaying the mode of transportation on a map in a GeoLife-like application so that users can compare their movements is innocent enough," he says. "The problem is that there are more sinister applications of this technology."

SPYING TELECOMS RECEIVE BILLIONS IN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

According to Washington Technology magazine, Verizon received $1.3 billion, Sprint $839 million and AT&T $505 million in federal prime contract revenue for fiscal 2007, for a total of $2.6 billion.

IN LOUISIANA, MCCAIN CLAIMS HE VOTED FOR EVERY KATRINA INVESTIGATION -- EXCEPT HE DIDN'T

During his press conference today in Baton Rouge, John McCain declared in strong terms that he's voted for every investigation of Hurricane Katrina.

The only problem, as the DNC has been pointing out to reporters, is he voted twice against Democratic proposals to investigate the levee failures.

JONAH GOLDBERG REWRITES MCCAIN’S CONSISTENTLY WRONG RECORD ON IRAQ

In the Los Angeles Times today, Jonah Goldberg began the right’s extreme makeover of John McCain’s disastrous record on Iraq.

17-YEAR-OLD DEPRESSED GIRL FORCED INTO SLAVERY

By the US military, of course.

MCCAIN’S YOUTUBE PROBLEM JUST BECAME A NIGHTMARE

OBAMA: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DICTATOR AND A LEADER

In the same breath that Obama says he will address the Muslim world he states that he will not talk to Hamas. Does he not realize that Hamas is one of the most important democratically elected governments in the Muslim world? Is he not aware that a Gaza Bombshell was dropped recently revealing that the current escalation in hostilities between Israel and Palestine was a direct result of the United States starting the “bloody civil war in Gaza”?

60 MINUTES LIES AND THE RAY GUN KILLS

The Pentagon has had an operational ‘Ray Gun’ since early in 2003. The Ray Gun was designed to be a lethal weapon. It can kill, injure the person very badly, or just slightly depending on the setting of the mechanisms.

MAN THREATENED WITH ARREST AT HEATHROW FOR WEARING TRANSFORMERS T-SHIRT

Brad Jayakody, 30, from London, said he was stopped from passing through security at Heathrow's Terminal 5 after his Transformers T-shirt was deemed 'offensive.'

MCSAME VOTED WITH GEORGE BUSH 100% IN 2008

According to CQ, Senator John McCain has voted with President Bush 100% of the time in 2008 and 95% of the time in 2007

MCCAIN GIVES AIPAC A BLOWJOB THIS MORNING-PROMISES MORE

Senator John McCain of Arizona used a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby, to lambaste Senator Barack Obama on two fronts

OCTOBER 21, 2001: RADICAL IMAM ABU QATADA CLAIMS BRITISH INTELLIGENCE OFFERED TO HELP HIM ESCAPE AFTER 9/11

Radical al-Qaeda-linked imam Abu Qatada claims to The Observer that shortly after 9/11, the British intelligence agency MI5 offered him a passport, an Iranian visa, and an opportunity to escape to Afghanistan.