DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTE SPEAKER BARACK OBAMA CALLS FOR MISSILE STRIKES ON IRAN

Obama told the Tribune, “[T]he big question is going to be, if Iran is resistant to these pressures, including economic sanctions, which I hope will be imposed if they do not cooperate, at what point are we going to, if any, are we going to take military action?”

OBAMA'S LIST OF DEMONSTRABLE LIES: 40 AND GROWING

click the link for the list -- ZDN

IRS SANCTION DOUBLED BY U.S. TAX COURT

The U.S. Tax Court sided with the fully settled investors. The fraud on the Court of bribing witnesses with lucrative settlements before they testified, failing to advise the U.S. Tax Court of the settlements, and, believe it or not, subsequently attempting to hide the ball institutionally was deemed a structural defect that destroyed confidence in the court system, broke every rule in the book, and embarrassed the IRS and thousands of its dedicated honest workers.

CLINTON DISCLOSURES DIDN’T LIST $24 MILLION OF BILL’S INCOME

Sen. Hillary Clinton excluded nearly $24 million of her husband's earnings from Senate financial statements from 2004 through 2006, capitalizing on rules that permit senators to limit disclosures of some of their spouses' income.

TUESDAY: 1 US SOLDIER, 45 IRAQIS KILLED; 61 IRAQIS WOUNDED

At least 45 Iraqis were killed and 61 more were wounded in the latest violence. One U.S. soldier was killed and another was wounded during an armed attack in Ninewah province. Also, 3,500 U.S. soldiers, who were part of last summer's "surge" will be withdrawn in the coming weeks.

MONDAY: 48 IRAQIS KILLED, 104 WOUNDED

At least 48 Iraqis were killed and 104 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Most of the violence occurred in and around Sadr City. No Coalition deaths were reported.

PENTAGON TARGETED IRAN FOR REGIME CHANGE AFTER 9/11

Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regimes in Iran, Syria, and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in then Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith's recently published account of the Iraq war decisions.

A STRANGLED PEOPLE

It is a strange feeling: after working as a productive professional in Gaza for five years, I have become a black market junkie. I make several phone calls a day hunting for fuel for my car, diesel for the electricity generator waiting on standby to power the house, even cigarettes and vitamins. The only way to get hold of these things, to buy life-saving medicines, to purchase the essentials for a life of basic dignity, is through the black market, if at all.

THE USS COLE BOMBING AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF ISRAELI "BLACK PROPAGANDA" OPERATIONS

USS COLE BOMBING AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF ISRAELI "BLACK PROPAGANDA" OPERATIONS

Many in the Arab and Muslim communities in the United States are inclined to suppose that Israel may be responsible for the terror-bombing of the USS Cole in the Yemen port city of Aden on October 13.

SIXTY YEARS OF PALESTINIAN DISPLACEMENT, OCCUPATION AND SUFFERING

On May 14, Israelis will commemorate the 60th anniversary of their "War of Independence" and founding of the Jewish State. It also marks 60 years of Palestinian Nakba suffering.

MEDIA DISINFORMATION: IRAN'S LINK TO IRAQI INSURGENTS

Michael Gordon, the military writer for The New York Times who contributed several false stories about Iraqi WMD in the runup to the U.S. attack on Iraq in 2002, has written several articles in the past year about Iran’s alleged training of Iraqi insurgents -- or supplying them with weapons to kill Americans. He produced another major report on this subject for today’s Times – based solely on unnamed sources -- which is at odds with an account from McClatchy’s Baghdad bureau.

DEMOCRATS PREPARE SELL-OUT ON TELECOM IMMUNITY

As revelations of the Bush administration's illegal surveillance programs continue to expose the criminal nature of the regime in Washington, new reports suggest that House Democrats are preparing to capitulate to the White House on warrantless wiretapping and amnesty for lawbreaking telecoms.

IRAQI GOVERNMENT DISTANCED ITSELF FROM U.S. ACCUSATIONS TOWARDS IRAN

The Iraqi government seemed to distance itself from U.S. accusations towards Iran Sunday saying it would not be forced into conflict with its Shiite neighbor.

POST-WAR SUICIDES MAY EXCEED COMBAT DEATHS, US SAYS

The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's top psychiatric researcher said.

VETERAN'S DAUGHTER SAID HIS SUICIDE OUTSIDE A VA CLINIC WAS A STATEMENT ABOUT VA BENEFITS

Harriett Chapman's eyes filled with tears Sunday as she recalled one of the last conversations she had with her 89-year-old father before he fatally shot himself outside a Greenville veterans' clinic last month.

ANOTHER OUTRAGE AS VA OFFICIAL SAYS SUICIDES OCCUR 'JUST LIKE CANCER OCCURS'

Suicides among veterans of wars overseas occur "just like cancer occurs," and are not an indication of negligence by Veterans Affairs Department mental health care providers, a top VA official has argued in a lawsuit filed by two veterans groups.

IRAQ: NO EVIDENCE IRAN IS ARMING SHIITES

Baghdad - A top Iraqi official said Sunday there was no "conclusive" evidence that Shiite extremists have been directly supplied with some Iranian arms as alleged by the United States.

CELL PHONE SPYING: IS YOUR LIFE BEING MONITORED?

It connects you to the world, but your cell phone could also be giving anyone from your boss to your wife a window into your every move.

BERNANKE URGES MORE ACTION TO STEM HOME FORECLOSURE CRISIS

A rising tide of late mortgage payments and home foreclosures poses considerable dangers to the national economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned anew as he urged Congress to take additional steps to alleviate the problems.

CCTV BOOM HAS NOT CUT CRIME, SAYS POLICE CHIEF

Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer piloting a new database.

REPORT ON NASA IGNITES CALL FOR CREDIT CARD CRACKDOWN

Congressional supporters of a bill meant to curb government credit card abuse called Monday for stricter sanctions — including termination and jail time — against employees who misuse the cards at NASA, as well as other agencies.

EPA MIGHT NOT ACT TO LIMIT ROCKET FUEL IN DRINKING WATER

An EPA official said Tuesday there's a "distinct possibility" the agency won't take action to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has contaminated public water supplies around the country.

WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW: HOW TO STOP THE BANKS FROM TAKING YOUR HOME

Politically and economically the United States of America functions as a corporation. This means that all parties wishing to do business in this democracy must follow the established rules and regulations. In essence, all the t’s must be crossed and all the i’s must be dotted. Fortunately for some, in their mad rush to sign as many people as possible to predatory mortgages, many banks forgot to do exactly that – they forgot to keep proper records.

AMERICANS ‘STOLE MY LIFE FROM ME’

Amer Samara’ae hates Americans. Not some Americans, not American soldiers, not American mercenaries, not the US president. He hates all Americans, something he learned to do during a year inside their Iraq prisons.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

The Times asked nine “experts” on military affairs to each write a short blurb on the “significant challenges facing the American and Iraqi leadership today and to propose one specific step to help overcome that challenge.”

Of the nine:

Three currently hold positions with the deliriously hawkish American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Seven supported and/or participated in the war from its infancy.

Four currently support the U.S. occupation of Iraq without any mention of a troop reduction.

MSNBC FINDS PENGUINS AT NORTH POLE... BUT PENGUINS DON'T LIVE AT NORTH POLE

if these people can't even get a simple fact like that correct, how can we believe them that global warming is destroying the world? If they don't even know where the penguin lives, how can we believe their "science" that states the world is doomed with global warming?

NEW DATA ON SEA ICE CONTRADICTS MEDIA CLIMATE CHANGE REPORTING

If the Earth has a fever, as former Vice President Al Gore suggests, it's not showing signs of it.

PENTAGON'S PROPAGANDA DOCUMENTS GO ONLINE, BUT WILL THE TV NETWORKS EVER REPORT THIS SCANDAL?

The Pentagon program, which clearly violated US law against covert government propaganda, embedded more than 75 retired military officers -- most of them with financial ties to war contractors -- into the TV networks as "message surrogates" for the Bush Administration. To date every major commercial TV network has failed to report this story, covering up their complicity and keeping the existence of this scandal from their audiences.

JOHN MCCAIN BACK PEDALS FROM HIS “IRAQ WAS ABOUT OIL” COMMENT, BUT MAKES LITTLE SENSE

Whodathunk a Republican cheerleader for “liberating” Iraq from Saddam Hussein would admit that it has always been all about the oil? Whoops! Honesty is clearly NOT a Republican value, because McSame had to backtrack and claim that he didn’t mean this Gulf War.

HOMELAND SECURITY SCHOOL PROGRAMS CHURNING OUT THE NEXT GENERATION OF JACK BAUERS

The first high school dedicated to preparing students for the front lines in the Nation's homeland security has gone from theory to planning in Wilmington.

HOW I SPENT MY STIMULUS CHECK

"I bought 41 copies of The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul," says one respondent. "We need a man with sound monetary policies in office to prevent things such as this stimulus check from happening again."

OBAMA OUT OF GAS?

If Obama loses North Carolina tomorrow--and becomes likely to be the next Resident of the United States--blame his elitist's opposition to gas tax relief.

The Obama's are millionaires who made $900,000 in 2006 so they do not feel your pain at the pump.

STUDENTS, NUNS, DENIED RIGHT TO VOTE IN INDIANA TODAY

The Supreme Court's recent, outrageous approval of Indiana's restrictive and disenfranchising Photo ID law --- better described as their Voter Suppression Act, despite Scalia's claim that "the burden at issue is minimal," to him, anyway --- is already "working" to disenfranchise legal voters, denying them of their right to cast a ballot like everyone else.

INTERNET CENSORSHIP

Sixty years of brain washing and information control have pretty much sapped Americans of the desire to stand up and be heard. Almost as important, they have lost the ability to be heard to communicate.

JACK CARTER: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT MINOT AFB

The event was no accident. Below we present detailed testimony from Jack Carter,

who has considerable experience handling nuclear weapons at the base.

FORMER LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, POLICE OFFICER SENTENCED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Former Long Beach police

officer Joseph Ferguson was sentenced today in federal court in Los

Angeles, Calif., for his role in a series of home invasion robberies over a

two-year period, the Justice Department announced today.

IS THE EARTH GETTING WARMER, OR COOLER?

A paper published in scientific journal Nature this week has reignited the debate about Global Warming, by predicting that the earth won't be getting any warmer until 2015. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences have factored in cyclical oceanic into their climate model, and produced a different forecast to the "consensus" models which don't.