RON PAUL STUMPS IN SAN DIEGO

His first event: a mid-morning brunch in the Presidential Ballroom at the U.S. Grant Hotel. It drew an audience of 150 admirers who paid $200 a plate -- and $20 more for an autographed copy of his book "The Revolution, a Manifesto," which quickly climbed to No. 1 on Amazon and now sits on the New York Times' best-seller list.

THE SWISS CIA - NUKE CONNECTION

It is no coincidence that FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds uncovered nuclear material and narcotics trafficking involving Turkish intermediaries with ties to Israel at the same time Brewster Jennings and the CIA's Counter Proliferation Division was hot on the trail of nuclear proliferators tied to the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon and the A. Q. Khan network of Pakistan.

DO YOU FEEL A DRAFT?

Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, asked Gates and Mullen the question he said no one wants to ask: "Is the cost of maintaining an all-volunteer force becoming unsustainable and, secondly, do we need to consider reinstituting the draft."

HILLARY CLINTON'S COLOSSAL BLUNDER

We have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind?

JUDGE GRANTS ONE-YEAR STAY ON RELEASING HILLARY’S FIRST LADY PHONE RECORDS

Judical Watch - A federal court judge issued a May 20 ruling that granted a stay to the National Archives and Records Administration, which will allow the agency to withhold Hillary Rodham Clinton’s White House telephone log books from the American people for at least one year.

DOCUMENTED LIE # 44: OBAMA CLAIMS HE IS USING PUBLIC FINANCING TO AVOID SPECIAL INTERESTS: WSJ NAILS HIS SWITCHEROO

Industry PACs may not give directly to his campaign, but employees of industries may do so, and many of his contributors have come from executives and their spouses. For example, Mr. Obama leads all candidates in donations from the pharmaceutical industry and commercial banks, among other industries. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks fundraising in elections, Mr. Obama has received $528,765 from people in the pharmaceutical industry and $1,380,108 from commercial banks. He comes in second to Mrs. Clinton in donations from lawyers with $13,690,170, just over a million shy of her total.

THE CIA IS MORE ACTIVE THAN EVER IN VENEZUELA

There are distinct factors that I have been able to detect and expose through an investigation that I began more than five years ago, utilizing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to demonstrate the involvement of the CIA and other U.S. government agencies in the coup against Chávez.

UNMARKED SURVEILLANCE CHOPPER PATROLS NEW YORK

The helicopter’s unmarked paint job belies what’s inside: an arsenal of sophisticated surveillance and tracking equipment powerful enough to read license plates — or scan pedestrians’ faces — from high above the nation’s largest metropolis.

HOW EMPIRES FALL

In truth, American power is already broken, and the country is already lost. The country is lost, because the brownshirt Bush Regime has destroyed the US Constitution with the complicity of the opposition party and the federal courts. There is no organized power that can restore the Constitution or even much concern that it has been overthrown.

FINGERPRINT REGISTRY IN HOUSING BILL

Recently, “Server in the Sky” — a proposed international database of the fingerprints of suspected criminals and terrorists to be shared among the U.S., U.K. and Canada — has ignited a firestorm of controversy. As have cavalier comments by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that fingerprints aren’t “personal data.”

GEORGE W BUSH AUTHORIZED 911 ATTACKS SAYS GOVERNMENT INSIDER

Our case is alleging that Bush and his puppets Rice and Cheney and Mueller and Rumsfeld and so forth, Tenet, were all involved not only in aiding and abetting and allowing 9/11 to happen but in actually ordering it to happen. Bush personally ordered it to happen. We have some very incriminating documents as well as eye-witnesses, that Bush personally ordered this event to happen in order to gain political advantage, to pursue a bogus political agenda on behalf of the neocons and their deluded thinking in the Middle East. I also wanted to point out that, just quickly, I went to school with some of these neocons. At the University of Chicago, in the late 60s with Wolfowitz and Feith and several of the others and so I know these people personally. And we used to talk about this stuff all of the time. And I did my senior thesis on this very subject - how to turn the U.S. into a presidential dictatorship by manufacturing a bogus Pearl Harbor event. So, technically this has been in the planning at least 35 years.

CIA PROTECTS AL-QAEDA GROUP FROM EXTRADITION

As the London Telegraph reported last year, "The CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan."

HEART EXPERTS WARN TASERS DEADLY

Tasers can cause fatal cardiac arrest and are even more dangerous if the subject is agitated, stressed and experiencing pain from the high-voltage device, two top Vancouver heart specialists said Tuesday.

PENTAGON CAN’T ACCOUNT FOR $15 BILLION

The inspector general for the Defense Department said yesterday that the Pentagon cannot account for almost $15 billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were bought from contractors in the Iraq reconstruction effort.

DNC/SD’S REFUSE TO DISCLOSE OBAMA/SINCLAIR DRUG & SEX ENCOUNTERS

The Super Delgates are aware of Barack Obama’s drug use and sexual relations with me, as well as the relationship with Barack Obama and Donald Young, yet this is the typical response received when the American voter asked the DNC and its Super Delegates to deal with the truth.

OPEN BORDERS PROVE "WAR ON TERROR" IS SUPERFICIAL

Of course, everyone now knows that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the attacks on September 11, 2001. I am sure that most everyone also remembers that the vast majority of the terrorists who participated in those attacks were from Saudi Arabia, not Iraq. Yet, Saudi leaders continue to enjoy the coziest of relationships--and, dare I say, friendships--with President George W. Bush.

FRIDAY: 2 US SOLDIERS, 19 IRAQIS KILLED; 11 IRAQIS WOUNDED

At least 19 Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded on a quiet prayer day. Sadrist officials reported that Iraqi security forces stopped Friday prayer services in Baghdad and Basra. An American soldier was killed south of Baghdad in an IED attack yesterday. Also, another American soldier was killed while on leave in the United States.

THURSDAY: 27 IRAQIS KILLED, 5 WOUNDED

At least 27 Iraqis were killed and five were wounded during the latest attacks. Among the deadly inicidents, was a U.S. air strike on a group of frightened shepherds in Baiji, and the deaths of two journalists. Meanwhile, an incident in which a U.S. soldier used a Quran for target practice has left casualties in Afghanistan.

WHERE ARE THOSE IRANIAN WEAPONS IN IRAQ?

The US military command in Iraq continues to talk about an alleged pipeline of Iranian weapons to Iraqi Shiites opposing the US occupation, implying that they have become dependent on Iran for indirect-fire weapons and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).

But US officials have failed thus far to provide evidence that would support that claim, and a long-delayed US military report on Iranian arms is unlikely to offer any data on what proportion of the weapons in the hands of Shiite fighters are from Iran and what proportion comes from purchases on the open market.

BUSH AND MCCAIN'S IRAN INSANITY

President George Bush and his tag-along buddy John McCain are repeating almost word for word about Iran the pattern of lies and threats they used to justify the war against Iraq.

THE CURE FOR RON PAUL'S ISSUES: A PROFOUND PLAN FOR FREEDOM

Ron Paul says "NO!" -- These are not matters of public policy, they are VIOLATIONS of the Constitution.

Here they are:

* The Federal Reserve
* The invasion of Iraq
* The USA Patriot Act
* Undocumented, illegal immigrants
* The North American Union
* Gun control
* The federal Income Tax, as enforced by the IRS

KICKING THE DRAGON

If you think there’s no such thing as a political prisoner in the United States, think again. Larken Rose spent a year in prison, not for hurting anyone, not for lying about anything, not for hiding anything, not for cheating or stealing, but simply for voicing an opinion which those in positions of power didn’t approve of.

AIN'T MY AMERICA

The Bill Clintons, Dick Cheneys, Paul Wolfowitzs, and conservative pundits and activists who fill the Neocon Greek Chorus never don a uniform. A few, like George W. Bush, carefully choose the right uniform to avoid actually ending up in combat. But all chirp their thanks for the sacrifices of those who do join and fight. Some, like President Bush, even prattle on wistfully about how they wish they could join today's romantic struggles.

AS BUSH POLICY CRUMBLES, ALLIES PICK UP THE PIECES

As the White House agenda for the Middle East continues to unravel, events over the past 24 hours seem to suggest that US allies in the region are determined to construct a new edifice based on diplomacy, with or without Washington's help.

ZIONISM'S BOSOM BUDDY

In his speech before the Israeli Knesset last week, President George W Bush proved once again that he is a Zionist par excellence. Indeed, the depth of his embrace of Zionism and the totality of his support for Israel surprised even his Israeli hosts.

THE WORLD MUST DIE SO THAT ISRAEL CAN BE SAVED

Bush has failed to fulfill his divine mission, to secure the safety of Israel for all time. For a true believer in Christian-Zionism, it must be gnawing at his soul like some giant rat hollowing-out his insides.

60 YEARS OF DENIAL

Israel

To justify its own existence, Israel has long subjugated its citizens to a kind of collective amnesia. Do Israelis realise they live on the rubble of hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns, each destroyed during a most tragic history of blood, pain and tears, resulting in an ethnic cleansing of nearly 800,000 Palestinians?

BUSH POWER GRAB SINCE 911

President Bush’s usurpation of power since 9/11 was termed “rapacious,” “predatory,” and “extra-Constitutional,” by presidential scholar Michael Genovese, director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

REPORT: U.S. WILL ATTACK IRAN

Israel’s Army Radio is reporting that President Bush intends to launch a military strike against Iran before the end of his term.

MORE ON THE REAL REASON BEHIND HIGH OIL PRICES

In the US, stockpiles of oil climbed by almost 12 million barrels in April according to the May 7 EIA monthly report on inventory, up by nearly 33 million barrels since January. At the same time, MasterCard's May 7 US gasoline report showed that gas demand has fallen by 5.8%. And refiners are reducing their refining rates dramatically to adjust to the falling gasoline demand. They are now running at 85% of capacity, down from 89% a year ago, in a season when production is normally 95%. The refiners today are clearly trying to draw down gasoline inventories to bid gasoline prices up.

31,000 SIGNATURES PROVE ‘NO CONSENSUS’ ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

Presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday that “we have to get used to the idea that we can’t keep our houses at 72, drive our SUVs and eat all we want.” Arthur B. Robinson, president and professor of chemistry at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, has a different response.

VETERANS PEACE GROUP BLOCKED FROM PARADE

A veterans group that opposes the war in Iraq has been blocked from marching in a Memorial Day parade in Washington after being told its plans, which once included a casket representing war dead, would be too political for the event.

TWO ARRESTED AFTER ORR HIGH SCHOOL PROTEST

According to ORR High School Principal Sheila Haskins, one of the students read a passage from something they apparently were studying in an English or history class. Exactly what they read wasn’t clear, but Ms. Haskins said it might have been excerpts from a Fidel Castro speech. That was reflected in police reports.

However, some students said it was a passage from George Orwell’s novel, “1984.”

USA MILITARY OFFICERS CHALLENGE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF SEPTEMBER 11

They are among the rapidly growing number of military and intelligence service veterans, scientists, engineers, and architects challenging the government’s story.

PNAC THINK TANK WEB SITE SHUT DOWN

In 2000, the think tank released a 90 page document entitled Rebuilding America’s Defenses. In the document, the think tank actually advocates a catastrophic and catalyzing Pearl Harbor event in order to seek faster global transformation using U.S. military might. In addition, one of the core missions outlined in the report is “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars.” What luck for the neoconservatives that a catastrophic and catalyzing event occurred on September 11th, 2001 that made one of their core missions in their report become a reality.

WASHINGTON STATE RESIDENTS THE MOST RECENT VICTIMS OF HOMELAND SECURITY AGRESSION

Border Patrol Agents have established suspicionless checkpoints at domestic Ferry terminals servicing the residents of the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington. The islands are part of Washington State and island inhabitants are Washington State residents.

CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

Our First Amendment has been locked up in a chain-link Free Speech Zone.

The Fourth Amendment is under warrantless surveillance and scared for its life.

The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments have been detained without charge.

And the Eighth Amendment is presently undergoing waterboarding.

CANADIAN SUPREME COURT RULES GUANTÁNAMO DETENTION AND PROSECUTION OF PRISONER VIOLATED U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

WASHINGTON, DC - May 23 - The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled today that Canadian officials violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – analogous to the U.S. Bill of Rights – by turning over interrogation records of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr to the United States.

AUTOMATIC NUMBER PLATE RECOGNITION TO CAPTURE ALL CARS ENTERING MANCHESTER

Each day, 600,000 motorists' journeys are being captured, and the data will be stored for five years.

SISTANI ISSUES FATWA AGAINST US TROOPS

I truly believe that we have not even come close to seeing the devastation that awaits us due to the US lead Anglo-Saxon invasion of Iraq.

SOME RECENT ECONOMIC NEWS AND VIEWS

Numbers Racket: Why the economy is worse than we know

SURVIVING THE COMING INFLATIONARY DEBACLE

Government ignores own antitrust laws, gold going to intergalactic space soon, lust for power will destroy elites, the power of monetary and energy trump cards, costs that drive inflation, neocons controlling the media

CHEMICAL DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA

Why is America so brainwashed by the corporate media? Why do we care more about American Idol and sports games than being poisoned with mercury in our vaccinations and sodium fluoride in our water supply?

SIBEL EDMONDS VS. THE NUCLEAR TERRORISTS

Sibel Edmonds is a national security whistleblower and senior Senators Charles Grassley and Patrick Leahy, and Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine called her a credible witness- much of her testimony was corroborated by others at the FBI. She was hired by the FBI September 21, 2001 as a contract translator, and fired March 26, 2002 after pressing allegations of corruption, espionage and coverup in the FBI’s Translation Unit. Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed “state secrets” privilege in her case and even classified her date of birth. According to the American Civil Liberties Union she’s the most gagged person in US history. Recently, she broke her gag orders; January 2008 the Sunday Times of London published her claims that still-classified FBI investigations uncovered State Department, Congressional and Pentagon officials trafficking in nuclear secrets, obstructing investigations into 9/11 and more.

THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT: A 571 PAGE LIE

In making this statement, one of my points has been that the entire Report is constructed in support of one big lie: that the official story about 9/11 is true.

MAY 3, 2008: DEMOLITION OF WTC BUILDING 7 SUGGESTS OFFICIAL COMPLICITY, SAYS ARIZONA STATE SENATOR

Arizona state senator Karen S. Johnson, a Republican, says she suspects a government conspiracy and calls for a new investigation into 9/11. Calling attention to the unexplained collapse of WTC Building 7, she writes: “Why, for example, did Building 7 collapse? It wasn’t hit by a plane, as the towers were. The 9/11 Commission Report completely ignores Building 7.