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February 28, 2008
Bush, Congress Wrangle Over Domestic Spying
Former senior intelligence officials are disputing claims by the George W. Bush administration that the failure of Congress to pass a new foreign surveillance law is jeopardising the country’s national security
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/28/7339/
Posted by Admin at 05:36 PM
Iran to sign gas deal with China on Wednesday
Iran will finally sign a contract with China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) this week to develop its northern Pars gas field, a news agency reported on Tuesday.
The Oil Ministry's news website SHANA said the contract will be signed on Wednesday and was believed to be worth about $16 billion without giving further details.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7337304
Posted by Admin at 05:31 AM
US Dollar Index breaks below support level
Advice: Short the dollar. Stay long the Euro.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2007/04/us_dollar_index.html
Posted by doctormatt at 05:19 AM
9/11 Aircraft 'Black Box' Serial Numbers Mysteriously Absent
Of all major U.S. airline crashes within the U.S. investigated and published by the National Transportation Safety Board during the past 20 years, the 9/11 'black boxes' are virtually the only ones without listed serial numbers.
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Posted by Admin at 05:13 AM
February 25, 2008
Alternative News Information Portal
http://www.informationliberation.com/portal.php
Posted by doctormatt at 08:41 PM
February 24, 2008
McConnell/Mukasey: Eavesdropping Outside of FISA Is ‘Illegal’
The White House yesterday escalated its most brazen, Orwellian campaign of the last eight years — shrilly accusing House Democrats of jeopardizing the nation’s security by allowing the Protect America Act to expire even though it’s the President and House Republicans who blocked any extensions of that law.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/23/7243/
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Posted by Admin at 09:56 PM | Comments (0)
When Change Is Not Enough: Seven Steps to Revolution
By Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future
http://www.alternet.org/story/77498/
Posted by Admin at 06:21 AM | Comments (0)
February 20, 2008
Chalenging 9/11 - Interview with Jarek Kupsc, Director of The Reflecting Pool
New feature film “The Reflecting Pool” may just be the “All the President’s Men” of our time. No, it doesn’t have Hoffman and Redford. But it is a chilling and important fact-based investigative drama.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/life_a_jim_ciri_080219_challenging_the_unch.htm
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Posted by Admin at 08:20 PM | Comments (0)
February 19, 2008
US Supreme Court Throws Out Wire-Tapping Case
What a joke. The judiciary rubber stamps executive power regarding illegal surveillance.
You can't win a case unless you can prove you were under surveillance.
However, if you try to introduce evidence (provided by the government) that you WERE under surveillance, that evidence is ruled inadmissible.
Incredible.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/19/7158/
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Posted by doctormatt at 06:09 PM
February 18, 2008
Video - Heart of the Beholder
5 time winner of best feature film, but too controversial for distribution.
Find out why.
http://www.beholder.com/webtheater/index.aspx
Posted by doctormatt at 09:52 PM
Video - What is the Federal Reserve System ?
Posted by doctormatt at 05:46 PM
More 9/11 Inside Job Evidence
Latest addition to Cooperative Research Timeline:
New evidence suggests that some of the hijackers were assisted by employees of the Saudi government.
Evidence suggests hijackers were actually trained by a CIA asset.
It is unclear why they would have kept the receipts, some mentioning their names, for over a year and then left them at a mosque to be found. After 9/11, a former high-level intelligence official told journalist Seymour Hersh that “Whatever trail was left [by the hijackers] was left deliberately—for the FBI to chase.”
When hijacker Satam Al Suqami’s passport was recovered on 9/11 on the street near the World Trade Center, it was “soaked in jet fuel.”
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/news.jsp?oid=140393703-423
Posted by Admin at 05:22 PM | Comments (0)
February 17, 2008
The fall of the dollar empire
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43253§ionid=3510302
Posted by Admin at 08:31 PM
Senators Corker and Alexander try to subvert Rule of Law.
The Rule of Law is what distinguishes our government from
tyrannical dictatorships and monarchies. Actions that undermine
this principal erode the foundation of our great republic. The
recent votes of Senators Corker and Alexander should be viewed
in this context.
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Posted by doctormatt at 10:36 AM | Comments (0)
Book review - The science of well being
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/feliciahuppertcolumn1.htm/
Posted by Admin at 07:35 AM
Bush lies about FISA - Protect America Act
In his weekly radio address, President Bush not only blames Congress for expiration of the Protect America Act, he says that his government will have a harder time keeping you safe.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/16/bush-paa-deadline/
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Posted by Admin at 07:17 AM | Comments (0)
The Year in Earmarks
Thanks to Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Review article from TPM:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/the_year_in_earmarks.php
Link to database:
http://www.taxpayer.net/budget/fy08earmarks/fy08databasemain.html
Posted by Admin at 07:09 AM
Video - FISA satire cartoon - The Spies Who Love You
Great flash video courtesy of Mark Fiore:
http://www.markfiore.com/spies_who_love_you_0
Posted by Admin at 06:16 AM
Film Review - The Reflecting Pool
The Reflecting Pool may just be the All the President's Men of our time. This gripping, chilling, fact-based thriller stars writer/director Jarek Kupsc (Slumberland) as Alex Prokop, a successful, hard-hitting Russian-American journalist. As a last gasp before corporate takeover, his editor (Lisa Black) hands Prokop a bombshell assignment -- investigate the official version of 9-11.
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Posted by Admin at 06:08 AM
February 16, 2008
Video - Stephen Colbert White House press association dinner speech (flashback)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879
Posted by doctormatt at 09:39 PM
February 15, 2008
Science of the orgasm
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-orgasm11feb11,0,7227478.story
Posted by Admin at 03:34 PM
Video - Olbermann on FISA
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on today’s Countdown was a scathing rebuke of President Bush for continuing to play the fear card, trying to scare the hell out of the American people and vowing to veto any FISA legislation that does not contain telecom amnesty.
You are a liar, Mr. Bush, and after showing some skill at it, you have ceased to even be a very good liar.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/77138/
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Posted by Admin at 12:54 PM | Comments (0)
February 14, 2008
Mythbusting Canadian Health Care
In the universal health care debate, Canada is once again getting dragged into the fracas, shoved around by both sides as either an exemplar or a warning — and, along the way, getting coated with the obfuscating dust of so many willful misconceptions that the actual facts about How Canada Does It are completely obscured in the melee. As a health-care-card-carrying Canadian resident and an uninsured American citizen who regularly sees doctors on both sides of the border, I'm in a unique position to address the pros and cons of both systems first-hand.
Part 1:
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/mythbusting-canadian-health-care-part-i
Posted by Admin at 08:37 PM
The National Lawyers Guild Condemns Senate Grant of Immunity to Lawbreaking Telecommunications Companies
NEW YORK - February 14 - Responding to fear-mongering by the Bush administration, the Senate voted on February 12 to give retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies that have turned over our telephone and Internet communications to the government. These companies have violated several laws, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Title III, the Communications Act, and the Stored Communications Act, as well as the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution.
Posted by Admin at 08:27 PM
Crude oil projected to be $120 a barrel by June
Waggoner of Excel Futures Sees Crude Oil at $120 By June
(Source: Bloomberg)
Posted by doctormatt at 04:44 AM
Some of the outrageous lies about 9/11
It is hard to pick a place to start in terms of talking about the most outrageous lies that the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission have presented to the people in this country as a reason to attack Afghanistan and Iraq and to launch a “fake war on terror”.
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Posted by Admin at 04:30 AM | Comments (0)
Iranian Oil Bourse to open Sunday
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=163221
Posted by Admin at 04:29 AM
February 13, 2008
Smoking Mirrors blog
Opinionated blogger - some good rants at:
http://smokingmirrors.blogspot.com/
Posted by doctormatt at 01:04 PM
Telecom retroactive immunity granted
Both Senator Alexander and Senator Corker voted YES on S 2248, granting the Telecommunications companies RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY and undercutting any lawsuit that would have allowed a court to determine whether the actions of these companies violated the law.
Did they hear from you?
Capitol switchboard:
(202) 224-3121
The Senate yesterday — led by Jay Rockefeller, enabled by Harry Reid, and with the active support of at least 12 (and probably more) Democrats, in conjunction with an as-always lockstep GOP caucus — voted to legalize warrantless spying on the telephone calls and emails of Americans, and also provided full retroactive amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, thus forever putting an end to any efforts to investigate and obtain a judicial ruling regarding the Bush administration’s years-long illegal spying programs aimed at Americans.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/12/7004/print/
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Posted by Admin at 12:20 PM | Comments (0)
Political reasons for Conyers to start impeachment hearings of Cheney
http://www.democrats.com/conyers-start-impeachment-hearings
Posted by doctormatt at 12:08 AM
February 12, 2008
U.S. is bankrupt
The government is fiscally bankrupt. If you look at the government’s financial statements published a couple of weeks ago prepared using the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles as though the government were a corporation, we’re still seeing an annual deficit there on a GAAP basis of something over $4 trillion when you take out some of the gimmicks they still have in the statements. That’s $4 trillion! That’s not the 168 billion that they were talking about officially as the deficit for the last year, but an actual shortfall of four trillion, including the change in the unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare adjusted for the time value of money. And the significance of that magnitude is that the system is out of control. If the federal government wanted to bring the deficit under control to actually show a surplus, or just a balance, if it raised taxes to take 100% of everyone’s income and corporate profits, it would still be in deficit. It’s beyond containment.
M3 money supply exploding:
http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/williams_j/2008/0114.html
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Posted by Admin at 11:40 PM | Comments (0)
The Coming Great Depression
Transcripts, courtesy of the Financial Sense NewsHour
http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/BP/2008/0119.html
http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/BP/2008/0126.html
http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/BP/2008/0202.html
Posted by Admin at 11:24 PM
Video - Torture Talk - Daily Show
Great summary by Jon Stewart - Thanks to Comedy Central
Posted by Admin at 09:54 PM
February 11, 2008
Thane Heins - Bedini Motor
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Perepiteia_Generator_by_Potential_Difference_Inc
Posted by doctormatt at 10:19 PM | Comments (0)
Bedini motor to be examined at MIT
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/300042#t
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Posted by Admin at 09:57 PM | Comments (0)
Iranian Oil Bourse - Commentary
A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states. The history of empires, from Greek and Roman, to Ottoman and British, teaches that the economic foundation of every single empire is the taxation of other nations.
For the first time in history, in the twentieth century, America was able to tax the world indirectly, through inflation.
http://www.energybulletin.net/12125.html
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Posted by Admin at 09:24 PM | Comments (0)
February 10, 2008
Obama vs. Clinton - Domestic issues
Courtesy of Democracy Now -
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/8/examining_clinton_obamas_stances_on_the
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Posted by Admin at 02:24 AM | Comments (0)
G.W. Bush Is a Criminal, Like His Dad
Watching Attorney General Michael Mukasey evade the obvious fact that waterboarding is torture – and the reluctance of Democrats to press him – I was reminded of how the first President Bush got away with an earlier batch of national security crimes.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2008/013108.html
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Posted by Admin at 02:20 AM | Comments (0)
Iranian Oil Bourse set to open - Fasten your seat belts
If tiny bubbles floating up from the ocean floor could tell tales, we might learn a thing or two on the surface. On the heels of Iran announcing the grand opening of its new "Oil Bourse," not many US financial institutions are cutting colorful ribbons or breaking Champaign bottles in celebration over this announcement. In fact, Wall Street is painfully developing acid reflex because this could very well be the beginning of the end for monopolizing "Texas Tea" exclusively being sold using only American dollars. In truth, this could very well plummet the American dollar deeper into the abyss of nothingness. Having said that, strange things are surreptitiously happening on the ocean floor with scant reporting in the US corporate mainstream news media...sneaky little devils.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_vincent__080209_could_iran_s_new__22oi.htm
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Posted by Admin at 02:03 AM | Comments (0)
Video - Iraq war costs $720M per day. How would you rather spend it?
Posted by doctormatt at 01:55 AM
‘Creative Destruction’ – The Madness of the Global Economy
The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism has been the refusal to analyse this; or even to report that real growth rates in the developed world have been declining since the 1970s. Instead, corporate-employed journalists and mainstream analysts frequently extol the alleged spectacular achievements of an ‘unparalleled’ rise in wealth.
Posted by Admin at 01:46 AM | Comments (0)
A History of Money and Banking Secrets That Banks Dont Want Published
A History of Money, Trade and Gold
What is the Federal Reserve?
To start with a history of money and debt, we must go back many years ago when people used to trade their wares for the things they wanted and needed.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/01/22/p22703
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Posted by Admin at 01:32 AM | Comments (0)
Ending a Culture of Impunity for Contract Soldiers
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002153
Posted by Admin at 01:26 AM
Another White House cover up - Destruction of evidence - the torture videotapes
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002165
Posted by Admin at 01:03 AM
The Emails that Dick Cheney Deleted
Late last month, right after official White House spokesmen made a series of either evasive or completely false statements about the mysterious case of the vanishing, then reappearing, then perhaps no really vanished White House emails, Henry Waxman and his Oversight Committee announced some of the conclusions they had reached.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002219
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Posted by Admin at 12:49 AM | Comments (0)
InfraGuard - FBI extends "Shoot to kill" permission in time of martial law
"...they said when—not if—martial law is declared, it was our responsibility to protect our portion of the infrastructure, and if we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn’t be prosecuted."
Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business
http://www.infragard.net/membership/index.htm
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Posted by Admin at 12:16 AM | Comments (0)
February 08, 2008
President Bush Requests $1.255 Billion for EERE in FY 2009
President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal year 2008 is green in at least one sense: it was the first federal budget proposal to be transmitted to Congress electronically, saving 20 tons of paper.
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Posted by Admin at 12:15 PM
No Debate - by Ralph Nader
It was billed as the great debate that, in the words of moderator Wolf Blitzer, “could change the course of this presidential race and the nation.”
Situated at the packed historic Kodak Theatre-site of the Hollywood Oscar awards, thousands of people, including anti-war protestors, were outside, where tickets were being scalped for $1,000.
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Posted by Admin at 11:58 AM | Comments (0)
175+ Businesses, Organizations, Activists Urge Members of Congress to Join House Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Caucus
WASHINGTON, DC - February 7 - In a letter sent today, 176 businesses, organizations, and individual activists called upon Members of Congress who have not yet joined the House Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RE/EE) Caucus to do so.
Posted by doctormatt at 11:53 AM | Comments (0)
February 06, 2008
Video - Bush admits his plan to attack Iran
Posted by Admin at 12:26 AM | Comments (0)
The latest NIST report on WTC buildings - still a cover up.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
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Posted by Admin at 12:21 AM | Comments (0)
February 05, 2008
Willie Nelson claims 9/11 buildings seemed to be controlled demolition
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4244526
Posted by Admin at 11:49 PM | Comments (0)
The true purpose of Impeachment
The Earl of Strafford’s case provides a perfect example. His conduct subverted the constitutional prerogatives of parliament in the name of the king. This was the paradigm case for impeachment. And it was recognized by the earliest American commentators, such as Justice Story, who said that impeachment “is not so much designed to punish as to secure the state against gross official misdemeanors.” It is prophylactic, designed to remove an unfit officer from office, rather than punitive. But most important, it is designed to protect the constitutional order from efforts to transform it
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/05/impeachment-i-give-you-the-earl-of-strafford/
Posted by Admin at 11:20 PM | Comments (0)
Video - Interview with Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3804965125682932994
Video Interview with Cynthia McKinney and Ray McGovern:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3879081646629715887
Posted by Admin at 05:02 PM | Comments (0)