Jun 11th, 2008
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Canada formally apologizes to Indians
Kucinich effort to impeach Bush kicked into limbo
Pakistan condemns airstrike that killed 11 troops in border clash
Ex-White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan Speaks Out on the Bush Admin Lies and Media Allies that Led the US to War
The former White House press secretary joins us for the hour on the heels of his explosive new book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.McClellan says former White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis “Scooter” Libby lied to him about their role in the CIA leak case, criticizes the corporate media for acting as “complicit enablers” in what he calls the Bush administration’s deliberate manipulation of the public -Democracy Now
Food Policies Leave People Hungry
7 People arrested FOR CHEERING: Welcome to Amerika
Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction
Why worry about credit derivatives? One reason is that the “notional value” of the most important credit derivatives, credit default swaps, or CDS, is now $62 trillion.That’s trillion, with a “‘T,” and it is more than the whole world’s gross domestic product. Numbers that big automatically make people nervous, especially when they see the canniest investors like Warren Buffet taking losses -Charles R. Morris/Washington Independent
How HUD Mortgage Policy Fed The Crisis
In 2004, as regulators warned that subprime lenders were saddling borrowers with mortgages they could not afford, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development helped fuel more of that risky lending.Eager to put more low-income and minority families into their own homes, the agency required that two government-chartered mortgage finance firms purchase far more “affordable” loans made to these borrowers. HUD stuck with an outdated policy that allowed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to count billions of dollars they invested in subprime loans as a public good that would foster affordable housing -Washington Post
Bernanke aggravates trade deficit risks
The growing United States deficit on trade in goods and services, rising to US$60.9 billion in April from $56.5 billion in March, heightens the risk of recession and surging unemployment.The recent comments by Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke about oil-driven inflation only serve to distract attention from these issues and aggravate risks.The deficit, announced on Tuesday by the US Commerce Department and substantially larger than the $59.5 billion consensus forecast, was driven up by higher prices for imported oil and a dramatic surge in imports from China -Peter Morici/Asia Times
Yield Cut 50% On Farm Planting, Re-Planting After 6-20
World Only One Crop Failure Away From Disaster
Why Higher Prices Are Here To Stay
Chemtrails From The Air - VIDEO
Israel Continues To Spy On America
Barf Bags - Bush ‘Regrets Legacy As War President’
Exposing Bush Administration Corruption
BP Dismisses Gazprom’s $250 Oil Forecast
40 Techniques Of The Illuminati
McCain Courting Independents? You Gave us less than NOTHING
McCain Admits He Doesn’t Know How To Use A Computer
McCain On Cheney Serving In His Administration: “Hell, Yeah”
thinkprogress.org — before Cheney became a political albatross, McCain overflowed with kind things to say about him. In fact, in July 2004, McCain described Cheney as one of the best vice presidents ever. Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports today that in unpublished comments to Hayes, McCain also said he would consider Cheney for a post in his administration.
Congress passes law for RIAA to sue for $30k PER SONG
Operation Inform the Soldiers
theresistancemanifesto.com — A political activist group is sending letters and DVDs to U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq telling them 9/11 was an inside job.
Mark Dice Teaching The Troops About 9/11 Being An Inside Job
Wikipedia Censors 9/11
en.wikipedia.org — A Wikipedia council recently established an initiative to censor September 11′Th related articles of “non-official” information. This is the full transcript of the arbitration case. The WTC7 article has already been washed; sign the petition to prevent further censorship:
Stocks fall sharply while oil prices surge
Why Oil Prices Are So High
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Counterpunch
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
How to explain the oil price? Why is it so high? Are we running out? Are supplies disrupted, or is the high price a reflection of oil company greed or OPEC greed. Are Chavez and the Saudis conspiring against us?
Democrats are protecting Bush from impeachment: scholar
Kucinich offers impeach measure as privileged resolution to force vote
Breaking: House votes on Bush impeachment resolution…
Iran says West fails to stop its nuclear “victory”
Zahra Hosseinian and Fredrik Dahl
Reuters
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Western pressure has failed to stop Iran’s nuclear programme from advancing, its president said on Wednesday, a day after the United States and the European Union warned of more sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
How Much Was Fox Paid to Shill Bush’s War Crime in Iraq?
The many lies told by Fox and Bill O’Reilly are probable cause to suspect Fox of criminal complicity with the Bush regime. It is reasonable to suspect that Fox is called Bush’s ‘propaganda ministry’ because it is Bush’s propaganda ministry. Bush may yet stand trial for war crimes and mass murder. But what of his enablers inside his ‘propaganda ministry’? It is reasonable to ask how many members of the Fox board, how many executives, how many on-camera shills share Bush’s guilt for having perpetrated a murderous lie upon the American people and the world.
Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran
On Tuesday, June 10, 2008, the Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran (CNAPI) and the Enough Fear Campaign organized an innovative “Time to Talk with Iran” event and press conference on the Terrace of the West Side of the Cannon House Office Building. With the U.S. Capitol backdrop, Representatives Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey, Ron Paul, Marcy Kaptur, former Congressman Bob Barr, and Sheila Jackson-Lee joined the campaign in a press conference and spoke in support of direct, bilateral and comprehensive talks without preconditions between the governments of the United States and Iran. The members of Congress were then invited to join Campaign members, foreign policy experts and American citizens in using a row of 60’s-era red “hotline” telephones to talk directly to ordinary Iranians, including a 60-year-old petroleum engineer, a software engineer, a French Literature professor and high school student.
Ahmadinejad Says Bush Administration Can’t Hurt Iran
George W. Bush’s administration is in its dying days and won’t be able to harm Iran, the Islamic Republic’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said.
Cheney Jr. pushes for war on Iran
Former State Department official and daughter of Dick Cheney says Iran ‘will face military action’ if it does not halt its nuclear program.
Speaking at the American Israel Political Affairs Committee convention, Elizabeth Cheney said the time for diplomacy on Iran is ‘rapidly coming to an end’.
More from Karen Johnson on 9/11 …
“It has been nearly seven years and we are faced with new evidence that turns the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission upside down. We are fighting a war because of 9/11 - and we still don’t really know what happened.”
Papers on al-Qaeda left on train
(Yeah riiiiiight…just ‘left’ on the train..WRH: This looks like a deliberate plant to get the info out. By making it look like an accident, they hope to deflect accusations that it is just more propaganda)
French Government decides to censor the Internet
Sylvie Barak
UK Inquirer
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has apparently decided that it doesn’t much like being democratic, and that it would rather like to censor the Internet instead.
Carla Bruni on President Sarkozy: ‘You are my junk. More deadly than Afghan heroin’…
San Diego Expands the Use of Flouride in Drinking Water
Vegan girl, 12, ‘has spine of 80-year-old’
UK:Fears grow that MRSA variant has entered food chain
Scientists revealed yesterday that three patients in separate hospitals were infected with the ST398 strain, which is found in factory-farmed pigs in the Netherlands. None of the humans had a close association with farm animals, raising the possibility that the superbug has entered the food chain.
Oil looks set to test $139 record
Larry Elliott
London Guardian
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The price of crude oil tonight looked set to test last week’s record of almost $140 a barrel after reports of falling stocks in the US prompted a fresh wave of speculative buying.
Central bank body warns of Great Depression
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the organisation that fosters cooperation between central banks, has warned that the credit crisis could lead world economies into a crash on a scale not seen since the 1930s.
Ireland Set To Vote On EU Dictatorship
Inflation fears may push gold back to $1,000/oz
Humeyra Pamuk
Reuters
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold is poised to climb back above $1,000 per ounce this year, as inflationary pressures and financial turmoil prompt investors to seek shelter in the metal used as a store of value.
But the caveat is gold’s fortunes are traditionally strongly tied to the movement of the dollar and significant turnaround in the weak U.S. currency could limit its rally.
“There’s a good chance that it may go back above $1,000 in the short- to medium-term,” said Richard Davis, a London-based fund manager at BlackRock.
Live Vote: Should Bush be impeached?
(WRH: 89% voted for impeachment. But probably only because this poll did not include choices for tarring and feathering, jailing, burning at the stake, drawing and quartering, etc.)
Man Who Fell Off Couch Laughing at TV Show Ends Up Pepper Sprayed, Arrested
Commercial airlines barred from flying over Rome during Bush visit
More Photos From Bilderberg 2008
Congressmembers say Chinese hacked Capitol computers
Protests welcome Bush in Italy
Minority of One - Brian Haw
You Tube
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Brian Haw began a protest against the sanctions on Iraq in Parliament Square, London on June 2nd, 2001.
7 years later, he is still there.
Although there are many laws that cover violent protests, there was no way for the Government to stop this peaceful protest.
The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act was passed in April, 2005, in an effort to stop Brian, but his protest started before this law - so he is exempt.
Gospel of Paul
Early and modern LDS leaders have stated that we should support 
those who will sustain the principles of civil and religious liberty, who are aware of the great dangers inherent in socialist and communist ideologies, and who are truly dedicated to the Constitution in the tradition of our Founding Fathers. When was the last time you heard Barack Obama or John McCain even mention the Constitution?
Ron Paul’s Message to Obama!-VIDEO
Ron Paul says Obama offers “NO CHANGE”!
Constitutional scholar on impeachment: ‘Time to pony up’
GOOGLE MAN IN SPACE: FIRST PRIVATE FLIGHT SET FOR 2011
OIL PRIZE: ABU DHABI TO BUY CHRYSLER BUILDING
CLAIM: Refs fixed NBA playoff series, other games
Bush says diplomacy is first choice in Iran standoff
President Bush said Wednesday that his first choice is to solve a nuclear standoff with Iran by using diplomacy, but “all options are on the table.”
(Bush is repeating the same rhetoric he used before the illegal Iraq invasion)
$543,236,299,998 Spent on Iraq as of 4:22 pm CST Today ! zfacts.com — Before the war, White Housee economic adviser Lawrence Lindsay estimated the cost at $100 to $200 billion. So the White House got rid of him and “re-estimated” the cost at $50 to $60 billion. It’s now over $500 billion
(The real cost of this aggressive war will total over $3 Trillion, but the horrible human life cost is a place the mainstream media stay away from and the fact that the Iraq War May Have Increased Energy Costs Worldwide by a Staggering $6 Trillion)
Ron Paul Rally To Take Place Near GOP Convention On Sept. 2
The Ron Paul Revolution continues to live on. While McCain is considered a “maverick” of the GOP, it seems that Paul is the “true maverick” of the party. Paul has openly stated that he will not endorse a candidate that supports the war in Iraq. So far, Iraq has been the main platform of McCain’s candidacy. For anyone that has watched the Republican debates, one should know that Paul has been the only GOP candidate that is against the war in Iraq.
Still, the Ron Paul Revolution has been and continues to gain followers. Paul’s book titled “The Revolution: A Manifesto” had even made the New York Times bestseller list. This revolution looks to have been gaining supporters ever since.
Boo Hoo: Bush Regrets His Legacy as a ‘War President’
Papers Please! TSA Bans ID-less Flight
Video: Ron Paul Will Host His Own Convention in September
WSJ: Weak-Dollar a Threat to World Order
NYT: Concerns on Economy Shift to Inflation
Robert Shiller: Infectious Exuberance
Feds Seek $200 Million in Refunds For Deceptive, Subprime Credit Cards
Standing Up for Workers Rights in Japan
Secret Plan To Kill Internet By 2012 Leaked?
ISP’s have resolved to restrict the Internet to a TV-like subscription model where users will be forced to pay to visit selected corporate websites by 2012, while others will be blocked, according to a leaked report. Despite some people dismissing the story as a hoax, the wider plan to kill the traditional Internet and replace it with a regulated and controlled Internet 2 is manifestly provable.
Hungry For Truth - Day 16
June 10, 2008 will be a moment in the 9/11 Truth movement we can all look back on and be extremely proud. For all of you who have spent countless hours reading books, watching DVD’s, searching the internet, investigating what happened on 9/11, researching til 2, 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning, knowing you had to get up soon to go to work but you couldn’t pull yourself away from this. For all of you who have been ridiculed, laughed at and have been told that you are nuts. For all of you who decided that it’s time to do something about the obvious lies and cover-up by our government and media. For all of you who have stood on a street corner holding a 9/11 Truth sign and have absorbed a middle finger or heard the voice of a sheeple yelling, ” GET A JOB !! ” For all of you who have sacrificed your time, energy and money to organize a speaking engagement in your home town, only to be completely ignored by the media. For all of you who have made phone calls to your local representatives, radio stations, television and print media urging them to look into 9/11. For all of you who have experienced sleepless nights because you know something is very wrong with our country, our press and our democracy. For all of you who have a voice, but at times go unheard or suppressed. For all of you who stand up when it’s uncomfortable, when it’s inconvenient or when it’s down right hard to do so. For all of you who stood by Blair and cheered him on. For all of you who continue to ASK QUESTIONS AND DEMAND ANSWERS. 
For all of you who wish you had a State Senator who could be your voice for you. For all of you who know that there is only one Senator from Arizona who stands for the Truth and it’s not John McCain. It’s Karen Johnson !! For all of you who work to achieve accountability for the victims of 9/11 and their families and for all of you who know 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB, this is for you.
Thanks for your support over the last 16 days. These days will always belong to all of us. Click to Play. Hi Quality Speech w/ Extras
Cindy Sheehan For Congress
Help us keep our momentum going and kick off our new fundraising campaign to “86 Pelosi.”
(Check out this YouTube video in which Ron Paul reports that Nancy Pelosi pulled a bill from consideration which would have required Congressional approval for an attack on Iran, and more damningly, did so at the express request of the Israeli government.
Do the nation a favor and get rid of this traitor next election.)
Dan Glaister
London Guardian
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
To some it may come as too little too late. But setting out on his final trip to Europe as president, George Bush has expressed regret that his rhetoric in the run-up to the war in Iraq may have created the impression that he was a warmonger.
Paul campaign puts plans in place for alternate convention
USA Today — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has tentatively reserved a university arena in Minnesota, a school spokesman said Tuesday, as the campaign plans a separate gathering during the national GOP convention in September. “We plan on having a large rally,” said Paul spokesman Jesse Benton. “We want it to be a celebration of Republican values and what the Republican Party has traditionally stood for.” But Benton also said Paul wants to send a message to the GOP “that we need to return to our roots” of limited government and personal responsibility
House to Vote on Sending Impeachment Articles to Committee
House members are set to vote Wednesday on sending articles of impeachment against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee.The 35 articles were offered by Dennis J. Kucinich , D-Ohio, who has pushed his caucus to do more to challenge the White House regarding the run-up to the Iraq War.Under House rules, the chamber must act on the measure within two day -CQ Politics
Pakistan condemns “cowardly” U.S. attack; 11 dead
Pakistan said on Wednesday an “unprovoked and cowardly” air strike by U.S. forces had killed 11 Pakistani soldiers on its border with Afghanistan and undermined the basis of security cooperation.
The U.S. military said in a statement issued on Wednesday that it had coordinated the artillery and air strike with Pakistan, but was investigating further.
(If the US was actually “coordinating” the artillery and airstrike with Pakistan, how did they wind up with 11 dead Pakistani soldiers?!?
All of a sudden, in online articles, we are seeing a real demonization of the current Pakistani regime.
One has to wonder if these articles have been placed to “soften up” the American people toward some kind of military strike on Pakistan.
And remember; just to Pakistan’s western border lies….Iran.)
US beef protest draws close to 80,000 in South Korean Captial
Videos / Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9/11
Sneak Peak - TRUTH RISING: The 9/11 Chronicles Part One
This film follows the growing momentum of 9/11 truth, as people throughout the world take action against their globalist masters. Shot unlike anything you have ever experienced from Alex Jones, cinema verite’ style, this masterpiece not only exposes the mistreatment of our 9/11 heroes, but also shows how a growing number of people around the world are questioning the official version of events that day. Featuring interviews with Willie Nelson, Rosie O’Donnell, Jesse Ventura, George Carlin, Martin Sheen, as well as confrontations with many political figures including Bill Clinton, David Rockefeller and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
An Alex Jones Film. Coming to the Infowar July 4th, 2008 & online first at Prison Planet.tv.
(Can’t wait to pick this one up! The preview is titillating! This short clip leaves me thrilled with anticipation…Thanks Alex and Team for all your hard work.)
World Faces `Oil Crisis;’ IEA Ready to Tap Reserves
Shigeru Sato and Yuji Okada
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
June 11 (Bloomberg) — The world faces an “oil crisis,” and the International Energy Agency stands ready to release emergency stockpiles even as the biggest consumers discuss measures to contain spiraling demand, the agency’s chief said.
Gazprom predicts oil will reach $250
Carola Hoyos
Financial Times
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Gazprom, Russia’s gas monopoly, on Tuesday predicted oil prices would reach $250 a barrel in 2009.
The striking prediction came as the International Energy Agency, the developed world’s energy watchdog, warned that record high prices were needed to choke off demand in order to balance the oil market.
$250 or bust: oil baffles experts
Some say prices will soar, others expect crash
Shaun Polczer
Calgary Herald
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Oil could hit $200 US by the end of this year, soar to $250 or burst like a speculative bubble.
And as delegates to the Global Petroleum Show discovered Tuesday, the so-called “experts” are anything but united on what lies ahead when it comes to oil prices.
WeareCHANGE Confronts Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney
Gary Talis of WeAreCHANGE tries to build bridges with the congress woman, as public pressure is what is missing from the reality of 9/11 accountability.
Iran says West fails to stop its nuclear “victory”
Zahra Hosseinian and Fredrik Dahl
Reuters
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Western pressure has failed to stop Iran’s nuclear programme from advancing, its president said on Wednesday, a day after the United States and the European Union warned of more sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
FBI special agent predicts ‘catastrophic attack’ in ‘revenge’ for torture, Abu Ghraib
Think Progress
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Testifying at today’s Senate Judiciary hearing on coercive interrogation techniques, former FBI special agent Jack Cloonan deplored coercive interrogations for being “not effective” and said the perception that the U.S. tortures detainees has “helped to recruit a new generation of jihadist martyrs”
NYT circulates fear-mongering claims on FISA debate
Glenn Greenwald
Salon
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The New York Times’ Eric Lichtblau has a long, prominent article today on the pending debate over FISA and telecom amnesty — headlined: “Return to Old Spy Rules Is Seen as Deadline Nears” — that features (and endorses) virtually every blatant falsehood that has distorted these spying issues from the beginning, and which is built on every shoddy journalistic practice that has made clear debate over these issues almost impossible. The article strongly suggests that a so-called “compromise” is imminent, a “compromise” which will deliver to the President virtually everything he seeks in the way of new warrantless eavesdropping powers and telecom amnesty.
Modus operandi of a pre-9/11 Israeli “art student” revealed
Wayne Madsen
Online Journal
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
One of the over 120 Israeli “art students” who cased federal office buildings and military bases during a year and a half before the 9/11 attacks has revealed details of her “assignment” in the United States to a WMR source.
Russian Navy planes patrol the Arctic
RIA Novosti
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
MOSCOW, June 11 (RIA Novosti) - Two Tu-142 aircraft from Russia’s Northern Fleet have successfully conducted a reconnaissance flight over the Arctic Ocean in latitudes close to the North Pole, a Navy spokesman said on Wednesday.
US bars ID refuseniks from planes - but not ID losers
Dan Goodin
The Register
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The US Transportation Security Administration is to deny passengers who refuse to present identification access to airplanes - but will still permit entry to those who say their ID has been lost or misplaced.
Letter to the Democratic Leadership
George Washington Blog
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, Chairman Conyers, and other leaders of the Democratic Party:
We, the American people, know that your motivation in taking the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney “off the table” is to ensure victory in the 2008 elections.
Oh, World Government, What Problem Can’t You Solve?
Jim Capo
JBS
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
It takes the Wall Street Journal guest editorialist an entire article to build to her main point in the final paragraph: The solution to our unfolding economic crisis is a union between the U.S. and the EU and the consolidation of the dollar, euro and yen into a single fiat currency.
Follow this link to the original source: “The Weak-Dollar Threat to World Order”
Fluoride and Aspartame Make You Stupid
You Tube
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
If you can understand the video or don’t believe what you’ve just heard, then you’ve been ingesting to much fluoride and/or aspartame.
9/11; Response to a Financial Times Report regarding 9/11: “fails to deal with the evidence”
Elizabeth Woodworth
Boffin predicts computer games will help kids create “genetically engineered life forms”
Lauren Otis
Princeton Packet
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
PLAINSBORO — A silver lining to the cloudy conventional wisdom of global warming and an egalitarian future for biotechnology where children play games creating new genetically engineered life forms like they now play computer games were among the “heretical thoughts,” shared by Institute for Advanced Study Professor Emeritus Freeman Dyson with members of Princeton’s business community last week.
Guantanamo criticism intensifies
Critics of the war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay have consistently assailed the coerced confessions that may be used as evidence against the defendants and have repeatedly charged that the prisoners’ severe isolation causes mental illnesses that make them unable to aid in their own defense.Now, the critics add, evidence has emerged to show that the government advised interrogators to destroy their notes to evade legal consequences for their actions.The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Tuesday about the treatment of prisoners at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and demands that all U.S. interrogators renounce coercive techniques -LA Times
Lee vows fresh start to overcome crisis
President Lee Myung-bak said Wednesday that he is determined to make a “fresh start” following collective resignation offers by his Cabinet ministers and senior secretaries over the past week.Lee also said he felt relieved to see Tuesday night’s massive street rallies in protest of the U.S. beef import deal end peacefully.(Lee is rumored to have offered the PM position to his Opposition rival) -Yoo Cheong-mo/Yonhap News KR
A League of Their Own
A radical foreign policy idea put forth by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has drawn cheers of support from sources as varied as his campaign’s neo-conservative backers to liberal internationalists from the camp of his rival, Sen. Barack Obama.But the idea is not without some surprising detractors.McCain’s “League of Democracies” would be a new international organisation whose membership is made up of democratic governments that meet certain minimal requirements -Ali Gharib/IPS
Ahmadinejad Faces Heavyweight Foe in Larijani
New speaker of Parliament, Ali Larijani, is expected to be a serious critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the coming years.He has close ties to new technocrat leaders, such as the former head of the Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Rezaii, and the popular mayor of Tehran, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf — considered the leading potential rival of Ahmadinejad in the 2009 presidential elections -Omid Memarian/IPS
Bush Wins EU Backing for More Iranian Bank Sanctions
President George W. Bush won backing from the European Union for tighter sanctions against Iranian banks, another step aimed at hampering Iran’s ability to build nuclear weapons.European Commission President Jose Barroso, meeting with Bush in Slovenia, agreed to take “additional measures” to ensure that “Iranian banks cannot abuse the international banking system to support proliferation and terrorism,” according to a joint statement released at the end of the talks -Edwin Chen & Patrick Donahue/Bloomberg
Afghanistan Unraveling
In the middle of a consuming presidential election, the American public is focused on the faltering economy first and the Iraq war second.So it’s easy to forget that there’s another, older war going on in Afghanistan — one that’s shown alarming signs of deterioration in recent months, according to many experts.But national attention focused on Afghanistan this week when First Lady Laura Bush swooped into Kabul, Bagram Air Base and Bamiyan Province on Sunday -Spencer Ackerman/Washington Independent
U.S. security talks with Iraq in trouble in Baghdad and D.C.
A proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that would set the conditions for a defense alliance and long-term U.S. troop presence appears increasingly in trouble, facing growing resistance from the Iraqi government, bipartisan opposition in Congress and strong questioning from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.President Bush is trying to finish the agreement before he leaves office, and senior U.S. officials insist publicly that the negotiations can be completed by a July 31 target date.On Capitol Hill, top Democrats and Republicans complain that Bush is rushing the negotiations to try to tie his successor’s hands -Leila Fadel & Warren P. Strobel/McClatchy Newspapers
Feds to probe speculators’ role in rising oil prices
The nation’s top regulator of oil trading announced on Tuesday the creation of a special federal task force to study the role of speculators and the investment practices of large institutions that critics believe are running up oil prices.The announcement came as a special advisory committee went before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to discuss ways to make the oil markets more transparent.Increasing reporting requirements and other transparency measures would reduce concerns that oil traders are manipulating the trading of contracts for future delivery of oil, called futures, in ways that drive up oil prices -Kevin G. Hall/McClatchy Newspapers
When Congress had a chance, food safety wasn’t its choice
Tainted tomatoes highlight how Congress forfeited some food-safety opportunities in the new farm bill.A nationwide salmonella outbreak attributed to tomatoes comes just as Congress and President Bush are finishing their farm bill tug-of-war.The bill about to become law omits some of the highest-profile food-safety proposals that lawmakers once offered.The sprawling farm bill includes 15 titles, or subject areas, ranging from commodities to energy.Food safety doesn’t merit its own title -Michael Doyle/McClatchy Newspapers
9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics
Prof. Pater Dale Scott
Exposing Bush Administration Corruption
Stephen Lendman
City Councilman Under Fire For Accusing Spanish-Speaking Workers of Being Illegal Immigrants
Breitbart
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
“We got rid of slavery, sir, and economically we survived. We got rid of all that nice cheap labor in the south and share cropping, and they adapted.”
No Excuse For Lack Of Bilderberg Coverage
BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions
news.bbc.co.uk — Everyone i hope has some awareness of the corruption in Iraq, especially the involvement of Halliburton.
MSNBC - 89% Say Bush’s Actions Justify Impeachment
Impeach Bush (and Cheney) for 9/11
For those who do not yet understand that Bush and Cheney have committed impeachable offenses with regard to 9/11, I will provide information to back up the relevant portions of Dennis Kucinich’s articles of impeachment against President Bush which deal with 9/11:
Article 2: Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression:
- Here is information justifying this basis for impeachment.
Article 33: Repeatedly ignored and failed to respond to high level intelligence warnings of planned terrorist attacks in U.S. prior to 9/11
Ron Paul Discusses His Own Convention on Cavuto 06/10/2008
