Jun 17th, 2008
truthseeds 06/17/08
Bush has devised a new strategy to boost oil production and lower prices.
FBI interviews of Bush, Cheney subpoenaed
McClatchy-Tribune | A House committee subpoenaed yesterday records of the FBI’s interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer’s name. The Committee on Oversight …
LAW SCHOOL TO ORGANIZE BUSH WAR CRIMES TRIAL
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
By Sherwood Ross | A conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes will be held September 13-14 at the Massachusetts School of Law at …
Why Are Corporate Journalists So Afraid of Questioning Authority?
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
By Scott Ritter | “I think the questions were asked. I think we pushed. I think we prodded. I think we challenged the president. I think not only those of us in the White House press …
U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
By David Gutierrez | A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags. The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP …
Colin Powell Slams Bush
May Producer Prices Gain 1.4%! Energy Surgest 4.9%
Mish: Tent City USA
BIS Warns Of Great Depression
Corporate Bond Yields Hit Six-Year High
UK Inflation at 10 Year High
Renters, Soldiers Feel the Pain of Foreclosure
Bankruptcy Rising Among Seniors
Airplanes of the Future Could Be Self Healing
Tougher terror laws actually enhance freedoms, claims Brown
By James Kirkup | The Prime Minister used a speech in London to defend his Government’s record on civil liberties in the light of last week’s Labour rebellion over the detention of terror suspects and …
How many innocent people are going out of their minds today?
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
By George Monbiot | We shouldn’t be surprised to hear that George Bush dined with a group of historians on Sunday night. The president has spent much of his second term pleading with history. But however …
Read the Government Report On Slavery and Iraq
Now experts say cannabis should be legal
By David Maddox | CANNABIS should be legalised and taxed, an influential Scottish think tank recommended yesterday, just weeks after the Government hardened its attitude towards the drug, reclassifying it as a class B substance.
Lawmaker takes 9/11 doubts global
By JOHN SPIRI - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - Special to The Japan Times
In a September 2003 article for The Guardian newspaper, Michael Meacher, who served as Tony Blair’s environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003, shocked the establishment by calling the global war on terrorism “bogus.” Even more controversially, he implied that the U.S. government either allowed 9/11 to happen, or played some role in the destruction wrought that day. Besides Meacher, few politicians have publicly questioned America’s official 9/11 narrative — until Diet member Yukihisa Fujita.
In January 2008 Fujita, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan, asked the Japanese Parliament and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to explain gaping holes in the official 9/11 story that various groups — including those who call themselves the “911 Truth Movement” — claim to have exposed.
Fujita, along with a growing number of individuals — including European and American politicians — are leading a charge to conduct a thorough, independent investigation of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001.
Former Presidential Canidate Mike Gravel to Promote NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative on Democracy Now
Tune in to Democracy Now on Tuesday June 17th! Amy Goodman will interview Mike Gravel regarding the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative as well as his recent books. If you’re in NYC area, tune in to WBAI 99.5 FM at 9am. It’s also available on MNN and other cable networks. Outside of NYC, go to www.democracynow.org to stream it, find your local radio or cable news outlet, or read the transcript.
Sen. Gravel is extremely passionate about this campaign. Here’s a direct quote:
“It is essential for the people of New York City to bring about a new Commission,” said former Senator Mike Gravel. “This possibly will be the only opportunity that we will have to hold George Bush and Dick Cheney legally accountable for their actions on and after the Sept. 11th attacks. This is a great opportunity that we must not squander. To all New York City voters, please sign the petition for this historic ballot initiative. For those of you in the rest of the U.S. who desire truth, justice, and accountability for 9/11, please contact anyone you know in New York City to download the petition, volunteer and donate at www.nyc911initiative.org.”
Ron Paul Rents 11,000-Seat Arena in St. Paul
RON PAUL HAS BOOKED the University of Minnesota’s Williams Arena 
near the site of the Republican Convention where he will hold a rival rally. The arena seats 11,000. There is a growing surge of people out there just craving” for a return “to traditional American government, limited government that places personal liberty first and places an emphasis on personal responsibility and essentially gets out of the way after that,” spokesman Jesse Benton told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “The buzz we get from supporters is that they are very eager to come to the GOP Convention in St. Paul and very eager to send a strong message.”
Australian woman held in US detention camp
An Australian woman has told how her trip to the United States became holiday hell when a visa mix-up landed her in a detention camp.
Ron Paul on CNN Situation Room 06/16/2008
“I don’t plan to endorse John McCain unless he changed his views on the war and was interested in the Federal Reserve and all these other things, which is not likely to happen.”
Reagan’s “Apology”: Weak, Perfunctory & Disingenuous
Radio talk show host Michael Reagan’s weak, perfunctory and disingenuous “apology” to Mark Dice for encouraging the activist be murdered for sending 9/11 truth material to U.S. troops only further necessitates the case for legal action to be taken in order to end the spiraling cycle of Neo-Con intimidation and smear.
Clear Channel’s KFI Los Angeles Mocks Reagan Death Threat Story
Martin Hill
Op-Ed News
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The 2nd most listened to talk radio station in America finally carried the story of Michael Reagan making death threats and being investigated by the FBI. They thought it was a real laugh riot.
Official: Fire at Texas Governor’s Mansion may have been politically motivated
EMILY RAMSHAW
Dallas Morning News
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
AUSTIN – The arsonist who set the fire at the Texas Governor’s Mansion this month may have been politically motivated, the state fire marshal said Monday. He also offered a $50,000 reward for information about the crime.
FLASHBACK: Suspicion Surrounds Governor’s Mansion Fire
Police Set To Blame Governor’s Mansion Fire On Activists?
Ron Paul: ‘I don’t plan to endorse John McCain’
Raw Replay
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talked to Ron Paul about a rally his has planned in the same city as the Republican convention. Paul told Blitzer that his rally would pose a philosophical challenge to the Republican’s convention.
Paul told Blitzer that he had no intention of supporting John McCain. Paul said, “I don’t plan to endorse John McCain unless he changed his views on the war and was interested in the Federal Reserve and all these other things, which is not likely to happen.”
Ahmadinejad to OPEC: Dump weak dollar
Press TV
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Iran urges the OPEC member states again to convert their cash reserves into a basket of currencies rather than the tumbling US dollar.
Speaking at a ceremony to open the 29th ministerial meeting of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated his proposal made about six months ago in a rare summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’s heads of states.
McClellan testimony may shed light on Niger forgeries
Jason Leopold
Online Journal
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s testimony later this week before the House Judiciary Committee promises to reignite the debate over the “16 words” in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address that claimed Iraq tried to purchase 500 tons of yellowcake uranium from Niger and how the White House’s response to the bogus intelligence led to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame.
‘Space command must to check China’
Rajat Pandit
Times of India
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
NEW DELHI: With China developing anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles, lasers and other offensive space capabilities, India has no option but to be fully prepared for “star wars” in the future.
War and the Common Good
Anthony Gregory
Lew Rockwell.com
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
This talk was delivered at the Future of Freedom Foundation’s conference on “Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties,” on June 7, 2008, in Reston, Virginia.
We are used to hearing discussion of political issues boiled down to a conflict between the individual and the greater good. Nearly anyone’s pet project for government can be sold as a way to promote the common, or general interest – a mission so compelling that the interests of mere individuals must be sacrificed.
Fox anchor claims Iranian missile could possibly ‘hit some military installations’ in the U.S.
Think Progress
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
In an interview with former UN ambassador John Bolton today, Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett asserted that Iran’s Shahab missile “could actually hit — I think — some military installations in the United States.” “Absolutely,” replied Bolton, clarifying that it was “U.S. forces stationed in the region” that could be threatened by such a missile.
Former Justice official may face grand jury probe
The Justice Department is considering launching a grand jury investigation into whether one of its former leaders misled Congress about playing politics with civil rights issues, a government official said Monday.The move amounts to a first step from an internal inquiry toward possible criminal charges in the scandal that helped force the resignation of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.At issue is whether Bradley Schlozman intentionally misled senators during a June 2007 hearing when he gave conflicting statements about his role in an election-eve filing of a voter fraud lawsuit in Missouri while serving, a year earlier, as a U.S. attorney based in Kansas City, Mo
Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Inquiry on Interrogation Role
Senior Pentagon lawyers played a more active role than previously known in developing the aggressive interrogation techniques approved for use in 2002 at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to officials familiar with a Senate investigation.Investigators with the Senate Armed Services Committee have found documents from July 2002 showing that Pentagon lawyers working for William J. Haynes II, then the Defense Department general counsel, gathered information about a program used to train American pilots to withstand captivity, according to the officials -Mark Mazzetti/NY Times
Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir
The Army official who managed the Pentagon’s largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR, the Houston-based company that has provided food, housing and other services to American troops.The official, Charles M. Smith, was the senior civilian overseeing the multibillion-dollar contract with KBR during the first two years of the war. Speaking out for the first time, Mr. Smith said that he was forced from his job in 2004 after informing KBR officials that the Army would impose escalating financial penalties if they failed to improve their chaotic Iraqi operations -James Risen/NY Time
Governments step up blogger arrests
Jonathan M. Gitlin
Ars Technica
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
No matter what you think of blogging, Internet-based citizen journalism is a real threat, not just to traditional media business models but to totalitarian governments. How do we know that bloggers are drawing blood? Because some governments are hitting back harder and harder; last year saw a tripling in the number of bloggers arrested around the world compared to 2006, according to a report from the University of Washington.
Shock Video Shows Last Seconds Shot by Reuters Cameraman Killed by Israeli Tank
Fadel Shana, 24, was killed by several darts, known as flechettes, which burst from a shell fired by an Israeli tank on April 16. A full report by the CBC is in the related links.
D.C. surveillance cameras worry critics
UPI
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) — Civil libertarians and political opponents say Washington’s nearly 4,800 city-owned surveillance cameras are an unwarranted intrusion of privacy.
Right Under Our Nose
George Washington Blog
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
I am constantly amazed at how we can fail to see things which are right under our nose.
For example, former Congressman Dan Hamburg’s excellent essay entitled “State of Emergency: The US in the Final Six Months of the George W. Bush Administration” got a lot of interest in the alternative press last Friday.
Matthews Promotes Russert to Master 9/11 Gatekeeper!
Chipped bins schemes to go ahead
Press Association
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Government said pilot schemes testing micro-chipped wheelie bins will go ahead even though one council which tried out the technology scrapped it after it “failed to work”.
Salmonella Cases in 5 More States
The Food and Drug Administration has not yet identified the source of the contamination, an agency official said. The agency is focusing its efforts on Mexico and central and southern Florida, but it has yet to trace the genetic fingerprint to a farm or plant.
ISP’s confirm ‘2012: The Year The Internet Ends’
Benefit for Gary Talis Legal Defense
We Are Change Colorado confronts the Denver Water Board Again!
America’s prison for terrorists often held the wrong men
Same rEVOLution, Different Day
Now that the campaign’s over, Paul feels a little more free to tell the 
truth. “This is actually a racheting up of what were doing before,” Paul said in a Thursday phone conversation. “There are more people who believe in the freedom agenda than voted for us in the primaries. I’ve been saying the same thing since 1974, you know, but something… happened this year. I can’t explain what it was, but the young people understand these issues better than anyone thought, and they are not going away.”
Rand Paul Responds to Mark Skousen
With regard to Russert’s interview, Russert was so consumed by gotcha 
journalism that he wasted time arguing the Civil War with Ron Paul, a subject he has never made a speech on, and never asked one question about the Iraq War. Ron Paul’s fame came largely because he was one of a handful of Republicans to oppose the war. Failing to ask about the Iraq War showed that Russert’s agenda was more important than the issues of the day.
Was Russert a great interviewer? Sometimes. But in the case of Ron Paul he missed out on covering the current war to play “gotcha” games about the civil war.
Iraq or the Economy?
What is the importance of the war in Iraq relative to other current 
issues? This is a question I am often asked, especially as Americans continue to become increasingly aware that something is very wrong with the economy. The difficulty with the way the question is often asked relates to the perception that we are somehow able to divide such issues, or to isolate the cost of war into arbitrarily defined areas such as national security or international relations. War is an all-encompassing governmental activity. The impact of war on our ability to defend ourselves from future attack, and upon America ’s standing in the world, is only a mere fraction of the total overall effect that war has on our nation and the policies of its government.
