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Nearly Every Online Purchase, Sale, And Credit Card Transaction To Be Reported To The Federal Government
Bad Cop News
Thursday, June 19, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC - Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd’s 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill’s managers without debate this week, would require the nation’s payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government.

Fox News Stokes Phony Controversy Over UN Official Who Supports 9/11 Probe

‘US fabricates intel to justify presence’
Press TV
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Iran’s Foreign Ministry responds to US media propaganda, dismissing reports that suggest Tehran supports certain groups in Iraq.

“Their objective in inventing such scenarios is to play down the significance of the constructive role the Islamic Republic has played and the support it has provided for the Democratic process [in Iraq],” said Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini. “We condemn such efforts.”

Czech opposition demands referendum on U.S. missile radar
RIA Novosti
Thursday, June 19, 2008

WARSAW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) - The Czech opposition has gathered over 100,000 signatures in support of a proposal to hold a national referendum on the placement of a U.S. early-warning radar in the Czech Republic, an opposition spokesperson said on Thursday.

Survey: 500,000 Iraqis fled fighting in 2007

Zimbabwe opposition bodies found
Burnt body of opposition mayor of Harare’s wife among those discovered.
Hundreds of nuclear missile parts missing from US stockpiles
Another indication of the loss of control of nuclear weapons material by Bush-Cheney regime.
Abramoff used White House ties to oust State Department official
Alan Stayman favored reform of Northern Marianas labor laws. Abramoff and his slave labor supporters opposed reform efforts.

War Mongering Barak Obama? Nukes for AIPAC?

Bush Adminstration Post-Constitutional Order: “It Was Real ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Stuff”

Al Gore Trying To Create Global Warming?

Sarkozy To BAN Internet Downloaders

Strange Bedfellows meet on FISA
UPDATE: There’s some new info just coming out on the FISA bill that we’ll have up in a little while. It looks like a ummm….compromise a giveaway deal has been struck: “ACLU Condemns FISA Deal, Declares Surveillance Bill Unconstitutional“

So far we’ve raised over 100K in less than 30 hours on our latest push back against the new FISA bill that might get passed. If you haven’t donated, please do. We’re working up a plan for our next targets.

We’ve started a new coalition with the ACLU called Strange Bedfellows

The ACLU is joining with activists from the Ron Paul campaign, represented by Break the Matrix, Rick Williams and Trevor Lymon, and civil liberties writer Glenn Greenwald of Salon, and leading liberal bloggers including, Jane Hamsher of firedoglake, Matt Stoller of Open Left, John Amato of Crooks and Liars, Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny, Digby, Josh Nelson of The Seminal and activist Josh Koster to tell Congress that we will not let them ignore the Constitution or give immunity to telecoms which deliberately broke our laws for years.

We are not sitting back while Congress is having negotiations—trying to figure out a way to grant the Telecoms immunity for breaking the law repeatedly when you and I would have been thrown in jail and waterboarded by Rumsfeld for not paying parking tickets…Anyway, we ran ads against Chris Carney (Comcast actually rejected one of our ads against him. Ha!) and now we’re setting our sights on Steny Hoyer and another Blue Dog. But Phase 1 is still underway so please help us out…Here’s somebody I’m not particularly fond of, especially with Regina Thomas, a progressive state Senator running against him. I give you John Barrow…

‘Pentagon Papers senator’ calls for new 9/11 probe
By Jefferson Siegel

Skeptics of the government’s explanation regarding details of the September 11 attacks are trying to put the issue before a larger audience. In an attempt to place a call for a new investigation on November’s ballot, the 9/11 Truth group welcomed former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel to St. Mark’s Church on Tuesday afternoon.

“It’s crunch time,” Gravel said, noting the group hopes to amass at least 40,000 signatures in the next three weeks for a citywide ballot initiative for the November election. The group already has 12,000 signatures.

“This may be our last hope to bring about a serious investigation,” Gravel, who also ran for president earlier this year, told a crowd of several dozen in the plaza facing the church.

“It’s more of a citizens commission rather than a government commission,” he explained.

“The referendum would allow for a legally sanctioned commission with subpoena powers,” said Reverend Frank Morales, a St. Mark’s associate pastor and a member of the 9/11 Truth movement.

The Food and the Energy crisis, fiction or reality?

Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

Critics Demand Resignation Of U.N. Official Who Wants Probe Of 9/11 “Inside Job” Theories
Source: fauxnews.com
6/19/2008

Critics are calling for the resignation of a U.N. official who publicly supports investigating theories that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an “inside job.”

Richard Falk, the special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, investigates alleged Israeli violations of human rights law for the U.N.’s Human Rights Council.

But the former Princeton professor would also like to investigate whether “some sort of controlled explosion from within” destroyed the Twin Towers, he told FOXNews.com.

“I do think there are questions that haven’t been answered, questions about the way the buildings collapsed and the failure to heed a variety of signals that there was danger coming,” Falk said.

“I think [his beliefs are] fruitcake city, but among many delegations to the U.N. it’s probably the conventional wisdom,” said John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. known for his straight talk on U.N. hypocrisy.

(WRH: Translation: Israel wants Falk out of the UN, both because he doesn’t “buy” the official story on 9/11, and because he has been highly critical of Israeli treatment of Palestinians.

And of course, what the article DOESN’T tell you is that this Hillel Neuer quoted in this article represents the Geneva-Based affiliate of the American Jewish Committee.)

Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
On June 3, Jeremy Scahill’s bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army was released in fully revised and updated paperback form. The new edition includes reporting on the now-famous Nisour Square massacre

Dems to OK Bush War Funds Without Conditions
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
By ANDREW TAYLOR | Democratic and GOP leaders in the House announced agreement Wednesday on a long-overdue war funding bill they said President Bush would be willing to sign. The agreement on the war funding …

CIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
By Joby Warrick | A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting …

Sweden passes ‘Big Brother bill’
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Press TV | Swedish lawmakers vote in favor of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored over ’security issues’. Lawmakers voted late on Wednesday on one of the most divisive …

BBC - 9/11 - The Third Tower
(See also arie’s blog on this. -rep.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/conspiracy_files/

Toronto 18 Terror Story Continues to Unravel
For background on this story, watch the documentary Unfair Dealing. -rep.)

Alleged bomb plot defendant unaware of any plans: RCMP informant
A young man on trial in Brampton, Ont., for his role in an alleged bomb plot in the Toronto area in 2006 was kept in the dark by the other accused and treated like “sheep, non-entities,” an RCMP and CSIS mole testified Monday.

Mubin Shaikh, the Crown’s star witness, played down the role of the defendant, who cannot be named because he was under 18 at the time of his arrest in June 2006.

Shaikh said the accused, one of four youths picked up by police and CSIS agents two years ago, was not aware that a weekend training exercise held in a resort area north of Toronto was supposed to hone their skills as militant fighters.

The young men were told the winter camping trip was part of a Muslim religious retreat, not a terror training exercise as the Crown has alleged in documents submitted to court, he said.

Montreal 9/11 Truth to City Hall: If there is an attack we will not believe you

Gov’t says FBI agents can’t testify about 9/11
“Government lawyers say the ongoing investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks could be compromised if the airline industry is allowed to seek more information from the FBI to defend itself against lawsuits brought by terrorism victims.

In papers filed late Tuesday, the government urged a judge to block aviation companies from interviewing five FBI employees who the companies say will help them prove the government withheld key information before the 2001 attacks.

The lawyers said it would be impossible to interview the employees without disclosing classified or privileged material that could “cause serious damage to national security and interfere with pending law enforcement proceedings.”

“The harm described is not hypothetical and cannot be lightly dismissed,” according to the court papers submitted by the office of U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia. “Investigators continue to seek out those parties responsible for the 9/11 attacks who remain at large.”

Travel Advisory
Tuesday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing provided the latest evidence that top Bush administration officials directed the use of torture techniques on detained suspected terrorists.These disclosures and others have put the issue of war crimes on the front burner.Is it likely that prosecutions will be brought overseas? Yes.The Bush administration officials who pushed torture will need to be careful about their travel plans -Scott Horton/The New Republic

Congressional Hearings Shed New Light on Government’s Endorsement of Torture; Maj. Gen. Taguba Accuses Bush Administration of War Crimes
On Tuesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee held an eight-hour hearing that exposed the role of top Bush administration officials in authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques.Meanwhile, Retired Major General Antonio Taguba, the Army general who first investigated the abuse at Abu Ghraib, has accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes.Mark Benjamin is a national correspondent for Salon.com.He covered the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday.He joins us from Washington, D.C. -Democracy Now

U.S. Charges 400 in Mortgage Frauds, Justice Department Says
More than 400 people have been charged in a federal roundup targeting mortgage fraud, the Justice Department said.FBI Director Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip will announce the national crackdown, dubbed Operation Malicious Mortgage, this afternoon in Washington.Nearly 300 people have been arrested thus far in cities ranging from Chicago to Dallas to Miami, department officials said -Robert Schmidt/Bloomberg

Lawmakers Reach Deal To Expand Surveillance
After more than a year of partisan acrimony over government surveillance powers, Democratic and Republican leaders have agreed to a bipartisan deal that would be the most sweeping rewrite of spy powers in three decades.The House is likely to vote on the measure Friday, House aides said.The new agreement broadens the authority to spy on people in the U.S. and provides conditional legal immunity to companies that helped the government eavesdrop after the 2001 terrorist attacks -Siobahn Gorman & Sarah Lueck/Wall Street Journal

Israel’s very own Guantanamos
There are currently as many as 12,000 Palestinian detainees languishing in Israeli detention camps, many of them without charge or trial. They include hundreds of university professors, engineers, school teachers as well as religious and civic leaders, students, resistance fighters and women activists.

Cranking up the “BOOGA BOOGA!”

WITNESS TO A CRIME - A CITIZENS’ AUDIT OF AN AMERICAN ELECTION

The 2004 US Elections: The Mother of all Vote Frauds
Alex Pelosi’s new film “Diary of a Political Tourist” catches a tipsy Congressman Peter King making a comment at a White House function before the election had been finished that, “It’s already over. The Election’s over. We Won.”

When Pelosi asks, “How do you know that?” King replies, “It’s all over but the counting. And we’ll take care of the counting.”

Every Move You Make
“Inverted totalitarianism,” as he calls it in his recent Democracy Incorporated, “lies in wielding total power without appearing to, without establishing concentration camps, or enforcing ideological uniformity, or forcibly suppressing dissident elements so long as they remain ineffectual.” To Wolin, such a form of political power makes the United States “the showcase of how democracy can be managed without appearing to be suppressed.”

More Power for the Fed as the Central Bank Cooks the Books
Flip through the footnotes to the Fed’s latest annual report, and you’ll come across an open secret. The Fed doesn’t follow normal accounting rules, as promulgated by any of the major standard-setting boards. Rather, the Fed writes its own, in a document called the Financial Accounting Manual for Federal Reserve Banks.

If you ever wanted to design an accounting regime to help a bank cook its books, the Fed’s would be perfect. This doesn’t exactly inspire faith in the U.S. financial system, at a time when a good example might help a lot.

911 Prediction Revealed at Lindauer Competency Hearing in New York City
The testimony occurred in a hearing on Lindauer’s competence to stand trial held before U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Preska, Southern District of New York, in lower Manhattan. On March 11, 2004, Lindauer was arrested for acting as an “unregistered agent” for the nation of Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion. Prosecutors have delayed the trial for over four years claiming Lindauer was delusional for asserting that she was a U.S. intelligence asset over a period of nine years, including the period covered by the indictment. (WRH: In the old USSR it was common for the government to declare its enemies as insane and then commit them to mental institutions.)

Cops Who Arrested Man For Attempting To Re-Enter His Own Home Praised
Police who apprehended Iowan at checkpoint with guns drawn “acted appropriately,” man charged with assault with a deadly weapon, faces 5 years behind bars

Bush: Give More Power to the Fed
Associated Press | The Federal Reserve, as in Federal Express, declares Bush, needs more power to destroy the U.S. economy and impoverish the American worker.

DR. NO MARCHING ON MINNEAPOLIS
The minutes revealed that the fraud was even worse than Mrs. Cahill had suspected. After the precinct caucus, Bertuzzi and others illegally added 151 delegates to the county convention. They did so because, without those illegal “delegates,” the Ron Paul delegates would have outnumbered them. The illegal Bertuzzi “delegates” reversed the outcome. It gets worse. Thirty six of those illegal “delegates” had not voted in the primary, which disqualified them. Another RPT rule says that if you don’t vote in the primary you cannot be a delegate, so those thirty six were doubly illegal.

Paul supporters continue fight within Idaho GOP
But Rick Martin, who lost a Buhl precinct race as well as contests for committee chairman and state delegate, said the fact that the delegates didn’t attend the convention when Paul supporters were ready and willing was clear discrimination.
“They purposefully nominated what I call ‘ghost delegates’ to block freedom and opportunity of Ron Paul supporters,” said Martin, who attended the convention as a guest. Paul, the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman, suspended his presidential campaign last week.

Your Fellow Country Men Need You! - Join Us Now!
www.revolutionmarch.com
I call upon every individual to stand up and take back your country and your government! Tell them that we are not going to take this anymore and we want them all out!

Ron Paul: Osama bin Laden loves what we have done
Rep. Ron Paul, who recently suspended his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, assured the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday that “the fight goes on. … I’ve always campaigned for liberty.”
Paul said it’s “irrelevant” to him who wins the election in November, because “whether it’s Obama or McCain, from my point of view, there’s not a whole lot of difference.”
Paul strongly supported the recent Supreme Court decision giving habeas corpus rights to Guantanamo inmates and criticized McCain’s comments on it, saying, “If you’d call that court ruling ‘naive,’ you’d have to call the Founding Fathers naive.”
“We’re looking for trouble,” Paul continued. “Why are we going into these foreign countries arresting people? … There’s more hostility towards us, more enemies than ever before.”

War, Economy Can’t Be Decoupled
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.

Ron Paul Libertarian Wins Ballot Berth in NJ Senate Race
Jason Schuerer, 39, a Mercer County Libertarian, announced yesterday he was approved by the New Jersey Division of Elections to be included on the November ballot.
Campaign manager Lou Jasikoff, said Schuerer had been invigorated by Ron Paul’s presidential campaign and was running on a “platform of common sense.

Ron Paul on Glenn Beck Tonight!
Today @ 7:00 PM ET & 9:00 PM ET Dr. Paul will be on Glenn Beck’s program on CNN’s Headline News. Spread the word and tune in!
Ever since the announcement of the Campaign for Liberty the media has become more and more intrigued. Even the mainstream media recognizes that we will be a force to be reckoned with in the future. Freedom is popular!

Bank Writedowns May Reach $1.3 Trillion
Paulson to Urge New Fed Powers
Free Trade On the Ropes Amid Shortages

We Are Change Colorado Chases Black Helicopters in Denver
Loose Change Blog
Thursday, June 19, 2008

The image of helicopters loading and unloading Special Forces units in Black Hawk helicopters will ultimately prove costly for the city. One night is bad enough in a free Constitutional Republic, but for an additional 2 -3 days the city will undoubtedly be met with harsh criticism from the public.

Fujita in Berlin - International 9/11 investigation
You Tube
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Mr Fujita is an important person to step forward to ask hard questions about 9/11 and the “War on Terror”

TRANSCRIPT:
“I have been meeting some politicians in Germany, UK, Italy and the European Parliament. And I think that some of the politicians, some of them are reserved and some of them are like minded in different countries. The time may be coming as Mr. [Tony] Blair has gone, Mr. Bush will be gone, and last week in the US Congress Mr. Kucinich and others passed the impeachment motion. And it was passed.

I think the time has come that more policy makers and politicians get together to make a joint appeal to request for an independent international investigation of what happened on 911.

And I think that the way the USA has led the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq needs some examination.

And I think that the suffering people have suffered enough, in so many countries. And so many innocent people have been killed and injured.

I think that it’s time to turn the tide from the policies of warfare to the policy of reconciliation and development.

It’s not fair the stronger nations to start wars, and the weaker nations, the civilians, have to suffer so much.

And I think that thanks to the internet, which is an invention of the military, now the citizens can have access to first hand information, PDFs, DVDs and pictures. So some people who have been able to hide cannot hide anymore.

So the combined efforts of citizens, politicians and experts in the different fields, now the time has come for us to work together to make a safer society in the world.”

Wikipedia Admins Protect Michael Reagan’s Page From “Death Threat” Update
Harold Gray
JustGetThere.us
Thursday, June 19, 2008

There is a mainstream media blackout of radio talk show host Michael Reagan’s heinous remarks calling for the murder of 9/11 activist Mark Dice for his campaign to send 9/11 truth material to U.S. troops. Audio here.

Reagan files copyright claim in attempt to get Mark Dice death threat removed
Mark Dice
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Denver drill aimed at responding to “domestic terrorism”
9News.com
Thursday, June 19, 2008

DENVER – 9Wants to Know is learning more about helicopter terrorism training that’s had many downtown residents worried earlier this week.

Park Avenue Uptown, LLC now owns the old Children’s Hospital building and has given the U.S. Special Operations Forces permission to use it to train to respond to domestic terrorism.

The property owner did not charge the U.S. Special Operations forces to use the building this week.

City, military officials say they will warn public in the future
Peter Marcus
Denver Daily News
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Future Denver military training exercises will be communicated to the public before the exercises begin, city and military officials told the Denver Daily News yesterday.

After city and military officials expressed a “misunderstanding about the reach and scope” of notifications concerning recent military helicopter training flights in downtown Denver, both the city and U.S. Department of Defense said in the future it will notify the public before such exercises begin.

Kucinich threatens 60 impeachment articles if Judiciary doesn’t act
Nick Juliano
Raw Story
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Rep. Dennis Kucinich warned the House Judiciary Committee that it would be wise not to ignore the 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush last week. If the committtee does not act within a month, he plans to introduce even more articles.

The Ohio Democrat and former presidential candidate tells the Washington Post’s Sleuth blog that he’s not giving up his fight to kick Bush out of the White House.

G-8 fails to sound the charge
With market watchers the world over feeling increasingly alarmed by spreading economic problems, much hope and attention was focused on Japan last weekend as finance ministers and central bankers of the G-8 (Group of Eight) nations gathered to apparently map out a coordinated global response.In particular, all hoped that the delegates would conjure a plan to save the dollar from the dustbin and stop the price of oil and food from pushing the world into crisis -John Browne/Asia Times

GRID-LIKE chemtrails all over Japan
You Tube
This is horrifying, and so obvious that there can be no doubt, from anyone, that this is not meant for a specific purpose, and this is NOT a natural contrail residue or anything of that nature.

Japan Gripped by Suicide Epidemic

Thousands ‘missing’ in Tibet
ITN News
Thursday, June 19, 2008

More than 1,000 anti-government protesters are missing in Tibet according to a human rights group.

Amnesty International said of the 4,000 people detained by police during riots three months ago, about a quarter are still unaccounted for.

How A Seasoned Murdoch War Propagandist Pumps War On Iran
Murdoch creates realities. That is his business. He openly admits he tells his readers what to think, that his world media followed the Bush line of War On Iraq propaganda and that he influences editors into running his agenda. Was there any Murdoch newspaper in the world that was not fully for the War On Iraq? It will be the same this time. In fact, it already is.

ElBaradei: If you attack Iran, I quit
Press TV
Thursday, June 19, 2008

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei says he will step down if major powers launch a military strike against Iran over its nuclear program.

According to Al Ahram, in an interview with Al Arabiya television, the International Atomic Energy Agency Director General, said, “A military invasion against Iran would pose great danger to the Middle East and the world.”

Middle East serves US some humble pie
Since World War II, the Middle East has been one of the most penetrated regions in the world in terms of American presence, influence and domination.Apart from South America, no other area on the planet has experienced as gigantic a footprint of the United States, stretching during its zenith from Cairo in the west to Tehran in the east.A series of new developments raises doubts about whether the US can still be the ultimate intersection in the Middle East -Sreeram Chaulia/Asia Times

Why Iraq won’t be South Korea
Call it “occupation forever”.But there’s one glitch: Iraqis are not falling for it.Now it’s twilight time; and no wonder the Bush administration has come out with all guns blazing.Without a new, US Big Oil-friendly Iraqi oil law, and without a SOFA, US$3 trillion - according to Joseph Stiglitz’s and Linda Bilmes’ book - will have been spent for nothing.However, on Thursday, the New York Times reported that Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP were in the final stages of negotiations on contracts that will return them to Iraq -Pepe Escobar/Asia Times

Iraqi army ‘preparing offensive’
Iraqi security forces are reported to be massing in southern Iraq in preparation for a major operation to drive out Shia militia groups.Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki had set a deadline of midnight local time for militia groups around the city of Amara to lay down their weapons.A similar offensive in Basra last March led to weeks of fierce fighting in which hundreds were killed -BBC

Scenes of ordinary life in Baghdad collected by Dutch photographer Geert van Kesteren
It is a cell-phone picture, for now only the cell phones of the Iraqi people can record their tragedy.Western photographers can no longer roam the streets of the Iraqi capital – and few other cities in Iraq – and in south-west Afghanistan, the same phenomenon has occurred.The refugee statistics are so appalling that they have become almost mundane.This collection of pictures is therefore an indictment of us -Robert Fisk/Independent UK

Afghanistan Battles Taliban in South
Hundreds of Afghan and Canadian troops launched a major attack Wednesday against Taliban fighters who have moved into several villages in southern Afghanistan in recent days, according to military officials.Preparations for the Afghan-led counteroffensive in Arghandab began Monday after officials reported that about 500 Taliban fighters had taken control of at least nine villages in the district -Candace Rondeaux/Washington Post

Paulson To Urge New Fed Powers
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. plans to call today for the Federal Reserve to be given new, explicit powers to intervene in the workings of Wall Street firms to protect the financial system, adapting his vision of how the financial world should be regulated to reflect the lessons of the collapse of Bear Stearns.Paulson’s recommendations go beyond those contained in a blueprint for financial regulation that he unveiled shortly after the Bear Stearns rescue -Washington Post

Ex-Bear Stearns Fund Managers Arrested by FBI Agents
Bear Stearns Cos. former hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin were arrested at their homes this morning over their roles in the collapse of hedge funds that ignited the subprime mortgage crisis last year.Cioffi, 52, was taken into custody at his Tenafly, New Jersey, home and Matthew Tannin, 46, at his Manhattan apartment, said James Margolin, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York office.He said they were to be taken to federal court in Brooklyn for a court appearance later today in connection with an indictment -Patricia Hurtado & David Scheer/Bloomberg

General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes
The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who’s now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices. “After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,” Taguba wrote. “The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.” -Warren P. Strobel/McClatchy Newspapers

Legalizing occupation: Bush’s last manoeuvre in Iraq
Ramzy Baroud
Online Journal
Thursday, June 19, 2008

When US forces descended on Baghdad five years ago, they seemed unstoppable. Military arrogance had reached an all time high, and it seemed only a matter of time before the same frenzied scenario took place in Teheran, Damascus, and elsewhere.

Deals with Iraq are set to bring oil giants back
Andrew E. Kramer
International Herald Tribune
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

US N-weapons parts missing, Pentagon says
Demetri Sevastopulo
Financial Times
Thursday, June 19, 2008

The US military cannot locate hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, according to several government officials familiar with a Pentagon report on nuclear safeguards.

Georgia to hold Russian missiles for investigation: official
AFP
Thursday, June 19, 2008

TBILISI (AFP) - Georgia will not release missiles seized from Russian peacekeepers before completion of an investigation into how they were brought onto Georgian territory, an Interior Ministry official said Thursday.

Clearchannel Host Frustrated at Growing 9/11 Truth Movement
You Tube
Thursday, June 19, 2008

China tightens screws against dissidents ahead of Olympics
AFP
Thursday, June 19, 2008

GENEVA (AFP) - Chinese authorities have stepped up efforts to censor dissenting voices in the run-up to the Olympic Games, a report by two human rights groups charged Thursday.

Human Rights Attorney Arrested for Criticizing the Regime’s Earthquake Response
Zhou Huiying
Epoch Times
Thursday, June 19, 2008

CHINA—Renowned Chinese human rights attorney, Huang Qi from southwest China’s Sichuan Province, was arrested by local authorities without explanation. His mother now appeals for international support to rescue him.

GM crops needed in Britain, says minister
Andrew Grice
London Independent
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Ministers are preparing to open the way for genetically modified crops to be grown in Britain on the grounds they could help combat the global food crisis.

Ministers have told The Independent that rocketing food prices and food shortages in the world’s poorest countries mean the time is right to relax Britain’s policy on use of GM crops.

Immunity likely for phone companies in spy bill
Thomas Ferraro
Reuters
Thursday, June 19, 2008

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. phone companies would be shielded from potentially billions of dollars in lawsuits under an anti-terror spy measure that appears headed toward approval, congressional sources said on Wednesday.

Giuliani Supported Prosecuting Terrorists Using Legal System
thinkprogress.org — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted Obama yesterday for wanting to take a criminal justice approach to dealing with international terrorists. Giuliani, however, also once praised the prosecution of the 1993 bombers, agreeing with Obama that terrorists should have to face the U.S. legal system.

Change?
Paul Hein
Lew Rockwell.com
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Perhaps you saw the photo. It showed Barack Obama with a group of his supporters holding signs bearing the word “change.” And news analysts informed us that one reason the Clinton campaign faltered (they apparently don’t consider the possibility that the people simply didn’t want her) was that she underestimated the public’s desire for “change.”

Gore Refuses Global Warming Prediction Challenge
Dan Miller
Heartland Institute
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Al Gore, one of the world’s leading proponents of the theory that global warming is an imminent crisis, missed a deadline to meet a global warming challenge issued by a leading expert in forecasting.

Scott Armstrong, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, issued the challenge to the former vice president in June 2007. Gore initially indicated interest in the challenge, but later expressed some concerns.

Last-ditch protests to kill off EU constitution ignored as Brown forces through Lisbon Treaty
Benedict Brogan
Daily Mail
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Gordon Brown signed away swathes of British sovereignty last night after he refused to back attempts to kill off the European constitution.

Ron Paul: Osama bin Laden loves what we have done
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Raw Story
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Rep. Ron Paul, who recently suspended his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, assured the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday that “the fight goes on. … I’ve always campaigned for liberty.”

Paul said it’s “irrelevant” to him who wins the election in November, because “whether it’s Obama or McCain, from my point of view, there’s not a whole lot of difference.”

Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month
Tennessee Center for Policy Research
Gore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations
NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

Libertarian Party commends Paul for opening ‘doors for liberty’
Following the close of Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, the Libertarian Party thanked Paul for all that he had done for liberty in his presidential bid. “Paul fought an uphill battle for liberty every day in his presidential campaign against all of the big-government juggernauts of the Republican Party,” says Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis.

Enough Already!
The eulogies for Tim Russert ignore his role as the War Party’s sounding board
When Paul raised the issue of U.S. intervention in the Middle East as fueling al-Qaeda’s jihad and support for bin Laden, Russert fell back on that old neocon canard: “So you see a moral equivalency between the West and Islamic fascism.”
When Paul pointed out that Bush was intent on invading Iraq just as soon as he got into office, and his war moves had little to do with 9/11, Russert’s response was open hostility:

WHY RON PAUL MADE THE MOST BRILLIANT MOVE IN POLITICAL HISTORY ..First off he did not quit!
For those of you or others you know of who think so, you’ve been duped like the rest of the MSM…. What he has done is Beyond brilliant!!! Let me show you some points…
—Power & Influence….imagine 200,000 people or more in his new organization..calling a group of Senators on a committee to pass some new legislation–emailing, faxing, etc…..NO SINGLE CONGRESSPERSON HAS THAT MUCH POWER IN CONGRESS RIGHT NOW!!! (or 200,000 people chip in 20.00 to elect a new Senator or governor…raising 4 million dollars in 24 hrs!!! NOW THATS SOME POLITICAL POWER!!!
—He can still accept the nomination for the President… while accomplishing all of the above….now who is brilliant, who is not dropping out??? Answer: RON PAUL

Taking Measure of the Revolution
Much of the movement’s strength can’t be measured at all. Consider, for example, how much knowledge and technical expertise supporters of Dr. Paul have acquired over the past year, through their experience in everything from grassroots political organizing (as precinct leaders, for instance) to building websites and on-line communities and YouTube videos to reading deeply about economics, Constitutional government, and the free society. These intangibles count for a lot: a single experienced, energetic Ron Paul supporter is worth dozen (maybe a hundred) torpid party regulars.

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