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yes, we have a right to know
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5/31/08

Chemical Dumbing Down of America Why is America so brainwashed by the corporate media? Why do we care more about American Idol and sports games than being poisoned with mercury in our vaccinations and sodium fluoride in our water supply? America needs to wake up and get the facts about our chemical manipulation before it's too late. vid

Plan Mexico: Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico

Have we got 'earthquake' machines and are using them against other countries??? vid

USA Military Officers Challenge Official Account of September 11

5/29/08

PBS’ Carrier: Why Didn’t They Film the Rape-Stops?

WHY I QUIT HUNTING

Rapid Unveiling and the Demise of Adolescent America

Gravediggers of the world unite! Capitalism Must Die….

Since I gave up hope, I feel better.

Fastened To A Dying Animal—

Their tears

ROME DIARY: ITALY’S LEAP INTO THE DARK

Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late?

The Ruthless Id

We Can Survive, but Can We Communicate?

PLEONEXIA (For Whom the Bell Tolls)

FOR WHOM THE EIGHT BELLES TOLL

McCain the War Hero Veteran Refuses To Support New G.I. Benefits Bill

5/28/08

A “Holey” Instrument Of Peace In Iraq

BEWARE THE PSYCHOPATH, MY SON...

George Soros: 'We face the most serious recession of our lifetime'

Earthquake Survival, where do you go?

Criminalizing Homelessness

"They are destroying the Constitution"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks out vid

5/27/08

Who Destroyed The WTC?
By D. Cassidy

USA Military Officers Challenge Official Account of September 11

WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags

The Truth About Homeopathy, Dispelling The MYTHS That Surround It

Post-traumatic stress soars in U.S. troops

European Parliament passes far reaching DU resolution in landslide vote

5/26/08

HALLIBURTON THEFTS - NEWS FROM AN X-CIA INSIDER

Fox News Guest Openly Calls For Obama Assassination

Nine Dead As Tornadoes Tear Across US At least nine people have died after a series of powerful tornadoes ripped through America's Midwest. Authorities in the state of Iowa said six people were killed in the neighbouring towns of Parkersburg and New Hartford.

Letter to President Bush

Bush & McCain's Iran Insanity

Bush's Endless Hypocrisy on Terror. Is a government guilty of terrorism if it harbors known terrorists? What should one say about a country that permits open fund-raising on behalf of a terrorist implicated in the mass killing of civilians?

Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, & Takedown Of The U.S.A.

Top-ranking officer warns U.S. military to stay out of politics. If 'they' feel the need to send this message out, then we know that many service people who are waking up, and do not want to be pawns in the game, and want peace in the world instead of killing, and are making a difference by speaking up! Go troops! (vets and active!)

5/25/08

Veterans' burials nonstop at national cemeteries RITTMAN, Ohio (AP) - The cracking of rifle fire silenced the twittering blue jays, blackbirds and killdeer.The scene at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery is repeated nationwide more than 100 times a day. Military veterans are being buried at such a rapid rate that national cemeteries use heavy equipment to make room.

5/24/08

US Government Immorality Will Lead to Bankruptcy

Former US ambassador, Dan Kurtzer And A Middle East Expert Give Bush Low Grades On Diplomacy

Brazil says Amazon deforestation rising

French Kindergarten: Children Develop Brain Tumors Near Mast

Deadly Tornadoes Rip Oklahoma, Kansas. OKLAHOMA CITY (May 24) - A slow-moving storm packing tornadoes and hail battered rural Oklahoma on Saturday, destroying several buildings, tearing up trees and tossing a mobile home onto a highway. The bodies of two storm victims were found in Kansas.

HRC Spreads Assassination Meme.Hillary Rodham Clinton let the political assassination meme out of the bottle! She unconsciously or consciously said she is staying in the presidential race just in case something happens. The copycat factor is a reality underlying assassinations, and she did the unthinkable.

Despite FBI Dissent, Torture Continued

U.S. not yet half way through home mortgage trouble: Seidman

Why Israel Should Not Exist

IRS Capitulates Moran’s Jeep Returned

"Spin" by Brian Springer. One of the most important films of the last 25 years vid

World Evolutionary Humanism, Eugenics and UNESCO: UNESCO Its Purpose and Its Philosophy Part 1

A Glimpse into the New Order: Reshaping the International Order Part 6

5/23/08

Ex-Bush Adviser Rove Must Testify In Case That Could Shame White House

FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a “War Crimes” file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the Guantánamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by the administration to stop writing their reports.

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN ARRESTED IN ISRAEL Finkelstein, who is Jewish and the son of Holocaust survivors, has written critical books on Israeli policies in the Palestinian territories and on what he called ‘exploitation’ of the Jewish tragedy during World War II.

FEMA RED / BLUE LIST" Marked For TERMINATION

Billions of Dollars Unaccounted For in Iraq, Pentagon IG Reports

George W Bush Authorized 911 Attacks Says Government Insider Keep in mind when reading this, that the man being interviewed is no two-bit internet conspiracy buff. Stanley Hilton was a senior advisor to Sen Bob Dole (R) and has personally known Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for decades. This courageous man has risked his professional reputation, and possibly his life, to get this information out to people.

Open Borders Prove "War On Terror" Is Superficial by Chuck Baldwin

Rupert Cornwell: The US constitution can't let Bush go From the opposite side of the Atlantic we watch in amazement. The ruling Labour Party suffers one by-election defeat – a stinging one admittedly, but no more stinging than the one inflicted on George Bush's Republicans here this month in a once rock-solid Congressional district in Mississippi – and a Prime Minister who has been in office less than 11 months risks losing his head, or at least his job. Yet Bush will remain in office, whatever happens, until next 20 January, despite a record of virtually unmitigated failure both at home and abroad. No matter that ordinary Americans are realising the damage he has inflicted on their country's reputation and moral standing.

Amazon Indians lead battle against power giant's plan to flood rainforest The Amazonian city of Altamira played host to one of the more uneven contests in recent Brazilian history this week, as a colourful alliance of indigenous leaders gathered to take on the might of the state power corporation and stop the construction of an immense hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Amazon.

I give up, says Brazilian minister who fought to save the rainforest In a letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Ms Silva said that her efforts to protect the rainforest acknowledged as the "lungs of the planet" were being thwarted by powerful business lobbies.

UU.S. Senate approves US$165 billion in new war money (isn't it a good thing that EVERY AMERICAN is independently weathy and can afford to give and give and give and give more billions to build bigger bombs to kill more people in the world?) is this how we want to spend...OUR MONEY?...Think about it!

5/22/08

Mom forced to live in car with dogs Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled on a pillow propped against the driver's seat. A former loan processor, the 67-year-old mother of three grown children said she never thought she'd spend her golden years sleeping in her car in a parking lot.

 

Iraqi TV station says U.S. troops killed cameraman BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi television station accused U.S. troops on Thursday of shooting dead one of its cameramen as he walked to his Baghdad home.

The body of a second journalist, Haidar Hashim al-Husseini, a reporter for al-Sharq newspaper, was found dumped in a field with nine other corpses in Diyala province, police and colleagues said.

Of Obama, Democrats, and the Power Elite CHARISMATIC, ARTICULATE, SMOOTH, AND INTELLIGENT, Barrack Obama is the living embodiment of his vague, ethereal, and tantalizing messages of “hope” and “change.” To the millions upon millions of US Americans desperate to purge the naked imperialism and blatant criminality of the Bush administration from the White House, Obama IS hope and change. Yet like many establishment liberals before him, Obama is no cure for the malignant creep toward fascism plaguing our nation. If elected, at best he will merely serve to postpone the inevitable a bit. 

Four score and seven years later… The United States of America is now better described as a corporatocracy. The government is owned and the people are dictated to by these capitalist creations whose God is Mammon.

Texas wrongly seized sect FLDS children Judge has 10 days to comply with ruling; applies to 48 polygamist mothers

 

5/21/08

Mubarak snubs Bush at World Economic Forum

5/18/08

Will the real John McCain please stand up?

John Pilger "The Invisible Government" Part 1/4 vid

5/17/08

Beichuan: a vision of hell

More Than 43,000 Unfit Troops Deployed

Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the U.S.A.

Heartbreaking pictures of China earthquake victims (graphic and disturbing)

Eat the Rich, with a Few Purple carrots on the side

Gas Price Manipulation And Gull Island Oil It's well and good that Congress vote to stop filling the US Strategic Oil reserve because the US already has billions of barrels in the ground in Alaska--entire oil fields capped and drilled, but kept off the market.

Astronomers Baffled by Bizarre Star

Marine who died after cross-state chase wrote of war stress

Clinton fans' dream of female presidency begins to fade

Toxic train derailment forces evacuations in Louisiana town

Rumsfeld On Tape: Terror Attack Could Restore Neo-Con AgendaShocking excerpts of confidential recordings recently released under the Freedom of Information Act feature former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talking with top military analysts about how a flagging Neo-Con political agenda could be successfully restored with the aid of another terrorist attack on America.


Victory: House Votes Against Funding Iraq War Are they finally stepping up to the plate, or have 'they' accomplished their hidden agendas....hmmm

PET OWNERS - - COCOA MULCH WARNING!!

5/16/08

Strong aftershock hits China quake epicenter BEICHUAN, China - A strong aftershock sparked landslides Friday near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthquake, while some survivors were pulled from rubble after being buried for four days

Bush compares Obama to Nazi appeasers (this coming from someone whose grandfather financed the Nazi's!)

Conyers on Rove: "We'll hold him in contempt or arrest him"

Striking changes in Arizona as illegal immigrants flee the state

 

5/15/08

Huge Cost Of 60 Years Of Apartheid Israel, War And Palestinian Genocide

5/14/08

Volcano Etna Erupts in Italy

350 Palestinian children are suffering inside Israeli prisons
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Vatican Scientist: Belief in God and Aliens is OK

Israeli forces destroy fruit trees and greenhouses in southern Gaza Strip

Coin dealers examining gold find off Louisiana coast

 Father jailed for 180 days after daughter fails GED vid

Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics

UK Supermarket Chain Bans Aspartame From Own-Label Products; Japanese Manufacturer Ajinomoto Sues!

5/8/08

 Giant Texas sinkhole swallows trucks, oil field equipment

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5/6/08

Pangea day, May 20, 2008

The Pangea Day Mission & Purpose

Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.

Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.

The Pangea Day Event

Starting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person's eyes. Details on the Pangea Day films can be viewed here.

The program will also include a number of exceptional speakers and musical performers. Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, musician/activist Bob Geldof, and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova are among those taking part.

Pennsylvanians Will Fight Real ID in Scranton PA vid

How To Make Mud Cookies

Vog — volcanic smog — kills plants, casts a haze over Hawaii

Cloud of ash and smoke above Michimahuida Volcano visible from Puerto Montt

Escort agency business vid Rough sex When New York Governor Eliot Spitzer geared up to go after the Bush administration for their collaboration with criminals in the US mortgage industry, Spitzer was politically assassinated by having his private business as an escort agency client revealed.
Now the owner of one of the most active DC-based escort services has "hung herself." Not long ago, so did one of her employees.

Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.

5/5/08

Myanmar cyclone death toll to rise past 15,000

Farm Broadcaster Ousted after Ripping Monsanto’s Goon Squads

Bernanke urges more action to stem home foreclosure crisis

How the American Medical Association Got Rich

5/4/08

'Baffling' rise in beached whales WHALE and dolphin watchers are puzzled and alarmed at an unprecedented spike in the number of deep-water species being stranded and found dead on Irish beaches in the last 14 weeks.

Vietnam Veterans Against McCain

EPA official ousted while fighting Dow SAGINAW, Mich. - The battle over dioxin contamination in this economically stressed region had been raging for years when a top Bush administration official turned up the pressure on Dow Chemical to clean it up.
On Thursday, following months of internal bickering over Mary Gade's interactions with Dow, the administration forced her to quit as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Midwest office, based in Chicago. On Thursday, Gade said of her resignation: "There's no question this is about Dow. I stand behind what I did and what my staff did. I'm proud of what we did."

Majority of Americans reject federal water grab

Narrow Victory for Obama in the Caucuses in Guam

Perhaps 60% Of Today's Oil Price Is Pure Speculation

CNN Scedules AIDS Genocide Segment: Horowitz's Research Captivates...Ron Paul and Rev. Wright Supporters.

WASHINGTON (DC)--CNN is scheduled to air a stunning interview with Dr. Leonard Horowitz, the scientist Rev. Jeremiah Wright referenced while defending his claim that AIDS is a genocidal and racist conspiracy.

Invited by CNN to display and discuss secreted government contracts that implicate AIDS officials and health agencies in the genocidal origin and vaccine transmission of the pandemic, Dr. Horowitz's segment is scheduled for the 3PM hour on Sunday (May 4, 2008).

5/3/08

Meat That May Contain Fatal Germ Is Recalled Gourmet Boutique recalled about 286,320 pounds of fresh and frozen meat and poultry after regulators found it might be contaminated with potentially fatal listeria germs, according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The nationwide recall includes a variety of sizes, from nine-ounce packages of Gourmet Boutique Wrapanini Meatball Parmigiana to seven-pound containers of Gourmet Boutique Fruit and Nut Honey Chicken Salad Kit, the agency said in a statement. The meats being recalled are chicken, turkey, beef and pork.

Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, & Takedown Of The U.S.A.

5/2/08

Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence' In a new memoir set to be published May 6, the former commander of US forces in Iraq provides new intimate details of the goings-on at high levels of the Bush Administration in the first year of the Iraq war. His sharp tongued conclusion: "Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty."

U.S. missiles wounds 23 near Baghdad hospital BAGHDAD - The U.S. military on Saturday fired missiles at a target about 50 yards away from the general hospital in Baghdad's Sadr City district, wounding more than 20 people and destroying ambulances, hospital officials said.

Bush details $70 billion war funding request for 2009 We have to ask our congress why there is always money for war and killing, but nothing for schools, health care, infrastructure, our elderly, etc?.......Folks you have to ask them why? It is your bucks they are giving away!

LOCAL HEROES: SEATTLE TEACHER SUSPENDED FOR REFUSING TO GIVE STANDARDIZED TEST

Nixon Papers Recall Concerns on Israel’s Weapons

Tomb Discovered in France Considered Knights Templar - When Excavated, Findings May Challenge the Tenets of Christianity

The Most Amazing, Informative Video Ever Made About Bush vid

EPA Scientists Admit They Are Poisoning/Medicating Tap Water vid

'Pixie Dust' From Pig's Bladder Regrows Man's Finger

National Level Exercise Begins In May WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Exercise Program (NEP) will conduct National Level Exercise 2-08 (NLE 2-08) a combined functional and full scale exercise from May 1 through May 8.  NLE 2-08 will merge the objectives of U.S. Northern Command's (NORTHCOM) Ardent Sentry 2008 exercise, FEMA National Continuity Program's (NCP) Eagle Horizon 2008 exercise (formerly known as Forward Challenge), and FEMA Disaster Operation's Hurricane Preparedness Exercise (HPE).

Dumb as We Wanna Be It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer’s travel season.This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.

Even the British, our closest ally, admit that Israeli soldiers target children. A 13-year-old Palestinian boy was deliberately shot dead by an Israeli soldier without any provocation, say two British human rights volunteers who witnessed the incident.

I Believe

Government cracks down on credit card industry practices

In Wyoming, the Dark Side of America’s Thirst for Energy

 

5/1/08

China Says Abusive Child Labor Ring Is Exposed

Mom Says HPV Vaccine Caused Paralysis in 12-Year-Old

The HPV Vaccine: Herd Immunity or Human Sacrifice? Reports of adverse reactions to the new HPV vaccine are escalating.

The Fed Sinks The Dollar

Antidepressant drugs found in drinking water; pharmaceuticals have now become environmental pollutants

FDA Report Exposes Troubles at Merck Vaccine Plant

Heparin Contamination Fiasco Reveals Dirty Secret of Drug Industry: Their Pills are Made in China!

China Says Abusive Child Labor Ring Is Exposed

Denying Palestinians Free Movement In The West Bank

McCain accused of accepting improper donations from Rothschilds

Judge OKs $37M Settlement For Catholic Abuse Of Victims In Iowa

'DC Madam' found dead in Florida ("Suicide?")

US Somali air strikes ‘kill many’