Senate Judiciary Poised to Pass Total Information Awareness Bill
Amid public outcry, in 2003, Congress defunded the Bush Administration's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, a massive Orwellian technology-driven surveillance and data mining initiative. Now, it is attempting to pass through the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 (S. 2248), a bill that would affectively give legal standing and retroactive legal immunity to a major component of this project.
During Nazi Germany, Hitler enlisted IBM's punch card computer technologies to identify Jews, trace their ancestral roots, and ultimately exterminate them. With the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure and consequently the chilling of First Amendment rights of free speech and the press the specter of Nazi Germany hovers over America. If history teaches anything, it is that such unregulated unitary executive authority portends grave risks to national security.
Talk of Worst Recession Since the 1930s
A Wall Street superstar this year who runs Balestra Capital Partners, Jim Melcher, says he's "worried about a recession. Not a normal one, but a very bad one. The worst since the 1930s. I expect we'll see clear signs of it in six months with a dramatic slowdown in the gross domestic product."
18 arrested in antiwar protest by veterans
More than a dozen members of an antiwar veterans group were arrested yesterday as they protested the exclusion of their message from Boston's Veterans Day parade
Suspect in Pearl's killing dies after interrogation: report
A Pakistani businessman suspected of playing a role in the brutal 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl died earlier this year, shortly after being interrogated by US and Pakistani intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Recession fears grow as inventories swell
Unsold goods are piling up in warehouses as the housing meltdown and soaring oil prices strain consumers, raising fears that already glum fourth-quarter growth prospects may tip toward recession.
The Ten Plagues Of Zionism
There are now 400,000 Israeli-Jewish settlers who live illegally on Palestinian land.
The settlements are a violation of the 4th Geneva Convention.
Spinning Hillary Centrist
Mark Penn is chief strategist for the Hillary Clinton campaign. This article explains how Penn uses bogus polling and other dirty tricks to manipulate pubic opinion and "sell" candidates and ideas. He is the man behind the PR campaign that created a false illusion, as far back as January, that Clinton was the "front runner" and had broad support with the public.
Planted question damages Clinton in key primary state
Any appearance of crowd manipulation is highly sensitive for Clinton, as it plays to her negative image - keenly projected by her Republican opponents - as a robotic politician who will stop at nothing to get her point across.
It is particularly incendiary in Iowa, a state deeply proud of its homely caucus style of elections and suspicious of outside interference.
Scientists create cloned embryos from adult monkeys
A new technique that enables scientists to create for the first time dozens of cloned embryos from adult monkeys has been developed, increasing the prospect of the same procedure being used to make cloned human embryos.
Ron Paul on Face The Nation 11/11/07 (Video)
Crisis in the U.S.: “Plan B”?
By Richard C. Cook
The way Hillary Clinton is being portrayed in the mega-media is of decisive importance, because media-owning conglomerates such as GE, Viacom, and Disney serve the interests of the establishment, not the public. Nothing makes it to the airwaves without the approval of the financial interests which control these giants. Also decisive was the appearance of Hillary and Bill on the cover of the October 6 edition of The Economist, long the keystone publication of the Anglo-American international financial empire.
The vehicle by which Clinton signed on to a possible attack on Iran was her vote in favor of the Senate resolution naming the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist sponsor. Perhaps there is also an understanding between the Clintons and the Bush/Cheney camp that the latter will not be prosecuted for crimes committed in office.
CHEMTRAILS: Is U.S. Gov't. Secretly Testing Americans 'Again'? (With Video)
Could a strange substance found by an Ark-La-Tex man be part of secret government testing program? That's the question at the heart of a phenomenon called "Chemtrails." In a KSLA News 12 investigation, Reporter Jeff Ferrell shows us the results of testing we had done about what's in our skies.
KSLA News 12 had the sample tested at a lab. The results: A high level of barium, 6.8 parts per million, (ppm). That's more than three times the toxic level set by the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA.
Amid the rise, a notable shift has occurred: More civilians are now checked each year than criminals. And checks on the vast majority come back clean, even as states allot more money for their growing screening operations.
Musharraf Refuses to Give Date for Ending Rule by Decree
The Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, refused Sunday to give a date for the end of the de facto martial law that he imposed on the country more than a week ago and suggested that it would continue indefinitely, including during parliamentary elections in early January.
Maliki demands U.S. hand over prisoners for execution
Iraq's prime minister accused the U.S. military on Sunday of thwarting attempts to execute former members of Saddam Hussein's government and demanded they be handed over so their sentences could be carried out.
Some Iraqi officials are suspicious that the U.S. military is protecting Sultan Hashem, amid persistent allegations he collaborated with Washington to try to topple Saddam in 1996 and again in the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Government seeks to redefine privacy
A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.
Fulford's Ninjas: Don't Hold Your Breath
When we last tuned in, Benjamin Fulford had issued an ultimatum to the Illuminati on behalf of an ancient Chinese Secret society, consisting of six million members, including thousands of assassins, gangsters and ninjas: "Desist with your plans for world depopulation or else you and your families will be assassinated."
I want to keep believing in Benjamin and his Ninjas, but I'm not going to hold my breath. Good Advice, Don't Hold Your Breath On Fulford And The Ninjas!
US officials worried over limited knowledge about Pak's nukes
Concerned about the safety of Pakistan's nuclear weapons in the wake of the growing unrest in the Islamic nation, the US has prepared a contingency plan to safeguard them, but senior officials are worried over their limited knowledge about the location of the arsenal.
Solidarity
by Charles Sullivan
We are living in extraordinarily dangerous times, when evil, rather than justice, prevails. The schoolyard is terrorized by thugs and punks with names like Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, Robertson, Clinton, Rockefeller, Rice, Rumsfeld, Perle, Kristol and Giuliani pedigreed people all.
An aberration of nature, the blood of the punks and thugs is not red like ours; it is green, the color of money. They have an insatiable thirst for blood our blood; the blood of all innocents. Blood money is their currency. Through some kind of strange alchemy, they are able to convert blood into money to own the world.
Iraq: Call an air strike
By Pepe Escobar
On a parallel level, the Pentagon has practically finished a base in southern Iraq less than 10 kilometers from the border with Iran called Combat Outpost Shocker. The Pentagon maintains this is for the US to prevent Iranian weapons from being smuggled into Iraq. Rather, it's to control a rash of US covert, sabotage operations across the border targeting Iran's Khuzestan province.
International Bar Association calls for support to Pakistani lawyers, judges
IBA is concerned that unless the Constitution is restored and properly applied, rule of law in Pakistan would continue to deteriorate. This would lead towards greater human rights abuse and further departure from the principles of democracy
U.S. Water Boarding, 1899 Style
Water boarding has long been a form of torture that causes excruciating pain and can lead to death. It forces water into prisoner's lungs, usually over and over again. The Spanish Inquisition in the late 1400s used this torture to uncover and punish heretics, and then in the early 1500s Spain's inquisitors carried it overseas to root out heresy in the New World. It reappeared during the witch hysteria. Women accused of sorcery were “dunked” and held under water to see if they were witches.
In World War II Japan and Germany routinely used water boarding on prisoners. In Viet Nam U.S. forces held bound Viet Cong captives and “sympathizers” upside down in barrels of water. Water boarding also has been associated with the Khmer Rouge.
High court to look at ban on handguns
Behind closed doors, the nine justices will consider taking a case that challenges the District of Columbia's stringent handgun ban. Their ultimate decision will shape how far other cities and states can go with their own gun restrictions.
Sibel Edmonds Case: the untellable story of AIPAC
Last week, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, announced that she was willing to tell everything that she knows if any of the major networks are willing to give her airtime, without airbrushing the essence of her case. Bradblog will have an update on the progress, or lack of it, next week.
Meanwhile, last week we learnt that the judge in the AIPAC case has allowed subpoenas to be issued to 15 current and former high-level officials. Many of us are excited about the prospect of the trial - but Sibel assures us that the case, as it stands, is just the tip of the iceberg.
