The Civilian NewsWire

Never, ever, ever....ever talk to cops!

2009-11-08T21:19:00.001-05:00

Blackwater (now Xe) used Child Prostitutes in Iraq

2009-11-08T18:18:00.003-05:00

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102887&sectionid=3510203

The declarations added Iraqi minors got involve in sexual acts with Blackwater members in exchange for one dollar and Erik Prince, the firm's owner, "failed to stop the ongoing use of prostitutes, including child prostitutes, by his men."

Based on other statements, the firm was involved in another sex scandal; "Prince's North Carolina operations had an ongoing wife-swapping and sex ring, which was participated in by many of Mr. Prince's top executives."

Occult Symbols in Corporate Logos (pt. 1)

2009-07-01T00:47:00.000-04:00

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=809

During the 20th century, urban environments got taken over by corporate logos. Studies have reported that an average person is exposed to about a thousand logos a day. Few people however ponder on the symbolic meaning of these marketing tools and their occult origins. This article analyzes the esoteric origin of some well known corporate logos.

Pyramid and All-Seeing Eye – Their Occult Meaning and Use in Corporate Logos

2009-07-01T00:38:00.002-04:00

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=1021

The Pyramid and the All-Seeing Eye on the American dollar bill are the ultimate “conspiracy theory” symbol. And there’s a good reason for that. They reveal at the same time who the conspirators are, where they’re from and where they want to go. The fact that the Great Seal is an occult and Masonic is a fact, proven by the writings of the Founding Fathers themselves and masonic documentation. No conspiracy theory here. Here’s look at its esoteric meaning and its use in corporate logos.

CIA Crucified captive in Abu Ghraib Prison

2009-07-01T00:37:00.000-04:00

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14133

“A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation after having been hung by his arms, in a hood, and suffering broken ribs,” the magazine’s Jane Mayer writes in the magazine’s June 22nd issue. “Military pathologists classified the case a homicide.” The date of the murder was not given.

Occult Symbols in Corporate Logos (pt.2): Saturn Worship

2009-06-30T23:20:00.002-04:00

http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=863

You might not know it, but the entire world has been worshiping Saturn for thousands of years. The cult has never stopped and its rites are still present to this day. Saturn, dubbed the “Lord of the Rings”, is the reason why we exchange rings at weddings or put halos on the heads of godly people. This article exposes the attributes of the god Saturn and the perpetuation of his cult through corporate logos.

“With the deposing of his father, Saturn became the ruler of the Universe for untold ages and he reigned with his sister, Ops, who also became his wife.It was prophesied that one day Saturn would lose power when one of his children would depose him. To prevent this from happening, each time Ops delivered a child Saturn would immediately swallow it. When her sixth child, Jupiter(Zeus), was born, Ops had him spirited away to the island of Crete. She then wrapped a stone in his swaddling clothes. Her deception was complete when Saturn swallowed it, thinking it was the child. When Jupiter was grown, he secured the job of cup-bearer to his father. With the help of Gaia, his grandmother, Jupiter fed his father a potion that caused him to vomit up Jupiter’s five siblings, Vesta (Hestia), Ceres (Demeter), Juno (Hera), Pluto (Hades), and Neptune (Poseidon).”-Wikipedia, Saturn (mythology)

Mr. Sunshine? Ron Paul Wins Support to Audit Fed Reserve

2009-06-30T23:11:00.001-04:00

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/24/mr-popular-rep-paul-wins-supporters-fed-sunshine/

The feisty congressman from Texas, whose insurgent "Ron Paul Revolution" presidential campaign rankled Republican leaders last year, now has the GOP House leadership on his side -- backing a measure that generated paltry support when he first introduced it 26 years ago.

With the Federal Reserve holding interest rates at rock-bottom levels, pumping trillions into the economy and now poised to have new powers to oversee the financial system under President Obama's proposed regulatory overhaul, Paul said lawmakers want transparency.
"If they give them a lot more power and there's no more transparency, that'll be a disaster," he said.

Ron Paul: Democrats Who Opposed Climate Bill Voted For It Anyway

2009-06-30T21:59:00.000-04:00

http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-democrats-who-opposed-climate-bill-voted-for-it-anyway.html

In a Campaign for Liberty video commentary, Ron Paul reveals that even though up to 20 Democrats opposed the controversial climate bill, they voted for it anyway, underscoring once again how the vast majority of Congress members are bought and paid for by the elite in Washington.

Cynthia McKinney Reportedly Taken Captive By Israeli Navy

2009-06-30T21:51:00.001-04:00

http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/06/30/cynthia-mckinney-reportedly-taken-captive-by-israeli-navy/

[23 miles off the coast of Gaza, 15:30pm] - Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly dragged toward Israel.

“This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip,” said Cynthia McKinney, a former U.S. Congresswoman and presidential candidate. “President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that’s exactly what we tried to do. We’re asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey.”

The reconstruction: 7/7 - What really happened?

2009-06-30T21:49:00.000-04:00

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-reconstruction-77--what-really-happened-499129.html

Suicide bombers do not buy return tickets. Theirs is a one-way trip. When four young men met at Luton railway station a week ago last Thursday, however, they gave every impression of going to London and coming back. They paid and displayed, leaving valid tickets on the windows of a Nissan Micra and a Fiat Bravo in the station car park. They boarded the 7.48am to London carrying return tickets.

Final Fantasy: Thriller sequence

2009-06-26T23:43:00.000-04:00

Inventory Uncovers 9,200 More Pathogens at Ft Detrick

2009-06-23T22:27:00.001-04:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703271.html

An inventory of potentially deadly pathogens at Fort Detrick's infectious disease laboratory found more than 9,000 vials that had not been accounted for, Army officials said yesterday, raising concerns that officials wouldn't know whether dangerous toxins were missing.

Two Days Before 9/11, Military Exercise Simulated Suicide Hijack Targeting New York

2009-06-23T22:24:00.000-04:00

http://www.911blogger.com/node/20385

The US military conducted a training exercise in the five days before the September 11 attacks that included simulated aircraft hijackings by terrorists, according to a 9/11 Commission document recently found in the US National Archives. In one of the scenarios, implemented on September 9, terrorists hijacked a London to New York flight, planning to blow it up with explosives over New York.

12 of the most iconic photographs ever taken

2009-06-23T22:21:00.001-04:00

http://swick.co.uk/index.php/2009/06/12-of-the-most-iconic-photographs-ever-taken/

Ritalin ADHD Drug Linked to 500 Percent Increased Risk of Sudden Death in Children

2009-06-23T22:19:00.002-04:00

http://www.naturalnews.com/026459_adhd_drugs_ritalin.html

(NaturalNews) Just how dangerous are the amphetamine stimulant drugs prescribed for children with so-called ADHD? According to scientific research funded by the FDA and the National Institute of Mental Health, drugs such as Ritalin increase the risk of sudden death by five hundred percent among children and teens.

In these cases of sudden death, the child suddenly collapses and dies, only to be discovered later by parents or siblings. That's what happened to Matthew Hohmann in 2004 (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=7829005&page=1), and according to this new research, it keeps happening to more and more children at a rate that's 500 percent higher than would be considered typical for children of a similar age and health status.

ADHD drugs like Ritalin are, of course, amphetamine stimulants. They used to be sold on the street as "speed," but now they're prescribed by psychiatrists to children after a subjective diagnosis of a fictitious disease: ADHD -- a "disorder" which has no measurable biological symptoms whatsoever.

'Social workers took away my twins after I'd joked that birth spoilt my body'

2009-06-23T22:16:00.001-04:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194332/They-took-away-twins-Id-joked-birth-spoilt-body.html

A mother had her twin babies taken from her by social workers after she joked that their caesarean birth had ruined her body.

The parents insist social workers acted needlessly, but have been warned their six-month-old boy and girl could be put up for adoption following a secret Family Court hearing last week.

Someday they'll break from the weight of their sins

2009-06-23T22:14:00.000-04:00

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gaddy/gaddy62.1.html

Leonard Peltier is not in prison for killing the two Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Agents as is alleged, he has been incarcerated for 33 years because he belonged to a group (American Indian Movement) that dared to challenge the federal government and their lies. When one has the audacity to challenge the fedgov, he/she becomes a target for malicious prosecution, fabricated evidence, witness tampering and illegal imprisonment. Leonard Peltier has experienced all of these in the extreme.

Mousavi, Celebrated in Iranian Protests, Was the Butcher of Beirut

2009-06-23T22:10:00.000-04:00

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/06/mousavi-celebrated-in-iranian.html

He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. Mousavi, prime minister for most of the 1980s, personally selected his point man for the Beirut terror campaign, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, and dispatched him to Damascus as Iran's ambassador, according to former CIA and military officials.

In Oklahoma, justice is denied for victims of child rape

2009-06-23T22:03:00.003-04:00

http://www.reddirtreport.com/news.php?id=11452

A Red Dirt Report reader contacted us and reminded us of the outrageous LeCompte case. We noted this case here at Red Dirt Report back in March, when LeCompte, who got a plea deal when he agreed to plead guilty, received a 20-year suspended sentence under supervision of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. This after this sleaze admitted to raping a six-year old girl.

“We feel that justice has been served,” Otteson told the Phoenix. “The defendant admitted what he did and will serve under very, very stringent rules and conditions of probation.”
The story says LeCompte will have “restrictions” regarding where he can work and live and who he can be around until he reaches the age of 64. He also is going to get “sex offender treatment,” whatever that is.

Hales reported in the Phoenix on March 16 that the mother read a victim impact statement in court saying her daughter bore the brunt of “this sick individual’s abuse. Vincent LeCompte stole my daughter’s innocence, her childhood and her trust. He took advantage of her, and she will have to deal with this the rest of her life.”

Work to start on the deepest underground lab

2009-06-23T21:59:00.003-04:00

http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.com/2009/06/work-to-start-on-deepest-underground.html

Technician Bill Heisinger drills holes in the shaft wall for a plaque June 22 in a dedication ceremony the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at the former Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, S. D. Before the labs are built, crews must also stabilize the tunnels and install new infrastructure.

Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings — a place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter.

CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution

2009-06-23T21:56:00.001-04:00

http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/cia-has-distributed-400-million-dollars-inside-iran-to-evoke-a-revolution/

Former Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beig claims the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has distributed 400 million dollars inside Iran to evoke a revolution.

In a phone interview with the Pashto Radio on Monday, General Beig said that there is undisputed intelligence proving the US interference in Iran.
“The documents prove that the CIA spent 400 million dollars inside Iran to prop up a colorful-hollow revolution following the election,” he added.

Out of this world: New Mexico breaks ground in construction of Virgin spaceport

2009-06-23T21:53:00.002-04:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1194137/Out-world-New-Mexico-breaks-ground-construction-Virgin-spaceport.html

The tantalising prospect of escaping the Earth’s atmosphere and experiencing weightlessness has been in the pipeline for two years. And now it’s officially arrived.

Workers in New Mexico have broken ground in the construction of a terminal and hanger facility for the world’s first rocket spaceport for sending wealthy customers to the edge of space.

Members of the general are being tempted with the ‘most incredible experience of their lives’ for $200,000 (£122,000) from as early as 2010.

The Relationship Between Gun Control And Genocides

2009-06-21T00:03:00.000-04:00

http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/RKBA/genocide.html

Advocates cannot see any harm in gun control, but it has a nasty downside. Its victims number in the tens of millions. Its downside is genocide: the mass-murder of civilians on account of religion, language, or political views. Since 1900, at least seven major genocides have occurred worldwide involving 50-60 million victims (see table).

Dissecting the Mainstream Media: Flashback to Gary Webb

2009-06-21T00:00:00.001-04:00

http://123realchange.blogspot.com/2009/06/dissecting-mainstream-media.html

“…Gary Webb didn’t know what was at risk. When he first spoke with Bob Parry--the Associated Press reporter who, along with Brian Barger, broke the Contragate and Contra/drug stories--Webb thought Parry was being "overly cautious." "I thought he was being kind of foolish," Webb recalled, when Parry asked him: "Are you sure you want to ruin your career?"

The bug that can blast away cancer: Drug made from virus extends patients' lives

2009-06-20T23:58:00.000-04:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1191454/The-bug-blast-away-cancer-Drug-virus-extends-patients-lives.html

A common virus which causes stomach upsets is giving hope to cancer patients - by boosting their immune system and blasting away tumours.
Almost 80 patients with advanced forms of liver cancer, head and neck tumours and breast cancer are taking part in trials using a drug made from the reovirus.

A number, who have struggled to benefit from chemotherapy, have seen astonishing results, with tumours shrinking and in one case disappearing altogether.

Coups Arranged or Backed By the USA

2009-06-20T23:55:00.000-04:00

http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa01.html

Year
Country
Reason Given
Actual Reason
1949
Syria
Communism
Elected government against USA political interests and pro-Palestinian.
1949
Greece
Communism
Elected government against USA political and economic interests.
1952
Cuba
None
Elected government against USA business interests.
1953
Iran
None
Elected government against USA oil interests.
1953
British Guyana
None
Access to sugar and bauxite.
1954
Guatemala
Communism
Elected government against USA business interests.
1955
South Vietnam
Communism
French backed leader replaced by USA backed leader.
1957
Haiti
Haiti is near the USA
Previous government against USA business interests.
1958
Laos
None
Pro-USA government wanted.
1959
Laos
None
Pro-USA government wanted.
1960
South Korea
Communism
Previous leader not strong enough for USA.
1960
Laos
None
Pro-USA government wanted.
1960
Ecuador
Communism
Previous government too independent in foreign policy.
1963
Dominican Republic
Business Interests
Elected government against USA business interests.
1963
South Vietnam
None
Previous leader's policies led to televised suicides.
1963
Honduras
Communism
Pro-USA government and access to resources.
1963
Guatemala
Communism
Military government was about to allow elections.
1963
Ecuador
None
Elected government too independent.
1964
Brazil
Communism
Access to resources and cheap labour.
1964
Bolivia
Communism
Previous government too independent in foreign policy.
1965
Zaire
None
Access to cobalt, copper and diamonds.
1966
Ghana
None
Previous government too independent in foreign policy.
1967
Greece
None
Military bases.
1970
Cambodia
None
Previous king against USA political interests.
1970
Bolivia
None
Country took ownership of its oil and tin.
1972
El Salvador
Communism
Elected leader against USA business interests.
1973
Chile
Communism
Elected government against USA business interests.
1975
Australia
None
Elected government had unsuitable foreign policy.
1979
South Korea
None
Pro-USA government wanted.
1980
Liberia
Democracy
Pro-USA government wanted.
1982
Chad
None
Pro-USA government wanted.
1983
Grenada
Democracy
Pro-USA government wanted.
1987
Fiji
Democracy
Previous elected government supported nuclear-free Pacific.
2002
Venezuela
None
Disagreed with foreign policy of elected government.
2004
Haiti
Fraudulent elections
Disagreed with economic policy of elected government.

Politicians share personality traits with serial killers: Study

2009-06-20T23:51:00.000-04:00

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/06/politicians-and-serial-killers.html

Kouri, who's a vice president of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, has assembled traits such as superficial charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation of others.

These traits, Kouri points out in his analysis, are common to psychopathic serial killers.

But -- and here's the part that may spark some controversy and defensive discussion -- these traits are also common to American politicians. (Maybe you already suspected.)

Lisbon's light-touch drugs policy

2009-06-20T23:45:00.001-04:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8106689.stm

In 2001, the Portugese government decriminalised recreational drugs including heroin and cocaine in an attempt to reduce the number of hard drug users in the country. Eight years later, Claudia Hammond visited Lisbon to see whether the change in the law had been effective.

And the results? Fears that Portugal would become a haven for drug tourists have not come true and the number of deaths from drugs has decreased.

Botched Paramilitary Police Raids:An Epidemic of Isolated Incidents

2009-06-20T23:42:00.001-04:00

http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

"If a widespread pattern of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . . there would be reason for grave concern."
—Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.

PETA's Dirty Secret

2009-06-20T23:40:00.002-04:00

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/petasdirtysecret.cfm

PETA kills animals. By the thousands.

From July 1998 through December 2008, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed over 21,000 dogs, cats, and other "companion animals." That's more than five defenseless creatures every day. PETA has a walk-in freezer to store the dead bodies, and contracts with a Virginia Beach company to cremate them.

New York 'carbon counter' sign shows greenhouse gases in real time

2009-06-20T23:37:00.001-04:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/18/new-york-carbon-counter

'nuff said.

Iran's Twitter Revolution: Propaganda??

2009-06-20T23:36:00.002-04:00

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message817610/pg1

Anyone using Twitter over the past few days knows that the topic of the Iranian election has been the most popular. Thousands of tweets and retweets alleging that the election was a fraud, calling for protests in Iran, and even urging followers hack various Iranian news websites (which they did successfully). The Twitter popularity caught the eye of various blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch and even made its way to mainstream news media sites.

Were these legitimate Iranian people or the works of a propaganda machine? I became curious and decided to investigate the origins of the information. In doing so, I narrowed it down to a handful of people who have accounted for 30,000 Iran related tweets in the past few days. Each of them had some striking similarities -

1. They each created their twitter accounts on Saturday June 13th.

2. Each had extremely high number of Tweets since creating their profiles.

3. “IranElection” was each of their most popular keyword

4. With some very small exceptions, each were posting in ENGLISH.

5. Half of them had the exact same profile photo

6. Each had thousands of followers, with only a few friends. Most of their friends were EACH OTHER.

Molester free while dad who bashed him could be jailed

2009-06-20T23:34:00.000-04:00

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0%2C23739%2C25651579-952%2C00.html

In a highly unusual case, Shane Thomas Davidson was spared jail despite pleading guilty to molesting the boy on State Of Origin night last year.
Judge Ian Dearden told Beenleigh District Court the sentence was reduced because the young victim's father had wrongly taken action into his own hands and badly beaten Davidson.

"There is no place in our community for a vigilante approach," he said.

An Open Letter to David Letterman

2009-06-19T17:01:00.004-04:00

Bill Hicks

December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994

Dear Dave,

While it goes without saying that you are an icon and a legend in late night talk, I have to say that I have no sympathy for you in your recent situation with Sarah Palin.

I personally have no problem with what you said, and think Mrs. Palin is just trying to get leverage and PR out of the situation.

However, this debacle has no doubt brought you back to the night of October 1st, 1993.

On that evening, the late William Melvin (Bill) Hicks was scheduled to perform on your program. This was to be Bill's 12th performance on your legendary show. Several years earlier, Jay Leno had brought Bill to the attention of your producers, being as Bill was a bit too edgy for the Tonight Show's more mainstream audience.

Bill performed his pre-approved routine and all was well. Then, before it aired, Bill received a phone call that the bit had been cut from the show. It ultimately became apparent that sponsor backlash to Bill's mild, but biting, commentary on Christianity and abortion had prompted the heads of the Late Night to pull Bill's entire set.

Your failure to stand up against the Almighty Sponsor and their censorship 15 1/2 years ago has come back to bite you in the ass. You, David Letterman, a late night talk show host with 27 glorious years of broadcasting and comedy under your belt, have been reduced to a shadow of your previous stature. You grovelled and you apologized for a joke, something a comedian should never, under any circumstance, ever have to do. You apologized for being who you are.

Your shameful treatment of our generation's greatest (in this author's humble opinion) and most under-rated, under-appreciated, yet smartest and brightest comedic minds was the black mark on your record that could never be undone. Your current situation simply proves that what goes around, truly does come around.

www.billhicks.com

www.sacredcow.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks

The cloud with no name: Meteorologists campaign to classify unique 'Asperatus' clouds seen across the world

2009-06-10T00:04:00.001-04:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1189877/The-cloud-Meteorologists-campaign-classify-unique-Asperatus-clouds-seen-world.html

DARPA's Programmable Matter Project: 3D Shapeshifting?

2009-06-07T23:42:00.002-04:00

http://www.afcea.org/signal/articles/templates/Signal_Article_Template.asp?articleid=1964&zoneid=263

Zakin envisions programmable matter in this way: In the future a soldier will have something that looks like a paint can in the back of his vehicle. The can is filled with particles of varying sizes, shapes and capabilities. These individual bits can be small computers, ceramics, biological systems—potentially anything the user wants them to be. The soldier needs a wrench of a specific size. He broadcasts a message to the container, which causes the particles to automatically form the wrench. After the wrench has been used, the soldier realizes that he needs a hammer. He puts the wrench back into the can where it disassembles itself back into its components and re-forms into a hammer. “That is the essence of programmable matter,” he says.

WEB RESOURCESDARPA

Programmable Matter program: www.darpa.mil/dso/thrusts/physci/newphys/program_matter/index.htm

DARPA Chemical Robots program: www.darpa.mil/dso/thrusts/materials/multfunmat/chembots/index.htm

DARPA Chemical Communications program: www.darpa.mil/dso/thrusts/physci/newphys/chemcom/index.htm

Inventor denied patent for human 'killer chip'

2009-06-07T23:34:00.001-04:00

http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/saudi-files-for-killer-tracking-chip-patent/

“While the application is still pending further paperwork on his part, the invention will probably be found to violate paragraph two of the German Patent Law – which does not allow inventions that transgress public order or good morals,” spokeswoman Stephanie Krüger told The Local from Munich.

After subcutaneous implantation, the chip would send out encrypted radio waves that would be tracked by satellites to confirm the person’s identity and whereabouts. An alternate model chip could reportedly release a poison into the carrier if he or she became a security risk.

Project Expose MSM by Sibel Edmonds

2009-06-03T23:44:00.003-04:00

http://123realchange.blogspot.com/

As noted in the announcement, 123 Real Change invites all members of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, other active (covert or overt) government whistleblowers, and reporters, to publish their experiences in regard to their own first-hand dealings with the media, where their legit disclosures were either intentionally censored/blacked out, tainted, or otherwise met with a betrayal of trust.

Vans With Explosives Confirmed At The World Trade Center on September 11th

2009-06-02T22:30:00.001-04:00

http://mnchange.org/vans-with-explosives-confirmed-at-the-world-trade-center-on-september-11th

Reports of vans packed with explosives were confirmed at the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 as well as sub level explosions, among many other explosions. Vans were also discovered around the area, one had been exploded, one had been stopped for having a picture on the side of it with a plane flying into the World Trade Center, one had been stopped and found with explosives in it, and many others. The FBI actually had confirmed that a device was found in the complex and the building had begun to evacuate. It was this evidence that made the Federal Agency to speculate that a van packed with explosives was parked in the garage which was detonated to help weaken the structure.

The New York City Authorities released the recordings of the radios from that day where one officer reports a van actually exploding and him needing assistance ASAP. Another series of radio communication confirms that a van was pulled over for having a mural on the side of it depicting a plane flying into the World Trade Center. Reference to the mural van was also made in the February 2006 Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies (MTI) report entitled: “Saving City Lifelines: Lessons Learned in the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks”.

Garry Trudeau 'Maligns Judaism' Says ADL

2009-06-02T22:18:00.002-04:00

http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/2009/06/garry-trudeau-maligns-judaism-says-adl.html

Dear Mr. Trudeau:
We agree with the numerous people who are contacting us that Sunday's Doonesbury misquotes the Bible, maligns Judaism, and promotes a Christian heresy, all within eight panels. It reinforces age-old stereotypes about Judaism that have been the cause of much suffering and pain over the centuries, and which have been rejected by a variety of Christian denominations over the last decades.
Jesus' concern in the Gospels is with money-changers, not money-lenders. The money-changers converted the coins of the Roman Empire into the currency accepted by the Jerusalem Temple, as money-changers today convert dollars into Euros. To speak of money-lenders harkens back the stereotype of Shylock, when Jews were forced by Christians to engage in usury.
Christian teaching is clear: the God of the Old Testament is the same God as the God of the New Testament. Doonesbury's Reverend Sloan is guilty of promoting anti-Jewish stereotypes and biblical illiteracy. He owes both Jews and Christians an apology.
Sincerely,
The Anti-Defamation League {source}

Man in Sodomy Case Sues NYC, Police

2009-06-02T22:16:00.000-04:00

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30995028/

Three New York City police officers pleaded innocent in December to criminal charges that one of them sodomized Michael Mineo on October 15 with a police baton on a subway platform and two others helped cover up the crime.

"When you distill it, it was a male on male rape," Kevin Mosley, a lawyer for Mineo, said on Thursday.

No Charges in Ronnie White Death

2009-06-02T22:13:00.002-04:00

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/No-Charges-in-Ronnie-White-Death.html

White, 19, was found dead in his jail cell in the maximum-security section of the Prince George's Corrections Center on June 29, two days after he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder for allegedly running down and killing Prince George's County police Sgt. Richard Findley in a stolen truck.

The state medical examiner ruled White's death a homicide, but corrections officers said White committed suicide. White suffered two broken bones in his neck and died of asphyxiation caused by strangulation, according to the medical examiner. In December, a grand jury concluded its deliberation in the investigation without taking action. The grand jury did not hear enough evidence to bring down indictments in the case, sources said.

The Green Agenda

2009-05-17T18:52:00.004-04:00

http://green-agenda.com/index.html

References & Sourches

"The common enemy of humanity is man.In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All thesedangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only throughchanged attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.The real enemy then, is humanity itself."- Club of Rome, premier environmental think-tank,consultants to the United Nations

"We need to get some broad based support,to capture the public's imagination...So we have to offer up scary scenarios,make simplified, dramatic statementsand make little mention of any doubts...Each of us has to decide what the right balanceis between being effective and being honest."- Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology,lead author of many IPCC reports

"We've got to ride this global warming issue.Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy."- Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...climate change provides the greatest opportunity tobring about justice and equality in the world."- Christine Stewart,former Canadian Minister of the Environment

"The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations on the data. We're basing them on the climate models.”- Prof. Chris Folland,Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

“The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful.”- Dr David Frame, climate modeler, Oxford University

"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."- Al Gore,Climate Change activist

"Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of theworld's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert amajor catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate systeminto a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods,droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we haveever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making." - Al Gore,An Inconvenient Truth

"Slave Next Door" Exposes U.S. Gov't Sanctioned Slavery

2009-05-17T18:41:00.000-04:00

http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/slave_next_door_exposes_us_govt_sanctioned_slavery

Boondoggles, pork barrels, and shoddy work are scandalous, but it was another, uglier issue that brought First Kuwaiti to the world's attention. Some of their contract workers had been trafficked to Iraq against their will, held by force, and paid little or nothing. First Kuwaiti - and by association, the U.S. Department of State - were using slave labor to build the embassy. Taxpayers were footing the bill. The idea of a U.S. subcontractor trafficking enslaved workers into the country where we are waging a war to introduce freedom and democracy, is unthinkable. And yet, in case after case, the construction company hired workers, normally through sub-contractors, from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Turkey, and the Philippines under false pretenses. Falsely promised work in Dubai, they were landed in a combat zone. Once in Iraq contractors confiscated the workers' passports, forced them to live in squalid conditions, and to work long hours for little or no pay.

Al Gore's Financial Ties to Global Warming

2009-05-09T03:41:00.002-04:00

http://newsbusters.org/node/11149

As NewsBusters reported here, here, and here, there are huge dollars to be made from global warming alarmism. However, conceivably no one is better positioned to financially benefit from this scam than Dr. Global Warming himself, former Vice President Al Gore, a fact that the media will surely not share with Americans any time soon.

Former Vice President Al Gore has built a Green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms. And the US portion is headed up by a former Gore staffer and fund raiser who previously ran afoul of both the FEC and the DOJ, before Janet Reno jumped in and shut down an investigation during the Clinton years.

What's Missing From Every Media Story about H1N1 Influenza

2009-05-09T03:34:00.002-04:00

http://www.naturalnews.com/026185.html

If you read the stories on H1N1 influenza written by the mainstream media, you might incorrectly think there's only one anti-viral drug in the world. It's name is Tamiflu and it's in short supply.

That's astonishing to hear because the world is full of anti-viral medicine found in tens of thousands of different plants. Culinary herbs like thyme, sage and rosemary are anti-viral. Berries and sprouts are anti-viral. Garlic, ginger and onions are anti-viral. You can't walk through a grocery store without walking past a hundred or more anti-viral medicines made by Mother Nature.

The totality of influenza preparedness is defined by the mainstream media as the number of doses of Tamiflu a nation has stockpiled. You see it in stories like this one at the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124...

Where do you think Tamiflu comes from, by the way?

It's extracted from the Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called Star Anise. It's one of hundreds of different anti-viral herbs found in Chinese Medicine, not to even mention anti-viral herbs from South America, North America, Australia, Africa and other regions.

Cynthia McKinney on AIPAC, Inside Washington and More!

2009-05-09T03:33:00.002-04:00

http://theinfounderground.com/archives/TiU.Radio.30th.April.09-guest.Cynthia.McKinney.mp3

UN IPCC Scientist: 'No convincing scientific arguments to support claim that increases in greenhouse gases are harmful to the climate'

2009-05-09T03:30:00.000-04:00

http://climatedepot.com/a/611/UN-IPCC-Scientist-No-convincing-scientific-arguments-to-support-claim-that-increases-in-greenhouse-gases-are-harmful-to-the-climate

IPCC reviewer and climate researcher and chemist Dr. Vincent Gray of New Zealand is an expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports going back to 1990 and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "Climate Change 2001. Dr. Gray's research is featured on page 155 of the 2009 edition of the 255-page "U.S. Senate Minority Report Update: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims"

Japan sentences Hasidic Israeli to 8 years in jail after Ecstasy bustjap

2009-05-09T03:27:00.002-04:00

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1082624.html

A Japanese court sentenced an Israeli to eight years in prison on Friday after convicting him of attempting to smuggle Ecstasy into the country, according to friends of his family. The Israeli, who was a minor at the time of the crime, is the youngest of three yeshiva students arrested a year ago while attempting to enter Japan with suitcases containing large quantities of Ecstasy pills.

Goldstein, Grinwald and the minor were arrested in April 2008 at Tokyo's Narita International airport after arriving on a flight from Amsterdam. Customs officials found that they were carrying 90,000 Ecstasy pills after suspicions were raised over their large suitcases.

Six Israelis charged with drug trafficking in California

2009-05-09T03:23:00.001-04:00

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/26/2008-08-26_six_israelis_charged_with_drug_trafficki.html

LOS ANGELES - A man suspected of being one of Israel's most powerful crime bosses is charged with using a Los Angeles gang to distribute a million Ecstasy pills and paying one of the gang's members to kill a man for stealing a large drug shipment.

Abergil and his brother Mier Abergil were arrested Sunday in Israel. They face extradition to Los Angeles, where Itzhak Abergil would be charged with murder and his brother with racketeering and conspiracy.

College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader

2009-05-09T03:21:00.000-04:00

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19365762/detail.html

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. -- A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they’re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment.

Prison officer zaps children with 50,000-volt stun gun 'to show them what a day at work is like'

2009-05-09T03:19:00.001-04:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1176891/Prison-officer-zaps-children-50-000-volt-stun-gun-day-work-like.html

So to make the youngsters' experience all the more realistic as they toured Franklin Correctional Institution during the lock-up's 'Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day', he decided to zap them with his 50,000-volt stun gun.

The jolt sent at least two of them sprawling to the floor, crying out in pain and clutching at agonising burns on their arms. One child ended up in hospital.

'The big shock came when I got fired.'

Almost 200 Afghan drug cartels traffic heroin to Russia

2009-05-09T03:16:00.001-04:00

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090506/121461476.html

MOSCOW, May 6 (RIA Novosti) - About 180 Afghan drug cartels are trafficking heroin to Russia, as drug production has increased more than 40 times since 2001, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service said on Wednesday.

And who has been in control in Afghanistan since shortly after 2001?

Lahore Attack Mossad & Co. strikes again

2009-05-09T03:13:00.001-04:00

http://www.daily.pk/politics/politicalnews/9948--lahore-attack-mossad-a-co-strikes-again.html

“Al-Qaida is the top secret code name of special covert operations of the U.S. CIA, Israeli Mossad, British SIS, Indian RAW. Al-Qaida is a fake name, an imaginary illusion, a deceptive fraud, a fictitious hoax and a fraudulent scam of the unlawful war of terror, which is still being cunningly and clandestinely supported and promoted by the CIA, Mossad, SIS, RAW, and the Corrupt Mercenary Media (CMM) to frame, blame, defame, harm and kill Pakistanis, Kashmiris, Afghans, Arabs, Muslims and other innocent humans by falsely and maliciously labeling them as the Al-Qaida militants, extremists, or terrorists. Actually, Al-Qaida or Al-CIA-da is the CIA. Al-Qaida is the Mossad. Al-Qaida is the SIS. Al-Qaida is the RAW. Al-Qaida is the ISI. Al-Qaida is the CMM. The CIA, Mossad, SIS, RAW, ISI and the CMM are the real Al-Qaida or ‘the Evil 6′. For the sake of international peace, reform or abolish the CIA, Mossad, SIS, RAW and the ISI; oppose and expose the CMM; and end the illegal war of terror now to reduce global terrorism. Indeed, imperialistic military occupation of any country, state, or nation is state terrorism. Civil terror is a natural reaction to government terror.” - Professor Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, president of JUD, Pakistan.

We Will Not Obey Illegal Orders!

2009-05-09T03:08:00.002-04:00

http://www.voltairenet.org/article159956.html

SUMMARY LIST OF ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY:

1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people
3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal.
4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a state of emergency on a state.
5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to keep the peace or to maintain control.
9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

OATH KEEPERS is an association of Military, Veterans, and peace officers who will honor their oaths to defend the Constitution, will NOT just follow orders, will stand for liberty, and will save the Republic, so help us God.
Our motto is:
"Not on Our Watch!"
http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/

KSU Rare Audio Recording from May 4th 1970 - 12:24pm

2009-05-09T03:03:00.000-04:00

Rare audio file of the shooting recorded on May 4th 1970 - 12:24 PM at Kent State Ohio. Interview with Alan Canforah of the May 4th Center in Kent, Ohio.

Bayer Exposed - HIV Contaminated Vaccine

2009-05-09T03:00:00.001-04:00

Bayer Sells AIDS-Infected Drug Banned in U.S. in Europe, Asia - Unearthed documents show that the drug company Bayer sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine -- Factor VIII concentrate, intended for hemophiliacs -- to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, although they knew that it was tainted with AIDS. Bayer knew about the fact that the drug was tainted and told the FDA to keep things under wraps while they made a profit off of a drug that infected its patients. If these allegations are true, then both Bayer and the FDA are at fault for this catastrophe. FDA regulators helped to keep the continued sales hidden, asking the company that the problem be ''quietly solved without alerting the Congress, the medical community and the public,'' according to the minutes of a 1985 meeting.

Buying Brand Obama

2009-05-09T02:49:00.001-04:00

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090503_buying_brand_obama/

Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, we are being duped into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.

Selective Memri

2009-05-09T02:41:00.002-04:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/aug/12/worlddispatch.brianwhitaker

Memri's purpose, according to its website, is to bridge the language gap between the west - where few speak Arabic - and the Middle East, by "providing timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media".

The second thing that makes me uneasy is that the stories selected by Memri for translation follow a familiar pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel. I am not alone in this unease.

Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations told the Washington Times: "Memri's intent is to find the worst possible quotes from the Muslim world and disseminate them as widely as possible."

The danger is that many of the senators, congressmen and "opinion formers" who don't read Arabic but receive Memri's emails may get the idea that these extreme examples are not only truly representative but also reflect the policies of Arab governments.

How to Kill your RFID Chip

2009-05-09T02:39:00.001-04:00

http://www.instructables.com/id/S3KSGULFE1M4V4P/

In this step I will describe a few ways to permanently disable or kill an RFID chip. Most products that you own that contain RFID tags belong to you, so you have the right to destroy them; however, tampering with a US passport is a federal offense. Luckily there are ways to kill an RFID tag without leaving any evidence, so as long as you are careful, it would be pretty hard to prove that you did anything illegal.

Top Ranking CIA Operatives Admit Al-qaeda Is a Complete Fabrication

2009-05-09T02:27:00.000-04:00

http://polidics.com/cia/top-ranking-cia-operatives-admit-al-qaeda-is-a-complete-fabrication.html

BBC’s killer documentary called “The Power of Nightmares“. Top CIA officials openly admit, Al-qaeda is a total and complete fabrication, never having existed at any time. The Bush administration needed a reason that complied with the Laws so they could go after “the bad guy of their choice” namely laws that had been set in place to protect us from mobs and “criminal organizations” such as the Mafia. They paid Jamal al Fadl, hundreds of thousands of dollars to back the U.S. Government’s story of Al-qaeda, a “group” or criminal organization they could “legally” go after. This video documentary is off the hook…

Gun Control Doesn't Necessarily Equal Crime Control

2009-05-09T02:16:00.000-04:00

Six more Israeli 'spies' caught in Lebanon

2009-05-09T02:01:00.002-04:00

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=93583&sectionid=351020203

Lebanese authorities have arrested six more people accused of spying for Tel Aviv amid a campaign aimed at curtailing Israel's intelligence operations in Lebanon.

The latest captures take to 16 the number of suspected Israeli spies arrested since January, an army spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

The arrests include a police officer and his wife who were taken into custody late Sunday. Three others, accused of passing on information to Israel, were detained also on Sunday in the southern the village of Habboush.

Orthodox Jewish Community Struggles With Abuse Allegations

2009-05-09T01:58:00.003-04:00

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=7376057&page=1

For more than 10 years, Engelman, now 23, kept what he says happened to himself. He left the orthodox community and found new friends. It wasn't until about two years ago, when he says he heard that other boys allegedly had been abused by Reichman, that he tried to do something about it.

Merck creates Fake Academic Medical Journal

2009-05-09T01:57:00.001-04:00

http://www.furiousseasons.com/archives/2009/05/merck_creates_fake_academic_medical_journal.html

"The Scientist has reported that, yes, it's true, Merck cooked up a phony, but real sounding, peer reviewed journal and published favorably looking data for its products in them. Merck paid Elsevier to publish such a tome, which neither appears in MEDLINE or has a website, according to The Scientist.
"What's wrong with this is so obvious it doesn't have to be argued for. What's sad is that I'm sure many a primary care physician was given literature from Merck that said, 'As published in Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, Fosamax outperforms all other medications....' Said doctor, or even the average researcher wouldn't know that the journal is bogus. In fact, knowing that the journal is published by Elsevier gives it credibility!"

Lawsuit charges Baxter used Dangerous Ingredients in Vaccines to Increase Profits

2009-05-09T01:40:00.003-04:00

http://www.infowars.net/articles/april2009/300409Baxter.htm

Last year Baxter recalled almost all of its injections of the blood thinning heparin drug in the US after some patients experienced extreme - and in some cases fatal - allergic reactions, after being administered the products.

The FDA has accused two Chinese manufacturers of being responsible for the production and shipment of the tainted vaccines, suggesting that a cheaper synthetic heparin mimic, subsequently identified as over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS), was used to decrease costs.

Doctor questions value of vaccines

2009-05-04T17:52:00.000-04:00

http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200905030310/NEWS01/905030339

"Since the 12th century, the most commonly used treatment for a cold or the flu is chicken soup," said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, one of the guest speakers at the U.S. Autism & Asperger Association's regional conference on Saturday at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Cherry Hill. "If you think we have anything more sophisticated now, think again."

Among the diseases that have virtually disappeared are measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis and whooping cough and vaccines are not available to prevent any of them, Eisenstein said.
What has an impact, he said, is vitamin D and probiotics.

The Big Lie About Torture

2009-05-04T17:49:00.002-04:00

US soliders using "water torture" (now called waterboarding) on Phillipino prisoners after the USA invaded that country.

http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/05/big-lie-about-torture.html

The story goes like this: The US didn't torture until the Bush gang came to power. Some say we're a nation of laws and criminal investigations are the only way to return to our virginal past; others share the same objective but reject prosecutions as needlessly divisive; a third group advocates torture as the new post 9/11 norm. A running theme in the liberal commentariat is that things have gotten much worse. But have they? Glenn Greenwald reminds us that even Reagan opposed torture, so see how low we've fallen.

It's certainly true that Reagan, like most leaders, regularly violated the principles he espoused [eg, opposition to torture] and sought to impose on others, but still, there is an important difference between (a) affirming core principles of the civilized world but then violating them and (b) explicitly rejecting those principles. Doing (a) makes you a hypocrite; doing (b) makes you a morally depraved barbarian.

U.S. has a 45-year history of torture

2009-05-04T17:47:00.000-04:00

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-langguth3-2009may03,0,4295574.story

Our interference, which went on for decades, was not limited to one political party. The meddling in Brazil began in earnest during the early 1960s under a Democratic administration. At that time, Washington's alarm over Cuba was much like the more recent panic after 9/11. The Kennedy White House was determined to prevent another communist regime in the hemisphere, and Robert Kennedy, as attorney general, was taking a strong interest in several anti-communist approaches, including the Office of Public Safety.

Al Gore, global warming and truth

2009-05-04T17:41:00.002-04:00

http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2009m4d27-Al-Gore-global-warming-and-truth

The former Vice President spoke before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week. It was not his shining hour. Some of what he said was hyperbole. Some of what he said is just not true. And he, or one of his staff, should surely have known the limits he was transgressing.

Is Army Abusing Children With its Latest Experiment, the Army Experience Center?

2009-05-04T17:37:00.001-04:00

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Is-Army-Abusing-Children-W-by-Rob-Kall-090504-927.html

On Saturday, a group of about 150 protesters delivered a complaint, issuing charges, issuing charges, as OEN writer Elaine Brower reported in her article on the same event, "The complaint states in part “the Army Experience Center is involved in “Endangering the Welfare of a Child” and “Criminal Solicitation of a Minor” and “Corruption of Minors” – soliciting underage persons to act in a violent manner, and thereby supporting criminal and corrupt behavior…” "

The company that designed much of the the AEC's adolescent addicting technology, Ignited, was also involved in developing video games designed to lure children into fascination with the army experience.

7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream Media

2009-05-04T17:34:00.000-04:00

http://www.cracked.com/article_17318_7-clearly-fake-news-stories-that-fooled-mainstream-media.html

Texas: City Councilman Arrested for Opposing Red Light Cameras

2009-05-04T17:30:00.000-04:00

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/27/2745.asp

The mayor of Duncanville, Texas had a member of the city council arrested last Tuesday for speaking out against the use of red light cameras during an official meeting. The incident took place during the discussion of whether the city should spend $59,000 to make street repairs. Mayor David Green recognized Councilman Paul Ford to speak on the contract item.

Darwin's Radio: Prehistoric Gene Reawakens to Battle HIV

2009-04-29T23:32:00.000-04:00

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/04/by-annalee-newitz-500-pm-on-mon-apr-27-2009-10350-views-edit-post-set-to-draft-slurpcopy-this-whole-post-to-another-s.html

About 95% of the human genome has once been designated as "junk" DNA. While much of this sequence may be an evolutionary artifact that serves no present-day purpose, some junk DNA may function in ways that are not currently understood. The conservation of some junk DNA over many millions of years of evolution may imply an essential function that has been "turned off." Now scientists say there's a junk gene that fights HIV. And they've discovered how to turn it back on.

Sex education for five-year-olds to be made compulsory in schools

2009-04-29T23:28:00.001-04:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/apr/27/sex-education-contraception-schools

The government has announced plans to make sex education compulsory for pupils aged five to 11, dividing faith groups and safer sex campaigners.

Under the plans all secondary schools will have to teach teenagers about contraception, safer sex and relationships, but faith schools will also be free to preach against sex outside of marriage and condoms.

Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion

2009-04-29T23:25:00.000-04:00

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN28349522?rpc=64

MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Reuters) - Mexico's Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent drug cartels.

The bill, proposed by conservative President Felipe Calderon, would make it legal to carry up to 5 grams (0.18 ounces) of marijuana, 500 milligrams (0.018 ounces) of cocaine and tiny quantities of other drugs such as heroin and methamphetamines.

Man-Made Flu more than likely!

2009-04-29T00:15:00.002-04:00

Flashback: Scientist Calls for Airborne Ebola Virus to Kill Off 90% of Earth's Population

2009-04-28T23:54:00.003-04:00

http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2006apr15_s.html

Pianka began his speech by condemning anthropocentrism, or the idea that the human race occupies a privileged position in nature. He exclaimed, "We're no better than bacteria!"

He argued that the sharp increase in the human population since the onset of industrialisation was destroying the planet. He warned that Earth would not survive unless its human population was reduced to a tenth of its present number.

AIDS took too long to kill people off, he explained. His preferred method of exterminating over five billion human beings was via airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and kills its victims in days rather than years

However, as Mim observed: "Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs.

"After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, 'We've got airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that.' "

After he finished his address, the audience burst into applause.

Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 Countries

2009-04-28T23:49:00.001-04:00

http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/live-avian-flu-virus-placed-in-baxter-vaccine-materials-sent-to-18-countries/

“But what remains unanswered are the circumstances surrounding the incident in the Baxter facility in Orth-Donau.” The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.

People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled in the Orth-Donau facility. That is a dangerous practice that should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted. Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could have resulted in dire consequences.

More Evidence Virus Manufactured In Lab: No Sign Of “Swine Flu” in Pigs in Mexico Yet

2009-04-28T23:42:00.001-04:00

http://uncensored.co.nz/2009/04/28/no-sign-of-swine-flu-in-pigs-in-mexico-yet/

It states in an article from AP, that Mexico’s Agriculture Department has reported that its inspectors have found no sign of swine flu among pigs anywhere in Mexico. See:
SWINE FLU: Mexico Faces Criticism Over Response
It states:
“Mexico’s Agriculture Department said Monday that inspectors found no sign of swine flu among pigs around the farm in Veracruz, and that no infected pigs have been found yet anywhere in Mexico.”

Mandatory anthrax vaccinations raise concerns

2009-04-28T23:40:00.000-04:00

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/staff/greg_gordon/story/15261.html

The Pentagon is reviving its mandatory anthrax vaccinations despite allegations that the shots have contributed to as many as 23 deaths and sickened hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of soldiers.

Within days of taking the two shots, Francis' feet began to tingle and burn. When he later took the second in a series of six anthrax shots, his health slid downhill. Since then, the 45-year-old messmate from Las Vegas has fought a rare nervous system disease known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, along with chronic pain, pneumonia and a life-threatening blood clot.

Three cleared of helping July 7 London bombers

2009-04-28T23:37:00.001-04:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5235890/Three-cleared-of-helping-July-7-bombers.html

The three men, all from Beeston in Leeds, who have been acquitted by a jury, were the only people ever to be charged in relation to the bombings of July 2005.

They had been accused of conducting a "hostile reconnaissance" mission for the bombers seven months before the attacks.

Indonesia floats idea of man-made swine flu

2009-04-28T23:34:00.002-04:00

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92794&sectionid=3510212

As swine flu continues to take its toll, claims surface that the deadly four-part flu virus could have been created for "bio-terror attacks." Speaking at a conference to reassure the public over hers government's response to the swine flu threat, Indonesian Heath Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said Tuesday that the controversial virus could have been man-made.

She declined to elaborate on her claim but she had previously accused Western governments of making and spreading viruses in the developing world to boost pharmaceutical companies' profits, AFP reported. "I'm not sure whether the virus was genetically engineered but it's a possibility," Supari said.

Swine Flu Container Explodes on Train

2009-04-28T23:32:00.000-04:00

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,621598,00.html

When a container holding swine flu exploded on a Swiss train on Monday, it could have led to a nightmare scenario. Luckily the virus was not the mutated swine flu that has killed around 150 people in Mexico and that has already spread to parts of Europe.

The containers were hermetically sealed and cooled with dry ice. However, it seems the dry ice was not packed correctly and it melted during the journey. The gas coming from the containers then built up too much pressure and the ampoules exploded, as the train was pulling into a station.

The Müller Washington Journals 1948-1951

2009-04-28T23:27:00.002-04:00

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2937.htm#007

At the beginning of December, 1948, a German national arrived in Washington, D.C. to take up an important position with the newly-formed CIA. He was a specialist on almost every aspect of Soviet intelligence and had actively fought them, both in his native Bavaria where he was head of the political police in Munich and later in Berlin as head of Amt IV of the State Security Office, also known as the Gestapo.

His name was Heinrich Müller.

Gore “can’t remember” if he worked with Ken Lay on the Carbon Tax Credits Plan in 1997?

2009-04-28T23:23:00.001-04:00

http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/gore-cant-remember-if-he-worked-with-ken-lay-on-the-carbon-tax-credits-plan-in-1997/

In a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing yesterday, Al Gore gave a rather remarkable answer to a legitimate question posed by one of the committee members about whether or not he and Ken Lay started laying the ground work for this “Carbon tax Credits scheme” in meetings they held in 2007. EDIT: 1997

“Well, lotta people met with him before everyone knew he was a crook.” was Gore’s response. He also stated that he “couldn’t remember” if he and Lay worked on the carbon tax credits plan. He was visibly shaken once this line of questioning started.
He also seems to have lied about whether or not he is partnered with a former Goldman Sach’s CEO. He is.

Flashback: Alaskan Victim of 1918 Flu Yields Sample of Killer Virus

2009-04-28T23:07:00.003-04:00

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/08/us/alaskan-victim-of-1918-flu-yields-sample-of-killer-virus.html

A specimen of the influenza virus that killed 21 million people in the 1918 worldwide epidemic has been recovered from the frozen remains of a flu victim buried in Alaska.

Researchers at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology announced on Thursday that biopsy samples from a corpse exhumed from a cemetery in Brevig Mission, Alaska, contained genetic material from the flu.

Flashback: "Bird Flu" Similar to Deadly 1918 Flu, Gene Study Finds

2009-04-28T00:16:00.002-04:00

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1005_051005_bird_flu.html

Scientists have reconstructed the genetic code of the deadly 1918 "Spanish flu," which swept the globe and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people. Among their findings: The 1918 virus strain developed in birds and was similar to the "bird flu" that today has spurred fears of another worldwide epidemic.

Fort Detrick disease samples may be missing

2009-04-28T00:14:00.001-04:00

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=89293

Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade, said CID is investigating the possibility of missing virus samples from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

USAMRIID is the Army's top biodefense lab, where researchers study pathogens including Ebola, anthrax and plague.

In February, USAMRIID halted all its research into these and other diseases, known as "select agents" following the discovery of virus samples that weren't listed in its inventory.

Iran: We've arrested Israel spy ring

2009-04-28T00:08:00.000-04:00

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710792370&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Iranian authorities have arrested a group of people linked to Israel who are suspected of planning bombings ahead of the Islamic republic's presidential election on June 12, Reuters cited the country's intelligence minister as saying on Sunday.

"A group of deceived elements... who wanted to carry out explosions, particularly before the June election, was arrested," Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei was quoted as telling Iranian radio.

Ice at the North Pole in 1958 Not So Thick

2009-04-28T00:01:00.002-04:00

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/26/ice-at-the-north-pole-in-1958-not-so-thick/

What would NSIDC and our media make of a photo like this if released by the NAVY today? Would we see headlines like “NORTH POLE NOW OPEN WATER”? Or maybe “Global warming melts North Pole”? Perhaps we would. sensationalism is all the rage these days. If it melts it makes headlines.

“the Skate found open water both in the summer and following winter. We surfaced near the North Pole in the winter through thin ice less than 2 feet thick. The ice moves from Alaska to Iceland and the wind and tides causes open water as the ice breaks up. The Ice at the polar ice cap is an average of 6-8 feet thick, but with the wind and tides the ice will crack and open into large polynyas (areas of open water), these areas will refreeze over with thin ice. We had sonar equipment that would find these open or thin areas to come up through, thus limiting any damage to the submarine. The ice would also close in and cover these areas crushing together making large ice ridges both above and below the water. We came up through a very large opening in 1958 that was 1/2 mile long and 200 yards wide. The wind came up and closed the opening within 2 hours. On both trips we were able to find open water. We were not able to surface through ice thicker than 3 feet.”

Flashback: Was The "Spanish Flu" Epidemic Man-made?

2009-04-27T23:57:00.003-04:00

http://www.savethemales.ca/001836.html

(From Dec.1, 2006) In 1948 Heinrich Mueller, the former head of the Gestapo, told his CIA Interrogator that the most devastating plague in human history was man-made. He was referring to the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 that infected 20% of the world's population and killed between 60 and 100 million people. This is roughly three times as many as were killed and wounded in World War One, and is comparable to WWII losses, yet this modern plague has slipped down the memory hole.

"Indeed, symptoms in 1918 were so unusual that initially influenza was misdiagnosed as dengue, cholera, or typhoid. One observer wrote, "One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred. ...Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65 and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. This is unusual since influenza is normally most deadly to the very young (under age 2) and the very old (over age 70). "

As Swine Flu Spreads, Conspiracy Theories of Laboratory Origins Abound

2009-04-27T23:51:00.002-04:00

http://www.naturalnews.com/026141.html

Perhaps due to the genetic makeup of the fast-spreading H1N1 strain of influenza -- which includes genetic elements from bird flu, swine flu and human flu spanning three continents -- there is considerable speculation that the origins of this virus are man-made.

I am not a medical specialist in the area of infectious disease, but I have studied microbiology, genetics and a considerable amount of material on pandemics. What seems suspicious to me is the hybrid origin of the viral fragments found in H1N1 influenza. According to reports in the mainstream media (which has no reason to lie about this particular detail), this strain of influenza contains viral code fragments from: Human influenza, Bird Flu from North America, Swine flu from Europe, & Swine flu from Asia.

This is rather astonishing to realize, because for this to have been a natural combination of viral fragments, it means an infected bird from North America would have had to infect pigs in Europe, then be re-infected by those some pigs with an unlikely cross-species mutation that allowed the bird to carry it again, then that bird would have had to fly to Asia and infected pigs there, and those Asian pigs then mutated the virus once again (while preserving the European swine and bird flu elements) to become human transmittable, and then a human would have had to catch that virus from the Asian pigs -- in Mexico! -- and spread it to others. (This isn't the only explanation of how it could have happened, but it is one scenario that gives you an idea of the complexity of such a thing happening).

Deadly 1957 Strain of Flu Is Found in Lab-Test Kits

2009-04-27T23:47:00.001-04:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/national/13flu.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

early 5,000 laboratories, mostly in the United States, were working Tuesday to destroy vials of a pandemic flu strain that were sent as part of a routine kit to test labs.

The rush action, recommended by the World Health Organization of the United Nations, was prompted by a slim risk that the samples could start a global flu epidemic. The vials were sent by a company in the United States to labs in 18 countries, officials said.

The 1957 strain has not been included in the flu vaccine since 1968, and anyone born after that date has no immunity to it.

Flashback: CIA Link to Cuban Pig Virus Reported

2009-04-27T23:45:00.001-04:00

http://www.maebrussell.com/Health/CIA%20Pig%20Virus.html

With at least the tacit backing of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officials, operatives linked to anti-Castro terrorists introduced African swine fever virus into Cuba in 1971.

Six weeks later an outbreak of the disease forced the slaughter of 500,000 pigs to prevent a nationwide animal epidemic.

A U.S. intelligence source told Newsday last week he was given the virus in a sealed, unmarked container at a U.S. Army base and CIA training ground in the Panama Canal Zone, with instructions to turn it over to the anti-Castro group.

The 1971 outbreak, the first and only time the disease has hit the Western Hemisphere, was labeled the "most alarming event" of 1971 by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. African swine fever is a highly contagious and usually lethal viral disease that infects only pigs and, unlike swine flu, cannot be transmitted to humans.

Scientists Resurrect Deadly Flu Virus

2009-04-27T23:43:00.002-04:00

http://www.uchc.edu/ocomm/newsarchive/news05/oct05/fluvirus.html

In a contained laboratory at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, scientists used reverse genetics to re-create the 1918 flu virus that killed 20 million to 50 million people, according to studies released Wednesday.

The 1918 virus's jump from birds to humans, perhaps through intermediary animals such as pigs, was different from the two other outbreaks of pandemic influenza that occurred in the 20th century. Those pandemic strains in 1957 and 1968 occurred when novel influenza genes mixed with existing human influenzas.

No honest investigation into accidental global release of Spanish Flu virus

2009-04-27T23:37:00.002-04:00

http://www.naturalnews.com/008227.html

Such a hypothetical event actually occurred, except it wasn't a terrorist. It was a research company that claimed to have "accidentally" distributed all of these samples of the deadly H2N2 influenza strain, which is most famous for killing millions of people around the world in 1957. It was called the "Spanish Flu" at the time, although that name is not technically accurate.

A New Bio Warfare Arms Race Begins in Maryland

2009-04-27T23:34:00.001-04:00

http://www.lewrockwell.com/zeese/zeese34.html

Fort Detrick actually began in 1943 as Camp Detrick and worked with the British in creating an anthrax bomb. It became a permanent Army installation, Fort Detrick, in 1956 and developed offensive bio-weapons. But, in 1969 during the Vietnam War, when the U.S. was criticized for using gas, napalm and herbicides in Vietnam, President Nixon unilaterally ended the nation’s offensive biological warfare program and ordered pathogens and toxins destroyed. This also led to the signing of the Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention in 1972 which became law in 1975. It was discovered in 1975 that the CIA had disobeyed the order to destroy all bio-weapons stocks, and had retained pathogens and toxins for its own use. In the 1980’s, the Reagan and Bush Administrations revived the dormant budget for "defensive" biowarfare research. It was also in the 1980’s that the U.S. supplied Saddam Hussein with the basis for Iraq’s biowarfare capability.

Flashback: March 24, 1976: President Ford Orders Swine-Flu Shots for All

2009-04-27T23:29:00.001-04:00

http://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=4044

The virus surfaced in February at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis told his drill instructor that he felt tired and weak, although not sick enough to skip a training hike. Lewis was dead with 24 hours.

It recalled 1918, when infected soldiers returning from the trenches of World War I triggered a contagion that spread quickly around the world, killing at least 20 million people. Fearing another plague, the nation’s health officials urged Ford to authorize a mass inoculation program aimed at reaching every man, woman and child. He did, to the tune of $135 million ($500 million in today’s money).

Mass vaccinations started in October, but within weeks reports started coming in of people developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease, right after taking the shot. Within two months, 500 people were affected, and more than 30 died. Amid a rising uproar and growing public reluctance to risk the shot, federal officials abruptly canceled the program Dec. 16.

In the end, 40 million Americans were inoculated, and there was no epidemic. A later, more technically advanced examination of the virus revealed that it was nowhere near as deadly as the 1918 influenza virus. The only recorded fatality from swine flu itself was the unfortunate Pvt. Lewis.

Bartered brides

2009-04-25T23:26:00.001-04:00

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13278577

The kidnapping has been going on for some time, and locals talk of a number of cases so far this year. The abductions follow a pattern: a Hmong girl is wooed by an out-of-towner—whether from Vietnam or China is not clear—who speaks her language. She is lured to a rendezvous to be drugged and smuggled into China, probably near Lao Cai, about an hour’s drive from Sapa. Tall, pretty girls are said to be particular targets.