Terrorists Are Everywhere
In an attempt to reverse plummeting approval ratings, the Bush administration is mounting an unprecedented, sustained campaign of disinformation on the terrorist threat confronting the United States. Even the mainstream media has noted how the White House has attempted falsely to tie al-Qaeda to the war in Iraq, with President Bush increasing the number of references to the group in speeches made during the month of July. On July 10, al-Qaeda was referred to 30 times in a Cleveland speech on the...
July 31, 2007
Destabilizing Iraq, Broadly Defined
By Walter Pincus Monday, July 23, 2007; A15Be careful what you say and whom you help — especially when it comes to the Iraq war and the Iraqi government. President Bush issued an executive order last week titled “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq.” In the extreme, it could be interpreted as targeting the financial assets of any American who directly or indirectly aids someone who has committed or “poses a significant risk of committing”...
July 31, 2007
More Americans Moving To Canada
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 CBC The number of Americans admitted to Canada last year reached a 30-year high, with a 20 per cent increase over the previous year and nearly double the number that arrived in 2000. The results of a survey, conducted by the Association for Canadian Studies, also revealed that the so-called “brain drain” of Canada appears to be narrowing. The survey found that 10,942 Americans came to Canada in 2006, compared to just over 9,262 in 2005. In 2000, 5,828 came to the...
July 31, 2007
Oil Settles At Record High
NEW YORK (AP) - Oil futures settled at a record high above US$78 Tuesday on expectations that crude inventories fell last week and reports of new violence in Nigeria, a large oil producer and key supplier to the U.S.Investors believe Wednesday’s inventory report by the U.S. Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration will show that refiners drew down oil inventories as they continued to increase gasoline production last week, analysts said. News that a Nigerian construction...
July 31, 2007
Would Be Good Smaritan Arrested By Police
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 CBS (CBS) ROSELLE PARK, N.J. - A New Jersey woman trying to be a Good Samaritan was instead busted by police. And the whole troubling incident was caught on tape. Monica Montoya, 25, happened to be walking by the scene of an accident in Roselle Park, N.J., when police asked her if she spoke Spanish and could help interpret for a woman who had just been struck by a van. Montoya tells CBS 2 News that she agreed to help, but moments later, the 25-year-old’s attorney says...
July 31, 2007
20K Troops To Rotate Into Iraq
July 31, 2007
Police: MySpace Kids Should Be Watched
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Knowledge Driven Revolution POLICE are advising parents to join social networking websites - such as MySpace and Facebook - to “spy” on their children. The move follows growing concern by authorities at teenagers who post intimate information and photos of themselves on the sites for the world to see. Police say the explosion in popularity of sites like MySpace (owned by News Corp, parent company of the publisher of NEWS.com.au)and Facebook has created a perfect...
July 31, 2007
BP Gets OK To Dump Mercury In Lake Michigan
A BP (BP) refinery in Indiana will be allowed to continue to dump mercury into Lake Michigan under a permit issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The permit exempts the BP plant at Whiting, Ind., 3 miles southeast of Chicago, from a 1995 federal regulation limiting mercury discharges into the Great Lakes to 1.3 ounces per year. The BP plant reported releasing 3 pounds of mercury through surface water discharges each year from 2002 to 2005, according to the Toxics Release Inventory,...
July 31, 2007
Nancy Pelosi Confronted On 9/11
July 31, 2007
The Fear Factor
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 by Rep. Ron Paul While fear itself is not always the product of irrationality, once experienced, it tends to lead away from reason, especially if the experience is extreme in duration or intensity. When people are fearful they tend to be willing to irrationally surrender their rights. Thus, fear is a threat to rational liberty. The psychology of fear is an essential component of those who would have us believe we must increasingly rely on the elite who manage the apparatus...
July 31, 2007


