Olmert to hand Bush a weapons wish list

While our government can’t seem to stomach spending money on schools, roads, bridges, health care or much for America, we seem to be happy to keep making sure Iraq, Israel and others get their wish lists fulfilled.
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Olmert’s people are leaning, said the sources, toward presenting the visiting president with a list of weapon [...]

The Last Roundup

Source: Radar Magazine

“The technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny,” Church pointed out in 1975. “And there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately [...]

Take the Bush / McCain Challenge …Go Ahead, I Dare Ya

Move On has cleverly created the Bush-McCain challenge for the politically minded who are nostalgic for the Pepsi-Coke challenge. They said it was hard and they were right. I only got 2 out of 5 right. It’s not easy to tell these chameleons apart.
Move On mentions that “The Bush-McCain Challenge [...]

List of Suicides by whistle blowers or those that knew things

Source: Democratic Underground
1 DC Madame….: had clients with the Pentagon and Govt
2 Lt. Col. Marshall A. Gutierrez Iraqi/Kuwait procurement officer: http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/GutierrezMarshallA
3 Abdulrahman,US citizen, contractor whistle-blower: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmView…
4 Charles D. Riechers - Air Force- Ret. d: 10/07 suicide Boeing Tanker Deal: Still no autopsy report:
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=9396
5 [...]

Networks continue to ignore NY Times’ military analyst story, but all find time for Hannah Montana

Source: Media Matters
Since The New York Times reported on the hidden ties between media military analysts and the Pentagon on April 20, the three major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — have still not mentioned the report at all, according to a Media Matters for America search* of the Nexis news database.
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NYT: Pentagon Primed TV Military Experts

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley would either be proud or disgusted at how the world has become a Brave New World fit for 1984 predictions.
How do you prevent being a terminal cynic in a world where almost everything in the media is a PR sales campaign by the government in the service of taking away [...]

The First Fifteen Minutes of September 11th

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The First Fifteen Minutes of September 11th
By Jeremy Baker
Former Air Traffic Controller Robin Hordon speaks out on 9/11, NORAD and what should have happened on 9/11.

Within three hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Robin Hordon knew it was an inside job. He had been an Air Traffic Controller [...]

Video - Conspiracy of Silence

After viewing this video, nothing that happens in Washington can surprise you anymore. The trail of abuse is a long one…

This is the best quality version of Conspiracy of Silence available on the Internet.  The sound is greatly improved over the earlier version. This is a video made which delves deeply into [...]

A Submarine to Fight al-Qaida’s Navy

Have you noticed how most weapons are phallic shaped? Must be an overcompensation for something.  With a never-ending war declared on an ideology (which is ludicrous) the taxpayer dollars and debt will continue to grow until it bankrupts the country.
Source: Truthdig

AP Photo / Carol Phelps

The Navy’s Virginia class submarine.

By Robert Scheer
A trillion dollars [...]

Video: Empire or Humanity? by Howard Zinn

Empire or Humanity?
What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me about the American Empire
by Howard Zinn
Narrated by Viggo Mortensen
Art by Mike Konopacki
Video editing by Eric Wold
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