'the view' talks about bush family ties to nazis

from raw replay: Co-hosts of ABC’s The View talked about remarked President George W. Bush made during a speech in Israel. Bush had suggested that Democrats including Barack Obama wanted to “appease” terrorists in the way that some politicians appeased Hitler. Co-host Joy Behar mentioned the fact that it was George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, who was known to have ties to Nazi Germany.

oregon sec of state: mail-in vote could work everywhere

from raw replay: CNN’s Kyra Phillips talked with Oregon’s Secretary of State, Bill Bradbury. Bradbury believes that an Oregon style mail-in election could work everywhere. Bradbury said that Oregon’s voter validation system is the most comprehensive in the Nation. Oregon uses voter signature to verify voter identity.

as prices rise, snoops & snitches work overtime

contact crime stoppers to report a crime...
like the stealing of a nation
from nytimes: To gas prices, foreclosure rates and the cost of rice, add this rising economic indicator: the number of tips to the police from people hoping to collect reward money... with tipsters telling operators they need the money for rent, light bills or baby formula. “For this year, everyone that’s called has pretty much been just looking for money,” said Sgt. Lawrence Beller, who answers Crime Stoppers calls at the Sussex County, N.J., sheriff’s office. “That’s as opposed to the last couple of years, where some people were just sick of the crime and wanting to do something about it.”

choose one: prison, family detention center or xenu u

US to build vast prison in afghanistan
from afp: The United States plans to build a vast, new detention camp at its main military base in Afghanistan... "I can confirm there are indeed plans to build a new detention facilty at Bagram airfield," spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Mark Wright told AFP. "And the overall size is expected to be 40 acres." The move came because "our existing theatre facilty is deterioriating," Wright said, referring to the makeshift jail at Bagram that holds alleged extremist militants rounded up in the US "war on terror" launched after the September 11 attacks.

US admits holding juvenile combatants
from ap: The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants" in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained at the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations. A total of 2,500 youths under the age of 18 have been detained, almost all in Iraq, for periods up to a year or more in President George W. Bush's anti-terrorism campaign since 2002, the United States reported last week to the U.N.'s Committee on the Rights of the Child.

feds take bids on new detention camps
from latimes: The federal government is accepting bids for up to three new family detention centers that would house as many as 600 men, women and children fighting deportation cases. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a call for proposals last month and set June 16 as the deadline. New facilities are being considered on both coasts and on the Southwestern border... There are currently two family facilities - a former nursing home in Pennsylvania and a former prison in Texas.

will smith to open his very own scientology school
from guardian: Actor Will Smith is funding his own private school that will teach youngsters using an educational system devised in part by the Scientology cult. The curriculum at Smith's New Village Academy of Calabasas, on which he has spent nearly £500,000, uses different educational theories including "study technology" – a learning method developed by L Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology.

obamessiah brings koolaid to thirsty portland masses

70,000+ in downtown portland for obama's visit







but, are these examples of the kind of 'change' you want?

obama hails poppy's 'excellent job' on gulf war 1
obama wins backing of 9/11 commission co-chairman lee hamilton
obama & clinton pledge to defend israel against iran
obama: i don't carry a cfr card or know any 'special handshake'
obama's family tree expanded to include the bushes
delusional hope: the obama rapture
hope, change, & pissing in the wind, 'of obama, democrats, & the power elite'

from the oregonian: A word to the wise: Barack Obama is on the move. If you're heading west toward Portland this afternoon, keep your eyes peeled. An ominous black bus, flanked by more than 25 police motorcycles, is headed for Waterfront Park... Rumor has it that Portland rockers The Decemberists will be performing live at Obama's 2:30 appearance. The event is being held at Southwest Columbia Street and Naito Parkway.

from salem news: The Democratic race for the White House is getting just as hot as the temperatures in Oregon. In 90-plus degree heat, Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, stopped their Oregon campaign swing yesterday... looking to secure the state's 52 pledged delegates, and pull the plug Tuesday on the Clinton Campaign, which most believe is on life-support.

taser intl uses playboy bunnies to sell its products

who says there isn’t an intimate connection between sex & violence?
from common dreams: Vancouver businessman Randy Puder was drawn to the booth operated by Taser International at the Consumer Trade Show in Las Vegas last January. Playboy bunnies were signing photographs while salesmen pitched a new personal Taser that’s small enough to fit into a woman’s purse, he recalled.

“It was excellent marketing,” Puder told a public inquiry Thursday probing the use of Tasers in B.C. He got a signed photo from a Playboy bunny, which he showed to The Vancouver Sun. It has the Taser company logo on it. He was asked who he wanted it signed to and he said, half-joking, “The Vancouver police board.” ...

“I was shocked, actually, which is why I’m here today,” Puder told the inquiry, pointing out that his late brother, Gil Puder, was a use-of-force trainer with Vancouver police from 1990 to 1993. Puder said he was a concerned citizen and suggested a moratorium should be placed on Taser use until there can be proper testing in Canada.

“Until tested in Canada by Canadian medical practitioners, it should be put on the shelf... We are not the United States,” Puder said. “We have an entirely different model of police and training.”

flashback: the taser gets leopard print & now plays music!

pentaganda gen calls for US terrorism against iran

from crooks & liars: Last month on Fox News, Ret. Gen. Thomas McInerney, one of the Pentagon’s propaganda team of military analysts exposed by David Barstow in the NYT, openly called for the US to begin committing “tit-for-tat” terrorist attacks by proxy inside Iran...

"Here’s what I would suggest to you. Number one, we take the National Council for Resistance to Iran off the terrorist list that the Clinton Administration put them on as well as the Mujahedin-e Khalq at the Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Then I would start a tit-for-tat strategy which I wrote up in the Wall Street Journal a year ago: For every EFP that goes off and kills Americans, two go off in Iran. No questions asked. People don’t have to know how it was done. It’s a covert action. They become the most unlucky country in the world.

return of the 'no-work list'

employment verification plan: big brother or big improvement?
from mcclatchy: For critics, the idea is an Orwellian nightmare: The federal government would begin signing off on every hiring decision made in the United States...

Whether it's regarded as Big Brother or a big improvement, the plan is getting a good vetting on Capitol Hill. It has enormous implications for employers and the Social Security Administration, which would conduct the background checks.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which opposes the plan, says the legislation would create a "no-work list" in the Washington bureaucracy. "Americans should not have to ask their federal government if they have permission to accept a new job," said Caroline Fredrickson, the director of the ACLU's Washington legislative office.

flashbacks: job seekers must obtain homeland security approval & the 'no-work list'

'operation sudden fall'

feds misled natl cattle congress about use of fairgrounds

from trading markets: Officials with the National Cattle Congress may have been misled by the federal government with regard to the use of their facilities...

The board did not know the grounds and facilities would be used to establish a detention center and a trial court for those accused of immigration-related crimes in the wake of a federal raid of the Agriprocessors food processing plant in Postville.

“Am I misled by my federal government? Probably frequently”...


related: iowa ice: illegal immigrant raid part of fema drill

update: immigration raid jars a small town
from washington post: Monday's raid on the Agriprocessors plant, in which 389 immigrants were arrested and many held at a cattle exhibit hall, was the Bush administration's largest crackdown on illegal workers at a single site. It has upended this tree-lined community, which calls itself "Hometown to the World." Half of the school system's 600 students were absent Tuesday, including 90 percent of Hispanic children, because their parents were arrested or in hiding... "They don't go after employers. They don't put CEOs in jail," complained the Postville Community Schools superintendent, David Strudthoff, 51, who said the sudden incarceration of more than 10 percent of the town's population of 2,300 "is like a natural disaster - only this one is manmade."

woman sat dead in front of tv for 42 years

from daily record: The remains of a woman have been found sitting in front of her TV - 42 years after she was reported missing. Hedviga Golik, who was born in 1924, had apparently made herself a cup of tea before sitting in her favourite armchair in front of her black and white television.

Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbours in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old... "The cup she had been drinking tea from was still on a table next to the chair she had been sitting in and the house was full of things no one had seen for decades. Nothing had been disturbed for decades, even though there were more than a few cobwebs in there."

atf: always think forfeiture

from mcclatchy: Federal agents will no longer be carrying pocketknives with a specially engraved training slogan that enraged some gun and property rights activists.

U.S. Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho, said Friday that his complaints about the slogan - "Always Think Forfeiture" - persuaded the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to end its use on the Leatherman tools handed out to participants in a training program...

"Because it has caused concern among the public, we are no longer utilizing that slogan in our training sessions," he said.

media monarchy episode075 (w/ alex ansary)

the 75th episode of media monarchy features an in-studio interview with alex ansary. for the full 2hrs alex & i talk about everything from god, politics, 9/11 & breakfast cereal to earth changes, 2012 & how to come together. plus there's music by moby and tons more...

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'bin laden' message condemns israeli anniversary

from guardian: An internet audio message purportedly from Osama bin Laden was released today marking the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel with a vow to continue the fight against the country and its allies.

The speaker said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was at the heart of an Islamic battle with the west and an inspiration to the 19 bombers who carried out the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

"We will continue, God permitting, the fight against the Israelis and their allies ... and will not give up a single inch of Palestine as long as there is one true Muslim on earth," he said.

(genetically-modified) food crisis: teens tamiflu teflon

US using food crisis to boost bio-engineered crops
from chicago tribune: The Bush administration has slipped a controversial ingredient into the $770 million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis, adding language that would promote the use of genetically modified crops in food-deprived countries.

bird flu medicine toxic for teens
from korea times: Concerns are rising over side effect of bird flu drug Tamiflu on teenagers. Tamiflu is Swiss-based Hoffman-La Roche's antiviral for general influenza A and B but is also used to combat bird flu. However, worries have surfaced about the possibility of the medicine causing mental disorders among teenagers.

chemicals from teflon found in human breast milk
from natural news: Chemicals used to make nonstick (teflon) cookware and stain-resistant (scotchgard) fabrics are spreading around the world and turning up in surprising places, everywhere from wildlife and drinking water supplies to human blood. Now, a team of researchers including Kathleen Arcaro of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found these suspected carcinogens in samples of human milk from nursing mothers in Massachusetts.

iowa ice: illegal immigrant raid part of fema drill

fema, ice & dhs running roundup psyop until may25...
from rogue government: As predicted last week, ICE has begun factory raids of illegal aliens in Iowa. This was not very difficult to predict. The federal government last week leased out the National Cattle Congress fairgrounds in Waterloo, Iowa until May 25th and began moving trailers and generators on location. Reports from the Des Moines Register and the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier indicated that FEMA and ICE, two agencies within the Department of Homeland Security were involved in this secretive operation. Considering the large groups of illegal alien factory workers in the area of the fairgrounds, it wasn’t hard to figure out what was going to happen next. The Department of Homeland Security has now decided to go live with their test FEMA camp operation and are using illegal aliens as live subjects for processing purposes. This is a drill designed to setup a FEMA camp that will be used to process American citizens. Make no mistake about it, this has nothing to do with stopping illegal immigration. Rounding up a few hundred illegal aliens and asking them questions is going to do nothing to resolve the policies that have encouraged and facilitated the illegal alien problem. It does however serve as a fine test run for processing large groups of people through a FEMA camp.

collateral 43: it's a man's world

from collateral news: This week's episode looks at a Department of Defense report titled "Sexual Assault in the Military" (900kb PDF) and wonders if the official number of 2,688 cases of "rape, sodomy and indecent assault" in 2007 is just the tip of the iceberg.

liberty city police are there to help

from youtube: A Liberty City TV Ad for Police Recuitment from forthcoming Grand Theft Auto IV.

'the change you deserve'

from washington post: House Republicans may be heading off a cliff in November, but give them credit for perseverance. Even after the new slogan they floated - "The Change You Deserve" - was discovered to be trademarked ad copy for the antidepressant drug Effexor, GOP leaders decided to go with the rollout anyway. "The Republican agenda, 'The Change You Deserve,' is directed at America's families," Rep. Kay Granger (R-Tex.) announced at a televised news conference with House Republican leaders yesterday morning. "And you may be a little surprised at this agenda."

US 'sonic blasters' sold to china

from danger room: There was a surprising piece of gear at last month's China International Police Forum, held in Beijing. There, among the rows of law enforcement tech, was an American machine, the Long Range Acoustic Device. It's not something you'd expect to see, because, depending on who you ask, the LRAD is either a "hailer" for signaling people far away - or a sonic blaster. Weapons exports to China are of course illegal, after a law passed in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre. However, As I report in New Scientist, LRAD is not classed as a weapon.

flashback: san jose police get 'less-lethal' sound weapon

US-trained forces reportedly helping mexican cartels

from houston chronicle: As many as 200 U.S.-trained Mexican security personnel have defected to drug cartels to carry out killings on both sides of the border and as far north as Dallas, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, told Congress on Wednesday.

The renegade members of Mexico's elite counter-narcotics teams trained at Fort Benning, Ga., have switched sides, contributing to a wave of violence that has claimed some 6,000 victims over the past 30 months, including prominent law enforcement leaders, the Houston-area Republican told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

bill o'reilly & the f*ck it dance remix

related: corporate media prima donnas go ballistic

palestine celebrates 60 years of exiled abuse

from afp: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees headed to Lebanon's southern border with Israel on Wednesday marking 60 years since the creation of the Jewish state and exile from what was once Palestine. "We want to return to our country. We desperately miss our country's soil," said Mahmud Mahmud, aged in his 70s, who was wearing a traditional Palestinian headdress. "We came to this area in a peaceful march against the occupation on this occasion."

bush celebrates & says goodbye
from los angeles times: President Bush arrived in Israel today to help celebrate the Jewish State's 60th anniversary and possibly help nudge along the (so far lackluster) Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations he launched last fall. With Bush's time in office winding down, Israeli observers sound genuinely nostalgic to see him go, and some are already fretting about Israel's future with someone else in the White House. An editorial in the Jerusalem Post this week declared: "Of all the US presidents over the past 60 years, it is hard to think of a better friend to Israel than George W. Bush."



related: all the president's nazis (real and imagined): an open letter to bush by larisa alexandrovna

israel’s 60 years of nuclear proliferation
from jerry mazza: I have not written this article to condemn Israel on its 60th anniversary as a quasi-legal state, quasi to question the UN’s legitimacy to create it, and quasi for Israel’s subsequent actions to ingest and destroy the Palestinians. My aim is to point out Israel’s own hypocrisy regarding Iran’s possible possession of nuclear capability not just for peacetime power. Beyond the Cold War, it is Israel that has historically been edging us into a worldwide nuclear conflagration; and doing so since 2001 with the hegemonic boobs presently running the USA and supporting Israel’s misguided efforts with billions of dollars of aid for arms in the hope that it will keep the Arab world intimidated and give us its oil.

tsa to install 200 more body scanners

from aviation news: TSA Administrator Kip Hawley, during congressional testimony on May 13, announced plans to deploy hundreds of next generation, multi-view x-ray machines and whole body imagers. During the next two weeks, the agency will install more than 200 of the faster, clearer x-ray machines to airports, including Philadelphia, Washington Dulles and Reagan National, Los Angeles, Denver, Las Vegas and others. The new x-ray machines include multiple views of carry on baggage and a much clearer image, allowing officers to screen carry-on bags with fewer physical searches.

update: airport-stlye scanners now on uk streets
from this is london: Teams of 15 officers will be deployed across the 10 boroughs in London that have recorded the most knife crime... Police admit the "in your face policing" is expected to raise community tensions in some areas.

flashback: new security camera can 'see' through clothes

'if i was a terrorist' by a retired navy serviceman

from 8thestate: I received this in an email, and while I can't confirm the identity of the messenger; his message seems apropos to what's going on in America, so it seemed logical and reasonable to offer it to you in this context.

uk releases secret x-files

from danger room: It's the day we've all be dreaming of. Well, at least some of us. The United Kingdom has followed in the footsteps of the United States and France by releasing their secret trove of UFO files. "The documents, which can be downloaded from the National Archives website, cover the period from 1978 to 1987," reports the BBC. "They include accounts of strange lights in the sky and unexplained objects being spotted by the public, armed forces and police officers."

The files range from alien abductions and encounters to run-of-the-mill sightings of lights and saucers. The best part may the drawings, such as the one to the right. Time's a wastin', however, because you only have one month to download the files for free.

related: vatican says it's ok to believe in aliens & astronauts say there must be alien life