econocrash: sachs, savings & severed services

"sachs' crash of markets last year was a false flag operation"


US regulators close another 5 banks
from presstv: US regulators have closed five banks, bringing the total of US bank failures to 45 this year as falling home prices take their toll on financial institutions. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) said the five banks which were closed on Friday were Community Bank of West Georgia and Neighborhood Community Bank in the state of Georgia; Horizon Bank, of Pine City, Minnesota; MetroPacific Bank, of Irvine, California; and Mirae Bank, of Los Angeles. Despite the US government's efforts to drive its economy out of the 18-month-old recession, bank failures have largely increased this year. There were 25 failures in all of 2008 and just three in 2007. Seattle-based lender Washington Mutual was closed in September last year to become the biggest bank to fail in US history.

btw: where's the gold?

china argues to replace US dollar
from bbc: China's central bank has reiterated its call for a new reserve currency to replace the US dollar. The report from the People's Bank of China (PBOC) said a "super-sovereign" currency should take its place. Central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan has loudly led calls for the dollar to be replaced during the financial crisis. The bank report called for more regulation of the countries that issue currencies that underpin the global financial system. "An international monetary system dominated by a single sovereign currency has intensified the concentration of risk and the spread of the crisis," the Chinese central bank said. The dollar fell after the report was released. The US currency dropped 1% against the euro to $1.4088, and declined 0.8% versus the British pound to $1.6848.

madoff gets 150yrs in epic fraud

video: 'hyperinflation nation'
from inflation.us: 'Hyperinflation Nation' starring Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Jim Rogers, Tom Woods, Gerald Celente and others. Prepare now before the US dollar is worthless.


could your post office be closing?
from msn: As mail volume declines, the US Postal Service could shutter up to 3,200 post offices and retail outlets. Most people say they understand - unless it's their post office. A rallying cry can be heard across the country, from the swanky streets of New York's SoHo to the tiny town of Randolph, Kan.: "Save our post office!" As the United States Postal Service, weighed down by a crippling multibillion-dollar deficit, shrinks its operations, post offices across the country are on the chopping block. Each year, hundreds of postal operations shutter, but this coming fall could be the single biggest consolidation in Postal Service history. Over the next three months, more than 3,200 post offices and retail outlets - out of 34,000 - will be reviewed for possible closure or consolidation.

debasing currency leads to financial collapse...
just as it has for 1000s of years*
market predictions from the foundation for the study of cycles*
goldman sachs: the 4th branch of the US govt*
population increases in older US cities*
video: gerald celente says US continues to print dollars into no value at all*
colorado mayor buys central city paper that criticized him*
feds could seize california parks if closed by budget*
an economy bigger than russia, brazil, canada, india or spain is about to default*

update: fdic thursday [jul3]
from cnn: Seven banks were shut down by authorities Thursday, pushing the tally of failed banks for 2009 to 52, more than doubling the failures in 2008. Six regional banks in Illinois and one in Texas closed their doors, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The rash of Illinois failures are interlinked: All six banks were controlled by one family and followed a similar business model that "created concentrated exposure in each institution," according to the FDIC... State regulators shuttered John Warner Bank, based in Clinton, Ill., and named the FDIC the receiver. The State Bank of Lincoln, based in Lincoln, Ill., will assume all of the deposits of the failed bank... Later Thursday, state regulators closed First State Bank of Winchester, based in Winchester, Ill., and named the FDIC the receiver. Federal regulators entered into a purchase and assumption agreement for The First National Bank of Beardstown, based in Beardstown, Ill., to assume all of the assets and deposits of the failed bank... Rock River Bank, based in Oregon, Ill., was shuttered by state regulators. The FDIC was named the receiver and it entered into an agreement with the The Harvard State Bank, of Harvard, Ill., to assume all of the deposits of the failed bank and almost all of the assets... Elizabeth State Bank, based in Elizabeth, Ill., was closed down by state regulators and the FDIC was named the receiver. Galena State Bank and Trust, based in Galena, Ill., entered into a purchase and assumption agreement to take over all of the deposits of the failed bank... The First National Bank of Danville, headquartered in Danville, Ill., was shuttered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the FDIC was named the receiver. First Financial Bank, N.A., based in Terre Haute, Ind., entered into a purchase and assumption agreement to take over all of the deposits of the failed bank... State regulators shut down the Millennium State Bank of Texas, based in Dallas, Texas, Thursday and named the FDIC the receiver. The FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with an Irving, Texas bank, called the State Bank of Texas... The biggest to fall: State regulators shut down Founders Bank, based in Worth, Ill., and named the FDIC the receiver. The PrivateBank and Trust Company, head-quartered in Chicago, Ill., entered into a purchase and assumption agreement to take over the assets of the failed bank.

video: stewart suggests cia engineered economic meltdown

from raw replay: Jon Stewart wants to know why the CIA is recruiting Wall Street bankers. This video is from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, broadcast June 29, 2009.

9/11 updates: lawsuits, licenses & liquor

...the more things change...
obama administration shuts down 9/11 families lawsuit
from steve watson: The Obama administration has effectively ended the efforts of families of victims of the September 11th attacks to bring lawsuits against members of the Saudi Royal family for financial links to the conspiracy. The Supreme Court today ruled that it will not allow any lawsuits to go ahead, just a few weeks after the government filed a court brief asking that the case be quashed. The court, in an order Monday, is leaving in place the ruling of a federal appeals court that the country and the princes are protected by sovereign immunity, which generally means that foreign countries can’t be sued in American courts, reports the Associated Press. In late May, the Justice Department had sided in court with the Saudi monarchy in seeking to halt further legal action to hold it liable for the attacks. The move came less than a week before Obama was scheduled to meet Saudi King Abdullah as part of his “rebuilding” trip to the Middle East. More than 6000 family members denounced the move as an “apparent effort to appease a sometime ally” in a public statement. The lawsuits claimed that Saudi Arabia and four of its princes actively aided in financing the plot through front groups posing as charities. Last week, the New York Times ran a report highlighting how documents uncovered by lawyers for the 9/11 families “provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family.”

known terrorists were allowed to keep aviation licenses
from raw story: Those who were shocked to discover, after 9/11, how easy it is for persons linked to terrorism to acquire pilots' licenses may be surprised to discover that, nearly eight years after that fateful day, at least six people known to have - or suspected of - terrorist links were able to keep their aviation licenses. Among them, says a story in the New York Times, was a Libyan national convicted for his role in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Times story, released late Thursday and largely overlooked by the rest of the media, says the Transportation Security Administration and Federal Aviation Administration didn't remove the individuals' aviation licenses until after the Times had inquired about the issue. Evidently, the TSA and FAA didn't know that these people were licensed pilots until a small New York state-based company called Safe Banking Systems uncovered the names while testing out a software application designed to search for suspected terrorists among bank records.

wtc hard hats get hammered
from nypost: Hard-drinking hard hats at the World Trade Center site have turned their lunch hour into happy hour, pounding beers and shots of hard liquor before returning to work, a Post investigation found. Dozens of workers belly up to the bar at gin mills on Murray Street - two blocks from the sacred soil of Ground Zero and America's most scrutinized construction project - shortly before noon every day. One group of three workers threw back eight drinks each in less than an hour before returning to the job.


related video: nyc construction workers still drinking on job


naval 'national center for energetics' records of pre-9/11 nano-energetic materials development, nonexistent or destroyed*
were nuclear reactors the cause of the wtc destruction?*
new book claims bin laden spent 2 weeks in america*

former head of cia bin laden unit wants him to nuke us!
from washington's blog: Everyone is appropriately outraged that the former head of the CIA unit which hunted Bin Laden for almost a decade - Michael Scheuer - told Glenn Beck:

The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States

But people aren't putting this in context. In fact, many Neocons have also stated a desperate yearning for another attack on America (and see this). But there is another story here as well.

Remember:

• The CIA commander in charge of the capture of Bin Laden during the invasion of Afghanistan said that the U.S. let Bin Laden escape from Afghanistan

• A retired Colonel and Fox News military analyst said:

  "We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it ... Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden."

• French soldiers insist that they easily could have captured or killed Bin Laden, but that the American commanders stopped them

In other words - as demonstrated above - the U.S. did not really try to capture Bin Laden.

And remember that the Congressional Joint Inquiry into 9/11 discovered that an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House (confirmed here by the Co-Chair of the Joint Inquiry and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham; and see this Newsweek article).

And that a key Al Qaeda trainer actually worked with the Green Berets and the CIA and was an FBI informant.

And that the CIA may have helped most of the 9/11 hijackers get their visas to the U.S.

And that CIA agents allegedly met with Bin Laden two months before 9/11, when he was already supposedly wanted for the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, and when it was obvious to the intelligence services that he was supposedly planning 9/11.

Given that the government shielded top Al Qaeda members, and give that one of the top guys responsible for capturing Bin Laden now wishes OBL would attack America using weapons of mass destruction, the question must be asked whether people within the U.S. government wanted Bin Laden to attack the U.S. prior to 9/11.

This is an especially interesting question since a delay of a couple of minutes would have allowed the 9/11 attacks to succeed.

spring 2004: zelikow gets memo urging criminal referral of false statements by pentagon, faa; no action taken for months'*

is obama a wall street project?

from russia today: Webster Tarpley, journalist, radio host and critic of the Obama administration, reveals to RT who he thinks really rules the United States.

geopolitiks: coups & covert ops - trained & made in the USSA

first the mainstream basics:
honduran president ousted in military coup
from nytimes: President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential term limits. In the first military coup in Central America since the end of the cold war, soldiers stormed the presidential palace in the capital, Tegucigalpa, early in the morning, disarming the presidential guard, waking Mr. Zelaya and putting him on a plane to Costa Rica. Mr. Zelaya, a leftist aligned with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, angrily denounced the coup as illegal. “I am the president of Honduras,” he insisted at the airport in San José, Costa Rica, still wearing his pajamas. Later Sunday the Honduran Congress voted him out of office, replacing him with the president of Congress, Roberto Micheletti. The military offered no public explanation for its actions, but the Supreme Court issued a statement saying that the military had acted to defend the law against “those who had publicly spoken out and acted against the Constitution’s provisions.”

and now, the ugly reality is:
key leaders of honduras military coup trained in US
from southern studies: At least two leaders of the coup launched in Honduras today were apparently trained at a controversial Department of Defense school based at Fort Benning, Georgia infamous for producing graduates linked to torture, death squads and other human rights abuses. Leftist President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped and transported to Costa Rica this morning after a growing controversy over a vote concerning term limits. Over the last week, Zelaya clashed with and eventually dismissed General Romeo Vasquez - who is now reportedly in charge of the armed forces that abducted the Honduran president. According to the watchdog group School of Americas Watch, Gen. Vasquez trained at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at least twice - in 1976 and 1984 - when it was still called School of Americas. The Georgia-based U.S. military school is infamous for training over 60,000 Latin American soldiers, including infamous dictators, "death squad" leaders and others charged with torture and other human rights abuses. SOA Watch's annual protest to shut down the Fort Benning training site draws thousands.

honduras coup: throwback or dress rehearsal?*
honduras leader says country ready to 'go to war' as riots flare*
US suspends military activities with honduras*

obama moves to undermine iran with cia-linked usaid 'democracy'
from kurt nimmo: Ignore the neocons who whine that Obama and the Democrats are not doing enough to support the protesters arrayed in opposition to recently re-elected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs in Iran. “The Obama administration is moving forward with plans to fund groups that support Iranian dissidents,” reports USA Today. “The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which reports to the secretary of state, has for the last year been soliciting applications for $20 million in grants to ‘promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in Iran,’ according to documents on the agency’s website. The final deadline for grant applications is June 30.” Or put another way, the CIA will fund the opposition and this effort will be run out of Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Public records show that USAID has long been a front for CIA intelligence gathering, as well as a conduit for CIA funding to foreign governments and agencies, according to Bill Keisling. Pages 607 to 613 of the so-called CIA Family Jewels document describes a “joint CIA/USAID training program.” Andrew Natsios, USAID’s former head, stated unequivocally in a widely distributed 2003 speech that even foreign USAID-funded contractors and NGOs “are an arm of the U.S. government.” And the role of the much smaller NED was made clear when Allen Weinstein, one of its founders stated in a 1991 Washington Post article that, “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” It is well documented that the CIA’s USAID, along with the Pentagon, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the Venezuelan mafia in Miami attempted to overthrow Hugo Chávez. “It has been affirmed that the coup against Chávez was CIA-made,” writes Jean-Guy Allard of Granma International. “The CIA and the State Department maintain various fronts in the country, as they always do.”

US state funds covert israeli linked iran visual news corp aka peyman online 2007*
iranian envoy: cia involved in neda's shooting?*
iranian protesters avoid censorship with navy technology*
activists use US tech to poke holes in iran firewall*
after iran, twitter conspiracy theory hits germany*
cia drone that killed 65 pakistanis missed its target*
africom to continue under obama*
mousavi & iran contra*
brookings report mentions possibility of 'horrific provocation' to trigger iran invasion*
deep-packet inspection in US scrutinized following iran surveillance*
color revolutions, old & new*
europe weighs withdrawing diplomats from iran*
attacks, arrests slowing online news from iran*
video: taliban imported to conduct false flag ops in iraq*

western govts funding taliban & al-qaeda to kill US troops, destabilize countries*
1000s of pakistanis hold anti-US rally*
russian troops mass in war games near georgia*
why is russia staging major drills in north caucasus?*
report: israeli drones killed 29 civilians in gaza war*
israel seizes boat, kidnaps human rights workers, takes medicine, toys & olive trees*
pirates of the mediterranean*
cynthia mckinney demands immediate release after her gaza-bound boat is seized by israeli navy*
US remains silent over mckinney arrest by israel*
state dept on mckinney situation: "on that last question, i don’t know the answer, actually. i think i have to refer you to the govt of israel."*
paul craig roberts: US has become israel's puppet government*
is north korea prepping 4th of july fireworks?*

corbett report: episode092 - environmentalism is corporate controlled

from corbett report: Congress has passed the Clean Energy and Security Act and the banksters are already set to start the next big bubble: the cap-and-trade scam. Their corporate media stooges have the public whipped into a frenzy over man-made global warming... even as the earth cools. Join us this week as we explore the environmentalism approved by the corporate bigwigs, and how concerned citizens can steer the environmental movement back to the topics that matter.

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previous episode: 091 - beware operation blackjack

rothschild & freshfields founders had links to slavery, papers reveal

from financial times: Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking family’s 19th-century patriarch, and James William Freshfield, founder of Freshfields, the top City law firm, benefited financially from slavery, records from the National Archives show, even though both have often been portrayed as opponents of slavery. Far from being a matter of distant history, slavery remains a highly contentious issue in the US, where Rothschild and Freshfields are both active.

Companies alleged to have links to past slave injustices have come under pressure to make restitution.

JPMorgan, the investment bank, set up a $5m scholarship fund for black students studying in Louisiana after apologising in 2005 for the company’s historic links to slavery.

The archival documents have already prompted one of the banks named in the records to take action in the US.

When the FT approached Royal Bank of Scotland with information about its predecessor’s links with slavery, the bank researched the claim, updated its own archives and amended the disclosures of past slave connections that it had previously lodged with the Chicago authorities.

But it is the disclosures about Mr Rothschild and Mr Freshfield that are likely to prompt the biggest stir.

In the case of Mr Rothschild, the documents reveal for the first time that he made personal gains by using slaves as collateral in banking dealings with a slave owner.

flashback: cnbc guest says illuminati behind stock market crash

another bill congress didn't read: the coming climate tyranny

house passes 1,200-page climate bill congress couldn't read
from truthnews: Despite heated objections by some Republicans, the unread 1,200-page Waxman-Markey climate bill was passed 219-212 in the House on Friday. Final roll call votes are listed here. Objecting to the fact that 300 pages were added to the bill at 3 a.m., Minority leader John Boehner attempted a brief filibuster, giving time for colleagues and aides to scan the unread extra passages and present certain excerpts on the floor. Politico blasts his effort, reporting: "That wasn’t good enough for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), who delayed the roll call vote by reading page-by-page through a 300-page managers’ amendment Democrats added at around 3 a.m. Friday. Boehner seemed to relish the hour-long stunt, picking out the bill’s most obscure language and then pontificating about what it might – or might not – mean."

Shockingly, co-sponsor Henry Waxman objected to Boehner’s reading the bill on the House floor, and tried to prevent it on procedural grounds so that is contents would remain unknown and no one would shift support or delay the bill’s passage. Passing “laws” in secret is not law at all– it is tyranny, and it is shameful:" Waxman also wondered if any 'historical records would be broken' by Boehner reading part of the bill and queried whether the tactic was 'an attempt to try to get some people to leave on a close vote?'" Politico reports that Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) raised questions about whether "there was even a copy of the current version of the bill anywhere in the House chamber."

Remarkably, Ed Markey, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, rose to report that a copy was only available at the speaker’s desk or online, which Politico reports, would require members "to leave the floor to access."

Rep. Michele Bachmann stated plainly that the bill was "a choice between liberty and tyranny," claiming that the bill institute "control over nearly every aspect in the lives of the American people" and advocating the Forbes amendment.

obama says climate bill just the beginning*
3 ways the climate bill will change your life*
boehner calls the climate bill a 'piece of shit'*
bureaucrats will carry out mandatory home inspections under climate bill*

update: banksters love cap-and-trade
from corbett report: The sweeping new bill which just passed the House last Friday, the Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, is ostensibly about climate change, but it is in fact a bill of staggering economic ramifications that is going to accelerate the takeover of the economy by the well-placed financiers who have already plundered the Treasury and the Fed of $12+ trillion and counting. It was rushed through the House in the tradition of such nightmarish legislation as the Patriot Act and the banker bailout of last October: hundreds of pages were added to it at the last minute and it was humanly impossible for anyone to have read it before they voted on it. This, of course, is exactly what Obama promised his administration would never allow to happen, and for good reason; bills passed in this manner are always the result of fear and panic and inevitably results in legislation that would never be passed upon sober second thought.

corbett report episode092: environmentalism is corporate controlled

media monarchy episode129

episode129 from media monarchy reacts to death & distraction in the messiah industrial complex w/ debt & destruction, deep throat, drills, derailments & the blackjack/sentry psyop, fake news & fake suicides, soul selling, cia, wall st & wal-mart, blackwater books, drones, phones & climate cops, binge & purge, digital warfare & blowing up the moon + now music by cursive and tons more...

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neverland nevermore: michael jackson is dead at age 50

from ap: Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted "King of Pop" who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world's most influential singer and dancer before his life and career deteriorated in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. He was 50.

The person said Jackson died in a Los Angeles hospital. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.

The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear. Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about 12:30 p.m., Capt. Steve Ruda told the Los Angeles Times. The paramedics performed CPR and took him to UCLA Medical Center, Ruda told the newspaper.

Jackson's death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.

His 1982 album "Thriller" — which included the blockbuster hits "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" — remains the biggest-selling album of all time, with more than 26 million copies.

related obits to complete the 3's: ed mcmahon, of tonight show fame, dies at 86 & farrah fawcett dead after cancer battle at age 62

flashback: jarvis cocker invades jackson's 1996 brit awards performance

update: jackson & fawcett deaths overshadow loss of liberties
from kurt nimmo: It’s like manna from heaven for the corporate media. Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” and Farrah Fawcett, the “It Girl,” have died on the same day. Details of these two tragic events will now dominate the media for more than a week and push vastly more important events into the shadows. Obama and Congress plan to hand the entire U.S. economy over to an evil cartel of private banksters and inbred elitists, thus creating a dictatorship not answerable to the people. Meanwhile, the corporate media has gathered in a feeding frenzy over the death of a mentally disturbed music icon. It is no longer news that the Fed will soon have the power to seize any company, from the corner hot dog stand to once mighty automotive corporations. Farrah Fawcett’s death by cancer is more important than the fact the government will soon usher in a form of corporatism – what Mussolini called fascism – of a magnitude and sophistication never before witnessed.

obamessiah & the apostles of war: continuity of scandals

in stark legal turnaround, obama now resembles bush*
obama's promise of a new beginning now hollow*
obama's doj tries to stop geronimo lawsuit against skull & bones*
house panel approves bill expanding oversight of nsa*
the left gatekeepers & tax exempt foundations*
obama calls for immigration reform at prayer breakfast*
obama relaunches immigration debate in US*
obama administration looks to colleges for future spies*
hr675: building obama’s civilian national security force*
obama, citing his smoking woes, signs tobacco law*

obama's curious call on huffpo reporter for iran question*
land of the 'free,' home of the czars*
obama won't apologize for cia role in chile*
obama names dhs management honcho*
impeach obama*

and then the rest of the phony left/right fools:
rep neugebauer: 'i don’t know’ if obama is a citizen*
schwarzenegger jet makes steep emergency landing*
sotomayor quits all women’s club after gop criticism*
sotomayor resigns from all-women club*
sotomayor quits women's club after gop criticism*
nv gop senator john ensign admits affair, claims extortion*
south carolina governor’s whereabouts unknown, even to wife*
awol south carolina gov. mark sanford has entire state in a tizzy*
s carolina governor admits affair after mystery trip*
video: sanford says "i've been unfaithful to my wife"*
sanford admits affair with woman in argentina*
video: giuliani says dems cheat as often as gop*
s carolina gov mark sanford admits infidelity & resigns from gop leadership position*

video: sanford’s alleged mistress reporting on 9/11*

biowars/envirohealth: infections, declarations & mandatory vaccinations

obama gets billions for 'pandemic' swine flu*
US swine flu cases now exceed 21,000; 87 deaths*
swine flu 'could infect up to half the uk population'*
vaccinate canadians under 40 & natives first: experts*
sign the 'universal declaration of resistance to mandatory vaccination'*
swedish govt recommends 2 h1n1 shots for every swede*
mandatory h1n1 vaccine may be in the works*
swine flu tolls leaps past 52,000 cases*
video: swine flu: made in the usa*

ny 'carbon counter' sign shows greenhouse gases in real time*
epa declares 'emergency' asbestos cleanup in montana town*
nasa’s james hansen, civil disobedience & mountaintop removal mining*
daryl hannah, ex-rep hechler & others arrested at west virginia protest*
opium-eating wallabies get high, make crop circles*
200 lbs of pot seized from ex-mountain bike champ*
author, eco-philosopher & activist joanna macy says it is time for a 'new world order'*

police state int'l: drones, phones, kids & climate cops

the panopticon economy: the nsa's new data-mining facility is one component of a growing local surveillance industry*
spy training program could come to universities*
secret buildings you may not photograph, part 643*
bozeman, mt drops request for internet passwords*
dhs to end use of satellites for domestic spying*
homeland security announces the elimination of domestic terrorism surveillance satellite*
admin kills bush program to give police access to spy satellite data*
1st satellite for space tracking & surveillance system delivered*
homeland security drone patrolling nny*
drone aircraft to patrol canadian border*
new bill seeks to replace real id with pass id*
nsa monitors millions of american emails*
rfid-enabled phones could let credit card companies track users*
house backs biometrics in dhs 2010 spending bill*
60k US inmates sexually abused each year, report says*
protesters denounce chicago police '1968 reunion'*
chicago's black star project: we need more than police action!*
cop ordered to manage anger*
supreme court rules school's strip search of teenage girl illegal*
video: scotus says strip search of child illegal*
supreme court: strip search of child illegal*
scotus rules strip search is unconstitutional, but school officials immune from accountability*
'they took away my twins after i'd joked that birth spoilt my body'*
urban rangers*
climate cops to fine 'wasteful' homeowners & businesses*

6/25 newspurge

history/mystery:
did allen dulles draft kennedy assassination directive in a covert mj12 coup?*
reports of walter cronkites illness are exaggerated, says assistant *
watergate break-in conspirator bernard barker worked for the mafia, author says*
video: jfk, executive order 11110 & the warren commission*
american colleges & the nazis*
north carolina apologizes for sterilizations*
another look inside nixon's presidency*
nixon supported abortion … for interracial babies*
nixon, on tape, predicted an american holocaust & blamed it on a jewish 'death wish'*
washington man found guilty of stealing hitler's bookmark*
ww3? british release secret planning manual*
35,000 yr old flute the 'oldest musical instrument' ever found*
ceremony of neglect: medical procedures at jonestown*
US officials leaked false story blaming iran for khobar attack*

media/memes:
'insane' file-sharing verdict could challenge law’s constitutionality*
single-mother digital pirate jammie thomas-rasset must pay $80k per song*
this just in: fake news sites are great!*

murder/mayhem:
rosemary's brother, peter farrow, commits suicide w/ carradine connections*
video: jon stewart on the museum shooting aftermath*
4-story building collapses in brooklyn*
crash in maryland kills couple watching street race*
5.4 quake shakes anchorage; damage appears light*
high school football coach shot dead at school gym in iowa*
6yr-olds trigger emergency response with toy nuclear reactor in germany*
fbi arrests white supremacist blogger hal turner for threatening to kill federal judges*
exorcism left dead boy on a cross*
flight 447 pilot's body retrieved*

geopolitiks: lynch mobs, documents & independence day

pentagon deploys experimental missile shield to hawaii*
planned north korea launch unnerves hawaii residents*
obama: US prepared for any north korean threat*
pentagon dismisses as 'silliness' north korea threat to wipe out US*
north korea threatens 'shower of nuclear retaliation’*
critics attack censorship as redactions black out uk documents*
'lynch mob mentality' scares uk politicians*
mossad chief's term to be extended by one year*
can 3rd temple be built without destroying dome of the rock?*
'barrel monster' gains following, from north carolina to south korea*
deadliest strike yet in pakistan drone war*
video: killer mccrystal issues orders to protect afghani civilians*
deadly pakistan drone strike provokes … silence?*
videos: tens of thousands of chinese fight the police in shishou*
china blocks google services for an hour*
saddam bluffed about wmd fearing iranian arsenal, secret fbi files show*
declassified docs reveal saddam wanted alliance with US*