5/27 newspurge: wake up the nation

9/11 updates:
former cia officials admit to faking bin laden video*
top construction firm: wtc destroyed by controlled demolition*
gop: US can't afford to fund health 'entitlement program' for 9/11 rescue workers*
study finds more male babies miscarried in 9/11 aftermath*

drugwar:
plummeting marijuana prices create a panic in california*
100s of 'pot plants' seized by texas cops are horse mint*
seized marijuana legalization petitions missing*
ig report: meth, porn use by drilling agency staff*

econocrash:
despite soaring natl debt, congress goes on spending spree*
insider trading is perfectly legal – but only for members of US congress*
US senate rubber-stamps dictatorship of big banks*
are we about to witness the greatest banking consolidation in US history?*
US banks post profit, but woes persist*
US drops criminal probe of aig executives*
lost angeles loses 45% of items purchased with taxpayer funds*
central bank intervention is now self-defeating*
euro momentarily stabilized;
german ban on naked credit default swaps is working*
'the market' is a reactionary mystification: reply to attack on economic populism*
crime rate down for 3rd year in a row, despite recession*
rothschilds engineer fire sale of uk infrastructure to offshore corporations*
bilderberg 2010 agenda leaked*

geopolitiks:
afghans say US created & funds the taliban*
afghans believe US is funding taliban*
australia boots israeli diplomat over fake murder passports*
US begins massive military build up around iran, sending up to 4 new carrier groups*
uk mod blew up 119 live pigs in explosive tests*
gordon brown 'first choice' for top job at imf*

history/mystery:
stalin blocked attempts to kill hitler: general*
vatican promises to open wartime archives*
new pyramid discovered in peru linked to ancient copper industry*

media/memes:
video: cbs propaganda placement:
conspiracy theorists are anti-american, domestic terrorists*
hollywood box-office success can be predicted by frequency of tweets*
art linkletter, host of tv's 'people are funny,' dies*
video: ray stevens 'come to the USA'*

murder/mayhem:
plane crash in india kills 158 people, 8 survive*
satanic russian cult teens 'sacrificed' victims then ate them*
upset wendy's customer in florida chased down employee with stun gun*
when passengers spit, nyc bus drivers take months off*

warwhores:
congress moves to end ban on gays in military*
more US troops in afghanistan than iraq*
US preps for massive attack: battle for kandahar, heart of taliban country*
US troops more likely to suffer ptsd than uk troops*
new uk mod strategic report extends vision to 2040*
former military officials' performance in administration questioned*
al-CIAda in the islamic maghreb: US trains mali army to fight al-qaeda*
more blank checks to the military industrial complex*
video: children taunted in iraq; US soldier under investigation*