Salon.com: "Bureaucratic mismanagement, inept recruits and astonishing shortages of equipment."

"Hair Gel Terrorist" is the word of the week!

Muckraker : "NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States. A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case."

In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.

A new flood of propaganda lies...

Pravda: Nuclear war starting in 1o days?

CNN: Glenn Beck is a liar plus he's totally crazy and so full of shit...

Vanity Fair - The NORAD Tapes: "How did the U.S. Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD's Northeast headquarters, the author reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day—and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up."

Randi Rhodes Interviews Paul Thompson

Washington Post: Government Lied about 9/11: "Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate."

CNN: "...we may not have been told the truth..." Some interesting facts...

Meanwhile: The reviews for Oliver Stones "World Trade Center" sound frightening...

rinf.com - Story by Wayne Madsen:

"One of the top U.S. contractors in Iraq was also intimately involved in the Bin Laden global financial empire

The U.S. construction and engineering firm Fluor Corp. has raked in handsome profits from reconstruction contracts awarded by the Pentagon in Iraq. Fluor, which received the lucrative contracts because it was included by the Pentagon on an "invitation only" short list of eligible contractors, has contributed over $500,000 to Republican candidates since 2000. Kenneth Oscar, a Fluor Vice President, was the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement and was conveniently in charge of a $60 billion budget. One of Fluor's board members is retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a former deputy director of the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) director.

What is not known about Fluor is its long standing ties to the Bin Laden family's worldwide financial interests. WMR has recently obtained the copy of a French intelligence report on the Saudi Investment Company Organization (SICO), an operation controlled by the Bin Ladens. The report reveals that Fluor was an integral part of the Bin Laden financial empire through a network of interlocking off-shore companies and directorships registered in such locations as Curacao, the Cayman Islands, London, the Netherlands, and Virginia.'"

Read on...

Recently, the British government had to admit that a new sort of napalm was extensively used in Iraq by US forces. Nobody is talking about this.

"I saw the burned bodies of women and children... The White Phosphorus explodes and forms a cloud: who's in the ray of 150 meters is dead". Jeff Englehart, former Us soldier.

A new tv report by an italian public tv channel demonstrates how the Us Army used chemical weapons to eradicate the insurgents in Falluja, Iraq, regardless of civilian deaths. People were burned alive. A whole city was sieged and razed to earth, using this kind of bombing. Soldiers were encouraged to shoot anyone, including children. No journalists were allowed in the area, the few ones who entered despite this were harassed, had strange incidents or were kidnapped by iraqi gangs. Their video footage was destroyed..."

"The president needs a break, folks. If he can't recharge his batteries, he can't suck!"

Alternet: George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers saw the Israel-Hezbollah conflict as a chance to get the Israelis to spread the war to Syria and achieve the long-sought goal of 'regime change' in Damascus.

"The constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper." "George W. Bush, November 2005)

"Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo (“The Rose,” “Trading Places”) set out on a journey to find the evidence. Neither left, nor right-wing this startling examination of government exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913."

A film by Aaron Russo

The trailer is online now!

Green Left Weekly: A US$80 million fund has been approved by US President George Bush to help the United States achieve “regime change” in Cuba. The second report from the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, released on July 5, outlines Washington’s plans to step up attacks on the island state’s sovereignty. It openly commits the US to assisting the creation of a transitional government that supports “genuine” democracy, “human rights” and an open-market system. The report claims that the first 180 days after Cuban President Fidel Castro dies will be vital, and could mean the “difference between a successful transition period and the stumbles and missteps that have slowed other states in their transitions toward democracy”. The $80 million is to be used as a part of a two-year program to break what the US describes as the “information blockade”, as well as preparations for the post-Castro transfer of power.

Unbelievable!

"A nuclear-capable North Korean test warhead was found in Alaska.

According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska, former Japanese foreign minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report. Washington, as well as Tokyo, has so far underrated Pyongyang’s missile capabilities.’

A story that would have expected to garner front page headlines for days was completely blacked out in the US, with not one single newspaper choosing to report it.

The reason?

How could the Bush administration sell a war against a country with no means to defend itself and as it later transpired with no weapons of mass destruction, when a country with WMD was firing long-range nuclear capable missiles that were hitting the western coast of the US?" (prisonplanet)

More at hankooki.com

NewsMax: "Crisis management experts are calling for the creation of a "United Nations army an international rapid reaction force that could be deployed within 48 hours to intervene in emergency situations around the globe.

Composed of up to 15,000 military, police and civilian staff, including medics, the proposed force would be recruited from professionals hired by the U.N. from many countries, and based at designated U.N. sites.

Its actions would be authorized by the U.N. Security Council, according to the Toronto Star."

"The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote.

A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts. Files from the secret vote-blocking campaign were obtained by BBC Television Newsnight, London. They were attached to emails accidentally sent by Republican operatives to a non-party website. (...) Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, “Do not forward”, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as “undeliverable.”

The lists of soldiers of “undeliverable” letters were transmitted from state headquarters, in this case Florida, to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted." Full story by Greg Palast

The new book by Greg Palast: Armed Madhouse

Time: "Exclusive Excerpt: Author Ron Suskind (The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11.) reveals how officials learned about a cell that came within weeks of striking New York City."

Shoutwire: "William Arkin reports in the Washington Post on the largest anti-terror drill yet to be conducted in the context of the 'Continuity in Government' procedures. The drill is intended to prepare the country for 'a Second 9/11'. If a second 9/11 were to occur, civilian government would in all likelihood be suspended and martial law would be established."

President George W. Bush on Wednesday admitted the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has damaged the country's reputation and will be closed down.

"Bush Family Connections to Genocide and Financing Hitler Four generations of the sociopathic predator George W. Bush family have been attacking the human race through stealth practices, and contributing to the mass murder of millions of people. The Bush family has financed, aided and abetted, and collaborated with the most evil dictators and tyrants of the 20th century."

BBC: The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says. The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were "committed" and had killed themselves in "an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us".

Lawyers said the men who hanged themselves had been driven by despair.

It's called "World War III" by now anyway.

Alternet: "The past six years have been an attempt to seize power and steal money."

"Where does the danger to the world reside? In Iran, a small religious country where the family is intact and the government is constrained by religious authority and ancient traditions, or in the US where propaganda rules and the powerful executive branch has removed itself from accountability by breaking the constitutional restraints on its power?

Why is the US superpower orchestrating fear of puny Iran?

The US government has spent the past half century interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, overthrowing or assassinating their chosen leaders and imposing its puppets on foreign peoples. To what country has Iran done this, or Iraq, or North Korea?

Americans think that they are the salt of the earth. The hubris that comes from this self-righteous belief makes Americans blind to the evil of their leaders. How can American leaders be evil when Americans are so good and so wonderful? (...) Gentle reader, do you believe that the Bush Regime will not shoot you down in the streets if you have a rebellion? "

From "The Evil Within" By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

"For those unfamiliar with Bittorrent technology, a torrent is conceptually similar to a link. Like a link, a torrent can point to copyrighted material, but is not copyrighted material in itself. So if The Pirate Bay is deemed to be illegal, the same rationale could be used to deem Google, MSN Search, etc. illegal as well (as these search engines also contain links to copyrighted materials). (...) Sweden's Center Party has condemned the raid: 'We want to find out whether pressure from the U.S. government was behind the action," Center Party spokesman Johan Linander said. "I think all of this smells of direct political influence and we want to reach clarity about who really did what.'"

From frogstylebiscuit.com

A video of the raid

"Today’s Republican Party is a stool that rests on three legs of fear: fear of foreigners, fear of dark people and fear of sex."

Larry Beinhart about "Foaming Republicans"

"Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. in "Rolling Stone"

Capitol Hill Blue: New CIA director Hayden plans massive expansion of spying on Americans President George W. Bush told Hayden to "take whatever steps necessary" to monitor Americans 24/7 by listening in on their phone calls, bugging their homes and offices, probing their private lives, snooping into their financial records and watching their travel habits.

Alternet: Cheney Starts New Cold War Over Oil

Video: Who Killed John O' Neill? ...documenting many strange connections between the CIA and Alqaeda.

"Fake Soldier Confession Video Runs As Cover For Real Slaughter

A widely circulated video in which an army ranger confessed to the brutal indiscriminate murder of Iraqi civilians and its vehement debunking as a hoax has acted as a smokescreen for the very real admission and evidence of US war crimes in Iraq. (...) The hoax video has allowed Neo-Con media government boot-lickers to discredit all claims of US atrocities in Iraq, despite the fact that the army has admitted to them and charges are pending. This is an exercise in bait and switch and it softens the backlash of opinion against the coalition of the killing when true and verified examples of war crimes are brought to the fore. It dilutes the reaction to a growing body of hardcore evidence of ceaseless atrocities committed against innocent Iraqis.

Fox News wasted no time in exploiting the hoax to whitewash the real issue of war crimes and civilian murders in Iraq. Michelle Malkin (who advocates bringing back internment camps for Muslims) also cited the video as an example of anti-war propaganda and used it to dismiss genuine US-led slaughter in Iraq."

Full story by Paul Joseph Watson at Prisonplanet.com

Tags: Bush, Propaganda, Michelle Malkin

"Research and facts about biological weapons and biotechnology.

Many biological weapons are rapidly destroyed by bright sunlight. The Sunshine Project works to bring facts about biological weapons to light! We are an international non-profit organization with offices in Hamburg, Germany and Austin, Texas, USA. We work against the hostile use of biotechnology in the post-Cold War era. We research and publish to strengthen the global consensus against biological warfare and to ensure that international treaties effectively prevent development and use of biological weapons"

THE SUNSHINE PROJECT

The Independent: "The notorious US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay has been hit by fresh allegations of human rights abuses, with claims that dozens of children were sent there - some as young as 14 years old."

The Independent: Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV'

Quote: "Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies' products.

Investigators from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are seeking information about stations across the country after a report produced by a campaign group detailed the extraordinary extent of the use of such items."

Bloomberg: "The April report by the non-profit Center for Media and Democracy found at least 77 stations, including 23 affiliates of Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network and seven Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. stations, ignored an FCC warning to disclose sponsors. The maximum fine for each violation is $32,500, rising to $325,000 for multiple infractions, said FCC spokesman Clyde Ensslin."