Creeping Fascism: From Nazi Germany to Post 9/11 America

"Americans today are seeing the same sheepish submissiveness that characterized Germany after the burning of the Reichstag." Is democracy slowly disappearing? Hitler and Franco did it in Germany and Spain. Is Bush doing it in the USA?

http://www.alternet.org/story/71881/

Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist

How to tell if you will soon be living in a fascist state.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSuWCIYi7T4

The Delicate Matter of the Truth About Santa

Some parents may worry about the effect of the Santa story on kids once they figure out who's really been eating the cookies and milk left by the fireplace, but giving kids an immediate dose of reality on the subject isn't necessary.

http://www.livescience.com/health/071220-santa-belief.html

Texas Voting Machines - Rig an Election with 1 Password

The Hart Intercivic voting system, used in at least 16 States, allows anyone with access and a passcode to modify vote totals from an election without leaving any record of the modification. Even worse, the same passcode resides on all machines and in every storage device, waiting to be extracted and exploited.

http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6529

Climate Change Performance Index 2008 Released

The Climate Change Performance Index from European non-profit group Germanwatch was released Saturday in Bali, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture.

USA #55 just ahead of the last on the list #56 Saudi Arabia.
Finland is #36 with a performance rating of "poor".

http://www.greendaily.com

Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms

The Washington Post reports that researchers are poised to cross a dramatic barrier: the creation of life forms driven by completely artificial DNA.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Report: Ohio voting machines have 'critical flaws'

All five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 general election, a report commissioned by the state’s top elections official has found.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/us/15ohio.html

FOX denigrates Al Gore in real time during Nobel Prize award

AS the former Vice-president (and 2000 popular-vote winner) received the Nobel Peace Prize, the classless clowns at FOX and Friends read a litany of complaints and insults about him. It was a shameful moment for Americans, who are by and large proud of and grateful to Al Gore for his tireless campaigning on the planet's behalf.



http://www.newshounds.us

Impeach Bush & Cheney NOW!

Google Caught Red Handed Censoring Sites with Pagerank

It appears Google has been caught in violation of their own slogan, "Don't Be Evil", as they have stepped in to interfere with the pagerank of several webpages. Due to content that does not fit in with their ideology, Google manually and permanently set the page rank of the Rob Levin and Megan Meyer articles in Encyclopedia Dramatica to ZERO.

http://weev.livejournal.com/274773.html

Our Debt-based Money System, and its Consequences

If the three and a half hour documentary on fractional reserve banking left you overwhelmed, this series of animations explaining how our debt based money system works should clarify the confusing aspects - and leave you indignant at a system that lets banks make money out of nothing to loan you at interest or foreclose on your property.

1. Corrupt Banking System - Cartels Robbing the Public

British TV slams Giuliani's 9/11 record

“Giuliani spent $60m on the command centre in the World Trade Centre 7. He installed a humidor for his cigars, monogrammed towels in bathroom, even had private elevator which was handy when he brought his mistress here at the weekends. But he also installed a 600 gallon fuel tank that when burning debris hit the building it went up like a blowtorch."

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/index.php?p=70

Americans Are All Suspects Now and Need to be Monitored (Column)

The administration's demand that Congress shield the telecommunications industry from lawsuits for aiding in the systematic warrantless wiretapping of Americans has far less to do with protecting national security than its own exposed flanks. Make no mistake, telecom immunity is about keeping a flagrantly illegal program from public scrutiny.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/18/Opinion/In_the_US_of_A__we_ar.shtml

God, The Santa Claus for Adults

Religious adults find it so cute that their children believe in a fictional deity. Well I find it adorable how +90% of the American population believes in God.

http://www.philosophunny.com/2007/11/dear-santa-will-your-repent-my-sins.html

The 50 Dumbest Things George W. Bush Has Ever Said

The tragicomic presidency of George W. Bush, in his own words.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushquotes/a/dumbbushquotes.htm

Open Letter to the Government from an AWOL Soldier

I am writing you today, not asking for forgiveness for what I decided to do, but to give you an idea of what brought me to that decision to leave the Army and speak out against the Occupation... I joined the Army after the towers of New York fell. Swept up in the fervor, I left college to enlist. My country was attacked - I, like many, wanted to...

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/circello

Military Recruiters Allowed To Freely Roam High School Halls

While anti-war students who had a peaceful sit-in in the cafeteria are in danger of being expelled.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/

Project Censored's Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008

Every year they compile a list of the top 25 news stories that you just didn’t hear about through the traditional media. If you haven’t been exposed to Project Censored, plan on spending several hours reading about media suppression and bias.

http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2008/index.htm

Breastfeeding increases child's IQ

Study reveals link between breastfeeding and child IQ Babies who are breastfed stand a better chance of becoming intelligent children if they also inherit a version of a gene that is involved in the growth of the brain, researchers have found. 2 large studies of breastfed children confirm that mother’s milk does indeed raise IQ in later life.

http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3132481.ece

Irony: WhiteHouse tells Pakistan not to restrict rights in name of "terror"

White House tells Pervez Musharraf to “never restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism."

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

FEMA’s fake Press conference: Are you surprised?

Reporters were given only 15 minutes’ notice of the briefing, making it unlikely many could show up at FEMA’s Southwest D.C. offices. They were given an 800 number to call in, though it was a “listen only” line, the notice said — no questions. Parts of the briefing were carried live on Fox News, MSNBC and other outlets.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/26/femas-fake-press-conference-are-you-surprised/

The Raw Story: White House: Fake FEMA news conference won't happen again

Reuters: US agency apologizes for news conference on fires

America Seems to be Going Through an Atheist Phase

The US may be one of the most religious countries in the West but is it undergoing a period of doubt? It may be daring to say it but America seems to be experiencing an atheist moment. Although "In God We Trust" was declared the national motto by an act of Congress more than 50 years ago, some considerable doubt has developed of late.

Comments: Yes, and I've been going through a "there is no Santa Claus" phase for the last few decades too! People finally accepting reality and giving up on outgrowing the magic and superstition of religion is not a "phase". It's a sign of maturity. I think the inevitable outcome of education, civilization and social evolution is the death of organized religion. Educated people just don't buy into the dogma of the church. They may not be atheist, and they may consider themselves spiritual, but they know that organized religion is a fraud.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7053157.stm

Ad in USA Today: America Not Made Safer by Weakening the Constitution

Not only is it interesting that USA Today printed the advertisement but Amnesty International's ad is amazing. (PDF)

http://www.amnestyusa.org/pdf/10_17USA_Today.pdf?dload_do

Your Violent Kids Are Your Own Fault

It is not the cartoons that make your kids smack playmates or violently grab their toys but, rather, a lack of social skills, according to new research.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=AB014D4A-E7F2-99DF-32520DB62378CE94&chanID=sa003

Naomi Klein: America is being 'shocked' into fascism

Video: Big business, big government are in collusion to turn human tragedy into private profits, says 'No Logo' author.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Naomi_Klein_explains_how_we_willingly_1013.html

US Soldiers Have a New Enemy: Mercenaries Paid With US Tax Dollars

The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad's Green Zone...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/12/105744/13

Fox News Immediately Begins Smear Campaign Against Al Gore, Nobel Prize

On Fox and Friends this morning, co-host Steve Doocy wasted no time in attacking Al Gore & his Nobel Prize. "Here's something extraordinary," Doocy sarcastically said. "What do Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, and that crazy Jimmy Carter have in common? They all won the Nobel Peace Prize?"

http://alternet.org/blogs/video/65111/

The Mega-Lie Called the "War on Terror": A Masterpiece of Propaganda

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie" -- Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/63632/

4 Myths Government and Media Use to Scare Us About 'Dictators'

The Bush White House calls Iran's President Ahmadinejad a "dictator" when he isn't -- part of scaring the public into thinking preemptive war is a good thing.

http://www.alternet.org/story/64103/

Global Hypocrisy on Burma

Why should large oil companies like the US based Chevron, the Malaysian Petronas, South Korea's Daewoo International Corp or the French Total continue to be involved in Burma without facing penalties for their support of one of the world’s most heinous dictatorships?

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=13934

Losing the War on Terror: Why Giving Up Our Rights Won't Stop Terrorists

In this interview, legal expert David Cole says, "The Bush administration has adopted a particular approach to fighting terrorism, something it calls the 'preventive paradigm.' This paradigm seeks to employ the most coercive measures that a state has against people, not because of what they have done but because of what they might do."

http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2007_318/news/12791-1.html

1,000 Attempt Citizen's Arrest Of Bush

Under the principles of the Nuremburg Trials at the end of World War Two, Bush would be indictable for all four counts established back then:1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace;2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace;3. War crimes;4. Crime

http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=4181

The Police State Is Right Here, Right Now

One of the most frightening realities of teaching college history is that most students rarely have a clue what fascism is. They know about Hitler and the extermination of Jews, but they see little connection with Nazi rule in the 1930s and 40s and the current political milieu in the United States.

http://vtcommons.org/node/888

Saddam Wanted Out, Bush Lied About It

Just last week we learned from former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan that the real reason behind the war in Iraq was oil , and now we are finding out that the entire war could have been averted for letting Saddam get away with $1 billion.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/28/saddam-wanted-out-bush-lied-about-it/

Blackwater Has Made Almost $1 Billion in Iraq Since 2004

The U.S. military is dependent on contractors in modern warfare, and their are undertones of animosity between the State and D.O.D. over who should be taking more blame over Blackwater. Since 2004, State has paid Blackwater $833,673,316, compared with Defense Department contracts of $101,219,261.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092502675_pf.html

Bush Administration Floods Iraqi Market with Billions of Dollars in Weapons

Gen. David Petraeus confirmed that the United States plans to sell billions of dollars of weapons to Iraq: "Iraq is becoming one of the United States’ larger foreign military sales customers, committing some 1.6 billion (dollars) to FMS already, with the possibility of up to 1.8 billion (dollars) more being committed before the end of this year."

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/18/iraq-weapons/

Treason! Bill to restore habeas corpus fails!

60 votes were needed to pass the measure, it came 4 short, at 56. Goodbye America..

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00340

9/11 - the big cover-up?

Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission now admits that the official evidence they were given was 'far from the truth'.

The chair and vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, respectively Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, assert in their book, Without Precedent, that they were "set up to fail" and were starved of funds to do a proper investigation. They also confirm that they were denied access to the truth and misled by senior officials in the Pentagon and the federal aviation authority; and that this obstruction and deception led them to contemplate slapping officials with criminal charges.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/peter_tatchell/2007/09/911_the_big_coverup.html

Mystery 9/11 aircraft was military doomsday plane

Shortly before 10 am on the morning of September 11, 2001, amid rumors of a fourth hijacked plane headed for Washington, DC, a mystery aircraft appeared in restricted airspace over the White House. There has never been an official explanation for this incident, which has provided abundant fuel for 9/11 conspiracy theories.

So let me get this straight, the US Air Force had a 747 E-4B command ship flying over DC and the White House on the morning of 911 but not one F-16 from Langley? OK

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/CNN_investigates_secret_911_doomsday_plane_0913.html

Who Should The USA Invade Next ?

Who Should The USA Invade Next ???

FOX News attempts to connect Osama bin Laden with American left and Democrats

Two YouTube videos feature segments of Fox News' Hannity and Colmes, featuring a total of four guests appearing to offer comment on the recent video released by what appears to be Osama bin Laden. The guests and co-host Sean Hannity work towards connecting bin Laden's speech to the current tone among the Democrats.

Hannity Compares Democrats To Osama Bin Laden, Pt 1


Hannity Compares Democrats To Osama Bin Laden, Pt 2


http://rawstory.com//news/2007/FOX_News_attempts_to_connect_Osama_0908.html

Bush's achievements

In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did), I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.

http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/media/bush/#

Olbermann: Bush's true motive is "War today, war tomorrow, war forever!"

Keith Olbermann offered a special comment Tuesday on President Bush's visit to Iraq. "He is back from his annual, surprise, gratuitous, photo op in Iraq, and what a sorry spectacle it was," said Olbermann. "But it was nothing compared to the spectacle of one unfiltered, unguarded, horrifying quotation in the new biography."

With video
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Olbermann_commentary_mocks_Bush_War_today_0905.html

Bush can't recall why Iraqi army disbanded! Unbelievable!

"Yeah, I can't remember; I'm sure I said, 'This is the policy, what happened?' " Bush said, adding: "Again, Hadley's got notes on all this stuff" -- a reference to national security advisor Stephen J. Hadley. How can you not remember such a huge and critical decision of the Iraq war? Some Commander-In-Chief. Pathetic, absolutely pathetic!

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/04/america/bremer.php

Study: US preparing 'massive' military attack against Iran

The United States may be prepared to launch without warning a massive assault on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities, as well as government buildings and infrastructure, according to a new analysis of "what the military option might involve if it were picked up off the table and put into action."

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Study_US_preparing_massive_military_attack_0828.html

Ex-Reagan Aide Calls Bush 'Mass Murderer'

Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of the treasury under the Reagan administration, cites a recent report of more than 1 million deaths in Iraq since the war began. He calls Bush a mass murderer. "Bush ... is responsible, according to Information Clearing House, for over one million deaths of Iraqi civilians, which puts Bush high on the list of mass murderers of all time, The vast majority of 'kills' by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan are civilians."

http://rawstory.com/

The Rip-off in Iraq

In Iraq, private contractors are guaranteed huge profits no matter how badly they fuck things up. How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/60950

US Citizens Are Being Tortured By The US

For daring to report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance was imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods. There were times, huddled on the floor in solitary confinement with that head-banging music blaring dawn to dusk and interrogators yelling like Fox News Hosts.

It is not just about torture, intimidation and detention - although that is bad enough, but it is about American and British security forces allowing the insurgency to be armed. They are perpetuating the fighting to justify a military presence in the gulf and to secure more profit for corporations.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/24/ap4052736.html

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

Fox ATTACKS! Iran - Fearmongering 2004 vs. 2007

You'd think that with the complete failure in Iraq, those days would be behind us. Sadly, you'd be wrong. FOX wants war with Iran. This video compares FOX footage from just before the Iraq war to recent coverage on the ever-closer Iran conflict. The similarities are sickeningly real.

http://foxattacks.com/blog/10777-fox-attacks-iran

Propaganda

Quotes from 'Propaganda' by Edward Bernays
Ig publishing, 2005, paper
originally published in 1928

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Propaganda/Propaganda_Bernays.html

Scientists Struggle to Define The Meaning of Life

Philosophers wrestling with the big questions of life are no longer alone. Now scientists are struggling to define life as they manipulate it, look for it on other planets, and even create it in test tubes.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-08-19-life_N.htm

Bush Administration has more Spying Powers than first believed

Intelligence legislation passed earlier this month is angering a growing number of critics who say an end-of-session scramble inadvertently gave the Bush Administration wider spying powers than previously thought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/washington/19fisa.html?ref=nationalspecial3

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Modern Signs that IDIOCRACY is becoming a reality

We live in a generation hanging on to the speech patterns of a president, while eating freedom fries and waiting with bated breath for the subsequent news update about Paris Hilton. The general populace is now too tired and dull to stand up for their rights; simply because if they do, they will miss out on the latest episode of American Idol...

http://www.the-trukstop.com/articles/2007/idiocracy.html

Marijuana Does Not Cause Psychosis, Lung Damage, or Skin Cancer

Reading coverage of marijuana research in the mainstream press increases the risk of becoming misinformed by 50-300%.An analysis of the various scare stories on marijuana appearing in major papers lately. When facts are left out, others exaggerated to the point of sensationalism, truth and reality lose, and how many people are hurt in the process.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2007/aug/01/new_study_marijuana_does_not_cau

The REAL Threat to Americans [PIC]

On September 11, 2001, nearly 3000 Americans were killed. Since then, about 10 million Americans have died of preventable causes.

http://stpeteforpeace.org/real.threat.html

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The 6 Most Prominent Global Warming Deniers

A look at the 6 most prominent global warming denier organizations, how they spin the facts, and who is funding their baloney.

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/skeptic-organizations.html

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The World is Less Safe because of the Bush `War on Terror` - Report

Nearly 6 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives spent in the name of the war on terror pose a simple question: Are we safer? The National Intelligence Estimate suggests, the threat of terrorist violence against the U.S. is growing worse, fueled by the Iraq war and spreading Islamic extremism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/washington/18assess.html?ex=1342497600&en=25042577bee60695&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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"Father of Reaganomics" Says Bush May Stage False Flag Events

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration Paul Craig Roberts has gone further than ever before, warning that the Bush administration could be about to stage false flag events and/or terror attacks in order to reinstate the draft, announce a dictatorship and possibly attack Iran.

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/170707_former_reagan.html

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Proof Bin Laden Tape Is 5-Year-Old, Re-Released Footage

A videotape that was heralded as "new" footage of Osama bin Laden by many quarters of the press has been conclusively proven to be more than 5 year old re-released footage, leading to questions about why the government and the media continue to act as willing propagandists for the terrorists while striking fear into Americans by claiming an attack.

EXTREMELY important information, showing that either the media is completely incompetent or intentionally on board the neo-con agenda and will let their fact-checkers take a vacation while they publish articles as irresponsible as Chertoff and his "gut feeling" announcement.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/180707oldfootage.htm

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Iraq PM: Country can manage without U.S.; Troops can leave at anytime!

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that the Iraqi army and police are capable of keeping security in the country when American troops leave "any time they want," though he acknowledged the forces need further weapons and training.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070714/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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The Cheapest Days to Buy Stuff

Depending on what you're planning to buy, some days of the week may yield better bargains. From airline tickets to clothes, experts weigh in.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/103216/the-cheapest-days-to-buy-certain-items

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Bush to Surgeon General: Shut Up!!!

The first U.S. surgeon general appointed by George W. Bush accused the administration of political interference and muzzling him on key issues like embryonic stem cell research. "Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried," said Dr. Richard Carmona

http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/artikkeli/1135228638786

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070710/hl_nm/bush_surgeongeneral_dc

How To Initiate Conversation

The hardest part of socializing, for many people, is initiating conversation. However, it is a big mistake to go about life not making the first move and waiting for someone else to do it [in conversation or anything].

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-initiate-conversation.html

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It's Time to End Costly, Unfair Marijuana Prohibition

If marijuana were legalized, regulated and taxed at the rates applied to alcohol and tobacco, revenues would reach about $6.2 billion annually, according to an open letter signed by 500 economists who urged President Bush and other public officials to debate marijuana prohibition. Among those economists were three Nobel Prize winners.

http://www.mapinc.org/norml/v07/n822/a06.htm

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FOX Attacks The Environment: They Distort. We Reply.

Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films offers the latest in their FOX Attacks series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnt3FWToSWs

http://foxattacks.com/


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Michael Moore Rips Wolf Blitzer, Mainstream Media

Watch this unbelievable smackdown of Wolf Blitzer by filmmaker Michael Moore, demanding an apology for CNN's lies about the Iraq war and lies about health care in the United States. This is legendary!

CNN Gets Blitzed by Michael Moore
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Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Why most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn't sexist, and blonds are more attractive.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070622-000002.xml

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