GM, Amtrak and an Increasingly Fascist America – Ron Paul

Last week, General Motors finally declared bankruptcy. Many in government thought $20 billion in taxpayer dollars would save the company, but as predicted, it only postponed the inevitable.

MSM: Fighting Nineteen Eighty-Four

(Guardian) – Sixty years ago today George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, and this evening, as though to mark the anniversary of Orwell’s last book, the former head of GCHQ, Sir David Pepper, slips from the shadows to tell the BBC’s Who’s Watching You programme that it has become necessary for the government to record all data from phone and internet traffic in the fight against terror.

What’s Good For General Motors – Is Now Good for China

I remember the hullaballoo in January 1953 when GM CEO Charles Wilson, President Eisenhower’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, was popularly quoted as saying that “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.”

DNA databases prelude to return of eugenics?

An organization that has been battling Minnesota state procedures in which DNA from every newborn is collected and warehoused says virtually all states do the same thing, and the alarming trend eventually could lead the United States back into eugenics.

MSM: Militia hangout at Monroe gun range?

The shooting range, located on farmland along Ben Howard Road outside Monroe, is described in court papers as being called the “Militia Training Center” and frequented by members of anti- government groups.

600,000 Seniors About To Lose Their Homes

More than 600,000 seniors are delinquent in their mortgage payments or already in foreclosure, USA Today reports.

Humanitarian Aid Worker: Torture Only Stopped When I Pretended I Was In Al Qaeda

Lakhdar Boumediene worked for a humanitarian relief agency – the equivalent of the Red Cross in the middle least (the Red Crescent).

MSM: China moves to censor home computers

(Telegraph) – The Chinese government wants all computers sold in China after July to come with software that automatically censors the internet.

MSM: Global airlines to lose 9 billion dollars in 2009

(Google) – The world’s airlines are expected to lose nine billion dollars this year, industry body IATA has said, describing the current crisis as worse than the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

Vitamin D Deficiency Causes Multiple Sclerosis in Children

(NaturalNews) – Children who develop multiple sclerosis have substantially lower levels of vitamin D than children who do not develop the disease, according to a series of studies presented at an international conference on multiple sclerosis in Montreal.

UN: Israeli buffer zone eats up 30 percent of Gaza’s arable land

Looking to increase security, Israel dropped leaflets last week warning residents to stay at least 1,000 feet from the border or risk being shot.

Year of the hungry: 1,000,000,000 afflicted

Despite the West’s pledge to halve world hunger, the number of people who are short of food will soon reach a shocking landmark

Green Shoots, Red Ink, Black Hole

I have an unfortunate sense that the “green shoots” in the economy that everyone is talking about are nothing but dandelions.

MSM: Military spending sets new record

(BBC) – Global military spending rose 4% in 2008 to a record $1,464bn (£914bn) – up 45% since 1999, according to the Stockholm-based peace institute Sipri.

Video: Hypocrite Brzezinski Slams “Conspiratorial View” Of History While Highlighting 50’s Iran Overthrow

During a discussion with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow last Friday, Trilateral Commission co-founder and top Obama advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke of those who question the official version of events on 9/11 in the same context as those who deny the holocaust.

FEMA Web Page Shows Martial Law Exercise With Foreign Troops

http://www.fema.gov/media/fact_sheets/nle09.shtm

The above is a link to FEMA.GOV website page that details the upcoming nationwide training exercise in July 2009. This is directly cut and pasted the full text below from the site.

MSM: Don’t discount Israel pre-emptive strike, Hillary Clinton warns Iran

(Times) – Hillary Clinton refused yesterday to rule out a pre-emptive Israeli military strike on Iran. It was the first time that a senior member of the Obama Administration had openly discussed such a possibility.

FEMA Describes July ‘terrorism prevention’ Martial Law Drill

National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09) is scheduled for July 27 through July 31, 2009. NLE 09 will be the first major exercise conducted by the United States government that will focus exclusively on terrorism prevention and protection, as opposed to incident response and recovery… This year the United States welcomes the participation of Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom in NLE 09.

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’

Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”

MSM: Nine more police killed in Amazon protests

President Alan Garcia labored yesterday to contain Peru’s worst political violence in years, as nine more police officers were killed in a bloody standoff with Amazon Indians fighting his efforts to exploit oil, gas and other resources on their native lands.

Wall Street Ends Hope for Homeowners Via Congress

As if the bank bailouts weren’t proof enough that Wall Street owned Congress. History will likely show that these bailouts involved the largest transfer of wealth ever — from the working class to that small group of billionaires who own the corporations.

MSM: Russia, China Should Dump Dollar in Trade – Medvedev

(Reuters) – Russia and China should consider switching to domestic currencies in bilateral trade without going to the dollar, Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Kommersant daily published on Friday.

Barack Bonaparte – ‘Soft Power’ and Personal Charm

When the European conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt as part of his quest for world domination, he told the people: “You will be told that I came to destroy your religion; do not believe it … I have more respect than the Mamelukes for your God, His Prophet, and the Koran” and many more sweet words besides.

Video: D-Day, Obama and Hitler

Saturday marked the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Obama was on hand at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer in northern France, as was France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy, Britain’s Prince Charles, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.