FTC plans to police bloggers for prejudice on behalf of advertisers

It would be the first time the FTC tries to patrol systematically what bloggers say and do online. The common practice of posting a graphical ad or a link to an online retailer — and getting commissions for any sales from it — would be enough to trigger oversight.

Video: Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses “intelligent manipulation” in Iran

Washington Might Have Picked Iran’s Future King and Premier

Continuing his series of articles aimed at exposing Washington’s “foolhardy” policy regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran, American scholar and writer William O. Beeman says in its quest for regime change in Iran, the United Sates might have “already picked the new rulers of that country”.

MSM: Slain Neda is ‘one of my daughters’, shah’s son says

(AFP) — The son of the late shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, was Monday carrying in his breastpocket a photograph of the slain protester known as Neda said to have been killed in the Tehran protests.

The Line Drawn In The Sands of Iran – Freemasonry vs. Islam

Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah of Iran, has continually appeared on satellite radio and TV shows beamed into Iran, repeatedly calling for civil disobedience in order to topple the Islamic Mullahs. He promotes a US-UN backed referendum to decide whether Iran is to be governed as a constitutional monarchy, which he says he can lead as Shah, or a “secular democracy.”

Son of shah says protesters defeat could lead to nuclear war

(RawStory) – The exiled son of the late shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, warned Monday of dire consequences for the volatile Middle East and the rest of the world if the popular uprising in Iran is crushed.

MSM: Attack on TV news channel escalates Chávez media war

(FinancialTimes) – Ever since a minor earthquake rumbled through the concrete sprawl of Caracas in early May, the foundations of Venezuela’s last remaining flagrantly anti-government television station have looked unstable.

California Collapsing

Washington and Wall Street seem to be treating California as if it were a sideshow in the financial circus of these turbulent times.

It’s not.

MSM: BBC is backing election riots, claims Iran

(BBC) – Iran continues hostility to western media, threatening harsher action if ‘interference’ in country’s affairs continues

False Flag? Anti-fluoride extremists ‘threaten to kill MP’

Anti-fluoride extremists have threatened to kill a Victorian government minister and blow up a regional water authority.

Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught. It was Washington that orchestrated the 1953 coup to topple Iran’s democratically elected government, the first in the Middle East, and install the compliant shah in power.

Vaccinate Canadians under 40 and natives first: experts

Five-to-40-year-olds and Canada’s aboriginal communities should be the first to get vaccinated against human swine flu, experts say as Canadian officials decide who gets priority for the flu shots.

MSM: Insiders Exit Shares at the Fastest Pace in Two Years

(Bloomberg) – Executives at U.S. companies are taking advantage of the biggest stock-market rally in 71 years to sell their shares at the fastest pace since credit markets started to seize up two years ago.

Kentucky “Hate Crime” Report Mentions Constitution Party

A report posted on the Kentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet website mentions the Kentucky chapter of the Constitution Party. The 2006 report, entitled “Hate Crime and Hate Incidents in the Commonwealth,” characterizes the paleoconservative political party as a patriot group and associates it with the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations.

What Actually Happened in the Iranian Presidential Election?

Since the June 12 Iranian presidential elections, Iran “experts” have mushroomed like bacteria in a Petri dish. So here is a quiz for all those instant experts. Which major country has elected more presidents than any in the world since 1980? Further, which nation is the only one that held ten presidential elections within thirty years of its revolution?

Iran Falling to US PSYOPS?

(Paul Craig Roberts) – President Obama called on the Iranian government to allow protesters to control the streets in Tehran. Would Obama or any US president allow protesters to control the streets in Washington, D.C.?

MSM: Numbers On Welfare See Sharp Increase

(WSJ) – Welfare rolls, which were slow to rise and actually fell in many states early in the recession, now are climbing across the country for the first time since President Bill Clinton signed legislation pledging “to end welfare as we know it” more than a decade ago.

Film: The Power of Nightmares

(BBC) – This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today