An urgent request from Jane Burgermeister US EXERCISES NLE 09

If you live in the US, please email/fax this to all military bases/major law enforcement stations in your region after typing your name in at the bottom for greater poignancy. You can fax from your computer using Metrofax.

Video: Obamas Soylent Green Health Care

(Fox) – Cavuto interviews Curatola

The FBI admits: No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11

(ProjectCensored) – Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” poster.

Prepare to Disengage

During the Vietnam War, GI dissent was both documented and nurtured by a slew of underground GI newspapers. Papers like “Up Against the Bulkhead,” “Harass the Brass” and “About Face” were mimeographed and passed from base to base, hand to hand. These bold, clever, ragtag papers gave voice to the soldiers’ rage against the injustices of the military and offered advice on everything from filing for conscientious-objector status to organizing anti-war protests.

Private Prisons Turn a Handsome Profit

While the nation’s economy flounders, business is booming for The GEO Group Inc., a private prison firm that is paid millions by the U.S. government to detain undocumented immigrants and other federal inmates.

Honduras Coup: the US Connection

Discussions in George Bush’s team revolved around the timing of the coup. One option under consideration was to synchronize it with Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia in order to demonstrate US assertiveness over all azimuths, but the idea was found too extreme even by the staunchest hawks given the upcoming elections in the US.

MSM: Biden Says Weakened Russia Will Bend to U.S.

(WSJ) – Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview that Russia’s economy is “withering,” and suggested the trend will force the country to make accommodations to the West on a wide range of national-security issues, including loosening its grip on former Soviet republics and shrinking its vast nuclear arsenal.

MSM: Iran wows to hit Israel’s atomic sites if attacked

(Independent) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said today that it would strike Israel’s nuclear facilities if Tel Aviv attacked the Islamic state, state television reported.

Video: Eliot Spitzer – The Fed is a Ponzi scheme, needs examination

The Federal Reserve has extended $14 trillion and doesn’t want any oversight. Former NY Governor and Attorney General Spitzer says the private bankers are running the Fed to bail themselves out.

MSM: Swine flu could kill hundreds of thousands in U.S. if vaccine fails, CDC says

(LATimes) – As much as 40% of the workforce could be affected during the peak of a pandemic, health officials say, noting low resistance to the H1N1 virus and its persistence through the summer months.

Racist Web Posts Traced to Homeland Security

After federal border agents detained several Mexican immigrants in western New York in June, an article about the incident in a local newspaper drew an onslaught of vitriolic postings on its Web site. Some were racist. Others attacked farmers in the region, an apple-growing area east of Rochester, accusing them of harboring illegal workers. Still others made personal attacks about the reporter who wrote the article.

Vaccinations: Deadly Immunity – Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Global Research Editor’s note

We bring to the attention of our readers this 2005 article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. published by Rollingstone.com.

No Exit for Ben – Peter Schiff

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday, and in congressional testimony later in the week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured all that thanks to his accurate foresight and deft use of the Fed’s policy toolkit, he could maintain near zero percent interest rates for an extended period without creating inflation. With supernatural powers such as these, one wonders if Ben would be better employed by the Justice League rather than the Federal Reserve.

Cheney pressed Bush to test Constitutional limits by using military force on US soil

According to a story in Friday’s New York Times, Vice-President Cheney advocated in 2002 for the Bush administration to send military troops to Buffalo to arrest the so-called Lackawanna Six as enemy combatants.

Video: Trader on Bloomberg says markets are manipulated and volumes ‘ficticious’

(6-30-09) – Joe Saluzzi talks on Bloomberg and explains how machine trading is distorting the financial markets.

Video: Peter Schiff on CNBC Reports

(7-24-09) – Discussing how to invest in this market, with Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital; Richard Sichel, Philadelphia Trust; Lee Munson, Portfolio Asset Management; Mark Kollar, Kollar Financial Strategies; John Buckingham, Al Frank Asset Management; and CNBC’s Dennis Kneale.

52 percent of U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan diagnosed with TBI

Some 52 percent of soldiers severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan who have come to the U.S. Army’s largest hospital for treatment have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), an internal study has found.

DHS plans massive, five-day ‘terrorism prevention’ exercise

(RawStory) – Law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the United States and abroad are preparing to go on high alert as part of a massive terrorism prevention exercise – the first of its kind here.

Video: Alex Jones Interviews Dahr Jamail

(7-24-09) – Dahr Jamail, one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation. Jamail is the recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.

Less Government, More Sense – Campaign for Liberty

Individual rights. Economic freedom. Increased competition and productivity. These talking points are often foundational to the rhetoric of small government advocates. There are, however, plenty of supporting arguments that don’t achieve nearly the amount of exposure as these more traditional persuasions.

Israel hopes to colonize parts of Iraq as ‘Greater Israel’

Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical “Greater Israel.”

Marijuana Has Anti-Cancer Properties

(NaturalNews) – The active ingredient in marijuana appears to target cancerous brain cells for destruction while leaving healthy cells alone, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Complutense University in Madrid, and published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Don’t Worry, Be Happy, America! (Tens Reasons Why)

(NaturalNews) – Following the publication of my story about “the new Mr. America: Bankrupt, Diseased and Running Out of Options,” we received a number of complaints from some readers who thought the story was too dark. It’s just “too negative” to talk about the actual financial numbers in the U.S. budget, it seems. Who really cares about all that accounting, anyway? (Congress obviously doesn’t…) What Americans really want is more happy talk!