Former UN Leader Waldheim Dies He was a Nazi officer during World War II but that didn't keep Kurt Waldheim from being named Secretary General of the Union Nations and, later, President of Austria.
After his Nazi past became known to the Establishment's media in the 1980s, Kurt Waldheim always protested that he had served in the Balkans and was unaware of the many atrocities being committed by Hitler's regime. He had made a practice of omitting any mention of his war-time service in biog... (more)
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Poll: More Americans Believe in God, Heaven than Devil, HellAmericans are more likely to believe in God and Heaven than in the Devil and Hell, a new Gallup poll found.
The latest study found that 86 percent of American adults believe in God which is a drop from 90 percent in 2004 and in 2001. Seventy percent expressed belief in the Devil.
Also, 81 percent said they believe in Heaven; 75 percent in Angels; and 69 percent in Hell.
When the Gallup Organization posed different alternatives to belief in God, less p... (more)
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Foreclosure Rate Hits Historic HighThe percentage of U.S. mortgages entering foreclosure in the first three months of the year was the highest in more than 50 years, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
As the association released its numbers, the Federal Reserve held a hearing to determine whether regulators could do anything to crack down on abusive lending practices, which have exacerbated the problem
The problems arose last year as the housing market softened, driving down home prices a... (more)
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Alan Watts - The Art Of Meditation"Meditation has no purpose, no objective, except to be entirely here and now." Not an easy concept for the competitive, goal-oriented Western mind, which is precisely one of the things that makes Alan Watts's guide to meditation a fascinating piece of work. Watts, an Englishman who died in 1973 (this piece was shot by filmmaker Elda Hartley in 1971), was an authority on Eastern thought and spiritual practice. Here he guides the viewer through a 25-minute program that's part documentary, part use... (more)
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Of Crazies, Neocons and the Enemy WithinBeginnings
An all too familiar and ominous echo is reverberating through the American landscape, once more blasted into the airwaves, and our minds, through the Ministry of Propaganda and its merry bunch of sycophants and stenographers. For yet another consecutive year since three monolithic towers were demolished, imploded and systemically brought down onto their own footprints in a catalyzing event unleashing a new American century, Americans are hearing the fi... (more)
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ResponsibilityA few months ago I wrote an article talking about human sacrifice and slavery and how human kind had moved away from those institutions when we had educated ourselves enough to realize that these were not honorable or sane things to do to one another.
The reason I write this today is to further explore the concept that war is slavery and human sacrifice all rolled up into one vile package.
The reason I say war is slavery is that we have trapped ourselves into belie... (more)
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The Horrors of Nuking IranThis photo shows you what will happen if we nuke Iran. We will maim and murder countless Asians from Iran to Japan. We will poison the soil, the crops, the cattle, the people, for generations to come.
The reason the catastrophe will be so immense is because our nuclear missiles will be vaporizing nuclear sites. When these sites are vaporized, all the enriched uranium and... (more)
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High on Hate? While the poppy fields in Afghanistan are thriving in supplying the demands of millions, this White House and their neo-cons accomplices are cultivating their own fix - hate. But in order for them to get their high, their hate must be transferred into people's fear – A fear they plan to turn into another bloodbath. Pushing forward with their latest warmongering idea that Iran is planning to extend the reach of its Shahab 3 missiles from 1200 to more than 2500 kilometers in order to reach R... (more)
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Deceptions and Insipid Sentiments "American Special Operations forces conducted raids in the area on Friday and Sunday, and on both occasions they called in airstrikes when they encountered armed resistance, the military said. It said in a statement that it had killed 136 Taliban fighters, including some who were trying to flee across the river."
"Aerial bombing of a valley in western Afghanistan several days ago by the American military killed at le ... (more)
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Tantrums of Mass Destruction or The Enduring Beauty of Ugly Truth: In Praise of the Shabby-Ass Human Glory of Every Day ResistanceRecent news reports have revealed that the Bush Administration has bestowed upon itself the right to grant itself absolute power if "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions" might come to pass.
Actually, ... (more)
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It’s Official: The Crash of the U.S. Economy has begunIt’s official. Mark your calendars. The crash of the U.S. economy has begun. It was announced the morning of Wednesday, June 13, 2007, by economic writers Steven Pearlstein and Robert Samuelson in the pages of the Washington Post, one of the foremost house organs of the U.S. monetary elite.
Pearlstein’s column was titled, “The Takeover Boom, About to Go Bust” and concerned the extraordinary amount of debt vs. operating profits of companies currently subjec... (more)
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Student suspended after voicing marijuana opinionKieran King's views on marijuana have led to his suspension from Wawota Parkland School.
King said he was threatened with police action by Principal Susan Wilson previously after making the case that marijuana was less harmful than alcohol.
"In my opinion, cannabis is safer than they say, it is not worse than alcohol or tobacco," said King, a 15-year-old Grade 10 student.
Wilson accused King of using and selling marijuana at school, according to a med... (more)
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U.S. official: Samarra attack may have been inside jobBAGHDAD, Iraq -- Authorities have evidence that Wednesday's bombing of Al-Askariya Mosque in Samarra was an inside job, and 15 members of the Iraqi security forces have been arrested, a U.S. military official said.
The attack Wednesday destroyed two towers, referred to as minarets, at the revered Shiite shrine, police said. It was a repeat of the 2006 bombing that sparked Iraq's current wave of deadly sectarian violence.
There was no immediat... (more)
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CNN Downplays Second-False Flag Bombing of Golden Mosque in Follow-up Story-- the Update Obscures the Previous 'Inside Job' Report by Replacing the Link & Killing the StoryCNN has changed the damning 'inside job' headline (see SCREEN SHOT) to a more disguised story that downplays significance. CNN replaced the link and effectively killed the story that this is the 2nd FALSE-FLAG bombing of the Golden mosque (see Feb 2006)-- one of Iraq's most holy places. Both were believed to have been carried out in part by Iraqi forces and directed by Western inte... (more)
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'Kill Anyone Still Alive': American Special Ops in SomaliaHow many people did American forces actually kill when they attacked refugees fleeing from the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia last January? We know from reports by Oxfam, the Guardian, the Associated Press and Reuters that dozens of innocent civilians were slaughtered near the Kenyan border, including villagers and nomadic tribesmen hit by American gunships seekin... (more)
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The State's MoralityThe New Jersey legislature has passed a law that forces pharmacists to fill any prescription, even if they morally object to such medication. Obviously the main points of contention with such legislation are birth-control and morning-after pills. While I don't personally object to women taking birth-control pills, this type of thinking worries and angers me, as it should any purported defender... (more)
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The Former Fourth Amendment... or maybe not. I'm betting on "not."
“Criminal means, once tolerated, are soon preferred.”
~ Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France
Ascencion Alvarez-Tejada probably swore in frustration as he pulled up behind a disabled car at the intersection of Highway 97 and Veteran's Way near La Pine, Oregon. And there's no reason to believe that his mood improved a second later when his Ford Focus was gently but firmly rear-ended by a... (more)
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Terrorism, Global Warming and Fear If politicians do anything well, it is to fan the fames of Chicken Little hysteria. They have an innate talent for scaring neurotic people who are prone to believe whatever government tells them about potential threats. Neither side of the political spectrum is above using propaganda to gain the upper hand in the cutthroat battle for public consciousness and votes.
For instance, according to right-wing neoconservatives, th... (more)
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Secret Surveillance Evidence Unsealed in AT&T Spying CaseSan Francisco - More documents detailing secret government surveillance of AT&T's Internet traffic have been released to the public as part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against the telecom giant.
Some of the unsealed information was previously made public in redacted form. But after negotiations with AT&T, EFF has filed newly unredacted documents describing a secret, secure room in AT&T's facilities that gave the National Security Agency (NS... (more)
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Tony Blair has turned Britain into a land where we are all prisoners Even George Orwell would be shocked. He described the sinister machinations of a totalitarian police state in his novel, 1984, and laid bare the danger of eroding our basic civil liberties, including the right to freedom of speech and the right to privacy.
Although he famously coined the phrase 'Big Brother is watching you', even Orwell cannot have foreseen just how prescient those words would prove to be.
Today, in Tony Blair's B... (more)
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FBI Terror Watch List 'Out of Control'A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names.
Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror.
The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified.
A portion of the FBI's unclassified 2008 budget request posted to the Department of Justice Web site, however, refers to "the entire watch l... (more)
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The Truth Comes Out About OffshoringOn January 6, 2004, Senator Charles Schumer (D, NY) and I scandalized the economics profession and Washington policymakers with our New York Times article, “Second Thoughts on Free Trade.” We noted that the two conditions on which the case for free trade rests no longer exist in the present-day world and that there was no basis for the assumption that offshoring of US jobs was beneficial overall to Americans.
The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., organized a c... (more)
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Army food is 'cheaper than a dog's dinner'The Army spends more feeding its dogs than its soldiers, it has been claimed.
Figures obtained by a Tory MP show that £1.51 a day goes on meals for troops, compared with £2.63 for military dogs.
Even prisoners – who cost £1.87 a day to feed – fare better than servicemen. Schoolchildren get £1.55 for lunch alone.
The MP, Mike Penning, is to raise the issue in the House of Commons today. The former Grenadier Guard sa... (more)
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Tory leader calls himself 'Zionist' The leader of Britain's Conservative party, David Cameron, called himself a "Zionist" Tuesday as he slammed a British initiative for an academic boycott against Israel.
Cameron, responding to questions at the annual luncheon of Conservative Friends of Israel, said the academic boycott was completely uncalled for, and that attacks against Israel often slid into anti-Semitism.
"If by Zionist you mean that the Jews have the right to a homeland ... (more)
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Housing Foreclosures Jumped 90% in May From Year AgoU.S. home foreclosures in May jumped 90% from a year earlier, reflecting a poor spring housing market and foreshadowing even higher levels later in 2007, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Tuesday.
The May foreclosures -- a sum of default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions -- totaled 176,137, up 19% from April, the firm said in its May 2007 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report.
The number of filings in May was the largest amount since RealtyTrac st... (more)
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