The Crucifixion of Christ, American Style“For God so loved the world...” he returned his only begotten son to the land where he shed his grace on thee.
Vindication for the faithful, rejoicing for the true believers, it was the second coming of Christ—and he was coming to America. Not to bring Armageddon, but to save mankind from Armageddon.
Jesus will make his first appearance at the intersection of the streets appropriately named “Liberty” and “Church” in New Yo... (more)
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A national emergencyOn Aug. 12, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency "due to a chaotic situation involving illegal alien smuggling and illegal drug shipments" on his southern border. Three days later, Gov. Janet Napolitano followed suit in Arizona.
Reason: the crisis on the border. The ally-ally-in-free immigration policy of George Bush and Vicente Fox, beloved of corporate America, has created a hell on our southern border.
Those Southwestern states are being... (more)
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Reports of looting in New OrleansPolice with automatic weapons were called to patrol a grocery store after looters went on a rampage, WWL-TV reports.
Police with automatic weapons were called to patrol a grocery store after looters went on a rampage there, grabbing groceries and ripping apart ATMs. The pharmacy was ransacked and merchandise was thrown all around the store.
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said looting will not be tolerated in his state.
"I have instructed the highw... (more)
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Gov. Bush Warns Residents Of Gas ShortagesGov. Jeb Bush warned Florida could see shortages of gasoline in coming days as a result of Hurricane Katrina.
The hurricane roared through the nation's major gas refineries and shut down production of thousands of oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bush said Florida has worked with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Petroleum Industry to bring significant supplies of gasoline into the state's ports.
But David Mica of the Florida Petroleum Council said... (more)
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Venezuela's CITGO to Provide Cheap Gas for U.S. Hospitals, Nursing Homes and SchoolsRafael Ramirez, president of Venezuela's oil company PDVSA, offered some details of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's offer to provide cheaper gasoline and heating oil to U.S. poor communities.
Speaking shortly after a press conference held by President Chavez and U.S. Reverend Jesse Jackson, Ramirez said that CITGO Petroleum Corp., the wholly owned subsidiary of PDVSA, is currently refining up to 664.000 barrels of oil through the refineries it owns and operates in the United St... (more)
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'A New Label on a Bottle of Poison'Sometimes even the slickest public relations effort doesn't improve a person's or an institution's image. Think of the U.S. State Department's $15 million "Shared Values" ad campaign, which tried to assuage anti-American sentiment in Muslim countries.
More commonly, PR campaigns enjoy partial successes. That appears to be the case with the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC, formerly called the School of the Americas or SOA), a Defense Department facili... (more)
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Senior Democrat says decision to demote Halliburton worker will chill whistleblowingThe top U.S. Army contracting official who first raised criticism over Halliburton's no-bid contract in Iraq was demoted Sunday for what the army called poor job performance -- the first time her performance was rated low in 20 years.
Today, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) blasted the Bush administration’s decision to fire the lead government whistleblower in a statement to RAW STORY. Democrats also sent a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today demanding an explanati... (more)
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Strategizing a Christian Coup d'Etat: A group of believers wants to establish Scriptures-based government one city and county at a time.It began, as many road trips do, with a stop at Wal-Mart to buy a portable DVD player.
But Mario DiMartino was planning more than a weekend getaway. He, his wife and three children were embarking on a pilgrimage to South Carolina.
"I want to migrate and claim the gold of the Lord," said the 38-year-old oil company executive from Pennsylvania. "I want to replicate the statutes and the mores and the scriptures that the God of the Old Testament espoused to the world."<... (more)
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Drunk soldier kills five A DRUNKEN Colombian soldier threw a grenade into a small town street party and killed a 7-year-old boy and four other people overnight, military and civilian authorities said.
The soldier went absent without leave from his base in the southwestern province of Huila and got drunk in the town of El Jardin before detonating the grenade, said an official at the nearby municipality of San Jose de Isnos.
Five people were killed and eight injured in the incident, the offi... (more)
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Chile officials take over colonyThe Chilean authorities have taken control of a secretive religious commune that has been accused of aiding the former military dictatorship.
Officials entered Colonia Dignidad in to take over its assets as part of an investigation into its former leaders.
Former Nazi Paul Schaefer, 83, is accused of aiding secret police under Chile's 1973-1990 military rule and sexually abusing 26 children.
Mr Schaefer was arrested in March after eight years on the r... (more)
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Malaysia targets mobile phone sexThe Malaysian government has ordered police to randomly check mobile phones for pornographic images.
The move follows reports by a local newspaper that young people were swapping sex videos and images on their mobile phones.
Deputy Interior Minister, Noh Omar, said he worried the practice was becoming increasingly common.
Officers have been ordered to immediately delete any explicit images they find stored in the phones.
The owners of i... (more)
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Iraq violence will rise, Bush saysPresident Bush warned yesterday that insurgents in Iraq will become more violent in the coming months in an attempt to subvert the country's constitutional process.
"As democracy in Iraq takes root, the enemies of freedom, the terrorists will become more desperate, more despicable and more vicious," Mr. Bush said yesterday from his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Iraq's Shi'ite-majority parliament finished the draft constitution yesterday. However, some minority S... (more)
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Gonzales Faults Senate Version of Patriot Act LegislationAttorney General Alberto R. Gonzales yesterday criticized a Senate bill that would place new restrictions on law enforcement in the USA Patriot Act, saying the legislation would hamper the government's ability to prevent terrorist attacks.
Gonzales, during a meeting with editors and reporters at The Washington Post, said he favors a competing House version of the antiterrorism law that includes fewer restrictions on the government.
"I have a personal preference for ... (more)
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Shrinking La. Coastline Contributes To FloodingTwo months ago, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) told an audience of congressional staffers and scientific experts the federal government needs to spend billions of dollars over the next two decades to restore her state's wetlands. She warned that intentional rerouting of the Mississippi River over the past century, coupled with rising sea levels due to climate change, had eroded Louisiana's natural buffer against massive storms.
"This is not Disneyland. This is the real deal," Landrieu... (more)
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Obama in group locked up at Russian airportSen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) were not allowed to leave a Russian airport Sunday and were locked in a room briefly.
The incident prevented their departure for about three hours, but Obama told the Sun-Times "it ended up not being a very big deal."
Russia on Monday apologized, and the Foreign Ministry said that the delay, which it said "was incorrectly called a detention," arose because of questions over whether the international flight e... (more)
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Is Bird Flu Pandemic Chicken Little Scenario?In 2003 it was SARS, the deadly virus that caused lethal pneumonia and lung failure was sweeping the globe and it was only a matter of time before the west would succumb to its devastating wrath.
It never happened.
The number of SARS cases never topped 1000, none of which were proven to be anything more than traditional lung infections.
SARS has been replaced by a new enemy, an enemy that may require martial law, quarantines and forced vaccinations - ... (more)
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Justice Weighs Desire v. Duty (Duty Prevails)It is not every day that a Supreme Court justice calls his own decisions unwise. But with unusual candor, Justice John Paul Stevens did that last week in a speech in which he explored the gap that sometimes lies between a judge's desire and duty.
Addressing a bar association meeting in Las Vegas, Justice Stevens dissected several of the recent term's decisions, including his own majority opinions in two of the term's most prominent cases. The outcomes were "unwise," he said, but "... (more)
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Accident halts work to ship soil containing uranium to U.S.A governmental nuclear research and development institute began work Monday to ship soil containing uranium ore from Yurihama, Tottori Prefecture, to the United States for disposal, but the work was suspended almost immediately due to an accident.
The operation, planned to be completed in 19 days, was suspended after a bag containing the soil fell from a vehicle during transportation, causing slight injuries to a worker, the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute said. Under th... (more)
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FBI Snooping In ConnecticutAn FBI demand for library records in Connecticut is exactly the kind of unsupervised prying that is bound to scare patrons who fear government monitoring of their reading habits.
Under a 1986 law, the FBI has issued a so-called national security letter demanding that an unnamed institution turn over "subscriber information, billing information and access logs." Under terms of the sweeping law, no judge had to review that request. The law even bars the letter's recipient and its le... (more)
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'Crown' rules (eminent) domain"The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it. The storms may enter. The rain may enter. But the king of England may not enter. All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement."
Those famous words, from a speech in 1760 by William Pitt the Elder, are one of the world's great quotes. The thought wasn't exactly true, of course, even at the time. British history show... (more)
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India: Banks Hire Criminals, Torture to Recover LoansAlleging that a few private financing companies and cooperative banks are engaging criminals for recovery of loans from their clients, Jana Chetana Manch has urged the government to take strong actions against such criminals.
Talking to reporters here yesterday, Manch convenors, Mr Lenin Mohanty and Mr Utpal Bhagat alleged that a few private sector financing companies had engaged criminals for recovery of loans without having a proper method of redressing the grievance or without ... (more)
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Social Security number almost never is legally required as IDEVERYBODY WANTS it. Your bank, health club, utility company. Sometimes even the guy at the video store.
That nine-digit number which started as a way for the Social Security Administration to track worker's earnings and benefits now is routinely requested by all sorts of businesses and groups.
"This is not supposed to be a national identification number ... but that's what it has become," said Cheryl Hystad, executive director of the Maryland Consumer Rights Coaliti... (more)
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The latest casualty in the war on civil libertiesFor those of you sitting in the back of the classroom, America has initiated another front to its war.
Once the double take is over, go back and read that sentence again.
Yes, another front in the War on Terror. This time around, however, there aren’t any human casualties as a result of this front.
The casualties of this war are the basic rights of our progeny and us. The primary cause of these basic infringements is the nefarious bastard child ... (more)
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