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  • Will US Really Prosecute WikiLeaks?
    The US government's threat to prosecute WikiLeaks for publishing Afghan War documents is anti-democratic, says Ivan Eland. September 2, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
  • The Afghan Pincer Attack on Obama
    Afghan War hawks have outmaneuvered President Obama by overrunning his political flanks, writes Melvin A. Goodman. September 2, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
  • How the Right Still Frames Iraq
    The Right framed the debate over President Obama's Iraq War speech as the need to thank George W. Bush, says Robert Parry. September 1, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
  • Obama Sugarcoats Iraq War Realities
    In "turning the page" on Iraq, President Obama spared those responsible for this war of aggression, writes David Swanson. September 1, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
  • Beck's Washington Monument Myth
    Though often spouting US history, Glenn Beck gummed up the story of the Washington Monument, notes Jonathan Schwarz. September 1, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
  • Beck and American Know-Nothings
    Fox News' Glenn Beck has become the pied piper of the American know-nothings, as his DC rally showed, says Michael Winship. August 31, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
  • What Obama Won't Say Tonight
    In a mock draft of President Obama's Iraq War speech, Ray McGovern suggests a focus on the Afghan War quagmire instead. August 31, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
  • War on Terror: Greatest Covert Op
    The "politics of terror" have enabled the US national security elite to gain ever more money and power, declares Douglas Valentine. August 31, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
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  • Obama vs. the Generals
    As President Obama declares an end to US "combat" in Iraq, a battle looms between him and the Pentagon, notes Rory O'Connor. August 30, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
  • The Christian Right Needs Enemies
    Christian fundamentalists have long obsessed on war with "enemies," now the world's Muslims, writes the Rev. Howard Bess. August 30, 2010 (1 day, 9 hours ago)
  • Karl Rove Exploits Corporate Money
    Republican strategist Karl Rove is seizing on a Supreme Court ruling to funnel corporate cash into elections, says Kevin Zeese. August 26, 2010 (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • At War with American Workers
    Company demands for a cut in pay for Mott's Apple factory workers is a sign of the economic times, writes Michael Winship. August 25, 2010 (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • Twisting Palestinian Arms for Peace
    New Israel-Palestine peace talks confront Palestinian leaders with some unpalatable choices, observes Lawrence Davidson. August 25, 2010 (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • Christian Nationalism's War with Islam
    The "Ground Zero Mosque" furor is another skirmish in the Christian fundamentalists' war with Islam, says Rev. Howard Bess. August 24, 2010 (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • Making a 'Mosque' a 'Wedge' Issue
    By blurring al-Qaeda's motivations, the Right has exploited an Islamic center to rile up the American people, writes Ivan Eland. August 24, 2010 (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • Fiddling While the US Economy Burns
    As the Right bashes President Obama for too much economic meddling, his real failure is in doing too little, says Danny Schechter. August 23, 2010 (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • Turning Iraqi Cities into Slums
    The US invasion of Iraq has caused a catastrophic decline in living standards for millions of Iraqis, writes Adil E. Shamoo. August 23, 2010 (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • Spinning the US Failure in Iraq
    The withdrawal of the last US combat battalions from Iraq marks a historic failure -- despite Washington's spin, says Robert Parry. August 20, 2010 (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • The Tea Partiers' Historical Fictions
    Tea Party activists claim they represent America's founding values but they misunderstand the history, notes Jada Thacker. August 18, 2010 (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • How Truth Can Save Lives
    As the US government attacks WikiLeaks for risking lives, Ray McGovern notes that secrecy and lies can be far more dangerous. August 15, 2010 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • US Staggers Toward Dysfunction
    The dysfunction of the US political/media system is spreading into the economy with terrible results, notes Danny Schechter. August 14, 2010 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Gut-Check Time for Progressives
    Progressives hoped President Obama's election would mean a new day in politics, but the Right has hit back, says Don Monkerud. August 13, 2010 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Mosque Furor Endangers US Troops
    The Right is making political hay over a mosque near Ground Zero, but US troops may pay with their lives, writes Robert Parry. August 18, 2010 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Old-Time Bigotry Alive in America
    The screaming over a mosque near 9/11's Ground Zero reflects America's deepseated nativism, observes Michael Winship. August 17, 2010 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Making the US Look Small to the World
    Right-wing operatives whipping up anger over a Lower Manhattan mosque make America look hypocritical, says Alvaro Vargas Llosa. August 17, 2010 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Letting the Banksters 'Settle'
    Instead of jail time, the banksters who tanked the global economy are settling for cash payouts, writes Danny Schechter. August 17, 2010 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • The Truth about Pat Tillman's Death
    A documentary recounts how the US government exploited the death of NFL-star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman, says Rory O'Connor. August 17, 2010 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Behind a Lethal Israel-Lebanon Clash
    A cross-border firing by Lebanese and Israeli troops reveals that regional tensions remain high, writes Lawrence Davidson. August 16, 2010 (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran
    Neocon writer Jeffrey Goldberg lays out Israel's case for why the US should join a new war with Iran, observes Ray McGovern. August 12, 2010 (3 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • why Israel Wants a US War with Iran
    Neocons are beating new war drums, this time over Iran, to boost Israel's regional interests, write Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. August 12, 2010 (3 weeks, 1 day ago)

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  • IPCC gets a credibility hammering
    This alert through from Benny Peiser's newsletter The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2010 By Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett An independent investigation into the UN's climate change body has warned ... (3 days, 18 hours ago)
  • History in colour
    We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken ... (1 week, 1 day ago)
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wishart
    It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the ... (1 week, 5 days ago)
  • ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest greenie
    As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Marc Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 ... (1 week, 5 days ago)
  • Sins of Science Media Centre’s Omission
    PR hack Peter Griffin is at it again, this time complaining that a Waikato farmer should have been left to die by medical science, rather than allowing his family to administer the unproven ... (1 week, 6 days ago)
  • Free TGIF Edition just out
    We're making TGIF available free for now...you can either click on the flash version below, or click the link below it to download the pdf: Open publication - Free publishing - More sport ... (2 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Brits to get hit with 4% income tax hike to pay for windmills
    From Benny Peiser's heads-up: Climate Taxes May Treble By 2020, Costing Taxpayers More Than £16 Billion A Year Gary Peev, Daily Mail, 17 August 2010 Taxes to pay for contentious climate change ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
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  • Amazon puts Air Con Climategate on special
    The most difficult thing about marketing titles on Amazon is breaking through the price barriers. The cheaper your book, the better it sells, but it's Amazon that decides on retail price, not the ... (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • New study: sea levels NOT rising rapidly
    The Hockey Schtick has alerted the world to new peer reviewed research showing sea levels are not rising at an accelerated level, despite what NIWA's Andy Reisinger and Massey's Ralph Sims would ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Have you read this, Nick Smith?
    Looks like the world is bailing on ETS schemes faster than Nick Smith can say "sustainable". This from Terence Corcoran in The Financial Post: From Washington to Cancun to British Columbia, the ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Quote of the month: We must not think that food is special
    Had the good fortune to have a head to head debate with climate scientists from both NIWA and New Zealand's Massey University recently, at a forum organised by NZ church administrators. They were ... (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Free book - The Divinity Code
    Three years ago I published The Divinity Code, a response to the works of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, John Spong and Karen Armstrong, among others. The book remains available ... (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Has Climatedepot crashed?
    As of writing, am getting a VisualBasic error on http://www.climatedepot.com Is it just my computer network that can't see it? UPDATE 1pm NZST: Back up and running. Marc must have hit wrong button ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Arctic heading for major freeze - new NOAA forecast
    More evidence pointing towards a significant global cooldown, with even NOAA modelling now picking a brutal northern hemisphere winter. (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Air Con Climategate Edition now avail in NZ
    Due to an ongoing series of requests, we've decided to import the US version of the Air Con Climategate Edition. It's now available direct from the Howling At The Moon website, in either hard copy ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • Ray Stevens Global Warming Song
    They may call him the Streak, but you can't keep Ray Stevens down evidently...witness his lastest on Global Warming (2 months ago)
  • Breaking news: Chinese security attack NZ politician in NZ parliament
    Chinese security forces have attacked and injured a New Zealand politician in the grounds of the New Zealand parliament buildings, because the MP had the temerity to be holding a Tibetan flag at a ... (2 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • The environmentalist who doubts global warming theory
    Meet Peter Taylor, author of "Chill": The science around climate change is not as settled as it’s presented as being. I used to think it was, until about 2003 – and then, feeling that the ... (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • ETS Campaign heats up, unlike climate
    ETS Meetings: Come to one of John Boscawen's next Public Meetings. Join the movement to defer the ETS well armed with the facts, not the mistruths National are peddling. Paihiatua - Wednesday 9 ... (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • BREAKING NEWS: Drowning islands claim debunked by new research
    Claims worldwide of drowning tropical islands because of rising sea levels have been dealt a death blow by new research. Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where ... (3 months ago)
  • The Israeli attack - a video perspective
    I have mixed views on the Israeli incident. On the one hand, it happened in international waters. It shouldn't have. The Israelis had no right to intercept the boat until it crossed into Israeli ... (3 months ago)
  • Seismic cracks appear in global warming camp
    This from the Times of London: Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s ... (3 months ago)
  • Trufflehunter takes another hit
    Funniest put down of Trufflehunter since my last one: Don Easterbrook hides the incline Category: Global Warming Posted on: May 21, 2010 2:43 PM, by Tim Lambert By Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Professor ... (3 months ago)
  • NEWS RELEASE: PM's statement conflicts with Review team's
    Prime Minister John Key has been warned he could take a serious credibility hit if he continues to endorse the Latta Review on smacking before he's seen the Investigate magazine article published ... (3 months, 1 week ago)
  • BREAKING NEWS: Investigate magazine news release
    NEWS RELEASE FROM INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE Government’s smacking review misunderstood its Terms of Reference, got crucial facts wrong Investigate magazine has blown open the smacking debate by ... (3 months, 1 week ago)
  • Air Con: Climategate 2010 Edition goes on sale
    The book that went to #1 on the climate bestseller list for Amazon US and UK last year has been updated with the latest science, plus full coverage of the Climategate and IPCC scandal fallout. The ... (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • John Key says kneecapping economy over ETS not valid
    You may find this comment from John Key, Sept 2, 2007, interesting: "At the moment there are certain rules around Kyoto which just don’t seem to be in the best interests of the New Zealand ... (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • Questions for IPCC Vice Chair David Wratt as new IPCC scandal breaks
    NIWA's David Wratt was the Vice Chair of the UN IPCC's Working Group 1 (WG-1), the prestigious "science" report on climate change. Wratt and others have previously talked of how impeccable the ... (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • Watching the deniers can be entertaining
    Is it just me, or does anyone else think that global warming website Watching the Deniers is in a spot of difficulty on this thread (read right through for the context)? I'm not sure whether WTD ... (3 months, 2 weeks ago)

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  • Who's blowing up Iran's gas pipelines?
    But the high number of attacks on Iran’s gas pipelines within the space of less than a month will inevitably raised suspicions that this is the work of professional saboteurs. The CIA, for ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Sweden probes swine flu vaccine for narcolepsy
    "The MPA has received six reports from health care professionals regarding narcolepsy as suspected adverse drug reaction following Pandemrix fluvaccination," it said in a statement. (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
    The subpoenaed documents reveal Israel's clandestine programs for "cultivation of editors," the "stimulation and placement of suitable articles in the major consumer magazines" as well as U.S. ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373
    The 9/11 killers were mass assassins who gave up their own lives to murder thousands.  It’s now clear that, in response, the U.S. went into the global assassination business.  The first of its ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Gulf States Endorse "Military Option" Against Iran
    The article also reflected "the Gulf states' growing tension and concern regarding Iran's nuclear program, and mentioned their proximity to the Bushehr reactor." What is scary is that the straw ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran
    Netanyahu administration officials used Goldberg to convey the message to the Americans that they didn’t believe Obama would launch an attack on Iran, and therefore Israel would have to do ... (3 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • A campaign for war with Iran begins
    Judging by Israel’s rhetoric, it is easy to conclude that these beliefs are genuinely held as undisputable truths by the Israeli security apparatus. But if judged by its actions rather than its ... (3 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Judge dismisses lawsuit over Geronimo’s remains
    A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by descendants of the Apache warrior Geronimo, who claimed some of his remains were stolen in 1918 by a student society at Yale University. (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • The point of no return
    I am not engaging in a thought exercise, or a one-man war game, when I discuss the plausibility and potential consequences of an Israeli strike on Iran. Israel has twice before successfully ... (3 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • US Arms ‘Bonanza’ in Middle East
    [...] a move designed to ratchet up the pressure on Iran, according to defense analysts. [...] "This is a pattern we’ve seen before. The US offers Arab states expensive modern armaments, and ... (3 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • Murder, Spies and Voting Lies: Rigged elections exposed
    Friedman pokes at the seamy side of democracy, uncovering the story of computer programmer Clint Curtis, who recounts being asked before the 2000 election by a prominent Florida legislator to ... (4 weeks ago)
  • Iran claims to have smuggled anti aircraft missile systems into country
    If the news is confirmed, the threat posed by the system would be a serious deterent to military planners contemplating a strike on Iran's nuclear programme. The S-300 is capable of shooting down ... (1 month ago)
  • Intel Experts Warn Obama Israel May Bomb Iran This Month [august 2010]
    The intelligence experts explain that Israel’s tactic is to launch the war suddenly and then make it politically untenable for Obama to do anything other than offer the United States’ full ... (1 month ago)
  • Bombers, missiles could end Iran nukes
    "It will be primarily an air attack with covert work to start a 'velvet' revolution so [the] Iranian people can take back their country," said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former ... (1 month ago)
  • Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran
    They are probably telling you that, since you have privately counseled Prime Minister Netanyahu against attacking Iran, he will not do it. This could simply be the familiar syndrome of telling the ... (1 month ago)
  • The Real Aim of Israel’s Bomb Iran Campaign
    What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States ... (1 month ago)
  • US military chief admits to Iran attack plan
    Mullen said allowing Iran to develop a nuclear weapon was also unacceptable. "Quite frankly, I am extremely concerned about both of those outcomes," he said. (1 month ago)
  • The Chilcot inquiry has already exposed the folly of the invasion
    The public has now heard the disastrous consequences of the invasion. They have witnessed political protagonists try to disassociate themselves from the decision to invade. And they have seen ... (1 month ago)
  • The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets
    Ms. Hayes-Beaty is being monitored by Lotame Solutions Inc., a New York company that uses sophisticated software called a "beacon" to capture what people are typing on a website—their comments ... (1 month ago)
  • Senior EPA Analyst: Feds think public can’t HANDLE THE TRUTH about toxic dispersants
    EPA Senior Policy Analyst Hugh Kaufman, MSNBC, July 28, 2010. (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Ahmadinejad: US plans to attack two countries in Middle East
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the United States and Israel plan to attack two countries in the Middle East as part of a conspiracy to apply pressure on the Islamic Republic. (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories
    Several reports from Army psychological operations units and provincial reconstruction teams (also known as PRTs, civilian-military hybrids tasked with rebuilding Afghanistan) show that local ... (1 month, 1 week ago)

Wronging Rights

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  • WTF Friday, 8/27/10 and 9/3/10
    I purposely withheld last week's WTF Friday just to hit you guys with a double whammy this week. 8/27/10 Omar al-Bashir made a surprise appearance at the celebration for Kenya's new constitution. ... (1 day, 6 hours ago)
  • WTF Friday, 8/20/10
    Epic acronym fail from Kenya. In deportation news, the UK and France are going buck wild and looking to deport 20,000 Zimbabweans and 700 Roma, respectively. France has already moved forward with ... (2 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Quiz Time!
    As you may have heard, most of Pakistan is currently underwater. Approximately 20 million people have been affected by the floods, which have been going on for three weeks now. 1600 have died and ... (2 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Rethinking the History of Human Rights
    Some recommended reading for you: Samuel Moyn's " Human Rights in History " in the August 30/September 6 issue of The Nation. Moyn traces the role of human rights rhetoric in recent American ... (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • WTF Friday, 8/13/10
    Couldn't have imagined this picture in my wildest WTF dreams. Really classic stuff. Hat tip to Tom for this . "Completely WTF: couple walk the length of Africa on $2 a day, with two aims, 'The ... (3 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Some More About Why We Don't Think Mineral Regulation Is a Solution to the Conflict in the Eastern DRC
    The vital question of our times "conflict minerals legislation: hot or not?" continues to divide the blogosphere. Enough alleges that mean bloggers are misrepresenting their positions. ... (3 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • WTF Friday, 8/6/10
    - More on this Wyclef-Jean-running-for-President-of-Haiti thing. The LA Times seems to be baiting a wtf with this headline. There are also some concerns floating around: "First, he doesn't know ... (4 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Recent Developments at the International Courts: A Cheat Sheet
    Confused about recent developments in international criminal jurisprudence? Tired of excusing yourself to powder your nose when the cocktail chatter inevitably turns to the law of ... (4 weeks, 1 day ago)
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  • Conflict Minerals: Riddle Us This
    Now that Kate's back in town, we're working on a longer joint post about our position on this whole OMG-DRC-Conflict-Minerals kerfuffle. Until then, we have a question for our readers who believe ... (1 month ago)
  • WTF Friday, 7/30/10
    Found this list of dictator's favorite movies . Pretty entertaining but I wish they would elaborate on Kim Jong-Il's love for Barbara Streisand. Can't leave me hanging on that! Also: Stalin tried ... (1 month ago)
  • Impress Your Friends and Outflank Your Enemies: The Wronging Rights Guide to the Conflict-Mineral ...
    As Kate notes , the recent passage of new legislation on "conflict minerals" from the DRC has prompted much discussion from the aid-blogosphere. Predictably, the reactions have been mixed. The ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Point/Counterpoint: "Conflict Minerals Law Will Have No Effect in Eastern DRC" vs "Conflict Minerals Law ...
    The Christian Science Monitor's excellent Africa Monitor page currently has posts up from Jason Stearns and Laura Seay on the U.S.'s recently passed conflict minerals legislation. The CSM ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • WTF Friday, 7/23/2010
    Hezbollah has opened a "Museum for Resistance Tourism" to provide guests with "war porn and propaganda." "A sunken terrace titled 'The Abyss' holds the debris of Israeli tanks and equipment, ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • WTF Friday, 7/16/2010
    I would have to imagine that many people's perception of child soldiers will change after this NYT article. It reports on the U.S.-funded Somali government's use of child soldiers. This is ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • Feedback Loops and Sucking Vortexes
    I’ve been curious for a long time about whether and how the “all rape all the time” characterization of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo affects the situation on the ground ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • O RLY?
    The bomb blasts in Kampala the other night blew out one of the main cables that brings us our Webbernetz, so I've had very limited access the last day or two. (Thankfully, I am fine, and my ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • If You're Smart, Surround Yourself With Smart People Who Disagree With You
    (This is ancient news in internet-years, but I kept waiting for someone else to make this point when the story was actually making headlines, and as far as I could tell, no one did. So now I'm ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • WTF Friday, 7/9/10
    Wronging Rights reader Ari found this at an "anti-genocide and other egregious violations of human rights" fundraiser. Lol good spot, Ari! Rwanda to use 26m condoms by 2012 ." Congratulations? ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • Only 8 Shopping Days Left Until International Justice Day!
    Just a friendly reminder that International Justice Day is fast approaching. If you haven't yet purchased a gift for that special ICC prosecutor in your life, well, time to get cracking. Here are ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • Women of Kireka
    As some of you probably know, I'm based in Kampala for the summer. If you're around, or have tips about things I might want to go poke my nose into, please get in touch via the blog email address. ... (1 month, 4 weeks ago)
  • Adventures in Copyediting
    See if you can spot the problems in this caption, from an article in Der Spiegel: I know I'll always remember where I was the day I heard about the 2004 Rwandan Suicide... (1 month, 4 weeks ago)
  • WTF Friday, 7/2/10
    President Goodluck Jonathan has suspended the Nigerian national team for two years due to their poor performance in the World Cup. You don't have to be a soccer fan to see the outrageous fallacy ... (2 months ago)
  • Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
    BBC News reports that researchers from University of London have deciphered a previously illegible letter written by missionary David Livingstone in 1871. As far as I can tell, the research team ... (2 months ago)
  • WTF Friday, 6/25/10
    A female Nigerian student was tortured and beaten into a coma by four policemen in the Ekiti State of Nigeria for "having the effrontery to challenge them when conducting a stop and search." ... (2 months, 1 week ago)
  • WTF Friday, 6/18/2010
    Anyone who watched the Brazil-North Korea match already knows about these things , but they bear repeating. Kim Jong-Il has invented an invisible phone to communicate with the North Korean coach, ... (2 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • Things I Liked Quite a Bit: War Don Don
    If you're in New York this week, or DC next week, I highly recommend checking out War Don Don , a new documentary about former RUF leader Issa Sesay's trial in the Special Court for Sierra Leone. ... (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • WTF Friday, 6/11/10
    Geert Wilders ' "Freedom Party" triples its seats in Holland by running on the increasingly popular "hating Muslims" platform. FP cries Bradley effect . In weird and creepy news, Saudi Clerics ... (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • "A Compound WTF, Wrapped in Proto-Colonialism, Wrapped in Bacon"
    Guys, a new bar has been set for reader emails. We have received a tip from alert reader Ashley* notifying us of the following post on furaffinity.net, an online community for furries and their ... (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • What if Political Scientists Wrote the News?
    In response to this article in the Columbia Journalism Review, Slate's Christopher Beam imagines what it would be like if academics were in charge of the news cycle : A powerful thunderstorm ... (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • WTF Friday, 6/4/10
    Hadley Freeman of the Guardian does a nice job lampooning certain media outlets for giving Madonna credit for the release of the Malawian couple mentioned here . After a lot of soul searching I am ... (3 months ago)

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  • Bush'd again? New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go
    by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don't blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You ... (1 week, 1 day ago)
  • No “Home Sweet Home”Five years after Katrina
    Matt Pascarella and I encountered Patricia Thomas while she was breaking into a home at the Lafitte Housing Project in New Orleans. It was her own home. Nevertheless, if caught, she'd end up in ... (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • Five Years and Still DrowningThe New Orleans CNN Would Never Show You
    It's been five years already. In New Orleans, more than half the original residents have not, cannot, return. "They don't want no poor niggers back in - that's the bottom line." And that's Malik ... (1 week, 4 days ago)
  • Separation of Church and Hate:The Kate Mosque Solution
    by Greg Palast Special to BuzzFlash Since everyone seems to have an opinion about the mosque near Ground Zero (and President Obama has two), I'd like to ask you all a couple of questions: Given ... (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • Behind Bush's Wyly Billionaire Burglars... Hint: Beyond Petroleum
    by Greg Palast From the Joker's Wild card deckSam Wyly is one of the planet's "Ten Greenest Billionaires," according to Forbes. And, the magazine should have added, the one that deserves the most ... (1 month ago)
  • Palast on GRITtv: Fighting Toxic Oil Companies
    Last week, Mike Papantonio told us on GRITtv that there was no fund from BP to pay for the oil disaster, and raised some questions about Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the damages to Gulf ... (1 month ago)
  • Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
    Alaska Native Henry Makarka©1997James Macalpine-PIF At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
    Alaska Native Henry Makarka©1997James Macalpine-PIF At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
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  • Smart Pig:BP's OTHER Spill
    by Greg Palast for Buzzflash.com Oil spill residue, Chenega, Alaska©1997James Macalpine-PIF With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there's no space in the press for British Petroleum's ... (3 months, 1 week ago)
  • White Power USA - The PremierNYC Tonight
    Rick Rowley is one crazy SOB. No video journalist has spent more time UNembedded in Iraq than Rowley. When the Marines attack Fallujah, Rowley covered it ... from inside the insurgent camp. ... (3 months, 1 week ago)
  • Palast on Palin in NYC - ThursdayThe Rogue Comedy Show
    Sarah Palin: Why cry when you can laugh? An hour of comedy to help raise funds for Zach Roberts' upcoming documentary - The Rogue Candidate: Sarah Palin's REAL Alaska. Jamie Kilstein (Comedy ... (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • Jeremy Scahill, Greg Palast & Big Noise:From Blackwater to White PowerOur Latest Film Available Now!
    White Power, Blackwater and the smell of vulture money ... get it on this feature length DVD filmed by gonzo videographer Rick Rowley and the Big Noise team. Donate at least $35 today to support ... (3 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • Emperor Hickel: The Man Who Invented Alaska... and Sarah Palin
    by Greg Palast Gov. Wally Hickel ©1997 James Macalpine PIF Wally Hickel invented Alaska and told me he regretted it. He also invented Sarah Palin, and I was hoping, when I travel to Alaska next ... (3 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • Slick Operator: The BP I've known too well
    by Greg Palast for Truthout.org May 5, 2010 I've seen this movie before. In 1989, I was a fraud investigator hired to dig into the cause of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Despite Exxon's name on that ... (3 months, 4 weeks ago)
  • Report from the Inferno
    Palast on BP "The master of disaster". Report from Anchorage Radio with Shannyn Moore - Listen Photo of the Deepwater Horizon taken soon after the explosion in the Gulf. 
Provided to us ... (4 months ago)
  • Behind the Arizona Immigration Law:GOP Game to Swipe the November Election
    Our investigation in Arizona discovered the real intent of the show-me-your-papers law. by Greg Palast for Truthout.org [Phoenix, AZ.] Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a ... (4 months, 1 week ago)
  • Palast, Live from Hell
    "The CBS logo isn't an eyeball, it's actually just a pimple on the rectum of Viacom Corporation." Hear Greg Palast live with This is Hell radio host Chuck Mertz. In this 90 minute head-to-head, ... (4 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • Heart of Coal
    by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse We've seen this dreadful movie before. In 2005, another coal mine in West Virginia imploded. We wrote about it then .... War is hell, especially class war. Just ... (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • Vulture Financier AttacksBanned in Britain
    by Greg Palast April 8 - London - Update for In These Times We've stuffed the bird and nailed it to the wall: Today, the British Parliament effectively banned financial vulture funds from the ... (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • Palast Radio Alert
    You won't want to miss hearing Greg in a fascinating and animated conversation with prominent New England radio host (and former Green Party political candidate) Mike DeRosa on two upcoming New ... (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • Palast in Chicago this Friday
    Tell your Chi-town friends to catch Greg Palast, 6:30pm this Friday at Columbia College. On stage with This is Hell radio host Chuck Mertz. In Columbia College’s Film Row Cinema 8th Floor of the ... (5 months ago)
  • Stop Feeding the Vultures
    by Greg Palast for In These Times I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn’t want to talk to me. When I came to his office suite, his hedge fund’s name plaque had been unbolted from the ... (5 months ago)
  • Getting into Massa's Drawers:Truly Creepy Detailsabout the Congressman
    Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team ... (5 months, 1 week ago)
  • "The Insurance Industry Loves It"Whistleblower Wendell Potter on the Health Care Law
    Greg Palast conducted this interview with health insurance industry executive-turned-crusader Wendell Potter in the fall. The bill voted into law last night is the Senate bill Potter critiques. ... (5 months, 1 week ago)
  • Palast talk NYC this Sunday:Where's the Outrage?
    Greg Palast ("The Best Democracy Money Can Buy") with Stanley Aronowitz (the workingman's Chomsky, author: "Against Schooling".) We chat and take your questions this Sunday at the Left Forum ... (5 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • Vulture Vomit Kills Bill
    Vultures defend themselves by vomiting on their enemies. In Britain last week, terrified vultures puked up a Tory MP named Christopher Chope. Two weeks ago, the day after the 25 February broadcast ... (5 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • We Kicked ButtNew Boots Needed
    A week ago Friday, the day after BBC Television broadcast of our investigative report on Liberia vultures, Britain's Parliament voted to put an end to the creepy business of financial "vultures" ... (5 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • BBC America: Palast Hunts the Vultures
    By Greg Palast Special Report for BBC World News America Broadcast March, 2, 2010 Some vultures have feathers, but some have fancy offices and huge homes. Tonight, BBC investigative reporter Greg ... (6 months ago)
  • US vulture speculators hold Liberia,UK and US tax payers to ransom
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Watch Greg Palast's report tonight on BBC America TV at 7pm. (6 months ago)
  • Palast hunts the vultures for BBC
    Listen to Greg Palast on the BBC World Service (6 months ago)

Secrecy News

Secrecy News from the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy
  • FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules
    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.  The Court reviews government applications for intelligence ... (1 day, 17 hours ago)
  • GAO Access to Intelligence in Dispute
    The continuing controversy over whether the Government Accountability Office will be permitted to participate in intelligence oversight, as some in Congress wish, or whether cleared GAO auditors ... (1 day, 17 hours ago)
  • U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Secrecy: A View from 1949
    The question of whether or not to disclose the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal “goes to the very heart of our democratic system of government,” said Senator Brien McMahon (D-CT) ... (1 day, 17 hours ago)
  • Another Leak Prosecution
    The Obama Administration continued its pursuit of individuals who leak classified information to the press with another indictment of a suspected leaker. The Department of Justice announced last ... (4 days, 13 hours ago)
  • Geoengineering, and More from CRS
    Technologies to modify the Earth’s climate are at least conceivable and, in the absence of a comprehensive national and international climate change policy, may soon emerge as practical ... (4 days, 13 hours ago)
  • DNI Advisors Favor Non-Coercive “Intelligence Interviewing”
    Intelligence personnel who are trying to elicit information from a prisoner or a detainee can effectively do so in a non-coercive manner, according to the Intelligence Science Board (ISB), an ... (1 week, 1 day ago)
  • Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain (CRS)
    Rare earth elements — of which there are 17, including the 15 lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium — are needed in many industrial and national security applications, from flat panel displays ... (1 week, 1 day ago)
  • The Twilight of the Bombs
    In “The Twilight of the Bombs,” the fourth and final volume of his epic history of the nuclear era, author Richard Rhodes examines “how the dangerous post-Cold War transition was managed, ... (1 week, 1 day ago)
  • More
  • DHS Plans to “Improve” National Emergency Exercises
    The Obama Administration plans to increase the frequency, rigor and realism of emergency planning exercises involving senior government officials and emergency responders in an effort to improve ... (1 week, 5 days ago)
  • New Order on State, Local Access to Classified Info
    The White House issued an executive order last week to formalize procedures for sharing classified information with state, local and private sector entities.  The new order does not alter or ... (1 week, 5 days ago)
  • Some Recent Congressional Hearing Volumes
    Newly published Congressional hearing volumes on national security-related topics include the following (all pdf). “Nomination of Stephen W. Preston to be General Counsel of the Central ... (1 week, 5 days ago)
  • Security and Environment in Pakistan (CRS)
    Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, which has displaced millions of persons over the last several weeks, submerged huge portions of the country, and crippled much of the nation’s infrastructure, ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Army Doctrine from Arms Control to Marching Bands
    The U.S. Army has issued several new doctrinal or regulatory publications that may be of interest beyond their intended audience (all pdf). A new Army regulation “provides a broad overview of ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Who is an Intelligence Employee?
    Could someone be considered an intelligence community employee even if his salary is not paid out of the intelligence budget?  Intelligence officials say yes, claiming that a person’s status as ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Wikileaks: Giving Leaks a Bad Name
    Unauthorized disclosures of classified information (“leaks”) often play an important role in the proper functioning of American democracy.  They can serve as a safety valve against official ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Huge Commercial Satellite Imagery Contracts Awarded
    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded two large contracts for commercial satellite imagery to meet U.S. intelligence community needs. DigitalGlobe received a contract worth ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • ODNI Advisors on Bio Sciences Keep Low Profile
    A few years ago the Office of the Director of National Intelligence established a “Biological Sciences Experts Group” consisting of scientists from industry and academia to advise the ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Reviews of Foreign Investment in U.S. Remain “Obscure”
    “The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee that serves the President in overseeing the national security implications of foreign investment in ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • GAO Access to Intel Obstructed by 1988 OLC Opinion
    The current dispute between the Obama Administration and some members of Congress over whether to strengthen oversight of intelligence programs by the Government Accountability Office is rooted in ... (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Ethics Office Puts Limits on CIA Lobbying (2006)
    For one year following their employment, all former government employees are prohibited by law (18 U.S.C. 207c) from contacting employees of their former agency for the purpose of influencing ... (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Report Sees Successes and Gaps in Info Sharing
    “Several events this past year — the Fort Hood Shooting and the attempted bombings on Christmas Day and in Times Square — highlight challenges, successes, and gaps in our ability to ... (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Leak Cases Move Forward
    The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leakers who disclose classified information to the press or to other unauthorized persons is moving forward on multiple fronts. Shamai Leibowitz, ... (1 month ago)
  • Extrajudicial Targeting of Americans Challenged
    Two civil liberties organizations said they will file a legal challenge against the government’s suspected targeting for assassination of an American supporter of Al Qaeda, arguing that under ... (1 month ago)
  • Afghanistan Casualties, and More from CRS
    Sixty-six American troops died in Afghanistan in July, making it the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the Afghanistan War thus far, the Washington Post and others reported. Casualties of the ... (1 month ago)
  • Weaknesses in Industrial Cyber Security Described
    The vulnerabilities of critical energy infrastructure installations to potential cyber attack are normally treated as restricted information and are exempt from public disclosure.  But a recent ... (1 month ago)
  • Too Many Secrets, the Greatest Math Discovery, and More
    The Wikileaks publication of tens of thousands of classified U.S. military records last week is inevitably prompting a review of information security practices to identify remedial steps.  I have ... (1 month ago)
  • Rethinking “Formerly Restricted Data”
    Congress should eliminate the classification category known as “Formerly Restricted Data” in order to simplify and streamline classification policy, the Public Interest Declassification Board ... (1 month ago)
  • Senate Assists DoJ with Leak Investigation
    In response to a request from the Department of Justice, the Senate yesterday authorized the Senate Intelligence Committee to cooperate with a pending investigation of an unauthorized disclosure ... (1 month ago)
  • Senator: Secrecy Obscures Cyber Threats
    “I believe we are suffering what is probably the biggest transfer of wealth through theft and piracy in the history of mankind,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), referring to the ... (1 month ago)
  • Can the Secrecy System Be Fixed?
    The release of some 90,000 classified records on the Afghanistan War by Wikileaks is the largest single unauthorized disclosure of currently classified records that has ever taken place, and it ... (1 month, 1 week ago)

Lew Rockwell

Anti-state, anti-war, pro-market

Reason

Free minds and free markets
  • Reason.tv: Life, Liberty & Happiness - Q&A with American Visionary Art Museum's Rebecca Hoffberger
    The word liberty is used a lot but it's not often that individuals think deeply about what the word means, says Rebecca Hoffberger, the founder of Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum ... (11 hours, 27 minutes ago)
  • Why Is 'Un-British' Bad?
    I was struck by British Defense Minister Liam Fox's description of the new Medal of Honor video game set in Afghanistan. He called it "thoroughly un-British," a phrase that presumably refers to ... (12 hours, 23 minutes ago)
  • It's The Love Boat...For Ideas! Join Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Ron Bailey, Jacob Sullum, Patri Friedman, ...
    Regular readers of Reason.com and Reason.tv and subscribers to the print edition of Reason already know that we're shoving off on our first-ever cruise in February 2011. Get more ... (12 hours, 27 minutes ago)
  • New at Reason: Cathy Young on the Legacy of the Iraq War
    Only time will tell if Operation Iraqi Freedom was a blunder, writes Cathy Young. But it is not too early to say that Americans are not the villains in this story. As Young explains, that role ... (14 hours, 27 minutes ago)
  • Reflecting on the Iraq War
    It's too early to know history's verdict. (14 hours, 27 minutes ago)
  • Brendan O’Neill on Tony Blair’s “bitchy memoirs”
    Frequent Reason contributor Brendan O’Neill is not a fan of Tony Blair’s new memoir: Never mind his claim about seeing the queen washing dishes after a barbecue at Balmoral. Forget his ... (15 hours, 23 minutes ago)
  • New York's Absent Teacher Reserve Hears Call to Action, Goes Back to Reading the Newspaper
    New York City recently pledged to rid itself of the infamous rubber rooms where unemployed and unemployable teachers sat—sometimes for years—while accruing seniority and pay. But today The ... (15 hours, 30 minutes ago)
  • Challenging Obama's License to Kill
    In today's Washington Post , Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, explain why ... (15 hours, 35 minutes ago)
  • ObamaCare: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Worse
    When President Obama made his pitch for the health care overhaul, he framed it this way: “Insurance reform; making sure that you can have choices in the marketplace for health insurance, and ... (16 hours, 1 minute ago)
  • You've Seen Ocean's Eleven. Now Experience Gillespie's Dozen.
    Human Events , still Ronald Reagan's favorite publication, has interviewed Reason's Nick Gillespie as part of Lisa De Pasquale's ongoing feature, De Pasquale's Dozen (for an archive, go here ). ... (16 hours, 5 minutes ago)
  • It's Not the Size of the Stimulus.
    Here's Jill Lawrence at Politics Daily : After talking to five economists, I can give you the bottom line: Spending the money differently probably wouldn't have changed our circumstances much. But ... (16 hours, 34 minutes ago)
  • Wrestling With Libertarianism
    Did you know that World Wrestling Entertainment Heavyweight Champion "Kane" is a big fat libertarian? Did you know that there was such a thing as the WWE? In any case, it's Friday, so let's let ... (16 hours, 38 minutes ago)
  • The Summer of Recovery Is Over; The Fall of the Economy Is Here
    Ring in Labor Day with this news: The U.S. shed another 54,000 jobs in August, slightly advancing the 9.6 percent unemployment rate. Good news: Most of the jobs lost were government jobs, as the ... (16 hours, 38 minutes ago)
  • Jerry Lewis Wants to Spank Lindsay Lohan
    It's Friday and I'll get to the litany of was-the-stimulus-too-small-dammit stories every bit as stale as the donut I just ate in a bit. But first, as the MDA Labor Day Telethon descends upon the ... (17 hours, 58 minutes ago)
  • Reason Morning Links: Scanners Edition
    How to make a libertarian's head explode : a bank bailout... in Afghanistan . Harry Reid gets a boost from a former chief of the RNC. The White House ponders a package of tax breaks . The ... (19 hours, 2 minutes ago)
  • New at Reason: Friday Funnies
    In the latest edition of Friday Funnies, Henry Payne looks at how President Barack Obama's summer is going. View this article. (19 hours, 27 minutes ago)
  • Friday Funnies
    Obama's recovery summer (19 hours, 27 minutes ago)
  • Give Me Down to There Hair
    Officials at Godley Middle School in Texas have placed 12-year-old Chris McGregor in in-school detention until he cuts his hair . The school dress code bars male students from having hair below ... (20 hours, 27 minutes ago)
  • SF Chron: Put a Bullet In This Train!
    "[T]he most striking thing when you start to look into the bullet train is how little planning or thought has gone into the thing," a great man once said . "There has been almost no effort to ... (1 day, 5 hours ago)
  • A Caudillo's Own Story
    Via Washington Examiner columnist Mark Hemingway comes news that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who once denounced homosexual Cubans as “faggots” ( maricones ) who served the interests of ... (1 day, 7 hours ago)
  • The Green Gunman
    Three comments about the Discovery Channel gunman James Lee: 1. Yes, he's an environmentalist. Lee's brand of environmentalism may be quirky -- not many green manifestos contain the words "a game ... (1 day, 8 hours ago)
  • How to Fight for the Taliban Without Getting Detained As an Enemy Combatant
    The latest installment in the Medal of Honor video game series, scheduled to be released by Electronic Arts next month, is set in Afghanistan and allows players to fight for the Taliban in the ... (1 day, 9 hours ago)

Salon

Breaking news, opinions and politics
  • The Great Jobs Depression
    This originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog (13 hours, 12 minutes ago)
  • Jonah Goldberg still mad that no one liked his book
    National Review contributor and terrible columnist Jonah Goldberg likes to complain, a lot, whenever anyone writes anything bad about his book, "Liberal Fascism," which was a book about how ... (15 hours, 57 minutes ago)
  • Mosque foe hits extremist pastor's 9/11 Christian Center
    We're finally seeing one of the opponents of the so-called "ground zero mosque" speak out against the "9/11 Christian Center" that an extremist evangelical pastor is launching this weekend. (16 hours, 20 minutes ago)
  • AP refuses to use WH/NBC propaganda terms for Iraq
    On August 18, NBC News anchor Brian Williams began his broadcast -- shown live to West Coast viewers, something done only for very significant occasions -- by excitedly declaring :  "It's gone ... (17 hours, 23 minutes ago)
  • Earl blows past Outer Banks on path to Northeast
    A weakened Hurricane Earl howled past North Carolina's Outer Banks before daybreak Friday on its way up the East Coast, flooding parts of the narrow vacation islands and knocking out power but ... (17 hours, 41 minutes ago)
  • If the GOP wins, let the back-stabbing and infighting begin
    If there's been one dominant message in the media this week, it's this: Democrats are screwed. Really, totally and thoroughly screwed. (17 hours, 57 minutes ago)
  • ABC mysteriously pulls story on Mideast hijacking threat
    ABC on Tuesday published on its website what seemed to be a major exclusive story by Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross: Law enforcement officials, according to Ross, had been "on a ... (18 hours, 26 minutes ago)
  • More taunts to the Democratic base
    Another day, another disappointment for progressive Democrats. We learn from former auto-industry car czar Steve Rattner that Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said "Fuck the UAW" during tough ... (1 day, 4 hours ago)
  • GOP attacks Delaware Tea Party candidate
    Delaware Republicans call Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell a liar who "could not be elected dog catcher" in a fierce attack that underscores GOP fears of the tea party-backed candidate knocking ... (1 day, 7 hours ago)
  • Anti-choice group targets Democrats in radio ads
    An anti-abortion group plans to air radio ads in three congressional races calling for the defeat of Democratic incumbents, among the first ads to capitalize on a Supreme Court ruling this year ... (1 day, 7 hours ago)
  • Earl weakens, but still a threat with 115 mph winds
    The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 115 mph winds Thursday on North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the ... (1 day, 11 hours ago)
  • The Gulf oil rig fire: What we know
    UPDATE II : As of 5:30 p.m. ET, the Coast Guard is backing away from earlier reports of a mile-long oil slick near the site of the Vermilion platform. Mariner Energy, which owns the platform, ... (1 day, 11 hours ago)
  • Oil sheen spreading from new Gulf platform explosion
    A mile-long oil sheen spread Thursday from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill. (1 day, 12 hours ago)
  • Chris Christie picked the wrong guy to call a liar
    You can certainly understand why Chris Christie threw his education commissioner, Bret Schundler, under the bus last week. After all, it was Schundler's department that botched the state's "Race ... (1 day, 13 hours ago)
  • Jan Brewer: Bumbling politician of the year
    Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, considered by many to be a  rising star because of her immigration battle with the Obama administration, gave a painfully awful opening statement in a ... (1 day, 14 hours ago)
  • Earl threatens East Coast with weekend pounding
    Hurricane Earl packed winds near 140 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard up to Maine on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain. (1 day, 14 hours ago)
  • Giuliani consulting firm winds down
    Ever wonder what Rudy Giuliani's been up to lately besides campaigning against the "ground zero mosque"? (1 day, 15 hours ago)
  • When the stock market doesn't matter
    This originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog (1 day, 16 hours ago)
  • The profound mystery of the "enthusiasm gap"
    (updated below) (1 day, 16 hours ago)
  • Burger King agrees to $3.26B buyout by 3G Capital
    Burger King Holdings Inc. is selling itself to private equity firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26 billion. (1 day, 16 hours ago)
  • Some flee, others dig in as Hurricane Earl nears U.S.
    Hurricane Earl blew toward the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday as a major storm with winds of around 145 mph as forecasters tried to pinpoint exactly how close the strongest gales and heaviest surge ... (1 day, 17 hours ago)
  • The ever-expanding tentacles of the Glenn Beck brand
    It’s been obvious for quite some time that Glenn Beck is not your typical conservative pundit. In the early days of Beckmania, style distinguished him from his Fox News colleagues more than ... (1 day, 17 hours ago)

Defense Update

Daily news feed bringing you updated information on new defense programs, products and technologies from around the world.

Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants...
  • Tools for Transparency: Google Fusion Tables
    Just look at any one of Sunlight’s projects and you’ll realize that it takes a mountain of data to help keep government open and transparent.  From district information to campaign ... (1 day, 11 hours ago)
  • Bill Would Place Agency Reports to Congress Online
    Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH) recently introduced legislation that would make it a lot easier for the public to access thousands of congressionally mandated reports. These reports are created when ... (2 days, 9 hours ago)
  • Tools for Transparency: Scribd – making documents accessible
    We’re big fans of Scribd here at Sunlight. For a while now, we’ve been posting transparency related documents to the platform while leveraging their widgets to embed congressional fund raiser ... (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • Has Maxine Waters found a way around the Federal Election Campaign Act?
    My colleague Lindsay Young reports on what appears to be a unique fundraising strategy employed by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Rather than raise the bulk of her campaign funds from political ... (1 week, 3 days ago)
  • Statelight: Transparency in a Box, Pt. 3
    As we set the stage for advocating on local and state transparency issues and highlight some policies issues of note, inevitably the question comes: How exactly do you go about learning more about ... (1 week, 4 days ago)
  • Tools for Transparency: Live Streaming to the Web
    For many, the “live web” was a meaningless concept until the aftermath of the 2009 Iranian presidential election when protesters used Twitter as a means to push messages past the censors to ... (2 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • What’s in a name?
    It’s getting towards the end of summer and we’re getting a little silly here at Sunlight. The news is full of stories of politician’s hidden agendas, summer hideaways, and navel gazing — ... (2 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Statelight: Transparency in a Box, Pt. 2
    As Nicole wrote last week, we’re digging into state level transparency, in order to share what we know, and to help empower activists around the country to create more transparency in their ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • More
  • The dysfunctional way we view campaign contributions and corruption
    I ham-handedly tried to explain why Tom DeLay got off-the-hook yesterday when I stated that his ideology overlapped perfectly with the corrupt actions of former super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. What ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • What to say about DeLay?
    Really, what is there to say? After a six-years the Department of Justice dropped their investigation into former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s connection to the Jack Abramoff scandal. There ... (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • Big oil money at the state level mostly goes to influence the public, not the politicians
    The Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling will allow corporate interests to spend unlimited amounts trying to influence voters, something they’ve already proven themselves adept at on the ... (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • New Openness Rules for Finance Reform
    On Friday, the New York Times reported that four agencies responsible for implementing the financial reform bill are announcing new transparency policies: After passage of the law overhauling the ... (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • Less of a non-sequitur response on campaign finance
    After responding to a non-sequiturial (sic?) tweet from Patrick Ruffini last week, Ruffini responded by calling my post a non-sequitur. Apparently, Ruffini’s tweet, which stated that the ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Money in State Judicial Elections
    What’s the price of justice? Over the last decade, state supreme court candidates raised over $200 million for their elections, two-and-a-half times the $83 million they raised during 1990-1999, ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • White House Announces Leading Practices Winners
    On Thursday, the White House announced the winners of their Leading Practices initiative, that they first outlined in April. The Leading Practices were designed to highlight examples where ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • LIVE: Rep. Maxine Waters Defends Against Ethics Charges
    1 hour 20 mins (3 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Tools for Transparency: The Vote-to-Promote Model
    News aggregation services that use the vote-to-promote model like Reddit and Digg, and Delicious and StumbleUpon to a degree, are potentially very useful tools for finding and promoting fresh ... (3 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Citizens Not Increasing Scrutiny
    The Washington Independent has a great write-up of political spending after the Citizens decision, with one exception: the headline. Citizens United Frees Corporations to Spend on Elections, But ... (3 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Charlie Rangel just doesn’t give a damn
    Rep. Charlie Rangel today confirmed my statement from yesterday that he doesn’t give a damn about congressional ethics. While entering Rangel’s 80th birthday bash yesterday former New York ... (3 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Blogher-ites question politicians
    Last weekend more than 2,400 women bloggers descended on New York City for the annual Blogher conference. That was eight times as many as attended back in 2005, in the website’s infancy. The ... (3 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • City of Bell and the Case for Grassroots Transparency
    I’m proud to present this independent research project by our summer intern Mike Liu.  Mike looked at his home state of California, the recent Bell salary scandal and the need for transparency ... (3 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Statelight: Transparency in a Box, Pt. 1
    I’m excited to announce a new project from Public Equals Online and the Sunlight Foundation: Over the next few weeks and months, we’ll be developing - in large part through public blog posts ... (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • How Rangel defended Rosty
    Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski died today at the age of 82. Rostenkowski was a powerful committee chair, head of the House Ways & Means Committee, who exemplified both the power of the 1980s ... (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • New Stakes for Government Reform
    The White House is characterizing their failure to replace Ethics Czar Norm Eisen as an upgrade. If they wanted to vigorously pursue the portfolio assembled under Eisen, though, they could have ... (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Charlie Rangel is full of it
    If you haven’t caught Rep. Charlie Rangel’s rambling rant–the one where he went the full Traficant–you really should. In it Rangel declares that ethical woes are based on a series of ... (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • A Principled Look at Open Data
    From Moses to James Madison to David Letterman, important ideas come in lists of ten, as do these principles for opening up government information.[1] The list isn’t new: my colleague John ... (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Ted Stevens 1923-2010
    Former Sen. Ted Stevens was confirmed dead at the site of a plane crash in Alaska. The plane was carrying eight other passengers. Four other people involved in the crash are also confirmed dead. ... (3 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • Rangel to Congress: Go get your shine box!
    Now that’s what C-SPAN is for! Rep. Charlie Rangel just took to the floor of the House to defend himself against ethics charges. In his speech he challenged the House to expel him if they felt ... (3 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • Congress is somewhat more complicated than you think
    A poster over at Slashdot put up an agitated reader comment about the changing nature of the state aid bill that is set to be passed by the House of Representatives this week. Here’s the ... (3 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • A Setback in the Commitment from the White House
    From our perspective, with the appointment of White House Counsel Bob Bauer and Steven Croley to the Domestic Policy Counsel, we have just lost an important fight about how the Administration will ... (3 weeks, 4 days ago)

The Corbett Report (Articles)

Articles written and hosted by The Corbett Report
  • Leaked G20 Documents Show Carbon Taxes Still High on Globalist Agenda
    Documents sent to The Corbett Report purported to be notes from a G20 Toronto attendee reinforce idea that carbon taxes are being pushed at the highest levels for political gain, not scientific ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Estulin: "World is Out of Time-Outs" on Global Crash
    Bilderberg researcher Daniel Estulin joins The Corbett Report to discuss the ongoing collapse of the global economy and the signs that it is about to accelerate. (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • The Meaning of "Austerity"
    "Austerity" is one of those Orwellian terms that has been injected into our political discourse precisely because it is a nice-sounding word for a very painful reality. (2 months, 1 week ago)
  • Bilderberg 2010 Agenda Leaked
    Veteran Bilderberg researcher and bestselling author Daniel Estulin has once again acquired a copy of the agenda for the annual meeting of the world's power elite. In an exclusive interview with ... (3 months, 1 week ago)
  • False Flags Don't Fly Anymore
    Acts of terror and violence never benefit the average man or woman. They only ever benefit those in positions of power. (4 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • WHO Appoints H1N1 Cover-Up Committee
    Reports that the WHO is appointing an 'independent' committee to investigate its own conduct in the H1N1 panic of 2009 has been tempered by the fact that one of the committee's members, John ... (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
  • Sibel Edmonds Speaks Out on Whistleblower 'Protections'
    FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds joined The Corbett Report last Friday to discuss the deplorable state of whistleblower "protections" in the United States, including S.372, a bill making its way ... (5 months, 2 weeks ago)
  • A Guide to the 9/11 Whistleblowers
    These courageous insiders have been sidelined, gagged, hounded from their positions and ignored to the point where their stories are virtually unknown among the general public. And that is exactly ... (5 months, 4 weeks ago)
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The Corbett Report (Videos)

  • Naked Truth, Fluoride Poison, 9/11 Responders Strike Back - Sunday Update
    Naked Truth, Fluoride Poison, 9/11 Responders Strike Back - Sunday Update Sunday Update is a public service of The Corbett Report. Download the latest episode of the podcast from the home page: ... (3 weeks, 6 days ago)
  • Renouncing Citizenship, Pentagon Softwar(e), Regulating Dust - New World Next Week
    Renouncing Citizenship, Pentagon Softwar(e), Regulating Dust - New World Next Week Welcome to the New World Next Week - the video series from CorbettReport.com & MediaMonarchy.com. Sources & ... (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • SECrecy, Flu Vaccines 2010, Gov Kills 9/11 Heroes - Sunday Update
    SECrecy, Flu Vaccines 2010, Gov Kills 9/11 Heroes - Sunday Update Sunday Update is a public service of The Corbett Report podcast. Download the latest episode of the podcast from The Corbett ... (1 month ago)
  • Japanese Fireworks
    Japanese Fireworks The Corbett Report takes a break from fighting the New World Order to take in the sights and sounds of a Japanese fireworks festival. Stay up to date on all the news and ... (1 month ago)
  • Wikileaks + MSM Hype = ?
    Wikileaks + MSM Hype = ? Ladies & gentlemen, welcome to the 40th episode of New World Next Week - the video series from CorbettReport.com & MediaMonarchy.com. This week we look exclusively at the ... (1 month ago)
  • Whistleblowers vs. Regulators, Advertising Fail - Sunday Update
    Whistleblowers vs. Regulators, Advertising Fail - Sunday Update Sunday Update is a public service of The Corbett Report podcast. Download the latest episode of the podcast from the home page: ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Bill Murphy on Gold Manipulation - Economics 101
    Bill Murphy on Gold Manipulation - Economics 101 Bill Murphy of GATA.org appears on Economics 101 to discuss manipulation of the gold market. We also receive an update on JP Morgan manipulation ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Food Bubble, Government Weed, Competing Currencies - New World Next Week
    Food Bubble, Government Weed, Competing Currencies - New World Next Week Story#1: Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starves Millions & Gets Away With It ur1.ca Background: Senate Probe Finds Inflated ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • The Real Terrorists, 9/11 FOIAs Denied, Economic Realism - Sunday Update
    The Real Terrorists, 9/11 FOIAs Denied, Economic Realism - Sunday Update SOURCES AND DOCUMENTATION: Sunday Update is a public service of the The Corbett Report podcast. Download the latest episode ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • Geoengineering and You (3/4)
    Geoengineering and You (3/4) SOURCES AND MP3 AUDIO AVAILABLE SHORTLY. ur1.ca The Corbett Report Episode 138 - Geoengineering and You As the band of eugenicists attain riches and power, they are ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • Geoengineering and You (4/4)
    Geoengineering and You (4/4) SOURCES AND MP3 AUDIO: ur1.ca The Corbett Report Episode 138 - Geoengineering and You As the band of eugenicists attain riches and power, they are moving their ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • Geoengineering and You (1/4)
    Geoengineering and You (1/4) SOURCES AND MP3 AUDIO: ur1.ca The Corbett Report Episode 138 Geoengineering and You As the band of eugenicists attain riches and power, they are moving their ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • Geoengineering and You (2/4)
    Geoengineering and You (2/4) SOURCES AND MP3 AUDIO: ur1.ca The Corbett Report Episode 138 Geoengineering and You As the band of eugenicists attain riches and power, they are moving their ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • Amiri Abducted?, Kelly Suicided?, Farmers Bankrupted? - New World Next Week
    Amiri Abducted?, Kelly Suicided?, Farmers Bankrupted? - New World Next Week Welcome to another important episode of the New World Next Week - the video series from CorbettReport.com & ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • The Power of the Boycott - Max Keiser on Economics 101
    The Power of the Boycott - Max Keiser on Economics 101 Max Keiser joins us to talk about Karmabanque, a way to use the leverage of the hedge funds to turn Wall Street against the multinationals. ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • Internet Strikes Back, LeBron Who?, Israeli Nukes - Sunday Update
    Internet Strikes Back, LeBron Who?, Israeli Nukes - Sunday Update www.corbettreport.com Sunday Update is a public service of The Corbett Report podcast. SOURCES Australian Internet Censorship Put ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • Charlie Veitch on G20 Arrests (2/3)
    Charlie Veitch on G20 Arrests (2/3) DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO OF INTERVIEW: www.corbettreport.com Charlie Veitch of the Love Police joins us once again to give his account of the incidents at this year's ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • Charlie Veitch on G20 Arrests (3/3)
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  • Charlie Veitch on G20 Arrests (1/3)
    Charlie Veitch on G20 Arrests (1/3) DOWNLOAD MP3 AUDIO OF INTERVIEW: www.corbettreport.com Charlie Veitch of the Love Police joins us once again to give his account of the incidents at this year's ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • No First Amendment, UK Surveillance, Hello Dubai - New World Next Week
    No First Amendment, UK Surveillance, Hello Dubai - New World Next Week Welcome to another important episode of the New World Next Week - the video series from CorbettReport.com & MediaMonarchy.com ... (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
  • G20 Wrap-up, Iran War Build-up - Sunday Update
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  • Banks Heart Drugs, GM Salmon, Healthy "Disorder" - New World Next Week
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The Corbett Report (Interviews)

Issues covered include 9/11 and false flag terror, the Big Brother police state, the global warming hoax and how central banks control the political process.

The Corbett Report (Podcast)

The Corbett Report is a weekly half-hour podcast dealing with issues that matter from 9/11 Truth to the rise of the police state to the central banking hoax and the global warming swindle.

PuppetGov

  • POTD
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  • Thank You and Goodbye
    Dear Readers... Related posts: Big Brother Visiting Puppetgov New Puppetgov Video (1 month, 4 weeks ago)
  • New Puppetgov Video
    There is no money in peace Related posts: Puppetgov Video – What BP Hid: Our Gulf In Peril New Puppetgov Video YouTube Censors 5th Puppetgov Video (2 months ago)
  • May Results and A Message For You
    Puppetgov Approaches the 3 YEAR MARK! Related posts: Last message of soldier shot in Afghanistan: ‘Still waiting for new body armour’ Police taking valuables from unlocked cars to drive home ... (2 months ago)
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    JULY 1: HAPPY GAY PANCAKES DAY EVERYONE! Related posts: POTD POTD POTD (2 months ago)
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    We're Going To Need A Bigger Boat Related posts: POTD POTD POTD (2 months ago)
  • Sculptures that look like they are in motion
    By Sculptor Claire Morgan Related posts: Dig unearths puzzeling Stone Age sculptures Orlando Surveillance Cams Will Detect Motion, Alert In Real-Time VIDEO: The Most Dangerous game (2 months ago)
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  • Obama Administration Accused of Refusing Free Help From Dutch Ships Designed to Clean Water After Spills
    Avertible catastrophe Related posts: NYT: Over 500,000 violations of Clean Water Act in the last five years 24 Hours After Touting Clean Coal In SOTU, White House Drops Ambitious Clean Coal ... (2 months ago)
  • PTSD, Anti-Depressants, Seroquel & Tranquilizers Confessions of a VA Lab Rat
    Natural marijuana is strictly illegal, but doctors are fine with turning patients into vegetables on hard drugs Related posts: Anti-depressants taken by thousands of Brits ‘do NOT work’, major ... (2 months ago)
  • New study documents media’s servitude to government
    The latest evidence of how thoroughly devoted the American establishment media is to amplifying and serving (rather than checking) government officials Related posts: Study: Students are hooked on ... (2 months ago)
  • Lest We Forget, Where Our Stuff Comes From
    C O N S U M E ! Related posts: Forget Prayers, Tweet God VIDEO Gaza 2009: We Will Never Forget Notice Something Missing? MSM Seems To Collectively Forget Anniversary Of Iraq War (2 months ago)
  • “Deficit Terrorism” and Economic Warfare
    All the Perks are going to Wall Street , while Main Street slips into Debt Slavery Related posts: Is the Federal Reserve Engaged in Acts of Economic Warfare Against America? Who are the Architects ... (2 months ago)
  • G20 public inquiry momentum grows
    Many personal horror stories of these arrests and inhumane treatment by the Toronto Police have surfaced Related posts: Toronto’s G20 Free Speech Zone Austerity Anger Grows in Europe: 2 million ... (2 months ago)
  • Louisiana Governor Seals Oil-Spill Records
    Louisiana has an open records law, but it does not apply to records in the custody of the governor’s office Related posts: Louisiana Coastal Parish President: ‘The Plan Is to Let Us Die’ ... (2 months ago)
  • The Postal Service – “We Will Become Silhouettes”
    THE ONLY THING TO FEAR IS _ _ _ _ ITSELF Related posts: Postal Service to cut another 30,000 jobs U.S. Postal Service Billions In The Red End of Saturday mail? Postal Service expected to announce ... (2 months ago)
  • Dumbing Down Society Part I: Foods, Beverages and Meds
    This series of articles looks at the many ways the modern man is being dumbed down Related posts: Americans Drug Their Children with 300 Percent More Psychotropic Meds Adults on hyperactive drugs ... (2 months ago)
  • A Rustic Zero Energy Home
    It’s a brand new, eco-friendly home thanks to the insulation, wind turbine and many other influential features that leaves him with no energy bills Related posts: Green Police: California Set To ... (2 months ago)
  • Blackwater’s New Sugar Daddy: The Obama Administration
    Blackwater has spent heavily on Democratic lobbyists in 2010 and clearly it has paid off Related posts: Obama Administration Keeping Blackwater Armed and Dangerous in Afghanistan Blackwater and ... (2 months ago)
  • VIDEO: The History of Oil
    Robert Newman tactfully documents the real story of the politics of oil Related posts: The Greatest Grassroots Campaign in Political History IGNORED BY BIG MEDIA VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Orwell Rolls In ... (2 months ago)
  • Learn Self-Reliant Living with Radical Urban Sustainability Training
    Sustainable systems for city dwellers Related posts: Meet the Radical Homemakers Military To Conduct Urban Training and Door-to-Door Gun Confiscation in Iowa The only lesson we ever learn is that ... (2 months ago)
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  • Police, Bankers Exempt From Austerity
    The Prime Minister appears determined to smother dissent at any cost, with little regard for their legal or civil rights Related posts: Police rough up reporters, arrest peaceful protesters at G20 ... (2 months ago)
  • Obama Won! So Where Did All The Outrage Go?
    The only thing that changed was the puppet Related posts: ‘Big Brother’ snooping law stirs outrage in Sweden Addicted to Fake Outrage FLASHBACK: No One is Above the Law! Biden says Obama ... (2 months ago)
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  • Kagan: its Fine if The Law Bans Books Because Government Won’t Really Enforce It
    Argued Before Supreme Court Related posts: Obama’s Natural Choice of Kagan Obama’s Latest Monsanto Pick, Elena Kagan Kagan, Judges Said to Be Considered for Supreme Court Vacancy (2 months ago)
  • FBI: Spies Hid Secret Messages on Public Websites
    It's a process called steganography Related posts: Americans up to 5 billion text messages a day Secret Service Warns Public That They Would Confiscate Any Cameras Used to Take Pictures of First ... (2 months ago)
  • China Denies Military Exercise Aimed at U.S.
    "The outside world shouldn't read anything into this." Related posts: U.S. to Join South Korean Military Exercise Off North Korea Coast China denies cyberattacks on U.S. power grid General Motors ... (2 months ago)
  • Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
    "This land is your land" Related posts: Do not use Free Speech around your kings: Judge denies request to subpoena Cheney in arrest lawsuit JOE STRUMMER & MICK JONES LIVE 2002 NSC advisor Jones: ... (2 months ago)

P.A.P. Blog - Politics, Art and Philosophy

HUMAN RIGHTS, incl. political and economic rights, from the perspective of politics, art, philosophy, law, economics and statistics
  • The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (59): Stoning
    When stonings happen, how do they work? First, you get buried. Iran’s Islamic Penal Code states that men convicted of adultery are to be buried in the ground up to their waists; women, up to ... (1 week, 1 day ago)
  • Human Rights Facts (192): A Right to Water
    The United Nations General Assembly recently voted in favor of an international human right to water. It’s only appropriate that people have a right to the most basic resource. Only a few ... (1 week, 2 days ago)
  • Some Theories on the Causes of Poverty, Ctd.
    (This is a follow-up from two previous posts, here and here). Why are people poor? A cursory investigation almost always blames the poor for their own poverty. Poor people seems to make stupid ... (1 week, 3 days ago)
  • Human Rights Ads (54): Homelessness
    (source) More on homelessness and on the recession. More human rights ads. Related Articles Calif. Senate OKs homeless civil rights protection (sfgate.com) Killings Of Homeless Hit Highest Level ... (1 week, 4 days ago)
  • The Cost of Human Rights, and of Economic Rights More Specifically
    Human rights cost money. It’s often claimed that economic human rights aren’t really human rights because they are so expensive for many governments in the world that they can’t ... (1 week, 5 days ago)
  • Vote!
    This is a friendly reminder that we’re still seeking the “public’s opinion” on how to “solve” a number of moral dilemmas. So if you haven’t done so already, take a look at these and ... (1 week, 6 days ago)
  • Human Rights Quote (160): Immigration
    (source) When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. ... (1 week, 6 days ago)
  • Human Rights Maps (96): US Secret Detention Facilities
    The current US Administration, like the previous one although somewhat less enthusiastically, believes that the War on Terror necessitates certain restrictions on human rights. The Bush ... (2 weeks ago)
  • Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (54): Oklahoma Bombing
    The image of firefighter Chris Fields holding the dying infant Baylee Almon won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996. Two people, Lester LaRue and Charles Porter, standing just ... (2 weeks ago)
  • Satellite Evidence of Human Rights Violations (7): Darfur
    (source, source) More examples of satellite evidence of human rights violations are here. Something on the advantages of this kind of evidence is here. More on Darfur here. Related Articles Susan ... (2 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • The Global Origins and Foundations of Human Rights
    As Jacques Maritain put it when discussing the work on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the nations should and could reach practical agreement on basic principles of human rights without ... (2 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Political Graffiti (113): Don’t Vote
    (source) Some reasons why this isn’t good advice are here. More graffiti on voting and elections here and here. More political graffiti in general is here. Filed under: democracy, political ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Some Theories on the Causes of Poverty
    (source) Following an earlier post, some more evidence free musings on the causes of poverty. Theories about the causes of poverty typically fall into two camps: either the poor are victims of ... (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • Human Rights Video (23): Targeted Killings
    The question here is whether targeted killings are a form of extrajudicial execution or a legitimate act of war. And this question gets more complicated – or easier depending on your view – ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Measuring Poverty (10): Multidimensional Poverty
    Poverty can be many different things. It can be different things to different people in different countries or circumstances. It can mean one thing for people in Africa and another for people in ... (2 weeks, 6 days ago)
  • Human Rights Maps (95): Asylum Seekers
    (source, source, source) These data are for 2008. Maps on refugees are here. All asylum seekers are refugees but not all refugees are asylum seekers. An asylum-seeker is an individual who has ... (3 weeks ago)
  • The Causes of Wealth Inequality (8): Weak Unionization
    Among the rich countries that are very unequal are also some which have very weak labor unions. [W]eak unions are a key cause of US inequality. The argument goes that weak unions have little ... (3 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (94): China Number One Asshole
    From The Onion: WASHINGTON–According to a new report released Monday by a panel of top economists and social scientists, the People’s Republic of China will overtake the United States as the ... (3 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • The Economic Case Against Human Rights, Ctd.
    Some more comments following two previous posts on the topic (see here and here). Do human rights promote or depress economic growth and prosperity? (I’ll focus on non-political rights for the ... (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (58): The school Where Mentally Disturbed Students Are Jolted Into ...
    The only thing that sets [the] students [of the Judge Rotenberg Center, a private boarding school for special-education students in Canton, Massachusetts] apart from kids at any other school in ... (3 weeks, 4 days ago)
  • Human Rights Maps (94): Internet Censorship in China
    (source, click the image to enlarge) There are more statistics on internet filtering in China here. And a more polemical post on the Great Firewall of China is here. And don’t forget that there ... (3 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Political Graffiti (111): Give a Man a Fish …
    (source, source) More on development aid – the context that produced the original line about giving fish vs teaching to fish - is here. Another variation of the same line is here. More ... (3 weeks, 6 days ago)

The Truther Girls' Blog

Truth and Jest
  • Anti-Aging Advice from Dr Mercola
    No matter what your convictions in life, nobody wants to get old and yucky. I found some good advice recently on the top things to do or not do to delay turning into your aunt Mildred. AVOID: 1- ... (1 week, 3 days ago)
  • NYC Mosque
    Straight from the Federal Department of Insult to Injury: The government is defending a project to build a mosque near ground zero. The impending erection of this building has naturally been ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Texas Terrorist
    Around 9:00 am on August 17, 2010, Patrick Gray Sharp loaded a truck with fuel-soaked woodchips, road flares, gasoline and ammonium nitrate, drove it into the parking lot of the McKinney Public ... (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  • Obama Swims in the Gulf!
    In a publicity stunt to promote the Gulf Coast, Obama enlisted his 9-year-old daughter to mislead the public. The pair took a 26-hour ‘vacation’ in Florida which included a purported dip in ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • NWO Progress Checklist
    This is a list of things that are completed, in progress, or planned on the road to global tyranny in the NWO. http://www.illuminati-news.com/00351.html Filed under: Globalism Tagged: checklist, ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Agenda 21
    If you need a primer on what Agenda 21 is and how it will affect your life, watch the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM Agenda 21 involves plans to reduce the human ... (2 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Matt Simmons Dead
    Matt Simmons has died at the age of 67. There are varying reports on the cause of death. According to the Digital Journal, it was a heart attack: “The controversial investment banker warned the ... (3 weeks, 5 days ago)
  • Cocaine Vaccine a Bust
    In the early days, mental health professionals who dealt with drug addiction hoped that sson a new vaccine would cure cocaine addiction. In 2000, a Phase I study at Yale used: The vaccine, TA-CD, ... (3 weeks, 5 days ago)
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  • Birth Registration and Your Slavery
    What is the role of birth registration in bringing about the enslavement of the population? When you register your child’s birth, you basically turn them over to the State as a perpetual ... (3 weeks, 6 days ago)
  • What is the NWO?
    New World Order quotes http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Illuminati/quotes_on_the_new_world_order.htm Filed under: Globalism Tagged: freedom, New World Order, nwo, quotes, slavery, ... (3 weeks, 6 days ago)
  • How To Fight the RFID Chip Assault
    In this article, you will learn how you can foil and defeat RFID chips! by DallasGoldBug on Before It’s News. As Walmart announced they will start using RFID chips on inventory items like jeans ... (3 weeks, 6 days ago)
  • Home-made Laundry Soap
    Recipe sent to me from Kathy in Alaska laundry detergent 5 gallons -4 bars of soap (glycerin or castille, glycerin melts faster) -1 cup borax or baking soda (borax not for grey water systems) -2 ... (3 weeks, 6 days ago)
  • Industrialized Food
    This is an excerpt from the movie “Food Inc.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaUjEj65MI&feature=related Filed under: Food Tagged: conspiracy theory, Depopulation, food, industrialization (4 weeks ago)
  • Re-Thinking HIV/AIDS
    Russia Today: “Thousands of experts, scientists and politicians from around the globe have gathered in Vienna to discuss HIV/AIDS prevention. But the convention has also attracted sceptics who ... (4 weeks ago)
  • Sea Floor Collapsing
    Below is a video in which you will see an ROV puncture a hole in the sea floor (for who knows what purpose). This is followed by what looks like a methane bubble bulging up under the sea floor, ... (4 weeks ago)
  • Water Wars
    Regarding Janet Phelan, who exposed a possible system of poison delivery via the US water supplying system Google video: Water as a Weapon ... (4 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Lobotomy in a Needle
    Vaccine against ‘stress’ made from genetically engineered herpes virus, alters your brain so you just don’t give a fuck anymore. ... (4 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Cancer, Diabetes and Your Food
    The following was discussed on The Truther Girls radio show on August 5, 2010: Cancer cells feed on fructose. Note: ‘fructose’ is listed as a sweetening ingredient in many foods. However, I ... (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • Regrowing Apmutated Limbs
    We have previously shown that implanted fetal nerve tissue stimulates the regeneration of amputated chick limbs. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a similar phenomenon would occur ... (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • The Price of Heroin
    As far as I’m concerned, when I read this article, it only increases my suspicion that the US military is involved in the heroin trade. First, they cornered the dope market when they entered ... (1 month ago)
  • Flu Shot Season 2010
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7918351/Flu-jab-linked-to-fits-in-under-fives-officials.html http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/health/2010/08/flu_season_is_coming_vaccine_i.html ... (1 month ago)
  • Affordable Bulk Foods
    Here are the dry bulk foods (product list, price sheet): http://www.providentliving.org/content/display/0,11666,8133-1-4352-1,00.html LDS Cannery Locations (click Canada): ... (1 month ago)
  • Police State Update – July 30, 2010
    These articles were discussed on The Truther Girls show on July 30 on ‘Police State Update with Karen’ Army of civilian patrols to walk streets of britain original article daily mail ... (1 month ago)
  • Microchips and Cancer
    “There’s no way in the world, having read this information, that I would have one of those chips implanted in my skin, or in one of my family members. Given the preliminary animal data, it ... (1 month ago)
  • Microchips and Tracking
    Identification and tracking of persons using RFID-tagged items: ... (1 month ago)
  • Microchips and FDA
    IT’S FDA-APPROVED, KIDS! FDA Letter regarding the microchipping of human beings (2004): http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf3/K033440.pdf FDA approval of human microchipping: ... (1 month ago)
  • War on Drugs, War on Food
    A California co-op was recently raided by police who came blazing in with guns drawn as if they were busting a meth lab. To skirt around laws forbidding the sale of certain raw foods, the co-op ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Canola Propaganda Vs Facts
    This was discussed on The Truther Girls radio show on July 23, 2010. I recently put up a video called ‘NWO Supermarket 2′ in which Karen and I take another trip to the perilous NWO ... (1 month, 1 week ago)
  • Which Cooking Oil to Use?
    This is something I have always found confusing, because you hear so many different opinions about different oils. Saturated will kill you, you must eat unsaturated. No, wait, saturated will NOT ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
  • Food Dyes, Cancer, Hyperactivity and Parenting
    It is now coming to light that many food dyes are known or suspected to be carcinogenic. I find it interesting that the Reagan administration specifically prevented the banning of Red 3, even ... (1 month, 2 weeks ago)