Warren Buffett: Income tax rigged to benefit rich

The very rich in America pay taxes at a lower rate than most working people, private-equity partners enjoy some of the lowest tax rates of all. At a fund-raiser in New York last month, Warren Buffett: "This is what Congress in its wisdom did: the 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do...'

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127,000 Contractors Replace Soldiers in Iraq

The United States has set a new precedent in its reliance on private contractors to perform dangerous military duties in Iraq, reports the Washington Post in its Monday edition.

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US Officials: 'There Will be an Attack on Iran'

And what do we do if just the opposite happens — a strike on Iran unifies Iranians behind the regime? An Administration official told me it's not even a consideration. "IRGC IED's are a casus belli for this Administration. There will be an attack on Iran."

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Matt Cooper Says Rove DID Leak Valerie Plame's Identity To Him

Cooper, who was dead center in the Valerie Plame scandal, stops just short of calling Karl Rove a liar, insisting that he did, in fact, leak Valerie Plame’s name to him in 2003.

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BROOKLYN NY FIRST TORNADO!

THE REALEST BROOKLYN CRAZZINESS! NATURES A CRAZY BIOTCH! INCREDIBLE! THE CRUSTASHIONIST!

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The FBI Can’t Link Bin Laden to 9/11? Why Is This Not News?

The statement saying the FBI had no hard evidence was released in June of 2006. The implication is that the FBI doesn’t believe the video constitutes hard evidence of Bin Laden’s involvement.

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Ron Paul teams up with Dennis Kucinich to end war

The Texas Congressman has co-sponsored a bill with another presidential contender, Democrat Dennis Kucinich, that would repeal President Bush's authority to use force in Iraq within the next sixth months. Besides Kucinich, 18 other Democrats have signed on.

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Bush Tests Out His New Executive Order. Begins Arresting Protestors

A spokeswoman for Capitol Police said the 46 protesters were being charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and were likely to be released within hours after processing. First they Came For... Then they came For You.

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Bush Tries to End PBS, The House says NO!

"The House on Wednesday evening overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."

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Nearly 2,700 Lightning Bolts Strike Washington State and Oregon In Two Days

And start 212 fires.

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Bomb-laden 'Reaper' drones bound for Iraq

The Reaper is loaded w/ one and a half tons of bombs, able to fly at 300mph and outfitted with state of the art targeting, but there is no one on board. Its pilot, as it bombs targets in Iraq, will sit at a console 7,000 miles away in Nevada. The arrival of these outsized U.S. "hunter-killer" drones is aviation history's first robot attack squadron

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Marine says officers ordered to 'crank up' violence in Iraq

A Marine corporal testifying in a court-martial said Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after officers ordered them to "crank up the violence level."a procedure called "dead-checking" was routine. If Marines entered a house where a man was wounded, instead of checking to see whether he needed medical aid, they shot him to make sure

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Marine: Beating of Iraqis became routine

A Marine corporal testifying in a court-martial said Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after officers ordered them to "crank up the violence level." He said Marines consider all Iraqi men part of the insurgency.

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Bush admits administration leaked CIA name

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has "run its course."

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Bush on Health Care: It's All Your Fault

Bush spoke in Ohio today and blames YOU for lawsuits on doctors, not choosing the correct health plan, being in poor health…it goes on and on. His new talking point is the “Federalization of health care.” The medical industry is freaking since Moore’s movie just came out. They need you dumbed down and Bush tries to do that for them.

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Most Prescribed Drug in U.S.: Antidepressants

"Too many people take drugs when they really need to be making changes in their lives."

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Real 9/11 Heroes Expose How Giuliani Short-Changed and Endangered the City

New York City firefighters are out to set the record straight on Rudy Giuliani's 9/11 legacy. More accurately, they are campaigning to expose how Giuliani short-changed and endangered the city's 11,000 firefighters over the course of two terms, and then went on to exploit their heroism during and after the 9/11 attacks for his own advantage.

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BANNED President Bush Interview

This is a video of an Irish TV interview with President Bush. This interview was not shown on American television.

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Colin Powell: "I tried to avoid this war"

Colin Powell discusses the 2 1/2 hours he spent trying to convince George Bush not to invade Iraq.

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FTC Abandons Net Neutrality

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to abandon net neutrality and allow telecoms companies to charge websites for access.

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ALL presidential candidates are taking money from the Medical lobby

Michael Moore's SiCKO site has a list of who's taking how much from whom, and noone is immune. (Source: Center for Responsive Politics)

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BREAKING!: Statement by President Bush on Commuting Scooter Libby Sentence

You've gotta read this one. Straight from Whitehouse.gov

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The Military-Industrial Complex are extortionists

Like the mafia, the military-industrial complex runs an extortion racket, with the entire nation as the target. It works like this: pursue policies that antagonize foreign populations and causes them to threaten/attack America and its interests, which necessitates higher spending for the military industrial complex to protect America.

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Marijuana will be legal in New Mexico starting Sunday

Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes.

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First artificial life 'within months'

Scientists could create the first new form of artificial life within months after a landmark breakthrough in which they turned one bacteria into another.

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White House may force Congress to charge president w/ criminal charges

Bush Administration may face impeachment if Executive Privilege is used to block subpoenas

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Faced with losing funds, Cheney now admits he's part of exec branch

Cheney folds on one of the lamest arguments of all time after a threat to try to cut off his office’s $4.8 million in executive-branch funds.

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Michael Moore Calls For New 9/11 Investigation

Answering questions after a preview of his new documentary "SiCK0", Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore discusses 9/11 eyewitness testimony of explosions, suppressed video footage from the Pentagon and the unlikelihood of a plane striking a five story building at 500mph with ultra precision.



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9/11 widows demand release of secret CIA report

In a statement obtained by RAW STORY, September 11th Advocates Patty Casazza, Monica Gabrielle, Mindy Kleinberg, and Lorie Van Auken write, "Almost six years have passed since the attacks of September 11, 2001, yet critical information continues to be withheld from the American public regarding the attacks."



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The Nuclear Family Vs The Extended Family.

The Nuclear Family Vs The Extended Family.

I Remember when i was growing up in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn very well. I lived with my parents and twin elder bothers. I Guess that is almost the definition of a Nuclear family.

How about you? Doesn't seem to be many other choices to be a kid in America.

Public school elementary classes made us do current events reports, which were just re-reports actually. Back in high school, I could never grasp how my vote was worth anything. Get this, some college I never knew existed before this very moment... Those votes MATTERS. Reminded me of the Footclan.

I was reading the news recently and caught eye of a public school making all touching illegal. No more handshakes. No more spin the spin the bottle. No more child love, just more spying on each other. This reminded me of Highschool. Nuclear families vs extended families being the subject.

Nuclear family is the machine telling us is that life is only YOU,THE PERSON YOU FUCKED, and the KIDS YOU MADE. It doesnt include everyone else... they are the same as you anyway, they fucked someone else, and abondonded everyone else... including slaves and survants and mistresses. its just the Nuclear family is the american way... starting around 1947.

"The family is a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. It contains adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults."

They made it seem normal to say "go FUCK yourself" to family members and live with one person and some kids you cant stand because no one will help you care for them.

and dont forget, that kid will someday be one person they fucked and some kids they had.

The nuclear family is american, the extended family is immagrant reflected.

Was the system right? Do you believe this is TRUE?

Bush should be tried as a war criminal says former Reagan official

Paul Craig Roberts said that the US government is in the hands of dangerous psychopaths who are a disgrace to the human race and who should be arrested as war criminals and turned over the the Hague.



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Blair feared US would 'nuke' Afghanistan

BRITAIN joined the US in ousting the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would "nuke the sh-t" out of Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington has reportedly said on a TV documentary.



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Blair knew U.S. had no post-war plan...

Tony Blair agreed to commit British troops to battle in Iraq in the full knowledge that Washington had failed to make adequate preparations for the postwar reconstruction of the country.



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Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime

The FBI estimates that, 16,000 Americans are murdered every year. Compare this to the 56,000 Americans who die every year on the job or from occupational diseases such as black lung and asbestosis and the tens of thousands of other Americans who fall victim to the silent violence of pollution, contaminated foods, hazardous consumer products...



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Louisiana town bans saggy pants and plans fines / jail terms for violators

It soon will be a crime in this Cajun-country town to let the waistband of your pants sag too low in public. Mayor Carol Broussard has said he will sign an ordinance the town council approved this week setting penalties of up to six months in jail and a $500 fine for being caught in pants that show undergarments or certain private parts.



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Mr. Wizard died today. May he R.I.P.

Mr. Wizard, the man who taught science to millions of geeks when we were kids, died today of cancer.



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The Army now admits that it dumped 64 million pounds chemicals into the sea

it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.”



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Bush Gets his Watch Stolen!!!!

While hugging and grasping at the adulating crowds in Albania, our feeble minded President gets ripped off. Keep your eyes on the watch, and see if you can figure out who takes it.



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BREAKING: Bush Administration Loses Major Terror Case

In a “major setback” to President Bush’s terrorism detention policies, a federal appeals court ruled today that sanctioning the indefinite detention of so-called "enemy combatants" would have "disastrous consequences for the constitution — and the country."



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Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution

This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates at a May debate stated they did not believe in evolution, they were generally in sync with the bulk of the rank-and-file Republicans whose nomination they are seeking to obtain.



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How much does a NY cabbie make? How about drug dealers or sex shop owners?

You can’t live in New York—arguably, you can’t spend an hour in New York—and remain oblivious to the machinery of profit pumping away under every surface. This city makes money, loses money, houses money; lately, with luxe condos stacking up like casino chips along the waterfront, the city looks like money.



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Bloomberg To New Yorkers: 'Stop Worrying, Get A Life'

On Monday, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg finally weighed in on the JFK terror plot, but his response was not what some would have expected."There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life," he said.



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Reporter Arrested on Orders of Giuliani Press Secretary

Manchester, NH - Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for Infowars.com, was arrested for asking a question to one of Giuliani's staff members in a press conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building collapses and ordered his arrest.



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When Can The Government Quarantine You?

Last week, the CDC isolated Andrew Speaker, infected with tuberculosis. By the time officials issued the order, however, the man had already traveled to France, Greece, and Italy for his wedding and honeymoon, exposing a number of airline passengers to the disease along the way. When can the government quarantine its citizens?



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NYPD Will Arrest You For Asking Questions

Robert Carnevale was arrested while videotaping an NYPD bicycle raid after he asked one of the officers for his badge number. Carole Vale, a nurse observing the scene, was also arrested when she asked why Mr. Carnevale was being detained. Mr. Carnevale was held for 22 hours and Ms. Vale was held for 13 hours.



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"Have you had sex with a member of Congress?"

A full-page advertisement taken out by Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine in Sunday's Washington Post $1 million to Congressional mistresses who come forward.



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Putin Threatens to Target Europe with Missiles

In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to target Europe with missiles, including potentially nuclear weapons, in a dramatic escalation of his Cold War-style showdown with the United States.



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Quit with the "War on Terrorism" already

You cannot have war on a tactic, it just doesn't make any sense as Ron Paul pointed out recently.



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Bush: Army Should Remain In Iraq Like They Have In South Korea For 50 Years

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not in a frontline combat role, the White House said on Wednesday. The United States has had thousands of U.S. troops in South Korea to guard against a North Korean invasion for 50 years.



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Giuliani Closed Off Streets to Avoid 9/11 Victims' Families

Some 50 Family Members and We Are Change Crew Demand Answers from Former Mayor Giuliani on Trashing Remains of 9/11 Victims; Candidate Smiles, Laughs Behind Policy and Security Insulation. Police blocked off some demonstrators from questioning Giuliani on the matters. Other such questions were ignored as autograph & smile smoozing goes on...



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What is your socioeconomic status? (lower class, middle class, upper class)

Check out this interactive chart where you can choose your occupation, education, income, and wealth and then displays your status level using these commonly used factors for gauging class. Where do you fall?



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U.S. fights to keep U.S. meatpackers FROM testing all slaughtered cattle

"WASHINGTON: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease"



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Plame was a Covert Agent

t's official. Valerie Plame was a covert agent at the time her name was leaked by Novak. Will Victoria Toensing issue an apology? And Fred Hiatt should follow her lead.



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NBC catches Giuliani lying to 911 family member

NBC put video of 911 family member questioning Giuliani on its website, Giuliani's response is contraryto earlier statement made to Peter Jenning on Sept. 11 2001.



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Recently signed Presidential Directive NSPD51 Gives BUSH Dictatorial Powers

Here we go folks, just wait till this administration pulls off another 9/11 style attack in this country...Don't say I didn't warn you!



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Fox News: Bush's Grandfather Directed Bank Who Funded Hitler

This article slipped under the radar. Many don't know that Bush's current position is due largely to Nazi money (like many of the early MIC prototype companies) - Fox news reported this in 2003! - *Head explodes*



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Rudy Giuliani experiences his own Blowback, attacking Ron Paul backfires.

If Rudy had kept his mouth closed at the South Carolina debate people wouldn't now be examining just how little he knows about Al-Qaeda's stated reasons for fighting America. Also America is now thinking hard about how much money he has made on his "9/11 Exploitation Speaking Tour" through the years. All thanks to his Big Mouth.



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George W. Bush Declares Himself Dictator During A Catastrophic Emergency

National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51 puts the President in charge of ensuring constitutional government for all three branches of government in the case of a catastrophic emergency. This effectively makes the President a dictator. The directive itself is unconstitutional and ensures constituational government wouldn't exist.



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Senators want CIA to release 9/11 report

WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would force theCIA to release an inspector general's report on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.



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Archive of every US attack on Iraq from 1992-2005

We’ve been bombing Iraq since ‘92. Its about time we start waking up, remembering & realizing WHY things happen. Last night at the debate Ron Paul helped bring a few heads out of the sand and opened America’s eyes as to whats really going on in the world. Welcome to the United States of Amnesia where the skies are always blue & the sun is shining.



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Bush Refuses to Respond To questions about Comey’s testimony

what a dicktime to impeach, and imprison



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50 Ways to Increase Your Productivity

Nice list with some new hacks.



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BREAKING: Senators Call For No-Confidence Vote On Alberto Gonzales

(Video) At a press conference moments ago, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called on the Senate to hold a no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.



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Da Vinci's Guide to Healthy Living

Wanna live like Da Vinci? His 12 steps to healthy living has finally been revealed. And they're still applicable today.



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Dr. Seuss Went to War

Amazing political cartoons drawn by Dr. Seuss in the 1940's



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GOP Debate II: Fox Goes After Ron Paul

Paul: "You-you have to realize that the base of the Republican Party shrunk last year because of the war issue, so that percentage represents less people. If you look at 65-70% of the American people, they want us out of there, they want the war over."



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Gonzales Throws McNulty Under The Bus: Video

During an event this morning at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Alberto Gonzales launched an unabashed and shameless finger-pointing campaign at outgoing Deputy AG Paul McNulty, blaming him for the US attorney scandal. Minimizing his own role, Gonzales said McNulty has 'most of the operational authority and decisions' at the DoJ.



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Top 25 Censored Stories

Here is a list of the top 25 censored stories of 2007.



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Empire or Republic: How Did It All Come To This?

We now live in a country in which the president wields the power to send the entire nation into war on his own initiative, without the congressional declaration of war required by the Constitution. We live in a country in which the president and the military wield the power to arrest an American citizen and incarcerate him in a military .......



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Gonzales proposes new crime: "Attempted" copyright infringement

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including "attempts" to commit piracy."To meet the global challenges of IP crime, our criminal laws must be kept updated," Gonzales said during a speech



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Tomorrow the FBI will be able to wiretap all internet users

Will the RIAA, MPAA, and other copyright holders now be able to ask the courts for a warrant to snoop on suspected file-sharers and gather intelligence and incriminating information with which to build a case against them?



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President Bush interrupts orchestra, takes over for conductor

Either he's drinking again and/or he's losing what's left of his sanity.



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Rove was Mastermind Behind the Fired US Attorneys

Nearly half of the US attorneys slated for removal were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax in prosecuting voter fraud, "including efforts by presidential adviser Karl Rove to encourage more prosecutions of election- law violations, according to new documents and interviews."



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Only One Presidential Candidate (Obama) Releases Tax Returns

Since 1984, only one major-party presidential candidate -- Bill Clinton in 1992 -- has refused to release the tax forms he sent to the IRS. as the 2008 election draws near, the only top-tier candidate who has committed to releasing his 1040 forms is Sen. Barack Obama.



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101 Greatest George Carlin Quotes

The man who thinks “life is worth losing” turns 70 today. Here are 101 of his greatest quotes.



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VP Cheney, while CEO of Halliburton, was a client of the escort service...

VP Cheney, while CEO of Halliburton, was a client of the escort service of DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. In addition, one of Cheney's closest military advisers and friends was also a client of the DC Madam's Pamela Martin & Associates escort service.For some reason digg don't take the story source link: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/



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The definitive guide to every single GOP scandal

Between fired U.S. attorneys, deleted RNC e-mails, sexually harassed pages, outed CIA agents, and tortured Iraqi prisoners—not to mention the warrantless wiretapping, plum defense contracts, and golf junkets to Scotland—you could be forgiven for losing track of which congressman or Bush administration flunky did which shady thing.



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13 Year Boy Used As A Human Shield [Pic]

Palestinian child used as human shield by Israeli border police.



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39% of Americans favor impeachment

New national poll indicates large minority of US favors impeachment of President George Bush



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Spiderman 3 review

Scenes like this (above) made the movie wack-tastic... Brocks character was a penis, and way too weenie sized. .Sandmans effects were amazing at times, but I will never understand his tie in with Parkers gramps. In the end,it was more of a romantic beat-em up with still too little Rami/Cambell action. I give it a 6.89779 out of 9.87.

Bush administration arresting American citizens without warrants

Government arresting Americans without legal cause or warrants.



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Bush Is Now A Lame Duck

George Bush no longer has the power, credibility or ability to effectively govern for the rest of his term in office.



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Why many Americans don't know about their "other" founding fathers

The Queen has arrived in the US to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia - although many Americans will still tell you it was in Plymouth, Massachusetts - 13 years later.



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Bush Irony: $500,000,000 Ammunition Sale to Sustain Peace in Iraq!

Bush administration told Congress on Friday of plans to sell Iraq about 400 million rounds of small arms ammunition, 170,000 grenades, demolition explosives and other military gear and services valued at up to $508 million. "This proposed sale directly supports the Iraqi government and serves the interests of the Iraqi people and the U.S."



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Bush: “I’m the Commander Guy”

President Bush coined a new nickname for himself — ‘’the commander guy” — on Wednesday, as he criticized Congressional Democrats in a speech to the annual gathering of the Associated General Contractors of America, a construction industry trade group.



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Daily Show: Eerie Similarities Between Israeli PM Olmert and Bush

On Monday, the Commission charged with investigating Israel's military campaign against Lebanon last summer issued its scathing report to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon broke down the contents of the report and noticed some staggering parallels between the conduct of Olmert and Bush.



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Why is Cheney impeachment not in the news?!

get the word out now!!!



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CNN: Tape verifies command to “Open Fire!” on american students

Four Kent State students were killed and nine were wounded in the 1970 clash, which followed several days of Vietnam War protests.



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Diggers are acting like babies.

You guys should start spamming warez links on Digg now as well. Everyone who needs to know about this code will be able to find it without going to Digg for it. Kevin Rose created something great, that inevitably turned huge and gay. Are we all happy now?

U.S. stopped $814 million in foreign aid getting to Katrina victims

Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and contractors. Most of the aid went uncollected, including $400 million worth of oil.



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VIDEO: Perle 5 Days After 9/11 -- 'We Know Saddam Has Ties To Osama'

CNN re-aired footage of Richard Perle on CNN five days after 9/11, saying: "Even if we cannot prove to the standard that we enjoy in our own civil society they are involved, we do know, for example, that Saddam Hussein has ties to Osama bin Laden."



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Vonnegut on the Bill of Rights

a 6 minute speech, taped of radio.



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Tony Snow Returns: ‘There Has Been No Attempt To Try To Link Saddam to 911

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow returned to the job this morning and hit the ground running. In his first interview with CBS’s Early Show, Snow declared that the White House never tried to link Iraq and September 11.



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PBS to Air Three-Part Documentary on Atheism: Christians call it demagogic

Conservative Christians are criticizing a plan by Public Broadcasting Service stations to begin showing later this week a three-part television documentary series on atheism, calling it "demagogic and propagandistic."



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Did Rove literally spit on Sheryl Crow?

According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who attended the dinner where the confrontation took place, The answer is yes.



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1+ million people demonstrate to keep religion out of politics

Police said more than 1 million people rallied in Istanbul on Sunday in defense of Turkey's secular system, to keep religion (Islam, in this case) out of politics. If only the US would do such a thing.



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NY Police Report Bomb to Frame Activist as Terrorist (CAUGHT ON VIDEO)

Two persons identifying themselves as New York police officers interrupted a 9/11 Truth demonstration-- on a public sidewalk in front of the new WTC 7 Building-- to intimidate free speech, stating "Larry [Silverstein] doesn't want to hear it," before accusing We Are Change founder Luke Rudkowski of having a bomb and that his cell phone was "a gun."



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EXPOSED: CIA warned Bush of 'ANARCHY' in Iraq if US invades.

The CIA warned the Bush White House seven months before the 2003 Iraq invasion that the U.S. could face a thicket of bad consequences, starting with "anarchy and the territorial breakup" of the country.



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Im Hillary Clinton, and i approve this message.

Vote http://kucinich.house.gov/ in 2008.



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Steven Hawking's Best Day Ever

The good man went 0 g, he looks happy to me, vote http://kucinich.house.gov/ in 2008... for you and me.



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BREAKING: House Passes Bill Requiring an Iraq Pullout

The House on Wednesday narrowly approved a $124 billion war spending bill that would require American troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq by Oct 1. The House voted 218 to 208 pass a measure that sought the removal of most combat forces by next spring. 2 Republicans Reps. Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland and Walter Jones of North Carolina joined.



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President Bush Dances With African Troupe, Looks Stupid (+ video)

President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush showed a few of their dance moves during a White House event on Wednesday. The two attended a ceremony to mark Malaria Awareness Day in the White House Rose Garden.



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United Stated National Debt As A Percentage Of GDP - Historical 1940 to Now

Second Graph down on page but whole page is good information. Are the naysayers right in saying not to be concerned?



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Marijuana Shrinks Tumors, Government Knew In 1974

While trying to prove the opposite, a researcher stumbled onto the fact that marijuana aggressively kills some forms of cancer.The government stepped in, shut down the study, and burned all the research. The study has since been proven to be true.



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The Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch frauds

It is difficult to watch these clips from yesterday's House hearings investigating the absolute, deliberate lies regarding Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch fed to the American public by the U.S. military.



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BREAKING: Condy Rice will have her day in court

U.S. Democratic lawmakers voted on Wednesday to subpoena Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to testify about administration justifications for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.On a party-line vote of 21-10, the House of Representatives' Oversight and Government Reform Committee directed Rice to appear before the panel next month.



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House passes Iraq withdrawal timetable

President Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress lurched toward a veto showdown over Iraq on Wednesday, as the House passed legislation that would order troops to begin coming home by October 1. The bill passed the House by a vote of 218-208. Nine Democrats voted against the bill and two Republicans voted for it.



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Beck: Iraq Withdrawal Would Be Most 'Shameful Act Since Slavery'

VIDEO: CNN Headline News anchor Glenn Beck said tonight that if America withdraws from Iraq, it “would be America’s most shameful act of immorality since slavery,” adding that congressional war opponents are “just plain stupid” and “can’t see the future.”



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Impeachment against Vice President Cheney moving forward

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, will hold a press conference at 5 p.m. ET to announce he is introducing impeachment articles against Vice President Dick Cheney.



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Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment of Cheney now available

Read the actual Articles of Impeachment that Dennis Kucinich proposed earlier today.



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Laura Bush on Iraq: "No one suffers more than their President and I do"

Laura told Anne Curry on the Today Show, that the American people need to know that "no one is suffers more than their President and I do." No one? She's as delusional as her husband. Of course, her husband is the person who caused the suffering -- and is the one person who can end it.



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The Experience of Getting High

The cannabis "marijuana" or hash high is different for each person, depending on the particular details of conditions, setting, timing, state of mind, and the variety of cannabis used. Although cannabis is generally pretty benign, nothing is always safe and fun for everyone in every situation.



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An Army Ranger told to conceal Tillman info

An Army Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when he died by friendly fire said Tuesday he was told by a higher-up to conceal that information from Tillman's family.



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Kucinich set to announce Articles of Impeachment for CHENEY today

Rep. Kucinich is presenting his Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney today. Groups around the nation are planning on holding demonstrations in support of his move.



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Rudy Giuliani : Expect another 9/11 if you elect a Democrat

MANCHESTER, N.H. - - Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001. ........ ok I am scared... let me vote Neo-Con all the way... that works right.. I mean it saves us from wars and stuff.. right?



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Fascist America, in 10 easy steps...

From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all



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NY Times Graphic shows Breakdown of Gun Deaths by Age, Sex, Age, and Cause

An average of 81 people die by gun every day in the US. The New York Times has a graphic showing the breakdown of those deaths by age, sex, race, and cause



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POLL: Only 3% of Pakistani Muslims Think Al Queda Did 9/11

Large majorities (average 79%) across all four Muslim countries believe the United States seeks to “weaken and divide the Islamic world”, ranging from 73 percent in Indonesia and Pakistan to 92 percent in Egypt. Only 3 percent of Pakistanis think Al Qaeda conducted the September 11 attacks.



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Congressman: "I Hope It’s Your Family That Suffers" From A Terrorist Attack

Video at ThinkProgress. At a hearing last week, audience members groaned at a remark made by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) about torturing alleged terror suspects. Rohrabacher told the audience members, "Well, I hope it's your families, I hope it's your families that suffer the consequences."



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VIDEO: Tom DeLay: Reid And Pelosi Are ‘Very, Very Close To Treason’

Former Rep. Tom Delay accuses Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of treason for opposing the war in Iraq, ignoring his own past opposition to the war in Kosovo.



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Is the US led War on Terrorism a War with Islam? Muslims believe so

More than 70 percent of Egyptians, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Moroccans believe the United States is trying to weaken and divide the Islamic world. While U.S. leaders may frame the conflict as a war on terrorism, people in the Islamic world clearly perceive the U.S. as being at war with Islam



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Donald Rumsfeld Profits From Bird Flu Scare and Bush's Response To It

There's a pattern in this Administration where members (or former members) of the Administration benefit financially from decisions the Administration makes. In fact it's routine.



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Billions of bees vanish without a trace. (More serious than you think)

Go to work -- and vanish without a trace.Billions of bees have done just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate, and scientists are mystified about why.The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States.....



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Army Sgt. Questions Why American Flags Lowered for VT, but not troops

But I find it ironic that the flags were flown at half-staff for the young men and women who were killed at VT yet it is never lowered for the death of a U.S. servicemember.



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“I Don’t Care What the Judge Said!” Marijuana user found Not Guilty

Juries in the United States have the power to effectively change law. In this case against a man for his 3rd possession of marijuana, a brave jury member stands up for marijuana users everywhere and convinces the jury to give him a 'not guilty' verdict.



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How U.S. farm policy makes us fatter and sicker

Why are Twinkies and sodas cheaper than fruits and vegetables? Commodity farmers get checks based on how many bushels they can grow. The result is a food system awash in added sugars and added fats.



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Bush to terrorists: Here is a map of our troop movements

Using photographs and maps displayed on monitors, President Bush on Friday offered a detailed defense of his strategy to increase the U.S. troop presence in Iraq. The president delved deeper into details of his Iraq strategy than he usually does in such appearances, using the monitors to illustrate troop movements.



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Man kept of flight because of book he was reading

A guy was kept off his flight to Disneyland with his family because of the cover of a book he was reading.



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Tillman killed by friendly fire - Army's immediate response: Cut off phones

Within hours of Pat Tillman's death, the Army went into information-lockdown mode, cutting off phone and Internet connections at a base in Afghanistan, posting guards on a wounded platoon mate, and ordering a sergeant to burn Tillman's uniform.



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University VP of Information Services Uses Patriot Act Against Students

University of Portland VP of Information Services has used the Patriot Act against several students. One student wrote a program to bypass Cisco Clean Access and distributed it to a select few. The programmer was suspended for a year and essentially told he was a terrorist. The VP of IS wasn't even able to recognize the code used. It was C++.



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Vermont Senate: Impeach the President

Vermont Senate Adopts Resolution Seeking Impeachment of Bush, Cheney. The non-binding resolution was approved 16-9 without debate all six Republicans in the chamber at the time and three Democrats voted against it.



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Pentagon Confirms: Bush Hyped False Iraq Deadline

The Associated Press has a major story out confirming that President Bush has been hyping a false Iraq spending deadline.



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(Video) Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) Tells Gonzales To Resign To His Face

A intense moment from the Senate hearing today, where Coburn tells Gonzales that he should suffer the same fate as the U.S. Attorneys he fired.



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Exclusive: Cheney impeachment articles due Wednesday, April 25th

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the former mayor of Cleveland who is seeking the 2008 Democratic nomination for president for the second time, has selected a date to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. A source who asked to remain anonymous told RAW STORY that the articles of impeachment would be introduced next week.



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Wave farms are the hot new alternative energy source

After sputtering along for nearly a decade, marine power appears poised to join the alternative energy juggernaut, though the technologies are still in the early stages and have no guarantee of success.



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McCain sings 'bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran'

Sen. John McCain, in a "what was he thinking?" moment threatens Iran to the tune of "Barbara Ann." Is McCain is becoming the Sanjaya of this Presidential race?



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The history of cannabis and 4/20

Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were de



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Noninterference vs Mass Broadcast

--We live in sad times. After two students are shot in the face and no one was caught for it, VA Tech decided it was best to send out emails to warn the students instead of a using the Public Address system to warn of the danger.
--Pre 9/11 there was a ton of information on Bin Laden using our planes against us, USA waited till after the attack then went to war with a different country, instead of making our airlines more secure. It cant be too difficult to make sure everyone going on a flight has proper identification and no metal objects.
--Thailand's tsunami is another example. A huge earthquake hit at 07:58:53 local time. Sensors around the world knew it hit 22 minutes after the huge quake. The first waves started hitting at around 10:00:00 local time. Between the 2 hours, there could have been MASS broadcasting to all coastal areas to get to higher grounds.

Why doesn't this occur? I have a few thoughts on it.

Leaders would rather have dead people on their hands then to be wrong, cause a mass panic, and be sued by everyone. Also, even though we can transfer data at light speeds around the world, the peoples airwaves have been stolen from them from the "leaders" who set up the system. And since the system has been divided up unequally between too few, nothing works together and at its no way near its full potential. The people on this planet need an awakening and it will never happen, we love competition, being better then other people, and having power over others. That's why when these events happen, it makes me angry at society for being so secretive. To exist in society (my job, my health, my food...not my private life), there should be NO encryption, which doesn't bother anyone other then the people in charge who have secret corporations, and money under the desk deals. We as a people should outlaw EVERY PRIVATE SECTOR and have a free and equal society. Every closed circuit, every government deal, every bandwidth should be out in the open for the world to see.

Please comment on how you feel, how you can improve this society, or why I am a total jackass.

"Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radical" pre 9/11 report by France

French secret services produced nine reports between September 2000 and August 2001 looking at the al Qaeda threat to the United States, and knew it planned to hijack an aircraft, the French daily Le Monde said on Monday. One document prepared in January 2001 was entitled "Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radicals",



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Bush rejects any Iraq pull-out deadline

US President George W. Bush, ahead of talks with lawmakers pushing for an Iraq withdrawal timetable, warned Monday that he would reject a pending war-funding bill if it comes with a deadline. Bush accused Democrats of trying to "legislate defeat in this vital war."



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Free ride is over: IRS taxing online sales

As if there wasn't enough to complain about with the IRS, add this to the list. The US Treasury Department is making a charge at forcing Internet auction sites to turn over the identities and social insurance numbers of their users to the IRS so they can keep tabs on income made through these types of sales.



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FIFTY PERCENT of CIA hired since 9/11

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, after nearly a year as head of the nation's premier intelligence agency, says his biggest challenge is absorbing all the newly hired analysts and the case officers who have been hired since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.



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Bush OKed the Firing of US Atty Iglesias, per Sen Domenici's Request

Gonzales told Domenici he would fire Iglesias only on orders from the president. Domenici called Rove, and told him he wanted Iglesias out and asked Rove to take his request directly to the president. Domenici and Bush subsequently had a telephone conversation about the issue. The conversation occurred sometime before Iglesias firing.



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Is Depleted Uranium Killing our Troops?

Dustin Brim went into the Army a healthy man. A year later, he returned home. His body was riddled with incurable cancer. Could his own weapons and armor — made with a byproduct of enriched uranium — have been the cause



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AMAZING eisenhower speech - Bush presidency is unamerican!

"Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.""Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those"



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Stem Cell Bill Approved by Senate

A stubborn Senate voted Wednesday to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, ignoring President Bush's threat of a second veto on legislation designed to lead to new medical treatments.



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Bush's Sudan Ambassador: There Is No Genocide in Darfur (Video)

In an extremely heated exchange with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday, President Bush's ambassador to Sudan Adrew Natsios defiantly refused to characterize the violence there as genocide.



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Jon Stewart Evaluates the ‘08 Republican Field

Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart ran through the GOP frontrunners and evaluated their electoral prospects. The jab at Senator Kerry at the end is hysterical.



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Senate Panel Wants Those Missing White House e-Mails -- Let e-Gate Begin!

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy challenged the White House assertion, saying, "It's not a question of e-mails being lost, it's e-mails they don't want to retrieve."



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Presidential Candidate: U.S. In Danger of Dictatorship

Congressman Ron Paul warns elite believe they own us and are “always prepared” to take our liberties. The US is now at a crisis point because the people have been so neglectful of protecting their liberties and big government has been so effective in eroding them.



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New Royal Dutch Shell Patent Could Mean Oil For $30 A Barrel, US #1 Source

Royal Dutch Shell is patenting a technique to convert shale to petroleum at a cost of only about $30/barrel. If it works, the world's single largest source of oil would be... the United States. What would the world be like if all the oil in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Iraq, Nigeria, and elsewhere was suddenly nearly worthless?



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Bush wants to create new "War Czar?"

The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation.



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Fox News: If not for Clinton, Americans would be afraid of Black president

Dick Morris: "MORRIS: But you know, back to your question of scared. You have to ask yourself, the first black man is running for president and nobody's afraid of him, because everybody's afraid of Hillary."



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Black is White. War is Peace. It's just another White House press briefing.

WH Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino said Bush's "surge" strategy is a response to polls showing that most Americans disapproved of Bush's bungling of the war . "The American people have wanted change in Iraq " Perino said. "The president announced a new policy on January 10th that was quite different and divergent from where we were before."



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Right Wing Uses Cropped Photo To Downplay Size Of Iraq Protest

"After thousands of demonstrators gathered in Najaf, Iraq, yesterday to protest the U.S. occupation, the Bush administration was quick to downplay the size of the gathering. State Department official David Satterfield said, “I think the small size of those demonstrations is an indication of the limited appeal of Muqtada al-Sadr’s.."



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Bush's New Spy Chief Wants More Agressive Powers

Surveillance could include planting listening devices and hidden cameras, searching luggage and breaking into homes to make copies of computer hard drives.



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Obama challenges McCain on Iraq stroll

Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Republican White House rival John McCain for using a heavily guarded trip to a Baghdad market as evidence thatIraq's security is improving.



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ARMY Proposes Extending Tours for Everyone in Iraq

A decision that effects tens of thousands of American families . . .



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Cheney Sticks to His Delusions

"Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even President Bush has backed off his earlier inflammatory assertions about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein." -- Cheney still doesn't. That's the Veep for ya: living in his own political fantasy world where facts have no merit.



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Video: Tom Delay compares himself to the 6 million jews of the Holocaust

"it doesn't matter if it's 6 million jews or one man getting investigated, it's the exact same thing. " no Tom, no it isn't. shame on you.



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Google Earth maps out Darfur atrocities

As of today, when the 200 million users of Google Earth log onto the site, they will be able to view the horrific details of what's happening in Darfur for themselves.



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Spiderman 3 star Kristen Dunst likes Cannabis

Carl Sagan, the astronomer, was the biggest pot smoker in the world and he was a genius. I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.



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NYPD Intelligence Op Targets Dot-Matrix Graffiti Bike

Joshua Kinberg's internet-connected, sidewalk-printing graffiti bike got him a lot of attention ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention. Though he didn't know it at the time, his gadget also landed him a spot in secret files being compiled by the New York Police Department's intelligence arm against protest groups across the country.



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New York City Is Hell for Pot Smokers

If you toke in the Big Apple, chances are you've had a run-in with one of New York's "finest." If you're African-American or Hispanic, chances are you and the NYPD are on a first-name basis. "The New York State legislature should [also] be encouraged to consider making smoking marijuana in public a violation and not a misdemeanor."



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Obama declines Fox News debate

Barack Obama has chosen not to attend September's presidential debate co-sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and Fox News, effectively dooming the debate.



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How Many in U.S. Military Begged Bush Administration to Stop Torture

"No. 1, it’s not going to work," said Col. Brittain P. Mallow. "No. 2, if it does work, it’s not reliable. No. 3, it may not be legal, ethical or moral. No. 4, it’s going to hurt you when you have to prosecute these guys. No. 5, sooner or later, all of this stuff is going to come to light, and you're going to be embarrassed."



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Pope: 'Nothing Positive' From Iraq

In an Easter litany of the world's suffering, Pope Benedict XVI lamented that "nothing positive" is happening in Iraq and decried the unrest in Afghanistan and bloodshed in Africa and Asia.



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U.N. Blasphemy Ban Called Threat to Free Speech, Church-State Separation

An Atheist civil rights group condemned Friday's passage at the United Nations of a proposal for a global ban on "defaming" religion. "This proposal amounts to an international 'blasphemy' statute, and punishes those exercising a right to question and criticize religious superstition," said Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists



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Why do U.S. presidential candidates need so much money?

The recent fund raising totals by candidates point to what many expect will be the first-ever billion-dollar election. While the figures are astounding, the mostly private campaign finance system currently in place virtually demands that candidates raise vast amounts early and never let up.



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Bush Pisses Off Senate Dems: Appoints Ambassador While They Vacation

Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation in the Foreign Relations Committee, Bush withdrew the nomination last week. On Wednesday, with the Senate on a one-week break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.



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Is there any truth to 'the enemy would follow us here?'

It’s become President Bush’s mantra, his main explanation for why he won’t withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq anytime soon. In speech after speech, in statement after statement, Bush insists that “this is a war in which, if we were to leave before the job is done, the enemy would follow us here.” But is it true?



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Cheney Still Insists Iraq/Al-Queda Link Before 9/11

This has been debunked about a million times, hasn't it? Saddam had no meaningful relationship and provided no meaningful support for Al-Queda. Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 . . .



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Gonzales Aide Resigns Without Testifying Before Congress

CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer is reporting that the Justice Department's White House Liaison Monica Goodling will resign. But RAW STORY has learned that the move won't assure Goodling will shake the congressional investigators who are on her trail.



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FAA Warned 52 Times Before 9/11

The FAA's security branch generated 105 so-called daily summaries between April 1 and September 10, 2001, the report said. Fifty-two of those summaries mentioned bin Laden or al Qaeda, and five discussed hijacking "as a capability al Qaeda was training for or possessed." With 52 warnings, why [wasn't security increased] in 2001?



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Bush Bypasses Senate to Name Ambassador

President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination.



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BREAKING NEWS: Iran 'to release British sailors'

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf will be freed. Tony Blair looked like a bitch apologizing! Was great.



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Blackwater seeks to build 800+ Acre Military Training Site in California

Residents in California are trying to fight attempts by military contractor Blackwater USA to build an 842-acre military training facility.



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UK deploying "talking" CCTV security cameras

The world's most monitored society is about to get talked to as well - with 20 regions getting trials of CCTV cameras that allow operators to talk to offenders via loudspeakers. The aim is to publicly humiliate people into behaving "correctly".



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Under the Influence: How Lobbyists Wrote and Bought the Rx Drug Bill -VIDEO

60 Minutes tells the story of how pharmaceutical industry lobbyists literally wrote the historic Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and twisted arms to get the necessary votes to have it passed in the middle of the night.



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Extraordinary move to legalize poppy crops in Afghanistan

Tony Blair is considering calls to legalize poppy production in the Taliban's backyard. The plan could cut medical shortages of opiates worldwide, curb smuggling - and hit the insurgents. Under this pilot program, farmers in Afghanistan, which currently produces 80% of the world's opium, would produce and sell their crop legally to drug companies.



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Bush just lied in his press conference about Iraq

Bush just spoke to the nation, trying to convince the public to support his Iraq quagmire, and he claimed again that the surge, the escalation, was the idea of his commanders in the field, and he's just following their advice. In fact, all of the Joint Chiefs, the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, ALL opposed the surge. He lied, again



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Only 35% of Americans now identify as Republicans

Down from 43% just five years ago. The GOP balloon continues to deflate.



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Breaking: Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo Bay detainees' appeal

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Guantanamo detainees who want challenge their five-year-long confinement in court, a victory for the Bush administration's legal strategy in its fight against terrorism.



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Detainee says he confessed to stop torture

The terrorism suspect contends he was forced to admit to a role in the Cole bombing. A military law expert isn't surprised.



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Chance gives Tango STDs, brought to you by NY!

Her nickname in high school was "D-Breath"—as in, D-I-C-K Breath. And now Tiffany Pollard is back to to whoring it up on VH1s I LOVE NY. Contestant "Chance" Kamal Givens
has given NY and competing contestant "Tango" Patrick Hunter more then they wanted! Chance, during Episode 11: "The Final Adios" (airs April 2, 2007) allegedly gave NY genital warts, which she then passed onto Tango. Patrick Hunter has filed a lawsuit against VH1 and Pollard. No one involved in the case has released a statement.

Henry Kissinger: "Military victory no longer possible"

FORMER US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the US withdrawal from Vietnam, said yesterday the problems in Iraq are more complex than in the Vietnam War, and military victory was no longer possible.



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New Bill in Congress Would Improve Science Outreach

The US Congress moves to help the National Science Foundation teach scientists to communicate what science is all about, while a visit to England suggests that the US has a long way to go in terms of science outreach.



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Homeland Security wants master Key for the Internet

The US Department of Homeland Security is insisting that Verisign hand over the master keys of the Internet. If it succeeds, the US will be able to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system's root zone on the Internet. Effectively it would mean that US spooks could snoop on anyone.



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Dems to Close Guantanamo, Restore Privacy Rights, Civil Liberties, and More

Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues -- such as unionization of airport security workers and the loosening of presidential secrecy orders -- with even more dramatic showdowns coming soon.



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McCain Strolls Through Baghdad, Accompanied By 100, 3 Blackhawks, and More

Sen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are “not getting the full picture” of what’s going on in Iraq. McCain recently claimed that there “are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today.”



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20 Computers Missing From US Counter-Nuke Intelligence Office

Office involved in this breach has a special responsibility, tracking and countering efforts to steal bomb information. Its computers would have material on what the department knew about foreign operatives and efforts to steal sensitive information.



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Politics and Risk

Some interesting fatality statistics. Most of these are from 2000, but I used 2001 statistics where I could find them. These are the number of deaths in the U.S. for various causes per year.



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US-Iranian firefight in Iraq. Iranian casualities.

US forces were engaged by uniformed Iranian soldiers with small arms and RPG's inside Iraq. At least one Iranian was killed and no American casualties were reported.



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How To Escape Professional Handcuffs

Handcuffed? Here’s how to escape just like professional escape artists, using only a hairpin. It might come in handy one day!



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Halliburton provided contaminated water to Soldiers [video]

this is sick sick sick



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Jon Stewart on “Executive Privilege” [video]

Jon Stewart and John Hodgman examine President Bush's claim of executive privilege.



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U.S. Unprepared For Oil Supply Crisis: Government Report

As crude oil prices surge on rising political tensions with Iran, a new government report from the US Government Accounting Office (GAO) released Thursday said that the U.S. is unprepared to face an oil supply crisis and urged U.S. policymakers to develop a strategy in order to reduce potential risks related to an oil shock.



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Giuliani Faces 9/11 Questions

``If Rudolph Giuliani was running on anything but 9/11, I would not speak out,'' said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was among the 343 FDNY members killed in the terrorist attack. ``But when he runs on 9/11, I want the American people to know he was part of the problem.''



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House Gov. Oversight requests Condi to testify on Iraq-Niger claim

From John Byrne at Raw Story:"The House Government Committee today formally requested Secretary Rice to testify before the Oversight Committee on Apr. 18th regarding Iraq-Niger claim The wheels are coming off people. The wheels ARE COMING OFF! Here we go!



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WTF: MC Karl Rove Drops It Like It's Hot (Video)

Karl Rove, adviser to President Bush, put on an unusual display of rhythm, rap and beat-boxing during the Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner in Washington, D.C.



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Walmart Gives Up: No Stores For New York City

Although the major opposition to Walmart has come from blue-collar workers and union organizers who fear competition from non-union Walmart will force other stores to cut benefits and lower wages, Walmart's CEO blames New York snobbery for the defeat.



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Jon Stewart Slams Gonzales for Blatant Contradiction

how does this guy still have a job ??? how???



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North Korea's nuclear test a failure: CIA report

North Korea's nuclear test last October was a failure and gives no credence to Pyongyang's claim to being a nuclear weapons state, U.S. CIA Director Michael Hayden was quoted as saying by a South Korean newspaper on Wednesday.



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China and Russia plan a mission to Mars

China announced Wednesday it will launch a joint mission with Russia to Mars in 2009, marking "an important milestone" in space cooperation between the two countries. The trip to the Red Planet could be a case of Chinese money mixing with Russian science, according to observers.



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Breaking: Senate signals support for Iraq timeline

"Defying a veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next March. Republican attempts to scuttle the non-binding timeline failed on a vote of 50-48, largely along party lines..."



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San Francisco officially bans plastic grocery bags.

".. city lawmakers today approved a ban on plastic grocery bags, a first for a U.S. city. The law adopted on a 10-1 vote requires large markets and drug stores to give customers only the choice of bags made of paper that can be recycled, plastic that breaks down easily..."



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Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border.

Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. Get ready for some very high gas prices!!!



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“I dont know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about…”

According to McCain, the surge is working! and the streets of Baghdad are safe for Americans to go strolling down. The only problem? Michael Ware, who is, ya know, in Baghdad, says McCain hasn't a clue…



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Hip Hop Isn't Dying, It Just Sucks

Hip hop sales are down. But why? Countless articles have said the problems with hip hop stem solely from its content. Not true. Hip hop first and foremost is a musical art-form. Right now, hip hop just isn’t living up to musical standards. It’s just plain bad.



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Military Responds To McCain’s Escalation Remark w/ ‘Laughter Down The Line'

CNN's Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware rebutted Sen. John McCain's statement that Bush's escalation is working. "To suggest that there’s any neighborhood in this city where an American can walk freely is beyond ludicrous. I’d love Sen. McCain to tell me where that neighborhood is and he and I can go for a stroll."



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Senators question FBI's Patriot Act powers & warn FBI could lose power

A Senate panel wants to know if the Patriot Act needs to be revised to keep the FBI from illegally or improperly gathering telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists.



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The Pentagon’s Power to Jail Americans Indefinitely

The presiding judge in the José Padilla case has held that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a speedy trial does not protect American citizens from being indefinitely incarcerated by the Pentagon.



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With Just Wind, Generate 10,000 kW Electrical Power in Your Backyard

The QR5, from U.K.-based Quietrevolution, is a residential-scale wind turbine that generates enough electricity to power a standard U.S. home or a small office. It also looks like a piece of wind-powered sculpture.



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Quote From Republican President Theodore Roosevelt - Criticism of President

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."-- Theodore Roosevelt



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Clinton Promises Universal Healthcare If Elected President

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is promising a universal health care system if she's elected president. How can we afford to provide health insurance for the entire UNIVERSE? You know how many illegal aliens will be coming to this planet?

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Drug Dealer Claims Sean Bell Shot Him In Turf War Last Summer

A new twist has emerged in the Sean Bell case, as a Queens drug dealer accuses Bell of shooting him last summer in a turf war. What does this have to do with THIS case at all? Throw those pork chops in JAIL.

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Con Ed To Spend Billions On Upgrades

Some business owners in northwest Queens say while they support Con Edison's plan to upgrade its power system, they want some guarantees from the utility and more compensation stemming from July's outage that left them in the dark for nine days.

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Banned UN Speech:

Wow. This is a must see clip from March 23, 2007, in which UN Watch director Hillel Neuer really unloads on the blatantly corrupt UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva
—and then is denounced by furious council president Luis Alfonso De Alba, who threatens to remove Neuer’s statement from the record.

The United Nations at work.
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Diebold Loses Massachusetts Contract

Diebold has lost their $9 million polling machine contact with the state of Massachusetts



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