"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press" --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.
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"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804.
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"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette
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"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.
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"Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light." --Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart. 1799.
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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,320,110"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,296
icasualties.org/oif/
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The War in Iraq Costs
$669,806,153,553
See the cost in your community
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Condemning Torture, Condoning Mass Murder
By Charles Davis
The idea that war crimes and civil liberties violations are strictly conservative affairs is particularly comforting to wide-eyed Democrats in awe of America's First Black President ™, and it affords the heirs to the same liberal establishment which brought us Vietnam and Hiroshima another opportunity to grandstand about their commitment to human rights even as the noble humanitarian Barack Obama continues to extra-judicially murder foreigners with unmanned drones.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22644.htm
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The Disease of Permanent War
By Chris Hedges
The hollowness of our liberal classes, such as the Democrats, empowers the moral nihilists. A state of permanent war means the inevitable death of liberalism. Dick Cheney may be palpably evil while Obama is merely weak, but to those who seek to keep us in a state of permanent war it does not matter. They get what they want.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22646.htm
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Obama's Animal Farm
By James Petras
The Democratic Pigs are now pursuing the same brutal, military policies of their predecessors, the Republican Porkers, only now it is in the name of the people and peace. Orwell might paraphrase the policy of President Barack Obama, as 'Bigger and bloodier wars equal peace and justice'.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22642.htm
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Buyers Remorse
Is It Too Late To Swap Obama For McCain?
By Mike Whitney
I don't know about you, but I believe that America is based on the idea that every man has certain basic rights, and the most fundamental of all those rights is the right to know why the state has thrown your ass in jail. That's numero uno! It's called habeas corpus and the whole judicial system rests on that one foundation stone. People like Obama, who don't believe in habeas, shouldn't even call themselves "American" in my book because they don't believe in the underlying principles.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22640.htm
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Obama Must Cow Netanyahu
Obama-Netanyahu must not be Kennedy-Khrushchev
By Juan Cole
If Netanyahu comes away thinking he can thumb his nose at Washington, the whole Middle East could be in flames by the end of Obama's first term.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22647.htm
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One State the Alternative to Two-State Solution
By Hani Hazaimeh with agency dispatches
"If Israel continues not to accept solving the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution, then the other option before us is one democratic state in which Muslims, Christians and Jews live side by side enjoying the same rights," Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa said on Sunday.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22648.htm
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The Almighty Renminbi?
By Nouriel Roubini
Traditionally, empires that hold the global reserve currency are also net foreign creditors and net lenders. The British Empire declined - and the pound lost its status as the main global reserve currency - when Britain became a net debtor and a net borrower in World War II. Today, the United States is in a similar position.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22643.htm
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US Chiefs Can't be Sued for 'Terror Torture'
By Robert Barnes
The court ruled 5 to 4 that the top officials are not liable for the actions of their subordinates absent evidence that they ordered the allegedly discriminatory activity. The decision followed the court's ideological split between conservatives and liberals, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy siding with the conservatives and writing the opinion.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22645.htm
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Health Care's Enigma in Chief
By David Sirota
The most stunning and least reported news about President Obama's press conference with health industry executives this week wasn't those executives' willingness to negotiate with a Democrat. It was that Democrat's eagerness to involve those executives in a discussion about health care reform even as they revealed their previous plans to pilfer $2 trillion from Americans.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22641.htm
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U.S. Health Care Lies About Canada
Greed, U.S. Politics, Dysfunction
By Diane Francis
I am an American who has lived in Canada for more than 35 years. I can vouch that the system is more than adequate and is not run by civil servants but by doctors who are able to treat everyone, rich or poor.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22649.htm
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27 militants killed in NW Pakistan operation:
Twenty-seven militants were killed during the last 24 hours in various areas in northwestern Pakistan, said the Pakistani military Monday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/18/content_11397538.htm
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Pakistan fighting displaces 1.45 million civilians: UN:
UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond says that is in addition to the more than 550,000 people who were displaced earlier by the military offensive in northwest Pakistan, meaning the total is now more than 2 million.
http://snipurl.com/iacec
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Demonizing Pakistan? Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says:
Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan's nuclear program.
http://snipurl.com/iackx
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Manufacturing Consent For Attacks On Pakistan?
All options open on securing Pak nukes: Obama:
US President Barack Obama has voiced confidence in the safety of Pakistan's nuclear assets. But at the same time, he made it clear that he could consider all options to secure the nuclear weapons, if the country got less stable.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22184
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Insurgents kill 7 in Afghan forces:
Fighting in southern Afghanistan killed six Afghan police yesterday, and a roadside bomb killed an Afghan soldier in the same region, the government said.
http://snipurl.com/iaco6
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Afghan soldiers kill 3 civilians:
"Three soldiers of ANA opened fire at two shopkeepers in Jalalabad this morning as a result three persons were killed and another got wounded," the press release added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/18/content_11396385.htm
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Afghan president's brother survives attack:
A younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he survived an assassination attempt Monday when gunmen sprayed his convoy with rocket and machine-gun fire, killing one of his bodyguards.
http://snipurl.com/iacqm
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Netanyahu to tell Obama: Time 'running out' on Iran:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will use his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to stress that "time is running out" for stopping Iran's nuclear program, so Obama must not spend more than a few months on his planned dialogue with Tehran unless real progress is achieved.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086235.html
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Obama: Iran existential threat to Israel:
With respect to concerns Israel might carry out an air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, the US president said that since Israel is "right there in the range" of Iranian missiles, "their calculation of costs and benefits are going to be more acute."
http://snipurl.com/iacsr
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Israel begins new illegal settlement, despite U.S. opposition:
Israel has moved ahead with a plan to build a new illegal settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, pursuing a project the United States has already condemned as an obstacle to peace efforts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086339.html
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ICC to hear Israeli war crime case:
A Human Rights group has filed a lawsuit against Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the war crimes they have committed in the Gaza Strip
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95173§ionid=351020202
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Hamas rejects Gaza-only joint security force:
Hamas movement on Monday rejected the idea of forming a joint Palestinian security force in the Gaza Strip that would not also operate in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
http://snipurl.com/iaczv
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Iraq: Two killed, three wounded in attacks in Mosul and Basra:
Two policemen were killed on Monday in separate bombings in the northern province Mosul and Basra in the south of Iraq, security sources said.
http://snipurl.com/iad0v
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Fact or fiction?
Iraq: Detained Al-Qaeda leader 'funded by Arab states':
Al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq relies on funding from Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, according to confessions allegedly made by its reputed leader, Omar al-Baghdadi following his arrest last month, the Iraqi military said on Monday.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3327987471
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Sri Lanka rebel chief 'killed':
Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been killed, Sri Lankan officials and state-run media have said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/2009518133426750384.html
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Somalia: Seven killed in renewed fighting:
Islamist militants have captured a strategic town north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, early Sunday morning, eyewitnesses have confirmed. Members of the al-Shabab, the group fighting government forces in Somalia, seized the town of Jowhar resulting in the death of at least seven people.
http://www.africanews.com/site/Somalia_Seven_killed_in_renewed_fighting/list_messages/24873
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Somali fighters seize another town:
Hizb ul-Islam, a coalition of groups fighting Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers, have closed in on Somalia's capital, after seizing a strategically important town north of Mogadishu.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/05/200951812027981975.html
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U.S.: Lawyers, Rights Groups Outraged by Gitmo Decision:
Human rights advocates are furious at President Barack Obama's decision to prosecute some Guantanamo detainees through the same military commissions he criticised during his campaign as a "flawed" system that "has failed to convict anyone of a terrorist act since the 9/11 attacks".
http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=46881
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Republicans salute Obama's military tack
: Moves anger liberal Democrats
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/17/republicans-salute-obama-military-tack/
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Brazil president arrives in Beijing:
Brazil's president has arrived in China for three days of talks expected to focus on broadening ties between two of the world's largest developing economies and moves to decrease their dependency on the US dollar.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200951841033800562.html
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China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency:
The Chinese yuan is preparing to overtake the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, economist Nouriel Roubini has warned.
http://snipurl.com/iad6q
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In case you missed it:
US Backing for World Currency Stuns Markets:
US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner shocked global markets by revealing that Washington is "quite open" to Chinese proposals for the gradual development of a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22300.htm
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Asia will author its own destruction if it triggers a crisis over US bonds:
Japan beware, crashes have a habit of bringing regime change
http://snipurl.com/iad7v
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US prices fall most since 1955:
Prices in the US fell in the year to April at the fastest annual rate since 1955, labour department figures showed on Friday, as declining energy prices pulled back the cost of living.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/854d81ce-40c1-11de-8f18-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
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General Motors follows Chrysler's route and shuts dealerships:
GM is to close about 2,300 dealerships from its 6,000-strong US network as part of last-ditch plans to avoid bankruptcy.
http://snipurl.com/iada4
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100,000 Jobs At Risk: Industry crisis sees US car dealerships cut loose and left with nothing to sell:
The shrinkage of General Motors and Chrysler's dealer networks is putting more than 100,000 jobs in doubt at car yards in towns and cities across America
http://snipurl.com/iadbb
- Secret Societies, Freemasonry, Cronyism and Conspiracy: Answers
- Theirs and mine… Many so called secret societies figure in conspiracy theories as bodies, secretly ruling the world. But do you think some of these societies accomplished something really significant in reality? Or are they only ordinary groups of people with common interests who maybe sometimes delight in being seen in mysterious way? The heyday of secret [...]
- NT Exclusive: Dr. Rand Paul; Senate Run, Big Government, Fed & Globalization
- Jay Dyer - May 18, 2009 Dr. Rand Paul 2010 Dr. Rand Paul, son of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, has announced his run for Kentucky Senate as a Republican. I listened to him speak him last week in Paducah, Ky, on a host of key issues regarding his platform, as well as being able to ask [...]
- Echoes Of Germany
- by Mrs Jane Birkby I see echoes of Germany in the 1920/30s in our country today. The powerful multi-national corporations and banks hold sway, the public are dissatisfied with their Parliament, which has been run badly by the ineffective three in one main parties, who handed over most of it’s legislative power to the EU. The situation [...]
- Secret meeting of world’s richest people held in New York
- Buffett, Gates, Rockefeller, Turner, Winfrey, Bloomberg, Soros in media-blackout conference NIALL O’DOWD IrishCentral.com May 18, 2009 A top-secret meeting of the world’s richest people to discuss the global financial crisis was held in New York on May 5, IrishCentral.com has learned exclusively. The mysterious, media-blackout meeting was called by Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire-Hathaway; Bill Gates, co founder of Microsoft; [...]
- The New American Century
- While Massimo Mazzucco’s first political documentary, GLOBAL DECEIT (2006), focused on the long list of inconsistencies in the official version of the 9/11 attacks, THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY explores the historical, philosophical and economic background that suggests a matrix for such events that is much closer to home than the so-called “Islamic terrorism”. The film provides [...]
- Eugenics in Israel: Did Jews try to improve the human race too?
- Yotam Feldman - 15/05/2009 In 1944, psychiatrist Kurt Levinstein gave a lecture at a Tel Aviv conference, where he advocated preventing people with various mental and neurological disorders - such as alcoholism, manic depression and epilepsy - from bringing children into the world. The means he proposed - prohibition of marriage, contraception, abortion and sterilization - were [...]
- Maurice Strong Interview (BBC, 1972)
- Today, Maurice Strong sits atop the global environmental movement headed by the United Nations and its interlocking NGO’s and tax-exempt foundations. Strong is considered to be the person behind the globalization of the foundation-funded environmental movement, and was the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in 1972, in Stockholm, Sweden. He co-authored [...]
- PART FIVE—Read It Before It Is Banned By The US Government
- Tom Horn on the Masonic scheme to rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
- Our man at Bilderberg: I’m ready to lose control, but they’re not
- Funnyman gets it: I am so unbelievably backteeth sick of power being flexed by the few. I’ve had it flexed in my face for three days, and it’s up my nose like a wasp. I don’t care whether the Bilderberg Group is planning to save the world or shove it in a blender and drink the [...]
- Minor League NGO Calls for Globalist Imposed “Democracy”
- Kurt Nimmo Infowars May 14, 2009 Call it mass mental illness or maybe self-delusion on steroids: 45 authors are calling for “democratic” world government and have “agreed to set aside their philosophical differences in order to encourage the holding of a global referendum on the general goal of democratic world government,” according to a WebWire press release. “If [...]
- Rudolf Steiner and the Golden Dawn
- Gyllene Gryningen - May 14, 2009 This essay was inspired by a some words coming from Samuel Robinson regarding the Stella Matutina teachings of implement handling, which he claims didn’t at all originate in the Golden Dawn but came directly from Rudolf Steiner. This intriguing comment made me want to look into this subject as most [...]
- Acolytes of neo-Malthusian Apocalypticism
- Foresight Institute - May 8th, 2009 When I was in college 35 years ago, there was a major fad of neo-Malthusian doom-mongering, led by the “Limits to Growth” book and movement. A retreat was organized from the college, and some concerned, environmentally conscious professors and students, myself included, went off for a concentrated seminar in [...]
- CGU History Prof. Lori Anne Ferrell on Angels and Demons
- Silver and Gold, ‘Star Trek,’ and the Truth About E.T.
- John Bowman - May 12, 2009 Several years ago, I remember reading an historical analysis of alien movies and other popular media, with an interesting conclusion that went something like this: With a few notable exceptions, during times of war, widespread geopolitical strife or general oppression or misery, E.T. is generally depicted in popular media as [...]
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This 2006 photo released by the Public Health Agency of Canada shows a scientist, Dr. Adrienne Meyers, putting waste into a double-door autoclave to sterilize it with heat and pressure before the material leaves the Containment Level 4 laboratory of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. (Public Health Agency of Canada)
