Can Animals Sense Earthquakes?

Coincidence! Major quake exactly 1 year ago

Is it just a striking coincidence?

The 9.0 killer earthquake in Asia that unleashed tsunamis killing tens of thousands followed exactly one year to the hour after the Bam, Iran, earthquake that killed 26,000.

Some knew it was coming

Teen dies after being shot with Taser gun by Collier County deputies

NAPLES -- A teenager died after he was zapped with a Taser gun and doused with a substance similar to pepper spray during a fight with Collier County sheriff's deputies, officials said.

Christopher Hernandez, 19, of Fort Myers, was the third suspect to die in Florida this month after being subdued with a Taser gun. Hernandez died Tuesday, several hours after officials say he attacked deputies, kicking and ripping their uniforms. He ignored orders to stop.

Wars and Their Aftermath

Yet the wounds will remain. Arms do not grow back. For the paralyzed there will never be girlfriends, dancing, rolling in the grass with children. The blind will adapt as best they can. Those with merely a missing leg will count themselves lucky. They will hobble about, managing to lead semi-normal lives, and people will say, “How well he handles it.” An admirable freak. For others it will be less good. A colostomy bag is a sorry companion on a wedding night.

Marines will stay close to home for urban training

The Marines will take over parts of downtown Toledo as sounds of gunfire will echo off buildings when training exercises are conducted next weekend.

Thai government may have killed tsunami warning

Thailand’s Meteorological Department may have delayed tsunami warning fearing it could damage the country’s tourism industry, officials said on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. knew about the tsunami

International ocean monitors predicted that a tsunami would likely follow the deadly earthquake that hit the Indian Ocean on Sunday. But they didn’t know who to inform.

Torture reconsidered: Shock, awe and the human body

In Worship of Pagan Gods

Someone recently said that he wished people would get back to the true meaning of Christmas. I wondered if he really believed this, because the “true meaning” of Christmas is rooted in Pagan beliefs. Christmas, as well as Easter and Halloween, are Pagan holidays. If we were to get back to the real meaning of these holidays, we would be worshiping Pagan gods. I wonder if most religious people are aware of this?

Lifes like that.....

THE ANATOMY OF SLAVESPEAK

Freeing your mind from illusions and delusional belief systems can be one of the most liberating things you can experience. It can also be one of the most powerful things you can experience. This report can serve as a starting point for systematically ridding your mind of the major illusions which the vast majority of humans suffer from -- particularly in the political domain.

The Flat Earth Society

The Society asserts that the Earth is flat and has five sides, that all places in the Universe named Springfield are merely links in higher-dimensional space to one place, and that all assertions are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true false and meaningless in some sense.

Eliminate -- don't privatize -- the plundering

Social Security is among the most tyrannical government programs under which the average wage earner must suffer.

What's the solution? Scrap the whole system! Let's not "privatize" plunder, the way so many free market socialists want to.

I say the Ponzi scheme should go, as soon as possible. It's racked up enough unfunded liabilities for 100 governments, and it's at the top of the list of America's worst welfare state programs.

End Socialist Security!

woohoo Anthony Gregory!

National Fluoride Database Launched by USDA

It is within the first three or four sentences of the press release, titled, "Tracking Fluoride in the National Food Supply," that we catch a glimpse of what this report is really all about. In reality, it is about the accumulating consequences of deliberately contaminating America's water supply with the industrial waste product commonly referred to as "fluoride."

Clearly, this is not a substance that the majority of an entire nation should be forced to swallow, bathe in, inhale, cook with, and ingest via their drinking water on a daily basis.

The Plot To Kill Us All

This is a must read!

George W. Bush's America: A National Nightmare?

Your papers please! Prove who you are! Where are you going? We will search you and your vehicle. What? You are questioning this? What? You have "a problem" with this? You must be a terrorist then because you're either wit us er agains us!

US Troops Ordered To Commit War Crimes

A human disaster. You Bush-Huggers are so cock-proud, ain't cha?

Rummy's Message to the Troops....

9/11 measure expands police powers

George Bush: "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier -
just so long I'm the dictator." December 18, 2000, CNN Transcript.

America: The Fourth Reich -- Broadcaster and writer Barrie Zwicker: It should not be denied any longer -- America is hurtling along the road to full-fledged fascism. Consider 20 parallels between the USA today and Hitler’s Germany.

The Bush Doctrine of Israel Above All

Isn’t it time for a free press that openly questions the deadly pact between US politicians and the Jewish state of Israel?

HO! HO! HO!

(Atlanta, Georgia) Dec. 11, 2004 - A man decked out as Santa Claus, complete with jolly red suit and gifts, stunned holiday shoppers. Police say he picked up a two-by-four and started pounding a nearby woman passing out religious fliers.

Don't F**K with Santa or Santa's STUFF!

Caring for the Wounded in Iraq — A Photo Essay

I was dreaming about being some dictator of a country or some savior like Jesus . . ."

Article 2 Clause 5 of the US Constitution States: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

The Founders forged Clause 5 of Article 2 of the Constitution to protect America from a foreign-born President holding dual or treacherous alliances with other countries.

Ironically, the Founding Fathers did this because, at the time of the ratification of the Constitution in 1789, a scandal was enveloping Europe concerning an Austrian government operation where Austrian agents would move to another European country as young men, become popular, and move into powerful elected positions, all the while serving their Austrian homeland.

Donald vs. Donald

Donald answers his own questions to prevent anyone else from asking one.

We saw the Smothers Brothers last night

And we had a sudden realization as we sat in the car before the show. You see, we were a little bit early so we decided to sit and listen to the last few minutes of "Da Bucks" game. As we watched the people file into the concert hall I looked at my husband and said, "Oh my God! Look at this crowd! We're middle-aged!" My husband thanked me for pointing out that fact and we limped in to our seats. Which were, by the way, 5th row middle, excellent! We could see the glimmer in the Bros eyes, and they were really great. Before the show I wondered if they (the Bros) had given up completely on their politcal humor. If they were "on board" for the war. I remember them being very political when I watched them as a kid. They did not disappoint as they managed to weave a few barbs at the present state of affairs into their act. Such as stating that "lying is national policy." They were great and we really had a great time.

Individualism, Individual Responsibility and Freedom

The problem with America today is that its people have abandoned their heritage of individualism and individual responsibility, which are key elements of freedom. Americans, like most other people, have succumbed to the siren call of the collectivist state with its false collectivist promises of freedom, peace, prosperity, and security. People need to realize the state will never be able to deliver on its promises, that the state’s collective responsibility is actually irresponsibility, and is an enemy of freedom. People are better served by rejecting the collectivist state, and embracing individualism and individual responsibility, which lead to freedom.

4th-grader arrested for having scissors at school

Is there a test for common sense? These school administrators would fail time and time again!

Teachers who fail

This explains a lot!

And, as I write about and think about MY dog....

"Rock-n-roll played loudly from one of the vehicle's radios as marines just outside the base walls fired off several more shots at flashes of fur among the piles of rubble."

I'm not an idiot, I understand why these dogs have to be killed. But, who the hell made them be in such deplorable conditions in the first place? Who was it that bombed their city to smithereens and left all those rotting corpses laying around for them to have no choice (they're starving) but to eat? Was it perhaps SATAN?????????????????

Oh, and I think the blasting rock music our dudes play whilst they kill is so, well, sweet!

It doesn't get any better than this!

I had a wonderful day yesterday. I didn't do anything "special." I didn't go anywhere "special." Well, at least not what people would think of as special. I stayed home in the morning and got some work done around the house. Around noon it was time to rest, so I went out back and I sat with my dog. She did her usual sniff of the perimeter (lizard check) and then she came over and sat down next to me and pressed her body against my leg. I looked down at her with love and she looked up at me with love and we both sighed. We sat there looking out on the yard and watched as a small yellow butterfly flew from one weed to another.

The love I have for this dog...where the heck did it come from? I have always been a "cat person." After my parents gave away my dog when I was in 9th grade I sort of gave up on dogs. Besides, cats are beautiful, graceful, funny, loving (mine were), and (best of all) self sufficient. Dogs are needy, yappy, dirty, screwy, too much work. I believe this dog of mine was sent to me from above. She truly is a little angel. She has had a calming effect on the whole family. Having a moment to sit with her like that, feeling her body pressed up against my leg, I couldn't have been happier or more at peace. It just doesn't get any better than that!

News From Inside Iraq

Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches (this is the site of the man interviewed in the article I linked to below)

Unembedded in Iraq

"My greatest concern is the reaction of my own government. I'm reporting information that the Bush regime wants kept under wraps. I fear reprisal from both the government and military far, far more than being kidnapped or blown up by a car bomb.

Iraqis are of course shocked and outraged by the beheadings and kidnappings of people like Margaret Hassan. So many also believe it was a CIA/Mossad plot to keep aid organizations and journalists out of Iraq in order to give the military and corporations here a free hand to continue to dis-assemble and sell of the country."

Freedom On A Leash

"A lot of people who talk of their 'freedoms' (eg Freedom Of Speech) are really just talking about the length of their leash. There's a difference between being free and being granted a certain amount of clothesline by an authoritarian keeper."

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

Please, visit their site to read about where gun control have taken people in the past, and where it will take us in the future if we go along to get along.

THE TRAGIC RESULTS OF GUN CONTROL

"The only people empowered by gun control laws are governments and criminals. And unfortunately sometimes one is the other."

Rumsfeld vs. the American Soldier

Who is in control?

"How is your life? How is your family, your children, how are they doing in school? How are you doing financially? Are you struggling, under pressure or stress? Do you understand what is going on in the world around you? Are you happy?

Most people are concerned primarily with maintaining their place within the societal structure, within the scheme of things, as they can perceive it. Because they are focused only on what they perceive is important in their own daily lives, there are many who do not understand what is happening in the world and so they don't pay much attention to it. Many of the things that take place in the world might not seem to affect them. These things may not seem to have a lot of relevance to that which they need to do, in order to get on in life. Many do not acknowledge that events taking place in the world, the things they read in newspapers and in news reports on radio and TV, actually have a direct affect on their daily lives.

Well, these things do and will affect YOU! Pretty soon now, if things progress according to the agenda of the global elite, your daily lives will be affected in ways you haven't even begun to imagine! Soon, you will begin to feel the personal effects of international corporate mergers, international peacekeeping forces, international economic and religious manipulation and worldwide social oppression."

Acknowledging the Law of One

"We are all Spirits who possess a body and a mind. The physical body is merely a vehicle that the Spirit inhabits, in order to experience Life on the Earth plane. When we believe that the body we inhabit is truly who we are, as we are programmed to believe, then we are always searching outside of ourselves, for that elusive 'something' which we can't describe. We look to that promotion at the office, or that new luxury car, or a relationship with another person. We look for answers from other people who we consider, authorities."

Are you on Drugs?

"The odds are very good that you are on drugs.

Right now. This minute. As I type this and as you read this and as false Texas dictators rise and sad empires crumble and as this mad bewildered world spins in its frantically careening orbit, there's a nearly 50/50 chance that some sort of devious synthetic chemical manufactured by some massive and largely heartless corporation is coursing through your bloodstream and humping your brain stem and molesting your karma and kicking the crap out of your libido and chattering the teeth of your very bones.

Maybe it's regulating your blood pressure. Maybe it's keeping your cholesterol in check. Maybe it's helping you sleep. Maybe it's helping you wake the hell up. Maybe it's opening your bronchial tubes. Maybe it's brightening your terminally bleak outlook."

Pat Tillman and the Nihilistic Myths of the State

"So in the memory and spirit of the man who made “the ultimate sacrifice in the war on terror,” let’s do that, shall we? Let’s start demanding some straight talk about some rather uncomfortable truths.

It is all well and good to know that the Bushes prayed for Tillman’s family after he was slaughtered, though I’m not sure what good that does for someone who has forever lost a son, a brother, perhaps an uncle. What exactly will the president’s prayers do for them? Will his prayers bring back the bright, vibrant, successful young man who died senselessly at the hands of scared, panicky fellow soldiers confused by miscommunication and misguided orders issued by arrogant commanders far removed from the field of battle? I don’t think so.

Here’s another rather uncomfortable truth: It appears that the Pentagon actually exaggerated much of Tillman’s exploits in that war-battered, God-forsaken hellhole of a country so as to make greater his legend while simultaneously glossing over the foolish errors that were committed. This should come as no surprise, as this type of irresponsible propaganda has long served the U.S. Federal State’s never-ending recruitment drive to entice young men—and nowadays young women as well—into risking the loss of their own lives for the State’s ongoing Machiavellian schemes to slaughter and plunder the many for the benefit of a select few."

Bring 'em on!

Heard on "Paul Harvey" this morning:

(I'm paraphrasing) "Is the media showing Americans too many car bombings and bad negative stories like that? Should we be looking at the war from "the other side of the telescope?"

Now, just what the hell was he referring to? One can't be sure because he just said it, and left it as a question, without really being clear as to which side of the telescope we are being shown the war currently. One could surmise from his rant that we Americans are being shown too much of the war, which would imply that we are looking through the correct end of the telescope to bring that which is far away closer to view.

Mr. Harvey implies we are seeing TOO MUCH OF THE WAR. Therefore, we should turn that "telescope" of the media around and have the war look very far away so as not to see as much.

If Mr. Harvey truly believes that Americans are seeing too much of the graphic reality of the war, he is either misinformed or ignorant (or perpetuating the Pentagon media-machine line). The reality of our media is that they show you very little of the reality of the war, of ANY war. I say let's have our media show us the truth of war. The truth of the tragedy and human suffering that is war. I say BRING IT ON! THE MORE GRAPHIC THE BETTER! (Maybe, just maybe, then more people will wake up to see that there but for the grace of God go they. In other words, we could be the ones being attacked, bombed, captured, tortured, maimed, humiliated, spate upon, shot at, etc. etc.)

Innocence and Ignorance Beget Horror and Destruction

Rumsfeld's Muddy Quagmire

Ironically, President Bush’s seeming reluctance to fire Rumsfeld indicates how badly the war is going. If the president fired Rumsfeld, an American public that slumbered through the election might finally realize the true dismal state of the war. Instead, like a deer caught in the headlights, Bush naively and unwisely believes that by retaining the charismatic face of his Iraq policy, he can hide his and Rumsfeld’s failure long enough to figure out what to do. Instead, he should fire Rumsfeld and hire someone who can begin to extricate the United States from this muddy quagmire.

December 7, 1941: A Setup from the Beginning

As Americans honor those 2403 men, women, and children killed—and 1178 wounded—in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, recently released government documents concerning that “surprise” raid compel us to revisit some troubling questions.

Fallujah Residents Face Choice: Retina Scan and Take ID Card....Or Die

Thank you so much to this caller who taped this! We heard it too. Now, proof we were not dreaming it! Sick!

Save us from the politicians who have God on their side

Drop the euphemisms - it's not 'tantamount to torture'; it's torture

AUSTIN - It is both peculiar and chilling to find oneself discussing the problem of American torture. I have considered support of basic human rights and dignity so much a part of our national identity that this feels as strange as though I'd suddenly become Chinese or found Fidel Castro in the refrigerator.

One's first response to the report by the International Red Cross about torture at our prison at Guantanamo is denial. ''I don't want to think about it; I don't want to hear about it; we're the good guys, they're the bad guys; shut up. And besides, they attacked us first.''

Returning Fallujans will face clampdown

Testing the Police State for you and me! Feel the love!

Proud to be an American ?

Pop goes the Bush mythology bubble

"Heads up and pay attention: the Department of Homeland Security was created to defend this government from the citizens of the United States because they fear we will find out and we will rise up and cast them from power. It does not defend this nation, you, your family, friends, or loved ones. It defends only the government not from Al Qaeda but from us. They know when Americans figure this out, Americans are going to be way past livid and heads in Washington, DC, are going to roll and butts are going to prison."

Barbara Olson's call from Flight 77 never happened

What is a friend?

What is the meaning of the word, "friend"? "A person one knows, likes and trusts. A favored companion, comrade. One who supports a group or cause." Well, at least that's what the dictionary says. I like to think of a true friend as someone who knows you and accepts you as you are and will be there for you when you need them. Lately, though, I'm really getting an education about the true nature of people in my life that I call "friends." There really are very few.

The few that are true are those who just like to be with us and there's nothing really "in it for them" other than camaraderie. Most of the people we know that are "friends" are fair-weather friends. They are "what's in it for me" friends. The "what can you do for me" friends. Friends that charge us (oh, a discount rate) for something they gladly give to others for free. Friends who don't listen to a word we say, that talk right over the top of us when we speak. I sometimes do it for fun now when I'm around these people, I'll say something about myself or my family and they will immediately reply with something about themselves, rather than even feign any kind of concern about what it was I just said. The friend with the business proposition that will make us oh-so-much-money, oh but they forgot to mention that they are really just using us to make the money, we're not really partners nor is there really any legitimate business!

Of course I'm way too long in the tooth for any of this to surprise me. Why should it, really? When we live in a country where our government thinks nothing about recalling a woman back into military service who has 3 young children to care for, as young as 7 months and 23 months! Or calling back a woman to service who is 55 years old! And they are training her to go into battle! Or, they call back disabled veterans! Hey, all you used up folks who have already served your time, we are your friends here in the military. And friends use friends.

Well, I am tired. I am tired of being used. I am tired of people calling me a friend but then not being there for me when I need them (and I RARELY call on people, I am very self sufficient). I know who my true "friends" are and to those people I say, "thank you for being a friend!" It's good to know we do have a few people we can call in in this sick-and-getting-sicker world. The rest of you.......well, you know where you can go!

Lords of the flies

Read it and weep....well, you'd weep if you have a soul. The soul-less flesh our government has programmed to carry out this terror and their ilk do not care.

Yes it makes me pROUD TO BE AN amERICAN"
Where at least "I know I'm free"
and I won't forget those
men who carryed out this carnage for me

and I'll gladly STAND UP next to you
and tell you to your face
that if you're proud of this, fellow American
You are a damned disgrace!

This war makes me sick!

Yesterday on NBC's nightly news program they reported about the return to Fallujah of refugees. They spoke of how all citizens (subjects) will be retinal scanned and fingerprinted. Sounds like freedom to me!

Fallujah has been reduced to rubble

"It's difficult to believe that in this day and age, when people are blogging, emailing and communicating at the speed of light, a whole city is being destroyed and genocide is being committed - and the whole world is aware and silent. Darfur, Americans? Take a look at what you've done in Fallujah."- Female Iraqi blogger Riverbend

The Chill Pill Kids

More and more children, some just five years old, are being prescribed antidepressants. Yet nobody is sure of these drugs’ effects. So why are we using our young people as guinea pigs?

...the newly unearthed evidence about the potential side effects of Prozac should be of great concern. “There does seem to be hazards with these drugs. The research showing testicular shrinkage could be a real issue for teenage boys.

OK young men, listen up! If you don't care about your brain at least care about your testicles and get the hell off this crap!

An Intrusive new search

In late September, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began allowing security checkpoint screeners to manually pat down women's breasts and the genital and derriere regions of both sexes during searches.

Finally! Value for that ticket price!

Military Amputees to Get New Rehab Center

WASHINGTON (AP) - A state-of-the-art rehabilitation center opening next year at Walter Reed Army Medical Center seeks to return more amputee soldiers to a place once thought impossible: the battlefield.

AWESOME! Guess there will be no more "wimping out" by trying to get sent home just because your limb got blown off!

Why the Democrats lost the election

Heard on talk tadio last night: The real reason the Democrats won the election. I wish I knew the name of the dude who uttered this sentiment so I could properly credit him. It was the man who guest hosted on the Friday show, "The Savage Nation."

He said that the reason the Democrats lost the election is because of their pro-abortion stance. He said that they keep aborting their base and that explains why there were not enough of them to vote in "their guy."

So, all you democrats out there who wonder what happened, just stop the abortions and you'll have more democrat voters!

(This comment, although one of the sicker comments I have heard from the fright recently, cracked me up!)

Great-Grandmother being deployed to Iraq

I hope this is the start of a trend!

Condi Is A 'Monster' -- Helen Thomas

...longtime White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas, now a syndicated columnist with Hearst, had nothing but contempt for Rice's nomination. The feisty 84-year-old reporter who started at the White House during the Kennedy administration had some unkind words to describe Bush and Condi.

Asked about the election result, the sharp-tongued reporter simply put her hand on her face and said, "My God, the man is a fascist -- a fascist, I tell you."

She warned that Bush's victory will mean one thing: more war. She expects Iran to be next.

BUSH PROPAGANDA POSTERS APPEAR ON CLEAR CHANNEL BILLBOARDS

Hmmmm.........Look familiar?

Why did the World Trade Centers create so much powdered concrete?

URGENT ALERT: VOTE COMING ON FORCED MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING

It is important to remember that some members of Congress who will vote on this insidious legislation, also own stock in the very pharmaceutical companies that will reap millions of dollars destroying the minds of America's children through forced medicating.

School orders boy to cover his T-shirt

'The Real Terrorist Is In The White House' is called a distraction by school officials

Greetings from Falluja

So much to be thankful for!

Who Killed Margaret Hassan?

"....one must always look to see who benefits from a crime when you are trying to get to the motive and the perpetrator of the crime. "

Explore Hidden Mysteries.....

Northern Lights Pictures -- Very cool!

ohhh la la

2,000 Cameras To Watch City

CHICAGO (CBS 2) Mayor Daley officially opened a new city operations center Tuesday that will include a dramatic increase in camera surveillance on Chicago’s streets. The new addition to the 9-1-1 center will help manage and coordinate in response to emergencies such as a terrorist attack.

New Report Mass Graves Of US Soldiers

Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah

Pentagon suppresses. Any who dare report are held up to ridicule by the MNM (Mind-Numbed-Masses). I awoke this morning to a local yokel radio "personality" putting down NBC for showing the footage of our troops gunning down an unarmed man. But, according to the interviews of the like-minded they are just doing their job. And damn good job they are doing too!

Children pay price for US offensive

Ala Barham slumps in his hospital bed and stares blankly into the air in front of him.

Twelve years old and still deeply in shock, he can barely speak.

Ala's family had fled the Iraqi city of Falluja before last Monday's all-out offensive began. He was happily playing with his brother in the garden of their uncle's house in a village outside the city. Then the rocket hit.

Terror Informant Ignites Himself Near White House

"It is my big mistake that I have cooperated with FBI," he said in a recent interview. "The FBI have already destroyed my life and my family's life and made us in a very danger position.."

A nine year old Fallujah boy we "liberated."

Rats Abandoning the Sinking Ship

So the rats are abandoning the sinking ship. The USS Democracy is about to set sail for new countries to plunder and they will have some new faces on board. Bon voyage!

Monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force

A city lies in ruins.

Some bodies were so mutilated it was impossible to tell if they were civilians or militants, male or female. Another body lay stretched out on the next block, its head blown off, perhaps in one of the countless explosions which rent the city day and night for nearly a week. Some bodies were so mutilated it was impossible to tell if they were civilians or militants, male or female.

Restaurant signs were covered in soot. Pavements were crushed by 70-ton Abrams tanks, and rows of crumbling buildings stood on both sides of deserted streets. Upmarket homes with garages looked as if they had been abandoned for years. Cars lay crushed in the middle of streets. Two Iraqis in one street desperately trying to salvage some of their smashed belongings were the only signs of life.

---I'm sure all the LIMBAUGHSAVAGEHANNITYSCHNITT TURNTHEDESERTTOGLASS heads are pretty happy. Love to see how those blow-hards would take an all out assault on their home. How the hell can people support this carnage? What the hell is wrong with people? This is not "for our freedom." WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In order to save the city, we had to destroy it.

And the carnage continues...

Killing for Jesus

Look dear! Don’t the chemtrails look lovely tonight?

Long live the empire. Let the killing continue.

A Chip in Your Shoulder

Should I get an RFID implant?

Student suspended for handstands, cartwheels

Dammit kid! Will you just sit down and SHUT UP already!

What's that they're injecting into your arm?

And the arm of your child?

Fearsome power of marines in Falluja

"One can only imagine the plight of the civilians.

I have questioned many times senior officers here about the use of heavy weapons because they have been using 155mm artillery in Falluja, they have been dropping 2,000 pound bombs.

The bullets that they fire are high velocity. The buildings are of poor construction here - the bullets travel through the walls.

And when they see what they believe to be militants - and these marines are incredibly calm under fire, they are almost unflinching - they do wait until they see a guy with a gun but when they see that, they open up with everything they have got and the question is, how much collateral damage is there going to be?

At the moment we simply do not know."

Eyewitness: Smoke and corpses

"A row of palm trees used to run along the street outside my house - now only the trunks are left. The upper half of each tree has vanished, blown away by mortar fire.
From my window, I can also make out that the minarets of several mosques have been toppled.
There are more and more dead bodies on the streets and the stench is unbearable.
Smoke is everywhere. "

Declaration of Dependence

Pirate, Chaplain, Whore

What's the difference between a pirate, chaplain and whore? Not much... they all do it for money.

Police raid wrong home; couple sues

Responding to a suicide threat, police broke into the wrong apartment, handcuffed and held the 2 at gunpoint.

---A suicide threat?

Online Learning Has Schools Nervous

A growing number of Colorado school superintendents are devising strategies to soften the blow of losing students to online schools.

"If I lose two kids, that's $20,000 walking out the door," said Dave Grosche, superintendent of the Edison 54JT School District.

---Well, that's the most honest thing I've heard a superintendent say! It's really just all about the money, not your kids and what's in their best interest!

We seize servers, you can't complain - US gov

The vast majority of web site 'owners' (inverted commas introduced courtesy US Gov) should have no trouble at all figuring out where they would stand in such a scenario. You operate a web site which is hosted by an external company, and an unidentified agency of an unidentified government has the power to take data which you own, but which is situated on hardware hosted by the external company, and according to the US Government, it's nothing to do with you, only the external company has the standing to complain. One could speculate why, given the need to maintain some form of ongiong relationship with the FBI, a hosting company might not think it a particularly good idea to complain.

They're Throwing Journalists Into Jail Right Here In The USA

Paging China! Help us! Urge the U.S. government to respect freedom of the press!

Satan hides in a hospital

Operation fuck up the planet continues with wild abandon!

Yes, we are!

Mobocracy

I don’t know about everyone else, but if I have to hear one more politician or talking head say something about Democracy, I may start shooting. During and after the S-election, all I have heard is the mindless chant of Democracy. If it’s not from the right wing neo-cons who “won” the fiasco, it’s from the other side whining about how Democracy was stolen.

The funny part is, Democracy accomplished just what it was intended to accomplish, mob rule! It’s hysterical that someone is complaining that the election was not fair, when all elections are not fair. Is it ever fair that 51% of the people tell the other 49% what they can do with their property?

We were intended to be a representative Republic, and I think it is treason for any government official to say otherwise. If they are going to perpetuate the lie of Democracy, they should at least call it by its rightful name, Mobocracy!

Who would Jesus bomb?

"Thus David prevailed over the Philistines," the marine said, reading from scripture, and the marines shouted back "Hoorah, King David," using their signature grunt of approval.

So what's a freedom loving American to do?

Well, here we are, November 2nd! That all-holy day of democracy when we trail off like ants to the "polling place", various schools, churchs (separation of church and state?), ball parks, and shopping malls to do our "civic duty" as described to us by our handlers. I have not missed a day of voting since I (proudly!) became a voter way back in the dark ages of 1980. I have NEVER missed a vote. Not one. Not even those little elections no one seems to care about, you know, local referendums and such. I've been there, in full sheep regalia!

Now we have "touch-screen" "voting." Read this article: Bigger Than Watergate! In that article (which is only one of many not touched by your beloved mainstream media) they touch on:

"Imagine then if it were possible to somehow subvert the voting process itself in such a way that you could steal elections without anybody knowing.
Imagine for example if you could:

- secure control of the companies that make the voting machines and vote counting software;
- centralise vote counting systems, and politicized their supervision;
- legislate for the adoption of such systems throughout your domain, and provide large amounts of money for the purchase of these systems;- establish systems of vote counting that effectively prevent anybody on the ground in the election at a booth or precinct level - from seeing what is happening at a micro-level;
- get all the major media to sign up to a single exit-polling system that you also control removing the risk of exit-polling showing up your shenanigans.

And imagine further that you;
- install a backdoor, or numerous backdoors, in the vote counting systems you have built that enable you to manipulate the tabulation of results in real time as they are coming in. "

Research the enormous amount of information available on VOTE FRAUD I dare you! Or, would you rather not lose your sense of hope in your beloved system? Perhaps you are happier, head firmly buried in the sand, eyes deeply ensconced behind rose colored glasses?

Oh mighty electorate, take your Anafranil, Aventyl, Celexa, Cymbalta, Desyrel, Effexor, Elavil, Lexapro, Limbitrol, Ludiomil, Luvox, Marplan, Nardil, Norpramin, Pamelor, Parnate, Paxil, Pexeva, Prozac, Remeron, Sarafem, Serzone, Sinequan, Surmontil, Symbyax,Tofranil, Tofranil-PM, Triavil, Vivactil, Wellbutrin, Zoloft and Zyban! Swallow them down with a big, tall cool one! Remote in hand, ass firmly planted on your couch! Then, you tell me I AM WRONG AND YOU ARE RIGHT!

And still, so socially conditioned am I, that I am STILL considered participating in this charade today! How can I? With all I have learned? Why should I? And more to the point, why should I feel so almost GUILTY if I don't? What a fantastic job of social engineering has been done when a person will learn the truth and still deny it.

Six weeks ago I decided to take today off from work. Yesterday as I was leaving one of my coworkers told me to have a great day off. To that I replied, "Thanks, yeah, I might even vote!" To that, the response came shouted across the office from one of the activist attorneys who was not even a party to my conversation, "YOU BETTER VOTE!"

I BETTER VOTE? Guilt (fear), guilt (fear), guilt (fear), guilt (fear). I better vote!

The New Freedom

In our new Amerika we are now arrested for wearing the "wrong" tee-shirt. Smells like FREEDOM!