USA
Bristol and Levi: Poster children for the dumbing down of America
BP’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell Policy: The Well’s Corked, But Public And Government Are Left In The Dark
Milwaukee: Car, driver tumble into giant sinkhole amid rainstorm
Dam fails in eastern Iowa, causing massive flooding
Is Now Time To Reform The Prison Industrial Complex? (Video)
USA - POLITICS
Paul Craig Roberts: We Are Almost Past The Point of No Return! - Alex Jones Tv (Video)
All About Marc Mezvinsky (Chelsea Clinton's fiance)
Oregon officials close investigation of Gore [And the Wingnuts Have Not Yet Recovered From the Rangel Reprimand.]
Glenn Beck and the Oakland (teabagger) shooter
Subcommittee recommends reprimand for Charles Rangel; Wingnut Heads Explode
USA - ELECTIONS
Charlie Cook on GOP Chances - July 19, 2010 (Video)
Arizona GOP candidate calls for cutting off illegal immigrants’ utilities
Democracy subverted by $$
Angle, running against Reid, defends BP
Last Night's Tea Party Winners And Losers
USA - CONSTITUTION & LAW
House Passes Bill To Crack Down On K Street 'Scofflaws'
Obama's Surveillance Power Grab
Florida Homeowner wins right to park truck in own driveway
US v Arizona, ORDER re SB 1070 (Immigration)
American taxpayers -- and not KBR-- will likely pay if the war contractor is found to have harmed Oregon Army National Guard veterans who say they were exposed to cancer-causing chemicals in Iraq.
USA - 9/11
Myth-debunking Snopes obscures Israel’s role in 9/11
The AE911Truth online slide show presentations
Lawyer Stewart Gets 10 Years for Aiding Terrorists
9/11 Experiments: The Mysterious Eutectic Steel (Video)
Left-Leaning Despisers of the 9/11 Truth Movement: Do You Really Believe in Miracles?
USA - WAR
Cost of War: $1 Trillion
Report: US warships stationed off Iranian coast
I'd Be Sending A Surge Of Civilians To Afghanistan! So They Prefer Us To The Taliban! Rep Woolsey (Video)
Teabagger Caucus members endorse Israeli attack on Iran
Admiral Mullen: Afghan War Will Get Even Worse Over Summer
USA - 'WAR ON TERROR'
Top Secret America
APA campaigns against CIA ‘torture doctor’
“No Fly List” Blocks People From Flying without Explanation or Due Process
European Court Halts ‘Terror’ Extraditions to US, Citing Human Rights Concerns
Transportation Stupid Agency
USA - MILITARY
Why Is Bradley Manning Being Held In Kuwait? Is This A New GITMO For U.S. Soldiers? Julian Assange (Video)
Pilot ejects an instant before fighterjet crashes
Record number of Army suicides in June
U.S. soldier (Pfc. Bradley Manning) charged with leaking classified information
This New Pat Tillman Documentary Will Make McChrystal's Retirement Less Pleasant
USA - ECONOMY
Study argues stimulus, other action averted second Great Depression
The job machine grinds to a halt
Homeless increase on Hawaii's beaches, creating politicized debate on shipping them out
China Calls Our Bluff: "The US is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy as a Pure Debtor Nation but [U.S.] Rating Agencies Still Give it High Rankings"
Pres. Obama: Weekly Address: Moving Forward on the Economy vs. Moving Backward (Video)
USA - BORDERS
Nazi Tells Rick Sanchez He Should Leave The Country! (And All Other Non Whites) - Video
Arizonans: Get a Job and Fight Illegal Immigration at the Same Time
'Technology issue' at border results in mistaken indentity -- After two years, agents still confuse white woman with black man
21 die in Mexican gang gunbattle near Arizona border --- Rival gangs add to violent week that sees Juarez deputy prosecutor killed
On the way to the U.S., illegal migrants face treacherous journey through Mexico
BUSINESS & FINANCE
BP CEO Tony Hayward To RESIGN Before Tuesday: Reports
BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle
Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing
"She Will Build That Agency In Her Image" (Elizabeth Warren)
Congress launches probe into Goldline (Video)
WORLD NEWS
WikiLeaks founder vows more leaks
Mullen: WikiLeaks’ Assange May Have Blood on His Hands
WikiLeaks claims source of leaked data unknown
World Bank warns on ‘farmland grab’ trend
David Cameron: Israeli blockade has turned Gaza strip into a 'prison camp'
UNITED KINGDOM
Five-year-old boy wins defamation case against Lidl
Uncovered: Britain's secret rendition programme
UK former spy chief: Iraq war turned British Muslims against their country
St. Kilda - Bronze Age Celtic Culture Surviving into Modern Times
Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table
EUROPE
Catalonia bans bullfighting in landmark Spain vote
Love parade cancelled for good --- 21 killed, 500 injured in mass panic at Germany's Love Parade
Chechen-French Connection: Warlord 'henchmen' caught (Video)
Running of the Bulls video in Pamplona, Spain
New President Komorowski --- Path Clear for Reforms in Poland
LATIN AMERICA
Guatemala's out of control crime
Nicaragua's successful battle to clear landmine legacy (Video)
CARIBBEAN
Aid cargo sits unused in Haitian customs lot
Violent Battles in Jamaica - May 27, 2010
5.7 earthquake hits Puerto Rico - no damage reported yet - May 16, 2010 (Video)
SOUTH AMERICA
Ecuador: Cocaine Submarine, Is it yours? - July 5, 2010 (Video)
Hopes dim of reaching trapped Colombia miners
Van der Sloot Jailed in Peru Awaiting Murder Trial - June 12, 2010 (Video)
Is Venezuela’s stock broker fraternity trafficking in human misery?
Thousands flee volcanos in Ecuador and Guatemala
MEXICO
Mexican prison warden abducted, dismembered
CANADA
Canada: Police Push Disabled Woman To The Ground Then Walk Off! (Video)
Khadr court ruling to be appealed by Ottawa
Canada: G20 cops ‘threatened women with rape’
G20 Protest Continue Into The Night (Video)
Toronto, Canada becomes a police state (for G8 & G20 summits) (Video)
SCANDINAVIA
Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in Sweden
Three held in Norway 'al-Qaeda bomb plot'
Sweden's four-day royal wedding celebration for Crown Princess Victoria
Clinton sends video greetings for Icelandic Independence Day
Iceland: Supreme Court Rules Loans Pinned to Foreign Currency Illegal
RUSSIA
Russian environmentalists fight to save forest (Video)
Censored! 'Extremist' YouTube videos banned by Russian court
Vladimir Putin rides a three-wheeled Harley Davidson - no comment (Video)
Black Sea: Summer spot or sex slave route
Treasure Train: Lost Gold of the Last Tsars
CAUCASUS REGION
Violence and grief in Kyrgyz south, 400K made homeless (Video)
Russia Today: 45 people have been killed and more than 600 injured as Kyrgyzstan plunges into new round of violence -- 'Kyrgyz unrest will go on as Russia and US vie for influence' -- June 11, 2010 (Video)
MIDDLE EAST
Ray McGovern: Israel to Start War with Iran Maybe in August 2010 - Alex Jones (Video)
Jethro Tull: Won't be pressured into canceling planned Israel show
Israel's Fingerprints Surface --- The Hariri Assassination
How Furkan Dogan, a U.S. Citizen, Was Killed by Israeli Soldiers on the Mavi Marmara
WHY DID ISRAEL ATTACK LEBANON IN 2006? (Video)
| IRAQ
Baha Mousa inquiry: Commander accused of lying --- Counsel for Iraqi civilian who died in British custody questions evidence given by officer in charge
The men who traded in toxins
Iraqis suffer under political vacuum
Baghdad suicide bombers kill 26
Iraq Parliament Opens, Then Recesses
IRAN
'Help us save our mother': Pleas from the children of 'adulterous' Iranian woman who faces death by stoning
America Moves the Goalposts (OBAMA ON IRANIAN NUKES)
AFGHANISTAN
Operation Throw Rug: Pentagon Enters Afghan Carpet Trade
International conference forces Kabul into lockdown (Video)
Three British troops killed by Afghan soldier
Afghanistan is a catastrophe. But we will have to wait for a new Chilcot to admit it
Why the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan (FINAL DEFEAT IS NEAR)
PAKISTAN
Scores killed in Pakistan plane crash (Video)
Explosions at famous shrine in Pakistan kill dozens
Abandoned in Pakistan by her British husband
PALESTINE
Facebook prohibits the word ‘Palestinian’
Gaza tunnels going out of business (Video)
Israel: House demolition in Jerusalem - no comment (Video)
Gaza farmers risk being shot
16-Year Old Arrested, Fined After Being Shot By Settler
ISRAEL
Israel launches Gaza Strip air strikes
Israel - Our friend's dirty Linen
Juan Cole: The Closing of the Zionist Mind
Israel allows new cars into Gaza (Video)
Israel demolishes a Bedouin village in the Negev Desert - no comment (Video)
AFRICA
Brown says global economy reliant upon growth in Africa
Leading by Example: Elites' Apt Pupils Launch 'Surge' in Uganda
I Happen to Have Marshall McLuhan Right Here
Mourning in DR Congo after tanker fire, 230 killed, 200 injured
South African authorities arrest Paris Hilton; judge drops drug charge
ASIA
North Korean football team shamed in six-hour public inquiry over World Cup
North Korea vows nuclear response to U.S.-Seoul drills
NKorea tensions spike at Asian security forum
China May Shield North Korea as Lee, U.S. Seek Action on Ship
Korean strife push Dow below 9900 --- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travels to Seoul
INDIA
Triple murder in India highlights increase in 'honour killings'
India train attack death toll rises
Air India Flight Crashes on Landing - May 22, 2010 (Video)
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Filmmaker tracks Khmer Rouge killers to learn the truth
Philippines displaced caught in cross-fire
Charged with raping teen: Video of Russian maestro Pletnev arrest in Thailand (Video)
Asia's sex industry (Video)
Curfew in Bangkok after surrender of red-shirt leaders
CHINA
China Just Locked Up Another Monster Resource Deal In Africa
Official: ‘Severe threat’ as China oil spill grows
A Mystery Over China
China jails US geologist for stealing state secrets
Here's Why Everyone Freaked Out About China Today
JAPAN
Wooden tub race in Japan - no comment (Video)
Report: Japan bribed countries ‘with cash, prostitutes’ to keep whaling
One Year and Six Months Jail Demanded for Greenpeace Investigators Who Exposed Japanese Whaling Corruption
AUSTRALIA
Cool night saves drunk from croc -- Australian escapes with leg bite after trying to ride a 16-foot crocodile
Australia Ignores Israeli Terrorism Against Australians
Australia - Sick as a parrot: Mystery of 'drunk' birds
PACIFIC ISLANDS
EDITORIAL
Paul Craig Roberts: The Year America Dissolved
Texe Marrs - Rothschild's Choice - Barack Obama 1-5
Paul Craig Roberts: America's Complicity in Evil
Police State 4 - The Rise of FEMA
BOOK REVIEW
An Honest Look at Obama's First Year
Ralph Nader's book: "ONLY THE SUPER-RICH CAN SAVE US" (Video)
The best summer books: from fishing to finance
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all
MEDIA REVIEW
Bubble Boys --- The WikiLeaks documents put an underreported war back on the nation’s radar. It doesn’t matter that the pundits are yawning.
Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks (Video & Text)
Anonymous sources close to ‘runaway general’ bash Rolling Stone
Octavia Nasr Leaving CNN After Controversial Hezbollah Tweet
Study: US media redefined torture after US started practicing it
SCIENCE
Global warming pushes 2010 temperatures to record highs
The Limits of the Coded World
Bi-Polar Ape (Video)
Unknown Scientists 17 HD (Video)
J. Craig Venter Institute creates first synthetic life form (MYCOPLASMA MYCOIDES)
ANIMAL PLANET
Bear steals Car in Larkspur Denver And Trashes it
An Octopus, a Jellyfish, and a Misguided Whale
Gorillas 'play games of tag like humans'
Mythical Unicorn Found in Deer
Otter Pups Swim Lesson (Video)
ENVIRONMENT
It's Snowing Here Tonight
Of Course Clean Up Workers Can't Find the Oil ... BP Used Dispersants to Temporarily Hide It, So Now It Will Plague the Gulf For Years
Lightening hits three tallest buildings in Chicago simultaneously
Researchers Confirm Subsea Gulf Oil Plumes Are From BP Well
Where Will All This Oil Be in August?
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight
Capping the 'truth spill'
Wind Farms Solution or Problem? - May 15, 2010 (Video)
SPACE
Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray Pattern
700 new planets discovered by NASA, 140 "earth" like
Hyperfast Star Kicked Out of Milky Way
Scientists find 'monster' star using Very Large Telescope
7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars
TECHNOLOGY
India develops cheap i-Pad (Video)
The Little 57-MPG Engine That Could
iPad home automation
Hydrogen Cars Closer to Reality
Zeppelins! Second wind for airships that once ruled skies (Video)
| INTERNET & COMPUTERS
PhishMongers Stealth Web Bot Unleashed
We're running out of internet addresses
The website that reveals state secrets
Through the Wormhole: The Secret State's Mad Scheme to Control the Internet
There's No (New) Internet Kill Switch
CONSPIRACY OR COINCIDENCE?
Webster Tarpley: Media's Wikileaks "CIA Style Spin" Gives Obama Excuse to Invade Iran & Pakistan! (Video)
Does event honoring Israeli spy suggest another Israeli operation?
Anglo-American Political Philosophy 101: The Poor Must Die
Glenn Greenwald: Why has the Post series created so little reaction?
New Documentary About Operation Gladio and False Flag Terrorism
MERCENARIES & WAR PROFITEERS
Panetta: “Not much choice’ but to use Blackwater
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (Video)
Blackwater-connected firm gets $100m+ Afghan security contract
Blackwater (Xe) for Sale (Video)
Lawyer: As many as 20 women claim sex assault at KBR
CRIME & CORRUPTION
Never Heard Of Sam Wyly? Maybe You Know The Two George Bush Opponents Who He Helped Destroy
Pentagon workers tied to child porn --- Security agencies were left at risk, investigators say
Over 300 Arrested In Mafia Raids In Italy & U.S. (Video)
The Letter That Could Set Amanda Knox Free
Hollywood's Mini-Madoff Ponzi Schemer - May 28, 2010 (Video)
DISINFO, SPIN & LIES
(Birther) Phillip A. Wolf Loses $12.5 Million Judgment In Wyoming Ranch Deal
HEALTH
Gel found to reduce AIDS risk in women
How Microbes Defend and Define Us
Why Snakebites Are About to Get a Lot More Deadly
FDA quietly banning antibiotics for food animals
Christopher Hitchens has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer.
RELIGION
'Oldest' images of Christ's apostles found in Rome
"Should Muslims Be Allowed To Build Mosques In Neighborhoods Of Their Choosing?" (Video)
Ohio's Jesus statue is only latest religious statue to be struck by lightning
6-story Jesus statue in Ohio struck by lightning. Burns to the Ground.
Vatican Sex Abuse Prosecutor: Guilty Priests Are Going To Hell
SPORTS
Tall Ship Race crews relax in Aalborg, Denmark - no comment (Video)
Paul the Octopus gets death threats after predicting Spain win over Germany (Video)
Germany goes into frenzy with World Cup victory - no comment
Researchers find brain trauma in Henry
World Cup Updates
TRAVEL
Boy, 9, forgotten at Chicago airport (by United Airlines)
8 Perfect Summer Lake Towns
Maggots ground plane
Spacecation - May 18, 2010 (Video)
HISTORY
The Truth of War Conspiracy of 1861 (with Appendix) (1921)
Wooden circle found new Stonehenge (Video)
Oliver Cromwell in 5 minutes (Video)
A Piece of Secret History: President Lincoln and the Virginia Convention of 1861
18th century ship hull unearthed at 9/11 WTC ground zero site (Video)
HUMOR
Learning Palinese
Stewart jabs Arizona immigration law, ‘pre-insane McCain’
Borowitz: BP Says Oil in Gulf Must be Changed Every Six Months
Jon Stewart makes fun of Fox News and more (Video)
Queen to Visit NYC - July 5, 2010 (Video)
ENTERTAINMENT
The Treme
1st Arab-American Miss USA - May 17, 2010 (Video)
MOVIE REVIEW
It's Bastille Day
Dylan Ratigan: Big Oil vs Little People - May 20, 2010 (Video)
Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss
MUSIC
Spanish Celtic Music
Miles Davis - Stella by Starlight 1958 - Music
Spanish Guitar Music
Andre Rieu - Il Silenzio (Maastricht 2008) DIGITAL TV, 14 year old Melissa Venema of the Netherlands plays trumpet solo - Music
It was a lover and his lass, followed by Nunc dimittis - Music
ARTS
Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million
Optical Illusions
National Gallery: an art exhibition where nothing is what it seems --- A fascinating new show examines the controversial question of fakery, forgeries and mistaken identities in art
Five masterpieces stolen from Paris modern art museum
LIFESTYLE
Life in a Day
Taste Test: Durian
Women-only frustration venting chamber in China
Ex-champ arrested at NYC hot dog event
Mel's Mid-Life Melodrama
MISCELLANEOUS
'Slovenia Map' Tops Google With Confused Searches For 'Where Is Slovenia?' (PICTURE)
The odyssey: Camera survives ocean trip to Fla.
Isn't That Special? - May 28, 2010 (Video)
Watch 300 lb. Big Boy Statue Being Stolen - May 23, 2010 (Video)
You think you've seen a hail storm? No, no you have not until you see this one
OBITUARIES
Robert Byrd Dies at 92
Manute Bol's Philanthropy As Great An Achievement As Prolific NBA Career
Yesterday Gary Coleman, 1968-2010 and today Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010
Art Linkletter Dies At 97 (Video)
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EVENTS, PROTESTS & BOYCOTTS
The trial for Cindy Sheehan and six others for their arrest in front of the White House on March 20th is this Thursday, June 10th at DC Superior Court, 500 Indiana, NW in room 120.
Israelis protest Gaza Flotilla attack
Demonstrations in London against Israeli raid on Gaza aid flotilla (Video)
US attendees at ‘world government’ meeting may be breaking law: activists
CAIR-CT Video: Muslims, Christians, Jews Protest Blockade of Gaza
WEBSITE, BLOG & FORUM REVIEW
Goldi-Lox calls on the Mossad to take out Obama (again)
Goldi-Lox Blames Obama Admin's Treatment of Israel for the BP Oil Spill
Youtube Threatens To Shut Down This MOX News Page!
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