yesterday's blog:
groups.yahoo.com/group/News_Junkie_GP/message/313




persistent sources


sites:

Astronomy Pic of the Day
ATPTennis.com
Baltimore.Indymedia.org
BaltimoreChronicle.com
globalresearch.ca
Legitgov.org
Portland.Indymedia.org
Rense.com
WSWS.org


lists:

911TruthAction (at) yahoogroups.com
Anti-allawi-group (at) yahoogroups.com
mgp-disc (at) yahoogroups.com


blogs:

www.RudePundit.blogspot.com
www.covertoperations.blogspot.com/





*CITIES*

Description of Senator Harkin's "Complete Streets" amendment:
www.americabikes.org/Harkin%20bill.asp

"To ensure that state transportation departments are fully considering all users when constructing new transportation facilities with federal funds, each state would be directed to adopt a “Complete Streets” policy, using the 2000 FHWA policy statement as the basis for accommodating bicyclists and pedestrians..."



*MOON HOAX*

Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon:
www.imdb.com/title/tt0277642/

(impossible lighting, impossible radiation belts, impossible LEM module, etc.)




*911 TRUTH: JOHN O'NEIL*

Who killed John O'Neil?
whokilledjohnoneill.com

(the film is interesting; a cross between 9/11 truth and Darren Aronofsky's "Pi".)




*911 TRUTH: WTC 7*

(from Botalerts on 911TruthAction-AT-yahoogroups.com):

Few people realize that a third World Trade Center building, number 7, collapsed on September 11th. It is undisputed that no plane hit this building, and yet it collapsed on 9/11. The government claims that building 7 collapsed due to fire. There are just 4 small problems with this theory: (1) the leaseholder of that building admitted on a nationally broadcast documentary that he had building 7 "pulled", a construction industry term for "intentionally demolished". (2) building 7 did in fact collapse in the exact same way that intentionally demolished buildings collapse, with puffs of "demolition squibs" shooting out right before the building neatly collapsed into its own footprint. (3) Photos show only very small fires in the building before it collapsed, probably less than 1/100th as intense as several other high-rise fires in Madrid and Los Angeles. And (4) a steel-frame building has NEVER collapsed solely due to fire before. (Botalerts)




*UNITED NATIONS: WTC 7*

UN may move to WTC 7
www.newyorkbusiness.com/news.cms

Nico: "...bizarre"




***911 TRUTH MOVEMENT***

Fintan Dunne - Why the 9/11 Movement was created by, and is fostered by the very people who carried out the attacks
www.breakfornews.com/

56K:
www.kathymcmahon.utvinternet.com/mrn/audio/InsideTrackNews050507a.mp3

DSL:
www.kathymcmahon.utvinternet.com/mrn/audio/InsideTrackNews050507.mp3

(Fintan Dunne explains how the 911 Truth Movement PsyOps campaign is designed to work. Once you get past the lengthy filler in the beginning there a few minutes that everyone should listen to.)




*911 TRUTH: NON-CONTEXTUAL QUOTES*

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
-J. Edgar Hoover

"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to prevail in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke British statesman 1729-1797




*the NEXT 'ATTACK'*

US plans for plague, flu and nuclear bomb attack:
snipurl.com/PlaguePlans

Homeland Security's Chertoff says Hawaii's posting terrorism report was a "mistake":
snipurl.com/dhj1


==>Flu oddities (updated 5/3/05):
www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html




*FEVER EPIDEMIC*

Marburg outbreak now devastating in northern Angola:
www.newscientist.com/article.ns




**NEXT ATTACK: RUMSFELD**

Rumsfeld tells reporters that a nuclear attack on the US is "only a matter of time":
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1390.htm

(he should know!!)


Donald Rumsfeld says missile hit the Pentagon, contradicting the official story of 9/11:
www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2001/t11182001_t1012pm.html
--or--
snipurl.com/epdb

"...and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center..."

(anyone else think that "inaudible" was "bombs"?)




*REAL ID*

Papers, please!
www.unrealid.com/

the machine readable you:
www.engadget.com/entry/1234000243042581/

"...the Senate is slated to pass the Real ID Act next week, which specifies that by 2008 all Americans who want to enjoy privileges such as bank accounts and air travel will be issued what will most likely be RFID-enabled ID cards (Homeland Security hasn’t completely decided which machine readable technology they’ll use, but they’re leaning heavily towards RFID since the chips are already going to be used in our passports). The card will likely take the place of your driver’s license and will store at the very minimum your name, birthdate, sex, ID number, a digital photograph and address, with the possibility of additional data such as a fingerprint or retinal scan. State DMVs will be receiving federal funds to hand over their databases, with the goal of making each state’s data available to all other states..."

Rep Ron Paul - last chance to stop the Real ID:
www.antiwar.com/paul/




*SECRECY*

State Department rebuffs call for more Bolton papers:
msnbc.msn.com/id/7775160/




*MEDICARE*

States, Federal government prepare for massive cuts in Medicare:
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/medi-m11.shtml

"As part of ongoing budget negotiations, states in the US are developing proposals for deep cuts in Medicaid, the health care program that serves over 50 million low-income Americans, including children, the disabled and the elderly. The attack on Medicaid is a major component of the systematic destruction of social programs in the United States..."




*JUSTICE BRANCH*

Judge who exonerated Cheney is on payroll from Exxon:
www.legitgov.org/news_cheney_task_force_judge_051005.html

Court ruling favors Cheney in energy task force case:
www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2005/2005-05-10-10.asp




*CONGRESS*

Frist expects showdown over filibusters:
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory

("expects"...much nicer than "will cause"...)


Nuclear option:
makethemaccountable.com/podvin/more/050510_NuclearOption.htm
--or--
snipurl.com/et1s

"...The issue is whether Republicans will change the Senate rules so that George W. Bush can have all of his extremist judicial nominees confirmed, or whether things will stay as they are, in which case Bush must settle for having ninety-six percent of his extremist judicial nominees confirmed..."




*INTERNET*

US military's elite hacker crew:
wired-vig.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67223,00.html
--or--
snipurl.com/et1q

(there's nothing but war on the minds of the mad neocons running this country.)




*FOR-PROFIT MEDICINE*

Many in Pennsylvania lack health plans, study says
www.post-gazette.com/pg/05130/501697.stm


Contract manufacting news in brief:
www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/news/printNewsBis.asp
--or--
snipurl.com/et1l




*EPA*

EPA on threshold of human testing:
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051005X.shtml




*CELL PHONES*

Are cell phone towers making you sick?
www.wndu.com/news/052005/news_42086.php





*CRAZY COPS*

Pregnant woman 'tasered' by police is convicted:
seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/223578_taser10.html

"Ten Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies opened fire early Monday on an SUV they were chasing, discharging 120 rounds in a frenzied crossfire that injured a deputy and the unarmed suspect while sending bullets into nearby homes...":
www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chase10may10,0,2324774.story
--or--
snipurl.com/et1j




*AIDS*

AIDS epidemics threaten Russia, China and India:
www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/884/documentid/2946/history/3,2360,884,2946
--or--
snipurl.com/et1i




*STERILIZATION*

Brazil launches inqury into alleged US-sponsored sterilization program:
thepragmaticprogressive.blogspot.com/2003/05/this-article-printed-in-its-entirety.html
--or--
snipurl.com/es54




*KURSK SUBMARINE*

US torpedoed Kursk submarine:
www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15222776-401,00.html
--or--
snipurl.com/es52

"A FORMER British military official has backed a sensational claim that the Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, was torpedoed by US forces in August 2000."




*EMP*

Senator Jon Kyl says US could be devastated from an elctromagnetic pulse attack (EMP):
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57774-2005Apr15.html
--or--
snipurl.com/e1sw




*AMERICAN HOLOCAUST*

How 6 million people were killed in CIA secret wars against third world countries:
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm




*ENERGY*

The intensifying global struggle for energy:
www.alternet.org/envirohealth/21969/




*GEORGE BUSH*

officials say grenade thrown at Bush in Georgia:
abcnews.go.com/US/story


Grenade reportedly thrown at Bush:
www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2005/05/10/afx2016719.html
--or--
snipurl.com/et1g

"An apparent hand grenade..."

(NJS is not sure about this one. Why is it an "apparent" grenade? maybe it was a plastic toy grenade and this stunt is designed to test our reading comprehension.)





*FARMING*

American young people try farming:
www.rense.com/general65/land.htm




*THE DRAFT*

US has 220,000 troops in Iraq & Afghanistan:
www.rense.com/general65/armedforces.htm

(they're going nowhere anytime soon.)




*IRAQ: PRISONS*

US to expand concentration camps in Iraq:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901072.html
--or--
snipurl.com/et1e

"...As U.S. and Iraqi forces battle an entrenched insurgency, the detainee population surpassed 11,350 last week, a nearly 20 percent jump since Iraq's Jan. 30 elections. U.S. prisons now contain more than twice the number of people they did in early October, when aggressive raids began in a stepped-up effort to crush the insurgency before January's vote..."


Iraqi families looking for their sons in the American concentration camps in Iraq:
www.uruknet.info/


Haliburton is building concentration camps in Iraq:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi
--or--
snipurl.com/et1d




*IRAQ: WAR PROFITEERING*

Haliburton gets $72 million bonus for "work in Iraq":
reuters.myway.com//article/20050510/2005-05-10T185325Z_01_N1057215_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-IRAQ-HALLIBURTON-DC.html
--or--
snipurl.com/et1c


Bechtel rolling in the blood money:
counterpunch.org/stclair05092005.html

CEO Berlusconi will put out 3,000 pizza delivery men in Iraq:
iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/49314

("...Italy's Pizza CEO, Silvio Berlusconi...")




*IRAQ: MILITARY TESTS*

New US laser weapon tested in Iraq:
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B118EB78-425B-4E9D-B6E7-4EE85A434811.htm
--or--
snipurl.com/et1b




*IRAQ: PRETEXT*

British memo indicates US manipulated data for Iraq war:
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0505080295may08,1,1916602.story
--or--
snipurl.com/et19


Bush made intel fit his objective of attacking Iraq:
www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/11574258.htm




*IRAQ: LYNNDIE ENGLAND*

Abu Ghraib trial reminiscent of soap opera:
seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/223609_abuse10.html
--or--
snipurl.com/et18




*EU, RUSSIA*

Key facts about Russian, EU cooperation:
www.eubusiness.com/afp/050510082020.puvrxqti

EU-Russia agree on road map as Cold War tension simmers:
www.euobserver.com/




*RUSSIA*

Victory Day celebration in Russia reveals deepening political and social tensions
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/vday-m11.shtml




*LATIN AMERICA*

Latin America's social crisis Unemployment, child labor grow side-by-side
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/amer-m11.shtml

Presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela agree to set up Petrosur:
www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp




*ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, VENEZUELA*

Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela strengthen alliance:
www.plenglish.com/Article.asp
--or--
snipurl.com/et17




*PAKISTAN, CHINA*

Pakistan, China to co-produce jet fighters:
washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050510-090647-6713r.htm
--or--
snipurl.com/et16

"To the dismay of the U.S. Bush administration, Pakistan and China have agreed to co-produce a new JF-17 fighter aircraft.."




*JAPAN*

Japanese train crash linked to employee stress
www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/jap-m11.shtml

"...The circumstances surrounding the accident raise a series of questions about the impact of the privatisation of the Japanese rail system and the subordination of public transport to the pursuit of profit..."




*AUSTRALIA*

Australia's world famous rock oysters are dying:
www.rense.com/general65/osy.htm




*ARCHEOLOGY*

Face of King Tut recreated:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4535027.stm




*CANNABIS: MEDICINE*

Marijuana a medical marvel:
www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/maryj.html

"Cannabis, or marijuana, has proven medical benefits and few, if any, toxic side-effects. Why, then, has it been a prohibited medicine for over fifty years?"



Cannabis chemical 'helps hearts':
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4417261.stm

"Swiss researchers found THC, one of 60 cannabinoids in the drug, helped stop the narrowing of arteries to the brain and heart in a study of mice..."

Cannabis laws "too strict" say doctors (2000):
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1001000/1001628.stm




*CANNABIS: HISTORY*

Cannabis in history:
www.hempology.com/textbook/ch1.html

"...there is little doubt that Cannabis sativa was the first crop to be grown by early humankind, about 10,000 years ago...

from chapter four:
www.hempology.com/textbook/ch4.html

"...hemp seeds are the most nutritional food for humans on the planet, containing all the essential amino acids and essential fatty acids necessary to sustain our lives. Not only that, but the ratio of oils in the seeds, with 80% Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) and 8% saturated fat, is perfect for the human digestive system...Many scientists claim that hemp seed could treat malnourishment and block diseases in all Third World countries, if hemp was given the chance..."





*LEFT GATEKEEPERS*

the Webfairy - Amy Goodman, Left Gatekeeper (2004):
www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/AmyGoodmanLeftgatekeeperByTheWebfairy.htm
--or--
snipurl.com/eolc


Amy Goodman, Left Gatekeeper:
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/6523/index.php

Loughrey - 'Democracy Now' propaganda for electoral fraud and Fallujah massacre:
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8725/index.php




*PHONY INDYMEDIA*

Loughrey - Is Indymedia infiltrated by Homeland Security?
baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/9629/index.php




*SPORTS*

Steve Nash wins NBA MVP:
www.counterpunch.org/zirin05102005.html

(good thing Counterpunch CONTINUES to cover the important issues of the day. Personally, NJS favors Shaq for MVP.)




*SPORTS: TENNIS*

Safin surprises many by playing up to his abilities so far at Hamburg:
www.atptennis.com/en/




*QUOTE*

(thanks Jolly Roger)

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.


~Julius Ceaser






peace,
NJS

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