Below are pertinent links to the Swift or Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications controversy over allowing the W Bush regime and its CIA and Treasury Department to spy on international banking and securities or stock data with no questions asked.As you will see from one link below,this may have not phased brain dead American public but it has indeed raised ire over seas where complaints against U.S. snooping have been filed in up to 32 countries !

News Junkie Scott's Blog (8/11/06)

Get on the Bus to Washington D.C. This Coming Saturday August 12. Phone: Baltimore: (410) 235-7040

On January 24, 2006, the American Bar Association (ABA) issued a press release stating that, “Presidential signing statements that assert President Bush’s authority to disregard or decline to enforce laws adopted by Congress undermine the rule of law and our constitutional system of separation of powers…” The press release was publicizing a report by a blue-ribbon ABA task force which was created in June 2006 to examine the “changing role of presidential signing statements” under the Bush administration. On August 8, 2006, the ABA’s House of Delegates overwhelmingly approved the report by voting to call on President Bush and future presidents not to issue signing statements that claim the power to bypass laws, and it called on Congress to pass legislation to outlaw the practice.

Camps of International Solidarity are urgently needed at the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, Ireland, one has already been set up but more are needed as Rings Around Tara!!!

Hollywood's actor, Benicio del Toro, winner of an Oscar for best supporting actor in Traffic, by Steven Soderbergh, has called for respect for Cuban sovereignty.

...Just Settlement of Middle East Conflicts ~ Interview with Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

The White House manipulated the reports of the EPA about the air quality in the environment of Ground Zero after the attacks and thus exposed all the relief workers, residents and employees to extreme health risks.. 30,000 to 50,000 persons may have been affected.

A former Army intelligence and public affairs officer continues his

examination of End-Times Christians, and how they have been duped

into becoming a suicide cult, with an analysis of four predictions in his

August 1 essay, "Operation Apocalypse." The results are shocking and

disturbing, and invite new questions, even as they answer old ones.