Jesse Ventura On The Economy, A Possible Senate Run, the Media, & More 7.14.08

Jesse Ventura’s July 14th interview on Larry King:

Sounds like he’s not going to run. This is very disappointing, but I understand why he would be concerned for his family, and how that would influence his decision. Add that to the lack of support from the country for truth and good government and its a [...]

Democrats & Republicans join hands to eliminate 4th Amendment

(Yes, Barack Obama voted for it too—here comes the “change” Congress votes to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, legalize warrantless eavesdropping
Glenn Greenwald
Salon
July 9, 2008
The Democratic-led Congress this afternoon voted to put an end to the NSA spying scandal, as the Senate approved a bill — approved last week by the House — to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, terminate [...]

Jesse Ventura Speaks Out on Larry King Live

This is the April ‘08 interview, the interview from July 14th 2008 can be seen here.

See the rest of the interview here:
http://noworldsystem.com/category/jesse-ventura/

Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides

You’d think we would have learned by now not to get involved in the civil wars of other nations. Apparently we’ve trained some police who now have returned to fight with their brothers and against the US and UK military forces who trained them. From Times Online:
Abu Iman barely flinched when the Iraqi Government ordered [...]

Bush Tells Truth About the “War on Terror”

Check out the look on Rumsfields face when Bush accidentally tells the truth about the bogus war on terror:

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we,” Bush said. “They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

Group hopes to ‘flood the Oval Office’ with 25,000 copies of the Constitution

The Center for Constitutional Rights plans to “flood the Oval Office with copies of the Constitution this holiday season … as a seasonal reminder that the Constitution needs to be upheld; not destroyed.”
If you add your name to the long list of signatures on this letter, CCR will send it along with another [...]

What’s That Bulge In Dubbya’s Jacket?

I know this is old news but I think its worth examining again, because it may explain a lot about Bush’s oddities. What is that Bulge in the back of his jacket?
During the 2004 presidential elections a photograph happened to pick up a strange bulge in the back of W’s jacket. It spawned speculation about [...]

Olbermann: Waterboarding is Torture, Bush is a Criminal

Giuliani, Thompson, Romney, Mukasey Refuse to Denounce Waterboarding

Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, and Mitt Romney have all joined Michael Mukasey in refusing to denounce the use of waterboarding on detainees, a technique classified as torture since the Spanish Inquisition.

“Waterboarding is inhumane, it is torture, and it is illegal,” say Retired JAGs in letter to Leahy

The pending confirmation of Michael Mukasey to the position of Attorney General, now destined to go to the full Senate, thanks to Lieber-moves of Shumer and Feinstein, is troublesome to more than just we in the progressive community. Senator Patrick Leahy received this letter (.pdf) from four retired JAGs, who understand that the concept of [...]

Carter on Iran:”Cool it off and talk to them”

Former President Jimmy Carter spoke to CNN today about the Iran situation. He spoke of two things the US needs to do in order to stop Iran from building the bomb, “one of them is to talk directly to them, to have diplomatic relations with Iran, to let them know about the seriousness of it. [...]

The Impact of Bush Linking 9/11 and Iraq

Linda Feldmann, staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor, wrote a very revealing article over 4 years ago (Mar 13, 2003) about the faulty link between Iraq and 9/11 perpetuated by Bush.

Secret Source of Phony Iraq Intel Outed

(Source: Yahoo/AP)
WASHINGTON - The Iraqi defector code-named “Curveball,” whose false tales of biological weapons labs bolstered the U.S. case for war, wasn’t the prominent chemical engineer he claimed to be and invented stories to help his case for asylum in, a new report says.”Curveball” is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who did study chemical engineering but made [...]

Bush Says Congress Is Wasting Time

More bullying today came from an executive branch that has too much power:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 — President Bush lashed out at Congress today, the third time he has done so in two weeks, this time saying the House had wasted time on “a constant string of investigations” and the Senate had similarly wasted its efforts [...]

FEMA’s Fake News Conference

The only thing more ridiculous about the latest FEMA blunder, their fake news conference, is the fact that the man responsible (John “Pat” Philbin, the Director of FEMA Public Affairs) is now getting a promotion.

CNN reported that Philbin is now becoming the Director of Public Affairs for Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell. This is [...]