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What Fed-Audit Legislation Would Mean

By Sudeep Reddy – The Wall Street Journal

Overturning current limits on government audits of the Federal Reserve has become a key goal of the central bank's critics inside and outside Congress.

House lawmakers are expected to seek a comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve system by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, as [...:]Related posts:Ron Paul: Bailouts Will Lead to Rough Economic RideBailout Plan Talks Advance in CongressVIDEO: Congressman Ron Paul Rema

We Need a Special Prosecutor for Blackwater and Other CIA 'Contractors'

By Jeremy Scahill  – AntiWar.com

Some parts of Blackwater's clandestine work for the CIA have begun to leak out from behind the iron curtain of secrecy. The company's role in the secret assassination program and its continued involvement in the CIA drone attacks that occur regularly [...:]


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Did Hitler Want War?

by Patrick J. Buchanan

On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, Britain declared war.

Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished. Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin. Europe had served as the site of the most murderous combat known to man, [...:]


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VIDEO: Pentagon Hires Rendon Group to Profile and Rate Journalists [1 of 2]

From Democracy Now

The US Army in Afghanistan has admitted it pays a private company to produce background profiles on journalists covering the war.The Pentagon has been on the defensive ever since the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes revealed this week that journalists were being screened by the Washington-based public relations firm, the Rendon Group, under [...:]Related posts:VIDEO: Pentagon Hires Rendon Group to Profile and Rate Journalists [2 of 2:]Propaganda Firm to Screen Journalists in Afgh

VIDEO: Pentagon Hires Rendon Group to Profile and Rate Journalists [2 of 2]

From Democracy Now

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Propaganda Firm to Screen Journalists in Afghanistan

Journalists' Recent Work Examined Before Embeds
By Charlie Reed – Stars and Stripes

As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has [...:]Related posts:Rudy Giuliani Tied to 'Superhighways'; Law Firm Represents Consortia Funding NAFTA-Related RoutesAfghanistan South

VIDEO: Health Rations and You

We all know health rationing makes good sense. But, did you know that it's popular too?

It is! Citizens from around the country have embraced the chance to give a lot–and take a little.

Are you up for the challenge?

The Health Administration Bureau: dedicated to ensuring that all Americans, regardless of age (where appropriate) and need (where [...:]


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Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet

by Declan McCullagh – CNET

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind [...:]Related posts:Top Ten Books President Bush Should Read on His Next VacationPresident Paul?Tony Blair: President of Europe?A Lette

False Reports About Guns

Editorial by The Washington Times

Many media outlets have misfired about guns. Countless newspapers and television networks — from CBS to MSNBC — have misreported that conservative protesters are threatening President Obama with guns at public events. It hasn't happened.

In Portsmouth, N.H., a man carrying a gun, William Kostric, joined an Aug. 11 health care [...:]


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Gulf War: CNN Fake Newscast Leaked

Submitted by Patriot Portal

Charles Jaco was the CNN reporter famous for covering the 1990 Persian Gulf War. The first part of this video shows the stage set he was on, and he was clowning around with fellow CNN staff. The Saudi Arabian "hotel" in the background were fake palm trees and a blue wall in [...:]Related posts:VIDEO: Immigration Lawyers: Fake Job Ads To Keep Out American Workers, Hire Cheap Foreign Labor FirstWhere Are We Going in the Gulf?Detente in the Gulf?Tonkin Gulf II and the Guns