Saturday, May 16, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
HR 1207 Now Up To 165 co-sponsors.......
Title: To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported, and for other purposes.
America's growing surveillance state...........
The US department of homeland security has once again run afoul of cultural and political conservatives. Last month, a leaked report on rightwing extremism sparked an outcry for suggesting that returning veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could become domestic terrorists – the next Timothy McVeigh. Now, another document has come to light, and conservatives are having another aneurism....Link
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Who is meeting this weekend...............
From today until May 17, approximately 150 of the most influential members of the world's elite will be meeting behind closed doors at a hotel in Greece. They are called the Bilderberg Group or the "Bilderbergers," and you have probably never heard of them. The group, co-founded by Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, has been meeting in secret every year since 1954. This year, says the British broadsheet The Times, they are meeting at the Nafsika Astir Palace in Vouliagmeni...Link
‘CIA was misleading Congress,’...........
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a press conference Thursday morning to fight back against reports that she had been told about waterboarding years ago but did little to nothing to stop it. The California Democrat denied she was complicit in the use of the “enhanced interrogation” technique that nearly all legal experts and courts have condemned as torture, and she sharply criticized the CIA and Bush Administration for their mendacity in this and other affairs related to the war on terror..Link
House approves $96.7 billion to fund wars.....
The US House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a 96.7-billion-dollar measure to pay for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through October 1 as well as aid ally Pakistan. Lawmakers passed the bill, which also included two billion dollars to prepare for fighting an influenza pandemic, by a lopsided 368-60 margin...Link
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