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by henry statler •
Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Iraq invites bids to develop Akkaz gas field
America's coup d'etat continues (1963-)
persistent sources
sites:
911videomashups.com
Astronomy Pic of the Day
ATPTennis.com
informationclearinghouse.info
WSWS.org
J. Orlin Grabbe (nudity warning):
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/homepage.html
lists:
911InsideJobbers (at) yahoogroups.com
CatapultThePropaganda (at) yahoogroups.com
PlaneHuggers (at) yahoogroups.com
blogs:
http://www.Legitgov.org
http://www.Rense.com
http://911tvfakery.blogspot.com/
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com
click here for today's attempted illustrated mirror:
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17051/index.php
*HOW MANY GM EXECUTIVES DOES it TAKE to TURN ON AN ELECTRIC
CAR?*
********CLIMATE CHANGE********
Glaciers melt at fastest rate in 5,000 years:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/16/glaciers.climatechange1
How the blurring of the seasons is a harbinger of climate calamity:
http://tinyurl.com/33b4py
Perennial Arctic ice cover diminishing:
http://tinyurl.com/2w9ej3
Glaciers suffer record shrinkage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7299561.stm
Ozone rules weakened by Dictator Bush's command:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031304175_pf.html
Lake Mead could dry up by 2021:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080212/sc_livescience/lakemeadcoulddryupby2021
Should we be taxed for eating animals?
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A40029
"One pound of meat is equivalent to driving about 40 miles in a big SUV."
Rain forests fall at "alarming" rate:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4232909
Looming water crisis in western US:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1237236/looming_water_crisis_in_western_us/index.html
Loss of Antarctic ice has soared by 75% in just 10 years:
http://tinyurl.com/ys4mm6
Release of methane protested:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/21/plan-to-release-methane-protested/
Northeast winters warming fast:
http://tinyurl.com/yt64ed
Global warming to worsen malnutrition:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/071212_warming.htm
"'The Arctic is screaming'..."
Acidic seas may kill 98% of world's reefs by 2050:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/14/carbonemissions.climatechange
Climate change will significantly increase impending bird extinctions:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071206094116.htm
Forests losing the ability to absorb man-made carbon:
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article3115537.ece
Much of US could see a water shortage:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071026/D8SH34A04.html
Bangkok sinking under rising seas:
http://tinyurl.com/2jktcv
--or--
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bangkok-sinking-under-rising-seas/20071020153809990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
********FALSE-FLAG NEWS********
*'BIRD FLU' HOAX*
Turkey quarantines village after "bird flu confirmed":
http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSL22475253
*NEW YORK BOMBINGS/DISASTERS*
4 dead in (mysterious) Manhattan crane collapse:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_on_re_us/crane_accident
Does New York have a serial bomber?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1720061,00.html
(Yes, the CIA.)
*ANTHRAX ATTACKS: 2001*
History Channel - Anthrax attacks an obvious inside job:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdamOzrfZI0
*TV NETWORK NEWS
BBC reported building 7 had collapsed 20 minutes before it really did:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/260207building7.htm
Flight 93 fraud - smoking gun evidence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-59kouBgO_s&NR=1
Empty streets on 9/11? Terror Drill Footage
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3074574836036766575
*NEW ORLEANS*
National Guard to continue to militarize, terrorize New Orleans:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110ap_new_orleans_crime.html
*911: NUCLEAR BOMBS at WTC*
NYC wants to ban geiger counters:
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0803%2Cthompson%2C78873%2C2.html
New York willing to talk settlement in 9/11 suit:
[Yahoo/CIA news "lost" the link!]
"...9,000 rescue and cleanup workers at the World Trade Center disaster site who may be sick..."
FDNY thyroid cancer shock:
http://tinyurl.com/2ka8ms
--or--
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082007/news/regionalnews/fdny_thyroid_cancer_shock_regionalnews_ginger_adams_otis_____and_susan_edelman.htm
WTC cancer cluster 'like Hiroshima':
http://www.total411.info/2006/12/wtc-cancer-cluster-like-hiroshima.html
********FOURTH REICH********
*TERRIFYING VIDEOS*
Aired on MTV!
Pub think MTV Holocaust metro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTOuq4pY10o
(this video is preparing the public to accept the fact that barbarism is imminent.)
*POLICE STATE v. PEOPLE in NEED*
Florida police in riot gear dispersed hundreds seeking assistance:
http://tinyurl.com/2mzdr5
*NORTH AMERICAN UNION*
The deployment of US troops inside Canada:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8323
"...The agreement, which raises far reaching issues of national sovereignty, was not between the two governments. It was signed by military commanding officers..."
*FOREIGN TROOPS*
US Northern Command + Canada establishing new "Civil Assistance Plan":
http://www.northcom.mil/News/2008/021408.html
(Civil Assistance means foreign troops patrolling American cities.)
Food riots may come to the US, and foreign troops may be patrolling American cities:
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/022508_food_rations.htm
*PRIVACY*
States hand over the DNA of newborns to Homeland Security:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/iNP/view.asp?ID=5932
*SURVEILLANCE*
NSA's warrantless spying resurrects banned "Total Information Awareness":
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/spooks_gone_wild/index.html#46841582
Bush says feds can open mail without warrant:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003508676_mail04.html
*TASERS*
Florida police kill man with taser:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/03/21/5071821-ap.html
*TORTURE*
Bush vetoes bill outlawing torture techniques
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/fisa-m10.shtml
*MARTIAL LAW*
The Beginning of Martial Law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=begEaAe4XYE
Prototype for a nationwide concentration system?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/281.html
US troops asked if they would shoot American citizens:
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=5482
FEMA ordered 100,000 boxcars with shackles:
http://pimpinturtle.com/2008/02/01/fema-ordered-102000-boxcars-with-shackles.aspx
Open martial law coming to America:
http://www.populistamerica.com/open_martial_law_coming_to_america
*SCAPEGOATS*
Georgia House OKs seizing vehicles from illegal residents:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/02/28/vehicle_0229.html
New Santa Monica law makes it illegal for homeless to speak in city downtown:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2008/02/214522.php
*WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE*
US Supreme Court cancels Fourth Amendment, refuses to review the Un-Constitutional new spying law:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/34152prs20080219.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jRFr8G5WxM6XUrE1tSQEffCsewrw
*REAL ID*
California's solution to the Real ID card:
http://www.rense.com/general81/calif.htm
Homeland Security trying to sugarcoat Fascist Real ID, citing "September 11 hijackers":
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9885199-7.html?tag=nl.e433
*INFRAGARD*
Martial law enforcement has been privatized:
http://www.rense.com/general80/priv.htm
"...this secret and relatively new private- partnership between the Corporatocracy & the FBI will allow the ultra-right wing of business to actually kill people, without charges, or an arrest or even the possibility of a trial..."
FBI deputizes businesses to snitch on (and possibly kill) citizens:
http://www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild0308
*POLICE STATE*
Police militarization roundup:
http://tinyurl.com/2yf4s9
Bush Dictatorship to launch new secret police force to spy on Americans:
http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2008/01/15/1294.aspx
Bill of Rights under Bush: a timeline:
http://mondoglobo.ning.com/group/questionauthority/forum/topic/show?id=1509099%3ATopic%3A2937
*TRAVEL*
US government to decide which citizens may travel:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/01/370617.shtml
*HAARPICANES: UNCERTAIN SURVIVAL*
Evacuees will face criminal checks!!!
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5380868.html
"Texans seeking to escape the next [HAARP]icane..."
*THOUGHT CRIMES*
H. Res. 1695, 1955 & S.1959/
Social Repression and Internet surveillance:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18998.htm
HR 1955: a tutorial in Orwellian doublespeak:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/01/5551/
*GUANTANAMO BAY: EXECUTIONS*
US Army declares it can conduct executions at Guantanamo Bay:
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17648
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/12/detainees.nazis/
http://tinyurl.com/27r5g2
*GUANTANAMO BAY*
US censors Guantanamo prisoner's sketch of force-feeding:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jVwGqYWMiTBxH46PsF9gQVEg-JzQ
Guantanamo lawyers ask court to keep prosecutors from contacting prisoners:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jsTPE2z5A7XvY-g21LzFtJucf6fA
US altered Guantanamo "evidence":
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iuZWtyV2t6N6AYyrw6fDnm3R36dgD8VCNAQ00
*POSSE COMITATUS*
2008 "Defense" authorization bill authorizes use of US military for domestic purposes:
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/11/red-alert-2008-defense-authorization.html
White House directive says that the US military will conduct "military missions" during a bird flu pandemic:
http://www.legitgov.org/DoD_to_act_in_pandemic.html
********WAR AGAINST INTERNET********
*JAPAN*
Japanese ISPs to ban file sharers!!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/15/japanese-isps-to-ban-file-sharers/
*WAR MACHINES v. INTERNET*
Military to boost "cyber-protections":
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080319/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_risk_assessment_6
"...fend off cyber-attacks..."
NATO says cyber "warfare" poses as great a threat as a missile attack:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/06/hitechcrime.uksecurity
Pentagon declares the internet needs to be dealt with as it were an "enemy weapons system":
http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=7980
*WIKILEAKS*
US district court judge orders shutdown of whistleblower web site
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/wiki-f28.shtml
*TELECOM IMMUNITY*
Congress moves toward expanding government spying, with immunity for telecoms
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/fisa-f14.shtml
*OPTIC CABLES: US/ISRAELI SABOTAGE*
Cable cut conspiracy:
http://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2008/03/cable-cut-conspiracy.html
*NSA*
Bush order expands intrusive spying for all Federal agencies:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/25/AR2008012503261.html
*UNITED KINGDOM*
UK aiming to shut down Internet under guise of fighting "al-Qaeda":
http://news.smh.com.au/uk-aiming-to-curb-terrorists-on-internet/20080118-1mqe.html
*DOMESTIC SPYING*
Bush Dictatorship drafting plan to allow government access to any email or web search:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_drafting_plan_to_allow_government_0114.html
US "spy chief" wants to see all communication on the Internet to "protect it":
http://tinyurl.com/2ezras
*WAR on SPAM = WAR AGAINST SPEECH*
(Under the cover of "fighting spam", the Bush dictatorship is trying to limit anonymous speech on the Net.)
"Spam fighters" turn to identifying "legitimate" email:
http://tinyurl.com/24n4ss
--or--
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFDE133CF935A35753C1A9659C8B63
*WAR AGAINST ANONYMOUS INTERNET*
EU pushes war against Internet under guise of attacking "militant websites":
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL0621125920071106
Stanford University-based Bush Dictatorship operatives frantically building a new Internet with no privacy:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18397/?a=f
Bush Dictatorship plans to fight the Internet:
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22023
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
"[911 Hoax] Bloggers beware"
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********NEXT WORLD WAR/ESCALATION********
*SYRIA*
Bush expands US sanctions on Syria officials:
http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN13387459
*IRAN*
Webster Tarpley - April 6 sneak attack by US forces against Iran planned:
http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1888.shtml
(it won't be a sneak attack if Tarpley and Online Journal are writing about it.)
********BLEAK ECONOMICS********
*FOOD SUPPLY*
Truckers ‘going broke’ and threatening to strike
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/03/19/news/iowa/doc47e03e9ea03bd427238845.txt?sPos=3
World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php
from a reader:
"... Presently, most retail stores operate on what's called 'just in time delivery'. This means that at any given time there is only about a three day supply of whatever is being sold in these stores. If/when the trucks stop rolling, we will be in serious trouble almost immediately...
US blocks Venezuelan purchase of food:
http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve08/1358venez.html
*GREAT DEPRESSION, II*
Number of people needing food stamps in Ohio doubles since '01:
http://tinyurl.com/36pjl5
The financial destruction of the average man:
http://www.rense.com/general81/avman.htm
Tent cities being built around most cities, 10,000 Americans have fled to Canada:
http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1631
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/ Find-Freedom. htm?At=031337
Last hope in a weak economy? Mom and Dad:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080321/ap_on_bi_ge/living_with_parents
Slump moves from Wall Street to Main Street:
http://tinyurl.com/2dy99d
Americans on economy: It hurts:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/21/news/economy/CNN_poll_review/index.htm?postversion=2008032207
the Second Great Depression:
http://depression2.tv/d2/node/42
*US DOLLAR*
Could State banks print money? Another way out of the "credit crisis":
http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/minnesota-bank-proposal.php
*CORPORATE 'TAXATION'*
Under-taxed corporations have plenty of cash on hand:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/business/04cash.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
*UNCONSTITUTIONAL 'FEDERAL' RESERVE*
The Fed is destroying America:
http://www.funnymoneyreport.com/news.php?id=7465
It's time to dump the Un-Consitutional "Federal" Reserve:
http://www.rense.com/general80/dump.htm
*FOOD PRICES*
Gas not alone - food prices way up:
http://tinyurl.com/2u2m9m
*OIL*
Retail gasoline price hits record:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1155601120080311
*WORLD ECONOMY*
Riots, hoarding, panic: the signs of things to come?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3500975.ece
Records continue to fall in global markets:
http://tinyurl.com/2chb67
*US ECONOMY*
The fall of the American consumer:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080324/ehrenreich
International experts forsee collapse of US economy:
http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=918803+
*FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS*
The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8336
Questions about on Bear Stearns buyout:
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN1438930520080320
Banks face systemic margin call, $325 billion hit:
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN0832645120080308
*...LATEST BAILOUTS...*
Fannie, Freddie cleared to pump $200 billion into market:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1928966020080319
US Federal Reserve injects $200 billion into credit markets to avert financial meltdown
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/fed-m13.shtml
"Federal" Reserve to pump $60 billion more into markets:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJoePynybzGg&refer=home
Investers stunned as ECB pumps €350bn into markets:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7ba8f586-ad5b-11dc-9386-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
*REAL ESTATE*
Home equity falls below 50%
http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?news_id=ap-d8v82ua00&
********GENERAL NEWS********
*RINGLING BROS CIRCUS*
The "Cruelest Show on Earth" arrives in Baltimore. It is truly sad to think of how those elephants and tigers are treated for this.
*WORLD'S TALLEST MAN*
World's tallest man struggles to fit in:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080324/ap_on_fe_st/tallest_man
(there but for the grace of God, go I.)
*BALTIMORE CITY: WAR AGAINST the POOR*
Baltimore city officials descend on shantytown:
http://tinyurl.com/3ahxey
City's homeless get frozen out:
http://tinyurl.com/2ggk3s
*ELECTRIC UTILITIES*
Con Ed wins approval for a big one-time increase in rates for electric service:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/nyregion/20coned.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
*OIL COMPANIES*
Make oil a public utility:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/24/7863/
(what a concept; impossible to imagine today.)
*SONAR*
Defying court orders, Navy resumes wildlife-killing sonar training off coast:
http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_8095464?nclick_check=1
Bush exempts Navy from environmental laws protecting marine life:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/16/die-whales-die/
*INSECTS*
Mystery behind the strongest creature in the world:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080311081146.htm
Honey bees could be wiped out in 10 years:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/09/animalbehaviour
*POLAR BEARS*
Interior secretary declines to explain polar bear delay:
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/mar/22/interior-secretary-declines-explaining-polar-bear-/
Feds also miss deadline on ribbon seals' protection:
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/mar/21/feds-miss-deadline-ribbon-seals-protection-conserv/
*OTHER ANIMALS*
Canadian bears face new toxic threat:
http://www.thestar.com/article/350087
America's wolves need our help:
http://action.defenders.org/site/PageServer?pagename=savewolves_homepage
Amphibians dying out an an alarming rate:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1378&category=Environment
Bleak future for Antarctic penguins, report warns:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/11/endangeredspecies.conservation
European birds in decline:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/02/eabirds102.xml
Pacific walruses dying from climate change:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/343704_walrus15.html
Primates in danger of extinction:
http://www.enn.com/animals/article/24099
*ENDLESS WARFARE AGAINST CIVILIANS*
Kirwan: "By way of deception, Thou shalt do war":
http://www.rense.com/general81/dowr.htm
*QUARANTINES*
TB patient faces felony charges in Ariz.:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jAZcFs8-asSLXGzG3az_hEV3AC3AD8VK83F81
*US 'ELECTIONS'*
Unreliable voting in NJ:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/opinion/22sat2.html
Will New Jersey's votes be counted? (Answer: No):
http://www.northjersey.com/news/nationalpolitics/Will_votes_in_NJ_get_counted_correctly.html
*OIL*
Massive North Dakota oil deposit could increase US reserves by 10x:
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news2.13s.html
*AGRICULTURE*
Wheat hits record on US inventory report:
http://tinyurl.com/yvzpee
*MIDWEST FLOODS*
Floods sweep central US:
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2019975320080321
*WEATHER MODIFICATION*
Navy research paper calls for using man-made floods and droughts to "disrupt the economy" of an enemy state:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/navy-research-p.html
New Orleans deliberately flooded:
http://www.media-criticism.com/New_Orleans_Flooded_Links_2006.html
*FOR-PROFIT MEDICINE*
Minorities cite health care disparities:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-03-10-health-disparities_N.htm
Hillary Clinton's universal health care plan: Buy insurance or else!
http://www.naturalnews.com/022612.html
"...Hillary Clinton's universal health care plan, then, is nothing more than a system for threatening all Americans to buy health insurance, and then financially punishing them if they don't..."
Spending on health care to rise dramatically in the US:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HEALTH_CARE_SPENDING?SITE=TXSAE
*BIOWARFARE/DEPOPULATION*
Who is responsible for the world food shortage:
http://larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_food_intro.html
"...This grain transport breakdown is but one recent example of breakdown in the food supply in what is considered the most food-secure nation in the world, and illustrates the fact that "natural disasters"—bad weather, floods, droughts—are not the cause of the world's food crises..."
Top-secret germ warfare lab opens in Livermore:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/02/BA81UQIOK.DTL
"...scientists seeking defenses against terrorist attacks..."
$1 billion biowarfare center being built in Fort Detrick, MD:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.detrick19nov19,0,1939796.story
*FORCED VACCINATIONS*
More and more families refused innoculations, citing autism fears:
http://tinyurl.com/2swspk
Vaccine rule strokes fear over autism:
http://tinyurl.com/2m5ub7
"Gunpoint Medicine"
Maryland schools have huge financial stake in coerced vaccinations of schoolchildren:
http://www.newstarget.com/022280.html
Children herded like cattle into MD courthouse for forced vaccinations as armed police stand guard:
http://www.newstarget.com/022267.html
Police with dogs going door to door, forcing parents to vaccinate children:
http://vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/2007/11/police-with-dogs-vaccinating-kids-in.html
*MANDATORY BIO-CHIPPING*
Microchips everywhere: a near-future vision:
http://www.katu.com/news/tech/14453392.html
Microchip implants, mind control and cybernetics:
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/microchip_implants_mind_control.htm
The plan to create a North American Union and bio-chip the world:
http://www.youtube.com/v/vuBo4E77ZXo&rel=1&border=0
Microchip implants cause malignant tumors in lab animals:
http://www.citizensadvocate.net/newsletters/albrechtVeriChipAP.html
*ILLEGAL WAR/PERMANENT OCCUPATION BUDGETS*
The permanent occupation of Iraq is killing the US economy (by design):
http://www.alternet.org/story/79988/
Estimates of Iraq war cost were not even close to ballpark:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/washington/19cost.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
US economists see long term ills from Iraq slaughter/permanent occupation:
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1251345620080313
*PENTAGON TECHNOLOGY*
Billions for insect spies, not one penny for the poor!
Pentagon's Cyborg Insect Spy program advancing steadily:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/for-years-now-p.html