~Puppetgov Videos
Music: Which Side Are you On?
Natalie Merchant
By Florence Reece (1930)
Bill Hicks: A Choice
By William Blum~FPIF
In August 1996, the San Jose Mercury News initiated an extended series of articles linking the CIA’s “contra” army to the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.1 Based [...]
Puppet: You are just another product in their eyes.
BY COSHANDRA DILLARD~Tyler Paper
Tyler will be a hub for several thousand Hurricane Gustav evacuees as city officials enact its emergency response plan, and so far, it seems as though early relief efforts have been fluid.
Mayor Barbara Bass Saturday signed an official declaration of disaster/emergency condition during [...]
By Aislinn Simpson~London Telegraph
The short-term lockups could hold prisoners for up to four hours where they would be finger-printed, photographed and have a DNA sample taken.
They would allow beat bobbies to remove offenders from circulation without spending too long off the street themselves.
Offenders held in the cells could then either be released with a [...]
~Reuters
Shanghai police will post photos and videos of jaywalkers in newspapers and on TV in a bid to shame them out of breaking traffic rules, local media reported on Thursday.
Offending pedestrians, moped riders and cyclists would be snapped at selected intersections and their images put in regular columns and on special television programs set [...]
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard~London Telegraph
Fears are mounting that Russia may restrict oil deliveries to Western Europe over coming days, in response to the threat of EU sanctions and Nato naval actions in the Black Sea.
Any such move would be a dramatic escalation of the Georgia crisis and play havoc with the oil markets.
Reports have begun to [...]
By Ben Leach~London Telegraph
More than 8,000 veterans are currently behind bars, many of whom have served their country in Iraq or Afghanistan, researchers found.
A high proportion of the convicts interviewed in the study had suffered some form of post-traumatic stress disorder after leaving the forces. Often their convictions were for drug- or alcohol-related violence.
Ex-services charities [...]
Puppetgov: Find Swimming Lessons Near You – Learn To Swim
~Raw Story
“An official with Air Canada’s regional carrier Jazz says the airline is removing life vests from all its planes to save weight and fuel,” AP reported late Thursday. “Jazz spokeswoman Manon Stuart said Thursday Transport Canada regulations allow airlines to use flotation devices instead [...]
By Jane Hamsher~The Campaign Silo
Early this morning, the Ramsey County police raided several homes occupied by people here to protest at the Minneapolis Republican National Convention. It’s believed that these were associated with another raid conducted last night, and the target were individuals associated with a group called the RNC Welcoming Committee.
Glenn Greenwald and [...]
~CNN
Iraq has signed its first major oil deal with a foreign company since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, a spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry said Saturday.
It was the first time in more than 35 years that Iraq has allowed foreign oil companies to do business inside its borders.
The contract with the China [...]
VIDEO: American Drug War
By Ken Ellingwood~Los Angeles Times
The sickening discovery this week of 11 headless bodies heaped like broken dolls near the colonial city of Merida underscored a bitter lesson for Mexico: The battle to control the multibillion-dollar drug trade knows no boundaries.
The bodies are piling up nationwide, even in normally tranquil and touristy [...]
VIDEO: Police Seize Journalists Notes About RNC Protest Plans
~CNN
Police raided a rental hall used by a group organizing protests at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Friday.
The RNC Welcoming Committee, which describes itself as “anarchist/anti-authoritarian,” accused St. Paul police of trying to disrupt their protest planned for Monday, the day the GOP [...]
Nearly ten thousand to pitch tents in Minneapolis, hitched rides on ‘ronvoys.’
~Associated Press
There’s no room at the Xcel Energy Center for maverick Ron Paul, so his acolytes have packed their cars, hitched rides on “Ronvoys” and will pitch tents at Ronstock ‘08 in Minneapolis in defiance of next week’s GOP convention in St. Paul, [...]
By John Byrne~Raw Story
As the nation focuses on Sen. John McCain’s choice of running mate, President Bush has quietly moved to expand the reach of presidential power by ensuring that America remains in a state of permanent war.
Buried in a recent proposal by the Administration is a sentence that has received scant attention — [...]
~AP NEWS
Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million residents fled the Gulf Coast Saturday — ahead of the official order to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana.
Residents took to buses, trains, planes and cars — clogging roadways [...]
BY JENNY ANDERSON~The New York Times
Cleaning up road kill and maintaining runways may not sound like cutting-edge investments. But banks and funds with big money seem to think so.
Reeling from more exotic investments that imploded during the credit crisis, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse are among [...]
~Press TV
A senior advisor to Barack Obama says the Democratic nominee would engage Iran on its nuclear work early next year if elected president.
“He (Obama) is saying that as soon as he takes office that we have to have a very serious set of negotiations with the Iranians in which we in effect present [...]
By Michel Chossudovsky~Global Research
Obama’s “American Promise” is War.
Barack Obama has embraced the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT).
The Obama-Biden campaign has endorsed the very foundations of the Bush administration’s foreign policy agenda: “Go after Osama bin Laden, “take him out”.
The rhetoric is softer but the substance is almost identical:
“For while Senator McCain was turning his [...]
~Russia Today
One of Barack Obama’s key messages during the presidential campaign is the need for change. And many Americans share the judgment. However, it seems this need is not reflected in the U.S. presidential hopeful’s approach to Russia.
