Entries for February 2008

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Amazing un-natural cloud formations in Las Vegas! Filmed on Feb. 28, 2008.

CBS/AP | Feb. 28, 2008
Don't ask the U.S. prison system if this is indeed "the land of the free." For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the surge in inmate population.

By Javier Blas, Robert Cookson & Sarah O'Connor | Financial Times | Feb. 28, 2008
It was d-day for the dollar yesterday - 'D', as in downward, devalued and dumped. The greenback sank to all-time low versus a basket of currencies, and broke for the first time through the psychological $1.50 level against the euro, as Ben Bernanke suggested that he would continue to cut interest rates to prop up the US economy.

By Larisa Alexandrovna | RawStory.com | Feb. 28, 2008
Newly-released records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request contradict the 9/11 Commission’s report on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and raise fresh questions about the role of Saudi government officials in connection to the hijackers.

By Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com | Feb. 27, 2008
Congressman Ron Paul slammed Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke during a House Financial Services Commitvtee meeting today for following a policy of deliberately destroying the dollar and wiping out the American middle class.

By Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com | Feb. 26, 2008
Alan Greenspan has again exposed himself as a traitor working against the interests of the American people by urging Gulf states to abandon the dollar peg, a move that could result in financial chaos and an economic depression in America.

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A great satire piece from the Onion pointing out the control that the private company Diebold has over our democratic elections. Sometimes comedy speaks truth best.

The Associated Press | Feb. 26, 2008
Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR Inc. said Tuesday fourth-quarter profit rose 65 percent, lifted by contributions from natural-gas projects, work in Iraq and a tax benefit related to a 2006 asset sale.

Daily Mail | Feb. 23, 2008
Motorists will be targeted by a new generation of road cameras which work out how many people are in a car by measuring the amount of bodily fluid it contains.

David Edwards and Muriel Kane | The Raw Story | Feb. 27, 2008
A soldier who claimed to have been shot during a robbery while home from Iraq on emergency family leave has been revealed to have arranged the shooting with a friend.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Feb. 24, 2008
Suicide bombers using the Arbaeen religious observance to attack Shi'ite pilgrims, exacted a heavy toll today in Baghdad and Iskandariya. Meanwhile, fighting continues between Turkish troops and PKK rebels in northern Iraq. Overall, 75 Iraqis were killed and another 166 were wounded. The number of Turkish soldiers and PKK rebels killed is unclear, but could climb into the dozens. Also, two American soldiers were killed in separate incidents.

By Lorne Gunter | National Post | Feb. 25, 2008
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

By Jerome R. Corsi | WorldNetDily.com | Feb. 24, 2008
In a ceremony that received virtually no attention in the American media, the United States and Canada signed a military agreement Feb. 14 allowing the armed forces from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a domestic civil emergency, even one that does not involve a cross-border crisis.

By Deborah Charles | Reuters | Feb. 21, 2008
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Thursday he would not compromise with the Democratic-led Congress on his demand that phone companies that took part in his warrantless domestic spying program be shielded from lawsuits.

Reuters | Feb. 22, 2008
Lawyers for five Iraqis have accused British soldiers of mass executions and torture and called for a police investigation into an "atrocious episode" in British army history.