By Hawk  |  TruthAlliance.net  |  Jan. 31, 2008
Clinton proves ignorant on the facts surrounding 9\11, coins new term for official story ‘Osama Bin Laden Job’. Clinton Remarks, “9/11 was not an ‘inside job’ it was an ‘Osama Bin Laden’ job with 19 people from Saudi Arabia they murdered 3000 Americans…”  What? For someone who dealt with Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda during his term in office he sure is ignorant on the facts surrounding their greatest exploit ever.

The Associated Press | Jan. 31, 2008
It's the government's idea of a really bad day: Washington's Metro trains shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations of railcars with hazardous materials. Airport control towers are disrupted in Philadelphia and Chicago. Overseas, a mysterious liquid is found on London's subway.

By Anne Flaherty | The Associated Press | Jan. 28, 2008
The White House will ask Congress next week for another $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an amount that would help cover operational costs only until early next year when the next administration takes over.

Reuters | Jan. 30, 2008
The likelihood of the U.S. economy slipping into recession is at least 50 percent, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted on Wednesday as saying. “I believe the probability of a recession is at least 50 percent, but up to now there are few signs that we are already in one,” Greenspan said in an interview with weekly newspaper Die Zeit published in German. “In my opinion, it will probably happen but the facts suggest we are not there yet.”

By Nick Langewis | The Raw Story | Jan. 27, 2008
Speaking in Polk City, Florida, U.S. Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ) pledges expansion of access to health care for soldiers injured physically and psychologically not only in the current war, but in wars he says are sure to follow.

The Associated Press | Jan. 29, 2008
The first international conference on human trafficking, one of the fastest growing crimes, will be held in Vienna next month to raise awareness about what has become a billion-dollar industry, organisers said Tuesday.

By Paul Joseph Watson | Prisonplanet.com | Jan. 29, 2008
Vote fraud expert convinced chain of custody is corrupt, says "criminal enterprise" is at work. Fresh from her confrontations in New Hampshire during which public officials were grilled about slapdash chain of custody and ballot box tampering issues, Bev Harris told the Alex Jones Show that a "criminal enterprise" is running the primary recount and has called for Secretary of State William Gardner to resign and his assistant to be fired.

By Jerome R. Corsi | WorldNetDaily.com | Jan. 29, 2008
U.S. central banks may have less than half the gold they claim to possess in their vaults, charges a watchdog group in an ad scheduled for publication in the Wall Street Journal this week.

By Carolyn Lochhead | San Francisco Chronicle | Jan. 28, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama easily won the African American vote in South Carolina, but to woo California Latinos, where he is running 3-to-1 behind rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he is taking a giant risk: spotlighting his support for the red-hot issue of granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

By Daniel Gross | NEWSWEEK | Jan. 27, 2008
America is on the road to recession, and many predict a worldwide slowdown. But it's a new economic order, and the emerging markets could take the lead. When a group of community volunteers rang the bell to signal the close of trading at the New York Stock Exchange last Friday, it brought to a close one of the most tumultuous weeks in global markets since the fall of 2001.

By William K. Rashbaum | The New York Times | Jan. 26, 2008
The New York Police Department produced a detailed analysis in 1998 opposing plans by the city to locate its emergency command center at the World Trade Center, but the Giuliani administration overrode those objections. The command center later collapsed from damage in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, there is a vast black market for nukes, and certain U.S. officials have been supplying sensitive nuclear technology information to Turkish and Israeli interests through its conduits. It's a scathing allegation which was first published by the London Times two weeks ago, and Edmonds' charge seems to be on the verge of vindication.

By Joshua Frank | AntiWar.com | Jan. 26, 2008

About eight in 10 black children in Indiana are born to unwed parents -- a start to life that sets them up for problems during adolescence and beyond, according to an Indiana Black Expo report.

By Tim Evans | IndyStar.com | Jan. 24, 2008

In the endless war between liberty and government regulation, we have an opportunity to win an important battle, one that will promote the health of Americans. This one is over the freedom to choose one’s diet and food supplements, and the opponents are a formidable assemblage of world powers: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Union, groups pushing for a North American Union, and the large international pharmaceutical companies. The ringleader is an obscure, but powerful, United Nations bureaucracy with the curious moniker of “Codex Alimentarius.”

By Gregory A. Hession, J.D. | The John Birch Society | Jan. 25, 2008

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced today a major offensive against al-Qaeda in Mosul, where a major bombing killed about three dozen people two days ago. Mosul is considered al-Qaeda’s last urban stronghold in Iraq. Elsewhere, at least 55 Iraqis were killed and another four were wounded in attacks and raids. Most of the dead were al-Qaeda suspects.

By  Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Jan. 25, 2008

According to those that recorded the time afforded to each Republican candidate during last night's MSNBC debate in Florida, Congressman Ron Paul was again given the least coverage, being allowed to talk for less than a third of the time and receiving less than half the questions compared with Mitt Romney.

By Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com | Jan. 25, 2008

Congressional leaders completed a deal Thursday with the White House on an economic stimulus package that would give most tax filers refunds of $600 to $1,200, and more if they have children.

By Andrew Taylor | The Associated Press | Jan. 24, 2008

For three years, the Bush administration has drawn fire from civil liberties groups over its use of national security letters, a kind of administrative subpoena that compels private businesses such as telecommunications companies to turn over information to the government. After the 2001 USA Patriot Act loosened the guidelines, the FBI issued tens of thousands of such requests, something critics say amounts to warrantless spying on Americans who have not been charged with crimes.

By Joby Warrick | WashingtonPost.com | Jan. 25, 2008

Capturing Usama bin Laden has been one of President Bush's top priorities during his time in office, but the president now seems to doubt the Al Qaeda mastermind will be found before his term ends next January. Speaking about his goals for his last year in the White House, Bush tells FOX News in an exclusive interview to air this weekend that if U.S. military and intelligence knew where bin Laden was, they would have apprehended him already.

FOX News | Jan. 24, 2008

Amid the controversy brewing in the Senate over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform, the Bush administration appears to have changed its strategy and is devising a bold new plan that would strip away FISA protections in favor of a system of wholesale government monitoring of every American’s Internet activities. Now the national director of intelligence is predicting a disastrous cyber-terrorist attack on the U.S. if this scheme isn’t instituted.

By Elliot Cohen | TruthDig.com | Jan. 24, 2008

LONDON - The British government revealed sweeping plans Thursday to toughen terrorism laws, including a proposal to hold suspects for up to 42 days without charge. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's plan would increase the limit for detaining suspects without charge from 28 days to 42 days and urge.

The Bush administration paid a $5 million reward to a former Minnesota flight instructor who provided authorities with information that led to the arrest and conviction of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. The recipient, Clarence Prevost, was honored Thursday at a closed-door ceremony at the State Department, although the payout was secretly authorized last fall by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Justice Department, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.

McALLEN, Texas - A former Mexican police commander was convicted Wednesday of helping run a notorious Gulf cartel's drug smuggling operation. Carlos Landin Martinez was found guilty of 10 counts including drug trafficking, conspiracy and money laundering over alleged cartel activities from 2005 to 2007.

Associated Press | Jan. 23, 2008

A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."

Douglas K. Daniels | Associated Press | Jan. 23, 2008

In his usual form, former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter told a packed crowd at the Oriental Theater in Denver to stop whining about corporate media and become their own intelligence operatives. We the people have the same resources and tools that intelligence networks rely heavily on; it’s called “Google” he said.

Montana governor Brian Schweitzer (D) declared independence Friday from federal identification rules and called on governors of 17 other states to join him in forcing a showdown with the federal government which says it will not accept the driver's licenses of rebel states' citizens starting May 11.

A top US anti-drugs official has accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of being a "major facilitator" of the trade in cocaine.

The official, John Walters, said Venezuela had become "a haven" for shipments of cocaine manufactured in neighbouring Colombia.Venezuela rejects the charges, saying it is the victim of traffickers. But Mr Walters, speaking on a visit to Colombia, said failure to deal with the problem amounted to complicity.

American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear. Pheromones are chemicals released by animals as signals to their own kind: for sex, for territorial marking, and more.

By David Hambling | Wired.com | Jan. 18, 2008

A California company announced Thursday that it has created cloned human embryos from adult skin cells, a breakthrough which could ultimately lead to the development of cures for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's, and other untreatable ailments.

AFP | Jan. 17, 2008

Experiments to create Britain’s first embryos that merge human and animal material will begin within months after a Government watchdog today approved two research teams to carry out the controversial work.

By Mark Henderson | TimesOnline | Jan. 17, 2008

The establishment media will have to find a new tactic with which to ridicule those who oppose the fluoridation of water after a major new Scientific American report concluded that "Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift" as new evidence emerges of the poison's link to disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland, as well as lowering IQ.

By Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com | Jan. 15, 2008

A long-awaited final report from the Food and Drug Administration concludes that foods from healthy cloned animals and their offspring are as safe as those from ordinary animals, effectively removing the last U.S. regulatory barrier to the marketing of meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and goats.

By Rick Weiss | The Washington Post | Jan. 15, 2008

OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri told AFP on Wednesday that high oil prices were not caused by a shortage of oil supplies and that other factors were to blame."Let me be clear, the high prices which we are witnessing are not because of any shortage of crude oil in the market," he said in a statement emailed to AFP.

Since "unrestricted' private ownership of guns clearly threatens the public safety, the 2nd Amendment can be interpreted to allow a variety of gun restrictions, according to the Bush administration.

WorldNetDaily.com | Jan. 14, 2008

At the age of three, the worries of most little girls rarely stretch beyond what outfit to dress their dolls in, and how to ride a bike. But for Hayley Smith, her third year brought a set of problems most children her age wouldn't even have heard of, let alone been able to comprehend - puberty.

By Natasha Courtenay-Smith | Daily Mail | Jan. 13, 2008

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today.

A U.S. Coast Guard officer and devout Catholic has filed suit to prevent being forced to receive a vaccination derived from the lung of an aborted child after a higher ranking officer disputed his understanding of Church theology.

WorldNetDaily.com | Jan. 13, 2008

HUNDREDS of British non-Muslims have been recruited by al-Qaeda to wage war against the West, senior security sources warned last night. As many as 1,500 white Britons are believed to have converted to Islam for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terror attacks inside the UK, according to one MI5 source.

BBC News is reporting that a French company has developed a pollution-free car which runs on compressed air. India's Tata Motors has the car under production and it may be on sale in Europe and India by the end of the year.

By Mike Aivaz and Muriel Kane | The Raw Story | Jan. 4, 2008

For the fourth consecutive day, people waited in long lines Thursday for a shot at a job at a new Wal-Mart in DeKalb County, pushing the total number of applicants beyond 10,000.

By Helena Olivlero | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Jan. 11, 2008