Wal-Mart’s low prices don’t come cheap. In fact, each Wal-Mart store employing 200 people costs taxpayers approximately $420,750 annually in public social services used by Wal-Mart workers whose low wages and unaffordable health insurance mean most of them are among the working poor. That’s the finding of Everyday Low Wages: The Hidden Price We All Pay for Wal-Mart, a report by the minority staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Education and the Workforce Committee.

Get the Facts at http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/walmart/walmart_1.cfm

BSAlertCan it be so easily demonstrated why the American media has completely turned its back on journalism? Check it out… Here is the current cover of Newsweek across various areas of the world.

Meanwhile the foreign issues note, Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they—and Al Qaeda’s leaders—can operate freely.

I guess Newsweek figures what you don’t know can’t hurt you. Just shut up and look at the pretty pictures of Angelina’s baby.

Paul Joseph Watson

Google is again embroiled in a censorship farce after its Google Video sub-division was caught altering viewing statistics for Alex Jones’ Terror Storm documentary, resetting runaway growth curbs to prevent the video making the website’s top ten and its online viewership exploding exponentially.

Following last week’s buzz about Terror Storm being available for viewing free on Google Video, numerous websites linked to our promo page and as a result viewing figures for all versions of Terror Storm at Google Video began to climb rapidly.

However, upon checking the same viewer figures on Sunday, Alex Jones noticed that many had been reset to zero and had only begun to climb into the hundreds and early thousands, nowhere near their previous levels of tens and hundreds of thousands for the previous days. The trends had been artificially reversed and this prevented Terror Storm from entering the top ten list of Google Video which would have ensured an explosion of further circulation of the video.

THOMS (Library of Congress)
A search referred to in subsection (a) is a search by a full-time teacher or school official, acting on any reasonable suspicion based on professional experience and judgment, of any minor student on the grounds of any public school, if the search is conducted to ensure that classrooms, school buildings, school property and students remain free from the threat of all weapons, dangerous materials, or illegal narcotics. The measures used to conduct any search must be reasonably related to the search’s objectives, without being excessively intrusive in light of the student’s age, sex, and the nature of the offense.

LA TIMES
WASHINGTON — The war in Iraq has made global terrorism worse by fanning Islamic radicalism and providing a training ground for lethal methods that are increasingly being exported to other countries, according to a sweeping assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies.

The classified document, which represents a consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, paints a considerably bleaker picture of the impact of the Iraq war than Bush administration or U.S. intelligence officials have acknowledged publicly, according to officials familiar with the assessment.

Technocrat

• House bill HR 5295
  made it out of committee and passed, and is now going to the Senate for
  review. This bill allows education officals and local police to just
  randomly search, all the way to a strip search, any student they want
  to, any time, based on suspicion only, basically whenever they feel
  like it and say the magic words.
• 
  ”
  (a) In General- Each local educational agency shall have in effect
  throughout the jurisdiction of the agency policies that ensure that a
  search described in subsection (b) is deemed reasonable and
  permissible. (b) Searches Covered- A search referred to in subsection
  (a) is a search by a full-time teacher or school official, acting on
  any reasonable suspicion based on professional experience and judgment,
  of any minor student on the grounds of any public school, if the search
  is conducted to ensure that classrooms, school buildings, school
  property and students remain free from the threat of all weapons,
  dangerous materials, or illegal narcotics. The measures used to conduct
  any search must be reasonably related to the search’s objectives,
  without being excessively intrusive in light of the student’s age, sex,
  and the nature of the offense.”..more there

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George Washington’s Blog
Who are the Heroes of the 9/11 Truth Movement?

Is it Jim Fetzer, Steve Jones, David Ray Griffin, Kevin Barrett, Bob Bowman, Morgan Reynolds, Webster Tarpley, and the rest of the all-star cast of Scholars for 9/11 Truth? These folks have certainly been doing great work and getting the word out.

Is it Dylan Avery and the rest of the Loose Change crew? They have indeed made a movie which has been seen by millions on the Internet already, and are doing incredible interviews for their new edition.

Is it Alex Jones, Mike Rivero, or the handful of people who have run thoughtful and informative websites for years? They have without doubt acted as elders to us, teaching us about false flag operations (and in AJ’s case, getting incredible interviews and making hard-hitting documentaries). <!–more–>

Is it the well-known web researchers who have turned over every stone to find the basic facts contradicting the official story of 9/11? These talented men and women have been unbelievably persistent, dedicated, hard-working and smart in their efforts, and the rest of the movement stands on their shoulders.

Certainly, these folks are all heroes in my book (along with other well-known heroes who — for the sake of brevity alone — are not mentioned by name).

But on-the-ground and web activists are also incredible people. Not only do the activists move the ball forward by leaps and bounds, spreading 9/11 truth virally and into every segment of the country, but they are also an INSPIRATION to the people in the limelight mentioned above. Don’t believe me? Ask them yourselves.

KEEP IT UP PEOPLE . . . WE’RE HEROES TOO!

He’s the frontman for one of the great metal bands of all-time. He was a world class fencer. Now, after helping to rescue scores of Britons from the fiery hell of war, he’s a national hero.

Bruce Dickinson, lead singer for Iron Maiden, gets bored pretty quickly. He keeps himself busy with many hobbies and art projects. Years ago he was trained as a commercial pilot by friend Captain Phil Dales of British Airways.

When Dickinson got word that his countrymen were stranded in Cyprus after having fled the war in Lebanon, he leaped at the chance to help.

Sara Kugler | Associated Press
Hundreds of homeless people living in encampments under highways and bridges and next to train trestles will be aggressively urged to leave the streets, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday.

The city’s Department of Homeless Services has found 73 areas — difficult to reach and mostly out of sight — where some 350 homeless people have set up encampments and communities. The majority are in Manhattan.

Throughout his four-plus years in office, President Bush has said some stupid things. So many so, in fact, that they’ve garnered their own term: Bushisms. Some Bushisms fly in the face of standard grammar and usage: “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” Or this gem, “Will the highways on the Internet become more few?” And who could forget this winner: “We ought to make the pie higher.”

While Bush has most certainly raised the pie higher when it comes to malapropisms, he has also made statements making him look not only grammatically challenged, but also intellectually stunted. To wit: “You can look inside in the truck, and you don’t even have to get in it. That’s called technology. And it’s working. It makes a big difference.”

While the above either leave you laughing or shaking your head, it’s the new genre of Bushism – a far more dangerous strain – that isn’t leaving the world in stitches.

So without further ado, I present to you five examples of the new Bushism. Call them what you want – ignorant, criminally negligent, insane – but do note that when Bush opens his mouth, you can be sure someone, somewhere, is going to pay the price for his statements:

Lou Dobbs | CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) — We Americans like to think we’re a pretty smart people, even when evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. And nowhere is that evidence more overwhelming than in the Middle East. History in the Middle East is everything, and we Americans seem to learn nothing from it.

President Harry Truman took about 20 minutes to recognize the state of Israel when it declared independence in 1948. Since then, more than 58 years of war, terrorism and blood-letting have led to the events of the past week.

Even now, as Katyusha rockets rain down on northern Israel and Israeli fighter jets blast Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, we simultaneously decry radical Islamist terrorism and Israel’s lack of restraint in defending itself.

And the U.S. government, which wants no part of a cease-fire until Israel is given every opportunity to rescue its kidnapped soldiers and destroy as many Hezbollah and Hezbollah armaments as possible, urges caution in the interest of preserving a nascent and fragile democratic government in Lebanon. Could we be more conflicted?

Article title: “The Third Tower”

Dagbladet, Norway’s 3rd largest paper has now covered 9/11 skepticism in a non-adverserial manner. This follows the monthly broadsheet, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Norways’s second largest paper, Aftenposten, a widely distributed tabloid-style paper.

Norway is exposing the US corporate-puppet media’s stance on 9/11 skepticism for what it is… pathetic.

Article roughly translated from the Norwegian by 247X-files. Mirrored here.

George Washington’s Blog
I’ve been accused — along with all others who question the official
9/11 story — as being “America Haters” or “Anti-American”. Is it true?
Is it unAmerican to question the story that 19 hijackers outsmarted the
American military and made fools of the world’s top building engineers?

Well,
that depends. Specifically, it depends on what being American means. If
being American means upholding the Constitution, believing in our
democratic republic, and striving to meet the ideals of our founding
fathers, then those who question the official story are some of the
most patriotic Americans around. Everyone I know in the 9/11 truth
movement loves liberty, freedom and justice, respects the Constitution,
and values truth.

On the other hand, if being American means going to war under false pretenses, and murdering innocent American civilians as part of a “false flag terror” campaign to whip up hatred of an enemy, then no — we don’t want any part of that.

Please stop for one minute and reflect on the following question: Who are the true patriots:

Those
who murder innocent Americans and falsely blame it on others and who
intentionally twist intelligence in order to deceive the people into
unnecessary wars?

or

Those who seek to expose such practices, and to prevent the spilling of more innocent American blood?

Those who question the official story of 9/11 do not hate America. We, who are 70 million strong
and growing in numbers every day, love our country enough to protect it
from those who would destroy it and everything it stands for.

Those
who murder innocent Americans in order to justify unnecessary wars, and
who twist intelligence to fool people, are the true America haters.

Let me get this straight… U.S. taxpayers give Israel billions of dollars per year. Without any warning, Israel, using U.S. made weapons, destroys Lebanon, striking civilian infrastructure at will, closing all means of escape and stranding tens of thousands of Americans in a swirling sh*tstorm. And what is the U.S. State Department’s response to the stranded people?

You better be sitting down for this one:

The State Department added that the government would not provide free transportation but could provide repatriation loans “to those in financial need.”

AP | July 13 2006
Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum Corp. has decided to stop distributing gasoline to some 1,800 U.S. stations, shedding a lackluster segment of its business while forcing the owners of those stations to find other suppliers.

While it may create some logistical headaches for gasoline retailers in the short term, the move should not have any impact on the nation’s overall fuel supply.

Citgo, which is wholly owned by Venezuela’s state oil company, currently has to purchase 130,000 barrels a day from third parties in order to meet its service contracts at 13,100 stations across the U.S. This is less profitable than selling gasoline directly from its refineries.

Instead, the Houston-based company has decided to sell to retailers only the 750,000 barrels a day that it produces at three U.S. refineries in Lake Charles, La., Corpus Christi, Texas and Lemont, Ill., according to a statement late Tuesday.