German government plans sweeping social attacks

The new German government held a two-day cabinet conference Tuesday and Wednesday at Schloss Merseburg in Brandenburg. According to Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the meeting was meant to create “a comradely atmosphere in which we can resolve problems in a spirit of mutual [...]

Understanding the Punitive White Male

As the chronology of California correctional policies shows, many of the punitive measures in sentencing, corrections, and risk management, emerged from voter initiatives. Whether or not the public is punitive, or is being pushed in that direction by politicians and the media, and what can be done to [...]

Christian leaders unite to teach youth intolerance

A group of 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that “could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way recognize same-sex couples.”
Citing Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]

Analysts: US capitalism on verge of collapse

The declining state of the US economy has convinced a growing number of American analysts that the US capitalist financial system is doomed to disintegrate.
Citing the works of other leading economists such as Jack Bogle and Marc Faber, Market Watch commentator Paul B. Farrell gives 20 reasons, in [...]

Increasing number of corporations toppled by industrial espionage

Industrial espionage is no longer the part-time job of secret agents from spy movies. It is prospering in everyday life and growing at a phenomenal rate.
Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are being lost due to the theft of trade secrets.
In recent years the definition of industrial espionage has [...]

Earth to Lou: It Could Have Been Different

It didn’t have to end this way for Lou Dobbs. He could have been a contender.
But Dobbs, a supremely self-confident man who often mentions his Harvard University education in private conversation, just wouldn’t listen. Time after time, as the “Lou Dobbs Tonight” show he has hosted on CNN (Cable [...]

Awkward Science Fair Projects

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An Aryan Nations E-Mail Box Hacked ;)

WikiLeaks: aryannationspa@hotmail.com leaked emails, 2009 mail archives (chronological)
( Aryan Nations (AN) is a white nationalist neo-Nazi organization founded in the 1970s by Richard Girnt Butler as an arm of the Christian Identity group Church of Jesus Christ-Christian. As of December 2007 there were two main [...]

County Immigration Enforcement Plan Prompts Profiling Concern

Over the objections of eleven county residents, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors this week renewed a commitment to have the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department cooperate with federal authorities in identifying illegal immigrants and targeting them for deportation.
While a representative of the county sheriff’s department indicated [...]

ACLU: Justice Denied: Voices from Guantanamo

America Owned by Its Army

Paris, November 3, 2009 – It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress. The nation now confronts a political crisis in which the issue has become an undeclared contest between Pentagon power and that of a newly elected [...]

Massive Atheism Ads Arriving in Major U.S. Cities [Finally]

CNN is reporting (below) that atheist ads are going to be all over New York City’s subways next week, while the Chicago Tribune reveals that the second city is one step ahead (see photo):
Some New Yorkers may want to reconsider exclaiming “Thank God” when arriving at their destination subway station [...]

Anti-corruption Group Discusses Strategy

The new organization dedicated to rooting out political corruption in San Bernardino County held its first public meeting on October 6 in Redlands. The meeting was relocated at the last minute when the San Bernardino Public Employees Association (SBPEA) reneged on its agreement to allow the group to use its [...]

***DANGER***: Bill aims to update, grow Troops to Teachers

Just search this site for anything military, and see if you want this scum infiltrating the educational system to propagandize, indoctrinate and poison your child’s mind.  Here are some examples:

Military Accepting Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Probe Finds
The rise of low-IQ in the US military
The US military and its cult of cruelty
America’s Child Soldiers: [...]

Individual Rights Must Come Before Protecting Religious Institutions

The Obama Administration has changed the way the United States relates to the world.  I tend to think this is good on many levels, but change can be nerve-racking.  An example of this is the recent United Nations Human Rights Council resolution regarding freedom of opinion and expression co-authored by the U.S. [...]

From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News

A company called the Audit Bureau of Circulations measures how many actual newspapers are sold by US dailies and has just released its September 2009 six-month report. Newspaper companies pay the Audit Bureau to conduct this measurement to be able to show potential advertisers how many readers – especially the upscale [...]

How Washington Learned to Love Nonviolence

Nonviolence can be a major force for democratic social change, but not when it becomes a tool for covert intervention.
A close-cropped, no-nonsense infantry officer, Col. Robert Helvey was studying at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs on an Army fellowship. One day in 1987, he happened upon a seminar led by Gene [...]

Jailed cop had history of exposing himself

A former college police officer arrested for exposing himself had previously been accused of flashing women while on patrol in metro Atlanta.
Steven Wayne Turner, a former Carver Bible College officer, remains in the Fulton County jail.
Turner, 28, was arrested last week on charges of false imprisonment, public indecency and distributing obscene materials.
This [...]

10 Steps to End Democracy

Student Refuses to Say Pledge

“When I heard from the principal, I was not happy,” said Jay Phillips.
Jay and Laura Phillips were shocked to hear their 10-year-old talked back to a teacher at West Fork Middle School Thursday – but were less surprised when they found out why.
“Don’t push him – four days of hassle, hassle, hassle [...]

Perpetual war is here — and Americans are getting used to it

A new poll shows a substantial majority of Americans have resigned themselves to the reality of our nation’s perpetual foreign wars. They don’t like it, but they see it happening and know there is nothing they can do about it. The poll, conducted by Clarus Research Group, showed that 68 [...]

Waco Siege “Enforcer” To Rule Over Global Police Force

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, October 12, 2009
United Nations and Interpol officials will meet today to discuss the formation of a “global police force” that would enjoy access to a worldwide database of DNA, biometric and fingerprint records. The effort will be spearheaded by a man known as “The Enforcer” [...]

Irish National Liberation Army ends militancy

The ‘Irish National Liberation Army‘ (INLA) group, responsible for more than 100 killings, including the murder of a Tory MP, has renounced its armed struggle.
“The Irish Republican Socialist Movement has been informed by the INLA that following a process of serious debate… it has concluded that the armed struggle [...]

Canada’s bishop faces child porn charges

Canada’s Roman Catholic Church is suffering from scandal caused by the sexual abuse of children by priests and a Nova Scotia bishop.
Sexual harassment of children by Catholic priests inf Nova Scotia has reportedly been occurring since 1950. It is believed that a total of 39 children have fallen victim to [...]

US soldiers urged to pray for Muslims to become Christians

On Friday, several thousand Muslims gathered in DC for a very peaceful National Day of Prayer.  At the same time, several Evangelical Christian groups gathered to protest the event.  According to a Fox News story,
At a separate event, held simultaneously in a conference room at the Rayburn House Office [...]

Insurance Company Settles Claim for Discriminating against Atheists

GuideOne Mutual Insurance didn’t see any problem with offering special benefits to god-fearing consumers, but atheists and agnostics, not to mention the federal government, sure did. The Department of Justice sued GuideOne in federal court in Kentucky after receiving complaints about the insurer’s “FaithGuard” policy that offered homebuyers, owners and [...]

Firepower and freedom

The brilliant thinkers that wrote our Constitution had it right… They had just fought a war to overthrow an oppressive government, and they had won it by having similar technologies to this oppressive Government and tactics more suitable to the type of war they were fighting. These geniuses wrote the [...]

Former CBS anchorman, Dan Rather, warns of corporate influence over news

(WMR) – On September 16, Dan Rather, the former anchor of the CBS Evening News, warned that today’s news is shaped by very powerful corporate network owners who “are in bed with powerful political interests” that are influenced by government regulatory interests.
Rather spoke at a National Press Club remembrance [...]

CREW’s Most Corrupt: Rep. Jerry Lewis

Representative Jerry Lewis (R-CA) is a sixteen-term member of Congress, representing the 41st district of California. Currently the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, his ethics issues stem primarily from the misuse of his position as chairman of the committee to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks [...]

Banned Books Week organizers remind public of freedom of speech

The arguments over whether to allow Temecula schools to teach the book “Speak” with its themes of date rape, underage drinking and depression still echo as national Banned Book Week begins Saturday.
The annual campaign, from Saturday to Oct. 3, is organized by the American Library Association. It is intended to remind [...]

San Bernardino council votes to send ultimatum to church after receiving sex offender memo

SAN BERNARDINO – The San Bernardino City Council voted late Monday night to send an ultimatum to a local church that hosts an Operation Phoenix youth center after council members received a leaked memo reporting that a registered sex offender had performed work on the premises.The council voted 5-0, following [...]

Time to end the war on drugs

Vancouver in British Columbia, Ciudad Juárez in northern Mexico and Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan are unlikely cousins. But together these three places and their ilk have wrought a remarkable change in one of the world’s most important debates over the past two years.
For decades, the idea of legalizing narcotics was [...]

Informing Students of Their Rights

Here’s a rather silly article on the Fox News website. In the wake of 9/11, lots of schools started requiring students to say the Pledge of Allegiance again, a practice that had waned. But the Supreme Court has ruled, quite correctly, that no student can be forced to say that [...]

The Case for Legalising All Drugs Is Unanswerable

The Extreme Profits to Be Made From Narcotics – a Direct Result of Prohibition – Fuel War and Terrorism.  Legalization Is Urgent
The war on drugs is a failed policy that has injured far more people than it has protected.  Around 14,000 people have died in Mexico’s drug wars since the end [...]

Lt. Cmdr. Paul Chabot Announces Candidacy for 63rd Assembly District

[ Don't let this twit screw us all up .  Follow him at the IEPolitics Blog and learn about his position on prohibition.  We've already got enough problems with the corrupt predators of the military- and prison-industrial complexes running the government.  Chabot, at the age of 12, entered rehab for alcohol and [...]

S.B. County gives no-bid contract to firm headed by supervisor’s

A Rancho Cucamonga firm is being paid $150,000 to measure the quality of life in San Bernardino County in a contract that did not go out to competitive bidding.
The La Jolla Institute, a research and economic development nonprofit group, was awarded the contract Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors.
In a [...]

Operation Phoenix and ACORN, sitting in a tree

Earlier this week, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was caught on video trying to help set up a brothel for underage immigrant girls (thirteen 13-15 year olds) in San Bernardino where the profits would go to support the political career of an aspiring politician. In [...]

Return of Stout a good thing?

[ As Mike Ramos cleans the house that this man helped to build, we suspect that his expressed interest in running again is little more than an advance defense against an investigation of him.  Follow Stout at the iePolitics blog.  The military- and prison-industrial complexes of this [...]

Freedom From Religion Foundation files lawsuit

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – It will soon be up to a judge to decide if the city interfered and contributed to the removal of a billboard at Archibald Avenue and Foothill Boulevard that displayed the message “Imagine No Religion.”
The lawsuit will go to court on Nov. 16.
Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a [...]

Would proposed amendment make birth control illegal in Florida?

TALLAHASSEE – Anti-abortion conservatives are proposing a new constitutional amendment that critics claim would make it a crime to take birth control pills in Florida.
The “Personhood Amendment” that conservative activists are filing today in Tallahassee would add language to the state constitution that defines someone as a “person,” regardless of [...]

Pittsburgh Police: Anarchists attack squad cars at police HQ

Sources indicate nails and screws were forced into the tires on at least a dozen marked and unmarked police cars as well as a number of private cars.
Pittsburgh Bureau of Police sources say at least a dozen police cars and a number of private cars were vandalized.
Sources also confirm police investigators [...]

Blackwater Offers Training to ‘Faith Based Organizations’

In its ever-evolving re-branding campaign, Blackwater has created a new alter-ego for part of the company’s business. Meet the “Personal Security Awareness” program, which appears to be an off-shoot of Erik Prince’s Greystone, Ltd., a classic mercenary operation registered offshore in Barbados. On its website, which was registered on February [...]

The Justice Department wages war on pain relief

No good deed goes unpunished when a private citizen is up against the federal drug warriors–those members of the Department of Justice who have been seeking, with increasing success in recent decades, to effectively control the practice of pain relief medicine. But a current drama being played out in federal court [...]

Former Corrupt San Bernardino County DA says he may run against Ramos

Former San Bernardino County District Attorney Dennis Stout announced Wednesday that he is considering running for his old job in 2010 — challenging District Attorney Mike Ramos, who defeated him in 2002.
Stout, who served as the county’s top prosecutor for eight years, said he believes political corruption is worse than [...]

Alcoholics Anonymous

Site tracks banned books on Google map

A Google map on the Banned Books Week Web site shows more than 120 book challenges that have occurred across the country since 2007.
Are some parts of the United States more prone to censorship than others? Not according to a new map of book censorship incidents that has just been posted [...]

Friendly Atheist under attack by Christian hate group

Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist, is under attack by a right wing Christian hate group. The Illinois Family Institute, led by Laurie Higgins, is harassing celebrity atheist Mehta.
According to Mehta, a high school math teacher, Higgins emailed his boss, his high school’s entire administrative staff, and every school board [...]

Texas public schools now required to teach the Bible

As of the 2009-2010 school year public schools in Texas are now required to offer a high school elective course on the literature of the Bible and history of that era. House Bill No. 1287 explains that the course “must be taught in an objective and non-devotional manner that does [...]

Vatican launches inquiry into ‘abusive’ religious order

The Vatican has launched an investigation into the Legionaries of Christ, a religious order whose secretive founder stands accused of sexually abusing numerous children over decades.
While the Vatican has been rocked by numerous sex-abuse scandals in recent decades, through it all one religious order seemed immune to scrutiny: The Legionaries [...]

Sunday school teacher gets one year for molesting female student

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – A former Sunday school teacher from Ontario will serve a year in jail after pleading no contest to committing a lewd act on a 12-year-old girl in his class.John Calvin Savage, 45, struck a plea bargain with prosecutors on Thursday morning in West Valley Superior Court, Deputy District [...]