Bush to keep ‘grim’ war report secret until after election

A secret US intelligence report which says the political and military situation in Afghanistan is “grim” will be withheld from the public until after the election, a new report says.
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Homeland Security Department Testing Thought-Crime Detector

US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect “hostile thoughts” in people walking through border posts, airports and public places. The DHS says recent tests prove it works.
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US asks G7 nations for help

Henry Paulson, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, turned to Canada and other Group of Seven industrialized countries Sunday to back a sweeping financial relief package to alleviate stresses in the banking system that carries a fast-rising price tag of well over US$700-billion.
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Nationwide: Yet more ‘tent cities’ popping up

RENO, Nevada (AP) — A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.

Then others appeared — people who had lost their jobs to the ailing economy, or newcomers who had moved to Reno for work and discovered no one was hiring.

Within weeks, more than 150 people were living in tents big and small, barely a foot apart in a patch of dirt slated to be a parking lot for a campus of shelters Reno is building for its homeless population. Like many other cities, Reno has found itself with a “tent city” — an encampment of people who had nowhere else to go.
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Vermont candidate to prosecute Bush if she wins

BURLINGTON, Vt. - Lots of political candidates make campaign promises. But not like Charlotte Dennett’s. Dennett, 61, the Progressive Party’s candidate for Vermont Attorney General, said Thursday she will prosecute President Bush for murder if she’s elected Nov. 4.
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The World As We Know It Is Going Down

Panic is the word of the hour on Wall Street. Now even Morgan Stanley is fighting for survival. The commercial bank Wachovia and China’s Bank Citic are being discussed as possible rescuers. The crisis has led President Bush to cancel a trip.
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Senator, Target of Anthrax Letter, Challenges FBI Finding

WASHINGTON — Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a target of the anthrax letters of 2001, said Wednesday that he did not believe the F.B.I.’s contention that an Army scientist conducted the attacks alone. » Read more

The only solution to Americas financial woes?

With more banks failing in the last year than at any time in recent memory, one has to wonder if there is an underlying objective. How can so many financial institutions have failed to forecast and see that the current fiscal policies are completely non-sustainable? Current policies make a small group very rich very quickly and in the long term everyone else looses out. With over a dozen government bailouts pumped into the economy in the last year, when do you call it quits? But what if calling it quits is a secret objective? What if an end result is desired? What end result might it be? Let us find out!
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UFO and National Secrecy and the Freedom of Information Act

For over 60 years, the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) phenomenon has mystified and intrigued Americans. There are many theories concerning the nature of UFOs and they are heatedly debated. Even the usage of the term “UFO” is debated by some.
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Realistic view of US politics with Ron Paul

“If you ever get to the point where you believe the two parties are essentially the same, if the majority is outside of the establishment, it’s not very democratic. The process is not working,” Paul said.

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