(LA MARZULLI) — A few years back, maybe when I first started to BLOG, I was appalled when I heard that Laura Bush was promoting the Harry Potter series. Potter is nothing more than new-age, witch-craft packaged to appeal to our youth. The series have sold millions of books and, in my opinion, is Satanically [...]

(REUTERS) – The Obama administration has authorized operations to capture or kill a U.S.-born Muslim cleric based in Yemen, who is described by a key lawmaker as America’s top terrorist threat, officials said on Tuesday. The decision to add Anwar al-Awlaki, of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to the target list followed a National [...]

(RAW STORY) — In the face of several electoral challenges from tea party-connected candidates, Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul cautioned in a recent interview that Republican “neocon influence” is “infiltrating” the movement he is often credited for creating. “My message is somewhat different,” he said. “The message gets somewhat diluted” with large movements of this [...]

(AP) — Iraqis seeking justice for 17 people shot dead at a Baghdad intersection responded with bitterness and outrage yesterday at a U.S. judge’s decision to throw out a case against a Blackwater security team accused in the 2007 killings. Iraq’s government vowed to pursue the case, which became a source of contention between it [...]

Cara Peggs (INDYSTAR.COM) — Doctors across the country have become involved in politics for the first time in their lives…What future doctor would train for 12 to 16 years at a cost of $200,000 or more to become a government employee? via IndyStar.com

(WND) — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Fox News Channel, strengthened his strategic partnership with Prince Al-Walid bin Talal, acquiring a stake in the Saudi royal’s Rotana media conglomerate. via Rupert Murdoch inks deal with Saudi prince.

(VANITY FAIR) — [T]he truth about [Blackwater CEO Erik] Prince may be orders of magnitude stranger than fiction. For the past six years, he appears to have led an astonishing double life. Publicly, he has served as Blackwater’s C.E.O. and chairman. Privately, and secretly, he has been doing the C.I.A.’s bidding, helping to craft, fund, [...]

This article was originally published in Tom Horn’s Official Disclosure Magazine (no longer published). We archive it here to keep it available for future readers. — PID By Sue Bradley © 2008 Sue Bradley|RaidersNewsNetwork The complexity of the United States beginning in the 1960’s introduced the even darker decade of the 1970’s via Hollywood, television, electronic [...]

Aug 11, 2008 (VOA) — A Cheney spokeswoman said the vice president spoke by telephone Sunday to Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. He expressed U.S. solidarity with the Georgian people and their democratically elected government. Full Report

By SHARON K. GILBERT August 4, 2008 ACCORDING to media reports, Dr. Bruce Ivins committed suicide on July 29, 2008 by intentionally ingesting an overdose of Tylenol mixed with codeine. A whirlwind of spin surrounds this story, with the eye of this storm centering on a woman named Jean Carol Duley, a counselor who may [...]

By SHARON K. GILBERT May 30, 2008 YOU KNOW ME — my internal radar automatically activates whenever political events conveniently collide in what appears to be a ‘planned’ fashion. It’s no wonder then that the timely release of Scott McClellan’s hit piece on the Bush administration sent aforesaid radar into action. While most in the [...]

By SHARON K. GILBERT May 12, 2008 ONE WOULD THINK that the very name of the Department of Homeland Security implies that this ever-expanding governmental entity seeks to maintain a safe and secure environment within the border of the country commonly now known as the ‘homeland’. Part and parcel of this protection mandate, one might [...]

It’ll be interesting to see what happens when these loans come due — say, in about 28 days. As Dwayne, the ‘pest control’ specialist says in the movie ‘Over the Hedge’: “Get ready for a lot of stinging!” — PID Mar 21, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — Big Wall Street investment companies are taking advantage of [...]

European Union now has world’s biggest economy Mar 19, 2008 (WORLDNETDAILY) — The European Union has overtaken the U.S. as the world’s No. 1 economy due to the continued dramatic fall of the dollar, according to a Reuters report. The U.S. Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, for 2007 is officially estimated at $13,843,800 billion. The [...]