WASHINGTON - August 25, 2010 - Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House; privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day.

WASHINGTON - August 25, 2010 - A Republican civil war is raging, with righter-than-thou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party's soul; and the Democrats hope to benefit.

The latest examples of conservative insurgents' clout came Tuesday at opposite ends of the country. In Florida, political newcomer Rick Scott beat longtime congressman and state Attorney General Bill McCollum for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. In Alaska, Tea Party activists and Sarah Palin pushed Senator Lisa Murkowski to the brink of defeat, depending on absentee ballot counts in her race against outsider Joe Miller.

NEW YORK - August 24, 2010 - Five states - Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma and Vermont - go to the polls Tuesday, but only three of them can point to primary elections that are being closely monitored by a national audience.

DETROIT, Michigan - August 23, 2010 - This is your Sequoia touch-screen voting machine with Pac-Man hacked onto it without disturbing any of the "tamper-evident" seals supposedly meant to protect it from hackers.

DENVER, Colorado - August 14, 2008 - Hillary Clinton will have her name placed in nomination at this month's Democratic National Convention in what presumptive nominee Barack Obama's campaign says is a "show of unity" designed to allow Clinton's supporters to have their voice heard before getting behind his campaign.

HOUSTON, Texas - August 12, 2008 - The wife of Republican Representative Dr. Ron Paul was in serious but stable condition Monday at a Houston hospital, a spokesman for the congressman said.

SAN FRANCISCO, California - August 11, 2008 - Cindy Sheehan, an icon of the anti-war movement, has qualified to challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in Congress.

Eligibility hinges on American citizenship

WASHINGTON - August 8, 2008 - Israel Insider is reporting that analysts working separately have determined the birth certificate posted on the Daily Kos website and later on Sen. Barack Obama's "Fight the Smears" campaign website is fraudulent, and now two different actions have been launched to try and obtain the truth about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's birth.

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - August 6, 2008 - I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram, Afghanistan, for about an hour on his visit to 'The War Zone'. I want to share with you what happened.

WASHINGTON - August 21, 2008 - U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.

TOKYO, Japan - August 19, 2008 - The Bank of Japan delivered its bleakest assessment of the economy since the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and 1998 in a sign that a global slump ignited by the tight credit market in the United States might be spreading too quickly for Japan to avert recession.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

LONDON, England - August 19, 2008 - The U.S. money supply has experienced the sharpest contraction in modern history, heightening the risk of a Wall Street crunch and a severe economic slowdown in coming months.

WASHINGTON - August 19, 2008 - The deepening toll from the global financial crisis could trigger the failure of a large U.S. bank within months, a respected former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund claimed today, fuelling another battering for banking shares.

WASHINGTON - August 17, 2008 - The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) reported Friday that the United States Mint has suspended sales of American Eagle gold coins to their network of authorized purchasers.

NEW YORK - August 16, 2008 - America's biggest banks have suffered unprecedented losses from the ongoing credit crisis, and that's made some investors question whether the big financial conglomerates should be broken up in order to survive.

NEW YORK - August 15, 2008 - Cookie retailer Mrs. Fields Famous Brands LLC said on Friday it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to help restructure its business, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - August 14, 2008 - Europe today edged closer to recession for the first time since the single currency was introduced in 1999, after the economy shrank by 0.2 per cent during the second quarter.

NEW YORK - August 14, 2008 - Banks repossessed almost three times as many U.S. homes in July as a year earlier and the number of properties at risk of foreclosure jumped 55 percent as falling prices made it harder to sell or refinance.

SADDLE BROOK, New Jersey - August 13, 2008 - Authorities said a son held Bergen County sheriff's officers at gunpoint as they tried to evict his 88-year-old mother from her foreclosed home.

NEW YORK - August 11, 2008 - The failure of IndyMac Bancorp, Inc. and seven other banks this year may erase as much as 17 percent of a government insurance fund and raise premiums for all banks, from Franklin National of Minneapolis to Bank of America Corp.

Road to Depression
(to the tune of “Road to Morocco”)
by Brent-Emory..Johnson

We’re off on the road to Depression
Where is it, it’s just south of Hell
Where poverty and sickness
Are a way of life
We’ve lost our inspiration
All we have left is strife
Our economic ship has run aground
Like a nation that’s gone bankrupt
We’re Depression-bound!

We’re travelin’ the road to starvation
Just moving as fast as we can
When the truckers who deliver
All our food and drink and more
Stop truckin’ due to high fuel costs
Oh, it will make us sore
‘Cause the shelves will all be empty
At the supermarket store
If we don’t stop fooling around
Then our children will go hungry
We’re Depression-bound!

We’re walking a path of destruction
Our country is going down for good
For years we’ve lived beyond our means
But now our debts are due
It’s time to pay the piper
Who so long supported you
If you listen you can hear the sound
Of America collapsing
We’re Depression-bound!

We’re making our way to extinction
There isn’t so much left for us to do
Our businesses have closed their doors
The manufactories
Have shut down operations
And moved them overseas
The king of despair has been crowned
He has wrapped us in his arms
Oh, we’re Depression-bound!

We’re off on the road to Depression
It isn’t a smooth running ride
Our hopes and dreams have gone away
We have no more time for those
Survival is at stake now
That’s just the way life goes
When our government controls us all
Tyranny then grows
If we ever hope to rebound
We’d better reverse course ‘cause
We’re Depression-bound!

We’re keeping the home fires burning
Each day is much harder than the last
There still remain a vaunted few
Who tirelessly aspire
To help restore our way of life
To standards that are higher
All that we’ve lost must be found
If we’re ever gonna fix this
We’re Depression-bound!

WASHINGTON - August 11, 2008 - The Federal Reserve is reporting that more banks are tightening lending standards on home mortgages, consumer, and business loans as a deepening credit crisis exerts a heavier toll on the economy.

NEW YORK - August 11, 2008 - Five of North America's largest credit unions are reporting big paper losses on mortgage-related securities, a sign that housing-market distress is spreading even to the most risk-averse financial sectors, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said on Monday.

LONDON, England - August 10, 2008 - The CBI, the UK's largest employers' organization, has warned that the UK economy is deteriorating faster than it previously thought.

NEW YORK - August 7, 2008 - Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, reported July sales at stores open a year or more rose 3%, short of analysts' expectation that sales would grow 3.4%. Wal-Mart shares fell over 5%.

• Ann Taylor is closing 117 stores nationwide.
• Eddie Bauer will close more stores after closing 27 stores in the first quarter.
• Cache, a women’s retailer, is closing 20 to 23 stores this year.
• Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Catherines are closing 150 stores nationwide.
• Talbots, J. Jill are closing stores. Talbots will close all 78 of its kids and men's stores plus another 22 underperforming stores. The 22 stores will be a mix of Talbots women's and J. Jill.
• Gap Inc. is closing 85 stores.
• Foot Locker will close 140 stores.
• Wickes Furniture is going out of business and closing all of its stores. The 37-year-old retailer that targets middle-income customers, filed for bankruptcy protection last month.
• Levitz, the furniture retailer, announced it was going out of business and closing all 76 of its stores in December. The retailer dates back to 1910.
• Zales, Piercing Pagoda plan to close 82 stores by July 31 followed by closing another 23 underperforming stores.
• Disney Store owner has the right to close 98 stores.
• Home Depot is closing 15 more stores amid a slumping U.S. economy and housing market. The move will affect 1,300 employees. It is the first time the world's largest home improvement store chain has ever closed a flagship store.
• CompUSA (CLOSED).
• Macy's has closed 9 stores.
• Movie Gallery video rental company plans to close 400 of 3,500 Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video stores in addition to the 520 locations the video rental chain closed last fall as part of bankruptcy.
• Pacific Sunwear is closing 153 Demo stores.
• Pep Boys, auto parts supplier, is closing 33 stores.
• Sprint Nextel is closing 125 retail locations, with 4,000 employees following 5,000 layoffs last year.
• J. C. Penney, Lowe's and Office Depot are all scaling back.
• Ethan Allen Interiors plans to close 12 of 300 stores to cut costs.
• Wilsons the Leather Experts is closing 158 stores.
• Bombay Company will close all 384 U.S.-based Bombay Company stores.
• Dillard's Inc. will close another six stores this year.

NEW YORK - August 4, 2008 - Wall Street takes a look at 8 larger retailers that are in real trouble. Some are at risk for bankruptcy and each of them could have to cut operations so much that their revenue would be a fraction of what it is now.

WASHINGTON - August 4, 2008 - Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades.

NEW YORK - August 1, 2008 - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation revealed on Friday that it had issued warnings to four small U.S. banks that lacked sufficient reserves to cover potential loan losses.

ALBANY, New York - July 30, 2008 - Warning of an approaching economic calamity, Gov. Paterson yesterday called an emergency session of the state Legislature - and raised the specter that New York may have to sell off roads, bridges and tunnels to close a massive budget deficit.

CHICAGO, Illinois - July 29, 2008 - Customers showing up for lunch at Bennigan's restaurants in Chicago and across the country found quite a surprise Tuesday morning, when all the corporate-owned locations had signs on display reading "closed for business."

NEW YORK - July 28, 2008 - The duds say it all - and it's depressing.

Taking a cue from the grim economy, this fall's fashions at Banana Republic, Gap and H&M are featuring a distinctly Depression-era trend of cloche hats, pencil skirts, conductor caps and baggy, vintage-style dresses.

WASHINGTON - July 28, 2008 - U.S. regulators took over two banks on Friday and sold them to Mutual of Omaha Bank, the sixth and seventh bank failures this year as financial institutions struggle with a housing bust and credit crunch.

NEW YORK - July 28, 2008 - According to The New York Times, Financial Times, and other noteworthy publications, hedge funds and other investors are buying up farms, farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators, shipping equipment and other necessities for producing food.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 25, 2014 - Illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama is reportedly set to unlawfully give temporary amnesty to nearly 5 million invaders, and White House officials reportedly believe that it is not a big deal.

KIEV, Ukraine (PNN) - August 25, 2014 - An apparent incursion of tanks and person­nel carriers into southeastern Ukraine on Monday, one day before a high-stakes summit, demonstrated just how difficult it will be for Ukraine to reestablish control over its own territory.

Even as Russian-backed separatists are losing ground on the battlefield, provocations launched from the Russian side of the two countries’ long border remain a constant threat.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - August 25, 2014 - The 1,000 National Guard deployment at the border has begun. Though previous reports stated that the surge had started earlier in August, it had not yet begun at that time.

EDINBOROUGH, Scotland (PNN) - August 25, 2014 - Scotland's referendum on independence - a vote to decide whether Scotland should stay in the United Kingdom or secede - is less than one month away. The political leaders of each side will participate in the last televised debate before the Sept. 18 referendum on Monday night. Here's what you need to know.

FERGUSON, Missouri (PNN) - August 25, 2014 - A very useful YouGov poll that tracks public sentiment about Ferguson over time shows that despite the 24/7 racial demagoguery from cable news network's like CNN and MSNBC, public opinion is moving in the exact opposite direction of the objectives sought by media.

ROSEVILLE, Kalifornia (PNN) - August 25, 2014 - Kalifornia’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge this morning in a significant victory for Second Amendment civil rights. The laws were challenged by Kalifornia gun owners Jeffrey Silvester and Brandon Combs, as well as two gun rights groups, The Calguns Foundation and Second Amendment Foundation.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 25, 2014 - Budget pressures at the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation Division are cutting the number of investigators there to the lowest level in four decades, and officials say the changes are forcing the division to scale back its fight of financial crime.

TRIPOLI, Libya (PNN) - August 25, 2014 - Over the past week a new geopolitical mystery emerged: an unknown party was launching air strikes against Libya, which is already reeling in its latest political crisis where headlines such as this have become the norm.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 25, 2014 - Judicial Watch announced the following developments in the IRS missing emails investigation. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton stated:

Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service said on Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe. The illegitimate Obama regime attorneys said that this backup system would be too onerous to search. The DOJ attorneys also acknowledged that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) is investigating this backup system.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (PNN) - August 15, 2014 - The European Union has harmed itself economically with the sanctions it has imposed on Russia over Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, calling for a rethink.

AUSTIN, Texas (PNN) - August 15, 2014 - A grand jury indicted Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption - making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state's first indicted governor in nearly a century.

FERGUSON, Missouri (PNN) - August 15, 2014 - The Ferguson, Missouri, terrorist pig thug cop who shot an unarmed black teenager Saturday apparently did not know that he was a suspect in a convenience store robbery that happened just minutes earlier, terrorist pig thug cops said in a press conference Friday.

FERGUSON, Missouri (PNN) - August 14, 2014 - Missouri's governor moved on Thursday to calm days of racially charged protests over the terrorist pig thug cop shooting of an unarmed black teenager, naming an African-American captain of the Highway Patrol to oversee security in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

FERGUSON, Missouri (PNN) - August 14, 2014 - In the aftermath of the fatal terrorist pig thug cop murder on Saturday of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man who was unarmed, massive protests erupted in the town of Ferguson, Missouri.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 13, 2014 - Edward Snowden says dishonest comments to Congress by the Fascist Police States of Amerika intelligence chief were the final straw that prompted him to flee the country and reveal a trove of national security documents.

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) - August 12, 2014 - A federal judge in Kalifornia sided mostly with the Fascist Police States of Amerika government this week in a decision handed down concerning classified documents pertaining to the Amerikan Gestapo National Security Agency division’s secret surveillance programs.

By Judge Andrew Napolitano

NEW YORK (PNN) - July 24, 2014 - What if you were allowed to vote only because it didn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you voted the elites always got their way? What if the concept of one person/one vote was just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance?

NEW YORK (PNN) - March 9, 2014 - A former CIA and civilian pilot has sworn an affidavit, stating that no planes flew into the Twin Towers as it would have been physically impossible.

John Lear, the son of Learjet inventor, Bill Lear, has given his expert evidence that it would have been physically impossible for Boeing 767s, like Flights AA11 and UA175 to have hit the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, particularly when flown by inexperienced pilots.

MANILA, Philippines (PNN) - August 6, 2014 - The Philippine military said Wednesday one of Southeast Asia’s top Islamic militants was alive, more than two years after jubilantly declaring he had been killed in a FPSA-backed air strike.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - August 6, 2014 - Vladimir Putin has agreed to a $20 billion trade deal with Iran that will see Russia sidestep Western sanctions on its energy sector.

Under the terms of a five-year accord, Russia will help Iran organize oil sales as well as “cooperate in the oil-gas industry, construction of power plants, grids, supply of machinery, consumer goods and agriculture products”, according to a statement by the Energy Ministry in Moscow.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 6, 2014 - The federal government has concluded there's a new leaker exposing national security documents in the aftermath of surveillance disclosures by former Amerikan Gestapo National Security Agency division contractor Edward Snowden.

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 5, 2014 - Russia called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday over what it called an urgent humanitarian situation in Ukraine, according to a report from the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 5, 2014 - The biggest scandal to ever roil the Amerikan Gestapo National Security Agency division, compliments of Edward Snowden, happened on his watch, but that hasn’t stopped retired General Keith Alexander from demanding a seven-figure technical consulting fee now that he’s a civilian.

Mothers resist government efforts to draft their children.

KIEV, Ukraine (PNN) - August 4, 2014 - The Ukrainian government is desperate for more men on the eastern front to fight the separatists. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced yet a third round of general military mobilization, and draft orders are being delivered across Ukraine. Scores of young men from as far off as the Romanian border face conscription into the military and being sent to fight fellow Ukrainians in the east.

GAZA (PNN) - August 4, 2014 - This narrow strip of land that used to be called “the Gaza Strip,” already one of the more densely populated places on earth, is growing dramatically smaller. The Israeli military, relentlessly and methodically, is driving people out of the 1.8-mile buffer zone it says it needs to protect against Hamas rockets and tunnels. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the buffer zone eats up about 44% of Gaza’s territory.

MELBOURNE, Australia (PNN) - July 31, 2014 - They were warned not to share it, but share it they did.

Australians, intrigued by the latest revelation from WikiLeaks, took to social media to pass on a document they were never meant to see.

On Wednesday morning, the whistleblowing group, headed by Julian Assange, broke a suppression order, which was itself subject to a suppression order.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 30, 2014 - Most of the world is struggling mightily to get the Ukrainian military and the separatist eastern rebels to agree to a ceasefire and negotiations aimed at settling their ongoing conflict. The Fascist Police States of Amerika is taking another approach.

FPSA will feel tangible losses.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - July 30, 2014 - Russia said yesterday it may ban imports of chicken from the Fascist Police States of Amerika and fruit from Europe and is investigating McDonald's cheese for safety. In addition, a Russian lawmaker has drafted legislation that might result in FPSA accounting firms being barred from doing business in his country.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 29, 2014 - The ongoing saga of the constitutionality and enforceability of Washington, DC’s handgun ban added yet another new chapter today, as the federal judge who ruled it unconstitutional issued a stay. The terrorist pig thug cop chief also told terrorist pig thug cops to renew enforcing it.

JERUSALEM, Israel (PNN) - July 28, 2014 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday his country must prepare for a long conflict in the Gaza Strip, squashing any hopes of a swift end to fighting that has already cost more than 1,000 lives.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - July 28, 2014 - Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, said on Saturday he would ban entry to and freeze any bank accounts of illegitimate Fascist Police States of Amerika President Barack Obama and top EU officials for bringing tragedy to Ukraine, in a gesture of defiance after being hit by sanctions.

TRIPOLI, Libya (PNN) - July 26, 2014 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika suspended operations at its embassy in Libya Saturday and evacuated its diplomats to neighboring Tunisia under FPSA military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli, as fighting intensified between rival militias, according to the Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division.

STRASBOURG, France (PNN) - July 25, 2014 - For the first time, a court has ruled on the activities of the Amerikan Gestapo Central Intelligence Agency division’s secret prison network in Europe. The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday found “beyond reasonable doubt” that two current prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, were transferred from Thailand to Poland by the CIA and tortured there.

KIEV, Ukraine (PNN) - July 24, 2014 - Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation Thursday following the collapse of the ruling European Choice parliamentary coalition.

AUSTIN, Texas (PNN) - July 24, 2014 - The state of Texas has shut down its border with Mexico. They are going it alone, showing they will not be messed with by invaders from another country.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 24, 2014 - The tangled web of Amerikan Gestapo Internal Revenue Service division deceit unravels a bit more with news that recycled backup tapes of lost emails still exist and statements before a federal judge that Lois Lerner's hard drive was irreparably damaged were untrue.

GHOUTA, Syria (PNN) - August 29, 2013 - As the machinery for a Fascist Police States of Amerika-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the outlaw FPSA and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit.

Interviews with people in Damascus and Ghouta, a suburb of the Syrian capital, where the humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders said at least 355 people had died last week from what it believed to be a neurotoxic agent, appear to indicate as much.

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 28, 2013 - The Russian and Chinese officials walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday, August 28, after Fascist Police States of Amerika Permanent Representative Samantha Power had called for an immediate action in Syria.

The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - Russia, Britain, China, the FPSA and France - had been invited to the closed meeting. An hour later, the Russian and Chinese diplomats left the meeting and headed to the Security Council’s main conference room where debates on Haiti were taking place.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 28, 2013 - Obamacare not only is unconstitutional, it illegally bypasses Congress, infringes on states’ rights, and marks an unprecedented and unauthorized expansion of Internal Revenue Service power, according to the best selling book, Impeachable Offenses, by authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott.

ISTANBUL, Turkey (PNN) - August 27, 2013 - Western powers have told the Syrian opposition to expect a strike against President Bashar al-Assad's forces within days, according to sources who attended a meeting between envoys and the Syrian National Coalition in Istanbul.

LONDON, England (PNN) - August 26, 2013 - Fascist Police States of Amerika illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama is unlikely to have much trouble mustering a NATO coalition of the willing if Washington opts for military intervention in Syria in response to the already proven false claim that Syria has used chemical weapons against innocent civilians.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 26, 2013 - A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has finally found something that Amerikans like even less than Congress: the possibility of Fascist Police States of Amerika military intervention in Syria. Only 9% of respondents said that the illegitimate Obama regime should intervene militarily in Syria; a RealClear Politics poll average finds Congress has a 15% approval rating, making the country’s most hated political body almost twice as popular.

DAMASCUS, Syria (PNN) - August 26, 2013 - A senior Syrian official on Monday issued a first direct warning that if attacked, his country would retaliate against Israel. Khalaf Muftah, a senior Baath Party official who used to serve as Syria’s assistant information minister, said in a radio interview that Damascus would consider Israel “behind the [Western] aggression and [it] will therefore come under fire.”

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - August 26, 2013 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned outlaw Fascist Police States of Amerika Secretary of State John Kerry over the "extremely dangerous consequences" of launching military action against the Syrian regime, the foreign ministry said Monday.

CAIRO, Egypt (PNN) - August 25, 2013 - Egyptians "remain convinced that (illegitimate dictator) President (Barack) Obama is backing the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed President Mohamed Morsi."

Speaking on August 22, the head of Egypt's Social Democratic Party, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, said, "Amerika is losing Egypt. There is a very strong perception that (it is) supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and (it is) against other parties."

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 24, 2013 - Video-sharing site YouTube deactivated Press TV's official page without explanation after the Israeli-Amerikan Anti-Defamation League (ADL) ordered it to terminate the Iranian channel's live broadcast.

"We have not been able to upload new videos on our official YouTube page since July 25. Both YouTube and (its parent company) Google have declined to comment," said Press TV Newsroom Director Hamid Reza Emadi.

TOPEKA, Kansas (PNN) - August 21, 2013 - Kansas and Arizona filed a lawsuit against the Fascist Police States of Amerika federal government on Wednesday, seeking court approval for states to require proof of FPSA citizenship when registering to vote.

The lawsuit brought by the two Republican-led states accuses an agency of illegitimate outlaw President Barack Obama's bogus regime of preventing them from enforcing state laws that require proof of citizenship as a way to prevent illegal immigrants from voting.

BEIJING, China (PNN) - August 20, 2013 - Communist Party members across China are receiving secret instructions from Beijing to stomp out notions of democracy or rights that are growing among Chinese citizens. It appears that ideas of freedom are creeping into the worker’s paradise and, in a remarkably frank and brutal message, the Party is warning that such ideas (called the “seven perils”) are threatening its hold on China.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 19, 2013 - If the terrorist pig thug cops arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cell phone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the illegitimate outlaw Obama regime asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cell phone searches.

CAIRO, Egypt (PNN) - August 19, 2013 - An Egyptian court ruling has raised the prospect of freedom for deposed President Hosni Mubarak.

Six weeks after the armed forces toppled President Mohamed Mursi and about a week after hundreds died when security forces broke up protests by his Muslim Brotherhood, the FPSA said on Monday it was still reviewing whether to freeze any of the $1.55 billion it gives Egypt in mainly military annual aid.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 18, 2013 - The illegitimate outlaw Obama regime is demanding the nation’s two biggest shipping companies police the contents of Amerikans’ sealed packages, and a FedEx spokesman is warning that the move “has the potential to threaten the privacy of all customers that send or receive packages.”

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 16, 2013 - The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more ridiculous, as he explains that the Fascist Police States of Amerika government has threatened him with criminal charges for his decision to shut down the business rather than agree to some mysterious court order. The feds are apparently arguing that the act of shutting down the business, itself, was a violation of the order.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 12, 2013 - A leader of the Fascist Police States of Amerika congressional insurrection against the National Security Agency's bulk surveillance programs has accused his colleagues of withholding a key document from the House of Representatives before a critical surveillance vote.

Justin Amash, the Michigan Republican whose effort to defund the NSA’s mass phone-records collection exposed deep congressional discomfort with domestic spying, said the House intelligence committee never allowed legislators outside the panel to see a 2011 document that described the surveillance in vague terms.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 2, 2013 – This excerpt is from the PBS News Hour:

RUSSELL TICE, former National Security Agency analyst: The (Fascist Police States of Amerika) was, at that time, using satellites to spy on Amerikan citizens. At that time, it was news organizations, the State Department - including Colin Powell - and an awful lot of senior military people and industrial types.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - August 13, 2013 - In the course of reporting his profile of Laura Poitras, Peter Maass conducted an encrypted question-and-answer session with Edward J.  Snowden, for which Poitras served as intermediary. Below is a full transcript of that conversation.

RALEIGH, North Carolina (PNN) - August 12, 2013 - North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory on Monday signed into law one of the nation’s most wide-ranging Voter ID laws.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (PNN) - August 12, 2013 - Kim Dotcom, of Megaupload scandal fame, is building an encrypted email system that runs on cutting-edge encryption technology.

There's been a spat of privacy-based communications companies shutting down of their own volition rather than cooperate with governmental surveillance measures.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 12, 2012 - In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the illegitimate Obama regime moved on Monday to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to omit listing quantities of illegal substances in indictments for low-level drug cases, sidestepping federal laws that impose strict mandatory minimum sentences for drug-related offenses.

SAN DIEGO, Kalifornia (PNN) - August 11, 2013 - At the Otay crossing near the San Diego border last Monday, about 200 people coming from Mexico gained entry to the Fascist Police States of Amerika all using the same key phrase; they claimed they had a “credible fear” of drug cartels.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 10, 2013 - It has been common knowledge to anyone paying attention within the alternative news community for years, but once again media is now admitting that the Fascist Police States of Amerika military and intelligence agencies are indeed running massive propaganda campaigns that cover a vast array of online networks.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 9, 2013 - The illegitimate outlaw Obama regime on Friday asserted a nonexistent bold and broad power to illegally collect the phone records of millions of Amerikans in order to search for a nugget of information that might thwart a terrorist attack.

ZURICH, Switzerland (PNN) - August 9, 2013 - Amerikans renouncing Fascist Police States of Amerika citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset disclosure rules.

Expatriates giving up their nationality at FPSA embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 8, 2013 - Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured Amerikans will be subjected to new levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new fines under Obamacare.

A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new standards of review and installs new financial penalties for tax-exempt charitable hospitals, which devote a minimum amount of their expenses to treat uninsured poor people. Approximately 60% of Amerikan hospitals are currently nonprofit.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 7, 2013 - Illegitimate outlaw President Barack Obama has decided to cancel a planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the aftermath of Moscow’s decision to grant asylum to Amerikan hero Edward Snowden, who revealed that the Amerikan Gestapo National Security Agency division was spying on innocent Amerikans.

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 7, 2013 - Weeks of revelations about secret Fascist Police States of Amerika surveillance programs could stymie progress on negotiations over new laws and regulations meant to beef up the country's defenses against the growing threat of cyber attacks, according to unnamed cyber security experts with a vested interest in supporting the illegitimate outlaw Obama regime.

Amerikans urged to leave.

SANA’A, Yemen (PNN) - August 7, 2013 - A pair of suspected Fascist Police States of Amerika drone strikes allegedly killed four al Qaeda militants in Yemen as the Fascist Police States of Amerika maintained a heightened security alert in the country and urged all Amerikans to leave immediately.

TUNIS, Tunisia (PNN) - August 6, 2013 - Tens of thousands of protesters have marched in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, to demand the resignation of the Islamist-led government.

It is the largest demonstration of its kind since the latest political crisis began two weeks ago when a prominent opposition politician was assassinated.

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (PNN) - August 5, 2013 - A shooting during a town hall meeting in northeastern Pennsylvania has left three people dead and two others are in critical condition, according to local media reports.

“All I saw was the holes go through the hall,” said Pocono Record reporter Chris Reber, who was at the meeting in the Ross Township municipal building. “I saw smoke and plaster flying out, blowing out through the walls. I was the only person who crawled out. Everyone got behind a table. Some of the supervisors were over on the side throwing up.”

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 5, 2013 - As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of terrorist pig thug officials dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds.

The squad was not with the Washington terrorist pig thug cop department or Amtrak’s terrorist pig thug cop collaborators, but was one of the Amerikan Gestapo Transportation Security Administration division’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads - VIPR for short - assigned to perform unconstitutional random security sweeps to further intimidate the Amerikan people across the Fascist Police States of Amerika.

ROME, Italy (PNN) - August 1, 2013 - Italy's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a jail sentence against Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud in a devastating blow to the four-times prime minister that could throw the country's fragile coalition government into crisis.

The former cruise ship crooner is Italy's most colorful and scandal-prone figure but it was his first definitive conviction in up to 30 court cases on charges ranging from fraud and corruption to having sex with an underage prostitute.

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 1, 2013 - A jury has found former Goldman Sachs banker Fabrice Tourre liable for his role in a mortgage deal that lost some investors $1 billion during the subprime crisis. The ruling is a major victory for the Amerikan Gestapo Securities and Exchange Commission division.

Terrorist rebels using child soldiers.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 28, 2013 - Remember when al-Qaeda members were the bad guys? Obama is now pushing massive funding for Syrian rebels who have not only been linked to al-Qaeda, but are gruesomely beheading innocent Christians and using 14-year-old child soldiers.

LIMA, Peru (PNN) - August 2, 2013 - Thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with terrorist pig thug cops in Peru while marching towards the congress building in the capital.

Outlaw dictator Obama and fascist regime defeated by courageous Russian stance.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - August 1, 2013 - Defying the Fascist Police States of Amerika, Russia granted Edward Snowden temporary asylum on Thursday, allowing the National Security Agency leaker and heroic Amerikan seeker of truth to slip out of the Moscow airport where he has been holed up for weeks in hopes of evading bogus espionage charges back home.

CAIRO, Egypt (PNN) - July 30, 2013 - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas laid out his vision on Monday for the final status of Israeli-Palestinian relations ahead of peace talks due to resume in Washington for the first time in nearly three years.

Abbas said that no Israeli settlers or border forces could remain in a future Palestinian state and that Palestinians deem illegal all Jewish settlement buildings within the land occupied in the 1967 Six Days War.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 29, 2013 - In a sharp memo sent this morning to fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill, Senator Jeff Sessions argues that the GOP elite view on immigration - shared by illegitimate President Barack Obama and Senator Chuck Schumer - is "nonsense". Instead, Sessions, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, advises his fellow Republicans to adopt a "humble and honest populism".

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 29, 2013 - Former Deputy Fascist Police States of Amerika Attorney General James Comey, a Republican who gained fame when he refused to sanction a government surveillance initiative in 2004, won Senate confirmation on Monday as illegitimate President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division. The vote was 93-1.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 28, 2013 - Congress needs to raise the debt limit and take away the "cloud of uncertainty" about the nation's ability to pay its bills, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

"The fight over the debt limit in 2011 hurt the economy, even though, in the end, we saw an extension of the debt limit. We saw confidence fall and it hurt the economy," Lew said on NBC's Meet The Press. “Congress needs to do its job. It needs to finish its work on appropriation bills. It needs to pass a debt limit."

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 25, 2013 - Halliburton Co. has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division said on Thursday.

The government said Halliburton's guilty plea is the third by a company over the spill and requires the world's second-largest oilfield services company to pay a maximum $200,000 statutory fine.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 25, 2013 - As the Fascist Police States of Amerika prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, the government watchdog charged with overseeing nearly $100 billion in contracts to reconstruct the country has found almost $2 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in the last three months alone - some of which has likely led to the deaths of Amerikan servicemen and women, according to the agency’s reports.

Technology would compel Citizens to give up their privacy and liberty.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 17, 2013 - Two members of congress - Jerry McNerney (Kalif.) and Matt Cartwright (Penn.) - have introduced H.R.2685 - the “Smart Grid Advancement Act” - which would require all electricity providers (including rural cooperatives and municipal utilities) to join the ‘smart’ grid and install ‘smart’ meters.

Fascist government says suspicion of terrorism is sufficient to justify murder.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (PNN) - August 19, 2012 - On Friday Pakistan’s military chief ruled out a joint Fascist Police States of Amerika-Pakistan invasion of the North Waziristan Agency, and also seemed to downplay the possibility of a unilateral offensive any time soon. The FPSA has been pounding the agency ever since.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (PNN) - August 19, 2012 - In an explosive complaint filed in Suffolk Superior Court that could not only take down the current MassGOP Chairman, Bob Maginn, two former congressmen, Peter Blute and Peter Torkildsen, may end up in jail for political and financial corruption.

QUITO, Ecuador (PNN) - August 18, 2012 - British threats to invade Ecuador’s embassy will be discussed at international-level talks between the foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. The proposal was adopted despite the Fascist Police States of Amerika saying OAS has nothing to do with the issue.

Diplomatic cables reveal truth concerning illegal acts of fascist nation.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 17, 2012 - Declassified diplomatic cables from Australia’s embassy in Washington D.C., obtained through Freedom of Information requests, reveal that Australian officials have already begun laying the groundwork for the Fascist Police States of Amerika to pursue charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

BERLIN, Germany (PNN) - August 17, 2012 - The German military will in the future be able to use its weapons on German streets in an extreme situation, the Federal Constitutional Court says.

The ruling says the armed forces can be deployed only if Germany faces an assault of "catastrophic proportions", but not to control demonstrations.

Hypocritical outlaw regime claims it can invade foreign embassies with impunity.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 17, 2012 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika said Friday that it did not believe in “diplomatic asylum” after Ecuador offered to let WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stay indefinitely in its embassy in London.

ALEPPO, Syria (PNN) - August 16, 2012 - With the West still refusing to arm Syria’s opposition in the bloody fight against the regime, rebels in the flashpoint northern city of Aleppo warn that they could turn to al Qaeda for help.

Allegations levied against government shill group.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 16, 2012 - At a Thursday press conference, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins partially blamed the fascist government shill organization Southern Poverty Law Center for the Wednesday shooting in the lobby of his organization’s headquarters.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 14, 2012 - The Amerikan Gestapo Department of Homeland Security division is investigating complaints from airport security officers that the "chat-down" program at Boston's Logan airport has become a magnet for racial profiling.

AMIENS, France (PNN) - August 14, 2012 - Hundreds of French youths torched buildings and cars and clashed with pig thug cops, injuring 16 cops during an overnight riot in the northern French city of Amiens.

French thug cops reported that the clashes involved some 100 rioters and 150 cops, beginning around 9:00 pm Monday and ending around 4:00 am Tuesday.

LONDON, England (PNN) - August 14, 2012 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to be granted asylum in Ecuador by President Rafael Correa.

Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London on June 19 after losing his appeal against extradition to Sweden where he is wanted over fabricated allegations of sexual offenses.

Outlaw thug judge says national security is more important than individual liberty.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 14, 2012 - A fascist federal judge Tuesday unlawfully threw out a lawsuit filed against the Fascist Police States of Amerika government and the Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division over the agency’s spying on Orange County Muslims, ruling that allowing the lawsuit to go forward would risk divulging sensitive state secrets.

Criminal FPSA government agreed to not pursue drug cartel in exchange for information.

CHICAGO, Illinois (PNN) - August 13, 2012 - According to a high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative who is currently in Fascist Police States of Amerika custody, there are some things that the Amerikan people are not being told about the illegal government Fast and Furious gunrunning operation.

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 13, 2012 - Most voters still want to see illegitimate President Obama’s healthcare law repealed, and a plurality believes repeal would be good for the economy.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% of likely Fascist Police States of Amerika voters favor repeal of the national healthcare law, while 38% are opposed. This includes 46% who strongly favor repeal and 29% who strongly oppose it.

Outlaw regimes intrude on the privacy of innocent citizens.

LONDON, England (PNN) - August 13, 2012 - It sounds like something from the film Minority Report: a Closed Circuit Television surveillance system that recognizes people from their faces or walks and analyzes whether they might be about to commit a terrorist or criminal act. But Trapwire is real and, according to documents released online by WikiLeaks last week, is being used in a number of countries to try to monitor people and threats.

Morsi revokes military-declared constitutional amendments.

CAIRO, Egypt (PNN) - August 12, 2012 - Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi made waves on Sunday by ordering the removal of several figures in Egypt's military and revoking a military-declared constitutional amendment that had granted the military far reaching powers over the country.

CARACAS, Venezuela (PNN) - August 10, 2012 - An American arrested in Venezuela while entering illegally from Colombia is a former Fascist Police States of Amerika Marine and is refusing to explain himself under interrogation, President Hugo Chavez said on Friday.

MERIDIAN, Mississippi (PNN) - August 10, 2012 - The Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division has accused thug officials in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, of running a school-to-prison pipeline that jails juveniles for even minor school disciplinary problems.

Outlaw government allows outlaw organization to get away with its crimes.

RALEIGH, North Carolina (PNN) - August 8, 2012 - The notorious private military contracting firm formerly known as Blackwater has agreed to pay a fine of $7.5 million that allows it to avoid prosecution for 17 charges including arms smuggling, marking the end of a five-year federal criminal investigation, according to documents released Tuesday in a Fascist Police States of Amerika District Court in North Carolina.

Federal fascists given immunity from prosecution for illegal acts by government.

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) August 8, 2012 - A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government is immune to wireless wiretapping lawsuits in a decision that the plaintiff’s attorney says releases Washington and the White House from ever being held accountable for spying on citizens.

Fascist dictator seeks authority to lock up anyone forever without charges or evidence.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 7, 2012- The White House has filed an appeal in hopes of reversing a federal judge’s ruling that bans the unconstitutional indefinite military detention of Amerikans because attorneys for the illegitimate president say they are justified to imprison alleged terrorists without charges.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 6, 2012 - People retiring today are part of the first generation of workers who have paid more in Social Security taxes during their careers than they will receive in benefits after they retire. It's a historic shift that will only get worse for future retirees, according to an Associated Press analysis.

AUSTIN, Texas (PNN) - August 5, 2012 - A death row prisoner who has been medically diagnosed as “mentally retarded” and therefore exempt from execution is set to die on Tuesday in Texas, a state that rejects scientific consensus and instead applies its own definition of learning difficulties based on a character in a John Steinbeck novel.

TEHERAN, Iran (PNN) - August 5, 2012 - Iranian television on Sunday broadcast confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010.

Terrorist troops unlawfully conduct training exercises in civilian areas.

WORCESTER, Massachusetts (PNN) - August 2, 2012 - Military aircraft flying low over the city tonight were part of an illegal military exercise being conducted by the Fascist Police States of Amerika Army, according to Maj. Emily Potter, public affairs officer and official liar for the Army.

PORTLAND, Oregon (PNN) - August 2, 2012 - Search warrants targeting three Portland homes last week were part of a Fascist Police States of Amerika effort to learn more about the anarchist movement and vandalism in downtown Seattle during a May Day rally.

CHICAGO, Illinois (PNN) - July 22, 2012 - Tonya Reaves was pronounced dead at 11:20 p.m., according to the Cook County Examiner's office. An autopsy on Saturday showed that Reaves died from hemorrhage after a Dilation and Evacuation (abortion) procedure, which is usually performed in the second trimester. A D&E procedure consists of dilating the cervix and removing the unborn baby in pieces. The medical examiner's office said that an intrauterine pregnancy also contributed to her death.

MINSK, Belarus (PNN) - August 2, 2012 - Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, smarting after a pro-democracy stunt in which teddy bears were dropped into Belarus, told his new border guards chief on Thursday to use weapons to stop any more unlawful air intrusions by foreigners.

ANAHEIM, Kalifornia (PNN) - August 1, 2012 - If you’d been following the news from Kalifornia following Tuesday’s Anaheim riots spurred by a protest of a nonexistent pig thug cop force continuum that led to two fatal shootings of suspects in the southern Kalifornia city, chances are you haven’t been getting much accurate information on the current state of Anaheim.

Robert Holmes planned to name perpetrators of biggest fraud ever in Senate testimony.

AURORA, Colorado (PNN) - July 30, 2012 - Shocking details have emerged over the weekend regarding the alleged movie theater shooter James Holmes.

Robert Holmes, the shooting suspect’s father, is a senior lead scientist with the San Diego, Kalifornia offices of Fair Isaac Co. (FICO), the Amerikan credit score company. He was scheduled to testify in the next few weeks before a Fascist Police States of Amerika Senate panel that is investigating the largest bank fraud scandal in world history - the London Interbank Offer Rate (LIBOR) scandal - linking high level executives to their crimes. He was reportedly ready to name big names involved in the massive global fraud. This banking fraud scandal threatens to destabilize and destroy the entire Western banking system.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (PNN) - July 30, 2012 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika Supreme Court may have declared that the government can order Amerikans to get health insurance, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to obey.

Federal outlaw officials guilty of obstruction of justice.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 30, 2012 - A federal court in Washington, DC, held last week that political appointees appointed by illegitimate President Obama did unlawfully interfere with the Department of InJustice’s prosecution of the New Black Panther Party.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 29, 2012 - Surveillance drones have a new mission. According to the Amerikan Gestapo Department of Homeland Security division, they will be used for public safety. Janet Napolitano, fascist Secretary of the DHS, told a House Committee meeting on Homeland Security that the more than 30,000 drones that will be deployed into Amerikan skies are just arbitrarily watching out for Fascist Police States of Amerika citizens.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 28, 2012 - A high ranking Fascist Police States of Amerika commander in Afghanistan has come under scrutiny after FPSA military officials accused him of opposing a probe into poor conditions and the ill-treatment of patients at an Afghan-run FPSA-funded hospital in Kabul.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 26, 2012 - As you scan the face on that giant billboard, it may just be scanning your face right back.

Increasingly sophisticated digital facial recognition technology is opening new possibilities in business, marketing, advertising, and terrorist cop tactics while exacerbating fears about the loss of privacy and the violation of civil liberties.

Fascist school officials ignore concerns about personal privacy and individual freedom.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (PNN) - July 25, 2012 - Many Scottsdale students will find a new procedure when the school year begins next month.

Scottsdale Unified School District officials say middle and high school students will be required to wear student ID cards so that they are clearly visible during the school day.

TRIPOLI, Libya (PNN) - August 26, 2011 - The terrorist groups that make up the invaders attacking Libya said they were sending in special forces units in their hunt for the country’s leader, Colonel Moammar Qaddafi, whose supporters are reportedly pinned down in pockets of resistance in the capital, Tripoli.

WASHINGTON - August 25, 2011 - New York’s police commissioner confirmed Thursday that a CIA officer is working out of police headquarters there, after an Associated Press investigation revealed an unusual partnership with the CIA that has blurred the line between foreign and domestic spying. But he and the CIA said the spy agency's role at the department is only an advisory one.

WASHINGTON - August 25, 2011 - Illegitimate President Barack Obama has declared an emergency for North Carolina that is expected to be hit by Hurricane Irene over the weekend.

NEW YORK - August 25, 2011 - With Hurricane Irene barreling towards New York, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) said it might close the city’s entire mass transit system, officials said this afternoon.

The decision to stop buses, the subway and trains would be made if high winds and torrential rain became too dangerous to continue service, jittery transit officials said.

TRIPOLI, Libya (PNN) - August 24, 2011 - Libya's occupying forces offered a million-dollar bounty for the capture of Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Qaddafi on Wednesday, after he urged his men to carry on a battle to preserve the sovereign nation from the terrorists attacking it.

Western leaders who unlawfully supported the terrorists invading Libya attempted to downplay Qaddafi’s inspiring audio message last night to patriotic Libyans who continue fighting the terrorist incursion into their country.

KABUL, Afghanistan - August 23, 2011 - NATO’s war planners call it the “iron mountain,” the $2.7 billion mass of military equipment that will be dropped on Afghanistan over the next eight months. But will the mountain be tall enough?

MANILA, Philippines - August 23, 2011 - The Philippines and Vietnam each received warships Tuesday to beef up their navies as they face tensions with China about disputed islands, raising the prospect of an escalating arms race in the South China Sea.

The two Southeast Asian nations also are shopping for additional military assets, including submarines for Vietnam and air defense radar for the Philippines, as the impoverished nations try to gain leverage with their huge northern neighbor while staying within their budgets.

WASHINGTON - August 22, 2011 - The Federal Communications Commission gave the coup de grace to the fairness doctrine Monday, as the commission axed more than 80 media industry rules.

NEW YORK - August 22, 2011 - Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever, with $104 billion of profits.

By 2008, the housing market’s collapse forced those companies to take more than six times as much, $669 billion, in emergency loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The loans dwarfed the $160 billion in public bailouts the top 10 got from the U.S. Treasury, yet until now the full amounts have remained secret.

CONCORD, New Hampshire - August 18, 2011 - Fresh off a strong finish in the Iowa straw poll, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul said Thursday that he's optimistic about winning the New Hampshire primary, despite what he calls a lack of media attention.

Paul finished 152 votes behind U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in last weekend's straw poll and typically polls alongside the presumed top tier of candidates for the Republican nomination for president. But he's not always part of the national conversation.

ANKARA, Turkey - August 18, 2011 - Turkey's air force attacked 60 suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, the military said Thursday, and it vowed to continue the assault until the guerrilla group is "rendered ineffective".

The attacks, which also involved 168 rounds of artillery, occurred in the largely mountainous region near the Turkey-Iraq border and on Mount Qandil on the Iraqi-Iranian border, where the leaders of the rebel group Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, are believed to be hiding, the military said in a statement.

LONDON, England - August 17, 2011 - France and Germany were accused of masterminding a “monstrous” grab for power last night.

The two governments came under fire after calling for a “collective economic government” for the eurozone over the debt crisis.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - August 16, 2011 - A 15-year trade dispute between the United States and Mexico is over. The new agreement means trucks from Mexico will soon be on Texas highways. But the change could also be an opportunity for drug cartels.

The Mexican company Still hopes to be among the first to make long haul deliveries in the U.S.  For years, opponents have warned Mexican big rigs wont meet safety standards.

DUBUQUE, Iowa - August 16, 2011 - Texas Governor Rick Perry did not back down on Tuesday, but he did not repeat his suggestion that the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve were potentially “treasonous” and could warrant “ugly” treatment should the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, ever pay a visit to Texas.

WASHINGTON - August 16, 2011 - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF) has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico.

All three have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became apparent that it was out of control. At least 2,000 guns were lost and many turned up at crime scenes in Mexico, and two at the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.

LONDON, England - August 13, 2011 - One in five of the suspects appearing before magistrates for violations connected with the recent riots here are children.

The statistic is highlighted by the most comprehensive analysis yet of the first defendants facing the courts following last week's violence.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 12, 2011 - An appeals court issued a blow to the White House when it ruled Friday that illegitimate President Barack Obama's health care law requiring Amerikans to buy health care insurance or face a penalty is unconstitutional.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Amerikans to buy coverage, but also ruled that the rest of the wide-ranging law could remain in effect.

LONDON, England - August 11, 2011 - Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined a number of new police powers that are being considered in the wake of the UK riots.

Mr. Cameron announced that police would be given new powers to demand suspected criminals remove facemasks while ministers were also looking at whether any wider powers of curfew were necessary.

WASHINGTON - August 10, 2011 - Privacy is a major concern in today's day and age, whether regulators are calling Facebook out on its invasive features like facial recognition or consumers are worrying about new camera technology like license plate recognition and red light cameras.

LONDON, England - August 10, 2011 - Youths fought running battles with police in English cities and towns overnight but London, where thousands of extra police were deployed, was largely peaceful after three turbulent nights in which youths rampaged in parts of the capital virtually unchecked.

Manchester and Liverpool in the northwest and Birmingham in central England suffered the worst of the overnight violence, which broke out in north London on Saturday after a protest over a police shooting of a suspect two days earlier.

SANTIAGO, Chile - August 9, 2011 - Chilean riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons Tuesday to disperse violent protesters on the fringe of an otherwise peaceful student demonstration in the capital city of Santiago.

Tens of thousands of teachers, students, parents and sympathetic labor activists marched in downtown Santiago for the fifth time in two months to demand reforms from the conservative government of President Sebastian Pinera.

LONDON, England - August 9, 2011 - London is reeling from three nights of rioting that has poured hundreds of people into the streets, leaving several local neighborhoods in shambles. One man is dead; dozens have been injured and/or arrested.

LONDON, England - August 9, 2011 - Britons swept up, patched up and feared further violence Tuesday, demanding police do more to protect them after three nights of rioting left looted stores, torched cars and blackened buildings across London and several other UK cities.

Police said they were working full-tilt, but found themselves under attack - from rioters roaming the streets, from a scared and worried public, and from politicians whose cost cutting is squeezing police numbers ahead of next year's Olympic Games.

DADAAB, Kenya - August 8, 2011 - Wearing a linen trouser suit, neon-green Nike trainers, and a CNN lapel-mic, Jill Biden sat in the shade of an acacia tree and listened solemnly to Fatuma Adem's story.

Watching the wife of the U.S. vice president touring the world's biggest refugee camp for famine-hit Somalis was a scrum of television cameramen, international reporters and Washington staffers thumbing their BlackBerrys.

BOSTON, Massachusetts - August 8, 2011 - As the rate of cancer spikes among Transportation Security Agency (TSA) officers who work near the full-body scanners at the Boston Logan Airport, union reps are alarmed at having been misinformed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and TSA regarding the safety of these machines.

NEW YORK - August 8, 2011 - More than 45,000 Verizon workers were on strike for a second day Monday after negotiations broke down.

The strike is the first ever in the 11-year history of the second-largest U.S. phone carrier. The company has promised no service interruptions, saying that 40,000 managers, retirees, and contractors have been trained to fill the roles of union employees.

WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin - August 5, 2011 - Witnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially charged scene.

QUARTZSITE, Arizona - August 5, 2011 - Superior Court Judge Robert Bartlett has issued a temporary restraining order telling the Town of Quartzsite they cannot terminate any of the police department employees currently under investigation until those employees have a meaningful pre-termination hearing with a neutral decision-maker. The order was handed down August 1.

SANTIAGO, Chile - August 5, 2011 - More than 500 people were arrested and 14 wounded in cities across Chile Thursday when police fired water cannons and tear gas to disperse student protesters calling for education reforms.

CAIRO, Egypt - August 3, 2011 - An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal cage with his two sons standing protectively beside him in white prison uniforms, denied charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters at the start of his historic trial on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 3, 2011 - A federal judge has ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former U.S. military contractor who says he was tortured during a nine-month imprisonment in Iraq.

The lawsuit lays out a dramatic tale of the disappearance of the then-civilian contractor, an Army veteran in his 50s, whose identity is being withheld from court filings for fear of retaliation.

WASHINGTON - August 2, 2011 - The secret USA PATRIOT Act is staying secret.

Two Senators have been warning for months that the government has a secret legal interpretation of the USA PATRIOT Act so broad that it amounts to an entirely different law - one that gives the feds massive domestic surveillance powers and keeps the rest of us in the dark about the snooping.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 2, 2011 - The proposed so-called "super Congress," created by congressional leaders in the debt deal and required to find $1.5 trillion in debt reduction over the next ten years, could wind up making those decisions behind closed doors, away from the public eye.

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - August 1, 2011 - A picture of your face is all it takes for Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to access a wealth of personal information. He and colleagues used PittPatt facial recognition software, which was developed at CMU and recently bought by Google, to match people with their Facebook profiles and gather names, birth dates and other demographics for one in three test subjects.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 1, 2011 - On Sunday afternoon, the U.S. Senate voted not to advance Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's bill, which would raise the debt ceiling and cut spending and the federal deficit on Sunday afternoon.

The deal, negotiated primarily by Vice President Joseph Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kent.), teetered all day on the edge of completion, as House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) bickered with Democrats over whether to freeze defense spending next year.

WASHINGTON - July 31, 2011 - In order to shore up GOP support for a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Senate Democrats are exploring ways of giving the proposed "super Congress" even greater super powers, according to multiple news reports and congressional aides with knowledge of the plan.

Under the new proposal, if the new legislative body, made up of six Democrats and six Republicans from both chambers, doesn't come up with a bill that cuts at least $1.5 trillion by Thanksgiving, entitlement programs will automatically be slashed.

WASHINGTON - August 25, 2010 - A newly released report claims that illegitimate U.S. President Barack Obama is a CIA creation, as his clandestine life poses question after question.

KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait - August 19, 2010 - A line of heavily armored Amerikan military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the pre-dawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wire and metal gates marking the border between Iraq and Kuwait early Thursday and rolled into history.

WASHINGTON - August 23, 2010 - The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.

August 4, 2010 - There is probably no more horrific and frightening incurable disease than Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Also known as the human form of mad cow disease, this degenerative, always fatal brain disorder strikes about one person in every million worldwide each year, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). CJD results in the brain literally being turned into sponge-like, hole-filled tissue (the reason the disease is also known as spongiform encephalopathy). It usually runs a rapid course, causing failing memory, hallucinations, lack of coordination and visual disturbances followed by total mental deterioration, involuntary movements, blindness and coma.

HACKENSACK, New Jersey (PNN) - August 23, 2010 - Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by unwanted federal health care reforms.

NJ Protect plans are available to those who have been without insurance for at least six months and submit evidence of pre-existing health conditions.

SAN DIEGO, Kalifornia - August 19, 2010 - Kalifornia is deploying a first group of 224 National Guard troops to its southern border with Mexico to assist border patrol agents attempting to stem the flow of drugs and illegal aliens.

"Today, our National Guard has been called to help secure the border and protect the safety of the Amerikan people," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

NEW YORK - August 23, 2010 - In a series of events that have caused wide notice and a storm of protests, the government of Mexico, through its consulate in New York in the United Nations, has announced it will begin patrolling the New York City borough of Staten Island to safeguard its nationals there.

KABUL, Afghanistan - August 12, 2010 - A crowd of about 300 villagers yelled "Death to the United States" and blocked a main road in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday as they swore that U.S. forces had killed three innocent villagers, officials said.

SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia - Bloomberg August 23, 2010 - Kalifornia will delay paying $2.9 billion of subsidies to schools and counties in September, a month earlier than projected, to save cash amid an impasse that has left the state without a budget for 54 days.

The state's top financial officials - the controller, treasurer and finance director - told lawmakers today that the deferred payments need to start next month instead of October to make sure there's enough money to pay bondholders. The delay is in addition to $3.2 billion the state pushed back in July.

By Stephen Lendman

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Florida - August 17, 2010 - On August 15, AP reported that Obama gave his "personal assurances of (the) Gulf's safety," saying, "Beaches all along the Gulf Coast are clean, they are safe, and they are open for business."

He lied.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - August 22, 2010 - Iraq has between 25% - 50% unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What havoc the United States has wrought in Iraq.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - August 22, 2010 - The U.S. military and the illegitimate Obama regime loudly trumpeted the withdrawal of the "last combat brigade" from Iraq last week, but news reports suggest the move is purely semantic: combat brigades are still there, but under a different name.

The Army Times reported on Saturday that the U.S. still has seven combat brigades inside Iraq, but they have been renamed "advise and assist brigades." The name change will reportedly change little in terms of the duties the brigades carry out.

WASHINGTON - August 16. 2010 - Senator Carl Levin was hit in the face with a pie this morning at a question-and-answer session on what should've been friendly ground in Big Rapids.

The Democrat from Detroit was speaking to members of the Mecosta County Democrat Party when a young man - who described himself as a student - began chastising Levin for his work on the Senate Armed Services Committee, which helps direct military and war policy.

BOSTON, Massachusetts - August 21, 2010 - Logan International Airport security just got more up close and personal as federal screeners launched a more aggressive palms-first, slide-down body search technique that has renewed the debate over privacy vs. safety.

The new procedure - already being questioned by the American Civil Liberties Union - replaces the Transportation Security Administration’s former back-of-the-hand patdown.

WASHINGTON - August 4, 2010 - For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.

CASTAIC, Kalifornia - August 20, 2010 - A high-tech ray gun built for the military that fires an invisible heat beam capable of causing unbearable pain will be tested on unruly inmates in the sheriff's detention facility in Castaic, officials said Friday at an unveiling event.

The "Assault Intervention System" (AIS) developed by the Raytheon Co. could give the Sheriff's Department another tool to quell disturbances at a 65-inmate dormitory at the Pitchess Detention Center's North County Correctional Facility, said Cmdr. Bob Osborne, head of the technology exploration branch of the sheriff's Department of Homeland Security Division.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida - August 16, 2010 - The Florida Supreme Court will consider this week whether to restore Proposition C, a ballot measure that would prohibit the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for not having it, a key provision of illegitimate President Obama's health care law.

LONDON, England - August 11, 2010 - Thousands of British online banking customers have fallen victim to a sophisticated attack by cyber criminals who have stolen thousands of pounds from their accounts.

About 3,000 online banking customers have been victims of a computer virus attack that empties their accounts while showing them fake statements so the scam goes undetected.

LONDON, England - August 16, 2010 - The billionaire head of the private equity giant that owns Center Parcs and the London Eye has likened illegitimate U.S. President Barack Obama’s plans to raise taxes on the private equity industry as being akin to Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland.

The comments, made by Blackstone chairman and co-founder Steve Schwarzman in what he thought was a private meeting, reflect the strength of feeling among Wall Street’s private equity chiefs who are being threatened with paying the same levels of tax on their income as ordinary Amerikans.

NEW YORK - August 13, 2010 - Illegitimate President Obama gave the proposed mosque near Ground Zero a clear and powerful endorsement last night.

"Let me be clear: as a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country," the illegitimate president said to applause from the 90 guests at a White House dinner celebrating the holy month of Ramadan.

DETROIT, Michigan (PNN) - August 4, 2010 - Incumbents beware. Another lawmaker just bit the dust.

Democrat Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Michigan lost her bid for an eighth term on Tuesday; the legal woes of her son Kwame, the former Detroit mayor, dragging her down in a year when voters seem eager to fire longtime lawmakers.

WASHINGTON - August 13, 2010 - The growing use by the police of new technologies that make surveillance far easier and cheaper to conduct is raising difficult questions about the scope of constitutional privacy rights, leading to sharp disagreements among judges.

WASHINGTON/ANCHORAGE, Alaska - August 10, 2010 - Former Senator Ted Stevens, who for years had a strong hand in controlling the nation's purse strings, died in a small plane crash that killed at least five people in his home state of Alaska, a family spokesman said on Tuesday.

LONDON, England - August 11, 2010 - Britain's eccentrics, recluses and misanthropes, you can relax. Ignoring neighbors and keeping your curtains permanently shut to the world outside might not win you many friends, but you're no longer likely to be denounced as a possible terrorist.

A radio advert that urged listeners to consider calling the police's anti-terrorist hotline if they had suspicions about local people who avoided company, kept their windows covered and eschewed bank cards for cash has been banned for potentially causing "serious offence".

TEHERAN, Iran - August 4, 2010 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was unharmed when a homemade explosive went off near his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan on Wednesday, a source in his office said.

But official media said only a firecracker had been set off by a young man excited to see the president and a police chief called news of an attack a "big lie" spread by foreign media.

NEW YORK - August 10, 2010 - Anti-mosque advertisements depicting a plane about to crash into a flaming World Trade Center will soon be displayed on New York City buses after the transit authority relented and agreed to the ads.

The display asking "Why There?" is the latest attempt by opponents to block the proposed Cordoba House Islamic community center two blocks from the site of the events of September 11, 2001.

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri - August 3, 2010 - Missouri voters on Tuesday easily approved a measure aimed at nullifying the new federal health care law, becoming the first state in the nation where ordinary people made known at the ballot box their dismay over the issue.

The measure was intended to invalidate a crucial element of illegitimate President Obama’s health care law - namely, that most people be required to get health insurance or pay a tax penalty. Supporters of the measure said it would send a firm signal to Washington about how this state, often a bellwether in presidential elections, felt about such a law.

WASHINGTON - August 9, 2010 - Gallup presents some troubling statistics for the Democrats as we approach mid-term elections. In a nutshell, the party of a president who has a sub-50% rating into midterms has lost, on average, 36 seats since 1946.

RICHMOND,     Virginia - August 2, 2010 - Virginia's top prosecutor, after issuing a legal opinion that seemed to align his state with Arizona in the battle over local immigration enforcement, told Fox News on Monday that the two states' policies aren't a perfect match.
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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued a legal opinion Friday saying state law enforcement officers are allowed to check the immigration status of anyone "stopped or arrested."

BELL, Kalifornia - August 7, 2010 - The explosive scandal that saw officials in the lower-income city of Bell, Kalifornia (population 40,000) purged last month due to outrageous salaries and pensions may have had its roots in voter fraud.

WASHINGTON - August 2, 2010 - In a new profile in Details magazine, Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul is quoted arguing that the coal mining industry should be allowed to self-regulate without interference from the federal government.

PHOENIX, Arizona - August 6, 2010 - Arizona and other states are striking back at efforts by the illegitimate Obama regime to kill their legal challenge to the new federal health care plan.

Legal papers filed Friday by lawyers representing the 20 states challenging the regime say both they and their taxpayers will face immediate harm if a federal judge in Florida does not block the law from being implemented.

LAHORE, Pakistan - August 1, 2010 - The Pakistan Taliban may be responsible for attacks that have killed more than 1,000 civilians this year. The U.S. may be in the midst of providing the country with $7.5 billion in aid. But average Pakistanis like the United States less than Al Qaeda and just a little more than the Taliban.

Roughly 17% of Pakistanis have a favorable view of the U.S. in a new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, while 59% described the U.S. as an enemy of Pakistan. About 15% view the Taliban favorably, up from 10% a year ago. Al Qaeda tops both groups, with 18% of Pakistanis viewing the group favorably, up from 9% a year ago.

CAMDEN, New Jersey - August 6, 2010 - Camden is preparing to permanently shut its library system by the end of the year, potentially leaving residents of the impoverished city among the few in the United States unable to borrow a library book free.

WASHINGTON - July 30, 2010 - Congressman Ron Paul yesterday introduced the SEC Transparency Act of 2010 (HR 5970), a bill designed to force greater transparency in the Securities and Exchange Commission. The bill is designed to repeal the amendments made by section 929I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act relating to the confidentiality of materials submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

LONDON, England - August 6, 2010 - New research has found that motorists face a “postcode lottery” when it comes to the policing of speed limits on UK roads.

RoadPilot - one of Europe’s leading suppliers of GPS speed camera data - found that speeding drivers are up to 100 times more likely to be caught in Greater London than in some other areas of the country.

NEW YORK - August 26, 2009 - One of the problems with any proposed law that's over 1,000 pages long and constantly changing is that much deviltry can lie in the details. Take the Democrats' proposal to rewrite health care policy, better known as H.R.3200, or “Obamacare” by its opponents.

Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and "other information as is prescribed by" regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for "affordability credits."

WASHINGTON - August 17, 2009 - CBS News has learned that up to 60,000 people have cancelled their AARP memberships since July 1, angered over the group's position on health care.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - August 8, 2009 - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called illegitimate President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Amerikans.

MOSCOW, Russia - August 21, 2008 - The West’s deteriorating relations with Moscow were plunged into deep freeze yesterday when the United States and Poland sealed a deal that will place a key part of Washington’s “Son of Star Wars” anti-missile system on Polish soil. Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State, flew to Poland from the NATO meeting that condemned Russia’s military presence in Georgia, to sign the agreement with Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister.

MOSCOW, Russia - August 20, 2008 - The Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov” is ready to head from Murmansk towards the Mediterranean and the Syrian port of Tartus. The mission comes after Syrian President Bashar Assad said he is open for a Russian base in the area.

WASHINGTON - August 18, 2008 - Half a dozen Blackwater Worldwide security guards have gotten target letters from the Justice Department in a probe of shootings in Baghdad that killed 17 Iraqis, The Washington Post reported.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - August 14, 2008 - Faced with desertions by his political supporters and the neutrality of the Pakistani military, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, an important ally of the United States, is expected to resign in the next few days rather than face impeachment charges, Pakistani politicians and Western diplomats said Thursday.

WASHINGTON -August 18, 2008 - Homeland security officials in the Washington area plan to dramatically expand the use of automated license plate readers to prevent possible terrorist attacks.

DES MOINES, Iowa - August 16, 2008 - State records show that a $50,000 judgment has been awarded to two retired schoolteachers who were strip-searched during a 2004 campaign stop by President Bush.

MIAMI, Florida - August 16, 2008 - A Florida man is dead after being repeatedly shocked by a Taser stun gun.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - August 13, 2008 - A judge threw out murder and attempted murder charges Wednesday against seven New Orleans police officers accused of gunning down two men on a bridge in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada - August 11, 2008 - Rioting broke out late Sunday in a Montreal neighborhood where police shot a young man to death over the weekend. A police officer was shot in the leg, stores were looted and firefighters were pelted with beer bottles.

MOSCOW, Russia - August 11, 2008 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused Washington of undermining Russia’s attempts to restore peace in the South Ossetian conflict zone. Putin said a decision by the U.S. military to fly 800 Georgian soldiers from Iraq to Georgia showed America was ‘trying to get in the way’.

PHOENIX, Arizona - August 8, 2008 - Four Mexican army soldiers entered southern Arizona and pointed their rifles at a U.S. Border Patrol agent early this week, the Border Patrol said.

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - August 7, 2008 - Two additional United States naval aircraft carriers are heading to the Gulf and the Red Sea, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Kuwait Times.

WASHINGTON - August 7, 2008 - The Department of Defense continued its controversial mandatory anthrax vaccinations program despite high ranking Bush regime officials acknowledging there were problems with the vaccine within months of the Bush regime taking office - well before the events of 9/11 and the October 2001 anthrax letters.

PHOENIX, Arizona - August 7, 2008 - According to federal prosecutors more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen from popular retailers and restaurants.

TRENTON, New Jersey - August 6, 2008 - Small towns that will soon have to pay for their State Police patrols hope that drivers who break the law, and not local taxpayers, foot the bill.

WASHINGTON - July 31, 2008 - A House committee voted yesterday to cite former top White House aide Karl Rove for contempt of Congress, as its Senate counterpart explored punishment for alleged Bush regime misdeeds.

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia - August 1, 2008 - Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom, who has developed a reputation for disregarding state and federal laws in pursuit of his own personal and political agenda.

CONCORD, New Hampshire - August 4, 2008 - Two men have been sentenced to prison for helping tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown.

WASHINGTON - July 30, 2008 - In a little-reported brief filed late Tuesday with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Bush regime asked the court to keep any review of the warrantless wiretapping law passed earlier this year by Congress secret.

WASHINGTON - July 30, 2008 - On January 2, 2008, Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Maseth was electrocuted while taking a shower at the Legion Security Forces Building in Baghdad. Press reports have indicated that contractor KBR ignored repeated warnings about the unsafe wiring.

JERUSALEM, Israel - July 30, 2008 - The United States has agreed to place advanced missile detection systems in Israel.

WASHINGTON - July 29, 2008 - Senator Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.

By Jerome Corsi

July 28, 2008 - The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is dead, says Robert A. Pastor, the American University professor who for more than a decade has been a major proponent of building a North American Community.

NEW YORK - July 28, 2008 - Soaring corn and soy prices on top of rising construction costs and tight credit markets have pushed about a dozen U.S. biofuel plants to file for bankruptcy protection, experts said.

Critics of the president let loose before the judiciary committee. One Republican calls it 'impeachment lite.'

WASHINGTON - July 26, 2008 - Call it the un-impeachment hearing.