Source: Reuters

Reasons to think it's true:

• The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say. One of the operational assets being used by the Defense Department is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), which is being “run” in two southern regional areas of Iran. [4/13/2006 - Rawstory]
  
• During an interview on CNN Friday night, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner claimed that U.S. military operations are already 'underway' inside Iran, RAW STORY has found. - [4/15/2006 - Rawstory]

Watch the events of September 11, 2001 unfold in real-time, complete and unedited, on the major networks, simultaneously. These streams begin about 20 minutes before the first attack, while the morning news shows go about their cheerful business of interviewing tourists, singing the Love Boat theme song, goofing off with the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond, and discussing ways to make your pets live longer...

And then the world changed.

The Plane Truth Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmHFxjdFR3U

It was no bogie over the famous, international Byron Nelson Golf Tournament on April 26, 2008 as a BANNER for 9/11 TRUTH circled the crowd of many thousands and made its way across the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.

North Texans for 911 Truth has taken the first step towards a campaign of 9/11 TRUTH aerial banners flying in cities across the nation during the week of July 4th, 2008. We think THE PLANE TRUTH PROJECT is ideally suited for the "Week of Truth" in that it is easily do-able, cost effective, and exciting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmHFxjdFR3U

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/05/neocons-are-ridiculous.htm...

It turns out that ridiculing tyrants is the most effective way to stop them. Why? Because ridicule can persuade all 3 of our brains - reptilian, mammalian and human. (People won't put up with tyrants if they can see that they are tyrants, and ridicule is the best way for people to be able to take in the fact that the Neocons are tyrants).

How can we ridicule Bush, Cheney and the other anti-American Neocons?

Well, they have done so many things that leave them open to ridicule that it would be child's play to make fun of them.

I have previously written on some approaches to parodying the Neocon agenda. That took me all of twenty minutes.

But how can we ridicule the Neocons themselves?

What you pick up over a pint or two...

Recently some sites have been bombarded by individuals or groups who don't seem to understand why good behavior is just as important as whatever you're trying to promote with your fellow activists. Examining the Prisoner's Dilemma might help clarify some points for everyone, not just the misbehaving.

The Prisoner's Dilemma is a problem presented in game theory that explores the risks and rewards of loyalty and betrayal. It can help explain to those behind the curve why good behavior is important for success.

The "classical" form:

In the early to mid-1990s, there occurred a series of mass-casualty airplane disasters including TWA FL800, Valuejet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades, the USAF Boeing 737 in Croatia that carried Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown, AA Flight 965 in Buga Columbia, US Air Flight 1016 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and US Air Flight 427 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, North Carolina. During this time frame, the Terror Timeline (http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/) shows that numerous airplane-related incidents and intelligence "discoveries" occurred which established the perception that a terrorist group headed by a Saudi national of the prominent bin Laden family had used and had planned to use airplanes as tools in a variety of terrorist acts. This collective history led the 104th Congress to craft legislation that amended title 49 of U.S. Code to "reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes." This short report deals with one particular "other purpose" for this legislation, namely to describe the Congressional state-of-mind as of 1996 regarding the conditions necessary to trigger war between the United States and another country.

(UPDATE: Looks like it was "Immigra!" after all: Up to 700 arrests estimated in Postville raid - rep.)

Questions Surround Homeland Security's Presence in Waterloo

May 9, 2008--People in Waterloo are trying to figure out what sort of operation federal officials are conducting in town. This week, the Department of Homeland Security took-over and sealed-off the grounds of the National Cattle Congress on the west side of Waterloo.

Thursday night, our crew went to investigate, but security guards told them to stay across the street from the property. Our camera caught pictures of elaborate ventilation systems going into the buildings. There were dozens of cars coming in and out with license plates from surrounding states, and even as far away as Georgia and Texas.

Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions
As more Americans are watched, fewer cases are made. The trend concerns civil liberties groups as well as some lawmakers and legal experts.
By Richard B. Schmitt
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

May 12, 2008

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after the Sept. 11 attacks. But the number of terrorism prosecutions ending up in court -- one measure of the effectiveness of such sleuthing -- has continued to decline, in some cases precipitously.

The trends, visible in new government data and a private analysis of Justice Department records, are worrisome to civil liberties groups and some legal scholars. They say it is further evidence that the government has compromised the privacy rights of ordinary citizens without much to show for it.