A hearty "Green Mountain Thanks" to The Ohio Repubiic's Harold Thomas for giving us some links and a story focusing on the national airplay secession is receiving thanks to Ms. Palin's husband Todd.

The Corporate State Wins
by Sheldon Richman, October 3, 2008

Below you will find one of the most interesting—may I say exciting—pieces of evidence of the strength and promise of the American secession movement.   

For those who want to know what happened to South Ossetia, read on. Otherwise, go to the main stream (and alternative) media.
See Brzezinski's puppets run. See Brzezinski's puppets scurry. See Obama follow the charge to demonize Brzezinski's old enemy. But, you say, the Soviet Union is no more!! Not to worry, say the New York Times, Bush, McCain and Obama. It's evil old Russia! THE NEW ENEMY!!!

From my media colleague Peter Phillips, who oversees the annual Project Censored project with his journalism students at Sonoma State University.

While I am not in agreement with his solution of impeachment (we're less than four months away from Election Day - time to let go the "impeachment" chimera), his article serves as a sobering reminder of the consequence of U.S. occupation for Iraqi civilians more than five years later.

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“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

This is from "Peaceful Freedom Fighter" who blogs at LA 9/11 Truth. Enjoy, Ethan

ps: See you at the parade on July 4th.

The new test for journalists is that they have to be able to stand there with their hair on fire and say that they don't smell smoke.

This opening paragraph is from Bill Carlotti: During the occupation of Iraq, Judith Miller was providing grist for the mill of the occupation as the New York Times copyrighted her fabrications as a reporter embedded with the United States occupying forces.-----BILL
The War, the Truth, and the New York Times\
http://truthspring.info/2008/06/07/the-war-the-truth-and-the-new-york-ti...

Nah, couldn't be.

The U.S. government and intelligence agencies don't do such things, right? 

A recent survey by the UVM Center for Rural Studies found that 77.1
percent of the eligible voters in Vermont, up from 74.3 percent a year
earlier, believe that the U.S. government has lost its moral
authority. This is hardly surprising when you consider the fact
that our government is owned, operated, and controlled by Corporate
America. National elections are bought and sold to the highest
bidder. It was the loss of moral authority that brought down the
apartheid government of South Africa, the communist regimes in six