Of all major U.S. airline crashes within the U.S. investigated and published by the National Transportation Safety Board during the past 20 years, the 9/11 ‘black boxes’ are virtually the only ones without listed serial numbers.

Victoria 9/11 Truth is attempting to get jump-start a new investigation.

In more bad economic news, consumer confidence and home prices posted sharp declines while higher costs for such basics as food, energy and medicine left wholesale inflation rising at a pace unseen since late 1981.

“It will only get worse. This record will be shattered by subsequent declines…. We will experience the most substantial decline in history because before this we had experienced the most unprecedented rise in U.S. real estate history.”

It was the worst bank and thrift performance since the fourth quarter of 1991. Money set aside to cover loan losses totaled a record of $31.3 billion, up from $9.9 billion in the same quarter a year ago and $16.7 billion in the third quarter.

Both the British and Soviet armies were defeated and crushed in Afghanistan. For some reason, mostly related to hubris, the neocons stupidly think they can use NATO and stretched thin U.S. troops to do one better.

Instead of firing and prosecuting teachers for child abuse, Oregon “passes the trash” on to other school districts.

With the falling dollar, rising import prices and declining wages and salaries for American workers, the US is headed for a radically different lifestyle.

Demonstrators threw rocks at police as they tried to reach the embassy’s branch office — which was closed — and police responded with tear gas.

The rate of loan losses is “grossly underestimated by consensus estimates” at Citigroup and other U.S. banks, according to Oppenheimer & Co.’s Meredith Whitney.

Russia intends to exploit the weak U.S. dollar, according to Dmitry Medvedev, Putin’s likely successor.

In job postings on its Web site, the FDIC said it is looking for people with “skill in performing duties associated with a financial-institution closing, such as receivership management, resolutions and/or asset disposition.”

An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.

Former Fed chief’s insistence that Arab nations dump greenback peg could lead to economic chaos in America.

So much for the urban legend Matt Drudge is a thorn in the side of the Clintons and a threat to Democrats. But then, as Ken Mehlman of the Republican party once bragged, the Drudge channel is useful for dispensing propaganda.

It is difficult to imagine how the cops would use this “tool” in a traditional crime situation. But it sure will be nifty during a mass demonstration or a food riot.

Truth group confronts former San Francisco official at center of controversy.

The latest racket is for the tax collectors (oops! I mean, “police officers”) to write tickets without even getting up out of their swivel chairs at the station.

If the guards suffer from depression, insomnia, flashbacks, and suicidal tendencies, imagine what how their wards suffer.

“It is only since I have left the army [and] I have read the Geneva Convention and the UN Convention on Torture, that I realized that we have broken so many of these conventions and treaties in Iraq.”

Editor made the mistake of claiming Khomeini’s grandson owns a BMW, has a steam sauna, and lives in an affluent neighborhood.

“There are four or five generals and admirals we know of who would resign if Bush ordered an attack on Iran,” The Sunday Times quoted a source with close ties to British intelligence.

Islamic puritans, in control of network traffic in Pakistan, managed to knock out about two-thirds of the global Internet population on Sunday.

The government should not use the power of eminent domain to seize and redistribute land for the benefit of a private company. This is wrong and unconstitutional.

Ron Paul’s success in building a big, enthusiastic grassroots movement brings with it a serious problem: the potential for phony Ron Paul Republicans who seek to take advantage of it.

Remember U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon telling us the “surge” would reduce troops by January, 2008? Well, so much for estimates. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice… won’t get fooled again.

“In general, there is no evidence at all of these drugs producing increases in violence,” explains a professor of psychiatry. Of course, it helped that Kazmierczak was also addicted to the violent video game Counter-Strike.

Gates and Rockefeller connected seed vault opens in Arctic, waiting for the sort of climate change doomsday eugenicists dream about.

Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, in an interview on state-run Vesti-24 television, said that such meddling would lead to undermining security in the Balkans and Europe.

The “business friendly” stooges at the SEC are still sitting on their hands reciting passages from Milton Friedman instead of dragging crooked banksters off to the hoosegow in leg-irons.

CFR member David Gergen says Hillary is not out of the race by a long shot, no matter the Obama hype. Neocon Mary Matalin says losing is not in the Clinton DNA sequence. Is it still possible Hillary will be anointed?

Now that a Dallas police officer has died escorting Hillary Clinton’s motorcade, it is time to revisit the Clinton Body Count.

Experts warn of food riots as foreign troops cleared to patrol American cities.

Translation: He opposes Hillary’s support for NAFTA, the “trade agreement” largely responsible for sending U.S. jobs to slave labor gulags, but is all for “free trade,” that is to say more of the same under a different name.

The EULEX rule of law mission is taking over from the United Nations, who have run Kosovo since 1999.

Now Merck wants your boys to take Gardasil, never mind they might fall over dead like girls who take the vaccine. Not a word about that in this New York Times propaganda piece, though.

Tex Truther was once a mild mannered political talk show host from Austin Texas named “Jonas Alexander,” now a crazed eyed, red skinned gargantua whose bulging chest and biceps gouge and rip away at his shirt.

In Britain, the Serious Organized Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) is used against people engaging in street demonstrations, as this video reveals.

A new forensic analysis of the only audio recording of the fatal shots has given new weight to a controversial theory that there were in fact two shooters.

“Electronic Elections: Vote Fraud in the 21st Century” is a video designed to draw attention to the clear and present danger of electronic vote fraud.

Neocon wunderkind Bill Kristol advises Clinton aggressively use the Straussian speciality: the politics of fear, also a speciality of Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis.

Pakistan government intolerant of videos critical of Islam, urges web surfers to write YouTube and demand censorship.

Cuba’s new leader Raul Castro vowed it would remain a bastion of revolution as he took over on Sunday from his brother Fidel Castro, who resisted half a century of U.S. attempts to oust him.

Nazi-era law mandating state control of children alive and well in Germany.

Spoiler Ralph enters the race to drop the same old tired shibboleths around left and right, mostly left.

Paula Nelson said she most certainly agrees with her dad that there is something fishy with official 9/11 story.

As usual, the libs are clueless when it comes to the real substance at the bottom of the McCain-Iseman sex scandal story.

The psychopath’s world is a strikingly skewed one in which the normal laws of human emotion and interaction do not apply — yet it serves as reality for a sizable portion of humanity.

Corporate media shill Sam Donaldson attempts to finger Mark Koernke as a terrorist and link him to Timothy McVeigh in this poor quality VHS from 1995.

John Pilger’s talk on “The invisible Government” is an education in itself about the role of the media from the 1920’s onward.