AP | A police officer who body-slammed an unarmed woman and broke her jaw during a medical call to a suburban restaurant last year was arrested Friday and charged with civil rights violations.

Reuters | Applications are at an all-time high for a West Point summer camp where 800 high school kids hoping to become soldiers spend a week to see what life is like at the prestigious U.S. military academy for future army officers.

NY Times | During the first three months of the year, CNN drew so many viewers on big primary nights and debates that it vaulted over Fox News for the first time in six years– making for the start of an ominous trend.

NY Times | A San Francisco Commission will ask voters to change the name of a water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant– an unflattering tribute.

YouTube | A Message from the New World Order to Alex Jones– warning him to stop the truth from rising.

Huffington Post | “I am glad we have taken such strong measures in Louisiana to put a stop to these monsters’ brutal acts,” the governor said in a prepared statement.

LewRockwell.com | Oil at $135 per barrel has created a big problem for the world economy. And it is politicians which have caused the problem in the first place, yet no prominent politician except for Ron Paul will recognize this.

AFP | The chief of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards has issued a new warning against Israel not to attack it, saying the Jewish state is well within range of its missiles.

London Telegraph | A man alleged to be one of al-Qa’eda’s most important operatives in Europe is due to be freed from a British prison next week, it was reported.

CNN | The number of foreign forces in Afghanistan killed in June has reached 39, the highest monthly toll of the war, according to a CNN count of official figures.

Press TV | A DoD report released to Congress ahead of a vote on extreme punitive measures on Iran accuses Tehran of assisting Afghan insurgents.

London Telegraph | Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have staged a carefully orchestrated show of togetherness in a small town called Unity.

Reuters | Negotiators have worked out draft language for a “binding international agreement” that would let law enforcement agencies obtain private information about people on the other side of the Atlantic.

AP | Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was accused Saturday of sodomy, police and politicians said, sparking speculation that he might be arrested on the same charge that led to his imprisonment a decade ago.

PrisonPlanet.tv | High Quality Flash version of the trailers. Truth Rising: The 9/11 Chronicles Part One, Coming July 4th.

Reuters | The Revolutionary Guards said Iran would impose controls on shipping in the vital Gulf oil route if Iran was attacked and warned regional states of reprisals if they took part.

You Tube A Message from the New World Order to Alex Jones about the futility of resisting their 9/11 agenda. The truth must not rise…

You Tube | In a speech on the House Floor, Ron Paul warns of the push for war with Iran, including the upcoming H.R. 362 which would levy harsh sanctions.

Press TV | Republican congressman Ron Paul warns against military engagement in Iran, warning of an ‘endless struggle’ and skyrocketing energy prices, if Iran is bombed.

OpEd News | Physics calculations show gravity action on 9/11 towers was 0.1 KiloTons of TNT-equivalent ENERGY, and then debris and dust erupted over 8.5 KiloTons of ‘TNT’ ENERGY in REACTION. 0.1 KT doesn’t equal 8.5 KT

AlterNet | The huge “defense” spending going on in our name is irrational and costly, but there are powerful vested interests that want to keep it that way.

NY Times | Labor, business and Congressional leaders in New York say they fear that the Fed’s health programs for ground zero workers will be endangered if Dr. John Howard ends his term as scheduled on July 5.

Press TV | Gore Vidal, novelist & historian, said Pres. Bush has rid the country of the Bill of Rights, habeas corpus and the entire legacy of the Magna Carta in the name of war on terror.

Common Dreams | War crimes are collective in nature. Especially in wars based on fraud, soldiers are expected to lie — to their country, to their community, even to themselves.

Chad Polenz | The Supreme Court ruling is not a victory for gun owners, it’s a victory for double-speak government and double-think people everywhere.

Press TV | Athens has denied a report suggesting that its joint military maneuver with Israel was in ‘preparation’ for an aerial strike on Iran.

U.S. News & World Report | The comments made in the You Tube video are very similar to the death threats made by Michael Reagan to Mark Dice. This individual was arrested while Reagan was not even suspended from his radio show.

dbTechno | The belief is that Roche is doing this to both increase sales of its product, and also to once again remind people of the major threat that is the bird flu– as stocks plummet.

L.A. Times | Self-defense is upheld, but control advocates aren’t done by a long shot.

Reason Online | In Conley’s mind, conservatives have no place in the GOP anymore: They’ve been bamboozled by politicians who do nothing on their issues once they’re safe in office.

The Age | AFGHAN opium poppy cultivation grew 17% last year, according to the 2008 World Drug Report, released by the United Nations.

Gun Owners of America | GOA is preparing to wage constitutional challenges to a range of laws — federal, state and local — that violate the Second Amendment principles endorsed by the Court in yesterday’s majority opinion.

We Are Change Ohio | John McCain was asked Thursday his opinion of an attempt to impeach President Bush and about a 9/11 truther who went on hunger strike.

Think Progress | conservative talker Hugh Hewitt predicted the U.S. will be “blown up by the Islamists under Obama.”

Think Progress | McCain commented: “I haven’t won on every issue. I didn’t win on immigration reform, but I’ll go back at it. And I’m glad I did it.”

Think Progress | According to a new Pentagon report released today, “the Taliban has regrouped after its initial fall from power in Afghanistan.

AFP | Macintosh computer fanatics won’t have Bill Gates to kick around anymore.

The Onion (Satire) “If you can’t trust your shadowy overloads to keep a secret, then what is the purpose of voting in a puppet democracy?”

Raw Story | The U.S. Gov’t has agreed to pay Stephen Hatfill about $5.8 million for naming him a ‘person of interest’ in the anthrax attacks case shortly after 9/11.

AP | Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr said he’s receiving backing from supporters of Ron Paul’s failed White House bid.

Daily Mail | A tiny microchip attached to a bee’s back will hopefully explain why so many honeybees are dying from disease.

The Register | The government has changed its mind on placing security scanners at every tube station because the public would not tolerate the long delays.

London Telegraph | Sarkozy’s plans to increase government control over state TV yesterday sparked an outcry from his political opponents critical of censorship.

Press TV | “The danger from Iran is grave, it is real, and my goal will be to eliminate this threat,” Obama told his audience.

London Telegraph | Porton Down scientists researched a number of unusual crowd control weapons to halt, capture, knock out or put to sleep demonstrators, according to National Archives.

Press TV | The US military has constructed four advanced bases 20 miles from Iraq’s border with Iran, a senior Iraqi police officer has announced.

Rogue Government | The technological enslavement grid is getting increasingly more insane yet Americans seemingly like being slaves just as long as they are told that they are free.

Life extension technology, artificial intelligence, and an expansive “internet of things”– Earlier reports from the CIA and the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense have carried similar themes. The December 2000 CIA report, Global Trends 2015 stated that nation’s borders would weaken in the process of globalization, with an elite reaping the benefits.

Think Progress | Former UN Ambassador John Bolton has been intensifying his calls for a war with Iran, telling Fox News that Israel may attack Iran before the inauguration of a new U.S. President.

UK Daily Mail | Shares plunged on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday because of fears over oil, inflation and the global economy. Wall Street is now on course for its worst June performance since the Great Depression of the early 1930s.