Reuters | Banks’ primary credit borrowings averaged $17.45 billion per day in the latest week, the second straight week this had hit a record and up from $16.38 billion the previous week, Fed data showed.

Kurt Nimmo | Hersh admits not writing an article on this obvious act of treason because the neocons didn’t actually see their demented plan through.

BBC | Pakistan says its intelligence agents have been accused by the US of alerting al-Qaeda linked militants before the US launches missile attacks against them.

Aaron Dykes | Fmr. Gov. Ventura mulled the idea of running for president in 2012, commenting that a Senator couldn’t return the U.S. to the Constitution.

Think Progress | Seymour Hersh revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.

Washington Post | Defense Secretary Gates says that winning in Iraq and Afghanistan will not end the “Long War” and that the fight against al-Qaeda should be the nation’s top military priority over coming decades.

WSJ | The Bush administration unveiled a plan to impose new tolls on freeways and encourage more private investment to finance road and mass-transit projects.

Colorado CHANGE | This little gem shows that everywhere these corrupt, lying, compromised candidates go, they will be met by those of us who know and understand the Truth.

Ireland CHANGE | Police kept free speech at bay during a visit by Sarkozy where a number of vocal Irish came to defend their constitution and assert their independence apart from the EU.

YouTube | Mr. Banner promises to protect the waterways.

Infowars | Ventura’s appearance at the event was announced on the Alex Jones Show today.

YouTube | Once again allowed on Fox News, this time with Hannity, Jesse Ventura hits the ball out of the park.

Associated Press | In the libertarian-leaning West, where Paul’s message of distrust of the federal government and ardent individualism played particularly well, there is talk of Republicans straying from McCain.

Kurt Nimmo | The neocons are in search of a blank check to attack South Waziristan, long an incubator of intelligence spawned terrorist groups.

Steve Watson | Concerned citizens who write to representatives may be reported for their views.

Huffington Post | The NYPD is embroiled in controversy after a video has surfaced showing an officer brutally beating a man with a metal baton while he lays on the ground.

NJ Star-Ledger | A New Jersey auto insurance company wants to equip cars with high-tech devices that constantly track motorists’ driving habits to determine how much they should pay.

You Tube | Nancy Pelosi gets slammed by Joy Behar on The View ‘What about IMPEACHMENT?’

Infowars | A reader submitted graphic about the use of the external threat to advance the agenda for world government.

Live Leak | Latest Ron Paul Interview with Glenn Beck where the Congressman warns that something big is about to happen, economically speaking.

George Washington Blog | A RAND Corp. report confirms what we have been saying for years: the war on terror is a hoax which is actually weakening national security.

Market Watch | “As shocking as the $482 billion deficit figure is, that’s still not the true scope of our budget woes because it excludes $80 billion in war costs and $227 billion borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund.”

Star Tribune | Eight Minneapolis officers received medals for their “valor” in a botched raid that the city apologized for last year. That isn’t sitting well with the family shot at multiple times by the officers.

Michael Rivero | The Downing Street Memo is only the beginning of the proof we were all lied to.

CBS News | Officials: CIA Drone Targeted Chemical Weapons Expert Abu Khabab Al-Masri On Afghanistan-Pakistan Border

Chuck Baldwin | For an American, real patriotism means that we are willing to preserve and protect our constitutional republic.

AP | In rhetoric, Obama says his attorney general would scour White House executive orders and expunge any that “trample on liberty,” alluding to a terror interrogation program.

ABC News | “Nobody said this to me directly but I get the feeling from my talks that if the sanctions don’t work Israel is going to strike Iran.”

Money.co.uk | The average trip to the supermarket is costing much more than before – which means that some people have been forced to drastically cut back on their food consumption.

New York Post | Cop beats man on the legs with baton for no apparent reason beyond the sheer sadistic pleasure of it.

JBS | The VeriChip Corporation, manufactures of the VeriChip — the microchip made to be implanted in humans — has taken a considerable downturn after evidence has emerged showing the chip could cause cancer.

We Are Change | Nancy Pelosi was brought into the House in order to push for impeachment as well as an end to the war in Iraq… to date, she has done none of this.

Associated Press | Voting 20-14 along party lines, the House Judiciary Committee said that Rove had broken the law by failing to appear at a July 10 hearing on allegations of White House influence over the Justice Department.

Colorado Independent | Federal law enforcement and military will monitor ‘suspicious activities’ for security threats.

Raw Story | President Bush’s drug warriors must really, really want to protect their ability to throw non-violent marijuana users in jail.

TED.com | Strategic planner Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is both sensible and breathtaking in its simplicity: Break it in two.

Raw Story | If some Connecticut Democrats get their way, Sen. Joe Lieberman will be greeted at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota by a gigantic inflatable rat.

Washington Post | The White House invoked executive privilege yesterday in withholding subpoenaed documents on fired U.S. attorneys out of confidence that it can prevail in court.

Radio du Jour | Jesse Ventura talks to Howard Stern about his belief that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were a stage event orchestrated by the neocons.

Tom Burghardt | DARPA, the Pentagon agency that brought us the internet, are now searching for the means to militarize the human mind itself, viewed as the ultimate platform for imperialist domination and social control.

Infowars | Alex comments on cops out of control in New York and the Ozarks.

BBC | Faced with seemingly never-ending falls in the value of their properties, some American home-owners are taking radical action; they are choosing to walk away from homes and their mortgages.

China View | Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni and Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said the army, air force, navy and Carabinieri would work alongside police.

Local6.com | Some parents said the jumpsuits will make students feel like prisoners but the district said it’s just a way to keep the children dressed appropriately for school.

Washington Times | “It will be like Addis Ababa,” said one crestfallen staff member, referring to the tropical capital of Ethiopia. “The air conditioning didn’t work too well there, either.”

Lee Rogers | This country is gone and is being slowly turned into a 21st century version of Nazi Germany.

Huntington News | Paul’s book was published in April, but it’s a timeless guide to solving the nation’s problems, from our endless search for “monsters to destroy” in the immortal words of John Adams, to our creation of government agencies that were never authorized by the Constitution.

CQ Politics | The protracted fight between Ron Paul activists and the Nevada Republican Party over Nevada’s delegates to the Republican National Convention is finally over.

Raw Story | An army recruiter in Houston has been lying to high school students about their obligations under a non-binding military “delayed entry program” and even threatening them with jail if they don’t follow through and enlist.

ABC News | If Ted Stevens is indicted for false statements, why can’t administration officials be indicted and impeached for their lies leading to war in Iraq?