Washington Post Profile Reveals Stealthy Cheney Spies On White House StaffersToday, the Washington Post unveiled the first in its lengthy four-part series on the unprecedented influence and power of the vice president.
Shortly after Bush was elected, “Cheney preferred, and Bush approved, a mandate that gave him access to ‘every table and every meeting,’ making his voice heard in ‘... (more)
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Bush will use 9.11.2007 to extend surge, Rich saysThe Bush administration has a well established pattern of using the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to hype an often fictional "threat to America" and sell the war in Iraq, writes the New York Times' Frank Rich in his Sunday column. Rich expects this year to be no different.
"When the September 'snapshot' of the surge shows little change in the overall picture, the White House will say that 'the consequences' of winding down the war would be even mo... (more)
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International flying squad would tackle suspicious deaths abroadThe murders of British citizens overseas may soon be investigated by a British “flying squad” with an international remit.
The Times has learnt that senior police officers are drawing up plans for a new unit that could be dispatched abroad at short notice to investigate suspicious deaths of Britons.
The proposal will be placed before the new Attorney-General and the new Home Secretary later this year but The Times understands that preliminary discussions... (more)
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Bukovksy: EU is Soviet Union RebornIt takes a victim of sovietism to recognize a likewise process in Europe. “Vladimir Bukovksy, the 63-year old former Soviet dissident, fears that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union,” writes Paul Belien for the Brussels Journal. “In a speech he delivered in Brussels last week Mr. Bukovsky called the EU a ‘monster’ that must be destroyed, the sooner the better, before ... (more)
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Jailed for waving at my daughterDenied access to his three children after his divorce, Mark was jailed for standing outside his house to wave to them. It took ten years and 133 hearings before they were reunited. How CAN the Government insist cases like his are kept secret?
Every day there is some reminder of what Mark Harris calls 'the lost years'.
It could be his daughter's reference to a particular birthday party or a family holiday. It could be talk of exams sat, dentists visited or pop stars ... (more)
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Secularist Europe Silences Pro-Lifers and CreationistsLast week, a German court sentenced a 55-year old Lutheran pastor to one year in jail for "Volksverhetzung" (incitement of the people) because he compared the killing of the unborn in contemporary Germany to the holocaust. Next week, the Council of Europe is going to vote on a resolution imposing Darwinism as Europe's official ideology. The European governments are asked to fight the expression of creationist opinions, such as young earth and intelligent design theories. According to... (more)
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Living Free Not an Option in Europe The fourth "Die Hard" movie starring Bruce Willis is to be released in the U.S. next week, and one week later in Europe. We managed to collect the movie posters as they will be shown in the U.S. (left) and in Europe (right). Spot the differences.
Yes indeed, two different titles for the same movie! I guess the "live free" part of the title was considered to be too sensitive outside of North America? I know that "Live free or die" is the state motto of Ne... (more)
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Lockerbie police face ‘plot’ inquiry ALLEGATIONS that police plotted to mislead the original inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing, resulting in a wrongful conviction, have been passed to official investigators, it is understood.
The file being considered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission claims evidence gathered at the scene of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people, was lost or destroyed.
Misleading or false evidence, it is alleged, was then ... (more)
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Bees dying of mysterious infectionThe dead bees under Dennis VanEngelsdorp's microscope were like none he had ever seen before.
He had expected to see mites or amoebas, perennial pests of bees. Instead, he found internal organs swollen with debris and strangely blackened. The bees' intestinal tracts were scarred, and their rectums were abnormally full of what appeared to be partly digested pollen. Dark marks on the sting glands were telltale signs of infection.
"The more you looked, the more you fou... (more)
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The Smoking Ban - How will it affect you?From Sunday 1st July, 2007 smoking will be banned in all public indoor places and workplaces. This will include areas such as offices, factories and other workplaces, pubs, restaurants and nightclubs. This legislation will affect everyone, whether you are employed, operate a business or as a member of the public.
If you are in charge of public premises and you fail to stop someone smoking, you can expect to face a £2,500 fine. If you fail to ... (more)
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US student loses free speech case A former high school student has lost his case in what is the US Supreme Court's first major ruling on students' free speech rights in almost 20 years.
At issue was whether a school principal violated a student's right to free speech by suspending him for displaying a banner reading "Bong Hits 4 Jesus".
Joseph Frederick unfurled the banner near to his school as the Olympic flame passed through Juneau, Alaska, in 2002.
The S... (more)
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Special Operations Prepared for Domestic MissionsThe U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for "homeland defense," has asked the Pentagon if it can establish its own special operations command for domestic missions. The request, reported in the Washington Examiner, would establish a permanent sub-command for responses to incidents of domestic terrorism as well as other occasions where special operators may be necessary on American soil.
The establishment of a domestic special operations mis... (more) "When the police become the military, we all become enemies of the state." |
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FBI Knowingly Allowed Bin Laden To Personally Charter Flight For Family After 9/11 The FBI were aware that Osama Bin Laden may have chartered one of the flights that took Bin Laden family members out of the U.S. in the days after the 9/11 attacks, yet allowed the planes to depart without even questioning them, new Agency documents reveal.
While all other air traffic had been grounded for days by the authorities they knowingly allowed the immediate family of their prime suspect behind the attacks to get into planes and fly out at B... (more)
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A Tunisian in Guantánamo Overlooked in the reports about Guantánamo detainee Abdullah bin Omar, a Tunisian who, on Sunday, was sent back to the country of his birth, where there are fears that he will be subjected to torture and abuse, is the story of the other Tunisian who, shackled and bound, shared a US plane with him. Unlike bin Omar, who was represented by lawyers who have done their best to publicize his case, there was no one to speak out for 38-year old Lofti... (more)
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46% - Support Public Library Book BanningSince 1999, support for the idea of banning "books with dangerous ideas" from public school libraries has declined from 55% to 46% and has now fallen to the lowest level of support of the past 20 years, in contrast with the modest increase observed in concerns about pornographic material in magazines and movies. But even in the early 1990s, as few as 48% had supported banning such books. While there are relatively modest partisan differences in opinions about banning dangerous books, there are d... (more)
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Lockerbie Pan Am Flight 103: Inconvenient TruthsOn 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was 38 minutes into its journey when it was blown up at 31,000 feet. The explosion was so powerful that the nose of the aircraft was torn clean off. Within three seconds of the bomb detonating, the cockpit, fuselage and No. 3 engine were falling separately out of the sky. It happened so quickly that no distress call was sent out and no oxygen masks deployed. With the cockpit gone, the fuselage depressurised instantly and the passengers in the rear section o... (more)
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Fringe Science Yields 'Gay Bombs' and Psychic TeleportationCreating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies.
This year the Pentagon will spend $78 billion -- about half of all government research and development dollars -- on a variety of projects, according to the American Association for the Advancement for Science (AAAS).
The vast majority - about $68 billion - goes to traditional spending, like weapons dev... (more)
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The Mother of All Scandals Anyone who wants to understand what really goes on in the Mideast should have a look at the scandal that erupted earlier this month over the outsized character of Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia.
Bandar has long been a renowned mover, shaker, and charmer. As Saudi ambassador to the US, the influential Bandar schmoozed official Washington for two decades. He became an intimate of the Bush family. He invested a least $60 million in Saudi funds in the Carlyle Corp., in which the Bush f... (more)
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Corporate America's Deadliest Secret A number of major pharmaceutical corporations and biotech firms are concealing the nature of the biological warfare research work they are doing for the U.S. government.
Since their funding comes from the National Institutes of Health, the recipients are obligated under NIH guidelines to make their activities public. Not disclosing their ops raises the suspicion they may be engaged in forbidden kinds of germ warfare research.
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The Torture Academy In the next few hours, Congress is scheduled to vote on the McGovern-Lewis amendment that, if passed, could close down the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly and better known as the School of the Americas (SOA). The SOA, an immensely controversial U.S. military training facility, for decades has been used to instruct Latin American military personnel in order to professionalize their skills. It officially had i... (more)
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New 9/11 Study Has Direct Links To Government, Pentagon Black Ops A newly released Purdue University animation showing how fire caused the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 claims to be independent but in reality has been federally funded and was conducted by individuals with direct links to the Pentagon and the White House.
Earlier this week we covered the news that the new study roughly correlates with the findings of the 2005 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report and suppo... (more)
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Halliburton's Accounting Might Make You WonderJune 21 (Bloomberg) -- Investors have shrugged off almost all the bad news at Halliburton Co. the past few years -- accusations of overbilling the U.S. Army and bribing foreign officials, along with scrutiny over business dealings in Iran and non-compete bids on government work.
Instead of tanking, the company's stock has soared.
The same investors might take notice, though, if Halliburton's financial statements were in doubt, and a former company accounting... (more)
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The CIA and Fatah; Spies, Quislings and the Palestinian AuthorityWhen Hamas gunmen stormed the Fatah security compounds in Gaza last week they found huge supplies of American-made weaponry including 7,400 M-16 assault rifles, dozens of mounted machine guns, rocket launchers, 7 armored military jeeps, 800,000 rounds of bullets and 18 US-made armored personnel carriers. They also discovered something far more valuable--- CIA files which purportedly contain "information about the collaboration between Fatah and the Israeli and ... (more)
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Putin’s War-whoop: The impending clash with Russia“What is a ‘unipolar’ world?
It is world in which there is one master, one sovereign--- one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within.
It has nothing in common with democracy, which is the power of the majority in respect to the interests and opinions of the m... (more)
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Delaware County trying "stop and frisk" One police department in Delaware County is now implementing a controversial police procedure called Stop and Frisk.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it legal nearly 40 years ago, and the Upper Darby Police department, after seeing a tremendous increase in drug trafficking, has decided to give it a try.
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said "stop and frisk" is working because he is operating it within the confines of the consti... (more)
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