'You and I are paying the pensions of criminals,' says Rep.Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA), indicted for 16 felonies including racketeering and soliciting bribes, could end up getting more retirement money than the FBI found hidden in his freezer, and a Republican Congressman is blaming Democratic senators for not putting a stop to it.
"Congressman Jefferson is accused of soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for himself and his family, even under the Capitol dome," Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) noted in the House Republican... (more)
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Angelina Jolie Joins Council on Foreign RelationsAngelina Jolie has been showing her glamorous side lately – walking red carpets from Cannes to Hollywood – but Thursday she was honored for her philanthropic work by joining the Council on Foreign Relations, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.
The prestigious think tank officially approved Jolie's membership nomination, adding her to a group whose membership includes presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, ABC's Diane Sawyer, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and jour... (more)
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CIA 'disappeared' seven-year-old childrenChildren as young as seven years old were 'forcibly disappeared' by the CIA, according to report published today jointly by six human rights groups naming 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret US custody and whose current whereabouts remain unknown.
The list-drafted by Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law, Human Rights Watch, and Repriev... (more)
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Marine says he erased photos of Haditha victimsCAMP PENDLETON — A staff sergeant testified Thursday that he was ordered to destroy grisly pictures of women and children killed by Marines so that the images would not be part of a statement being prepared for an investigative officer and a magazine reporter.
The testimony by Staff Sgt. Justin Laughner, taken under a grant of immunity, is the first evidence suggesting that any Marine officer may have engaged in a coverup in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005.
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Quadriplegic Serving 10-Day Sentence For First-Time Marijuana Charge Dies In DC JailWashington, DC: A 27-year-old quadriplegic man sentenced to serve ten days in a Washington, DC jail on charges that he possessed a minor amount of marijuana died while in custody last week due to inadequate health care, including prison officials' failure to provide him with a ventilator.
The victim, Jonathan Magbie, had been paralyzed from the neck down since the age of four, was unable to breath on his own, and required nursing care 20 hours a day.
Magbie was sent... (more)
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911 - The explosive reality
Compelling compilation of tons of rare and partly unseen news footage of 9/11
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The Real Reason for Bush's Invasion of Iraq Is a National Security Secret American soldiers have been fighting and dying in Iraq since 2003, and Americans do not know why.
All the reasons President Bush gave us for his war are false. Bush said he invaded Iraq "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people."
We now know that these were false claims. Disinformation about Iraq was produced ... (more)
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Federal Assault On Brown Home Was Aborted Danny Riley, the man who was shot at and arrested after he discovered U.S. Marshals stalking Ed Brown's home, has revealed the amazing truth behind how he was threatened with 15 years in jail by the FBI unless he lied to the media to cover-up the fact that yesterday's events were a planned siege and not merely to serve a warrant as authorities had claimed.
Riley related in a video blog late yesterday how he had unwit... (more)
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New Hampshire Backs Real ID Ban CONCORD, N.H. -- Calling the federal Real ID Act "repugnant" to the state and federal constitutions, New Hampshire lawmakers have voted to join other states in rejecting the federal Real ID Act as tantamount to requiring a national ID card.
The House voted Thursday to send a bill to Gov. John Lynch that would bar the state from complying with the federal law, which sets standards for state-issued driver's licenses. Lynch's spokesman said Friday the governor will sign it.
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Motorists face a new army of car snoopers Motorists face being clamped and fined at the roadside by an army of uniformed Government inspectors, it has emerged.
Drivers whose vehicles are judged unroadworthy, have overly tinted windows, lack a valid tax disc or MoT will be subject to being pulled over by examiners from the Vehicle Operator and Services Agency, if new proposals are accepted.
It is planned to give the 560 VOSA inspectors - who wear black uniforms, peaked hats and... (more)
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Slave Passage Found at Washington HousePHILADELPHIA -- Archaeologists unearthing the remains of George Washington's presidential home have discovered a hidden passageway used by his nine slaves, raising questions about whether the ruins should be incorporated into a new exhibit at the site.
The underground passageway is just steps from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. It was designed so Washington's guests would not see slaves as they slipped in and out of the main house.
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The end of the plug? Scientists invent wireless device that beams electricity through your homeScientists have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead.
In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone or laptop computer without wires or cables.
In the first successful trial of its kind, the team was able to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb 7ft away.
The team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who call their invention 'W... (more)
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Gold may touch $1000Gold may rise to more than $1,000 an ounce as demand from India, China and exchange traded funds increases and production of precious metal falls, according to JP Morgan Chase & Co., the third-largest US bank.
Gold, which has risen 5.2 per cent this year, may reach $850 an ounce in the “medium term,’’ on the way to $1,000, analysts from JP Morgan led by John Bridges said in the report dated June 6. They didn’t specify what the medium term was.
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Gene tests 'to mean higher insurance premiums'Insurance firms may use genetic information to increase premiums unfairly, a senior doctor has warned.
Dr Richard Ashcroft, professor of biomedical ethics at the University of London, said there was a risk that people would be discriminated against on the basis of a poor understanding of genetics.
The concerns come a day after scientists announced they had discovered a series of genes linked to common diseases affecting 20million Britons.
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Alan Watts - Work as Play
Alan Watts discusses viewing work as a dance, and how life is spontaneous, instead of driven by external forces.
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On the Care and Feeding of Humans Like my fellow anarchists, I bristle at the notion of the coercive state. But there is no state, really, just people. So in my quiet, reflective moments, I must ask myself whether or not I am doing better than the average untamed bureaucrat. Do I resist using the power over others that is available for the taking in my relationships, especially parenting? It is the question that must be asked in order for the anarchist life view to have integrity and ring true.
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The JFK Pipeline "Plot";: Another "Chilling" Example of Political and Media Hyperbole The JFK pipeline plot appears to be the work of yet another gang that couldn't jihad straight.
Its ring leader made a living exporting broken air-conditioner parts to Guyana. Talk about your boom market! Where can I buy stock? There was no set plan. There was no financing. They didn't have any explosives -- and yet government officials were quoted calling the amorphous plot "one of the most chilling plots imaginable" that almost "resulted in unfathoma... (more)
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Bush Running Kidnapping Ring Let’s face it: we’ve got a president in the White House who is running an international kidnapping ring. Six human rights groups(HRG) today (June 6) named for the first time 39 more kidnap (they call them ‘disappeared’) victims of the Bush administration. Not only have Mr. Bush’s apparatchiks dumped the terrorist suspects in secret prisons but they abducted some of their wives and children, too.
The sons of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mo... (more)
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Korean ‘model’ for IraqHmm! It’s just as those of us who were against the invasion of Iraq from day one suspected all along. The US has no intention of relinquishing its hold over Iraq. All the talk about withdrawal at some time in the nonspecified future is showcasing. Drawdown, yes; complete pullout, certainly no.
Until recently, the Bush administration has consistently protested it has no long-term ambitions in Iraq once a democratically-elected government is in place and is equipped to handle ... (more)
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Still playing with fire: Evidence points to US complicity in terror plot During the 1980s, the U.S. supported Osama bin Laden and the Afghan rebels in their jihad against the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan.
During the early and mid-1990s, the U.S. supported the al-Qaeda-linked Bosnian militants in their jihad against the Serbs.
In the late 1990s, the U.S. supported the al-Qaeda-linked Kosovo Liberation Army in their jihad in Kosovo.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend . . . or ... (more)
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Suddenly, the Paranoids Don't Seem So Paranoid Anymore Have you noticed? We've become a people that no longer respects, or apparently desires, privacy. Our own or anybody else's.
That's a remarkable thing, when you stop to think about it. We Americans, historically, have fiercely guarded our personal privacy. It's one of our defining characteristics. Others, who live in societies where personal privacy isn't so easily taken for granted, have looked on with a mixture of admiration and bemusement. "Mind your own ... (more)
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Parliamentary question from Kouvelis on chemtrail sprayingA second parliamentarian has raised in the Greek parliament the question of aerial spraying:
http://www.syn.gr/gr/keimeno.php?id=4842
This is an English translation of the text:
Aerial spraying over Athens
Question from Fotis Kouvelis to the ministers of Transport and Communications, Environment, ... (more)
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Homeland Security: "Many More 9/11s Are Inevitable" While announcing new security guidelines to make mandatory the fingerprinting of any travelers leaving the US, deputy secretary of the US department of homeland security Michael Jackson has stated that another attack on the scale of September 11 2001 is "inevitable".
In a report carried by the London Guardian Mr Jackson was quoted as adding that the most "catastrophic" threat to the airline industry was a rocket-propelled grenade a... (more)
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