Poll shows 39% of Americans support impeachmentA poll published Tuesday shows that close to 40% of Americans favor the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, according to an article at Townhall.com.
"Few serious observers think things will ever get to actual impeachment. And yet the American public seems more open to the concept than many imagine, according to a new national poll," wrote Matt Towery, CEO of InsiderAdvantage, which commissioned the poll. "The implications of this public ... (more)
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Study suggests cancer risk from depleted uraniumDepleted uranium, which is used in armour-piercing ammunition, causes widespread damage to DNA which could lead to lung cancer, according to a study of the metal's effects on human lung cells. The study adds to growing evidence that DU causes health problems on battlefields long after hostilities have ceased.
DU is a byproduct of uranium refinement for nuclear power. It is much less radioactive than other uranium isotopes, and its high density - twice that of lead - makes it usefu... (more)
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New fears over additives in children's food Food safety experts have advised parents to eliminate a series of additives from their children's diet while they await the publication of a new study that is understood to link these ingredients to behaviour problems in youngsters.
The latest scientific research into the effect of food additives on children's behaviour is thought to raise fresh doubts about the safety of controversial food colourings and a preservative widely used in sweets, drinks and processed foods in the UK.... (more)
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Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data MiningBarely a year after their reporters won a Pulitzer prize for exposing data mining of ordinary citizens by a government spy agency, New York Times officials had some exciting news for stockholders last week: The Times company plans to do its own data mining of ordinary citizens, in the name of online profits.
The news didn't make everyone all googly-eyed. In fact, some people at the paper's annual stockholders meeting in the New Amsterdam Theatre exchanged confused looks when Jane... (more)
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Now Yahoo! Censor Popular Support For Ron Paul Yahoo! News have become the latest establishment media outlet to ignore and censor Ron Paul's presidential campaign, despite the fact that he won Thursday night's GOP debate hands down, according to an overwhelming majority that voted for him in online polls.
Yahoo! News' 2008 Presidential election coverage page features a list of candidates from both Democrat and Republican parties, but fails to li... (more)
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Feds accuse E-Gold of helping cybercrooksA federal grand jury has indicted online payment company E-Gold, accusing the company of money laundering, conspiracy, and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.
The indictment, which was unsealed Tuesday, says the company has long known its service was a tool for identity thieves, child pornographers, and other cybercrooks, but did little to stop them.
The company's public denial, published on its Web site, calls the charges "bogus," and says the Just... (more)
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Urban Dictionary: Truthenize1.To brilliantly inform someone of a harsh truth that they were either ignorant of or tried with everything they have to ignore. The resulting truth leaves the liar impotent. Powerless. Usually a truth about themselves. Like Euthenize. But with the truth.
2. To call somone out on a huge lie.
1. Man, the Scooter Libby indictment and the lack of WMD in Iraq fully truthenized Rumsfeld and Cheney.
2. Dude, at the end of A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson g
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Retired Marine preaches, says killing terrorists is an ‘act of love for our nation’TERRE HAUTE — According to retired U.S. Marine Col. J. Tyler Ryberg, the Bible contains messages about war and capital punishment. God is a powerful soldier.
Ryberg, who served in the Marines for more than 27 years, gave a sermon Sunday morning at Good Shepherd Baptist Church’s Armed Forces Day, where some of the 150 people in attendance often erupted with an “Amen!”
The colonel asked churchgoers if the global war on terrorism was a “j... (more)
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When the Gun Smokes and the Press Doesn't Smell It: Media Silence on Kent State RevelationsThe 1970 killings by National Guardsmen of four students during a peaceful anti-war demonstration at Kent State University have now been shown to be cold-blooded, premeditated official murder. But the definitive proof of this monumental historic reality is not, apparently, worthy of significant analysis or comment in today's mainstream media.
After 37 years of official denial and cover-up, tape-recorded evidence, that has existed for decades and has been in the possession of the F... (more)
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Palestinians 'routinely tortured' in Israeli jailsPalestinians detained by Israeli security forces are routinely tortured and ill-treated, according to a new report published by Israeli human rights groups yesterday. The ill-treatment, which includes beatings, sensory deprivation, back-bending, back-stretching and other forms of physical abuse, contravenes international law and Israeli law, the report says.
The Centre for the Defence of the Individual and B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, compiled the report after intervie... (more)
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Trick or trickle? – As U.S. richest get richer, family income share dropsNEW YORK (Commonweal Magazine) – Over the past few years, the enormous share of U.S. income claimed by the very rich has become one of the hottest of political issues. Much of the data documenting the income shifts has been collected by two economists, Emmanuel Saez, of the University of California at Berkeley, and Thomas Piketty at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Their study is based on analyses of the entire database of personal federal income tax returns.
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Saudis, US sponsoring covert action against Iran The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States are working with other states in the Middle East region to sponsor covert action against Iran, according to a report in this month's edition of The Atlantic. The report also suggests that covert attacks may occur against Iran's oil sector.
David Samuels, in a lengthy article on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East, reports that the US is promoting a campaign aga... (more)
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Airline accused of helping Nazis to flee The Dutch national airline is facing calls for an inquiry into its role in helping Nazis to flee to South America, after the discovery of documents suggesting that it played an active role in smuggling suspected war criminals out of Germany.
KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, has always denied that it had a policy of assisting Nazis to escape justice at the hands of the Allies after the Second World War, when hundreds escaped to Argentina.
But... (more)
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Corporate Media Censor Ron Paul's Debate SuccessRon Paul won the debate hands down - all the polls show it - but the establishment media are loathe to report it, because if a tree falls in the forest and the corporate press choose not to report on it then it doesn't make a sound.
After several days of voting, the online MSNBC poll has Ron Paul leading in every single positive category, proving that the vast majority think he won the debate. In an ABC News poll, well over 7,000 voted for the Congress... (more)
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Explosives hidden in shampoo bottles & shoes part of a CIA sponsored program?National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 218 Edited by Peter Kornbluh http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB218/index.htm
Washington D.C., May 3, 2007 -- A Venezuelan employee of Cuban exile and indicted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles conducted surveillance on targets "with a link to Cuba" for potential terrorist attacks throughout the Caribbean region in 1976, including Cubana Aviacion flight... (more)
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Doolittle: FBI leaked news of raid to take heat off Gonzales Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA), who has been under a cloud of suspicion related to his association with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, says the leak revealing that the FBI had raided his home last month in connection with an investigation of his wife's business was little more than a stunt to draw attention away from the investigation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Writing in his hometown newspaper, Doolittle said the search was "an attempt to intimi... (more)
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Blundering Bush makes ANOTHER gaffe as he winks at the Queen When you've just made it sound like the Queen is more than 200 years old, there may be a few ways of recovering from the gaffe.
But turning to her and giving her a sly wink is probably not included in any book of royal etiquette.
That's what happened yesterday after George Bush mangled his greeting to the Queen on her state visit to the U.S.
Stumbling over his words, he came perilously close to suggesting that ... (more)
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Children 'bad for planet' says environmentalist group HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags, says a report to be published today by a green think tank.
The paper by the Optimum Population Trust will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family's carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New ... (more)
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Pro-War Demonstrators Tear Up Peace SignThe Iraq debate briefly boiled over on the state Capitol steps when half a dozen people at WHP-AM's rally in support of troops yesterday yelled at a woman holding a sign questioning the war.
Bridget Whitley of Harrisburg stood near the front of the crowd, holding a sign that said she supported the troops but wanted an end to the war.
A man from the crowd grabbed Whitley's sign and started walking away. There was a scuffle, and a woman grabbed the sign and ripped it ... (more)
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Cap gives you full sleep in 3hrsSCIENTISTS have devised a way to cram a good night’s kip into THREE HOURS.
They have created a machine placed above the head like a “cap” that puts wearers in deep sleep.
It could mean we all might one day wake up refreshed after just a few hours in the sack.
The “power nap” treatment quickly puts people into a deep slumber by sending magnetic impulses into the skull to slow brain waves to their lowest level.
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How America Has Changed Iraq "If the United States leaves Iraq things will really get bad."
This appears to be the last remaining, barely-breathing argument of that vanishing species who still support the god-awful war. The argument implies a deeply-felt concern about the welfare and safety of the Iraqi people. What else could it mean? That the US military can't leave because it's needed to protect the oil bonanza awaiting American oil companies as ... (more)
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