Vote for Rudy, or You’re All Going to DieLet’s just be upfront, the most shameful exploiter of the 9/11 tragedies has always been Rudy Giuliani. While many politicians in both parties have used the attacks to justify their wars, their political campaigns, and their policies, Rudy owes his revived political career to the horrific strike against America on September 11th. While we should admire Rudy for his showing assertion and leadership on that fateful day, it does not give him a ... (more)
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Giuliani Plays the Islamic Terror CardMaybe Rudy Giuliani could be forgiven for trying out various stump speeches on his Republican audiences now that his campaign for President is up and running. But the message he is delivering as he tours New Hampshire needs to be rejected, indeed repudiated, because as Barak Obama noted Giuliani's stump speech reached a new low in American political discourse. Reports just in from New Hampshire (4.24.07) suggest that Giuliani thinks the issue he has been pushing may be pure electoral gold: the f... (more)
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Cover up? Iraq government quashes data on civilian deaths A day after the United Nations criticized the Iraqi government for withholding periodically-reported data on the number of civilian deaths in the country, a top human rights group suggested the move was linked to political calculations in the United States.
"Is it a coincidence when George W. Bush appears on Charlie Rose and asserts as fact that sectarian violence was down in Baghdad?" Sarah Leah Whitson, Director of the Middle East Program at Human Rights ... (more)
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U.S. officials exclude bombs in touting drop in Iraq violence WASHINGTON - U.S. officials who say there has been a dramatic drop in sectarian violence in Iraq since President Bush began sending more American troops into Baghdad aren't counting one of the main killers of Iraqi civilians.
Car bombs and other explosive devices have killed thousands of Iraqis in the past three years, but the administration doesn't include them in the casualty counts it has been citing as evidence that the surge of additional U.S. forces is beginning to defuse te... (more)
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Student writes essay, arrested by policeHigh school senior Allen Lee sat down with his creative writing class on Monday and penned an essay that so disturbed his teacher, school administrators and police that he was charged with disorderly conduct.
"I understand what happened recently at Virginia Tech," said the teen's father, Albert Lee, referring to last week's massacre of 32 students by gunman Seung-Hui Cho. "I understand the situation."
But he added: "I don't see how somebody can get charged by writin... (more)
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Pat Tillman family, Jessica Lynch blow open Bush administration war deceitThe searing congressional testimonies from the family of Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch may sound the long overdue death knell for mainstream American public support for the Bush administration and its criminal war.
Tuesday, one unwilling and outraged war poster child and the agonized family members of the other stood before Con... (more)
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The Bin Ladens: An American Success Story
Upon close examination, the family of accused 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden, themselves seem to be a major international crime family who have apparently enjoyed a long and unique relationship with the highest levels of America's ruling class.
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Collapsing Colonies: Are GM Crops Killing Bees?A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous.
Is the mysterous decimation of bee populations in the US and Germany a result of GM crops?
Walter Haefeker is a man who is used to painting grim scenarios. He sits on the board of directors of the German Beekeepers Association (DBIB... (more)
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Less than 25% of Muslims blame al-Qaeda for 9/11 attacks An in-depth poll of four major Muslim countries has found that in all of them large majorities believe that undermining Islam is a key goal of US foreign policy.
Most want US military forces out of the Middle East and many approve of attacks on US troops there.
Most respondents have mixed feelings about al Qaeda. Large majorities agree with many of its goals, but believe that terrorist attacks on civilians are contrary to Islam.
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Gay couple alleges assault by officersA lesbian couple has sued the city of Osceola and two of its police officers, alleging the officers brutalized them after they reported a threat outside a bar there in 2005.
The Centerville residents, Ann Senior, 39, and her partner, Jessica Anderson, 25, are asking a federal judge to order the city to reimburse them for their medical bills and compensate them for emotional distress suffered because of the officers' "prejudice against homosexual individuals and a desire to inflict... (more)
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The Puppet Who Cleared the Way for Iraq's Destruction As defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was driven from public life thanks to the catastrophe of Iraq, and for the moment at least lurks in obscurity. Wolfowitz, his deputy until 2005, contributed in almost equal measure to the debacle, yet managed to slide from the Pentagon into the presidency of a leading international institution with every chance to redeem himself. Blame for torture at Abu Ghraib and Guant·namo, bungling over troop levels... (more)
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Rice rebuffs US Congress subpoena The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she is unwilling to answer a US House of Representatives subpoena about Iraq's pre-war weapons.
A House committee wants to question Ms Rice about a White House assertion that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger to build nuclear weapons.
The White House claim, now discredited, formed part of the US justification for invading Iraq in 2003.
Ms Rice said supplyin... (more)
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Could Global Warming Be Halted by Controlling the Weather? Frustrated with the limits of public policy to tackle global warming, some scientists say the time has come to engineer a way to control the weather. The idea might seem appealing, says a science scholar, but it could have potentially harmful ramifications.
Climate engineering has become a popular topic among a group of scientists who are skeptical of the potential other environmental remedies, from carbon taxes to alternative energy, James R. Fleming, a pro... (more)
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ABC Told Rosie Not To Talk About Dead U.S. TroopsRosie O'Donnell was ordered by ABC not to talk about casualty figures of U.S. troops in Iraq on The View and was continually censored and blocked in her attempts to feature prominent members of the 9/11 Truth Movement as guests on the show.
O'Donnell had met with 9/11 truth crusader and World Trade Center hero William Rodriguez before she went public with her comments on The View questioning the suspicious collapse of Building 7. Pictured above is Ro... (more)
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Tax activist wishes he had avoided prisonLike Plainfield's Ed and Elaine Brown, Pennsylvania resident Larken Rose believed so strongly he wasn't required to pay income taxes that he was willing to battle the federal government in court.
Unlike the Browns, Rose - who in January finished serving his prison sentence for failing to file tax returns - no longer thinks the battle was worth it.
In a telephone interview last week from his home in Hollywood, Pa., Rose - an outspoken IRS critic whose video Theft by ... (more) "I probably would have filed incorrect returns, pretending my income was taxable even though I know it's not," Rose said. "For the exact same reason that if I lived in a city where the Mafia came by and smashed people's kneecaps, I'd give them money because I like my kneecaps. That's despicable, but in this country, that's the only way to stay out of trouble." |
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Laura Bush on Iraq: 'No one suffers more than their president and I do'According to the first lady, when it comes to Iraq, "No one suffers more than their president and I do."
During an interview on NBC's Today show Wednesday concerning Malaria Awareness Day, Laura Bush talked to Ann Curry about "other challenges her husband is facing."
"You know the American people are suffering watching --," Curry said to the first lady.
"Oh, I know that very much," Laura Bush responded. "And believe me, no one suffers more than... (more)
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Government Officials Supervise Forced Eviction of Private Residents CHINA—On the morning of April 19, in China's southeast city of Hangzhou, Shangcheng District Deputy District Governor Liu Zhian, Deputy District Party Chief Yu Yong and about 100 policemen and demolition workers headed towards the Qinghe Fang heritage site. They forcefully evicted local resident Yuan Aixiang from her own home. Both Liu and Yu personally supervised the whole process.
Yuan's houses, No. 7 and No. 9 of Dajing Lane in Qinghe Fang, are loc... (more)
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Consumers in dark over risks of new light bulbsWASHINGTON – Brandy Bridges heard the claims of government officials, environmentalists and retailers like Wal-Mart all pushing the idea of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving and money-saving compact fluorescent lamps.
So, last month, the Prospect, Maine, resident went out and bought two dozen CFLs and began installing them in her home. One broke. A month later, her daughter's bedroom remains sealed off with plastic like the site of a hazardous materials a... (more)
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Hannity's Double Standard: Bigoted Jokes From Imus Are Free Speech! Rosie Criticizes Bush? Harmful To America! Sean Hannity, so outraged over the "slippery slope" for free speech over the firing of Don Imus and the suspensions of JV and Elvis for making bigoted jokes, had a complete change of heart last night (4/25/07) when it came to Rosie O'Donnell going off the air. All of a sudden, his concern for free speech evaporated as he melodramatically accused Rosie of harming America by criticizing the Bush administration. With video.
On the night that Imus was fired by M... (more)
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TV ads boost eating of obese children by 130%OVERWEIGHT and obese children increase the amount of food they eat by more than 130 per cent after watching food adverts on TV, a study revealed yesterday.
Researchers at Liverpool University showed a group of 60 children a cartoon along with TV adverts for either food or toys.
The youngsters were then offered a selection of low-fat savoury snacks, crisps, grapes, chocolate and jelly sweets. The team found calorie intake was higher in the group which watched the f... (more)
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"Don't you know who I am?": State official accused of assaulting clerk after check refused Governor's Councilor Marilyn P. Devaney has been accused of trying to hit a clerk at a Waltham beauty store with a curling iron after the store refused to accept her personal check for a purchase.
"Don't you know who I am?" Devaney asked clerk Adriana Latif, according to a police report. Devaney pointed to the Governor's Council license plates on her blue 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser and pulled out her State House identification badge, Latif said.
In an interview... (more)
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