Morons and Magic: A Reply to George Monbiot In “Bayoneting a Scarecrow The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward’s cult.” (Guardian, February 20), George Monbiot accuses members of the 9/11 truth movement of being “morons” and “idiots” who believe in “magic.” Having in his previous attack---“A 9/11 conspiracy virus... (more)
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Fortress America: Part 1Gerardo Carbajal sits on a bench on the Mexico side of the Rio Grande, shivering. Caught that morning by the U.S. Border Patrol as he stepped out of the ice-cold river, he's exhausted, hungry, and he's going home.
At just 17 years old, Carbajal has sneaked across the border six times before. "It's never been this hard," he said, confessing that he would return to his home in the Mexican state of Guanajuato rather than try again.
Although he may not know exactly why,... (more)
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Dawn of the GM babies?Scientists will be able to carry out genetic experiments on human embryos for the first time under controversial Government plans.
Ministers have given the green light to research that some doctors warn raises the disturbing prospect of "genetically modified babies".
Proposed legislation says researchers would be allowed to alter the genetic blueprint of an embryo up to two weeks old. Ethical campaigners fear this could herald an era of eugenics in which couples wou... (more)
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France bans citizen journalists from reporting violenceThe French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.
The council chose an unfortunate anniversary to publish its decision approving the law, which came exactly 16 years after Los Ang... (more)
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The Housing Bubble Starts to BurstIs there anything as beautiful as the sound of surprised economists in the springtime? I haven't had this much fun since the NASDAQ started to deflate seven years ago.
Okay, enough of the gloating; while the collapse of the housing bubble was both predictable and inevitable, it is not pretty. Tens of millions of people will be hurt as they see much of the equity in their homes - money that most had counted on to support their retirement - disappear. Millions more will be force... (more)
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How Much More Harm Can Bush Do?U.S. casualties (dead and wounded) have now reached 27,000 in a war that was supposed to be a "cakewalk," over in a few weeks. If what four-star Gen. Wesley Clark, former supreme commander of NATO, told Amy Goodman in a March 2 interview is correct, U.S. casualties are yet in their early days.
Gen. Clark told Amy Goodman that shortly after 9/11 he was shown a Pentagon "memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria... (more)
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US army medic guilty of desertionA US Army medic who refused to return to Iraq with his unit has been found guilty and sentenced to eight months in jail for desertion - far short of the maximum seven-year sentence.
A US military court also ruled that Agustin Aguayo, who has already spent 161 days in prison, should forfeit paid allowances and be given a bad conduct discharge.
His rank would also be reduced to the lowest grade.
The Mexican-born combat medic, age 35, on Tuesday plead... (more)
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Warsaw Ghetto Comments Provoke Fury: German Bishops Accused of Anti-SemitismThe visit by German Catholic bishops to Israel and the Palestinian territories had exceeded expectations -- until some of the bishops compared the situation of the Palestinians to the Warsaw Ghetto. The comments have enraged the Jewish community in Germany -- now the Church is rushing to apologize.
The members of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference spent last week in the Holy Land. While the trip went well for the most part, remarks by two of the bishops have led to a row in G... (more)
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Big Brother Watches Cabbies NYC taxi drivers are threatening to strike if tracking technology is installed in their cabs. A new plan calls to equip all cabs with a system that will provide television service, credit card processing and GPS tracking. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance is calling on drivers to protest the plan, which many deem an invasion of privacy, by rallying outside the Taxi and Limousine Commission headquarters today. The alliance has also taken issue with the cost of the new ... (more)
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Mossad kidnaps Iranian ex-officialA former Iranian Defense Ministry official, who was reported missing in Turkey last month, has reportedly been kidnapped by Israeli secret services.
Alireza Askari, 63, was then taken to the United States by the Israeli spy agency Mossad, informed sources said.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki had earlier said that Iran will send a team of diplomats to Turkey to find out how the former deputy defense minister mysteriously disappeared while on a private tri... (more)
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Israel, Iran top 'negative list'A majority of people believe that Israel and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
It shows that the two countries are closely followed by the United States and North Korea.
The poll asked 28,000 people in 27 countries to rate a dozen countries plus the EU in terms of whether they have a positive or negative influence.
Canada, Japan and the EU are viewed most positively in the survey.
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Boise parents win custody case BOISE -- The U.S. District Court has sided with a Boise mother and father in a case where the parents lost custody of their baby because of a doctor's orders.
In 2002, Corissa Mueller was afraid her five-week-old daughter was seriously sick.
An emergency room doctor insisted on giving the baby a spinal tap, but Corissa wanted less-invasive tests, before allowing the riskier procedure.
Police took little Taige from the Muellers and they had to go to... (more)
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How Blair has stood by Niger claim The now notorious Niger claim first surfaced in Britain, where the Blair government circulated the September 2002 dossier warning of the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
The fallout from the flawed intelligence has claimed a slew of victims in Washington, including the scalp of the Central Intelligence Agency chief George Tenet.
Yesterday, almost four years after the Iraq invasion, the nuclear dossier led to the toppling of a central White ... (more)
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'Safest ever' passport is not fit for purposeThey are the "safest ever", according to the Government. But the Daily Mail has revealed how easily a person’s identity can be stolen from new biometric passports.
In just four hours, the Mail hacked into a new biometric passport and stole the details a people trafficker or illegal migrant would need to set up a life in Britain.
A shocking security gap allows the personal details and photograph in any electronic passport to be copied from the outside of the e... (more)
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Dow's bounce may not signal recoveryNEW YORK - A 157-point Dow gain is normally a sign of a healthy stock market. But when a big up day like Tuesday follows a 736-point drop in the previous nine sessions, the rally comes with its fair share of caveats and question marks. Wall Street has historically viewed large one-day rebounds after steep, scary declines with suspicion and trepidation. And traders' reaction to Tuesday's stock surge fit the age-old profile to a T.
Jittery investors still reeling from Wall Street's... (more)
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Locked in Maximum-Security Texas Detention Center, 9-Year-Old Canadian Boy Pleads For Help'Dear Mr. Prime minister haper I don’t like to stay in this jail. I’m only nine years old. I want to go to my school in Canada. I’m sleeping beside the wall. Please Mr. Priminister haper give visa for my family. This place is not good for me. I want to get out of the cell. Just pleace give visa for my family. My home land is in Canada, My life is over there. I’m also sleeping beside wasroom. Mr. Priminister haper pleace bring me and my family to Canada. Thank you so mu... (more)
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New Police Terror Posters Encourage Stasi UK The newest London Metropolitan Police publicity campaign posters have been released today and, as usual, encourage the public to be scared of anyone who uses a phone, carries a bag, drives a van or takes pictures with a camera because they may be terrorists.
Click here for enlargement.
The Met website datapage states: "Trust your instincts: it ... (more)
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The 9/11 Solution: The big clue everybody missed
Two major 9/11 anomalies have been thoroughly documented, specifically:
1) The stand down of US air defense on the morning of 9/11 that permitted commercial jet aircraft to fly erratically and in restricted air space without challenge
2) O... (more)
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911veritas' BBC video Version 2911veritas has corrected time zone labels on his famous BBC video and released a new version with more info. Copyrighted music removed, and 911veritas is citing Fair Use for educational purposes regarding the footage.
Downloads:
500 MB version 25m, 43s - right click and save:
1. http://www.911podcast... (more)
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