The Pentagon's Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans The president and the Pentagon now wield the omnipotent power to arrest, torture, and execute any American they label an “enemy combatant.” It is impossible to overstate the significance of this power. It has totally upended the relationship of the military and civilian in the United States. The assumption of this particular power easily constitutes one of the most monumental revolutions of liberty and power in history. It is a revolu... (more)
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Tuesday's market meltdown; Greenspan's "invisible hand"Tuesday’s stock market freefall has Greenspan's bloody fingerprints all over it. And, no, I’m not talking about Sir Alan's crystal ball predictions about the impending recession; that’s just more of his same circuitous blather.
The real issue is the Federal Reserve's suicidal policies of low interest rates and currency deregulation which have paved the way for economic Armageddon. Whether the Chinese stock market contagion persists or not is immaterial; the Ameri... (more)
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Welcome to the Machine "Welcome my son,
Welcome to the machine.
Where have you been?
It's all right – we know where you've been...
~ Pink Floyd, "Welcome to the Machine" (1975) For prophetic visions of where we're headed, forget the economists, philosophers, historians, politicos – and especially climatologists (30 years ago, they predicted an impending ice age, for Pete's sake). It's ... (more)
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Military Press Crackdown Extends Further Than Walter ReedNEW YORK A report today that soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are being told not to speak with the press is apparently just the latest move in a recent effort to tighten restrictions on journalists' access to many military facilities, according to the president of Military Reporters and Editors.
James Crawley, a military reporter with MediaGeneral and MRE president, said today's revelation by Army Times that Walter Reed patients had been barred from speaking with report... (more)
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Hunting Down Digg's Bury BrigadeAll is not well in Digg town.
On Tuesday, a bug in the social news site's Digg Spy tool gave one smart Digger the ability to peer into the inner workings of the community. Namely, David LeMieux found a way to highlight which users were burying stories on Digg, and why.
In about two hours, LeMieux gathered data on 1,708 buries, fueling growing concern about the benefit of Digg's b... (more) Related: Proof Digg's Bury Feature Abused to Suppress Controversial Content |
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Call to add fluoride to bottle waterBOTTLED water may soon contain added fluoride amid rising concerns about childhood tooth decay.
Consumer, health and industry groups were united yesterday in calls for the national food regulator, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, to overturn its ban on added fluoride. Only naturally occurring fluoride is allowed in bottled water.
Two months ago Prime Minister John Howard described the increase in tooth decay as a national tragedy and called for parents to give ... (more)
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The BBC Covers Pearl Harbor....Granted, there was no television coverage of Pearl Harbor - but you get the idea :)
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Suit filed in swearing case Riverside student, charged with using profanity at airport, says O.C. law violates free-speech rights.
A Riverside woman who faces a criminal charge of swearing at John Wayne Airport is suing the county, Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and two sheriff's deputies, alleging infringement of her free-speech rights.
The federal lawsuit of Elizabeth Venable asks a judge to nullify an "unconstitutional" county law that holds that Venable "unlawfully commit(ed) a disorder... (more)
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2007 German horror taleEarlier this month, a German teen-ager was forcibly taken from her parents and imprisoned in a psychiatric ward. Her crime? She is being home-schooled.
On Feb. 1, 15 German police officers forced their way into the home of the Busekros family in the Bavarian town of Erlangen. They hauled off 16-year-old Melissa, the eldest of the six Busekros children, to a psychiatric ward in nearby Nuremberg. Last week, a court affirmed that Melissa has to remain in the Child Psychiatry Unit... (more)
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Americans Have Lost Their Country The Bush-Cheney regime is America’s first neoconservative regime. In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and the remains of America’s moral reputation along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians. Plans have been prepared, and forces moved into place, for an attack on a third Islamic country, Iran, a... (more)
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Go-ahead signalled for animal-human embryosBritish scientists will be allowed to create part-human, part-animal embryos for research into potentially life-saving medical treatments, the Government signalled yesterday.
Caroline Flint, the health minister, is considering removing a ban on such work from a draft bill that will form the basis for new laws on fertility treatment and embryo research.
Two teams of British researchers have applied for permission to create "cybrid" embryos that ... (more)
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The Town the Law ForgotThe first sign of trouble for Cudahy City Council candidate Tony Mendoza was a pair of thong panties mailed to his wife, with a note telling her to watch her husband’s back. Then came the phone calls — and the death threats.
A political novice in a tiny city of Mexican immigrants that hasn’t had an election since 1999, Mendoza had expected dirty tricks. But to his dismay, the caller, who spoke poor English and called every day for three ... (more)
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China reviews 're-education' law China's parliament is to consider reforming a controversial law allowing police to send crime suspects to labour camps without trial, state media said.
Reforming the "re-education through labour" system is one of 20 items to be tabled at next week's National People's Congress, the China Daily reported.
The newspaper backed changes to the law, but warned of stiff opposition.
The system, known as "laojiao", allows police to send ... (more)
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First bank failure in years happens in PittsburghThe streak is over.
After nearly 21/2 years without a bank failure, a small Pennsylvania bank collapsed this month.
Metropolitan Savings Bank of Pittsburgh was closed by its state banking department. About $12 million in deposits were assumed by Allegheny Valley Bank of Pittsburgh.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Metropolitan had about $1.2 million in deposits in 70 accounts that could exceed the federal insurance limit.
The la... (more)
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8,000 gallons of toxic chemicals spill into Ohio RiverBROOKPORT, Illinois (CNN) -- As many as 8,000 gallons of a toxic solvent spilled into the Ohio River Wednesday after a barge hit an underwater dam, Coast Guard and Illinois state officials told CNN.
Lt. Wayne Chapman of the U.S. Coast Guard said the barge, owned by Kirby Marine, hit the wicket dam, which is a type of movable dam, near Brookport and began leaking cumene, a solvent used to produce other chemicals.
So far, officials said, there's no threat to public dr... (more)
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Racial slur banned in New York The city council of New York has voted to ban the use of the word "nigger".
The resolution to ban the so-called "N-word" is largely symbolic as it carries no weight in law and those who use the word would face no punishment.
But it reflects a growing unease that the racial slur is now part of everyday conversation and that the taboo against its usage has been swept away.
The word is in common usage among sections of the young... (more)
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Proof Digg's Bury Feature Abused to Suppress Controversial ContentProgrammer hacks Digg, gets bury list for a few hours: Bury list is full of shills burying highly significant content
A programmer found a bug at Digg which allowed him to view the Bury feed at Digg. He posted the list on his website and it is eye opening, to say the least.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE LIST ... (more)
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Time Stamp Confirms BBC Reported WTC 7 Collapse 26 Minutes In AdvanceIf there was any remaining doubt that the BBC reported the collapse of Building 7 over 20 minutes before it fell then it has now evaporated with the discovery of footage from the BBC's News 24 channel that shows the time stamp at 21:54 (4:54PM EST) when news of the Salomon Brothers Building is first broadcast, a full 26 minutes in advance of its collapse.
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BBC Has Lost Tapes Of 21st Century's Defining Moment t has come to light this week that the most pre-eminent broadcasting company in the world has lost the original recordings of its output for the entire day on September 11th 2001, just over five years on, yet no major news agency has even bothered to report the fact.
Despite being currently the biggest story on the internet and in the alternative media, the only place in the mainstream the story has appeared is on a small German news website.
This highlights the fac... (more)
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