No ID card? No entrance TRENTON -- By the end of the month, any student wishing to enter Trenton Central High School must carry an identification card with a special bar code.
With just one swipe of the card, the student's picture and class schedule will appear on a computer screen. If the picture matches the student, he or she may gain access into the building.
This new identification system is part of an effort led by Superintendent Rodney Lofton to control access into schools and stren... (more)
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Defense bigs ask '24' to cool it on torture The grossly graphic torture scenes in Fox's highly rated series "24" are encouraging abuses in Iraq, a brigadier general and three top military and FBI interrogators claim.
The four flew to Los Angeles in November to meet with the staff of the show. They said it is hurting efforts to train recruits in effective interrogation techniques and is damaging the image of the U.S. around the world, according The New Yorker.
"I'd like them to stop," Army Brig. Gen. Patrick ... (more)
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ATF Officials Who Challenged Director Moved to Lower PostsTwo senior officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who opposed many questionable management and spending decisions by the agency's former director are being moved to lower-ranking positions effective Thursday, officials said.
Deputy Director Edgar A. Domenech, who also served as acting director last year, is being moved out of ATF headquarters to lead the agency's Washington field office. The assistant director for field operations, Michael Bouchard, w... (more)
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The World Can Halt Bush’s Crimes by Dumping the DollarWhat would be the consequences of a US or Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear energy sites?
At the 2006 Perdana Global Peace Forum, Australian medical scientist Dr. Helen Caldicott provided an authoritative analysis of the devastating impact on human life that would result from the radiation release from such an attack.
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No 10 backs US claim over Iran armsDowning Street has backed American claims that Iran was involved in arming Iraqi insurgents with powerful roadside weaponry used against allied forces.
Prime Minister Tony Blair had first warned in October 2005 of concerns over improvised explosive device technology and weaponry coming from Iran, said the premier's official spokesman.
He added: "Those concerns have not gone away at all.
"We certainly believe that if the Iranian government wanted to, i... (more)
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Monsanto Dumped Toxic Waste in UKEvidence has emerged that the Monsanto chemical company paid contractors to dump thousands of tonnes of highly toxic waste in British landfill sites, knowing that their chemicals were liable to contaminate wildlife and people. Yesterday the Environment Agency said it had launched an inquiry after the chemicals were found to be polluting underground water supplies and the atmosphere 30 years after they were dumped.
According to the agency it could cost up to £100m to clean up... (more)
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Global-warming skeptics cite being 'treated like a pariah' Scientists skeptical of climate-change theories say they are increasingly coming under attack -- treatment that may make other analysts less likely to present contrarian views about global warming.
"In general, if you do not agree with the consensus that we are headed toward disaster, you are treated like a pariah," said William O'Keefe, chief executive officer of the Marshall Institute, which assesses scientific issues that shape public policy.
"It's ironic that a... (more)
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War: It's just a pretext awayAnyone viewing international events with even a shred of objectivity knows that the U.S. government is just a pretext away from bombing Iran. American history, after all, is teeming with convenient provocations that created an opening for military intervention. Here's one instructive example:
"We should remember what happened in the village of Racak back in January," President Bill Clinton told the press on March 19, 1999. "Innocent men, women, and children taken from their ho ... (more)
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Iran Attack: Once Again, the New York Times Serves as Propaganda ToolRecall, back in May of 2004, a superficially contrite New York Times editorial staff admitting it published “questionable” information about claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, information that ultimately paved the way for the slaughter of 650,000 Iraqis.
In an rather unconvincing and apparently obligatory mea culpa, the editors shifted blame for publishing this blatant... (more)
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America's Hidden War With IranFeb. 19, 2007 - Jalal Sharafi was carrying a videogame, a gift for his daughter, when he found himself surrounded. On that chilly Sunday morning, the second secretary at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad had driven himself to the commercial district of Arasat Hindi to checkout the site for a new Iranian bank. He had ducked into a nearby electronics store with his bodyguards, and as they emerged four armored cars roared up and disgorged at least 20 gunmen wearing bulletproof vests and Iraqi National... (more)
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Criminals Control the Executive BranchGentle reader, you are probably unaware of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski’s damning indictment of the Bush Regime in his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 1, 2007, as the United States no longer has a media – only a government propaganda ministry.
Brzezinski damned the Bush Regime’s war in Iraq as "a historic, strategic, and moral calamity." Brzezinski da... (more)
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Will They Nuke Iran? President Nixon, a very good poker player, once defined the art of brinkmanship as persuading your opponent that you are insane and, unless appeased by pledges of surrender, quite capable of blowing up the planet.
By these robust standards George Bush is doing a moderately competent job in suggesting that if balked by Iran on the matter of arming the Shi'a in Iraq or pursuing its nuclear program he'll dump high explosive, maybe even ... (more)
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The Najaf Massacre, an Annotated Fable As the fables about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and clandestine ties with al-Qaida began to unravel following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, the flagship of U.S. news reporting, The New York Times, took itself to task for its failure to challenge its news sources. "Information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged," the Times wrote in May... (more)
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'NYT' Reporter Who Got Iraqi WMDs Wrong Now Highlights Iran ClaimsSaturday’s New York Times features an article, posted at the top of its Web site late Friday, that suggests very strongly that Iran is supplying the “deadliest weapon aimed at American troops” in Iraq. The author notes, “Any assertion of an Iranian contribution to attacks on Americans in Iraq is both politically and diplomatically volatile.”
What is the source of this volatile information? Nothing less than “civilian and military officials f... (more)
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Squandering billions in Iraq while U.S. suffers“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money,” famously quipped U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen back in the 1960s.
Our minds boggled last week at U.S. government estimates that President George W. Bush’s so-called “war on terror” (including Afghanistan and Iraq) will cost at least $690 billion US by next year. That’s more than the total cost of World War I, Korea, or Vietnam, and second only to World War II&rs... (more)
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School bans kids from touching each other during playtimePARENTS were up in arms last night after a headmistress banned kids from playing tag on their breaks.
Other playtime favourites such as kiss chase are also forbidden, with pupils told they can only touch each other to help if one has fallen over.
One mum said: “Kids have been playing these games for centuries. The ban is barmy. It hardly helps children learn to play together.”
Headmistress Susan Tuck ordered the 400 pupils at Bracebridge H... (more)
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Hate crimes legislation backOn Jan. 5, liberal Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (DTexas) reintroduced so-called “hate crimes” legislation in Congress. The bill is numbered H.R. 254. “Hate” crimes laws—the brainchild of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith—are found in states and locales across America, but this new measure in Congress would enact a federal hate crime statute.
Essentially, hate crimes laws would add additional criminal penalties upon anyone c... (more)
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An explosion of disbelief - fresh doubts over 9-11The official story of what happened on 9/11 never fails to shock. Four American airliners are hijacked by Osama Bin Laden's terrorists in an attack on the heart of the Western world on September 11, 2001.
Two are deliberately flown into New York's famous Twin Towers, which collapse. A third rams into the United States defence headquarters at the Pentagon, in Washington D.C.
The last goes down in rural Pennsylvania, 150 miles north of the capita... (more)
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NYPD Officer Heard Building 7 BombsFollowing our reports this week about three different ground zero rescue workers who all testified that they were told Building 7 was to be brought down, yet more revealing testimony has come to light - this time from a former NYPD officer and first responder, who states that he clearly heard bombs tear down Building 7 as he ran away from its collapse.
NYPD officer Craig Bartmer awoke on 9/11 to images of the World Trade Center burning. Knowing colleagues who ... (more)
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Iran Dossier: More Brothers Grimm Nonsense “The Bush administration is haunted by the history of intelligence blunders about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction as the United States tries to document that Iran is providing lethal help to Iraqi fighters,†reports Yahoo News, or maybe that should be news for yahoos.
In fact, the Bush administration ... (more)
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Corrupt officers damage Met, says reportPolice in Britain's biggest force are associating with criminals, taking drugs and misusing their warrant cards, a secret Scotland Yard report has revealed.
A wide-ranging corruption investigation, carried out last month, found "inappropriate relationships or criminal associations" among police officers and civilian staff posed "significant threats" to the Metropolitan Police Force.
The report says a growing number of officers and staff are taking drugs off duty. Co... (more)
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CIA analysts 'disagreed with more than 50%' of Pentagon team's 'controversial' Iraq WMD findingsCIA analysts "disagreed with more than 50%" of a Pentagon team's "controversial" Iraq WMD findings, the LA Times reports.
"As the Bush administration began assembling its case for war, analysts across the U.S. intelligence community were disturbed by the report of a secretive Pentagon team that concluded Iraq had significant ties to Al Qaeda," Greg Miller and Julian E. Barnes write for the LA Times.
The article continues, "Analysts from the CIA... (more)
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Pot Prisoners Cost Americans $1 Billion a Year| The latest numbers are out: nearly 800,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2005. When will the insanity stop? American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That's according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics. According to the new BJS report, "Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004," 12.7 percent of state inmates and 12.4 ... (more)
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An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate changeWhen politicians and journalists declare that the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. We were treated to another dose of it recently when the experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the Summary for Policymakers that puts the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on climate change due for publication in a few months’ time. They declared that most of the rise in temperatures since the mid-... (more)
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Cosmic rays blamed for global warmingMan-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research.
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought.
In a book, to be published this week, they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet.
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The tiny airline spy that spots bombers in the blink of an eyeTiny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers are to be used to monitor the behaviour of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism.
Cameras fitted to seat-backs will record every twitch, blink, facial expression or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software which will check it against individual passenger profiles.
Scientists from Britain and Germany are spending £25million developing a system which t... (more)
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"I was scared. Who would believe the Israeli president raped me?"IN A hotel room in Tel Aviv, a young assistant who worked in the office of Moshe Katsav, the Israeli president, is acting out the moves she claims he made when he raped her.
“I went into his office with a book I needed to put away,” she said. “He was sitting at his desk and there’s a big wall of books behind him. I was reaching up to put the book away when he came up behind me.”
She crosses her hands on her stomach and hunches. You ... (more)
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