War Taxes and Death in Bushzarro WorldAs an example just how out of touch our corporate whores and flaming warmongers are, consider Joseph Lieberman.
“I think we have to start thinking about a war on terrorism tax,” Lieberman said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Bush’s defense budget. “I mean, people keep saying we’re not asking a sacrifice of anybody but our military in this war and some civilians who are working on it,” reports ... (more)
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Israel’s double nuclear standard is no standard at allThis is old history, but given the standard of public ignorance (SPI) it’s worth repeating. Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu defied his own government while he worked as a nuclear technician at Dimona, Israel’s secret nuclear installation from 1976 to 1985.
As DemocracyNow tells us “he worked there at a time when Israel insisted it would not be the first to introduce nuclear weapon... (more)
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Media Fearmongering Links Letter Bomber to Big Brother Critics, Tax ProtestersA third UK company that oversees Big Brother tracking and taxation policies has been targeted in a letter bombing campaign that has only succeeded in demonizing privacy and personal freedom advocates, while also wiping Tony Blair's cash for honors scandal off the front pages. British media outlets are busy trying to link the letter bomber to anti-surveillance and tax protest groups.
For years we have been predicting that attacks on Big Brother institutions ... (more)
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Ground Zero EMT: We Were Told Building 7 Was to Be "Pulled"A New Jersey EMT has gone public on how emergency workers were told that Building 7 was going to be "pulled," before a 20 second demolition countdown broadcast over radio preceded its collapse. The ground zero rescue worker also blows the whistle on how he witnessed multiple underground support columns of the WTC towers that had been severed before the buildings imploded.
In a letter to Loose Change producer Dylan Avery, the individual who wishes t... (more)
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Watada Court-Martial Ends in MistrialFort Lewis, Washington - The court-martial of First Lt. Ehren Watada, a commissioned US Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq on the basis that he believed the war was illegal, has ended in a mistrial, a military court judge ruled Wednesday.
In a stunning defeat for military prosecutors, Lt. Col. John Head, the military judge presiding over Watada's court-martial, said he had no choice but to declare a mistrial because military prosecutors and Watada's defense attorney c... (more)
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Criminal code raises fear over EU powersFor eurosceptics, the European Court of Justice ruling in September 2005 was like giving a child a loaded gun. It opened the way for the European Union to designate a new class of pan-European crimes, and how they should be punished.
In Britain there was an outcry. In future decisions taken in Brussels could be applied to the British courts, denying parliament the right to determine what constituted a crime and levels of sentencing.
Concerns g... (more)
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Communist Lawmaker Accuses Putin of Provoking Clash in Beslan SchoolA Russian opposition lawmaker on Monday accused President Vladimir Putin of ordering special forces to fire grenades at the Beslan school tragedy in 2004, the Associated Press reported.
On September 1, 2004 the school was seized by militants with over 1,000 students, parents and teachers hostage, the fire prompted the chaotic climax of the three-day ordeal that led to the deaths of 334 people, more than half of them children.
Prosecutors say t... (more)
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No 10 chief denies cover-up to fool police in cash for honours investigationWhitehall's most senior civil servant yesterday publicly denied that there had been any cover-up within Downing Street to thwart the police in the cash for honours investigation.
Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, also dismissed reports that Downing Street had operated a second secret email system for confidential messages about the award of peerages.
Challenged about the level of co-operation as he gave evidence to the Commons public administration committee... (more)
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Ex-terror plot suspect speaks out A man freed after he was arrested over an alleged plot to kidnap a UK Muslim soldier has criticised the police investigation.
Abu Bakr, who works in the Maktabah bookshop, targeted in anti-terror raids in Birmingham, also told BBC News the UK was "a police state for Muslims".
But Tory leader David Cameron said anti-terror laws applied to everyone.
Mr Bakr, one of nine men arrested in raids, was released without charge along with another man.
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No 10 rejects police state claim Tony Blair has rejected claims that the UK is a "police state for Muslims" as "categorically wrong".
Abu Bakr, who was arrested, questioned and then released without charge over an alleged kidnap plot, made the remarks on BBC Two's Newsnight.
But the prime minister's official spokesman said anyone arrested in a police state would not have been freed and allowed to appear on television.
He said: "It is a gross caricature of t... (more)
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Story of Israeli spy in Toronto 'nonsense,' Israel saysIsraeli officials are denying a report of an Israeli spy operating in Toronto, calling the claim a "complete and utter fabrication."
Both the Israeli public security minister and Israeli's ambassador to Canada said Tuesday that the allegations against Mohamed Essam Ghoneim el-Attar are not true.
El-Attar, who is a dual citizen of Egypt and Canada, was arrested in January in Cairo and charged with spying. Egyptian authorities claim he moved to Canada in 2003 to spy o... (more)
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Litvinenko was a traitor, ex-FSB boss claimAlexander Litvinenko's former boss in the Russian security services has condemned the murdered former spy as a "traitor".
Alexander Gusak, once head of the FSB, the successor to the KGB, said that Mr Litvinenko would have been executed in the Soviet era for betraying undercover Russian agents to the British.
And he revealed that at least one of the betrayed agents came to him offering to kill Mr Litvinenko in revenge.
"One of them d... (more)
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Cost of troop buildup not in budgetWASHINGTON — The Bush administration's $142-billion war budget for next year leaves out money for the planned troop buildup in Iraq, a strong indication that the Pentagon views the increase as a short-term tactic to stem the escalating violence in Baghdad.
But Defense officials could not provide assurances Monday that the troop level would fall back again by next year, and acknowledged they may be forced to return to Congress for more money to pay for the extra forces if sec... (more)
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The Great Dollar Crash of '07“Whatever future developments may prove to be, my best guess is that the US will continue to maintain a façade of Constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.” Chalmers Johnson, “Empire V. Democracy: Why Nemesis is at our Door” Every time a US Dollar is traded, a check is issued on an account that is overdrawn by $8.6 trillion. (That is the present size of the national debt) It is, without question, the ... (more)
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Hagel: White House Originally Wanted 2002 Iraq War Resolution to Cover Entire Middle EastThe Bush administration has taken a series of steps in recent weeks that appear to be setting the stage for a military confrontation with Iran. Congressional leaders have been raising red flags. “I’d like to be clear,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said last week. “The president does not have the authority to launch military action in Iran without first seeking congressional aut... (more)
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Army made video warning about dangers of depleted uranium but never showed it to troops A special investigation on the effects of depleted uranium reveals the Army made a tape warning of the effects of depleted uranium which was never shown to troops despite the fact the Pentagon knew the agent to be potentially deadly, CNN reports Tuesday.
Depleted uranium -- or DU -- was used in the Gulf War as a projectile that could penetrate tank armor. A group of soldiers are suing the US government because they are sick from exposure; despite the unshown video, the Army den... (more)
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Who Are The Real Terrorists In Iraq? An article in the Sunday Telegraph this weekend pointed towards evidence that an secretive and elite unit of the British army is actively engaged in recruiting and training Iraqi insurgents and terrorists as double agents.
This confirms what many have speculated for a long time, that Britain and the US are deeply involved in bombings and attacks inside Iraq which are subsequently att... (more)
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Why You Should Avoid Taking VaccinesDr. James R. Shannon, former director of the National institute of health declared, "the only safe vaccine is one that is never used."
Cowpox vaccine was believed able to immunize people against smallpox. At the time this vaccine was introduced, there was already a decline in the number of cases of smallpox. Japan introduced compulsory vaccination in 1872. In 1892 there were 165,774 cases of smallpox with 29,979 deaths despite the vaccination program. A stringent compulsory smallp... (more)
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Brzezinski Suggests False Flag Event Could Kick-Start Iran War Former National Security Advisor and founding member of the Trilateral Commission Zbigniew Brzezinski tacitly warned a Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that an attack on Iran could be launched following a staged provocation in Iraq or a false flag terror attack within the U.S.
Brzezinski alluded to the potential for the Bush administration to manufacture a false flag Gulf of Tonkin type incident in describing a "plausible scenario for a milita... (more)
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No Law To Mandate Dangerous, Untested HPV Vaccine A media hoax has fooled parents in Texas and other areas of the country that the HPV vaccine, which experts have slammed as untested and has already been linked to dangerous side-effects, is now the law and young girls must take it. Merck Pharmaceuticals are set to capitalize on this fraud by making obscene profits from a crony deal with Governor Rick Perry, while children are put at risk.
Perry issued an executive order Friday requiring girls to be vaccinate... (more)
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ACLU alarmed that US govt. may begin collecting DNA of all suspects, even if innocent The American Civil Liberties Union is expressing its alarm that the U.S. government may beging collecting the DNA of all suspects, even if innocent.
In a press release, the ACLU "criticized the Justice Department's move to collect DNA samples of individuals who are arrested or detained by federal authorities – even if they are not convicted, or charged with a crime."
An amendment authorizing that collection was author... (more)
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The Orwellian Ideology of 24I am perennially embarrassed to admit that I enjoy watching Fox TV's 24. It unintentionally reveals both subtle and overt problems for lovers of liberty. Its major theme is an ongoing struggle between terrorists with evil machinations and federal agents (also, presumably, with evil machinations).
Now, terrorists are apparently difficult to catch and government has little or no recourse in accomplishing this goal except through violating personal freedoms.
One of the... (more)
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Lawmaker: Shock ninth-graders with prison tripsA Missouri lawmaker wants to scare teenagers out of committing crimes by making all ninth-grade students tour a state prison.
Sen. Tim Green, D-St. Louis, has proposed legislation that would require schools to take all ninth- graders to a state correctional center before their sophomore year starting in the 2009-10 school year.
Superintendents or principals who fail to comply with the law would have their contracts terminated under the proposal.
The g... (more)
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