Institute Says British People Ready To Forget FreedomThe foremost social research institute in the United Kingdom has today revealed results of its annual 'Social Attitudes' survey that show an overwhelming majority of people in Britain are ready to accept ID cards, phone tapping, curfews, electronic tagging, the opening of private mail and extensions to detention without charge.
The ... (more)
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Bush Speech Terror Claim Debunked A Year Ago A claim made by President Bush in his State of the Union speech last night, that an attack on an L.A. skyscraper had been averted, was universally debunked as a hoax by Mayors, CIA, FBI and NSA personnel and counter-terror experts nearly a year ago when it first surfaced. By regurgitating this fraud, Bush has committed an impeachable offense by knowingly lying to the American people.
Bush's address was punctuated with deception, horse hockey and propagandisti... (more)
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'There is no war on terror'The director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, put himself at odds with the home secretary and Downing Street last night by denying that Britain is caught up in a "war on terror" and calling for a "culture of legislative restraint" in passing laws to deal with terrorism.
Sir Ken warned of the pernicious risk that a "fear-driven and inappropriate" response to the threat could lead Britain to abandon respect for fair trials and the due process of law.
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Huge majority say civil liberty curbs a 'price worth paying' to fight terrorAn overwhelming majority of people in Britain are willing to surrender civil liberties to help tackle the threat of terrorism, the nation's leading social research institute will disclose today.
The survey found seven in every 10 people think compulsory identity cards for all adults would be "a price worth paying" to reduce the threat of terrorism. Eight in 10 say the authorities should be able to tap the phones of people suspected of involvement in terrorism, open their mail and ... (more)
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All of a sudden, Ed Brown has a lot of friendsEd Brown parted ways with his wife last week when he decided not to join her for the conclusion of their federal tax evasion trial. But after barricading himself in his fortified Plainfield home and refusing to surrender to authorities, Brown has amassed a new and growing group of friends who support his decision to stand up to government authority.
Since Brown and his wife were convicted last week, his case has captured the attention of a variety of fringe groups, including Gandh... (more)
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Key 9/11 survivor in LancasterTHE last man to leave the World Trade Center building alive is coming to Lancaster on Thursday, February 8, to speak on his experiences during and since 9/11. Visitor news editor INGRID KENT hears what William Rodriguez has to stay and finds out why he will be travelling all the way to the UK to give a lecture
WILLIAM Rodriguez was working as a janitor in the World Trade Center on the ninth of September 2001 when he heard explosions – from below.
But Wi... (more)
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9/11 was an inside job says Shayler EX-MI5 officer David Shayler, who will be in Liverpool to launch the Truth Movement, tells Paddy Shennan what he thinks about the New York terror attacks
FORMER spy David Shayler doesn’t have a story to tell. He has a million. And a lot of them might even be true.
Talking to him was incredibly interesting – and not just because he reckons he could be bumped off by dark forces at any time, thereby becoming the UK’s own Alexande... (more)
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Venezuela Boosts Dollar Sales By 90 Percent, Barroso SaysJan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela has boosted daily dollar sales by as much as 90 percent this year to keep up with a surge in demand for imports from local manufacturers, said Manuel Barroso, whose office controls foreign exchange sales in the country.
Venezuela increased approvals for dollar sales to as high as $210 million a day, up from a daily average of $164 million in December and from a daily average of $110 million last year, Barroso said, according to the state-run newswi... (more)
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Libby: White House sacrificed him for RoveWASHINGTON - Top White House officials tried to blame vice presidential aide "Scooter" Libby for the 2003 leak of a CIA operative's identity to protect President Bush's political strategist, Karl Rove, Libby's defense attorney said Tuesday as his perjury trial began and the first witness took the stand.
I. Lewis Libby is accused of lying to FBI agents, who began investigating after syndicated columnist Robert Novak revealed that a chief Bush administration critic, Joseph Wilson, ... (more)
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2 cop cars towed for illegal parking Two Chicago Police cars were towed last week for being illegally parked -- and the department then sent out a memo warning cops not to park in handicapped spots or in front of fire hydrants.
The actions followed a Sun-Times story that reported the department is investigating a handful of police employees for suspected misuse of disabled parking signs.
One unmarked police car was towed at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the 100 block of West Washington and another at 12:48 p.... (more)
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Christian activists vow to appeal dismissal of freedom-of-speech suitChristian activists yesterday promised to appeal the dismissal of their federal court claim that Philadelphia officials infringed on their freedom of speech when they blocked anti-homosexual protesters at a 2004 Center City gay festival.
"This is a very shocking decision," said Michael Marcavage of Lansdowne, director of Repent America, and one of 11 protesters who were arrested at the 2004 Outfest.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel on Thursday granted a summa... (more)
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Murdoch, Carlyle Group Battle For Big Paper ControlRupert Murdoch's News Corporation has joined the Chandler family in its bid for Tribune Company, with an eye to taking a stake in New York's Newsday newspaper.
Newsday, which is based in Long Island, is one of Tribune's largest newspapers, along with the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The media group, which put itself up for sale in September, also includes 23 television stations and the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
A person familiar with the situation said M... (more)
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Litvinenko's Russia - Exclusive: The book Putin bannedAssassination, embezzlement and paranoia. These are the hallmarks of life in Putin's Russia, according to the murdered journalist Alexander Litvinenko. His explosive account of state-sponsored anarchy - banned by the Kremlin - is now published in the West for the first time. What price freedom, he asks, if our leaders are complicit in terror?
Freelance conspiratorial military operations groups, consisting of former and current members of special armed forces units and the... (more)
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Store bans a boy of two for wearing his 'hoodie'Possible thief or little boy wrapped up against the cold?
A boy has been banned from a shop because he was wearing a hood - at the age of two.
Jay Cowper was muffled up against the cold but he and his grandfather were told they had to leave their local store.
The same shop in York recently banned a middle-aged nurse for wearing a hooded top when she went to collect her morning newspaper.
Staff at Monkton Road Stores say they have... (more)
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Oil, Not Terrorists, the Reason for US Attack on SomaliaJust why did the US attack Somalia two weeks ago? Of course, the answer given for the US military intervention and the generally accepted notion is the hunt for terrorists. But is it? Are terrorists the only bone of contention the US has with Somalia? When the US military devised “Operation Restore Hope” in 1993 which was short-lived after they were whipsawed by rag-tag militia in and around Mogadishu, were they fighting the ‘war on terror’?
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Somalia - A Trip Down Memory Hole LaneFollowing recent American airstrikes in Somalia, the words ‘Black Hawk Down’ have been mentioned dozens of times across the UK national press, and more than 100 times in the US press, over the last month.
The words refer, of course, to the Hollywood film based on the October 3, 1993 raid by US forces on Mogadishu, the Somali capital. Press coverage has focused on two aspects of that raid: the claim that it was part of a humanitarian mission motivated to relieve... (more)
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Looking for a Gulf of Tonkin-like incident"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force." ---Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826,) 3rd American president
"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism." --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd American president
"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest." --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd American president
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NI police colluded with killers Police colluded with loyalists behind over a dozen murders in north Belfast, a report by the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland has confirmed.
Nuala O'Loan's report said UVF members in the area committed murders and other serious crimes while working as informers for Special Branch.
It said two retired assistant chief constables refused to cooperate with the investigation.
Special Branch officers gave the killers immunity, it said.
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Al-Qaeda Run PR For Bush Before Union Speech Two days before President Bush's State of the Union speech, Al-Qaeda have graciously popped up once again to launch a public relations stunt that vindicates the administration's claim that opponents of the Iraq troop surge are siding with America's enemies.
Al-Qaeda's "deputy leader" Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared in a video tape Monday in which he mocked Bush's troop surge, claiming it would make no difference in Iraq even if Bush sent as many as 100,000 ... (more)
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A Fool's Errand in Baghdad“There is no solution. We’ve destroyed Iraq and we’ve destroyed the region, and Americans need to know this.” Nir Rosen; interview with Amy Goodman, “Democracy Now”
Let’s assume for a moment, that Dick Cheney is the driving force behind the plan to surge in Iraq. Does anyone really believe that the vice president is genuinely concerned about the safety of the Iraqi people?
And, yet, the media still insists that the purpose of the tr... (more)
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America’s shadowIn his book, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Peter Dale Scott talks about America’s destructive actions rooted so deep in its politics that they prove not to be anomalies but integral parts of our political psyche. Scott invokes Jung’s buried shadow, “the repository for repressed unpleasantness.” Yet the shadow (as in who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men), can still be exposed by the freedoms still available to us in America. And this is our salvation.... (more)
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