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’?
They couldn&rsq... (more)
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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.
T... (more)
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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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After query, AP says nuke watchdog didn't respond to after hour calls on Iran nuke claimUpdate: After an inquiry by RAW STORY, the Associated Press' Director of Corporate Communications Jack Stokes said they could not reach the spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency after running a story asserting that Iran had barred 38 IAEA inspectors.
"IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming and other agency officials did not immediately return after-hours calls from The Associated Press," AP reporter NASSER KARIMI wrote.
Raw Story's Larisa Alexandrovna ... (more)
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Is this bad reporting or propaganda? UpdateEarlier this morning, Reuters (and AP too) news service ran a piece citing one UK government official and an anonymous Iranian source alleging that the IAEA inspectors were thrown barred out of Iran. Now just to make clear why this is important, Saddam Hussein had allegedly done the same thing acco... (more)
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Neocons Baiting Iran With Second Strike GroupA top US diplomat has confirmed that a second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group has been deployed to the Gulf in order to send a clear signal to Iran that they will be crushed if they continue to defy the wishes of the US government by enriching uranium.
"The Middle East isn't a region to be dominated by Iran. The Gulf isn't a body of water to be controlled by Iran. That's why ... (more)
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U.S.-tailored Iraqi Oil Alarm for Producers, ConsumersWhile the Iraqis were busy counting their death toll of more than 650,000 since March 2003, the United Nations busy counting their dead of more than 34,000 in 2006 only, the Pentagon counting more than 3,070 American deaths and the U.S. treasury counting more than $600 billion of taxpayer money spent so far in Iraq , stealthily and suddenly the U.S. occupation’s oil prize rang louder than the war drums to alert the regional oil producers as well as the major world consumers to guar... (more)
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Kenya's police "gun down more people than criminals do"Nairobi - Kenyan police are responsible for nearly three-quarters of the country's gunshot deaths, more than shooting deaths caused by criminals, the independent Daily Nation newspaper reported on Monday.
Kenya's police, underpaid and overworked, often take the law into their own hands, gunning down suspected thieves or criminals in Nairobi's crowded downtown streets.
"The police have resorted to rampant extra-judicial killings in their fight against crime," the Nat... (more)
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Perle: Bush Will Attack Iran If NecessaryOne of America's most influential neocons says President Bush is prepared to use military force against Iran if he believes it will acquire nuclear weapons.
This past Sunday, Richard Perle, speaking in Israel at the Herzliya Conference, said he had no doubt of President Bush's intentions.
"President George Bush will order an attack on Iran if it becomes clear to him that Iran is set to acquire nuclear weapons capabilities while he is still in office," Haaretz report... (more)
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