Pardons For Drug Dealers, Jail For Border Patrol AgentsPresident George W. Bush has pardoned 14 criminals, including several drug dealers and a man convicted for bombing a coal mine, but he refused to pardon two U.S. Border Patrol agents sentenced to prison for intercepting an illegal immigrant drug smuggler at the Texas-Mexico border last year.
Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were guarding the Mexican border near El Paso in February 2005 when they intercepted a van loaded with 743 pounds of marijuana. The admitte... (more)
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Music industry threatens ISPs over piracyThe music industry opened up a new front in the war on online music piracy yesterday, threatening to sue internet service providers that allow customers to illegally share copyrighted tracks over their networks.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or IFPI, said it would take action against internet companies that carry vast amounts of illegally shared files over their networks. It stressed that it would prefer not to pursue such a strategy and is keen to wor... (more)
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Terror and starvation in GazaA genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space to hide," wrote the former senior UN relief official Jan Egeland and Jan Eliasson, then foreign minister of Sweden, in Le Figaro. They described a people "living in a cage", cut off by land, sea and air, with no reliable power and little water,... (more)
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Nothing but the oil truth The coin finally dropped. Stealthily, but we heard it loud and clear. It dropped while we were busy scratching our heads trying to figure out what plan America's current great leader, the eminent George W. Bush, has for Iraq, what truths were buried with Iraq's former great leader, the late eminent Saddam Hussain, how bloody Iraq's civil war will become.
This, after busily listening to tales of WMD's [was that Words of Mass Deception?], the lies "we are not there for Iraq's oil", ... (more)
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ACLU Report Shows Widespread Pentagon Surveillance of Peace ActivistsNEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report revealing that the Pentagon monitored at least 186 anti-military protests in the United States and collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in an anti-terrorist threat database.
“It cannot be an accident or coincidence that nearly 200 anti-war protests ended up in a Pentagon threat database,” said Ann Beeson, Associate Legal Director of the ACLU. “This unchecked surveillance is... (more)
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Tony Snow: Are War Critics in Congress Aiding Al-Qaeda? NEW YORK At his White House briefing today, Press Secretary Tony Snow faced a grilling over the Democrats' opposition to the president's troop escalation. He labeled Sen. Hillary Clinton's backing for a "cap" on troops in Iraq at the current 130,000 as "extreme."
But he also suggested that war opponents in congress need to consider what message they are sending in favoring a resolution or legislation that opposes the president's "surge"-- saying it was "worth asking" the question... (more)
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New Pentagon detainee manual could lead to executions based on 'hearsay evidence'A new Pentagon detainee manual could allow executions based on "hearsay evidence," according to a report.
"We have learned that the Pentagon has just completed a manual for the coming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorist to be imprisoned or executed using hearsay evidence or coerced testimony," said Nora O'Donnell, chief Washington correspondent for MSNBC. "In other words, could be put to death on hearsay evidence..."
Drawing from a copy of the manua... (more)
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Guest Cites Fox's Fictional "24" as Evidence that Terrorists are "Out There"Former New York City police detective Bo Dietl was Neil Cavuto's guest today (January 17, 2007) on Your World. Dietl appeared along with Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, of the Islamic Center of America, to discuss a January 7 incident in which Northwest Airlines prohibited a group of 40 Muslims from boarding a plane in Germany, after a pilgrimage to the Hajj, on their return trip to Detroit. The group said that Northwest's action was discriminatory and threatened to launch a boyc... (more)
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Western Complicity in the Halabja MassacreShocking clip from a French documentary exposing how governments and corporations in the west knowingly aided and abetted Saddam's most ruthless crimes.
The movie, by ex-60 Minutes producer Barry Lando for French TV is called "Saddam Hussein: The trial the world will never see."
Lando's book, "Web of Deceit" is a riveting and horrifying history of Western intervention in Iraq - Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to Ge... (more)
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Bush Seizes Control Over State MilitiasA little-noticed change in federal law packs an important change in who is in charge the next time a state is devastated by a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina.
To the dismay of the nation’s governors, the White House now will be empowered to go over a governor’s head and call up National Guard troops to aid a state in time of natural disasters or other public emergencies. Up to now, governors were the sole commanders in chief of citizen soldiers in local Guard units ... (more)
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Washington 'snubbed Iran offer'Iran offered the US a package of concessions in 2003, but it was rejected, a senior former US official has told the BBC's Newsnight programme.
Tehran proposed ending support for Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups and helping to stabilise Iraq following the US-led invasion.
Offers, including making its nuclear programme more transparent, were conditional on the US ending hostility.
But Vice-President Dick Cheney's office rejected the plan, the o... (more)
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US housing bust getting worse, warns Goldman SachsThe US Federal Reserve will need to slash interest rates three times this year as the housing slump goes from bad to worse and the American consumer begins to buckle, Goldman Sachs has warned.
"Americans have shown a complete lack of self-control. The personal savings rate is at its lowest point ever, and has actually been negative since April 2005.
"We believe that housing will soon become the proverbial 'straw that breaks the camel's back'," said David Kostin, the... (more)
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Iran's President Did Not Say "Israel must be wiped off the map"Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran's President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the map". Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, as this article will prove.
BACKGROUND:
On Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at the Ministry of Interior conference hall in Tehran, newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivere... (more)
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The many trials of 9/11 widow Ellen MarianiYou’ve probably seen her name in 9/11 reports, heard it in discussions. There’s a reference to it in my article 9/11 and the Greenberg Familia in Online Journal. Among other things, that article brings you a list of items that the notorious Greenberg-Traurig law firm was involved in.
Item six is of particular relevance to Ellen Mariani:
“6) Traurig Greenberg works with... (more)
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UK's Brown: G8, UN Need To Reflect "New World Order"BANGALORE -(Dow Jones)- U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said Wednesday that multilateral institutions such as the Group of Eight leading nations, the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund must reform to reflect a "new world order" in the global economy.
Speaking to the Confederation of Indian Industry in Bangalore, Brown said that the emergence of countries such as India necessitated changes to the membership and operations of such global bodies.
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Gorbachev calls for "Democratic World Order"A watershed in international relations has occurred in recent months. Indeed, the past year may well have seen the end of an entire era in world affairs - the post-cold war period of unilateralism and missed opportunities.
When the cold war ended, avenues opened up for progress toward a better world. Major powers, particularly the United States, the Soviet Union and China, were working constructively together in the United Nations security council. International conflicts, includi... (more)
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Claim: Bin Laden Told Hamza Al-Qaeda Not Behind 9/11 A claim attributed to a friend of one of the six men accused of plotting to detonate bombs on London's underground tube system on July 21 2005, suggests that Osama bin Laden personally told hook handed cleric Abu Hamza that Al-Qaeda was not behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The London Independent today reports that Steven Bentley, a school friend of accused would-be suicide bomber Yassin Omar, was told by Omar that he did not think Bin Laden w... (more)
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Bill would nip chips in humansFor years, people have been implanting tiny microchips under their pet's skin so that if Rover's collar slips off, there's still a way to find him if he wanders away.
Now a state lawmaker has added a twist to that concept with a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to require two-legged critters to have a microchip implanted under their skin.
Under the bill, employers could not track workers' movements, for example.
Rep. Mary Hodge, D-Brig... (more)
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US condemns China 'space weapon'The United States, Australia and Canada have criticised China over a weapons test it is said to have carried out in space last week.
The Americans say the Chinese sent up a ballistic missile to destroy an ageing weather satellite.
They say the test went against the spirit of co-operation both countries aspire to in the area of civil space.
Reports say Britain, South Korea and Japan were expected to express their concerns to China soon.
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'London bomb plot was just a hoax'One of the defendants in the London "bomb plot" trial, Hussein Osman, was arrested in Rome and interviewed at length by police.
He is said to have told officers after his arrest he and his co-accused had been making a political point and the devices they carried were never meant to explode.
Nigel Sweeney QC, prosecuting, told Woolwich Crown Court, Mr Osman had admitted to police that his real name was Hamdi Isaac and he was born in Ethiopia in 1978.
M... (more)
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Skipton 9/11 campaigners stage new Twin Towers talkTHE Skipton branch of a group which disputes the official version of events on 9/11 has invited the leader of a national movement to share his views on the terror attacks.
The West Yorkshire Truth Campaign, which has previously brought high-profile speakers such as ex-MI5 whistleblower David Shayler to the town, will be welcoming the chairman of the 9/11 Truth Campaign in Britain and Ireland, Ian Crane, to the Narrowboat pub on Thursday January 25.
Mr Crane, who spe... (more)
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Lethal secrets of 1918 flu virusScientists who recreated "Spanish flu" - the 1918 virus which killed up to 50m people - have witnessed its remarkable killing power first hand.
The lungs of infected monkeys were destroyed in just days as their immune systems went into overdrive after a Canadian laboratory rebuilt the virus.
The reason for the lethal nature of the 1918 flu was never fully understood.
But the experts behind this test say they have found a huma... (more)
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US headed for "fiscal crisis," Bernanke warnsWashington- The United States is headed for a fiscal crisis of historic proportions unless the government tackles the rising cost of social programmes for an ageing population, Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke warned Thursday.
Spending obligations under current government pension and health-care benefits "will put enormous pressure on the federal budget in coming years," Bernanke told a US Senate hearing in Washington.
The result may be "a vicious cycle" in which ... (more)
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Northrop Grumman Tooling Up First Ray Gun Production LineNorthrop Grumman Corporation today opened a specialized facility exclusively for system integration and production of high-energy laser systems for military uses - the first of its kind by private industry in the United States. Located at the Space Technology sector's Space Park campus, the Directed Energy Production Facility is specifically designed for the production of high-energy, solid-state lasers and their integration onto military vehicles.
"Powerful military lasers, with ... (more)
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ACLU, Conservatives Team to Fight New LawWASHINGTON, D.C. -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the Traditional Values Coalition have joined as allies from opposite ends of the political spectrum to stop a new law proposed by the Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
The law — the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 — would entangle nonprofit groups in a Web of red tape every time they tried to issue political alerts to their members.
Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, ... (more)
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Senate Bill S.1 Poses No Threat To Bloggers?My colleague Mitch Wagner and some other journalists have picked up on a report by an organization called Grass Roots Freedom that a Senate bill designed to bring transparency to the lobbying process could result in the jailing of political bloggers. Did you know that the bill does not even mention the words "blog" or "blogger"? There's also a couple of things you should know about "Grass Roots Freedom."
As Mitch reports on his own blog entry, Grass Roots Freedom says Senate b... (more) Note: This article is propaganda (Read Brian Miller's Comment on this article). Richard Viguerie of Grassrootsfreedom.com is likely a shill and an opportunist but the bill is still an attack on free speech. |
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