Panelists raise doubts over 9/11The idea was to turn the concept of a conspiracy theory on its head.
A panel of scientists and scholars, gathered in a classroom Sunday afternoon at the University of Colorado at Boulder, suggested to several hundred vocal supporters that the true conspiratorial types when it comes to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are the federal government and the mainstream media.
"They pounded a script into our heads that we now know is backed by zero evidence," said... (more)
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Halliburton motto: It's cost-plus, babyHalliburton's contracts for work in Iraq are what's known as cost-plus contracts, meaning that after all the costs for labor, materials and other expenses are added together, the company makes its profit based on a percentage of that total.
It certainly does not take a financial genius to figure out that under the terms of such a contract, a company has every motive in the world to increase the costs of every project to increase profits.
Since the minute Dick Cheney... (more)
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Venezuela tampering with US elections -- oh really?The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., the same one that raised the alarm over Dubai investing in American ports, is investigating alleged ties of voting software firm Smartmatic to the Venezuelan government.
The ties consist of a $200,000 investment by the Venezuelan government in a smaller company which was later purchased by Smartmatic, placing one Venezuelan official on Smartmatic’s board of directors. Further . . .
With a windfa ... (more)
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Skilling: An epitaph Jeffrey Skilling, 52, former CEO of Enron, now faces 24 years plus four months in prison for fraud, conspiracy and insider trading. This as a decade ago he transformed an unknown pipeline company into an energy-trading tsunami, driven by the accounting scheme he signed off on hiding huge debt and cash flow problems. And then the wave hit the wall.
Enron tumbled from the once seventh-largest company in the US to the living nightmare that lost billions of dollars in stock and retir... (more)
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Jane Pauley Sues the NYT for Duping Her into an AdvertorialJane Pauley is suing the New York Times for fraud. Pauley claims that the paper misled her an interview where she discussed her struggles with bipolar disorder for what turned out to be a pharmeceutical company-funded advertisement. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday seeking unspecified damages, Pauley charges that the Times interviewed her last fall for what she believed was a news article on mental health issues. The interview came out in October as part of a “special advertising supplement&rd... (more)
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US National ID Cards by May 2008At large, the American people are still unaware of the issuance of the Real ID card forthcoming in May of 2008. This new national/international ID card, and its interactivity with national/international databases, can access our medical, financial, driving, Social Security, license(s), firearms registrations, and political status inside its high tech/little nano brain. In essence, it holds our private lives on a swipe-able card that is then privy to any organization, retailer, or person requesti... (more)
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Government proposes green taxes Environment Secretary David Miliband has paved the way for a raft of green taxes to curb harmful carbon emissions as he warned of the "economic price" of climate change.
In a leaked letter to the Chancellor, Mr Miliband proposed a package of environmental taxes designed to encourage people to use public transport, buy smaller cars and fly less.
While insisting that carbon emissions must fall "radically" over the next decade, he refused to comment on th... (more)
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Pay up ... or the planet gets it HARD-WORKING families face crippling new bills as the Government fights global warming with a raft of stinging taxes.
But critics accused ministers of forcing the public to pay for their failure to react earlier to the crisis.
Shadow Environment Secretary Peter Ainsworth said last night: “We don’t need a programme of green taxes: We need a green programme, full stop.
“This is just a list of taxes when what we ne... (more)
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Regulating the Net: World discusses internet futureThe future of the net is the ambitious topic under discussion at the first global Internet Governance Forum, being held in Athens over the next five days.
It has been set up by the UN to give governments, companies, organisations and individuals space for debate.
Nitin Desai, chair of the organising body for IGF, has said the forum needed "dialogue in good faith".
He warned that the biggest challenge in making the IGF successful was a "potential cultu... (more)
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Former World Bank Chief Economist Predicts Global Crash Former World Bank Vice President, Chief Economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has predicted a global economic crash within 24 months - unless the current downturn is successfully managed. Asked if the situation was being properly handled Stiglitz emphatically responded "no," and also drew ominous parallels to the development of the NAFTA Superhighway and the North American Union.
Stiglitz caused controversy in October 2001 when he exposed rampant corruption with... (more)
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Public no pushover on snooping law The push for new Internet surveillance capabilities dates back to 1999, when government officials began crafting proposals to institute new surveillance technologies within Canadian communications networks along with additional legal powers to allow surveillance and access subscriber information. The initiative nearly became reality with the Liberal government's introduction of the Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act (MITA) last fall.
The so-called "lawful access... (more)
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Surveillance system eyes up violent behaviour Scientists have developed a new type of surveillance that can differentiate between a friendly hug or a punch in the face.
The smart surveillance system, developed by boffins at the University of Texas, is capable of automatically detecting violent crimes. According to reports in New Scientist, the system could soon be available to monitor huge quantities of CCTV security footage.
The software behind the system analyses each frame of footage to spot any ... (more)
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Speed camera fines used to buy plasma TVs and T-shirtsSpeed camera operators are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds from fines on refurbishing premises and buying plasma television screens and staff T-shirts, new figures reveal.
The "safety camera partnerships", formed by police and local authorities, now spend £95 million running their nationwide network of 4,650 cameras.
Many of their costs are unrelated to road safety, and critics say they have become "fully fledged quangos", wasting huge sums of money a... (more)
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74 million silver coins will be worthlessReport reveals 74 million silver coins will be worthless on Wednesday, costing retailers
An estimated 74 million silver coins worth over $11 million will be in people’s possession but not legal tender from midnight Tuesday 31 October, with retailers the main losers, reveals the country’s leading retailing district.
Two days before the old 50, 20, and 10 cent coins become worthless and the 5 cent is taken out of circulation all together, the Newmarket Bus... (more)
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How the Bush Family Makes a Killing from George's PresidencyHalliburton scored almost $1.2 billion in revenue from contracts related to Iraq in the third quarter of 2006, leading one analyst to comment: "Iraq was better than expected... Overall, there is nothing really to question or be skeptical about. I think the results are very good."
Very good indeed. An estimated 655,000 dead Iraqis, over 3,000 dead coalition troops, bil... (more)
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DON'T READ THISDo not read this.
It is not authorized by the government.
It does not say what the television news says. It contains information which was not in your high-school history books. Stop NOW . . .
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - U.S. President James Madison
"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the coun... (more)
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False Flag Attack Averted?: Venezuela detains 2 in bomb plot on US EmbassyVenezuelan police detained a university student outside the US Embassy on Monday, saying he left two low-intensity explosives on the street outside the diplomatic mission. No one was hurt, and the student's motives remained unclear.
Police set off the homemade devices - essentially large fireworks - while they closed the street to traffic outside the embassy. Children were evacuated from an adjacent school.
Wilfredo Borraz, police chief for the Baruta section of Car... (more)
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9/11 only "make-believe," Iranian government official says Tehran- An Iranian government official on Friday accused the US of orchestrating the attacks of September 11, 2001, saying New York's World Trade Center towers were actually blown up by a bomb rather than planes hijacked by terrorists. "What we watched on the TVs regarding the slamming of two planes into the New York Twin Towers, was in fact a make-believe scene," Deputy Culture Minister Mohammad-Hadi Homayoun was quoted by state news agency IRNA as saying, in an address to the Iran-Russia ... (more)
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Bush’s Martial Law Act of 2007On October 17, with little fanfare, the unitary decider signed H.R.5122, or the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007. “The act provides $462.8 billion in budget authority for the department. Senate and House conferees added the $70 billion defense supplemental budget request to the act, so overall, the act authorizes $532.8 billion for fiscal 2007,” explains Jim Garamone of the American Forces Press Service.
According to a press release from the office o... (more)
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Israel Bombed Lebanon with UraniumOnce again, we are told those crazy Iranians have “stepped up” their enrichment program, and Israel has taken the opportunity to compare Iran to Nazi Germany.
War criminal Ehud Olmert, guilty of bombing Lebanese children while they slept in apartment buildings, used Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, to warn of Iranian &ldqu... (more)
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