Speeding ticket... for deaf and blind manSTUNNED Martyn Styles has been sent a £60 speeding fine - even though he cannot drive because he is deaf and blind.
Police say Martyn, 42, who has never even sat behind the wheel of a car, was caught in a speed trap doing 36mph in a 30mph zone.
And Martyn was informed he would have three penalty points slapped on his non-existent licence. Yesterday, he said: "I'm shocked and upset.
"They say they've got evidence against me. Well, let's see the p... (more)
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Enron’s Skilling Sentenced; Bush WalksDon’t kid yourself. If you think the sentencing of Jeff Skilling, former Enron CFO (criminal financial officer), to twenty-four years in the slammer means that justice has been done, think again.Ken Lay
First, Skilling got away with murder - or at least grand larceny. Like Al Capone convicted of failing to file his taxes, Skilling, though found guilty of stock fraud, is totally off the hook for his BIG crime: taking down California and Texas consumers for billions through fr... (more)
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The Fault Lies in OurselvesDuring my professional lifetime, liberals and the left wing have focused on failures and misdeeds of the private sector, while libertarians and conservatives have focused on the failures and misdeeds of the public sector or government. It turns out that both sides are right.
The Enron case and the other accounting scandals of this new century are testimony to misdeeds driven by private sector greed, just as the unjustifiable war in Iraq is testimony to the abusive behavior of gove... (more)
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Nato strike kills 85 Afghan civilians Airstrikes and artillery fire by Nato-led International Security Assistance Force killed at least at least 85 civilians and around 48 Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Thursday.
Over 85 civilians including women and children were killed in Zang Abad village of Panjwayi district, 20 kilometres west of Kandahar Province Tuesday evening, said Bismillah Afghanmal, a member of Kandahar provincial council.
Khalid Pashto... (more)
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Airport security to get laser and microwave guns US AIRPORT security staff are going to be equipped with laser and microwave blasters batteries under a cunning plan being tested by Homeland Security.
According to defensetech.com, Homeland Security is to spend $4.1 million to test out Raytheon's "Vigilant Eagle" system at airports.
Apparently the department is worried that terrorists might get their paws on some ground to air rocket launchers and bring down aircraft.
The Vigilant Ea... (more)
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Advertising terrorism
Tonight, a special comment on the advertising of terrorism – the commercial you have already seen.
It is a distillation of everything this administration and the party in power have tried to do these last five years and six weeks.
It is from the Re... (more)
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Achtung! Germany drags homeschool kids to class: Authorities haul crying children away to avoid 'danger' from parental teachingsA Nazi-era law requiring all children to attend public school, to avoid "the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions" that could be taught by parents at home, apparently is triggering a Nazi-like response from police.
The word comes from Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit, or Network for Freedom in Education, which confirmed that children in a family in Bissingen, in the... (more)
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London mayor: Veil debate redolent of NazismLondon Mayor Ken Livingstone said Tuesday that the public debate over whether or not Muslim women should be allowed to wear veils is redolent of Nazi Germany.
Livingstone told a press conference at the launch of the first ever report into Muslims living in London that the suggestion that Muslims are the cause of the racial divide in Britain “echoes very much the demonology of Nazi Germany when Hitler said it was the Jews' fault and the problems were brought upon themselves.&... (more)
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German troops in skull photos row Photos apparently showing German troops posing with a skull in Afghanistan have caused outrage in Germany.
The tabloid newspaper Bild, which carried the photos, says they show German troops in Afghanistan in 2003.
On one of the pictures, a soldier is seen holding the skull next to his exposed penis, on another - soldiers pose with the skull on their jeep.
German chancellor Angela Merkel expressed disgust at the photos and said there... (more)
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Olbermann: The New Edward Murrow? "Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the. . . confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought."
Edward Murrow - 1954
It is no coincidence that Edward Murrow is the number one idol of Keith Olbermann. In these times of great upheaval there is really only one voice in the mainstream media that is speaking the truth a... (more)
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The Future of Man and the Neolib Malthusian Population Management ProgramI am guilty of killing off the South African Cape vulture. I lead a “consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable,” according to the WWF conservation group. “If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need five planets to support us,” declares WWF Director-General James Leape in China, the darling nation, indeed the template, of the Neoliberal Order.
I’ll be honest. I didn’t know anything about the WWF, so I looked it ... (more)
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The Military Commissions Act - Question And AnswersWhat New Powers does the Military Commissions Act give to the President? What other objectionable provisions does it include?
· It authorizes the suspension of habeas corpus for non-citizens, including legal permanent residents, in U.S. custody · It authorizes the President to detain anyone, including U.S. citizens, without charge by designating them enemy combatants or unlawful enemy combatants · It authorizes the President to determine what constitutes tort... (more)
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The Voting RitualWhat is the ballot? It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the billy, and the bullet. It is a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable. The voice of the majority saves bloodshed, but it is no less the arbitrament of force than is the decree of the most absolute of despots backed by the most powerful of armies.
- Benjamin R. Tuck ... (more)
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Blood and Gravy II: The Jackal's Feast Goes On The picture below (from the New York Times) speaks most eloquently on the essence of the Bush Regime's brutal, grubby Babylonian Conquest: fat mercenaries guarding the construction of yet another prison.
The picture comes from a story on the "overhead costs" ... (more)
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The Empire's Foot Soldiers Ape Its Master It was Jesus Christ who told his disciples, "You will know them by their fruits," and the fruits of the Neo- Cons in Iraq and Afghanistan have been the deliberate creation of chaotic, fear-ridden deadly hellholes. It comes as no surprise therefore that since the empire's imperial foot soldiers were deployed in the name of "democracy," their behavior has aped the dark intentions of their superiors.
The BBC reports today,
"Photos appar... (more)
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Handicapped Chinese Pastor Jailed for Printing Bibles Giving away Bibles for free is a crime in China, according to a verdict recently handed down in the case of a House Church leader.
Pastor Wang Zaiqing, a prominent Chinese House Church leader in Anhui Province was sentenced on Oct. 9 to two years in prison on the charge of "Illegal Business Practices," and fined 100,000 Yuan ($12,500.00). In addition, all the books in his home, and the funds used to print them, were confiscated.
Pastor Wang was cripple... (more)
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The End of Habeas Corpus and the Belligerent Despot-in-Chief On October 17th, George W. Bush, signed into law a bill he bulldozed through Congress that, in Senator Patrick Leahy's prophetic words, would suspend "the writ of habeas corpus, a core value in American law, in order to avoid judicial review that prevents government abuse." This law, whose constitutionality is in doubt and will be reviewed by the Supreme Court in due time, puts so much arbitrary and secret unilateral power in the hands of the Presidency that the ghost of King George III must... (more)
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America's Middle Class Has Become Globalization's LoserAt the beginning of the 21st century, the United States is still a superpower. But it's a superpower facing competition from beyond its borders as well as internal difficulties. Its lower and middle classes are turning out to be the losers of globalization.
There are essentially three exclusive characteristics whose simultaneous development have served as the foundations of the United States's success up until now -- and they only appear in this particular combination in Am... (more)
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Tesco condemned for selling pole dancing toyTesco has been forced to remove a pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of its website after it was accused of "destroying children's innocence".
The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit with the words, "Unleash the sex kitten inside...simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!
"Soon you'll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars".
The £49.97 kit compri... (more)
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Neocon Academics: Constitution is a "Suicide Pact"It should come as no surprise Sanford Levinson, professor at the University of Texas School of Law, mistrusts the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as he has little idea of what the document stands for. It is not surprising, as Levinson hobnobs with the Federalist Society, the “conservative” legal association funded lavishly by the CIA asset Richard Mellon Scaife. As well, the Federalist Society received seed funding from Irving Kristol, the grand daddy of the neocon cabal, and hi... (more)
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Stealing the midterm elections and the power of myth“The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” --Gustave Le Bon, ”The Crowd”
Karl Rove is not Harry Houdini. He can’t change the fact that the Democrats could take up to 40 seats in the House and that the Republicans may lose the Senate as well. He can’t change the national polling-data which favors the Democrats by a... (more)
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Charnel HouseThere are three things wrong with the current policy in Iraq.
Occupation, occupation and occupation.
Foreign occupation is the reason why over 90% of Iraqis want the Americans to leave their country. It is the reason why nearly 50% of Iraqis believe that it is justifiable to shoot American troops and why nearly 70% of attacks are on occupation forces. Representative John Murtha was correct when he said, “We are inciting the problem;” our presence is a li... (more)
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Former CIA spy branded a traitor wants to clear his nameEdwin Wilson began this quest from a solitary-confinement cell, where he wrote letters seeking top-secret documents to show that his own government betrayed him.
The notorious ex-spy once traveled the world, gathering intelligence while playing the role of global businessman. He later was tied to shipping a planeload of explosives to Libya, sending him to prison for decades.
He was hurtling into history as one of this nation's most infamous traitors until three year... (more)
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