Curb on check-cashing fingerprints soughtIt was only a $98 check - his pay for delivering pizzas for a relative's restaurant - so state Sen. Jon Erpenbach was confused and then angry when told he would have to put his thumbprint on the check to cash it.
"I've never been fingerprinted before," the Middleton Democrat said, explaining why he declined the ink blotter the U.S. Bank teller pushed his way after Erpenbach showed a photo ID.
"That's going way beyond what I think is not only a right, but just a huge... (more)
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Britain recruited terrorists, Meacher claimsAN astonishing claim that M16 recruited Muslim extremists in Britain for terror training abroad has been made by Oldham MP and former cabinet minister Michael Meacher.
Mr Meacher also suggest that a British Muslim held under sentenced of death in Pakistan for beheading a US journalist is being kept alive because he was a British double agent.
The Oldham West and Royton MP makes these sensational claims in an article for Asian News' sister paper, The Guardian.
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Colonel blames Blair over Iraq 'catastrophe'Lack of political leadership from Tony Blair is putting British troops at risk in Iraq, according to a former commander of the British invasion force. Britain could lose the war against Iraqi insurgents and risks being driven into neighbouring Iran.
Colonel Tim Collins - famed for the speech he delivered to his men in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment hours before they went into action in March 2003 - described the situation in Iraq now as "a right rollicking cock-up".... (more)
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Volunteers begin border watchThe third group of anti-illegal-immigration activists to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border locally since July launched a monthlong vigil yesterday in hopes of prodding Washington into securing the nation's borders.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers gathered by a brown metal post-and-rail border fence south of Jacumba to watch for illegal border crossers and report them to the Border Patrol.
The group invited the media so it could transmit its message to Washi... (more)
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Ministers 'shocked' at MI5's lack of informationMinisters, senior police officers and top civil servants were shocked at MI5's lack of intelligence after the 7 July terrorist attacks, according to a senior Whitehall source present at meetings of Cobra, the government's crisis command group convened to react to the London bombings.
The Whitehall official who attended the emergency meetings in the aftermath of the attacks has told The Observer there was general 'shock' at the absence of information coming from the intelligence se... (more)
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Suicide bombing at Oklahoma University?: 1 killed as 84,000 watch Sooners vs. Kansas StateOne person was killed in an explosion about 100 yards from a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma last night in what officials are ruling a suicide.
The noisy explosion was heard inside Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, where 84,000 were watching the Oklahoma Sooners play Kansas State.
A police bomb squad reportedly detonated other explosives found at the site of the blast.
No spectators were allowed out of the stadium immediately following... (more)
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After Katrina, crimes of the imaginationNEW ORLEANS After the storm came the siege.
In the days after Hurricane Katrina, terror from crimes seen and unseen, real and rumored, gripped New Orleans. The fears changed troop deployments, delayed medical evacuations, drove police officers to quit and grounded helicopters.
Edwin Compass 3rd, the police superintendent, said that tourists, the core of the city's economy, were being robbed and raped on streets that had slid into anarchy.
The mass ... (more)
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Role of Rove, Libby in CIA Leak Case Clearer: Bush and Cheney Aides' Testimony Contradicts Earlier White House StatementAs the CIA leak investigation heads toward its expected conclusion this month, it has become increasingly clear that two of the most powerful men in the Bush administration were more involved in the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame than the White House originally indicated.
With New York Times reporter Judith Miller's release from jail Thursday and testimony Friday before a federal grand jury, the role of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, came i... (more)
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Our way of life is at risk … from LabourOWERPLAY: Iain Macwhirter argues that Labour’s misuse of the Prevention of Terrorism Act and their unhealthy obsession with security suggest a drive that may end with the denial of freedoms that we have long taken for granted
No, you really couldn’t have made it up. An aged Labour stalwart, who escaped from Nazi Germany, is roughed up by Mosley-ite thugs – sorry, “Labour stewards” – and ejected from the Brighton conference because he he... (more)
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Don't worry, we'll take care of Iran nukes: IsraelIf Washington and its allies do not stop Iran’s nuclear programmes by force if necessary, Israel will, three Israeli legislators visiting the US have warned.
“Israel will not live under the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb. We feel we are obliged to warn our friends that Israel should not be pushed into a situation where we see no other solution but to act unilaterally against Iran,” said Yosef Lapid, head of the Shinui party. Lapid and his colleagues Yuval Stei... (more)
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Bush administration to examine new measures against SyriaWASHINGTON - President Bush and his top aides are weighing new steps against Syria, according to U.S. officials involved in Middle East policy.
Bush's national security team is due to meet Saturday to review policy toward Syria, the officials said. Options range from tougher economic sanctions to limited military action. One official involved in the deliberations said military action is unlikely for now.
The meeting comes as a United Nations investigator nears compl... (more)
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Sweetener manufacturer disputes validity of new health researchAspartame, the artificial sweetener used in more than 6,000 food and drink products around the world, is the subject of renewed controversy this week after the results of the latest research into whether it can cause cancer.
Scientists at the independent European Ramazzini Foundation for cancer research in Bologna presented new results from its long-term, large-scale study of the effect of aspartame on 1,800 rats, at its international conference on cancer and environmental science... (more)
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Deadly flu is 'inevitable'THE Chief Medical Officer for England said yesterday it was a "biological inevitability" that an expected flu pandemic would seriously affect the health of people in the United Kingdom.
Sir Liam Donaldson, who restated that contingency plans are looking at 50,000 UK deaths from the pandemic, was asked if this country was ready to face the threat.
"I don't think I would ever want to be as bold as to claim that," he told BBC Radio 4's The World At One. "It's inevitab... (more)
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OK expected for sale of beef from cloned cows, offspringWASHINGTON -- The federal government is nearing a decision to allow the sale of meat and milk from cloned cows and their offspring, according to officials from government, industry and consumer groups.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to take a major step toward approval soon, proposing to permit the sales, subject to 60 days of public comment and some additional review.
That could lead to choice cuts of steak and cartons of milk produced from cloned cat... (more)
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Abramoff and Able Danger: Confirmed: US Intel told 'hands off money laundering' From a source that has nothing to do w/ Able Danger, Abramoff or Suncruz: Sibel Edmomds
Letter to Thomas Kean from Sibel Edmonds
.. To this date the public has not been told of intentional blocking of intelligence..This was the case prior to 9/11, and remains in effect after 9/11. If Counterintelligence receives information that contains money laundering, ill... (more)
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Revealed: British link to Bali bombsTERRORISTS struck again on the island of Bali yesterday, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 100 in co-ordinated attacks on Saturday night diners at holiday resorts.
At least three bombs went off within minutes of each other at popular restaurants eight miles apart, all packed with tourists. Some victims were found decapitated amid the carnage.
Security officials blamed Al-Qaeda’s local affiliate, Jemaah Islamiya (JI), which carried out the Bali ... (more)
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Student who was Maced By Police is Now Banned from Campus!Follow developments here and at the Campus Antiwar Network site.
URGENT UPDATE—PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
Student who was Maced By Police is Now Banned from Campus!
At approximately 1pm on Sept 30, Sgt. Richard H. Wheeler and State Trooper Vasquez delivered a notice to Charles T. Peterson at the doorstep of his home in Springfield, MA.
Charles was the student who was sprayed in the face with... (more)
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EU and U.S. clash over control of NetGENEVA - The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one of their sharpest public disagreements in months, after European Union negotiators proposed stripping the Americans of their effective control of the Internet.
The European decision to back the rest of the world in demanding the creation of a new international body to govern the Internet clearly caught the Americans off balance and left them largely isolated at talks designed to come up with a new way of regulatin... (more)
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Torture of Iraqis was for ‘stress relief’, say US soldiersFOR the first time, American soldiers who personally tortured Iraqi prisoners have come forward to give testimony to human rights organisations about crimes they comm itted.
Three soldiers – a captain and two sergeants – from the 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Mercury near Fallujah in Iraq have told Human Rights Watch how prisoners were tortured both as a form of stress relief and as a way of breaking them for interrogation sessions.... (more)
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Atta known to Pentagon before 9/11WASHINGTON -- Four years after the nation's deadliest terror attack, evidence is accumulating that a super-secret Pentagon intelligence unit identified the organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings, Mohamed Atta, as an Al Qaeda operative months before he entered the U.S.
The many investigations of Sept. 11, 2001, have turned up a half-dozen instances in which government agencies possessed information that might have led investigators to some part of the terrorist plot, although in most... (more)
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Iran denies report of oil threatIran's president has denied reports he threatened to withhold oil sales if Tehran was referred to the UN Security Council over its nuclear activities.
The UN nuclear watchdog agency passed a resolution a week ago paving the way for Iran to be reported to the council.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he did not give an interview to a Dubai newspaper which reported him as issuing the warning on oil sales.
However, the Khaleej Times newspaper is st... (more)
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Florida Law Lets Citizens 'Meet Force With Force': Civilians may stand their ground with a firearm if they feel threatened by another.MIAMI — Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine State. Please avoid unnecessary arguments with locals. Starting today, they may be more inclined to shoot you — at least that's essentially the message from a national gun-control organization as a Florida law goes into effect empowering people who feel threatened to use force, including firearms, to protect themselves.
Before, if possible, they were supposed to back down or run away.
"It's unlike any supposed se... (more)
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Brazil Weighs a National Gun BanRIO DE JANEIRO -- As she walked home through the twisting, narrow passageways that honeycomb the large hillside slum of Rocinha, Denise do Espirito Santo spotted a young man following her.
She recognized him as a drug dealer, part of an armed gang that holds sway over much of the neighborhood, but she wasn't afraid. When she reached home, she said, she waved goodbye to him and stepped through the door she had left unlocked while shopping.
"The dealers watch out for ... (more)
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Former War Spokesperson Hosts 'Saddam Hussein On Trial' On FNC Saturday NightFNC is premiering a new special, "Saddam Hussein On Trial," on Saturday night at 9pm. The program will be hosted by "Fox News Contributor" and "former Senior Advisor to the Coalition in Iraq" Dan Senor.
According to a press release, FNC's "investigative team provides unprecedented access behind the scenes at the Iraqi Special Tribunal, prior to the upcoming Saddam Hussein's war crimes trial on October 19."
It includes a "first look inside the courtroom where the Sad... (more)
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Biohazard Sensors Triggered: Tularemia Detected During Antiwar RallyBiohazard sensors showed the presence of small amounts of potentially dangerous tularemia bacteria in the Mall area last weekend as huge crowds assembled there, but health officials said they believed the levels were too low to be a threat.
Health authorities in the Washington area were notified yesterday that the bacteria were found in and near the area between the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial, where crowds gathered Saturday for an antiwar rally and a book festival.
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Flashback: CNN.com Poll Indicates the 89 percent of Americans Believe 'there is a U.S. Government cover-up surrounding 9/11'On Wednesday, November 10th, Anderson Cooper featured Kyle Hence and Jimmy Walter regarding the latter's TV ad campaign to expose 9/11 truth on WTC 7 and the Pentagon strike. Although Cooper also introduced "official story" apologist Gerald Posner to discredit the ads (with already stale and discredited excuses), the viewers were apparently not impressed and 89% of respondents to the show's online poll remain convinced there's been a government cover-up.
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Flashback: Zogby Poll Indicates Most New Yorkers Believe the Government Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9-11 Attacks and 'Consciously Failed' To ActZogby.com Poll
Released: August 30, 2004
Half of New Yorkers Believe US Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9-11 Attacks and “Consciously Failed” To Act; 66% Call For New Probe of Unanswered Questions by Congress or New York’s Attorney General, New Zogby International Poll Reveals
On the eve of a Republican National Convention invoking 9/11 symbols, sound bytes and imagery, half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citi... (more)
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