Martial Law: The Pretext Is Now SetSteve Watson / Infowars | Sept 28 2005
In the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita it has become obvious that not only will another terror attack on US soil provide the pretext for a police state crackdown, so will a natural disaster.
I'm not going to once again go over in depth the police state showcase that was New Orleans in the days after Katrina, but let us recap a few key points:
FEMA has been deliberately sabotaging relief efforts in Ne... (more)
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Martial Law: Police State America - We're So Close NowSteve Watson / Infowars | Sept 27 2005
For years we have warned that the police state is coming, how Martial Law will become the norm, how ancient laws, rights and freedoms are being overturned and replaced with repressive mechanisms of control.
For years we have presented the evidence, the Army War College documents, the domestic military takeover drills, the draconian legislation, officials left right and centre calling for more centralized military control domest... (more)
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Report into abortions scandal was delayed 'to spare Government embarrassment'A report into the scandal of British women with healthy late-term pregnancies being helped to get illegal abortions was delayed until after the general election to avoid political embarrassment to the Government, it has been claimed.
The Chief Medical Officer's report into the British Pregnancy Advisory Service assisting women to go to Spain f... (more)
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Internet Thought PoliceTransport George Orwell's novel 1984- in which a totalitarian Big Brother government tries to rule citizens' lives and control their thoughts - into the 21st century, and it would look a lot like China today.
Consider what happened this week. Continuing a long battle to curb what it considers a subversive information source - the Internet - China tightened its censorship of online news services and bulletin boards.
Major search engines and portals have been ordered ... (more)
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New Federal Hate Bill Means Funeral of Free SpeechOn Sept. 14, the US House of Representatives passed, 223-199, the ominous federal “anti-hate” bill, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005. It was inserted as AMDT.2662 into the Children’s Safety Act. If approved unaltered by the senate judiciary, this legislation is ready for the President to sign into law.
Here is a summary of what the bill would make law:
Although AMDT.2662 ostensibly empowers the government to assist state... (more)
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ID cards will control Big Brother state, says ClarkeIdentity cards will not create the "Big Brother state", but will instead bring it under control, Charles Clarke claimed yesterday.
The Home Secretary urged delegates to support his ID card legislation on the grounds that it would make it easier for people to protect themselves against identity theft.
Ministers originally proposed ID cards primarily as a means of combating terrorism and benefit fraud.
But yesterday, in a change of tack, Mr Clarke defen... (more)
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No2ID catches up with Home Office roadshowThose pesky activists at No2ID have been at it again: showing up at the government's biometrics charm-offensive road shows and asking difficult questions. This protest was caught on camera by the BBC, and subsequently aired on the local news.
Dave Gould, No2ID's Bristol coordinator, grilled the Home Office minister, Andy Burnham, on the costs and benefits of the scheme, in an interview the BBC described as "Paxman-ing" the minister.
Initially, the minister was reluc... (more)
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Depleted uranium tests for US troops returning from IraqUS troops returning from Iraq are for the first time to be offered state-of-the-art radiation testing to check for contamination from depleted uranium - a controversial substance linked by some to cancer and birth defects.
Campaigners say the Pentagon refuses to take seriously the issue of poisoning from depleted uranium (DU) and offers only the most basic checks, and only when it is specifically asked for. But state legislators across the US are pushing ahead with laws that will ... (more)
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Life in the land where filling up an SUV costs $3: Venezuelans love paying 10 cents per gallon, but critics warn of economic, environmental impact.CARACAS, VENEZUELA – Auto salesman Leonardo Caicedo looked over the shiny Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge vehicles crowding the showroom in central Caracas, where a gallon of gasoline now costs about the same as a large hen's egg, and a liter costs less than a single photocopy.
The SUV sales are "excellent," he said, and customers don't worry about fuel efficiency, since they can fill their 18-gallon tanks for less than $3.
"It's good for us, and it's good for the p... (more)
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Menezes' mother: Sir Ian must goThe parents of Jean Charles de Menezes have retraced the final journey taken by their son who was mistakenly shot dead by anti-terrorism police.
Matuzinhos Otone Da Silva and Maria Otone de Menezes visited the 27-year-old's flat in Tulse Hill, south London, before going to Stockwell Tube.
Mrs Menezes said Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair "must resign".
Her son, an electrician, was shot dead at Stockwell tube station the day after the failed 21 July bomb... (more)
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John Doe challenges PATRIOT Act gag orderBRIDGEPORT, CT — In August, a Connecticut library organization was served with a national security letter demanding sensitive information about patrons, including borrowed materials and Internet use. And since the USA PATRIOT Act says that anyone who receives such a letter is prohibited from ever telling anyone about the demand, this organization is known only as John Doe.
Nevertheless, Doe decided to challenge the secret letter in court, and on Sept. 9 U.S. District Court J... (more)
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Council tax refusenik unrepentant Council tax rebel Sylvia Hardy today said after her release from prison that she was prepared to go to jail again.
The 73-year-old was released last night after serving one day behind bars for failing to pay £53.71 of last year's council tax. She returned to her home in Exeter, Devon, after a man calling himself Mr Brown paid her outstanding bill.
The pensioner said today: "I am disappointed because I had made up my mind I was going to go the whole hog."
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Democrat accuses Park police chief of mistreating peace protestersRanking House Judiciary Democrat Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) alleged Tuesday evening that protesters who were arrested outside the White House Monday were held in handcuffs for as long as twelve hours in cramped buses before they were released, RAW STORY has learned.
In a missive to United States Park Police Dwight Pettiford Tuesday evening, Conyers raised concern that protesters were mistreated by police.
"Some of those were released at 4:30 in the morning after being... (more)
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Man who died in custody had multiple Taser injuriesThe man who died Monday after a scuffle with Austin police officers was identified Tuesday as 33-year-old Michael Clark.
Clark, who was black, was a married father of a 3-year-old boy. He was the second person this year to die after Austin officers used force.
Since 1998, all but one of the 14 people who died while or after Austin police officers used force on them were minorities.
"Enough is enough," Michael Clark's mother, Mary Clark, said of use of... (more)
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Diana Embalmed To Hide PregnancyLate British royal DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES was embalmed on the orders of British authorities to prevent tests which could have confirmed whether or not she was carrying her lover DODI FAYED's child, according to a new investigation.
British newspaper the Daily Express today (26SEP05) claims a top official at the British embassy in Paris was informed just minutes after the Princess's death that embalming her body would be illegal. But the procedure went ahead.
Profe... (more)
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After the storm, US media held to account for exaggerated tales of Katrina chaosThe stories out of New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were little short of sickening: armed gangs terrorising evacuees in the Superdome and convention centre, bodies piling up by the dozen amid the stench and human waste, bodies stuffed into a freezer, children raped, murdered and thrown into waste bins.
One month after the storm, however, it appears that few, if any, of the most lurid reports breathlessly repeated on American television, echoed in officia... (more)
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Oil reserves are double previous estimates, says SaudiSaudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer, and Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company, yesterday declared that the world had decades' worth of oil to come, in an attempt to calm fears about the record prices experienced in recent weeks.
Forming a powerful alliance, the Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi said, at an industry conference in Johannesburg, that the country would soon almost double its "proven" reserve base, while Exxon's president, Rex Tillerson, spoke of 3 trillion or more ba... (more)
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Before the Oil Runs Out: How Will This Era End?: Is it the End of the Line for Cheap Oil?WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2005 — The warnings keep piling up. Author Paul Roberts cautions his readers about "The End of Oil." National Geographic's cover story last month examined how the world might survive "After Oil." The Economist magazine asks, "Is the age of oil drawing to a close?"
With the discomfort growing, consumers are considering fuel-efficient cars. Industry has gotten serious in its search for alternatives. New efforts are focused on wind, solar, nuclear, and eve... (more)
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Hannity to guest: "I don't care about your thoughts" on Iraq veterans protesting the warOn the September 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity interrupted Global Exchange human rights director Ted Lewis's discussion of Iraq war veterans protesting the war. Hannity declared, "I don't care about your thoughts. You can tell them to [co-host] Alan [Colmes]."
From the September 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:
HANNITY: Well, that's pretty much what [anti-war protester] Cindy Sheehan has been saying: America is not worth... (more)
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The Red Cross money pitWITH HURRICANE RITA now making news, it's time for Americans to take a more disciplined look at their tremendous generosity. As of last week, the American Red Cross reported that it had raised $826 million in private funds for Hurricane Katrina victims. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has the total figure at more than $1.2 billion for all relief groups reporting. So the Red Cross received about 70% of all giving.
This percentage was no doubt bloated by the Federal Emergency Manageme... (more)
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Boy Faces Suspension For Bringing Butter Knife To SchoolOMAHA, Neb. -- A butter knife in a boy's book bag led to suspension at Omaha Public Schools this week.
Ethan Gray is a first-grader at Ed Babe Gomez Heritage Elementary School at 17th and P streets. Gray said he didn't know the knife was in his book bag. OPS said it has a zero-tolerance policy.
Now, there's a standoff. Gray's parents say they won't send their son to school until the district backs down on its mandatory suspension, and the district said it doesn't ha... (more)
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Secret cell phone surveillancep2p news / p2pnet:- Before the US government is allowed to secretly track people via their cell phones, it should have good reason to believe a crime has been, or is about to be, committed, says the EFF.
"Allowing the government to turn anyone's cell phone into a tracking device without probable cause will enable a surveillance society that would make Big Brother jealous," says EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) staff lawyer Kevin Bankston.
Last month, the court d... (more)
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UK rules out Iran military actionThe UK foreign secretary says military action is still inconceivable against Iran and he hopes diplomacy can solve deadlock over its nuclear programme.
US President George W Bush has refused to rule out military strikes against Iran, which Washington accuses of wanting to develop nuclear weapons.
"It is not on the agenda, I happen to think that it is inconceivable," Jack Straw told BBC radio.
Iran insists its nuclear activities are purely peaceful, to... (more)
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U.S. Promises to Leave Airbase in UzbekistanA U.S. senior official has confirmed Washington would leave an Uzbek airbase that Tashkent asked it to quit after the U.S. criticized Uzbekistan’s human rights record, Reuters reported.
Daniel Fried, U.S. assistant secretary of state in the bureau of European and Eurasian affairs, came to the Central Asian state amid a worsening of ties between the two countries that cooperated to overthrow Afghanistan’s Taliban militia.
Former Soviet Uzbekistan had allo... (more)
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