Frist Made At Least $2 Million on Insider TradeNew details of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's dumping of HCA stock just before it plummeted should give the SEC even more to chew over as it begins a formal investigation, with subpoena power, into Frist's contact with insiders at his family-founded and -run company.
A new analysis by my Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights has found that Senator Frist made between between $2 and $6 million by selling his HCA holdings just before stocks plummeted in the face of a bad e... (more)
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Network news broadcasts give scant coverage to Frist stock scandalDespite having found the time to cover Kate Moss's purported cocaine use and to put one of its correspondents in a wind tunnel to demonstrate the effects of hurricane-force wind, ABC's World News Tonight has yet to mention the brewing scandal over the sale of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's (R-TN) stock in HCA Inc., the hospital chain founded by Frist's father, just two weeks before a bad earnings report caused the stock price to drop sharply. The nightly news broadcasts of CBS and NBC didn'... (more)
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Sinister Events in a Cynical WarHere are questions that are not being asked about the latest twist of a cynical war. Were explosives and a remote-control detonator found in the car of the two SAS special forces men "rescued" from prison in Basra on 19 September? If true, what were they planning to do with them? Why did the British military authorities in Iraq put out an unbelievable version of the circumstances that led up to armored vehicles smashing down the wall of a prison?
According to the head of Basra&rsq... (more)
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The Danger of Standing ArmiesHow happy that our army had been recently disbanded [before the Presidential crisis of 1801]! What might have happened otherwise seems rather a subject of reflection than explanation.
~ Thomas Jefferson writing to Nathaniel Miles, March 1801
Posse Comitatus: the power or force of the county. The entire population of a county above the age of fifteen, which a sheriff may summon to his assistance in certain cases as to aid him in keeping the peace, in pursuing and arr... (more)
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Some Observations, With a Smile, From Pennsylvania AvenueJoining the antiwar protest in Washington last Saturday was both exhilarating and exasperating.
Exhilarating because the sheer size and diversity of the crowd of protesters showed me an America that is fed up enough to spend the time, energy, and money to come to Washington and make a statement to the world despite the lack of any top-down leadership. Think about it. There isn’t a single notable Republican or Democratic leader with the guts or intelligence to take a principl... (more)
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This is an act of censorship worthy of Joseph Goebbels: Plan to draw up a list of historical events that people can be prosecuted for celebratingAt last history hits pay dirt. For years it was pap for television. The nation's rulers needed scientists for guns, linguists for trade and economists for mistakes. History was for nuts and numismatists. Now up pops Charles Clarke jingling bags of gold. The home secretary has promised the prime minister that he will lock away for five years anyone who "glorifies, exalts or celebrates" a terrorist act committed in the past 20 years. He does not care if glorification was not meant. If someone, som... (more)
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Comments posted on a website praising a terrorist attack anywhere in the world could land a person in jail COMMENTS posted on a website praising a terrorist attack anywhere in the world could land a person in jail under tough new laws to be debated by state and federal leaders today.
Australians could also find themselves in breach of federal law for distributing books or other literature urging people to travel overseas to kill coalition soldiers or for praising a terror attack as a brave act that should be repeated.
New incitement and sedition laws on the table at to... (more)
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Torturous Silence on TortureWhere do American religious leaders stand on torture? Their deafening silence evokes memories of the unconscionable behavior of German church leaders in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Despite the hate whipped up by administration propagandists against those it brands "terrorists," most Americans agree that torture should not be permitted. Few seem aware, though, that although President George W. Bush says he is against torture, he has openly declared that our military and other interr... (more)
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Pomegranate juice promising for prostate cancerNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pomegranate extract may prevent prostate cancer or slow its growth, if results of lab experiments conducted at the University of Wisconsin in Madison translate to real-world benefits.
Dr. Hasan Mukhtar and his colleagues note in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition that pomegranates are high in polyphenolic compounds, making its juice higher in antioxidant activity than red wine and green tea.
When they incuba... (more)
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Greenspan warns on mortgagesThe booming US housing market has led to a worrying decline in standards in the mortgage lending industry, Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman, has warned.
Mr Greenspan voiced the widespread concern within the Fed about the rapid spread of interest-only loans, floating rate mortgages, and other “more exotic” forms of home financing including loans where borrowers do not pay the full interest cost for an initial period and it is added to the principal.
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First Live Giant Squid PhotographedThis extraordinary image, captured by Japanese scientists, marks the first-ever record of a live giant squid in the wild. The mysterious deep-sea creature has inspired countless sea monster tales and a variety of scientific expeditions.
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Strategy Of Tension Continues In IraqPaul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | September 27 2005
Last week's attempted staged car bombing in Basra and more bloodshed in Iraq over the past few days again brings to light an underlying strategy which serves to keep the country mired in turmoil to justify the continued presence of occupational forces.
This isn't a speculative conspiracy, it's demonstrable by the very words and deeds of the megalomaniacs now running the show blood-soaked show in Iraq.
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Martial Law: Police State America - We're So Close Now.Steve 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 caling for more centralised military control domesti... (more)
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CFR Member Urges Domestic CIAWASHINGTON -- The United States needs a lean and focused counter-terrorism agency to fight threats both at home and abroad, a leading Democratic Party security expert and civil rights proponent told UPI in an interview.
"There is no value in restructuring the agencies. We need an anti-terror entity that functions both at home and abroad and takes that function from (both) the CIA and the FBI," Morton H. Halperin, a senior vice president of the Center for American Progress and form... (more)
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Another Suspicious Suicide at the State DepartmentAnother suicide covered up at the State Department. State Department insiders are reporting another suicide of a State Department employee involved with Middle East policy. Although WMR is still trying to obtain the name of the deceased official, we can report that she worked in the Press and Public Diplomacy Branch of the State Department's Near East and South Asia Bureau.
On November 7, 2003, State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research chief Iraqi analyst John J. Kokal ... (more)
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Covert ops to overthrow Iran’s govLike the color-coded terror alert system, the Technicolor Velvet Invasions blink warning. Despite receiving an ugly bruise in Uzbekistan, the CIA and its NGO regime change industry hope to stage another cardboard coup in Iran. But it could be a Black & Blue Revolution.
Citing a 'mission accomplished' in Iraq, President Bush told 25,000 soldiers in Fort Hood, Texas; "The establishment of a free Iraq is a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. That success is sending a... (more)
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Bush offers Pentagon as 'lead agency' in disastersPresident Bush yesterday said he wants Congress to consider putting the Pentagon, not state and local agencies, in charge of responding to large natural disasters in the future.
"Is there a circumstance in which the Department of Defense becomes the lead agency?" Mr. Bush asked members of a military task force participating in Hurricane Rita relief efforts in Texas.
"Clearly, in the case of a terrorist attack, that would be the case, but is there a natural disaster ... (more)
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Hillary’s Brave New World of Internet CensorshipChina has stepped up its war against the internet and the dissemination of uncensored information—or as the totalitarian “free trade” government of the world’s most populous nation (or most populated slavery gulag) describes it, internet news sites must “be directed toward serving the people and socialism and insist on correct guidance of public opinion for maintaining national ... (more)
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Pfc. Lynndie England Takes a Fall for the NeoconsIt’s a revisitation of the prosecution and conviction of Lt. William Calley. Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted earlier today of “detainee abuse” (a neutral term for sadistic torture) at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. “England, 22, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy, four counts of maltreating detainees and one count of committing an indecent act. She was acquitted on a second conspiracy count,” reports the Associated Press. “The jury of five mal... (more)
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Second student shot with TaserA Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer shot a Garinger High School student with a Taser gun Monday morning. It's the second time in four days that an officer used the electroshock weapon on a student.
A police spokesman said the officer fired the Taser on Monday after a 17-year-old student slapped an assistant principal and refused to follow orders. The student, who was later arrested, had been called to the office because he was late for school.
On Friday, a school... (more)
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'New' Patriot Act's familiar look: Even most contentious provisions likely to be renewed with little changeWASHINGTON -- As early as tomorrow, House and Senate negotiators will begin deliberations to renew parts of the USA Patriot Act scheduled to expire at year's end.
As they did four years ago with the original act, lawmakers will hammer out details behind closed doors. And just like four years ago, President Bush will sign the bill into law, declaring it another step in America's war on terrorism.
In July, the House and Senate passed separate bills, and only minor dif... (more)
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Louis Farrakhan: Divers Found Levee ExplosivesNation of Islam chief Minister Louis Farrakhan has expanded on his theory that New Orleans' levees were blown up during Hurricane Katrina, announcing Friday that divers working on the levee break have found evidence of explosives.
"These explosives are from the government side," he said during a press conference in Memphis held to promote his upcoming Million Man Anniversary March.
In quotes picked up by Memphis TV station WMC, Farrakhan demanded an investigation in... (more)
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Nagin reported 25-foot crater beneath Industrial CanalFrom BlackElectorate.com Sept. 26:
There exists a reasonable and rational basis for suspecting that there is more to the reality of what caused the levee to break than what has been publicly offered by government and the mainstream media. Allow me to outline several salient points of that basis.First, there is the detail, which seems to have been missed by many who have focused improperly on Minister Farrakhan&... (more)
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Rita's Death Toll Highest From Evacuation, Not Storm Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Rita caused only nine reported deaths after it slammed ashore near the Texas-Louisiana border on Sept. 24. At least 28 people were killed in the mass evacuation before the storm.
As government officials credited the evacuations with preventing casualties, people like Lynn Bass questioned whether they did the right thing in fleeing Rita. Bass, a 36-year-old banker who lives south of Houston with his wife and three daughters, endured 18 hours of gr... (more)
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