Patriot Act compliance seminar set for Rhode Island SEPTEMBER 16, 2005 - New York -- Jewelers Vigilance Committee (JVC) and the Jewelers Board of Trade (JBT) will present the seminar "How to Comply with Anti-Money Laundering Regulations" on Sept. 22 at JBT's Warwick, R.I., headquarters. The seminar is free, but space is limited.
Topics will include what types of businesses must comply, how to develop effective anti-money laundering programs (AML) and the range of products and services created by JVC and JBT to assist jewelers in cr... (more)
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New Orleans: A New World Order Showcase: Foreign troops, gun confiscation, jackbooted privatized fascismPaul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | September 15 2005
The media curtain has begun to fall on New Orleans but the questions continue. In hindsight we can see the whole fiasco for what it really was, a showcase for the suffering that some would like every American city to undergo.
The bottom line on Katrina is that whether you believe it was all incompetence or part incompetence and part malevolence, the lasting prete... (more)
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Power Back On For Bush Speech, Back Off An Hour Later"No more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans. It's enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it ... jump to certain conclusions."
That grim yet hardly surprising report comes from NBC anchorman Brian Williams, writing here at MSNBC.
I am duty-bound to report the talk of the New Orleans w... (more)
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Former Intelligence Officer Behind Probe of 1999 Bombings to Remain Behind BarsFormer FSB officer, Mikhail Trepashkin, is to remain in prison after a Russian court overruled a lower court’s decision to release him on parole. Trepashkin won the support of human rights activists for probing alleged government complicity in the country’s 1999 apartment bombings that claimed over 200 lives.
The former FSB officer, sentenced earlier to four years in prison for possessing an unregistered weapon and disclosing state secrets, remains in custody, his lawy... (more)
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Laboratory did not reveal absence of ricin in plot cited by BlairVital evidence in a terror case that was used by Tony Blair to justify the war with Iraq was withheld by Britain's top chemical weapons laboratory.
Tests demonstrating that no ricin was found at a flat linked to a gang suspected of planning a poison attack on the London Underground in January 2003 were not disclosed to police and ministers by officials at Porton Down.
The case, in which the suspects were later cleared, was cited by the Prime Minister and Colin Powel... (more)
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Patriot Act Can Be Used In Hand Held Laser Pointer CaseNEWARK, N.J. Federal prosecutors can use the Patriot Act against a Parsippany man accused of shining a hand-held laser at two aircraft.
David Banach's lawyers said the post nine-eleven law was not intended to be used against someone who is not a terrorist.
However, a federal judge says nothing appears to prohibit its use against anyone. The judge also said the act outlaws willfully interfering with anyone operating a mass transportation vehicle.
Autho... (more)
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City passes resolution against 'Gestapo' tacticsThe Alpine City Council passed a resolution this week that disallows members of the Alpine Police Department to attend meetings unless they are called to the scene if "anyone at a council meeting is physically abusive or rowdy."
The resolution was written by Councilman Bob Brewer.
It also states that only the police chief can remain at the meeting if an officer is requested to do so after an altercation, or if an officer is requested in advance, because it is the on... (more)
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Border Patrol Goes Tactical in New OrleansNewsMax first reported assets of the U.S. Border Patrol being used for disaster relief in New Orleans.
At a time when border-state governors are pleading with the feds to beef up patrols along the open southern borders, the busy agency launched the largest tactical operation in its history - in support of local law enforcement in the flooded city.
Beginning on Sept 5, Blackhawk helicopters filled with elite agents roared into the city to secure a perimeter for 24 ho... (more)
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Reuters Says Bush Photo Not 'Malicious,' Reports Wide Interest at Home and AbroadNEW YORK With confirmation that an accidental photo of President Bush at the United Nations on Wednesday, writing a note to Secretary of State Condeezza Rice about a “bathroom break,” was indeed real, newspapers around the U.S. and abroad are now planning to run it widely. But many, it seems, will treat it as something more than a joke.
A source at the Washington Post tells E&P that the paper is considering it for prominent play, in the context that, at least in some m... (more)
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Doctor: FEMA officials gave hospital staffers mops as people died(CNN) -- As violence, death and misery gripped New Orleans and the surrounding parishes in the days after Hurricane Katrina, a leadership vacuum, bureaucratic red tape and a defensive culture paralyzed volunteers' attempts to help.
Doctors eager to help sick and injured evacuees were handed mops by federal officials who expressed concern about legal liability. Even as violence and looting slowed rescues, police from other states were turned back while officials squabbled over who ... (more)
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Bush vows 'biggest relief effort'President George W Bush has promised the US government will do and spend whatever it takes to rebuild the hurricane-hit Gulf Coast.
Speaking from New Orleans, Mr Bush said billions of dollars would be spent on the reconstruction - "an unprecedented response to an unprecedented crisis".
New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin said three districts would re-open next week, and the French Quarter a week later.
Meanwhile, the confirmed death toll from Hurricane Katri... (more)
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U.S. leads the world in sale of military goodsAs insecurity mounts from Najaf to New Orleans, more weapons and high-tech military equipment are flowing into some of the globe's most vulnerable and war-torn regions.
The Congressional Research Service recently found that global arms sales rose to $37 billion in 2004 -- the highest level since 2000.
U.S. companies such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing rang up $12.4 billion in weapons contracts -- more than one-third of the total and more than twice what Russia -- the... (more)
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Chavez Frias: Venezuela and China advance in strategic economic allianceSpeaking to Chinese businessmen and diplomats visiting Venezuela for trade talks, President Hugo Chavez Frias has stated that he wishes to share strategic reserves with China through bilateral oil agreements.
The President says the main gateway of cooperation between the two countries will be based on agricultural production and he has confirmed that Venezuela is ready to subscribe to a special fund to finance agricultural development products between the two countries.
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Chinese less keen to hold US dollarsChinese households have become more reluctant to hold US dollar deposits, the central bank found in a survey published earlier this week, less than two months after the yuan was revalued.
Fewer people deposited dollars in the three months to the end of August and more people withdrew them, the survey found.
Among 20,000 households surveyed in 50 cities in mid to late August, 6.9 percent had withdrawn or deposited foreign currency in the previous three months, down f... (more)
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Little Progress In FBI Probe of Anthrax Attacks: Internal Report Compiled As Agents Hope for a BreakFour years after the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, one of the most exhaustive investigations in FBI history has yielded no arrests and is showing signs of growing cold as officials have sharply reduced the number of agents on the case.
FBI agents and postal inspectors have pursued leads on four continents, conducted more than 8,000 interviews and carried out dozens of searches of houses, laboratories and other locations. They traveled to Afghanistan twice in the past 16 months to f... (more)
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21 detainees treated in Guantanamo hunger strikeSan Juan, Puerto Rico -- Three other detainees have been hospitalized after refusing meals at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, bringing to 21 the number being treated from a hunger strike that involves a quarter of the camp's prisoners, an official said Wednesday.
All 21 detainees are being tube-fed through their noses, up from 13 a day ago, said Sgt. Justin Behrens, a spokesman at Guantanamo. The military has said it views a hunger strike as a form of suicide and will tak... (more)
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U.S. says Venezuela no longer ally in war on drugs: Bush stops short of cutting aid to the nation because money helps fund democracy effortsWASHINGTON - President Bush has taken Venezuela off his list of allies in the war on drugs, saying that President Hugo Chavez spurned anti-drug cooperation with U.S. officials and fired its effective law enforcement officers.
But the White House waived the cuts in U.S. foreign aid usually attached to the "decertification" so that it can continue to support pro-democracy groups in Venezuela that oppose the leftist Chavez.
Bush's decision is expected to sharply exacer... (more)
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Detective story that linked £1m Pinochet cash to Britain's biggest arms company· US investigators find 100 accounts linked to general
· Secret payments listed to alleged front companies
David Leigh, Jonathan Franklin in Santiago and Rob Evans
Thursday September 15, 2005
The Guardian
Augusto Pinochet, the 89-year-old former strongman of Chile and alleged torturer and murderer, has frequently slipped his pursuers, pleading ill health or relying on protectors at home in the Chilean military. But now an unexpecte... (more)
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U.S. Agenda on Iran Lacking Key SupportUNITED NATIONS, Sept. 15 -- Despite an intense lobbying effort at the most senior levels, the Bush administration failed to persuade three key countries Thursday to back the United States in pressuring Iran to give up sensitive aspects of its nuclear energy program, diplomats and officials said.
Russia, China and India either publicly or privately turned down U.S. requests to help report Iran's case next week to the U.N. Security Council, which has the authority to impose economic... (more)
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US consumer confidence plunges to 10 year lowHurricane Katrina delivered a serious blow to US consumer confidence, sending it to its lowest level for a decade in September, according to figures released on Friday.
The University of Michigan’s widely-watched initial sentiment index for September slumped from 76.9 from 89.1 last month - more than economists had expected. The worst deterioration came in the longer-term measures, with the index for the one-year outlook dropping 37 points.
Expectations about ... (more)
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California bans school junk foodGovernor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation to ban some junk foods from California high schools, in an effort to stem child obesity.
"We are going to terminate obesity in California once and for all," the former bodybuilder and actor said.
The new laws extend to high schools a ban on soft drinks already in place at primary schools.
New limits on fat and sugar content have also been set for vending-machine snacks and food sold in school store... (more)
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