U.S. backs away from claims that Cuba has bioweapons programThe Bush administration backed away Tuesday from claims that Cuba has an offensive biological weapons effort, acknowledging in a report to Congress that "there is a split view" among intelligence analysts on the question.
The report says instead that Cuba has the "technical capability" to pursue biological weapons research and development because of its advanced pharmaceutical industry. But it leaves open the critical question of whether it has done so.
The State De... (more)
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Don't Give Your Hurricane Donations to the Red Cross: Establishment charities have history of withholding disaster fundsPaul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | Updated September 3 2005
As the aftermath of hurricane Katrina continues to wreak mayhem and havoc amid reports of mass looting, shooting at rescue helicopters, rapes and murders, establishment media organs are promoting the Red Cross as a worthy organization to give donations to.
The biggest website in the world, Yahoo.com, displays a Red Cross donation link prominently on its front page.
Every time there is a major ... (more)
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Condi Rice Continues to Shop Up a StormThe latest on Condoleezza Rice’s Manhattan vacation, courtesy of a reader:
"Secret service is all over Seventh Avenue. That fucking worthless bitch is shopping in showrooms right now."
Whoa, such language! And how could anyone just assume that our leaders have anything other than the best intentions? We actually have it on good authority that Condi’s snapping up the best of the Spring 2006 collections and sending the fripperies directly to the Red Cross.
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Breaking: Condi Rice Spends Salary on ShoesAccording to Drudge, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recently enjoyed a little Broadway entertainment. And Page Six reports that she’s also working on her backhand with Monica Seles. So the Gulf Coast has gone all Mad Max, women are being raped in the Superdome, and Rice is enjoying a brief vacation in New York. We wish we were surprised.
What does surprise us: Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dol... (more)
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Pot, Kettle, Black: State Department Tells Us How to Identify MisinformationSteve Watson | August 31 2005
http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jul/27-595713.html
How can a journalist or a news consumer tell if a story is true or false? There are no exact rules, but the following clues can help indicate if a story or allegation is true.
We all need to be extremely grateful that the State department has it's own advice section on what we should an... (more)
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Who Opened the New Orleans Floodgates?: Media ignores fact that Bush administration cut funding for the very levies that brokeAs the federal government takeover of New Orleans continues and the helpless masses beg the state for refuge and assurance, the media is ignoring the key fact that it was the federal government itself that lowered the guard in cutting off key funding to protect Louisiana from natural disasters.
The New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bore the brunt of a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding for fiscal year 2006.
The Bush administrati... (more)
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Crackdown on looting New Orleans police ordered to stop saving lives and start saving propertyNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered nearly the entire active police force in the flood-ravaged city to abandon rescue operations Wednesday night and focus on efforts to halt looting. The decision came in response to mounting pressure from sensationalized media coverage which is increasingly placing emphasis on the property damage done by looters, suggesting that it has become nearly as significant a social problem as the virtual destruction of the city by Hurricane Katrina.
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US remodels Guantanamo hearingsThe military authorities in the United States have announced changes to the military commission that will try detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The structure of the trials will now be similar to a traditional US court room, with a presiding officer effectively acting as a judge.
The accused will be present at the hearing, except when classified information is discussed.
But human rights organisations remained critical of the new tribunal set-up.... (more)
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MIRED IN MISERY: DEATH, DISEASE: Thousands feared killed; water fetidA major American city all but disintegrated, as the expected death toll from Hurricane Katrina mushroomed into the thousands in New Orleans and the mayor ordered 1,500 police to abandon their search-and-rescue mission Wednesday night to put a stop to looting.
"They are starting to get closer to heavily populated areas -- hotels, hospitals, and we're going to stop it right now," Mayor Ray Nagin said in a statement after hundreds of looters roamed the city largely unchallenged durin... (more)
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No one can say they didn't see it comingIn 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, Hurricane Katrina has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter and hundreds to thousands reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mex... (more)
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Chechen Leader Claims Help From Russians in School SiegeThe Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, who masterminded last year's siege of School No. 1 in Beslan, asserted today that the takeover was made possible with the help of Russia's special services, who allowed the terrorists he sent there a safe passage near the school.
In an announcement on a Web site that frequently posts his statements and videos, Mr. Basayev said he had deceived Russian intelligence services, who believed his terrorists would attack a government center in the ... (more)
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Spyed Kids: New cell phones and ID chips help parents keep a virtual eye on their children anytime, anywhere. But is Big Mother good for society?Remember those public-service TV ads that asked: "It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" Thanks to ever-cheaper tracking technology, you can now answer that question around the clock.
Worried parents who want minute-by-minute tracking of their kids online and off can turn to advanced radio frequency identity chips, global positioning systems (GPS), specially designed cell phones and new Internet monitoring methods. And the prices for these gadgets, once seen only i... (more)
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UK Gov must meet biometric standards on ID cardsThe standards body, BSI, has published a set of four new BS ISO/IEC 19794 standards, covering the science of biometrics, using biological characteristics to identify individuals, according to reports.
The standards will apply to the biometric technology that is to be added to British passports, and will also cover any future ID card, the BSI says. They will also cover access control and identification systems, such as the information that might be stored on a smartcard.
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Russia Refutes U.S. Accusations of Violating Agreements on Chemical, Biological WeaponsThe US State Department report, released on Wednesday, says that, based on all available evidence, Russia “continues to maintain” an offensive biological weapons program.
The Associated Press agency quoted the statement as saying that the cases addressed in the report were limited to countries for which the most evidence exists of actual or potential noncompliance with the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
“Russia is dedicated to the strict ... (more)
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Study Rejects Link Between Mobile Phones And Cancer— One of the largest and most rigorous studies ever into the alleged links between cancer and the use of mobile phones has failed to find any connection between the two — at least for the first ten years of use.
According to the study, published on line by the British Journal of Cancer and conducted by scientists at the world-renowned Institute of Cancer Research in London, there is no link between a type of brain cancer called acoustic neuroma and the number of years ... (more)
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Release of oil reserves has little effectThe US government on Wednesday agreed to lend refiners small quantities of oil from its strategic emergency stockpile to help ease the shortage of petrol caused by Hurricane Katrina.
But the relief it caused in the overheated oil market was cut short when it became clear that the move would have little impact on the problem and was as much a political gesture as an economic one.
In fact, helping the US deal with the loss of 20 per cent of its oil production and 10 p... (more)
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