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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 76 through 150 of 516.


October 6, 2005

God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers - President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq - and create a Palestinian State, a new BBC series reveals.
(1752 views)

Breaking America's grip on the net - After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments
(1531 views)

'Non-Partisan "Voting Rights" Group Founder Works for White House! - ACVR's Jim Dyke Moonlights to Push Bush Supreme Court Nominee:"Honesty and Integrity" in the Bush-Era Now at it's Bushiest Level of All Time!
(3539 views)

Pop Goes the Real Estate Bubble - The Big One isn't the long-predicted California earthquake or even a hurricane named Katrina. The genuine big one will arrive with a deafening pop, the sound of the real estate bubble bursting.
(2158 views)

US scientists resurrect deadly 1918 flu - In a surprise announcement, scientists in the US say they have recreated the influenza virus that killed at least 50 million people in 1918, and they have infected mice with it
(1665 views)

Domestic Defense - Could proposed new intelligence-gathering powers for the Pentagon lead to spying on U.S. citizens? The question is being asked as the White House considers new roles for the military inside America's borders.
(1241 views)

The logic of racism in the age of US imperialism - I wonder...what the media will do to erase the lurid racist images of sex and violence they have implanted in television viewers' minds. Absolutely nothing is my guess. When the sympathy of ordinary Americans threatened to become seditious outrage at the government's criminal irresponsibility, the plan to demonize the victims went into effect, tapping into long-established myths of black people as rapists and murderers.
(3781 views)

Setting Iran up for a preemptive strike, possibly with nukes - It's a scam. Who would ever have thought after the Iraq tragedy that the US and its client states would have had the chutzpah to repeat their dismal performance?
(1308 views)


October 7, 2005

Climate change and pollution are killing millions, says study - Almost a fifth of all ill health in poor countries and millions of deaths can be attributed to environmental factors, including climate change and pollution, according to a report from the World Bank.
(1619 views)

Soldiers Shouldn’t Serve as Police Officers - To require soldiers to serve as a police force, especially during the very tense periods that frequently follow natural disasters, would result in unnecessary conflicts. And fatalities would likely be commonplace.
(1264 views)

Martial Law and the Avian Flu Pandemic - by Michel Chossudovsky - Militarization of Public Health; Multibillion Financial Bonanza for the BioTech Conglomerates
(1313 views)

Washington Insider: Subway Alert Is Fake Terror To Distract From Indictments - ...Bush's "war speech" before the National Endowment for Democracy and a late Thursday afternoon report that "19 operatives" have arrived in New York City to place bombs on subway trains are blatant attempts by the White House to divert attention from the impending indictments against the Bush White House.
(1900 views)

Serious turn to Guantanamo protest - A hunger strike by prisoners at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp has entered a serious stage, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.
(1555 views)

Norway activist 'was Mossad spy' - A leading Norwegian pro-Palestinian activist has said she once worked for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad as a double agent.
(2280 views)

Hope is Fading - Haiti's Children's Prison - While some children have been jailed for as long as 18 months, none reports being incarcerated before Feb. 29, 2004, when the U.S. flew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile.
(1292 views)

Iraq war now costing $6 billion a month - The CRS report said the latest average monthly cost for Iraq is $5.9 billion, or 19 percent higher than last year.
(1703 views)

CIA, French intelligence kill 4, capture 5 Israelis in NY subway attack - Earlier this evening intelligence members of the American-French Alliance stopped an attempt by Israeli Mossad operatives to blow up the New York City subway, according to national security and U.S. intelligence expert Thomas Heneghen.
(1709 views)

PRESS CONFRENCE BULGE SIGHTING - As if on cue, about a year after the BULGE was sighted during the Presidential Debates of '04... our pesky Presidential Bulge has made a special "anniversary" appearance.
(2582 views)

Venezuela shutters local US businesses - Venezuela's tax authority on Thursday ordered the temporary closure of the local offices of IBM and Microsoft for alleged tax irregularities.
(1416 views)

Cheney: Prepare for Decades of Mass Murder - Cheney...means the American people must prepare themselves for endless and ever increasingly brutal violence, both abroad where "vassals" resist Cheney’s version of neocon-neoliberalism and at home where law enforcement officers are transformed into paramilitary goons, trained and commanded to confiscate guns and either "evacuate" citizens to concentration camps or quarantine their neighborhoods as ill-defined (or government concocted) diseases spread (or do not spread, except by way of corporate media hype)
(2462 views)

Avian Flu: Bush Cronyism and Crimes as Usual - Rest assured, if there is an influenza outbreak, not only will Bush impose martial law, but as well force millions of us to take a poisonous Merck vaccine.
(1713 views)

Ingredient in cosmetics, toys a safety concern - Scientists are raising questions about phthalates at a time when male reproductive disorders, including testicular cancer, appear to be on the rise in many countries.
(1831 views)

Autoworkers' lives go from bad to worse - To rescue Delphi Corp. from imminent bankruptcy, the auto parts giant's 24,000 United Auto Workers members are supposed to take massive wage cuts, benefit givebacks and myriad concessions that self-respecting union leaders would never accept, much less ask their members to ratify.
(1875 views)

The real insurgency, and the fake one - The latest story...is that the Iraqi insurgents are using American vehicles stolen in the United States in committing their attacks. This has to remind you of the discovery that the insurgents were using Italian-made hand guns manufactured without serial numbers, an order almost certainly placed by some intelligence agency.
(1293 views)

Destroying "rebuilt" bridges - ..the Iraqi Resistance report that some of these bridges are "restructured" for use within days. That is why the Americans hit them repeatedly...
(1271 views)

"Super-TB" created by scientists - A virulent form of tuberculosis was created in the laboratory by experts trying to alter its genetic structure.
(1761 views)

Making a Mockery of Conservation - The Bush administration and its industry pals are using the hurricane disasters to target the Arctic Refuge and offshore drilling, and get even richer in the bargain.
(1930 views)

Woman kicked off flight in Reno over offensive shirt - The shirt had pictures of members of the Bush Administration, and a phrase based on the movie "Meet the Fockers," but with one crucial vowel changed.
(2350 views)


October 8, 2005

Asda Wal-Mart: Cutting Costs at any Cost - Wal-Mart is the world's largest retail company and is more familiar in the UK as the supermarket chain Asda. Wal-Mart has built a global empire of supermarket stores on an image of 'always low prices'. This obsession with prices has led to poverty wages, ever-worsening sweatshop conditions and the destruction of local businesses and communities.
(1968 views)

Bedlam erupts in Congress over oil refinery vote; "Shame, shame" - A controversial bill that offered abandoned U.S. military bases to private industry for the construction of oil refineries and granted federal insurance to refiners ensnared in litigation passed by a razor-thin margin in the House Friday afternoon 212-210 as Democrats chanted "shame, shame, shame."
(1796 views)

Exercise now to cut dementia risk - Exercising for half an hour at least twice a week during midlife can significantly cut a person's risk of dementia later, say researchers.
(1691 views)

Katrina work goes to officials who led Iraq effort - Top officials who managed U.S. reconstruction projects in Iraq have been hired by some of the same big companies that received those contracts and which are now involved in a rush of deals to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
(3384 views)

The Crime of "Unauthorized Reproduction" - According to a draft of the recommended change in state law, every woman in Indiana seeking to become a mother through assisted reproduction therapy such as in vitro fertilization, sperm donation, and egg donation, must first file for a "petition for parentage" in their local county probate court. Only women who are married will be considered for the "gestational certificate" that must be presented to any doctor who facilitates the pregnancy.
(1564 views)

Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him - One student "had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a wall with a red thumb tack through his head. Then he made a thumb’s down sign with his own hand next to the President’s picture, and he had a photo taken of that, and he pasted it on a poster."
(1808 views)

Former NY Aux. Fire and Policeman Uncovers Transit Authority Tapes Showing "Heavy Smoke Condition" Below WTC On 9/11 - More evidence now surfaces indicating explosions rocked the WTC and a pre-planned controlled demolition.
(2056 views)

CDC's tularemia cover-up & NORTHCOM's "Granite Shadow" - ... two separate "preliminary" tests done at a local lab confirmed tularemia, but a third "conclusive" test sent to a Center for Disease Control [CDC] lab turned up negative.
(2809 views)

US Secret Service Slaughters Fourth Amendment - Big Brother Connects Your Dots - For years, governments all over the world have secretly been collaborating with the high-end color laser printer industry in order to track the origin of every color copy made.
(1679 views)

Bush, Blair like Nazis, weapons man says - Scott Ritter said the "aggressive warfare" of the United States and Britain in Iraq was similar to German actions in Europe in World War II.
(2041 views)

Webmaster for site with Iraqi corpse pics accused of obscenity - The charges come a week after his site made national news and launched a Pentagon investigation into how war zone photos of charred and dismembered bodies described as victims of U.S. attacks could have surfaced.
(1764 views)

Has Barbara Olson been arrested? - Several people have asked me what I think about Tom Flocco's latest article, and several people enthusiastically told me that the 9/11 case has been solved because Barbara Olson has been arrested.
(5247 views)

Gannon To Be Charged Under Espionage Act? - ...Fitzgerald may be casting his net wide with the 1917 Espionage Act - and...one fish that may be pulled in is our favorite fake reporter, James Guckert/Jeff Gannon, former auto body manager/White House "correspondent" for fake news outlet Talon News.
(2195 views)

Announcing the death of Red Rose Stories - The FBI has suceeded in closing me down.
(3460 views)


October 9, 2005

Shoot First, Talk Later - Guns Ablaze in Florida - Florida is the new California in terms of excitement. But it may not be the kind of excitement tourists had in mind, according to this article from Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine, unless of course they are looking for a good old fashioned shoot-out.
(1575 views)

CNN Continues the 9/11 Cover Up! - CNN suddenly and inexplicably discontinued the production of their DVD documentary. Why would they do this? Why would they discontinue the production of a documentary about the most important event of our lifetime?
(2010 views)

FBI Penetrated; Again! - by Sibel Edmonds - U.S. Marine accused of sending documents to politicians in the Philippines
(1739 views)

Libraries lose appeal of Patriot Act gag - Connecticut libraries lost an emergency Supreme Court appeal on Friday in their effort to be freed from a gag order and participate in a congressional debate over the Patriot Act.
(1344 views)

Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy - In an extraordinary declaration of the brutality of American foreign policy, the Bush administration denounced a Senate vote to bar the use of torture against prisoners held by the US military.
(1640 views)

How is the Euphrates Bridge bombing campaign supposed to work? - Does the U.S. air force designate traffic lanes on these bridges, so that insurgents can use certain lanes and then be subjected to precision bombings, while common folks use safe lanes?
(1272 views)

Silenced: Censorship and Control of the Internet - This study has found that censorship of the Internet is commonplace in most regions of the world. It is clear that in most countries over the past two years there has been an acceleration of efforts to either close down or inhibit the Internet.
(1642 views)

Stop Globalization -- I want to get off - The hired hands of Big Business, the thugs who make up the somewhat credible-looking façade of the government of the United States -- and many other countries -- are well on their way to changing the mechanisms by which the world is run.
(3668 views)

Poor Migrants Work in Iraqi Netherworld - U.S.-hired contractors rely on laborers from impoverished countries, but no one looks out for the rights -- or lives -- of the foreigners.
(1317 views)

Property grabs and the Gulf - Local governments will likely use eminent domain to rebuild; who will that help?
(3392 views)

N.O. Cops Suspected of Stealing Up to 200 Cars - State authorities are investigating allegations New Orleans police officers broke into a dealership and made off with nearly 200 cars - including 41 new Cadillacs - as Hurricane Katrina closed in.
(3433 views)

Revealed: police's new supergun will blast rioters off their feet - New generation of microwave and laser weapons set to transform crowd control techniques
(1233 views)

Weather War? - New evidence suggests US & Russia are embroiled in an illegal race to harness the power of hurricanes & earthquakes
(1284 views)

ADHD advice secretly paid for by drugs companies - Support and advice groups for parents of children with so-called behavioural disorders are being secretly funded by pharmaceutical firms, it can be revealed.
(1717 views)

The Cogent-Level 3 Dispute - Even though peering has ended and links remain severed, the peering agreement was not violated by either side. The dispute pits a restructured, low-debt Ethernet provider against a more traditional, debt laden provider in a fight that's unlikely to end soon.
(2841 views)

The idiot box - Watching TV may damage children's brain development, leading to increased anti-social behaviour, new research claims.
(1594 views)

GM crop "ruins fields for 15 years" - GM crops contaminate the countryside for up to 15 years after they have been harvested, startling new government research shows.
(1869 views)


October 10, 2005

Saddam may face execution before standing trial on all charges - Saddam Hussein could be executed before the Iraqi Special Tribunal finishes charging him with all his alleged crimes, a source close to the tribunal said Sunday.
(1209 views)

Big Brother Is Talking - China's ubiquitous e-police are using the Web themselves to shape political discourse.
(1683 views)

Big Brother is here: The invisible eye monitors what you do at work - George Orwell, who imagined the ultimate dystopia more than 50 years ago, wouldn’t be surprised at developments in today’s technology-saturated workplaces.
(1267 views)

Bush's Crony Capitalism: Unaccountable, Unauditable & Out of Control - by Ralph Nader - Hundreds of companies are rushing for the gold. During a Katrina reconstruction summit at the Senate Office Building, US News and World Report describes the scene: "Edward Badolato, a retired Marine colonel who is now an executive with the Shaw Group, reportedly reassured attendees. "Trust me", he said, "there's going to be enough for everybody down there.""
(1678 views)

Jailing Iraqi Journalists: The Pentagon is silent as U.S. military imprisons local journalists - Much has been said about what is and is not being reported in Iraq, but one thing is clear: Local, front-line journalists are not only risking their lives, they are risking imprisonment for their work.
(2136 views)

You need not be paranoid to fear RFID - IBM...filed a patent application in 2001 which contemplates using this wireless snooping technology to track people as they roam through ''shopping malls, airports, train stations, bus stations, elevators, trains, airplanes, rest rooms, sports arenas, libraries, theaters, museums, etc." An IBM spokeswoman insisted the company isn't really prepared to go this far. Patent applications are routinely written to include every possible use of a technology, even some the company doesn't intend to pursue. Still, it's clear somebody at IBM has a pretty creepy imagination.
(2435 views)

Kunstler & Chomsky:Iraq & Peak Oil - ...rapidly increasing in importance is control of Iraq to facilitate military control of the world's only remaining source of cheap, conventional oil in the coming peak oil endgame.
(2485 views)

Free Trade and an Emerging Revolutionary Planet - Free Trade stands for almost everything wrong on the planet. As the Free Trade noose tightens, more revolutionary activity will occur until the strangling grip is broken completely or until the despotism of obscenely wealthy and criminal oligarchs feeding off an increasingly destitute and dehumanized world population wins its final triumph.
(1740 views)

NYC Subway "Plot": Just Another Fake Terror Alert - Some form of twisted logic has the people believing they are defeating the "terrorists" by doing absolutely nothing and allowing the authorities to trample all over their civil liberties.
(1510 views)

World Net Daily Shills for Bush-Cheney Cabal - In a story (and I do mean story) "Is 'American Hiroshima' set for this month?" Williams tries to crank up the fear and loathing index one more notch, writing "The next terrorist attack on the United States – a "nuclear hell storm planned for seven major cities" – is set to occur this month."
(1784 views)

Web enjoys year of biggest growth - The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom, says a study.
(1761 views)

New Orleans Police Beating Caught on Tape - Two New Orleans police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations.
(1380 views)

Why Supreme Court Selections are a False Choice - Since we are burdened under a contrived and supercilious hoax that puts the federal regime in total and complete command of our government, we are told that it is lawful, because the Supreme Court has ruled it to be so.
(1839 views)

From factory to the firing line: the story of one bullet - How do legally manufactured AK-47 bullets get into the hands of mercenaries and child soldiers? Their journey tells us much about the modern world...
(2916 views)

Four Years for Talking Without a Permit? - The Fight for Free Speech at Union Square
(1311 views)

Saving Ohio - Did a reporter with GOP ties suppress a story that could have cost Bush the White House?
(1723 views)


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