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Archive for the Month of March, 2006.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 76 through 150 of 375.
- A bill introduced in the New Jersey Assembly would require websites to collect and make available the legal names and physical addresses of anyone posting on an Internet forum. - Bush, or rather his handlers—Bush is unable to do anything except take his prescribed medication and mangle prepared speeches (in the oratory department, Hitler had it over on Bush)—are now consulting the 1917 Espionage Act, attempting to use it to "to shut off leaks that have been severely embarrassing to the White House..." - Can you guess what the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" have in common? The answer is easy. They are both escalating around the world, and in the US as well. Our government is not winning either of these wars, and they do not wish to win them. The reason for this is because the government started these wars in the first place. - HSA follows the same tortured logic as the president’s proposals to privatize Social Security, Medicare and pension programs. Simply, HSA is another attempt to cut the social safety net underneath the American middle class and use it as gift wrap for another tax holiday for the wealthy. HSA really should be called GIA — Go It Alone. - Marine researchers who have been observing the same pod of dolphins off Florida's eastern coast for three years have now, for the first time, photographed the dolphins swimming directly northward. - They will not be getting space rights anytime soon - and here's why in just one complex word: surveillance. - The Prime Minister claims to be defending liberty but a barely noticed Bill will rip the heart out of parliamentary democracy - Troops finish off Iraqi and laugh
- The US and its allies in Iraq are holding more than 14,000 civilian prisoners—in some cases for years—without charges or trials, while torture and abuse in detention camps are now worse than when the horrors of Abu Ghraib were exposed nearly two years ago. - Delivery drivers, chicken farmers, sack makers, taxi drivers and students. Their weapons of mass destruction include battery chargers, Casio watches, and Peanut oil - Oh, big surprise. Dick Cheney, according to a CBS poll, is less popular than the wife-beating murderer O.J. Simpson, convicted in civil court in 1997. In fact, Cheney is several times more murderous and infinitely more dangerous than Simpson, although Dick is careful to not get any blood spattered on his expensive suit. - As George Bush's poll numbers plummet to depths not seen in presidential polling since Watergate, it is noteworthy to point out Bush's other "numbers" - Cindy Sheehan's latest arrest another signifier of nail in coffin for peaceful protest and free speech - In order to achieve the destruction of socialism in Yugoslavia, Western powers pursued a "divide and conquer" strategy, encouraging the piecemeal breakup of the country. Could the same plan be in the works for Venezuela? - The star of Ireland’s newest Oscar winning film today told about the heavy handed tactics of US immigration officials who refused him entry to America to attend the awards. - Gangland violence is making us safer. That's the message we hear today from Israel's Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, who not only defended the practice of "targeted assassination" but threatened to use the controversial tactic against Palestine's new Prime Minister-designate, Ismail Haniya. - A federal bankruptcy judge says the new bankruptcy law is good for one thing: allowing creditors to make more money off the backs of debt-ridden consumers - ...we have the eight-year-old child and the unknown fourth person, killed for the unpardonable sin of being close to some people who were close to a place where other people had done something. - Nowhere is Coca-Cola's blatant disregard for water and communities that sustain themselves from water more evident than in India. - Another victim of Homeland Security financial snoops
- He knows at least one hiding place in two different governors' mansions and the White House for liquor and, you know, whatever. - Condi Rice would be proud. - Man, what a windfall for Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, Bechtel, Blackwater, and other death merchants and war profiteers. - Strategic Communication Laboratories and the war for your mind - ...the mindless Bush defenders and Straussian wannabes, because they are intellectually bankrupt bootlickers attempting to mask their fear and petty hatreds, lash out at those who disagree or criticize Bush, a mentally and physical enfeebled alcohol and cocaine ravished wreck. - After the US's deliberate and unprovoked war on Iraq, "reconstruction" becomes one of the US's moral clichés to justify crimes against the Iraqi people and ongoing Occupation. In reality, the “reconstruction” of Iraq is the continuation of the destruction of Iraq and humiliation of Iraqi society. - Conservatives dominate on Hardball - While the world turns its eyes again to the Middle East and watches a buildup to a war created by the U.S. over a mythical atomic bomb, there is one country in the neighborhood that actually has hundreds of atomic weapons; "poor beleaguered Israel"... - The Association of Chief Police Officers in Britain has concluded in its inquiry that the shoot to kill policy which was carried out in the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes is acceptable and should not be altered. Since de Menezes' behavior gave no sign whatsoever that he was a potential suicide bomber, this is a strong statement of intent. - What is wrong with this picture? - A plan to build an oil pipeline that green activists and many experts say could severely damage Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, has been approved by Russia’s environmental watchdog. - Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) have been making hay in the burning Iraqi sun for years now. - Al-Qaida?
- ...since it is a fact that our own government is behind every major "terrorist" attack against us, it is always advisable to view any "official" story with multiple grains of salt. - A red herring to distract from real long term agenda of full spectrum dominance - AT&T's $67 billion merger with BellSouth could enable those who control the information pipes to also control the information. - As it now stands, we are but a few weeks away from total disaster... - Gender-coded militaristic rituals are now so integrated into the culture, they're nearly invisible--which is why they're so important to re-examine. Take those flyovers. What's fun about sending an ominous V-winged vehicle of death and destruction over a Sunday afternoon football game? - In a year or so the United Nations will be just another American NGO doing the bidding of the world’s multinational corporations. That’s good news for Bolton and his friends at the American Enterprise Institute, the ideological headquarters for America’s ongoing incursions into the third world. - Most if not all of the deaths this year in US coal mines could have been prevented if safety measures proposed for nearly two decades had not been blocked and eventually killed by officials from the Clinton and Bush administrations. - The growth of hunger at one pole of society goes hand-in-hand with the unprecedented accumulation of personal wealth at the other. - The global managing editor of Reuters just recently stated that "the US military is entirely to blame for the deaths of three of its employees in Iraq." Though the major Australian newspapers have all reported this huge news, not surprisingly the US press hasn't touched it. - Iraqi women rights organization reported today "Women day" that not less than 2000 Iraqi women kidnapped and sold inside Iraq and abroad in the three years of occupation. - It’s really all about breaking the back of the most democratic...of American institutions – the American middle class. - Rubberstamp for police-state measures - From the same snake oil salesmen that brought you 45 minute attack claims, dodgy dossiers and weapons bunkers that were bakeries, comes the shocking new threat that could knock America back into the stone age, Iran's deadly EMP weapons.
- Because the Madrid train bombings were carried out by police informants connected to a false flag intelligence operation. - In the last 48 hours all the major players in the Bush administration have issued statements warning of the impending danger of Iran - Writer after writer keeps talking about how we are just going to march into the polls come November and vote the monsters out. If only that were true. - A number of observers suspect that the deal worked out for Dubai Ports World to transfer operations of U.S. ports to a U.S. firm involves Bush family business dealings. - In an unusual follow-up to a public event, the Defense Department has ordered that a transcript of an open hearing on aviation restrictions be yanked from the Web. - audio - O'Reilly recently declared that "it's just a matter of time ... before we have to bomb" Iran. - How the telephone company listens in on your calls and what they tell the government. - VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS - People from the Marshall Islands plan to seek one billion dollars in compensation this year for damage to their health and environment caused by 67 US nuclear tests during the Cold War. - ...it certainly sends an interesting message. - Belarus's government will be targeted if the west doesn't get the result it wants in this month's elections - Bill O'Reilly's on-air threat to callers who disagreed with him that they would receive a visit from Fox security and that their information would be turned over to local law enforcement at first seemed like another sick gimmick, but the stunt became a whole lot more serious when it was revealed that at least two terrified victims had received threatening calls.
- The man who stole the 2004 election for George W. Bush -- Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell -- has posted a picture of himself addressing the white supremacist ultra-right Council for National Policy (CNP). He then pulled the picture and tried to hide his participation in the meeting by removing mention of it from his website... - Cui bono once again comes into play—who benefits from the capture and murder of CPT members? Certainly not the Iraqi resistance. - Millions of us—no doubt John Serry included, since he contributes a blog to the Huffington Post, a "liberal" website, actually rather milquetoast, but a threat nonetheless to the Straussian neocons—are subject to "investigation," thanks to Bush’s NSA snoop program, recently allowed to go forward... - Former Bush domestic policy czar Claude Allen (right) has been arrested in Maryland on charges of swindling at least $5000 out of Targets and Hecht's stores in a refund scam... - The execution Thursday of 13 Iraqi political prisoners, including a woman, was a calculated act of state terror against the resistance to the US occupation. The executions, all by hanging, were ordered by interim Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari to underscore his determination to hold onto power amid a political stalemate between rival factions in Baghdad. - Money's Going to Talk in 2008 - The government wants the residents out so the U.S. military eventually can triple Camp Humphreys’ size, making it the main U.S. installation on the peninsula. - Last week, the U.S. came out with its annual human rights report for the world. - "The bill would make it a crime to tell the American people that the president is breaking the law, and the bill could make it a crime for the newspapers to publish that fact"... - In case you don't know, the ballots from the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio have never actually been counted. Or even recounted. - The People’s Republic of China has invented a new and innovative way to make the totalitarian regime internet-user friendly: cartoon cyber cops. - The FBI used expanded powers under the USA Patriot Act to demand information from banks and other companies as part of the investigation of Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield, wrongfully arrested in connection with the Madrid train bombings in 2004... - Here's the front page of the New York Times online as of this moment ... - This is the latest in a long line of evidence of government involvement...Was Khan the perfect patsie?
- ...the Israelis understand they cannot shock awe Iran on their own—and in due course, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and even mega-populated Egypt—and that is why they have spent years infiltrating the United States government, particularly the Pentagon. - Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. - Canadians are not peacekeeping in Kandahar: There is no peace to keep. They are there to help impose U.S. rule over Afghanistan, and safeguard routes for planned oil pipelines.
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