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Archive for the Month of May, 2006.
Viewing ALL NEWS articles 151 through 225 of 323.
- The following is a list of some 500 software tools, databases, data mining and processing efforts contracted for, under development or in use at the NSA and other intelligence agencies today... - Venezuela's president is using oil revenues to liberate the poor - no wonder his enemies want to overthrow him. - For stealing land and whitening up a place. - The Rothschild family is to return to the oil business in the former Soviet Union, a century after its hasty exit before the Russian Revolution. - ...the element essential to the eventual fascist takeover in the U.S. that has been in place the longest is the Republican assault on the independent media. - We'll teach you to exist on our planet.
- Carol Fisher is being held indefinitely in a surprise May 9 court hearing, becoming another political prisoner held illegally for speaking out against Bush. - They live in a delusional world of make believe created for them by the shadow men who really run the government. - The surveillance state and the dangers of "data-mining" - Whose propaganda program are we dealing with? Zarqawi's or the Pentagon's? Or both? - A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we...call in an effort to root out confidential sources. - Once an Iranian attack on a US-flagged tanker or warship is announced, US commanders could be ordered to "counter-attack" with all available force—including nuclear weapons. Even if they suspected a ruse, no serving soldier can fail to protect his or her comrades. - As of 13th May 2006, the U.S. military states its casualties as 2,436 deaths of US soldiers and 17,648 injured. These very precise figures are updated daily. The problem with these statistics is that they are misleading and wrong and deliberately so. - Nothing on CNN. Nothing at all ... - Chavez...expressed his views on a visit with the Mayor of London. - That the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 were stolen has become an article of faith for millions of mainstream Americans. But there has been barely a whiff of coverage in the major media about any problems with the electronic voting machines that made those thefts possible... - Relentless strangling of human rights hasn't stopped yet - It's okay for the corporations of the world (and the governments that work for them) to force free trade deals down smaller and less powerful nations throats -- deals whose only intention is to expropriate the weaker nations resources and people while creating a market that makes locally grown products unprofitable for the locals to grow or buy. - With four slow-moving jets to choose from, why couldn't NORAD intercept and make visual contact with even ONE? Perhaps, if that visual inspection had occurred, the USAF pilot might have reported something highly suspicious. And I don't mean sullen suicide pilots who forgot to pack their Korans.
- Intended to create circus of interest around "no plane" theories, later debunk them. - The pharmaceutical industry has a dream: at least one disease (and more than one prescription drug) for every American. - ...the media commentary has deliberately downplayed the sinister nature of the program. This is a deliberate cover-up of what is without question the most wide-ranging invasion of privacy by the federal government in US history. - "The call for impeachment trivializes the crimes...Where is the demand for war crimes trials?" - Nearly 60 years after most Palestinians were first forced from our homes, the killings and blockades carry on with impunity. - The poorest people in the world will be the chief victims of the West's failure to tackle global warning, with millions of Africans forecast to die by the end of the century... - EXPERIMENTAL WEATHER MODIFICATION BILL FAST TRACKING FOR PASSAGE IN U.S. SENATE & HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Strategists are understood to have presented two options for pinpoint strikes using B2 bombers flying directly from bases in Missouri, Guam in the Pacific and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. - THE TOXIC 100: Top Corporate Air Polluters in the United States - Morality is in the Eye of the Oppressor - Yes, because perpetual war means dictatorship at home - A MadCowMorningNews investigation into the ownership of the DC9 airliner caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine in Mexico last month has uncovered explosive new details about some of the many lingering mysteries still surrounding the 9.11 attack. - ...it was all a learning curve, a practice run to see two huge twin towers fall, to check the footprints they left and the pollution they left and whether or not the people would come after KeySpan with baseball bats and lawsuits, which they didn’t but should have. Fortunately, the tanks didn’t have planes crash into them as a cover for the demolition. Unfortunately, the Towers did, to add some havoc, death and destruction. - Is this what Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon would really look like from nearby security cameras instead of the nondescript blur footage we have been subject to? - Magically Only 1 shows impact so why not release the rest? - Add Cuba and Venezuela to the list of countries that knew of and informed the Bush administration about a "major terrorist attack" prior to 911.
- U.N. forum reports that neo-liberal era has been a total failure for the poor... - Although Judicial Watch asked for all the recordings, it pronounced itself satisfied after getting just one, one which did not, and could not, put to rest the conspiracy theories. I smell a rat. - According to the Cuban newspaper Granma, the scope of the U.S. military maneuvers dwarfs even the Pentagon’s naval deployment during the October 1962 missile crisis. Similar maneuvers in the past were used to gather information needed to launch aggression, like the "exercises" that preceded the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983. - I fear the rabid Van Crevel and his fellow citizens more than I fear Ahmadinejad and the Iranian mullahs. - A US lawmaker and former Marine colonel accused US Marines of killing innocent Iraqi civilians after a Marine comrade had been killed by a roadside bomb. - Now contrast the images above with this admitted fake video and ask yourself: where is American Airlines Flight 77? - That's because bankers collect interest for doing nothing. They extend "credit" which is nothing but thin air that is ALWAYS paid by the interest they collect from someone else. - It does seem that they do not want us to have any clear picture of what it was exactly.....for now. - For anyone who need more convincing, here’s a sampling of what "President Stephen Harbush" has wrought over the past two months. - More than a decade after U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia...officials of Somalia's interim government and some U.S. analysts of Africa policy say the United States has returned to the African country, secretly supporting secular warlords who have been waging fierce battles against Islamic groups for control of the capital, Mogadishu. - Controlling what we think is not solely about controlling what we know - it is also about controlling who we respect and who we find ridiculous. - 911 was an attack upon the Constitution and the people of the United States, carried out by forces that had far greater designs for their private interests than could have ever been allowed under the US Constitution.
- Making sure heroin addiction continues unabated is such a lucrative business for the CIA and Wall Street investors, Bush decided “not to destroy the opium crop in Afghanistan. - Regardless of the fact the latest video...is a less than worthless distraction, the connection between Judicial Watch and Scaife, who is a documented CIA asset, puts the whole affair in context. - The hurricane's aftermath has ushered in the homecoming of the "war on terror," a contract bonanza whereby companies can reap massive Iraq-like profits without leaving the country and at a minuscule fraction of the risk. - The need for this fascist, corporate-profit-at-all-costs driven dominance seems embedded in the psyche of these barely human beings. Their War on Terror will never end. It’s an incredible cash cow, generating billions in military and defense appropriations and natural resources, wherever they can be stolen. They’re getting richer than ever on those three little words: War on Terror. - Britain and the US were last night facing almost total isolation in Iraq after Italy's new prime minister, Romano Prodi, made it clear that he intended to pull out the third-biggest contingent in the military coalition at the earliest possible opportunity. - America's own Chateau D'If is experiencing a desperate, doomed revolt by prisoners armed with weapons made of fans and light fixtures. They stand no chance against soldiers and professional torturers armed to the teeth and in control of almost every inch of the base, and so you could reasonably conclude that they are at this point indifferent to death. - December 2001: the U.S. Air Force dropped the 15,000-pound "Daisy Cutter" on the cave complex in Afghanistan known as Toro Bora. At the time, this was the largest bomb in the U.S. arsenal. - Three warships, 2,000 troops en route to join Operation "Caribbean Lion" - The war on drugs is an attack on rationality. Reason lost yet another skirmish recently when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on April 20 that “no sound scientific studies” supported the medical use of marijuana. - George Bush’s latest scam to line the pockets of the super-rich with tax cuts. - This century’s Enlightenment is coming from south of the border. - ...the same dictatorial forms of rule that the American government has for decades promoted and buttressed elsewhere will be increasingly applied within the United States itself. - May 15 marked the 58th anniversary of Al Nakba (The Catastrophe). Every year, Palestinians recount the tragedy of 1948.
- It should be noted that the dubious badge story came from "Iranian expatriates," that is to say the Iranian equivalent of Iraqi expatriates (who happened to have close ties to the neocons and the Pentagon) responsible for telling outrageous lies about Saddam and weapons of mass destruction and other chimerical horrors. - Hey America! Freedom is just around the corner…behind you - A Corporate Abuse - "The Earth is flat, pigs were invented by Monsanto, and genetically modified organisms are safe. Right." - Be alert when you hear politicians talk about abstractions like patriotism, national security and international stability. They are trying to control you by controlling your mind. - Classified programs appear to account for about $30.1 billion, or 19 percent, of the acquisition funds sought in the Defense Department budget for fiscal 2007... - Nepal's new government declared a public holiday after parliament passed a proclamation stripping King Gyanendra of his powers and thousands of people staged a celebration rally. - What Decline for Social Security and Medicare? - ...the obvious question is: Who decided this asshole should be an officer and a gentleman? Put that to his new press secretary. I guarantee it will be a Kodak moment. - The real terrorists are not cowering in the mountains of Tora Bora, but towering in the boardrooms of Wall Street and London. - Is there a tacit agreement that it would be too painful for us Americans to own up to the fact that a US president is a war criminal? - Exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into supporting a global police state. - It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme.
- The secretive group known as Bilderberg will hold its annual secret meeting at the posh Brook Street Resort a few miles from Ottawa, Canada, June 8-11. - The British-funded Ice Patrol is usually busy in May, protecting shipping from rogue bergs. But it's all gone alarmingly quiet this year.
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