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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
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- Municipal WiFi networks, such as the one Google is proposing, could easily keep records on where users are connecting, and it's easy to imagine ways that information could be misused.
- The three-hour session was stormy, with Saddam arguing with judges.
- It is an axiomatic principle that if you don't have a Middle Class, you can't have a genuine democracy! The Middle Class, like the fractious U.S. Labor Movement, is fading fast from the scene, thanks to our insane "Free Trade" policies, which only benefit a select and greedy few. - Want to keep your DNA out of the hands of the government? Think your DNA is too private to be forced to give to government bureaucrats to analyze, catalog, share, retain indefinitely and possibly abuse? Tough luck. - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday refused to rule out U.S. troops still being in Iraq in 10 years or the possibility that the United States could use military force against neighboring Syria and Iran. - The "final mission" is two-fold: destruction of nation-states, and establishment of a New Age global-socialist New World Order. - Attacks White House for confining power to small 'cabal' with presidential OK, saying it led to bad decision on war - Should Rove, Libby, Cheney and others be indicted in the CIA leak case it will be akin to slipping out the back door. - ... the possible take down of the arch-neocon and disgusting human specimen, Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle. - Prisoners on hunger strike at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reported troops force-fed them with dirty feeding tubes that have been violently inserted and withdrawn as punishment, said declassified notes released Wednesday by defence lawyers. - ...although we don’t hear too much about it, many ordinary Iraqis refuse to believe that the Coalition authorities are holding Saddam Hussein captive in Iraq. - Anti-War grandmothers arrested at Times Square Armed Forces Recruiting Station - If the CIA or military intelligence wants us to believe their fakery, they will need to do a bit more research. - Since September 11, we've all become uncomfortably familiar with names like Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah and maybe even Bagram in Afghanistan. They're all places we now associate with human rights violations or worse - military atrocities and possibly potential war crimes. But after our first story tonight, you can add another placename to that list - Gonbaz in southern Afghanistan, about a 100km from the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. - Microsoft UK National Technology Officer Jerry Fishenden has warned that the UK ID card scheme could trigger "massive identity fraud on a scale beyond anything we have seen before." - Eighty-five percent of prescriptions for Serostim, accounting for roughly $615 million in sales, were unnecessary, said Michael Sullivan, the U.S. attorney in Boston who led a four-year investigation into the marketing of the drug. - While U.S. law allows this Venezuelan man to control the secret counting of Americans’ votes, the U.S. State Department doesn’t consider him fit to enter the country, even temporarily. - Legislation will strip Americans of the right to sue drug companies if harmed by an experimental vaccine
- A groundbreaking study has found THAT silver nanoparticles kills HIV-1 and is likely to kill virtually any other virus. - New Tribes fundamentalist evangelic groups carried out experiments on indigenous in Venezuela that may have caused 80 people to die, Minister of Interior Jesse Chacon revealed on Thursday. The Venezuelan Government denounced that, beneath a religious façade, New Tribes has been spying for the CIA, as well as for General Dynamics and Westinghouse multinational corporations.
- Trial of Saddam diverts attention from US-UK war crimes - "This country is long overdue in recognizing that not only have we lost the war on drugs, but we have squandered billions of dollars and untold numbers of lives..." - We now have a Homeland Defense organization that has ever-reaching powers over the citizenry and a blank check to, if not shackled by law, become our version of the Geheime Staatspolizei-the Gestapo or Secret State Police - In two speeches to overflow crowds in New York last weekend, notable theologian David Ray Griffin argued that recently revealed evidence seals the case that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed by controlled demolition with explosives. Despite the many enduring mysteries of the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Griffin concluded, "It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt, one very important thing: the destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own government."
- "intentional large scale manipulation of the global environment" - ...national security elite, including then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush, viewed the post-Vietnam journalism as a threat to America’s ability to strike at its perceived enemies around the world. - Iran's supreme leader accused the United States Friday of seeking global domination and vowed that his country would not give into demands to abandon its disputed nuclear programme. - Marvin Bush's maid wanted to show him a video of her and President Bush. Moments later she was crushed to death by her own vehicle in Marvin Bush's driveway. - On Wednesday, the US Senate rejected a proposal to raise the national minimum wage from its current level of $5.15 per hour. As a result, it is unlikely that the minimum wage will be raised this year, making 2005 the eighth straight year in which the wage has remained unchanged. - A recent government order mandating that voice over internet protocol services must include the same government-approved wiretapping capabilities as traditional phone companies threatens to cripple peer-to-peer telephone innovation, according to new warnings from civil liberties groups and an internet telephony pioneer. - Fox News Channel's political agenda is coming to a local television station near you. GOP operative and Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, the architect of the right-wing dominance of cable news, is now remaking 35 local television stations -- broadcasting to nearly 40 percent of America’s homes -- in Fox News Channel’s image. Currently, the worst of the ranting radicals like O'Reilly and Hannity are on Fox's cable channel. This would bring them to the airwaves. - Concepts of imperialism and empire are "in flat contradiction to the traditional political self-definition of the U.S.A.," Hobsbawm said, however, "there is no precedent for the global supremacy that the U.S. government is trying to establish." - REPORT: "Loss and Miscount of Votes in Recent Elections"! - Retired Gen. Tommy Franks...has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. - Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales denounced Wednesday that troops at the service of the US seized 28 land-air missiles supplied by China to Bolivia and sent them to the United States. - Loss of trees in the Brazilian rain forest is much worse than had been thought, according to a new study.
- Warming cliff notes! - The head of MI5 has submitted evidence to the House of Lords indicating that her agents are prepared to act on intelligence obtained under torture in the fight against terrorism.
- 40-year-old proven technology lies dormant as lives and livelihoods are wrecked - A quarter of a century ago, conservative Republicans captured the White House. Today, a more extreme incarnation of the GOP’s right wing has a firm grip on the executive branch. None of it would have been possible without a largely deferential press corps. - Once again, we are expected to believe whatever our rulers tell us—even if it makes absolutely no sense and it is obvious only the neocons and Israelis stand to benefit from such carnage. - Iraqi police have found the body of a lawyer for a co-defendant of Saddam Hussein, shot in the head just days after the first trial against the former dictator opened in Baghdad. - ...the "Bird Flu" scam will generate outrageous profits for globalist-insiders like Shultz, Rumsfeld, Davignon, and de Vink. - The early vote totals from Nineveh province, which suggested an overwhelming majority in favour of Iraq's draft constitution that assured its passage by national referendum, now appear to have been highly misleading. - U.S. forces have started fighting Syrians at Iraq's border. Can anybody say "Cambodia"? - Government manipulation of weather for terror and destruction is one pattern your local weatherman is surely not pointing out. So let me help with the forecast, past, present and long-range. - The assumption, clearly, is that America will be a happily car-crazed society forever and that nothing might interfere with that. - Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph. - ...to this day there has not been a single piece of evidence presented to the public that corroborates the official government version of the most devastating attack in our history.
- Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has just launched his own brand-new Web site. - If the Bush administration wants it, they'll just take it. The threat of hurricanes and indictments isn't going to stop these crazy guys. Nor will the Democrats, France, or that fallible United Nations. Nope, nothing is going to step in their way. Even if what they want is war on Iran. - Forty percent of the 3.6 million people living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip can't be sure of getting enough food, either because they can't get to it or because they can't afford it, the UN food agency said Thursday. - Legendary Houston oilman Oscar Wyatt and two others have been accused of paying millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime. - The right-wing, scandal-ridden "charity" that isn’t really a charity
- ...in this latest imagery of Wilma we seem to be seeing the first visible effort to reduce the strength of a potential hurricane; what we cannot see in this data, is the application of additional technology (by an "opposing team"), potentially attempting to enhance this same storm ... Wilma ... and then move it toward a specific "target" in this undeclared "war." - The head of Canada's eavesdropping agency says it needs to own the Internet to combat terrorism. - Pro-corporate conservatives are thinking like drug addicts if they believe that drilling in ANWR will lower fuel prices or save our national parks. The solution is to start weaning ourselves off of our collective addiction to petroleum and support programs that conserve what we have left for our children. - Gag Order Lifted On Canadian Torture Charges Against Bush - ...with Congress restoring nearly all of the PATRIOT Act's sun-setting provisions to their scorching, oppressive noon day glory, the time has come to ask ourselves—has freedom finally fallen to the fatalistic tandem of fear and security? - For Coulter, calling for the destruction of the First Amendment comes easily, as it does for all authoritarians and fascists. - The PayPal user agreement makes clear you’ve signed your privacy away when you become a PayPal user. You’ve also given PayPal the right to determine which of your e-commerce transactions are acceptable or unacceptable, as defined by PayPal. - The Pentagon paid $20 each for plastic ice-cube trays that once cost 85 cents. - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. set forth the goal. Civil rights and union membership were to be intertwined. The labor movement, Dr. King wrote in 1958, "must concentrate its powerful forces on bringing economic emancipation to white and Negro by organizing them together in social equality." - Workers across BC were walking off the job in solidarity with their fellow HEU workers. A general strike was looming on the labor horizon. As the pressure was rising on the government, the HEU leaders reached a suspect backroom deal that effectively stalled a labor showdown with the BC government. - The Iraqi referendum had been played so cleverly that all types of media, although most British papers were more cautious than others, and all political figures could not but call it an expression of democracy. Yet this "democracy" is being used to manipulate Iraqis into accepting the dictates of the American administration. - ...porno torture may be deduced as the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain for interrogative, punitive, or abusive purposes by forcing a person to engage in sexually explicit behavior which is recorded, or staged before a live audience. - The degeneration of the American trade unions has long been a repugnant spectacle with tragic consequences for the working class. But the events of the last week in Detroit have underscored a basic rule of thumb: never underestimate how low the labor bureaucracy can descend in its services to corporate America. - This historic event will be the first statewide convention on secession in the United States since North Carolina voted to secede from the Union on May 20, 1861. - How Chapter 11 Is Demolishing Employee Expectations - ...the GTECH contract was preserved on a no-bid basis by then-chairwoman of the Lottery Commission Miers in order to "keep the lid on" the National Guard controversy involving then-Gov. Bush. - We all knew Condi had arrived as a trickster when she stood calmly in front of the 9-11 Commission and said nobody in national security ever dreamed hijackers might fly planes into buildings.
- Hard information is in short supply - Texas officials paid Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000 - 10 times the land's worth - despite the state's objections to the way the price was determined... - The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications. - The blast not only rocked Lebanese politics. It may now give the Bush administration a new rationale for taking on another Arab adversary.
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