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  • CNN poll: Support for US-Liquidator in Chief?
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CNN poll: Support for US-Liquidator in Chief?
    The US-Sell-Out just started. Grab your stake.
    Deals only in EURO, Swiss Francs and Gold. No USD!!!
    Do you believe that Congress should limit ownership and operation of America’s strategic infrastructure assets to the U.S. government and U.S. companies?
    http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

  • Diebold AccuVote touch-screen voting machine: No voters required.
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why do Diebold’s Touch-Screen Voting Machines Have Built-In Wireless Infrared Data Transfer Ports?
    IrDA Protocol Can ’Totally Compromise System’ Without Detection, Warns Federal Voting Standards Website
    So far, no state or federal authority — to our knowledge — has dealt with this alarming security threat
    We hate to pile on... (Or do we?)
    But, really, with all the recent discussion of California Sec. of State Bruce McPherson’s mind-blowing about-face re-certification of Diebold — (…)

  • The case for closing Guantanamo is overwhelming
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    More than four years after the American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay opened, the range of voices calling for it to close is widening. Overseas, it runs from the Democrat former US President Jimmy Carter, through UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the conservative Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Here, advocates of closure now include the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith, the Northern Ireland (…)

  • Bush’s ’fine’ economy sees millions go hungry WALL STREET David Nason
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BUSINESS Bush’s ’fine’ economy sees millions go hungry WALL STREET David Nason February 27, 2006 GEORGE W. Bush went to Milwaukee last week to talk more about America’s addiction to oil. But before turning to his latest obsession, the President gave a precis of the US economy.
    Bush declared the economy "strong and gaining steam" and rattled off the positives — a healthy 3.5 per cent growth rate; unemployment down to 4.7 per cent; more than 4 million new jobs created in the past 30 (…)

  • Urgent warning of imminent cataclysm in Northwest United States
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Urgent warning of imminent cataclysm in Northwest United States Posted on February 20, 2006 Email To Friend Print Version
    Urgent warning of imminent cataclysm in Northwest United States
    While Americans are kept distracted with manufactured news of an impending attack on Iran because of supposed nuclear violations and trivia about Dick Cheney shooting a hunting companion, a dedicated campaign of electronic scalar tectonic warfare is ongoing that will soon bring America to the brink (…)

  • Archbishop of York attacks Blair
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Archbishop of York attacks Blair
    UPI | February 25 2006
    LONDON: John Sentamu, the Ugandan-born Archbishop of York, says British Prime Minister Tony Blair endorses "Idi Amin-style" practices by the United States.
    Sentamu believes Blair should have taken a stronger stand against the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo, the Times of London reported. The prime minister called it an "anomaly."
    "By declaring ’war on terror’ President Bush is perversely applying the rules of engagement that (…)

  • Why’s a Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel on the "No-Fly" List?
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The federal officials who are busy assuring Americans that they’ve got their act together when it comes to managing port security are not inspiring much confidence with their approach to airline security.
    When Dr. Robert Johnson, a heart surgeon who did his active duty with the U.S. Army Reserve before being honorably discharged with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, arrived at the Syracuse airport near his home in upstate New York last month for a flight to Florida, he was told he could not (…)

  • Before Bush, no leader modern history, not even Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, has publicly demanded the right to torture
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ON BEING "GOOD AMERICANS" IN A TIME OF TORTURE by Fred Branfman February 25, 2006
    "Gestapo interrogation methods included: repeated near drownings of a prisoner in a bathtub." "The CIA officers say 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lasted the longest under waterboarding, two and a half minutes, before beginning to talk, with debatable results." - Brian (…)

  • The 1975 World Trade Center Fire
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The February 13, 1975 North Tower Fire has been carefully hidden from you. Here are a few reports concerning it.
    This 110-story steel-framed office building suffered a fire on the 11th floor on February 13, 1975. The loss was estimated at over $2,000,000. The building is one of a pair of towers, 412 m in height. The fire started at approximately 11:45 P.M. in a furnished office on the 11th floor and spread through the corridors toward the main open office area. A porter saw flames under (…)

  • The Sanitized Horrors of Guantánamo Bay The U.S. has adopted the practice of force-feeding detainees
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Keith Barratt ("Welshman") 25 February 2006
    The United States and Iran share an expression of public opinion, one that still causes considerable distress to the majority of British:
    [In 1997] the people of Hartford, Connecticut, dedicated a monument to Bobby Sands and the other Irish Republican Army hunger strikers.... The monument stands in a traffic circle known as “Bobby Sands Circle,” at the bottom of Maple Avenue near Goodwin Park. The Iranian government named a street in Tehran (…)