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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
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- US and Iraqi forces have launched a joint offensive along the border with Syria involving about 3500 soldiers, the US military has said. - Consider the poster boy for global terrorism, Henry Kissinger. - ...officials of the Kurdish Democratic Party bused non-resident Kurds to vote in polling stations in various non-Kurdish areas of Nineveh and created a climate of fear and intimidation in the province that reduced the vote against the constitution on the Nineveh plain. - Yesterday, on our computers via Telesur, we had the pleasure of watching President Chavez of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as he spoke at the international summit at Mar del Plata in Argentina. He spoke to the massive, attending crowd and to all of Latin America via the Argentinian satellite. We also watched the impressive transcontinental protests against U.S. economic policies (e.g. FTAA), the U.S. war on the people of Iraq and against the very presence of George Walker Bush on their soil. Of course none of this was shown in it's depth or breadth by the corporate media in the U.S. - The Iranian government has approved plans to offer share options to low-income families... - The Web document alleges that a massive police operation was deliberately designed to exacerbate the conflict with the youth on the estate after initial riots following the deaths of the two teenagers had subsided. - It was the first time in Texas history that the power of eminent domain has been used to assist a private organization like a baseball team. - Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request - When the U.S. military handed over control of the Panama Canal in 1999, it left behind thousands of unexploded weapons strewn across jungle firing ranges that are still killing people. - No, no, says Thair Feely, chairman of the Iraqi Commission for Investment, emphatically denying rumors that a five-star hotel is about to be built in the center of Baghdad. Then, drawing out the words for effect, he adds: "We are building a 7-star hotel!" - ...the agreement included a provision that the government would give the company a 15-day notice “of any audit or investigation at the stores covered” by the agreement. In case this did not give the company adequate time to put on hold any illegal activities, the agreement also gave Wal-Mart a 10-day grace period to address any violations and avoid monetary penalties. - If the multi-millionaire CEOs, who have bled their firms in order to fill their own pockets, and the vulture speculators and asset-strippers move to close plants and destroy the livelihoods of tens of thousands of working people—their companies should be transformed into publicly owned and democratically controlled enterprises. - The event was framed as a "showdown" between Chavez and Bush. Even on this superficial level the corporate media demonstrated its deftness at tip-toeing around what really took place. As Reuters pointed out, the strutting Texan, who exudes confidence and courage behind a phalanx of security guards and concertina wire, "carefully avoided" Chavez while the world waited with baited-breath. "Carefully avoided"!?! - · Scientist says device disproves quantum theory · Opponents claim idea is result of wrong maths - The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful. - Indiscriminate Killing Zone
- ...as the massive anti-Bush reaction in Argentina seems to prove, more and more people are starting to link the US with suffering around the world. - "This is not a war on drugs. It's a war on people." - ...the vast majority of so-called "Muslim terrorism" is a creation of American, British, and Israeli intelligence operations. Osama, dead or alive, is irrelevant to the objectives of these terrorist operations—in fact, he is but one character in a cast of stand-ins, mostly patsies, dupes, crazies, and in the case of al-Zarqawi, almost entirely mythical. - The FBI now issues more than 30,000 national security letters a year, according to government sources, a hundredfold increase over historic norms. The letters -- one of which can be used to sweep up the records of many people -- are extending the bureau's reach as never before into the telephone calls, correspondence and financial lives of ordinary Americans. - Withdrawal while providing the resources to recover and restore order could lead to domestic peace far more readily than withdrawal by itself. - To understand the origins of this profound crisis for France, it is important to step back and remember that the ghettos where festering resentment has now burst into flames were created as a matter of industrial policy by the French state. - The death of Ojeda Ríos, who was cornered in a farmhouse, was a revivifying jolt to an independence movement that had seemed all but dead. - Did you know.... - The US war drill in the Gulf of Oman could take place around February 2006 and there is a possibility that some Nato members may send their warships and troops to join. - After three years at Guantanamo, Afghan writers found to be no threat to United States - I told you so.... - During five hours of intense and heated negotiations, President Hugo Chavez says, he and four other Latin American leaders rejected the U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Agreement of the America’s and, according to this article from Argentina’s Clarin newspaper, delivered a stinging defeat to George W. Bush, sending him scurrying out of the country. - Citing scientific research which it had commissioned, it said an estimated two kilogrammes of cocaine, or 80,000 lines, spill into the river every day after it has passed through users' bodies and sewage treatment plants. - Another fact about AOL that belies its true function is the composition of its Board of Directors. Here you will find such high-level military/intelligence assets as General Colin Powell and General Alexander Haig. - Caging up the Palestinians in the occupied territories is not a temporary but a permanent Israeli policy, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank. - An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary. - Mazzawi was filming a demonstration at the Israeli-built separation barrier when he was beaten by Israeli soldiers and subsequently detained for several hours. - In Bushzarro world, neoliberal schemes to steal natural resources and reduce millions of people to slaves are portrayed as “good for jobs” (or jobs that pay 60 cents an hour or less) and “quality of life” (so long as the slaves don’t mind eking out a radically diminished existence in sprawling, crime-wracked barrios, spending half of their income on clean drinking water).
- What is happening in France has all the signs of yet another possible neo-con "false flag" operation in the same category as the Niger fraudulent uranium documents, the provocative actions of Israeli agents in New Jersey who were dressed up as Arabs during the morning of 9-11, unexplained Spanish and British government activities surrounding the train bombings in Madrid and London, and recent deadly bombings in Delhi during Hindu and Muslim holidays attributed to a previously unknown Kashmiri group…. - The number of people in US prisons and jails rose again last year to 2,267,787 people, continuing a trend of increasing incarceration rates that has gone on unabated for more than two decades. - Returning from a self-imposed European exile due to FBI harassment, the outspoken American multi-millionaire again wants to 'turn up the heat' on the 9/11 truth movement. - That whirring sound you hear are the spinmeisters of the Bush administration trying to prettify the outcome of the Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas into something suitable for U.S. public consumption. - Chan...was arrested in January for uploading three Hollywood movies - Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality - onto the internet without a licence. - Global greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 52% by 2030, unless the world takes action to reduce energy consumption, a study has warned. - The players and politicians who are so desperately distancing themselves from Abramoff would prefer that we think of him as some small-time hustler, a fringe sleazeball who crawled out of the shadows. He wasn't. He was a big-league hustler and a mainstream sleazeball. And he was all theirs. - Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann, the Nobel Prize winners who see war as a game - Tamiflu, Vistide and the Pentagon Agenda - Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us. - Iran has found the wreckage of two U.S. unmanned spy planes on its territory in recent months, Tehran said on Monday, accusing Washington of violating its sovereignty through illegal overflights.
- ...8. Thou shalt not steal unless you let the European corporations have a little too...9. Thou shalt not bear false witness unless it helps you start a war... - ...average pay for an hour's work has less purchasing power than it had four years ago .. - Congressional leaders say it's time to get serious about the deficit, so they cut $36-billion in spending on the country's working poor. And then they give the wealthy $70-billion more in tax breaks. - The declines show an acceleration of a years-long trend of falling circulation at daily newspapers as more people, especially young adults, turn to the Internet for news and as newspapers cut back on less profitable circulation. - The bodies are arriving at the mortuary in Baghdad in such large numbers that the orderlies have run out of places to store them properly. - Grokster Ltd., which lost a Supreme Court fight over file-sharing software used for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down and pay $50 million to settle piracy complaints by Hollywood and the music industry. - These aren't "riots". This is social rebellion, directed at decades of French imperial rule, and ultra-capitalist and racist policymaking at home. - Senior Wal-Mart executives knew cleaning contractors were hiring illegal immigrants, many who were housed in crowded conditions, and sometimes slept in the backs of stores, according to a federal agency's affidavit.
- Avian Flu: Precedent for Martial Law and Globalist money spinner rolled into one. - ...in the not too distant future (after taking our DNA samples in lieu of fingerprints at the local grocery store check-out lane), cops may be armed with VeriChip injectors along with their 9mms, Tasers, and Mace and will microchip "any person who has been detained … even if the person is not arrested or convicted." - ... the point here is not to capture territory outright but rather to pitch the Muslim Middle East into chaos, thus eventually balkanizing the entire area and making it more amenable to rule along ethnic and tribal lines and thus easier pickings for carpetbagging and loan sharking neolibs. - Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and his aides severed all contact with the court trying the former Iraqi president on Wednesday after the second murder of a member of the defence team since the trial began last month. - The liberals' ridiculous defense of Bill Clinton - Under the US "consequence management" system, there is a maximum payout of $2,500 per claim. A dead wife and a dead son are equivalent to two claims; meaning Hassan is in line to receive a total of $5,000 in cash. - Never before revealed passport of Pentagon victim called by critics "another piece of bogus evidence" planted by the FBI like the passport, hijacker luggage and other suspicious evidence quickly linking the 19 Arab hijackers to 9/11. - The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election. - The computerized files include intimate personal details on members of Congress; high-ranking local, state and federal officials; prominent media figures and ordinary citizens who may, at one time or another, have spoken out against the President or Administration. - The reporting of the Iraqi death toll - both in its scale and account of who is doing the killing - is profoundly dishonest. - ...the drug industry is paying the people who do the tests -- and most of the people who regulate those tests. And that combination can be dangerous, and sometimes deadly. - The American people should be plenty worried when a federal agency has the power to secretly creep about in the electronic lives of ordinary citizens without warrants or even reasonable suspicion they broke a law. It’s because of the anti-liberty USA Patriot Act, and even people who have nothing to hide should fear the Patriot Act’s tentacles. - 15 Questions - Twelve percent of recruits in October had lowest acceptable scores - Bush rewarded one of his loyalists with the ambassadorship to Italy -- despite his past as the founder of an cult-like teen rehab clinic. - There is a huge US military operation once again targeting the Al-Qa’im area of Iraq, this one named "Steel Curtain." - Abu Ali is charged with plotting to bring al Qaeda members into the U.S. by means of Mexico, to commit aircraft piracy, and to kill President Bush through the use of suicide bombers and snipers. Abu Ali faces possible life imprisonment on these very serious charges. But whether there ever was such a conspiracy is doubtful. - Over the past year, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing more restrictive rules on the handling of terrorist suspects, according to defense, state, intelligence and congressional officials.
- IBM has been the Globalist ID Technological arm for many many years dating back to it's shameful involvement in branding jewish prisoners in the Nazi Death Camps. - A number of Israelis staying yesterday at the Radisson SAS were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel. - About 10 vials of virus were created, each containing about 10 million infectious virus particles. - Once again, the usual suspects are to blame for the bombings.
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