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Archive for the Month of May, 2005.
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May 22, 2005

Are American CEO's Overpaid? - Business Week reported that Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney earned $565 million in 1998 and nearly $1 billion over the past ten years. On its website, the UAW lists the compensation of the largest corporations in America in an effort to expose the glaring disparities between the haves and the have nots.
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Spy vs. Spy - Proposed legislation would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, forcing all Americans to become foot soldiers in the war on drugs.
(1465 views)

Gorgeous George - An Open Letter to U.S. Democratic Elected Officials - All Galloway had to do was tell the unvarnished truth, and it had exactly the same effect. If Democrats had half the spine that Galloway does… if you would stop chasing your creepy little careers through the caviar and chicken-salad circuits of duck-and-cover American political double-speak, then not only would people like me not be calling for all to abandon the Democratic Party and take their fight to the streets like good Bolivians... not only that, but you’d have won the last election.
(1857 views)


May 23, 2005

Google omits controversial news stories in China - The internet's most popular search engine Google has been accused of supporting Chinese internet controls by omitting contentious news stories from search results in China. This has been going on for at least 1 year for China. Is this what happens in the USA too?
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Yes, ad-savvy Google scans your Gmail - No e-mail is really private. There is no assurance that a message will reach only its intended target. With dozens of servers and satellites, people can read your messages if they expend the effort. Google is reading peoples' e-mails to target specific advertisements to them.
(2045 views)

New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action - Probe Finds 'Rendition' Of Terror Suspects Illegal.
(1890 views)

White House wants FBI to be able to track mail-NYT - A Bush administration proposal would grant the FBI broad authority to track the mail of people in terrorism investigations, The New York Times reported in its Saturday editions.
(1341 views)

Protesters Mob Laura Bush in Jerusalem - Laura Bush was mobbed by angry Palestinians on a trip to Israel. One man yelled "How dare you come in here! Why your husband kill Muslim?". As she left, visitors and media grew so aggressive that Israeli police locked arms to form a human chain and pushed by Israeli media and protesters who got to close. U.S. Secret Service agents packed tightly around her.
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Porn Star Who Ran For Gov. Arrested At Strip Club - Pornographic film star Mary Carey, who ran for California governor in a recall election in 2003, and who is attending a Bush dinner, has been arrested in a raid on a new strip club in the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood, Washington.
(1751 views)

Landless farmers triumphant - Brazilian landless farmers are heading home battle-scarred but victorious after their epic 238km journey to the capital and an audience with the president in their bid for agrarian reform.
(1503 views)

Network Viewers Still in the Dark on "Smoking Gun Memo" while Print media continue to downplay story - Following FAIR's call for more mainstream coverage of the "smoking gun memo"—the secret British document containing new evidence that the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to justify its plan to invade Iraq—a steady trickle of news reports have appeared. But that coverage has been downplayed in general and is still completely absent from the nightly news.
(1425 views)

Afp Talks To Man Behind Sept. 11 Rico Suit - "Either our government made 9-11 happen or let it happen. I am going after them for foreknowledge, failure to warn and actively covering up the crimes they committed."
(1952 views)

Chavez says Venezuela interested in nuclear energy - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his government was interested in nuclear energy and could start talks with Iranian partners to study possible atomic and solar power projects.
(1406 views)

Homeland Security Weighs Plane Shootdowns - The Homeland Security Department is considering whether it should seek authority for its pilots to shoot down errant planes around the nation's capital like the one that came within three miles of the White House this month.
(1918 views)

U.S. covering up mad cow cases, scientist says - A scientist and former inspector for the U.S. Agriculture Department says he's willing to take a lie detector test to back his claim that his government is covering up mad cow disease in U.S. cattle.
(1841 views)


May 25, 2005

Map Reveals Wind Power Potential - Wind power could generate enough electricity to support the world's energy needs several times over, according to a new map of global wind speeds that scientists say is the first of its kind.
(4165 views)

Putting on the Brakes - Local grocery workers union leads the fight to block Wal-Mart's efforts to infiltrate inner suburbs. The growing belief that Wal-Mart's highly touted efficiency is depressing wages throughout the economy, have snowballed into an image problem that is making it increasingly hard for Wal-Mart to build stores in the Washington region.
(2109 views)

Great Lies of the American free press - The hands of America's corporate-controlled news media are now dripping with the blood of those sacrificed in a war promoted and exploited for ratings and profit. May this blood that has been shed for their greed never wash clean, lest we forget how easily corruption, avarice and deceit can usurp democracy, blacken the hearts of humanity, and destroy the soul of a nation.
(2120 views)

TV may turn four-year-olds into bullies - Young children who watch a lot of television are more likely to become bullies, a new study reveals. The authors suggest the increasingly violent nature of children’s cartoons may be to blame.
(1997 views)

Who Really Stole Billions In The Iraq Oil For Food Scandal? - So, who really stole the billions of US dollars in the Iraq Oil For Food Program? This is the real question. Why is this case even before a Senate committee and NOT in a court of law? And what the heck is a British PM doing in the USA appearing in front of a US government committee being accused of some crime perpetrated in Iraq? Isn't that a first where a foreigner accused of a crime is flown into the U.S.A. to appear in front of a US government committee instead of in a court of law?
(1898 views)

Libya lobbyist holds seat on top U.S. Energy board - Although the United States still classifies Libya as a terrorism sponsor, the U.S. lobbyist for Muammar Gaddafi has for the past year quietly held a seat on the Energy Department's top advisory board, and the former energy secretary who appointed her now serves on the board of a major U.S. oil company seeking contracts in Libya.
(2385 views)

"Everybody heard him cry out and thought it was funny." - In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths. Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him.
(1739 views)

Syria ends co-operation with US - Syria says it has stopped military and intelligence co-operation with the US.
(1514 views)

Syria 'a step away' from facing US military action - The US economic sanctions on Syria are a step away from US military action on the middle eastern country, a US congressman said here during a conference on reform in the Arab world. "Sanctions are one step below a military confrontation, and sanctions are preferable to military confrontation, frankly," said US Rep. Christopher Shays, a Republican from Connecticut.
(1549 views)

Yet another instance of an American 'terrorist act' in Iraq ... ? - An American soldier puts a time bomb in the back of the truck of a farmer headed into Baghdad to blame bomb attacks on the resistance.
(1460 views)


May 26, 2005

At least 8,000 treasures looted from Iraq museum still untraced - Half of the 40 iconic items from the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad still had not been retrieved. And of at least 15,000 items looted from its storerooms, about 8,000 have yet to be traced.
(1898 views)

Afghans left out of their own rebuilding - After years of depending on the international community for help, Afghans are frustrated that they are not more involved in the rebuilding of their own country.
(2162 views)

Millions of Zimbabwe's Poor Face Eviction - The government threatened Tuesday to demolish squatter shacks in what it called an urban beautification campaign after the arrests of about 10,000 street traders in the capital, a stronghold of the opposition. The opposition accused the ruling ZANU-PF party of trying to provoke confrontations so it can declare a state of emergency before the tattered state of the economy leads to riots.
(1510 views)

Workers at Coke Bottling Plants Strike - More than 2,000 workers at plants in California and Connecticut that bottle Coca-Cola soft drinks went on strike Monday, just before the start of the summer season.
(1983 views)

Ten Deadly Enemies of Humanity in America - Regardless as to whether or not Americans as a whole perceive it, we may single out the ten deadly enemies of the American people and of all people of all nations as a matter of fact. These are ten American largest corporations whose product is virtually lethal. They put in danger not only the people who work for such industries but also those who are directly or indirectly affected by their deadly products.
(2514 views)


May 27, 2005

Selective U.S. Prosecutions in Torture Scandal Underscore International Obligation to Investigate U.S. Officials - Amnesty International called on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating U.S. officials implicated in the development or implementation of interrogation techniques that constitute torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The individuals, who, to date, have either dodged investigation or escaped sanction, include those at the highest levels of government, such as President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, as well as Attorney General Gonzales and former CIA Director George Tenet. Amnesty International establishes that more than 125 countries have legislation permitting investigation of serious crimes committed outside their borders.
(1870 views)

Missile & remote control systems added to small jets before 9-11; same parts found at Pentagon - Two civilian defense contractor employees--told to remain silent--say other workers quietly retro-fitted missile and remote control systems onto A-3 jets at Colorado public airport prior to September 11 when similar A-3 parts much smaller than a Boeing 757 were found at Pentagon.
(8196 views)


May 28, 2005

The 2005 Trilateral Commission Membership List - Among the Members are representatives from Big Banks and Investment Firms, Big Media, and Large Corporations. Madeleine K. Albright, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry A. Kissinger, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle are also members.
(4999 views)

Economic Crash: Planned? - Here’s my guess and magic wand: I believe the crisis is likely going to be the permanent economic crash of America. The big players in the American stock markets pulled out about 2 years ago. When the markets crash, and our nation is completely bankrupt and beholding to foreign creditors, our money will fall to nothing. We will lose mortgaged homes in the multi-millions, and all civil liberties will be suspended. Martial law will rule the day until we, the people, accept global governance, which will be ushered in - no ifs, ands, or buts - with the final crash of the United States.
(3016 views)

Defense Department Personnel Impersonated State Department Officials in Guantánamo Interrogations, FBI Documents Show - Documents released by the FBI state that Defense Department personnel impersonated State Department officials in interrogations at Guantánamo Bay, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.
(1659 views)

Doctors alert for a possible cholera outbreak in summer season - Health experts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, warned of a possible cholera outbreak this summer, saying they have seen an increase in cases so far this year and called for urgent action to prevent it from spreading.
(1494 views)


May 29, 2005

Leg-irons for the press corps - The Lancet says that 100,000 Iraqis have been killed by the American invasion of Iraq. In view of this, which has been mainly ignored by the American media, we can say without hesitation that the war in Iraq is the greatest terrorist act of the new century. How can the CEO's of ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and the New York Times defend the fabrications, deceptions and outright lies that played out day by day on the front pages of America's newspapers and paved the way for the killing fields of Iraq.
(1834 views)

Military waste under fire $1 trillion missing -- Bush plan targets Pentagon accounting - The Department of Defense, already infamous for spending $640 for a toilet seat, once again finds itself under intense scrutiny, only this time because it couldn’t account for more than a trillion dollars in financial transactions, not to mention dozens of tanks, missiles and planes.
(1357 views)

Fake Left Anti-War Groups Out Themselves - US anti-war have called for protests Sept 24-26. Huh? Why September? Bush lied, it’s all come out, they stole $9 billion and didn’t investigate, they spread radioactive waste across Iraq, and they PLANNED THE WAR IN 2002 !!! This equates to pre-meditated murder on a mass scale. Where is the logic in waiting 4 months for a protest?
(1364 views)

The world in the palm of their hands: Bilderberg 2005 - Here are some of the issues discussed at the Bilderberg group's secret annual meeting for the world's most powerful financiers, industrialists, and political figures. They rule the world and they plan on how to continue ruling the world.
(2181 views)

Forced Labour - Ever since the beginning of human civilisation, forced labour has been in existence
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White House Wants Search Limits Overturned - The Bush administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to restore its ability to compel Internet service providers to turn over information about their customers or subscribers as part of its fight against terrorism.
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Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded - Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said.
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RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war - THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.
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"Dogs of the Americans" - The Iraqi security forces already have an extremely bad name throughout much of Baghdad. I've had three Iraqi doctors tell me, in different hospitals at different times, that they call the Iraqi National Guard the "dogs of the Americans."
(1276 views)

Rags to Rags, Riches to Riches - The American Dream is More Liveable in the Old World - "..the social class into which you are born matters a lot when it comes to where you stand on the American socioeconomic ladder. It matters more in the United States, the supposed land of upward mobility, than it does in Europe. The American Dream of "rags to riches" is less livable in America than it is in the aristocratic Old World that America rejected when its founding document proclaimed that "All Men Are Created Equal."
(2534 views)

Consultants pocket $20bn of global aid - Consultants are creaming off a staggering $20 billion from hard-won global aid budgets. The $20bn total is 40 per cent of the international communities' overseas development pot of $50bn - money that is meant to relieve poverty in developing countries.
(3458 views)

Good Enough for Government Work - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is doing its part to keep criminals off the streets -- by hiring them.
(1649 views)

Venezuela rallies over Cuba exile - Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have rallied in the capital Caracas to demand the US extradites a Cuban exile accused of bombing an airliner in 1976. "Bush is protecting a terrorist while he is supposedly fighting against terrorism - that's hypocrisy,".
(1446 views)

Shacks of Poor Razed in Zimbabwe - Regime forces capital residents to level their own homes. Some call it postelection retaliation.
(1594 views)

Forcing Iran into a Nuclear Corner - Why Are Nukes OK for You, But Not for Us?
(1386 views)

Iraq becomes Vietnam as America destroys entire villages. Iraqi Village Scarred After U.S. Offensive. - The imperial forces of the US regime are destroying Iraqi villages, just as they did in Vietnam, because the "the enemy" are in fact ordinary Iraqi people who oppose the illegal foreign occupation.
(1419 views)

French Voters Reject First EU Constitution - French voters rejected the European Union's first constitution Sunday, a stinging repudiation of President Jacques Chirac's leadership and the ambitious, decades-long effort to further unite the continent
(1471 views)


May 30, 2005

US Foreign Aid Greatly Exaggerated, Says New Study - The world's richest nations greatly exaggerate their aid to poor countries – with the US, the worst offender, giving only 0.02% of its income in real assistance, says a study released today by ActionAid International.
(1442 views)

Experts: Petroleum May Be Nearing a Peak - Could the petroleum joyride - cheap, abundant oil that has sent the global economy whizzing along with the pedal to the metal and the AC blasting for decades - be coming to an end?
(2622 views)

On Way to Baghdad Airport, Death Stalks Main Road - Iraqis call it Death Street. To American soldiers, it is "I.E.D. Alley," after the improvised explosive devices - bombs - that are lethally common on the 10 miles of expressway and city streets that make up Baghdad's airport road.
(2367 views)

Documented proof of Stazi-like recruitment - "...it is documented proof of government involvement in active recruitment of what I call "snitches in uniform". I certainly don't need to remind you guys that these are practices not unlike the former German Stazi who turned many citizens into snitches and "surveillance staff".
(1339 views)

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) Calls For Military Draft - Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) has reintroduced legislation to reinstate the military draft.
(1591 views)

Chávez leads the way: In using oil wealth to help the poor, Venezuela's leader is an example to Latin America - Something amazing has been taking place in Latin America in recent years that deserves wider attention than the continent has been accustomed to attract. The chrysalis of the Venezuelan revolution led by Chávez, often attacked and derided as the incoherent vision of an authoritarian leader, has finally emerged as a resplendent butterfly whose image and example will radiate for decades to come.
(1233 views)

Facing Chaos, Iraqi Doctors Are Quitting - In the past year, about 10 percent of Baghdad's total force of 32,000 registered doctors - Sunnis, Shiites and Christians - have left or been driven from work, according to the Iraqi Medical Association, which licenses practitioners. A vast majority of those fleeing, he said, are the most senior doctors.
(1207 views)

True Believers at the World Bank: Rigid ideology is a threat, not an asset. - A quarter of a century of day-in, day-out asset stripping sponsored by the IMF and the World Bank left millions of poor people poorer. Meanwhile, the unregulated capital flows — another tenet of the Washington Consensus — led to speculative booms and currency crashes that pushed hundreds of millions of people down into dollar-a-day poverty.
(1892 views)

From Cakewalk to Bloodbath: Bush Opts for Civil War in Iraq - Neocon court historians of empire, such as Niall Ferguson, claim that the US cannot withdraw from Iraq because the result would be a civil war and bloodbath. However, a bloodbath is what has been going on since the ill-fated "cakewalk" invasion.
(1494 views)

Iraqi Journalists Complain of Censorship - Iraqi journalists say they are being censored by the US-led Coalition forces and the Iraqi government because of the topics covered by them in newspapers and on television.
(1299 views)


May 31, 2005

Basra out of control, says chief of police - Families can still stroll but militia gangs hold power in port city. General Hassan al-Sade said half of his 13,750-strong force was secretly working for political parties in Iraq's second city and that some officers were involved in ambushes.
(1446 views)

Kenya to US: Keep your cash, we’ll keep our dignity - (US bribe for ICC immunity) - Officials in the Kenyan government reacted harshly today to the news that the US will suspend military aid until Nairobi decides to sign the bilateral agreement guaranteeing immunity for US citizens - civilian and military - before the International Criminal Court (ICC), in case they are charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide.
(1346 views)

US officials may face Caracas ban - Venezuela is threatening to refuse entry to US officials in response to the decision to bar Venezuela's top judge from entering the United States.
(1542 views)

Bolivians stage huge gas protest - Thousands of protesters have converged on the Bolivian capital La Paz for an angry demonstration over ownership of the country's gas reserves.
(1828 views)

Your Pipelineistan Tour Guide - Devil went down to Georgia just to Ogle his Stream of Gold; Patriot threw a hand grenade but the Damned thing didn’t explode.
(2609 views)

Bye The Times - The Media exists for the purposes of the corporate and government elites. These purposes include preventing ordinary Americans from having any say in their own government. The Media survives as a business only because ordinary Americans give them their money. We are the base of the pyramid, holding it all up.
(2389 views)

C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights - When the Central Intelligence Agency wants to grab a suspected member of Al Qaeda overseas and deliver him to interrogators in another country, an Aero Contractors plane often does the job. If agency experts need to fly overseas in a hurry after the capture of a prized prisoner, a plane will depart Johnston County and stop at Dulles Airport outside Washington to pick up the C.I.A. team on the way.
(1965 views)

Cotton farming is a dangerous job in Uzbekistan - For Buribek, like for many Uzbek farmers, growing cotton is a dangerous affair.
(1680 views)

Recruiting of Salvadoran Mercenaries for Iraq Denounced - Social organizations in El Salvador have denounced that hundreds of Salvadorans are recruited by security agencies to work as mercenaries in Iraq under the veil of private security forces.
(1467 views)

LA Law Enforcement Wants "Registration" Of Political Dissidents - Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca is trying to push the California State Legislature to adopt a law that would require the registration and publication of the names political dissidents, in a manner similar to that of criminal sex offenders.
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Transforming the military to protect the plutocrats - The United States Military is a fully owned subsidiary of the corporate and financial establishment. It plays no role in defending the American people. The function of today's military is to seize the world's dwindling resources through force of arms and provide a taxpayer-funded security apparatus for multi-nationals and energy giants.
(1291 views)

You May be Brainwashed by Corporate Media if You: - ... believe the 5 corporations who own almost all of the media in the U.S. are liberal.
(1916 views)


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