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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
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- Mahfuz Abu al Nasr, a Palestinian farmer from the West Bank village of Salem, was grieving yesterday over the wreckage of his livelihood. Jewish settlers had come in the night and destroyed 30 olive trees he planted a decade ago, in revenge for the deaths of three young Israelis in a drive-by shooting last Sunday. - The FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents for as long as 18 months at a time without proper paperwork or oversight... - The Palestine Hotel, which houses many foreign journalists in Iraq, has been hit in a rocket-and-car bomb attack, killing at least 11 people and causing considerable damage to the hotel, Iraqi police and journalists say. - Wal-Mart's Walton family now has 771,287 times more money than the median U.S. household. What gives? - The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted. - ...Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged person in the history of the United States, at least according to her ACLU lawyers. If gag orders were nickels, she'd be rich. - ...Wal-Mart made a $5,000 contribution to support Tom Delay’s corruption 2 days after his indictment. - Raw capitalism’s solution to our present situation is being enacted in front of us: grab everything you can before it’s gone. If it doesn’t result in the physical destruction of our planet, it’s going to be the end of the middle class, and of anything worthy of being called civilization. - The Militarization of "Civil Society" Relief Organizations - The American government is hiring private security firms to stabilise Iraq — and paying them a fortune to do it. But many of them are unregulated and operate outside the law. - Be warned: your daily beauty regime could be taking years off your life. - Nation's openness sinking after Sept. 11, northern Europe tops the list - In the United States, the land of the seersucker suit, or milk and honey,... you are now free to earn less money, get poorer, work longer hours and die younger. - The number of incarcerated women has been growing ... due in large part to sentencing policies in the war in drugs... - Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 41 Seconds - A Bahraini detainee held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba revealed more sexual abuses by the American soldiers there and confirmed Qur’an desecration. - Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of Halliburton might well lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French court on charges of bribery, money-laundering and misuse of corporate assets.
- Chanting anti-U.S. slogans, tens of thousands of Syrians protested on Monday against a U.N. inquiry they say unfairly blames Damascus for the killing of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. - Scottish police are to launch an investigation into CIA “torture flights” which fly in and out of Glasgow and Prestwick airports, ferrying kidnapped war on terror suspects around the world. - Iraq is not Vietnam. But the United States is the United States. War after war, decade after decade, the U.S. news media have continued to serve those in Washington who strive to set the national agenda for war and lay down flagstones on the path to military intervention. - According to the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College in London, there are more people behind bars in the United States than in any other country. - Ritter says Neo-Cons are embattled, surrounded, could resort to desperate measures to further global domination - US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains. - A hunger striking detainee at Guantanamo Bay wants a judge to order the removal of his feeding tube so he can be allowed to die, one of his lawyers has said. - The news from Syria shows that the neoconservative plan for the Middle East is still in play. - It was the second time the 19-storey Palestine has come under attack leading to deaths. As US forces were first moving into Baghdad, an American Abrams tank shelled the hotel, killing and injuring a number of journalists. - At least 21 detainees who died while in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were the victims of homicide and usually died during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defence Department data. - In President Bush's first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
- One Person Makes a Difference... - ...Aristide is not the issue; Canada's role as a junior partner to U.S. imperialism is the issue. - Now I know they are the minor leagues compared to the GOP, but they are both pigs at the trough of American corruption. It has never ceased to amaze me that we can have 31 flavors of ice cream in this country but only two coherent political philosophies. Everyone who fights for progressive causes knows the 2004 and 2000 elections were stolen. Similarly, we know that we are heading for another theft in 2006, and then 2008.
- All US passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced. - House Legislation to Renew USA Patriot Act Would Loosen Some Provisions for Execution - Thanks to history textbooks, Hollywood, television and politicians (Democrat and Republican), the US people are kept in ignorance of their imperial past. Each intervention is presented as an altruistic response to a crisis. - The neocon policies will persevere. - Bush and Blair say things are improving. It's not true: they're getting worse by the day. - Since Rumsfeld holds major portions of stock in Gilead, he will handsomely profit from the scare tactics of the government that is being used to justify the purchase of $2 billion of Tamiflu. - Washington has six times as many pharma-industry lobbyists as it does US senators. - Most Americans do not accept the theory of evolution. - Dozens of active and former soldiers have abused their military uniforms and authority in a drug smuggling ring, government sources tell ABC News. - This plan is much further developed than the most of the disgusting American media is prepared to reveal. In what has already been compared to Kissinger's illegal war in Cambodia, the Americans are now using the ruse of pursuit of insurgents to begin to fight an actual war on Syrian territory... - Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was. - As important as the Supreme Court, a cornerstone of the bourgeois state, is for the US ruling elite, the Federal Reserve Board is regarded with even more deference within the upper echelons of the corporate and financial establishment. - In many places a bullet is the cheapest and most effective form of censorship. It removes permanently the pesky reporter and intimidates his or her colleagues into silence or flight. - In a serious attack on democratic rights, the US government has greatly increased the scope of legislation introduced in 1994, regarding the electronic monitoring of telecommunications providers. - The UN "report" on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese PM, bears all the hallmarks of yet another set-up, no doubt "inspired" by US pressure as part of the build-up to yet another Middle Eastern "adventure". - Iran's hard-line president called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks will destroy the Jewish state, state-run media reported Wednesday. - Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., BP PLC, ConocoPhillips Co., and Royal Dutch Shell PLC are expected to report a $9 billion, or 46 percent, increase in their combined third-quarter profits, according to analysts’ estimates... - Shocking images from Afghanistan have again exposed the racist barbarism of the U.S. "war on terror." - One wonders how curbing the freedom of every man, woman and child in this country better prepares us for the next catastrophe.
- The Lebanese air base is reportedly to be used as a transit and logistics hub for U.S. forces in Iraq and as a rest and relaxation location for U.S. troops in the region. In addition, the Lebanese base will be used to protect U.S. oil pipelines in the region (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Mosul/Kirkuk-Ceyhan) as well as to destabilize the Assad government in Syria. - U.S. human rights groups have denounced before the U.N. Human Rights Committee that there are perhaps dozens of secret detention centres around the world where Washington is holding an unknown number of prisoners as part of its "war on terror". - ...the new boss of CBS News, Sean McManus, donated $250 to the Bush-Cheney re-election bid in 2004, while shunning John Kerry.
- America Online Inc. hired Mary Cheney, the 36-year-old daughter of Vice President Cheney, to offer advice on building up Web site businesses, a company spokesman said yesterday. - It was one of the biggest of the American pre-war blunders. Iraq, documents showed, had tried to buy uranium from Niger. The papers, though, soon proved to be false. But who forged them? - In a memo that was distributed Tuesday to workers at Ford's Michigan Truck plant in Wayne, plant managers said too many of the factory's 3,500 hourly workers are spending more than the 48 minutes allotted per shift to use the bathroom. - "Hurricane Katrina [may] prove to be the biggest, most brutal urban-renewal project Black America has ever seen."
- Why am I so sceptical? With all the dissemination of misinformation, forged documents and downright lies that preceded Iraq's invasion and the fact that Syria has long featured large on the neocons' "must do" list, anyone who isn't must be deluded. - AOL has been since its inception an operating entity of the US intelligence apparatus. - The teenager was standing on the side of the road holding a sign that said “F*ck Bush”. - Exxon Mobil Corp. had a quarter for the record books. The world's largest publicly traded oil company said Thursday high oil and natural-gas prices helped its third-quarter profit surge almost 75 percent to $9.92 billion, the largest quarterly profit for a U.S. company ever, and it was the first to ring up more than $100 billion in quarterly sales - ConocoPhillips, the No. 3 U.S. oil company, said third-quarter profit jumped 89 percent to a record $3.8 billion as supply disruptions and rising demand lifted prices to unprecedented highs. - Oil giant BP reported a sharp rise in its underlying third-quarter profit on Tuesday, in line with forecasts and due to high oil prices and strong refining margins... - Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell reported a 68-percent surge in third-quarter net profit, owing to record energy prices and asset disposals...
- The acquiescence of the UN to US bullying and the dissemination of disinformation and propaganda by the corporate media, a malignant exemplar being the New York Times, denigrate these institutions to the immoral status of tools of the occupiers. - ...But Crooked High Court Judges Will Never Have The "Legal Balls" To Enforce The Law - The robber barons of old ruled their world. Today’s robber barons are much more powerful than those earlier titans, and they appear to be all but unbeatable. - The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take, whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency. - Former soldiers and policemen also hired from other Latin American countries - It's all about oil. - It appears only gullible Americans and Brits believe the scary al-Zarqawi campfire story. - Deer hunting season is just starting up in much of the northern United States. But the Bush administration has already declared open season on 43 million Americans who depend on Medicare, as the drug and insurance industries join the Medicare prescription drug gold rush. - ...they’re part of a long bloody history of foreign policy being conducted for the financial interests of the wealthy few. It is a new form of colonialism, all the benefits and none of the responsibilities. It violates our Constitution, it endangers our people and it is treason. - "Traditionally in the Latin market, I would say players sign for about 5 to 10 cents on the dollar compared to their US counterparts." - Fastest Decline in Real Wages on Record
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