Monthly Archives: October 2007 »

CIA director defends torture

Mick Meaney October 31, 2007 0

PAMELA HESS CIA Director Michael Hayden defended his agency’s interrogation practices Tuesday as political pressure mounted on President Bush’s attorney general nominee to reject a technique that allegedly was part of the CIA’s interrogation

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Spy agency went too far, watchdog says

Mick Meaney October 31, 2007 0

CSIS exceeded mandate and violated the rights of Canadian `terrorist,’ review panel reports Jim Bronskill The Canadian Security Intelligence Service violated the constitutional rights of a citizen and strayed beyond its security mandate into

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Liberal Democrat MP to defy ID cards law

Mick Meaney October 31, 2007 0

Patrick Wintour The Guardian Nick Clegg, the odds-on favourite to become Liberal Democrat leader, yesterday announced that he will break the law and refuse to provide details of his identity if the government presses

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WITNESSES PICK OUT FIAT DRIVER IN DIANA CRASH

Mick Meaney October 31, 2007 0

By Richard Palmer A COUPLE who saw a white Fiat car zig-zagging out of the underpass where Diana was killed yesterday identified a Vietnamese man as its probable driver. Georges and Sabine Dauzonne were

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Official Statement Confirms Detonations on 9/11

Mick Meaney October 31, 2007 0

RINF Alternative News  Smoking gun testimony, demolition detonations reported by top brass in official statement The rank of this witness is: CAPTAIN KARIN DESHORE OF BATTALION 46 CAPTAIN KARIN DESHORE QUOTE : “SOMEWHERE AROUND

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Did the BBC Broadcast Fake News Reports?

Mick Meaney October 31, 2007 1

David Miller A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using these

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Expert blows the cover on 9/11 inside job

Mick Meaney October 31, 2007 5

Iraq war veteran and experienced demolitions expert blows the cover on 9/11 inside job Meet Torin Wolf. He has a broad and varied background as a US Army Combat Nurse during Operation Iraqi Freedom,…. 

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Lindsey Williams Videos on the Oil/Energy ‘Crisis’

Mick Meaney October 31, 2007 14

I mention Lindsey Williams’ revelations in a few articles on the phony “Peak Oil” scam promoted by CIA agent Michael Ruppert and the Highway Robber Barrons known as American Oil companies. Lindsey discovered from

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Hydrogen plane runs for three days without refuelling

Mick Meaney October 31, 2007 0

Iain Thomson Boeing and Ford have successfully tested a new hydrogen aircraft engine with a simulated flight that lasted nearly four days. The project, called the High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) aircraft, is being

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Iraq’s Environmental Crisis

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

By Jeffrey St Clair and Joshua Frank The ecological effects of war, like its horrific toll on human life, are exponential. When the Bush Administration and their Congressional allies sent our troops in to

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Seven years since the Blair slow hand-clap

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

Seven years since the Blair slow hand-clap, the WI is getting tough in Wales By Rhodri Clark  GETTING a slow hand-clap from the massed ranks of Women’s Institute members was one of the first

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BBC: Big Brother Cooperation

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 1

It’s a matter of alarm and concern that there are so many people out there who still believe that the BBC is a balanced and fair-minded source of news and current affairs. That belief

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The Programming Language for Mass Surveillance

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

According to government documents studied by The New York Times, the FBI asked several phone companies to analyze phone-call patterns of Americans using a technology called “communities of interest”. Verizon refused, saying that it

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No evidence of Iran building nuclear weapons – U.N.

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

ElBaradei says he has no evidence Tehran is developing nuclear weapons Indymedia (Hidden from newswire) The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build

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Coming Soon – Police in Schools

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

EMMA JUDD Swansea’s police are to go back to class in a new drive to have community police based at every comprehensive school in the city within a year. The plan was announced by

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Blackwater guards ‘given immunity’

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

Private US security guards being investigated over a shooting in Iraq that left 17 civilians dead, have reportedly been offered immunity by the US state department. The Blackwater employees, who were guarding an embassy

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Human rights expert calls for Guantanamo closure

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

A United Nations human rights expert called on the US to put on trial or release all people detained as “unlawful enemy combatants”, move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba

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‘When President does it, it’s not illegal’

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

By Nicole Belle Download (Windows) Download (Quicktime) BILL MOYERS: Remember “The Lives of Others” – the movie that won this year’s Academy Award for best foreign language film….a story of life under East Germany’s secret

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Shouting at the Devil

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

By Jason Miller RINF Alternative News “America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role

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Appeals Court Shuffle Shields FBI Tactics Post 9/11

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

Kathy Gill It sounded good: Egyptian student helps 9-11 hijackers with airplane radio. Too good, in fact, because Abdallah Higazy is suing an FBI agent because of a coerced a confession in the wake

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UK firm sued over US soldier’s death

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

· Erinys guards accused of causing death in Iraq · Authorities close down UK contractors in Afghanistan Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington The Guardian A British private security firm hired to protect the oil installations

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“Fool me once…” Ian R. Crane – Just released on DVD

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 1

Order your copy here Only £5.99 “Fool me once …” is the latest offering from one of the UK’s most active Truth Campaigner’s. Recorded live at the Glastonbury Symposium in July 2007 Ian R.

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An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

The Bank of the South: An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance  By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News In July, 2004, the IMF and World Bank commemorated the 60th anniversary of their founding

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Blair was warned of looming disaster in Iraq

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

By John Ware John Ware discloses how the former prime minister was told repeatedly about America’s lack of planning for peace – and did nothing Five days after the fall of Saddam, Tony Blair

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Why America Sent Someone to Be Tortured in Syria

Mick Meaney October 30, 2007 0

Condoleeza Rice loses her memory at the most convenient times–call it diplomatic Alzheimers. Asked why America sent an innocent Canadian, Maher Arar, to be tortured in Syria, she answered: My memory of some of

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