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Confession of an American Thought Criminal

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

By Jason Miller RINF Alternative News “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.” –Winston Smith from George Orwell’s 1984 If you needed more evidence that most of our “esteemed” members of Congress are

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Travel terror security stepped up

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

Mr Brown said security would have to be tight at airports Security will be stepped up at railway stations, airports and ports as part of government attempts to tackle terrorism, Gordon Brown has announced.There

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Ambulance driver defends slow Diana journey

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

David Batty and agencies Guardian Unlimited The ambulance carrying the dying Diana, Princess of Wales to hospital was deliberately driven slowly due to the severity of her injuries, an inquest heard today.The ambulance driver

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U.S. Reps Soliciting Funds for Banned Terrorist Group

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

Kach’s U.S. Representatives Continue to Solicit Funds for Banned Terrorist Group By The DC Investigative Journalism Collective Michael Guzofsky, a.k.a. Yekutiel Ben Ya’acov, maintains the Web site for the bannedVoice of Judea, which the

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Bush Stands by His Dictator

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

By Robert Scheer “The war on terror” made me do it. That’s the excuse that works for George W. Bush to rationalize his assaults on the rule of law, from arbitrary arrest to torture.

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Bush doesn’t care about your health or education

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

Bush vetoes domestic spending bill on health, education and jobs By Brian Knowlton President George W. Bush vetoed a major spending measure on Tuesday that would have funded education, health care and job training

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Repugnant Republicans: Pro-God, Anti-Humanity

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

Repugnant Republicans: Anti-Abortion, Pro-Torture; Pro-God, Anti-Humanity  When it comes to the rabid right and torture, anything goes The WSJ argued that waterboarding doesn’t necessarily constitute “cruel, inhuman or degrading” treatment of ‘terrorists” Torture is

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More BBC Deceit: The 9/11 Hoax That Didn’t Quite Work

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 1

On September 11, 2007, the BBC published an article called “9/11 demolition theory challenged“, which described a research paper written by University of Cambridge senior lecturer Keith Seffen. Dr. Seffen, the BBC said, had

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CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

French report claims terrorist leader stayed in Dubai hospital Anthony Sampson The Guardian Two months before September 11 Osama bin Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the American hospital, where

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Domestic spying inquiry restarted at DoJ

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

By DEVLIN BARRETT The Justice Department has reopened a long-dormant inquiry into the government’s warrantless wiretapping program, a major policy shift only days into the tenure of Attorney General Michael Mukasey. The investigation by

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CIA misled judges in Moussaoui case

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

BY GREG GORDON The CIA has three video and audio recordings of interrogations of senior al-Qaida captives but misled federal judges about the evidence during the case against terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, federal prosecutors revealed

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FBI: Blackwater shootings ‘unwarranted’

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

Most of the shots fired by private U.S. security firm Blackwater that killed 17 civilians in Baghdad Sept. 16 were unwarranted, a preliminary FBI report says. Investigators said in a report now under review

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Torturing Palestinian Detainees

Mick Meaney November 14, 2007 0

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News B’Tselem is the conservative Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories with a well-deserved reputation for accuracy. A group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists and

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