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The Neoconservative Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

The Neoconservative Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet – The New Pearl Harbor  By Michael Salla The U.S. plans for an attack on Iran envision to sacrifice the Fifth Fleet in order to justify

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MI5 and MI6 to recruit more minority spies

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

MI5, which has a target of increasing its current 3,000 staff to 4,000 by 2011, also insisted that it wanted to improve relations with Muslim communities. The BBC Monday was broadcasting a series of

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Impeach Bush over lies about CIA operative

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

Anyone else’s jaw drop when former White House press secretary Scott McClellan started to hawk his book, revealing that all top ranking Bush administration officials were lying in the outing of CIA operative, Valerie

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UK gov rethinks ID card database

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 1

INQUIRER staff:THE LOSS OF 25 million citizens’ records has forced the UK government to review its plans to introduce the national identity register, the foundation of its ID card scheme. Data protection minister, yeah

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The Taliban rise again?

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

The Taliban now control most of Afghanistan – and may soon share power, says robert fox President Karzai of Afghanistan has announced that six years after the Taliban were driven out of power in

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The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes That Would Land Anyone Else in Jail The Bush Rules of Evidence By Robert Parry In the history of the American Republic, perhaps no political family has

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Bringing the War on Terrorism Home

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

Congress Considers Methods to Disrupt Movements in the United States Bringing the War on Terrorism Home: Congress Considers How to ‘Disrupt’ Radical Movements in the United States From the November 25, 2007 issue By

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ID cards must be scrapped now, say MPs

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

By Philip Johnston The future of Labour’s identity card project was increasingly in doubt yesterday as MPs called for the scheme to be scrapped following the loss of the child benefit records. Even Labour

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Canadian man dies 4 days after being Tasered

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

A Canadian man died Saturday, four days after police used a Taser stun-gun on him because he reportedly was acting erratically in a store, police said. He was the third person to die in

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Tasers a form of torture, says UN

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

TASER electronic stun guns are a form of torture that can kill, a UN committee has declared after several recent deaths in North America. “The use of these weapons causes acute pain, constituting a

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Flight logs reveal secret rendition

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

Stephen Grey THE secret flight plans of American military planes have revealed for the first time how European countries helped send prisoners, including British citizens, to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Despite widespread criticism

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A Generalized Meltdown of Financial Institutions

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 1

Reality has finally caught up to the stock market. The American consumer is underwater, the banks are buried in debt, and the housing market is in terminal distress. The Dow is now below its

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Halliburton Concentration Camps Already Constructed

Mick Meaney November 27, 2007 0

On February 17, 2006, in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of the harm being done to the country’s security, not just by the enemy, but also

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