Daily Archives: November 30, 2007 »

20 percent of election printouts were unreadable

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 1

A recount after next year’s presidential election could mean disaster for Cuyahoga County based on problems discovered Tuesday with paper records produced by electronic voting machines. More than 20 percent of the printouts from

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US Roman Catholic Bishop: 9/11 was inside job

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 3

RenewAmerica Bishop Richard Williamson, seemingly the most outspoken and controversial bishop of the Society of St. Pius X, asserted in a recent talk that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were committed “to get

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Torture Leads to Lies

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 0

By Susan C. Strong The administration’s torture policy is driven by fear and false assumptions. It’s time the public learned the truth about pain-tainted information. Despite Mukasey’s confirmation and the next round of holidays

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Facebook Users Protest Online Tracking

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 0

By Louise Story and Brad Stone The New York Times Faced with its second mass protest by members in its short life span, Facebook, the enormously popular social networking Web site, is reining in

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Habib ‘told not to talk about Guantanamo torture’

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 0

AAP FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib says he did not reveal details of his torture in early interviews with media and others because he was told not to by his doctors and lawyers.

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We are all put at risk by identity scheme

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 1

The suggestion by James Hall that Project Stork (Letters, November 29) has nothing to do with the national identity scheme is risible. The roadmap for the project was presented on June 13 at this

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Armageddon: February 2008‏

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 0

By J A Blacker, Science Correspondent RINF Alternative News What level of lies, deceit , treason and down right inhuman behaviour do the  United States of America & its NEOCONS elite practice? Well, this

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VIDEO: Mayor “Crook and Bully” Giuliani Pre-9/11

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 0

New Yorkers know this Rudy Giuliani.  He was a bully, he regularly called people names, he was divisive, thin skinned, and arrogant.  A Giuliani presidency would be packed with his ring kissing cronies and

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Giuliani & the 9/11 Mastermind

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 0

Rudy Giuliani Does Business With Sheik Who Helped 9/11 Mastermind Elude FBI Three weeks after 9/11, when the roar of fighter jets still haunted the city’s skyline, the emir of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Hamad

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China tells Bush to Sling his Hook

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 0

AP Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told President George W. Bush on Wednesday that Beijing’s refusal to let a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier into Hong Kong was a “misunderstanding,” the White House said. The

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Judge: Bank debt collectors behaved like robbers

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 2

Ashling O’Connor When Tapan Bose fell behind on his car loan repayments to the largest commercial bank in India he could not have known that it would leave his friend’s son requiring 12 stitches

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Banks scourged by falling dollar

Mick Meaney November 30, 2007 0

The supply of dollars is now so profuse that it is always higher than the banks’ purchasing capacity. Banks now buy dollars in dribs and drabs, as they do not have enough VND. The

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