Monthly Archives: November 2007 »

One Million Dead in Iraq: Our Own Holocaust Denial

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 0

Institutionally unwilling to consider America’s responsibility for the bloodbath, the traditional media have refused to acknowledge the massive number of Iraqis killed since the invasion. By Mark Weisbrot Institutionally unwilling to consider America’s responsibility

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Coup D’Etat Rumblings in Venezuela

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 1

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News The Bush administration tried and failed three prior times to oust Hugo Chavez since its first aborted two-day coup attempt in April, 2002. Through FOIA requests, lawyer, activist

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Spy warns there could be a war over water

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 0

HE is the spy who came in from the cold, endured the heat, experienced the chill and was burned in the process. Little wonder Lance Collins is pushing the cause of climate change. Lt-Col

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Is Brown re-thinking ID cards?

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 0

By Nick Assinder The creation of a giant register of every card-carrying member of the British public was always one of the more controversial elements of the ID cards proposal. The missing data crisis

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Can we trust Government over ID cards?

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 1

The loss of two computer discs containing the personal and banking details of 25 million people has inevitably cast fresh doubts over the Government’s plans to make us all have identity cards. There is

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VIDEO: Paul Bremer and 9/11

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 0

Mission Accomplished In the early hours right after the 9/11 attacks, Paul Bremer appeared on NBC suggesting that Osama bin Laden was responsible. He was one of the first to float the name. What

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Are Bush and Cheney guilty of treason?

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 0

By Carol WolmanUS Constitution Article 3 Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person

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Cannabis lowers greenhouse emissions

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 1

Hemp helps with green movement Lucas Coppes As environmental consciousness increases, a plant with great potential to accommodate our generation’s awareness has re-emerged, but its negative associations leave some obstacles to overcome. Hemp, which

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HILLARY QUOTES: How Common?

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 0

Hat Tip to Earl1911 for finding these! Where is the G-damn f**king flag? I want the G-damn f**king flag up every f**king morning at f**king sunrise.” (From the book “Inside The White House” by

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NYC Fire Chief: Giuliani ‘Not a Hero’ ‘He Ran That Day’

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 0

Rudy is now “trumpeting his leadership in the wake of 9/11 in campaign mailings to voters in Iowa and New Hampshire” despite claiming all along that he wasn’t running on his 9/11 record. Dan

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School of the Americas

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 1

Twenty thousand people staged a protest at Fort Benning, home of the School of Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)Veterans of WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the never-ending Gulf

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Child benefit: Civil servant’s error led to fiasco

Mick Meaney November 22, 2007 0

By Richard Edwards The records fiasco was triggered a month ago when a junior civil servant put a brown envelope with two compact discs into a general post basket in his office. Junior clerk’s

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Tracking by sun: RFID goes solar

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 1

Solar-powered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Savi Technology, a unit of Lockheed Martin, has announced it recently began deploying solar-powered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and signposts located at a major U.S. Army supply facility

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How Could 9/11 Hijackers Obtain Secret Service Codes?

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 0

911Blogger How could reportedly disorganized and incompetent hijackers or cave dwelling terrorists thousands of miles away, know how to threaten Air Force One with classified Secret Service codes on

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Poll: Americans losing trust in Bush

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 3

A poll conducted by C-SPAN’s Capital News online about the Iraq war shows that most Americans trust Congress far more than US president. The C-SPAN news network on Monday asked voters the question, “Should

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The True Cost of the Iraq War

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 0

The Iraq War has cost Americans well over $1 trillion. According to a study by the Democratic Staff of Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, entitled “The Hidden Costs of the Iraq War,” “The economic costs

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Bush ‘approved lies’ in CIA leak case

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 0

Bush ‘approved lies’ in CIA leak case that exposed spy whose husband opposed Iraq war, says former aide A former White House press secretary has accused US president George Bush of approving “lies” after

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Home Office insists biometric data is secure

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 0

Alan Travis The Guardian The Home Office last night sought to shore up public trust in its £5.6bn identity card project, as the failure over child benefit records fed into anxieties over so-called “Big

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NO2ID calls for government data audit

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 0

An independent audit should be held into all personal information held by the government, NO2ID said. Responding the news that HMRC have lost the confidential details of over 15 million people, NO2ID, the campaign

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Will Darling’s data giveaway kill off ID cards?

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 0

By John Oates UK Identity Crisis Anti-ID card campaigners believe that yesterday’s admission by Chancellor Alistair Darling that the government has lost records and private information relating to 25 million people could be the

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9/11 Research Reflects Badly On Cambridge University

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 0

No Detectable Respect For Science: False Claims Regarding 9/11 Research Reflect Badly On University Of Cambridge On September 11, 2007, the BBC published an article describing an unpublished paper by Dr. Keith Seffen of

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Lost: the personal details of 25 million people

Mick Meaney November 21, 2007 0

Who decided to post two discs with personal and financial details of 25 million people by unregistered delivery? What has become of the missing discs and could they have fallen into the hands of

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Reconstructing fingerprint images from templates

Mick Meaney November 20, 2007 0

Reconstructing fingerprint images from templates This is for everyone who thinks fingerprints cannot be reverse engineered from biometric systems, and especially for Jim Knight MP, the Labour Minister for Schools and Learners, who offered

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Ron Paul – Challenging the American Empire

Mick Meaney November 20, 2007 0

Ron Paul: The Only Presidential Candidate to Challenge the American Empire By David T. Beito and Scott HortonFlying under the radar of mainstream media coverage, supporters of Dr. Ron Paul, a seventy-two year old

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Watchdog: War on Terrorism Leads to Rights Abuses

Mick Meaney November 20, 2007 0

By Tim Cocks Kampala – Torture, beatings, executions, racist stereotyping and intrusive surveillance are among the abuses countries are committing in the name of fighting terrorism, a rights watchdog said on Monday.     The Commonwealth

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