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Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdock Empire

Mick Meaney February 9, 2008 2

By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News For Big Media, truth is a scare commodity and in times of war it’s the first casualty, or as esteemed journalist John Pilger noted: “Journalism (not truth) is

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Some Of The Outrageous Lies About 9/11

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By Joseph A. Lopisi It is hard to pick a place to start in terms of talking about the most outrageous lies that the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission have presented to the

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Yes, we do torture: White House finally comes clean

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PETER URBAN Connecticut federal prosecutor John Durham can clear at least one task off his full plate. His criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes won’t touch waterboarding. Attorney General Michael Mukasey

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New Charges of Guantanamo Torture

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By Adam Zagorin | Time Magazine Majid Khan is seen in 1999 during his senior year in high school in Baltimore, Maryland. Khan, 27, is now jailed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Khan Family

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CIA Veteran Calls for Bush’s Impeachment

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Ray McGovern says there is enough evidence to impeach Bush, Cheney over torture, Iraq and Iran Chris Gelken After 27 years as an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency, Ray McGovern is now one

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FBI sought approval to use spyware

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By John Leyden Analysis The FBI has reportedly sought the go-ahead to use a custom spyware package to bug terrorists and other national security suspects. Indirect evidence suggests that the request was likely to

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Choosing secrecy over the public’s rights

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JAMES H. SMITH The Bush administration, the most secretive society since Skull & Bones, has shut out the American people once again. After President Bush signed into law just a few weeks ago modest

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Opposition to ID cards reaches 50%

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Anthony Wells A new ICM poll for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust suggests 50% of people now think ID cards would be a bad idea, with 47% thinking them a good idea. The wording

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Tagging Alzheimer Patients

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Alzheimer Tagging Labelled an ‘Excuse’ for Shocking Care-Home Standards Michael Jolliffe | Newstarget A controversial new scheme to electronically tag the elderly has been blasted by critics as a ‘gimmick’ and as an excuse

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Schwarzenegger Backed Immoral Spraying

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Governor Schwarzenegger Backed Immoral Sex Pheromone Spraying Continues Rami Nagel | Newstarget Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for

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How will Real ID affect you?

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By Declan McCullagh   A May deadline looms as just one flash point in a political showdown between Homeland Security and states that oppose Real ID demands. This is the last in a four-part series

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FBI Private Contractors With ‘Shoot to Kill’ Powers

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FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including ‘Shoot to Kill’ The FBI has a new set of eyes and ears, and they’re being told to protect their infrastructure at any cost. They can

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US woman abused by police

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This is common treatment for women in US jails The is absolutely nothing unusual about women being stripped naked and left without covering of any kind in cold jail cells for hours at a

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FOX-5 Foreknowledge of WTC-7 Collapse

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Lee Rogers UPDATE2: Upon further review, it looks as if this was reported a few minutes after the actual collapse at 5:20 PM, so it might not have been a live shot. So it isn’t

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