Daily Archives: September 23, 2008 »

DNA contract reveals plan to probe offenders’ families

Mick Meaney September 23, 2008 0

Now you see it, now you don’t: A proposed $300,000 contract between Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and a British DNA lab provided for software that would help track down criminals by identifying

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Younger teens ‘to get ID cards’

Mick Meaney September 23, 2008 2

Identity cards could be handed out to children as young as 14, a home office minister has suggested. The first ID cards are due to be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds from 2010 as

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US generals planning for resource wars

Mick Meaney September 23, 2008 1

ANALYSIS: The US military sees the next 30 to 40 years as involving a state of continuous war against ideologically-motivated terrorists and competing with Russia and China for natural resources and markets, writes Tom

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Will International Law Reach Bush?

Mick Meaney September 23, 2008 2

By Peter Dyer | Q: What do Radovan Karadzic, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and George W. Bush have in common? A: Each lives under the slowly growing shadow of a body

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Remembering Edward Said Five Years On

Mick Meaney September 23, 2008 0

By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Born in West Jerusalem in 1935. Exiled in December 1947. Said was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 1991, a malignant cancer of the bone marrow and blood.

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THE LIST: WHAT A TRILLION DOLLARS WILL BUY

Mick Meaney September 23, 2008 15

Andrew Davis, Libertarian Party One trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is enough money: To buy everybody living in Los Angeles at least one Lamborghini Gallardo. To buy 88,052, 394′ custom mega yachts; enough to stretch around

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Banks race to profit from US bailout

Mick Meaney September 23, 2008 1

By Barry Grey | The announcement of a virtually open-ended government bailout of Wall Street has set off a frenzied competition among the biggest banks and financial firms to grab the lion’s share of

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