July 7 Tube bomber argued with cashier shortly before blast

October 31, 2005 by element115
One of the suicide bombers who attacked London on 7 July was filmed arguing with a cashier about being short-changed hours before he blew himself up.

The official told the seminar held in Preston, Lancashire two weeks ago: "This is not the behaviour of a terrorist - you'd think this is normal."

"I've seen the CCTV footage of these people. They do not appear to be on their way to commit any crime at all. The Russell Square bomber [Hasib Hussain] is actually seen going into shops and bumping into people [prior to his attack].
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Rich Senators Defeat Minimum-Wage Hike

October 31, 2005 by element115
U.S. senators -- who draw salaries of $162,100 a year and enjoy a raft of perks -- have rejected a minimum wage hike from $5.15 an hour to $6.25 for blue-collar workers.
All the Democrats voted for the wage boost. All the negative votes were cast by Republicans.

Can you believe it?
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Israel's nuclear arsenal causes global crisis

October 31, 2005 by element115
"When one talks about the annihilation of Israel, it does not mean the genocide of the Jewish people, but rather a non-violent confrontation with Zionist schools of thought, which are endangering the Middle East and the entire world."

"Although the Iranian nation has shouted slogans against the Zionist regime since 1979, these slogans have never meant a physical confrontation with Israel but rather referred to the need to wipe out all Zionist ways of thought, which never recognize anyone else's right to live freely."

"Indeed, it is odd that the world has remained silent about Israel's refusal to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but opposes Iran's civilian nuclear activities."
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Bush nominates Samuel Alito for Supreme Court

October 31, 2005 by element115
Bush "has chosen to divide Americans with a nominee guaranteed to cause a bitter fight," said Ralph Neas, the president of People for the American Way, a liberal group that's been at the center of previous judicial-nomination struggles. Neas vowed to wage a national campaign against Alito for what Neas called his "record of ideological activism against privacy rights, civil rights, workers' rights and more."

Conservative senators rejoiced at Alito's selection.
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Bush's commitment to honesty

October 31, 2005 by element115
Bush advised to resist apology on Libby.
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Possible New Moons for Pluto

October 31, 2005 by element115
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered what they say are two more tiny moons orbiting the planet Pluto, the first evidence yet that any object in the solar system beyond Neptune has more than one satellite.
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Hunger In America Rises By 43 Percent Over Last Five Years

October 31, 2005 by element115
The USDA report, Household Food Security in the United States, 2004, says that 38.2 million Americans live in households that suffer directly from hunger and food insecurity, including nearly 14 million children. That figure is up from 31 million Americans in 1999.
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Paris riots prompt extra security

October 31, 2005 by element115
France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to step up security after violence flared for a fourth night in a Paris suburb.
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Trial set to begin to decide constitutionality of subway searches

October 31, 2005 by element115
The constitutionality of the city's random searches of bags in the subways to deter terrorism will be challenged at a federal trial Monday by civil liberties lawyers who say the searches do nothing to accomplish that goal.
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Doesn't surprise anyone who's been paying attention

October 31, 2005 by element115
...welcome to the inner life of Scooter Libby.
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Thousands of evacuees face eviction

October 31, 2005 by element115
Two months after Hurricane Katrina displaced more than 1 million people, problems with federal housing aid threaten to spawn a new wave of homelessness.
In Texas, thousands of evacuees who found shelter in apartments face eviction threats because rents are going unpaid.
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U.N. Security Council Passes Syria Resolution

October 31, 2005 by element115
The resolution grants the U.N.'s chief investigator, Detlev Mehlis of Germany, the authority to take his investigation anywhere in Syria, demand any documents and interview any individual, including Syrian President Bashar Assad, inside Syria or abroad. Syria is also required to abide by any request by Mehlis to arrest suspects, including Assad's closest aides and relatives.
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Canada discovers H5 avian flu virus in wild birds

October 31, 2005 by element115
The H5 avian influenza virus has been found in wild migratory birds in Canada, officials said, but it is unlikely the deadly H5N1 strain threatening Asia and Europe and there is no threat to human health.
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Prep for Dictatorship?

October 31, 2005 by element115
President Vladimir Putin said Monday he won't seek a third term in 2008, but vowed not to allow "destabilization" in Russia following the vote, leaving the door open for drastic action in the event of a crisis.
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The Voice of the White House

October 30, 2005 by element115
Hariri was assassinated by a small group of professional assassins, headed by a man who calls himself either Robert H. Lewis, Robert Alan Lewis or Robert Hall Lewis. In actuality, his real name is Robert Lipschitz, born on June 23, 1935. He has two American social security numbers: 451-76-4488 and 114-07-8811. Lipschitz/Lewis, who holds Israeli citizenship although born in the Untied States, has very strong, albeit secret, connections with the U.S. Pentagon, in specific, a secret Pentagon committee, set up by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2001
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The Sound Of Silence

October 30, 2005 by element115
For the rest of the world, this is America's real shock and awe, its silence. The days are gone when all nations would look to see what American's were
saying. No longer do they look to America, simply because there is nothing to hear or see here. America sits silent while lady Justice is raped. Just when did America lose it's voice?

Rome, Germany, Russia, France, and China are prime examples of a people that were silent. As the past will prove, it is not an imaginary organization that benefits from a nations silence. Indeed, it is the leaders of that nation?s government which benefits from the silence.
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I warned Bush about Iraq: Italy's PM

October 30, 2005 by element115
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, on the eve of a trip to Washington, said he repeatedly tried to persuade US President George W Bush against invading Iraq.
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Italian laboratory clones 14 pigs

October 30, 2005 by element115
The Italian researchers who produced the first horse clone have announced the birth of 14 cloned piglets.
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Fall of a Vulcan

October 30, 2005 by element115
Cheney raised a lot of eyebrows in 2001 when he named Libby to be both his national security adviser--a spot for which Libby was certainly qualified--and his top domestic political adviser--a job for which he possibly was not. It was an astonishing, and some people said, unprecedented amount of power for a single staff member. Libby also managed to grab the high-ranking title of assistant to the President and a seat on the National Security Council, not to mention his own CIA intelligence briefing every morning, just like his two bosses.
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Kabbalah guru arrested for fraud

October 30, 2005 by element115
Police arrest Sunday Shaul Youdkevitch, head of Kabbalah Center in Israel, on suspicion he extracted money from cancer patient, convinced her donations will make her recover from illness.
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Prince Charles to plead Islam's cause to Bush

October 30, 2005 by element115
The Prince of Wales will try to persuade George W Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam this week because he thinks the United States has been too intolerant of the religion since September 11.

The Prince, who leaves on Tuesday for an eight-day tour of the US, has voiced private concerns over America's "confrontational" approach to Muslim countries and its failure to appreciate Islam's strengths.
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The mystery of the eye

October 30, 2005 by element115
While watching NBC2 coverage of Hurricane Wilma about two dozen residents called the station reporting an unusual sighting. While watching a Doppler loop of Hurricane Wilma coming ashore, a number two appeared in the eye of the storm.

In going back through the recorded Doppler loop, we found exactly what viewers were talking about.
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Bush, Rumsfeld could be indicted under US law

October 29, 2005 by element115
The War Crimes Act of 1996, a federal statute set forth at 18 U.S.C. § 2441, makes it a federal crime for any U.S. national, whether military or civilian, to violate the Geneva Convention by engaging in murder, torture, or inhuman treatment.
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Royal Air Force officer to be tried before a military court for refusing to return to Iraq

October 29, 2005 by element115
A Royal Air Force officer is about to be tried before a military court for refusing to return to Iraq because the war is illegal. Malcolm Kendall-Smith is the first British officer to face criminal charges for challenging the legality of the invasion and occupation. He is not a conscientious objector; he has completed two tours in Iraq. When he came home the last time, he studied the reasons given for attacking Iraq and concluded he was breaking the law. His position is supported by international lawyers all over the world, not least by Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, who said in September last year: "The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN Charter."
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True Jews hate Israel: Iran's Jewish MP

October 29, 2005 by element115
MP for Jewish community Morris Motamed said that all the true Jews and followers of the divine religion as well as those believing in Moses (AS) hate usurper Israel due to the barbaric behavior of the 'Zionist' regime.

The unequal war and clashes between Israelis, equipped with the most advanced weapons, and Palestinians, with stones in their hands, should be taken as the root cause of the public resentment, Motamed told IRNA on the sidelines of the World Quds Day rallies.

He reiterated, "The late Imam's slogan that Israel should be wiped off the world map" reflects the brave resistance of Imam as the founder of the Islamic Republic and said that all nations should do their utmost to materialize Imam's statement."
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Scientists aim to beat flu with genetically modified chickens

October 29, 2005 by element115
British scientists are genetically engineering chickens to protect them against the H5N1 virus that has devastated poultry farms in the Far East, with a view to replacing stocks with birds that are not susceptible to influenza.
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Coordinated explosions in India's capital kill 49

October 29, 2005 by element115
The first explosion hit New Delhi's main Paharganj market, leaving behind bloodstained streets and mangled stalls of wood and twisted metal. Within minutes came an explosion at the popular Sarojini Nagar market - the deadliest, with 39 killed - and the bus blast in the Govindpuri neighborhood. Police said at least 60 people were wounded in the first blast and dozens in the other two.
Police declared a state of emergency.
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Meet Cheney's New Chief of Staff

October 28, 2005 by element115
In the fallout of his indictments in the CIA leak case, Scooter Libby will be replaced by Cheney's current chief counsel, David Addington. Addington is, to put it kindly, a real piece of work.
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10 Mind-Numbing Quotes By Tom Delay

October 28, 2005 by element115
"I AM the federal government." -Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth's Chris Steak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of federal government regulations banning smoking in the building, May 14, 2003
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Israeli troops mass outside Gaza

October 28, 2005 by element115
Israeli soldiers began massing outside the Gaza Strip yesterday, preparing for a possible ground invasion after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered a "wide-ranging and continuous" operation to root out Palestinian militants.
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Russia, China call for U.S. troops to go

October 28, 2005 by element115
A security bloc led by China and Russia has called on the United States to set a deadline for the withdrawal of its troops from Central Asia.
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Plague-infected mice escape from Jersey lab

October 28, 2005 by element115
The research lab conducts bio-terrorism research for the federal government and infected the mice as a part of an inoculation and vaccination experiment.
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Retired Air Force Col: They lied to us about the war and about 9/11 itself

October 28, 2005 by element115
...they?re part of a long bloody history of foreign policy being conducted for the financial interests of the wealthy few. It is a new form of colonialism, all the benefits and none of the responsibilities. It violates our Constitution, it endangers our people and it is treason.
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Who murdered Hariri to provoke hostilities with Syria?

October 28, 2005 by element115
Take a look at the evidence and listen to the interview --->
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An Iran-Russia-China axis?

October 28, 2005 by element115
Moscow may soon have to choose whether to back Iran or align itself with the US and the European Union (EU) in reining in Iran's nuclear intentions.

Meanwhile, China is becoming even more dependent on Iran for energy.
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Mind Meld for Sat Sort

October 28, 2005 by element115
Sorting through satellite imagery is tough. There are tons and tons of material, only a fraction of which can be reviewed in anything resembling a timely fashion. And very little of that is of any military use at all. Software systems can help, a bit. But, according to the mad scientists at Darpa, "the human visual system is still the best target detection apparatus" there is.
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Strong, Sweet Smell Reported in Manhattan

October 28, 2005 by element115
There were so many calls that the city's Office of Emergency Management coordinated efforts with the Police and Fire Departments, the Coast Guard and the City Department of Environmental Protection to find the source of the mysterious smell.

Air tests haven't turned up anything harmful, but the source was still a mystery.
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Libby indicted

October 28, 2005 by element115
The vice president's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr., was indicted Friday on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements in the CIA leak investigation, a politically charged case that casts a harsh light on President Bush's push to war.

Libby, 55, resigned and left the White House.
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The first European pyramid discovered in Bosnia

October 27, 2005 by element115
Excavations at a hill site above the town have been going on for several months and initial analyses "have confirmed the original claim that this is Europe's first pyramid and a monumental building, similar in dimensions to the Egyptian pyramids."

The artefact is said to be around 10,000 years old.

"The pyramid is 100 metres high and there is evidence that it contains rooms and a monumental causeway ... The plateau is built of stone blocks, which indicates the presence at the time of a highly developed civilisation."
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Israel asks U.N. to expel Iran

October 27, 2005 by element115
"Iran's intentions are dangerous because this country wants to develop a nuclear weapon and long-range missiles."
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IAF kills 7 Palestinians in northern Gaza air strike

October 27, 2005 by element115
An Israel Air Force aircraft fired missiles at the Gaza Strip on Thursday night, killing seven Palestinians, including two Islamic Jihad militants and at least three civilians, among them a 15-year-old boy, Palestinian sources said. At least twelve Palestinians were wounded.
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Here comes BETA

October 27, 2005 by element115
Tropical Storm BETA Public AdvisoryAT
11 PM EDT...0300Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM BETA WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 12.1 NORTH...LONGITUDE 81.4 WEST OR ABOUT 35
MILES...55 KM...SOUTHEAST OF SAN ANDRES ISLAND AND ABOUT 160
MILES...260 KM...EAST OF BLUEFIELDS NICARAGUA.
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Miers Withdraws Nomination

October 27, 2005 by element115
In a striking defeat for President Bush, White House counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court on Thursday after three weeks of brutal criticism from fellow conservatives.
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Negroponte Unveils Intelligence Strategy

October 27, 2005 by element115
Negroponte said the strategic mission to "bolster the growth of democracy and sustain peaceful democratic states" is aimed at providing policymakers with information to alert them as to how countries are progressing toward democracy, allowing them to understand the "success or failure to achieve good governance." Although he did not mention Iraq, it would appear that the need to understand that country's progress would fit his description.
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The Real Indictment of Dick Cheney

October 27, 2005 by element115
The Vice President of the United States is actively lobbying for torture right now. Not in the 1800's. Not in the 1950's. Right now. And the sick thing is -- he has an excellent chance of winning.
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Was Galileo Wrong?

October 27, 2005 by element115
t's a modern version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment. Instead of dropping balls to the ground, the researchers will watch the Earth and Moon drop toward the Sun. Like musket balls and cannon balls dropped from the Tower, the Earth and Moon are made of a different mix of elements, and they have different masses. Are they accelerated toward the Sun at the same rate? If yes, the Equivalence Principle holds. If not, let the revolution begin.
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Aide to Cheney Appears Likely to Be Indicted; Rove Under Scrutiny

October 27, 2005 by element115
Lawyers in the C.I.A. leak case said Thursday that they expected I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, to be indicted on Friday, charged with making false statements to the grand jury.

Karl Rove, President Bush's senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, will not be charged on Friday, but will remain under investigation, people briefed officially about the case said. As a result, they said, the special counsel in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, was likely to extend the term of the federal grand jury beyond its scheduled expiration on Friday.
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U.S. passports with chip implants in 2006

October 26, 2005 by element115
All U.S. passports will be implanted with computer chips starting next October, the State Department said Tuesday.

Sweeping new regulations say that passports issued after that time will have radio frequency ID chips that can transmit personal information including the name, nationality, sex, date of birth, place of birth and digitized photograph of the passport holder. Eventually, the government may add digitized data such as fingerprints or iris scans.

But the White House didn't cook up these plans: They come directly from the United Nations, and the U.K. and Germany are among the other countries that have already approved identical "global standards," while Sweden has already switched to the electronic passports.
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If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History

October 26, 2005 by element115
...a must see
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Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms: Election 2004 stolen

October 26, 2005 by element115
As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.

The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the General Accounting Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage.
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Senate Bill 1873: Prescription for Tyranny

October 26, 2005 by element115
...a newly introduced congressional bill that would allow rapid development of certain drugs and vaccines, at the same time shielding the manufacturers from liability, even if their products turn out to be lethal.
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Israel still in control of Gaza, says envoy

October 26, 2005 by element115
The international Middle East envoy, James Wolfensohn, has accused Israel of behaving as if it has not withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, by blocking its borders and failing to fulfil commitments to allow the movement of Palestinians and goods.
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Torture Is Continuing; Order Came From Very Top

October 26, 2005 by element115
Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski:
"We can trace back now, through documents that were released through court order, back to the original document, the one that Alberto Gonzales reviewed and discussed with the President of the United States, a departure from the Geneva Convention. These are not prisoners, these are terrorists and these techniques will be more effective."
"And then Secretary Rumsfeld putting his signature on a document authorizing more aggressive and harsher techniques during interrogation. That document goes over to Guantanamo Bay and over to Afghanistan, and it's used first in smaller groups and then it's used at Guantanamo Bay as a standard practice."
"The orders came right from the top, filtered down from the secretary of defense, with the endorsement of the President, the Vice President, whatever advisors are surrounding them, filtered down through the Commanders in the field, these practices were not only endorsed, but were in use at Guantanamo bay and in locations in Afghanistan. And when General Miller visited Iraq he brought those techniques with him. And then he sent contract interrogators who had 'performed well' at Guantanamo Bay to Iraq as well."
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Russia says will defend Syria against UN sanctions

October 26, 2005 by element115
Russia, Syria's close ally since Cold War times, will do all it takes to block any attempt to slap economic sanctions against Damascus, a Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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The real price of gold

October 26, 2005 by element115
A £1,000 wedding ring - equivalent to one ounce of gold - creates up to 30 tons of toxic waste. To produce that single ounce, miners have to quarry hundreds of tons of rock, which are then doused in a liquid cyanide solution to separate the gold. Payal Sampat, the campaign director for Earthworks, the mining watchdog, told The Independent: "Gold mining is arguably the world's dirtiest and most polluting industry."
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Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans

October 26, 2005 by element115
The technology is called galvanic vestibular stimulation - essentially, electricity messes with the delicate nerves inside the ear that help maintain balance.
The phenomenon is painless but dramatic. Your feet start to move before you know it.
...as though an invisible hand were reaching inside your brain.
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Terror returns to Israel

October 26, 2005 by element115
Suicide bomber strikes in market in Hadera, north of Tel Aviv and scene of several previous attacks. Dozens of police cruisers, ambulances dispatched to scene. Five bodies recovered, one of them may be that of suicide bomber. Dozens hurt.
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Two-Thirds of Americans Say Bush Wrong on Iraq

October 26, 2005 by element115
Many adults in the United States believe George W. Bush is not proceeding correctly with the coalition effort, according to a poll by Harris Interactive.
66 per cent of respondents have a negative view of the job the U.S. president has done in handling the issue of Iraq.
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"This is like the Third World"

October 26, 2005 by element115
Frustration with Florida's relief effort after Wilma.
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Galloway rejects senate perjury claims

October 25, 2005 by element115
A furious George Galloway today challenged US senators to charge him with perjury over claims that he solicited money from Saddam Hussein's oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath.
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Syria is being Set Up to Fail

October 25, 2005 by element115
A Leaked Letter from Washington
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If Dick Cheney Goes

October 25, 2005 by element115
The last time that happened was during Watergate, in 1973, when Richard Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, had to go.

...rumors had been flying not only that the vice president's office is in the prosecutor's crosshairs, but that if Cheney goes, Bush will name Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the job. Other names flying around include that of Rudy Giuliani.
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Unleash the Weasels

October 25, 2005 by element115
The attempt at sliming Patrick Fitzgerald has begun in earnest.
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God, Iraq and the power of the President's PR

October 25, 2005 by element115
Profound unpopularity, as tyrants, bullies and senior spin doctors know to their advantage, can be a powerful weapon in warfare. In any army the hardest things to instill in a new recruit are not how to drive a tank, fire a gun or march in step, but how to summon the mental strength to kill. Engendering hatred through indoctrination is a necessary part of getting wars up and running: hatred gives everyone involved something black and white to focus on.
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Inside The Church of Hate

October 25, 2005 by element115
The Sky Report has secretly filmed one of America's most controversial Christian ministers praising the London bombings.

Fred Phelps says that terrorist outrages and natural disasters such as Hurricane Rita are examples of God's wrath against countries such as America and Britain for tolerating homosexuals and homosexuality.
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Rupert Murdoch and Judith Miller

October 25, 2005 by element115
The wider context is that Rupert Murdoch, and Richard Mellon Scaife, and other far rightwing billionaires have deeply corrupted our information environment. They are in part responsible for what happened at the NYT.
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US detainees 'murdered' during interrogations

October 25, 2005 by element115
The analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union, released today, looked at 44 deaths described in records obtained by the ACLU. Of those, the group characterised 21 as homicides, and said at least eight resulted from abusive techniques by military or intelligence officers, such as strangulation or "blunt force injuries", as noted in the autopsy reports.
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U.S. military death toll topped 2,000

October 25, 2005 by element115
Bush tried Tuesday to begin reviving U.S. support for the war in Iraq and reinvigorating his troubled presidency as the U.S. military death toll topped 2,000.
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OPEC And The Economic Conquest Of Iraq

October 25, 2005 by element115
Two and a half years and $202 billion into the war in Iraq, the United States has at least one significant new asset to show for it: effective membership, through our control of Iraq's energy policy, in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the Arab-dominated oil cartel.
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Al Franken: Rove and Libby will be executed for treason

October 25, 2005 by element115
"George H.W. Bush, the President?s father, said, as, when he was head of the CIA, that outing a CIA agent is treason. I, I agree. So I think that Rove and Libby will be executed."
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Backlash against free internet calls

October 25, 2005 by element115
MANY of the phone companies that own the wires connecting people to the internet are gearing up to block free phone calls that use voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology.
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Israel mounts new strikes in Gaza after attacks

October 25, 2005 by element115
The flare-up of violence, one of the most serious since an Israeli pullout from Gaza last month raised international hopes for Middle East peacemaking, followed Israel's killing of a top Islamic Jihad militant and threatened to unravel a ceasefire.
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Indictments are coming

October 25, 2005 by element115
Bracing for indictments against top aides, the White House on Tuesday rallied behind Vice President Dick Cheney but refused to answer questions about whether he told his chief of staff about the CIA officer at the heart of a two-year leak investigation.
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Recovery From Wilma Begins for Millions

October 25, 2005 by element115
Repair crews across Florida struggled Tuesday to restore electricity to up to 6 million people, reopen the region's airports and replace countless windows blown out of downtown high-rises during Hurricane Wilma's ruinous dash across the state.

Officials said it could take weeks for Florida's most heavily populated region _ the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach area _ to return to normal.
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Kucinich Uses House Procedure To Demand Documents From White House Iraq Group

October 24, 2005 by element115
"We now know that the Administration hyped intelligence and misled the American public and Congress in their effort to 'sell' the war. After over 1,900 American troops have been killed in Iraq, it is long past time for this Congress to ask serious questions about WHIG and its role in the lead up to the war."
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The 911 South Tower Airliner 'PODS'

October 24, 2005 by element115
A Boeing machinist with 30 years of manufacturing experience including machining the wing spars in the large Boeing airliners weighs in on the crashes into the World Trade Center on 9/11. With intimate knowledge of the strength of structural components of Boeing airliners he is qualified to estimate how these components would react in a crash --->
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Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show

October 24, 2005 by element115
Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney?s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday.
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Cindy Sheehan plans to tie herself to the White House fence

October 24, 2005 by element115
"I'm going to go to Washington, D.C. and I'm going to give a speech at the White House, and after I do, I'm going to tie myself to the fence and refuse to leave until they agree to bring our troops home," Sheehan said.

Beyond Sheehan's plans, a candlelight vigil is planned at the White House to mourn the 2,000-death milestone. Hundreds of other demonstrations are scheduled for the day after the milestone number is reached.
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Big brother on campus

October 24, 2005 by element115
The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications.
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Blogs: No Longer Safe for Work

October 24, 2005 by element115
Robert Mason (not his real name) would love to spend a few minutes during lunch catching up on blog posts from around the web, but his company doesn't allow it. The financial institution where Mason works as a vice president has security filters set up to block access to -- among other things -- any website that contains the phrase "blog" in the URL.

What's more, says Mason, such practices are becoming prevalent in corporate America, particularly in financial services. Mason sits on a roundtable privacy group of 20 of the country's largest banks. "My best understanding is that my company's anti-blog stance is the industry norm," he says.
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U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index

October 24, 2005 by element115
The annual worldwide press freedom index from Reporters Without Borders shows the United States, which is supposedly spreading freedom and liberty throughout the world, is in a fast decline regarding the freedom of its own press.
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FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations

October 24, 2005 by element115
Records turned over as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit also indicate that the FBI has investigated hundreds of potential violations related to its use of secret surveillance operations, which have been stepped up dramatically since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but are largely hidden from public view.
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Protecting the Presidential Seal. No Joke

October 24, 2005 by element115
You might have thought that the White House had enough on its plate late last month, what with its search for a new Supreme Court nominee, the continuing war in Iraq and the C.I.A. leak investigation. But it found time to add another item to its agenda - stopping The Onion, the satirical newspaper, from using the presidential seal.
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20% of Human Genes Have Been Patented, Study Reveals

October 24, 2005 by element115
A new study shows that 20 percent of human genes have been patented in the United States, primarily by private firms and universities.
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Journalists' Hotel in Baghdad Attacked

October 24, 2005 by element115
Three enormous bombs, including a cement-mixing truck packed with explosives, blew up near an Iraqi police post outside the Palestine Hotel _ home to many foreign journalists in Iraq. Iraqi officials said 17 people were killed.
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Bush names Bernanke to replace Greenspan

October 24, 2005 by element115
f confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Bernanke, a widely respected monetary economist with a rich academic resume, would have huge sway over the world's mightiest economy.

Greenspan, 79, is set to step down on January 31 after leading the central bank for more than 18 years through a period in which he cemented a reputation as a monetary policy "maestro."
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Bird Flu Scam

October 24, 2005 by element115
Rumsfeld used to run drug company that invented bird-flu medicine
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6M Without Power

October 24, 2005 by element115
Hurricane Wilma knifed through Florida with winds up to 125 mph Monday, shattering windows in skyscrapers, peeling away roofs and knocking out power to 6 million people, with still a month left to go in the busiest Atlantic storm season on record.

At least six deaths were blamed on the hurricane in Florida, bringing the toll from the storm's march through the tropics to 25.
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US, UK urge action against Syria

October 23, 2005 by element115
The United States and Britain ratcheted up pressure on Syria on Sunday, saying a U.N. probe implicating it in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was very serious and the world must act.
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Another Military Blogger Silenced

October 23, 2005 by element115
Daniel Goetz, a soldier writing a blog called All the King?s Horses.

Daniel has been silenced, against his will. And not only has he been silenced ? he has been forced to publicly declare himself "a supporter of the administration and of her policies."
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An Unholy Alliance?

October 23, 2005 by element115
A TIME investigation shows the lobbyist now at the center of a federal probe had a good friend eager to open doors at the White House: former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed.
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Murdoch: Don't Fox With Local News

October 23, 2005 by element115
Fox News Channel's political agenda is coming to a local television station near you. GOP operative and Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, the architect of the right-wing dominance of cable news, is now remaking 35 local television stations -- broadcasting to nearly 40 percent of America's homes -- in Fox News Channel's image.
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Props and Puppets

October 23, 2005 by element115
Military.com ---> It remains to be seen just how far George Bush is willing to go in exploiting the members of our uniformed services to compensate for his own lack of substance. Pretending to be a pilot at the controls of an airplane he is not qualified to fly, then strutting about on aircraft carrier deck wearing the uniform of a service he did not serve in; gathering together the willing and unwilling to provide a tapestry for his speeches. However, I must say that his recently staged ?spontaneous and unrehearsed? live from Tikrit, with carefully screened soldiers already sworn to obey him under pain of courts-martial, may set a new benchmark. (By the way, hold the presses on the body armor, we need to get better Teleprompters for our troops, they had a tough time reading those cue cards and actually seemed coached.)
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Censored Again

October 23, 2005 by element115
The outright criminal censorship by the media continues to rock the foundations of our free speech rights as another mainstream radio personality, claiming to be independent, bites the dust, deciding this week to "shut up" a listener after she tried discussing the explosions in the WTC basement on 9/11 as the real cause of the collapse.
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Author challenges the official story of 9/11

October 23, 2005 by element115
"Most people are afraid for their jobs," he continued, adding that "if they talk and disobey, they can be imprisoned and worse ? And when people have spoken the press hasn't reported it. But members of the New York police and fire departments know it was an inside job."
Another reason, he said, is that "those who know probably think it would be so disturbing that it's better to let people believe the official version."
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Europe is hanging by a thread

October 23, 2005 by element115
The European Union today is a bit like a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Tom has run over the cliff edge chasing Jerry and his legs are still pumping furiously in thin air; he's yet to plummet to earth to meet some grizzly end. The EU has gone over the cliff edge, its legs are still pumping, but there's no realisation among its leaders or the wider public that a vertiginous plummet is imminent.
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Australia: Leaked "Anti-Terrorism" Bill details draconian police-state plans

October 23, 2005 by element115
A leaked copy of an "in-confidence" draft of the Anti-Terrorism Bill 2005 has confirmed the police-state character of the measures being drawn up by the federal Howard government, with support from the Australian state and territory chief ministers. Under the guise of combatting terrorism, the legislation will introduce unprecedented and draconian police and intelligence powers.
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The Dangerously Incomplete Hariri Report

October 23, 2005 by element115
A new United Nations report implicates the Syrian government in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, giving a lift to George W. Bush?s demand for "regime change" in Damascus. But the investigation has many holes, including failure to follow up on a mysterious van connected to the Feb. 14 bombing.
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NSC Chief Hadley asked Italy for a Bashar Replacement

October 23, 2005 by element115
Steven Hadley, the director of the US National Security Council, called the President of the Italian senate to asked if he had a candidate to replace Bashar al-Asad as President of Syria. The Italians were horrified. Italy is one of Syria?s biggest trading partners so it seemed a reasonable place to ask!
This is what Washington has been up to.
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THE COMING HURRICANE FITZGERALD...

October 23, 2005 by element115
There is a storm of historic proportions headed for the United States, one that will make Hurricane Wilma (also en route) look like a small splash in the pond by comparison. It's been building and gathering strength in the increasingly hot waters of the Special Counsel's office for almost two years, and in a matter of days it may lay waste to the entire political infrastructure of Washington, D.C., from one end to the other.
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The Gospel According to Anne

October 23, 2005 by element115
"I promised," she says, "that from now on I would write only for the Lord."

...she calls Christ "the ultimate supernatural hero ... the ultimate immortal of them all."
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Americans must start protesting the Bush regime's international terrorism

October 23, 2005 by element115
Behind the curtains and the façade the filthy rich and the American government carefully constructed things in such a way so that the poor would remain ignorant and little more than pack mules, with no aspirations and no understanding of the world around them; they would live to work 12 hours a day only to go home, eat, and sleep all in decrepit conditions at best. This, according to the Conservative US agenda suited them well enough, since the poor would have no aspirations and by having no aspirations, no fear would exist in the continent of a come-back of Socialism or even more progressive political beliefs. Instituting conformity in the minds of the masses was the key to suppressing them and maintaining the endless cycle of master-slave relationship created between foreign corporations and the local poor.
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We Now Live in a Fascist State

October 23, 2005 by element115
Harper's Magazine ---> The truth is revealed once and only once.

Parliamentary democracy is by definition rotten because it doesn't represent the voice of the people, which is that of the sublime leader.

Doctrine outpoints reason, and science is always suspect.

Critical thought is the province of degenerate intellectuals, who betray the culture and subvert traditional values.

The national identity is provided by the nation's enemies.

Argument is tantamount to treason.
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Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture

October 23, 2005 by element115
"Many Canadians don't realize that we have not only the right but the responsibility to pursue these charges, it is a responsibility that the Canadian government owes not only to the people of Canada, but to the people of the world. The 1987 Convention Against Torture [And Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment] binds us to this action." Canada ratified the UN Convention on Torture along with 139 other nations; promising to protect the inalienable right of all the world's citizens to live a life free of torture.

What is happening is that Ms. Davidson and Lawyers Against the War have laid charges against George Bush Jr; accusing him of aiding, abetting, and counseling the commission of torture. This charge is based on the abuses of the prisoners held at the U.S. prisons in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and Abu-Ghraib, Iraq including Canadian minor Omar Khadr, who has been held in Cuba since 2001.

I believe that the citizens of Canada and the world will support what we are trying to do, and will voice their outrage. We want people to know and participate in what we are doing."
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Text of e-mail sent by New York Times executive editor

October 23, 2005 by element115
...in this case I missed what should have been significant alarm bells.

I wish we had dealt with the controversy over our coverage of WMD as soon as I became executive editor.
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Prosecutor in AIPAC affair is named new U.S. deputy Attorney General

October 22, 2005 by element115
Bush announced Saturday his intention to nominate Paul J. McNulty, of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice.

McNulty is the Federal prosecutor in the cases of former defense analyst Larry Franklin, and the two former AIPAC lobbyists, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman.
The indictment charged that the three disclosed secret information about U.S. policy toward Iran and terrorism to an unnamed foreign power, identified by sources as Israel.
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Central witness to Mehlis report revealed as a paid swindler

October 22, 2005 by element115
The most prestigious German political news-magazine, Der Spiegel, revealed today that the central witness, Zuheir al-Siddiq on whom Detlev Mehlis had relied during his investigations into the assault on Rafiq Hariri, was a dubious person with a criminal record as a convicted felon and swindler. Even the UN Commission which had submitted the Mehlis report to the UN Security Council yesterday, is raising serious doubts about the reliability and credibility of al-Siddiq's declarations, since it was revealed that the alleged former officer of the Syrian secret services had in reality been convicted more than once for penal offences related to money subtraction.

The UN investigating Commission is well aware that it had been lied by Siddiq, who at first had affirmed to have left Beirut one month before the assault on al-Hariri, but then had to admit at the end of September his direct involvement in the implementation of the crime. It is quite evident by now that the witness had received money for his depositions
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Palestinians denied material to test bird flu

October 22, 2005 by element115
Palestinian Agriculture Minister Waleed Abed Rabboh says Israel has blocked the shipment into the West Bank of material needed to test for bird flu.
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Web snooping vital, spy agency boss says

October 22, 2005 by element115
The head of Canada's eavesdropping agency says it needs to own the Internet to combat terrorism.
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New York Police and Fire Departments are preparing for a nuclear attack

October 22, 2005 by element115
The FDNY says it's been training to combat threats like dirty bomb attacks or the detonation of a crude nuclear device.
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Israeli oligarch's ill-gotten loot channeled to Dubya's brother

October 22, 2005 by element115
In the past few months, Berezovsky has helped Bush promote his company in countries of the former Soviet Union that are no longer within Moscow's sphere of influence, including Ukraine, Georgia, and most recently, Latvia.

"Berezovsky is one of seven 'oligarchs,' as they are known both inside and outside Russia: massively rich, powerful manipulators who through violence, theft and corruption acquired a mammoth percentage (reports range from 70 to 85 percent) of Russia's resources, from its oil to the auto industry to mass media outlets."
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US Agent Executed As Result Of White House CIA Leak?

October 22, 2005 by element115
Wayne Madsen, a reporter and former NSA employee, has claimed, "CIA sources report that at least one anonymous star placed on the CIA's Wall of Honor at its Langley, Virginia headquarters is a clandestine agent who was executed in a hostile foreign nation as a direct result of the White House leak."
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A single molecule "nanocar"

October 22, 2005 by element115
The smallest car ever constructed - a single molecule "nanocar" just one 80 thousandth the size of a human hair - has been built by scientists at Rice University.
The nanocar has a chassis, axles and four wheels that roll.

Other research groups have created nanoscale objects that are shaped like automobiles, but study co-author Kevin Kelly, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, said Rice's vehicle is the first that actually functions like a car, rolling on four wheels in a direction perpendicular to its axles.
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'Exterminate white people'

October 22, 2005 by element115
Kamau Kambon, an author who taught in NCSU's Africana Studies program as recently as last spring, made the comments Oct. 14 during a conference at Howard University in Washington.

The conference was televised nationally by C-SPAN.

"We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem. ... So we just have to just set up our own system and stop playing and get very serious and not be diverted from coming up with a solution to the problem, and the problem on the planet is white people."
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China to shut borders if bird flu mutates

October 22, 2005 by element115
China will close its borders if it finds a single case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu there, a Hong Kong newspaper reported.
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Alpha Sets Record As 22nd Atlantic Storm

October 22, 2005 by element115
Wilma was the last on the list of 21 storm names for 2005; the letters q, u, x, y and z are skipped. The Greek alphabet has provided a continuation for the list, but it has never been used in six decades of regularly naming Atlantic storms.
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$20,000 bonus to official who agreed on nuke claim

October 22, 2005 by element115
A former Energy Department intelligence chief who agreed with the White House claim that Iraq had reconstituted its defunct nuclear-arms program was awarded a total of $20,500 in bonuses during the build-up to the war.

His officers argued at a pre-briefing at Energy headquarters that there was no hard evidence to support the alarming Iraq nuclear charge, and asked to join State Department's dissenting opinion, Energy officials say.

Ryder ordered them to "shut up and sit down."
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Leading Historian Says U.S. 'Empire' To Fail

October 22, 2005 by element115
The American empire may actually cause disorder, barbarism, and chaos rather than promote peace and order, one of the world?s leading historians, Eric J. Hobsbawm, explained last night to a packed crowd at Lowell Lecture Hall.

The American empire "will almost certainly fail," Hobsbawm said. "Will the U.S. learn the lesson [of the British Empire] or will it try to maintain an eroding global position by relying on a failing political force and a military force which is insufficient for the present purposes which the current American government claims it is designed?"
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FCC OKs VOIP Spying

October 22, 2005 by element115
...the Federal Communications Commission adopts a rule establishing that providers of facilities-based broadband Internet access services and providers of interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services-must comply with the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). This new rule will enhance public safety and ensure that the surveillance needs of law enforcement agencies continue to be met as Internet-based communications technologies proliferate.
This rule is effective November 14, 2005.
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Attack Syria? Invade Iran? ...by what Constitution?

October 22, 2005 by element115
The Bush administration seems to believe that the President has the power to make war on anybody it chooses without even having to consult with Congress. Senator Chafee observed to Secretary Rice, "Under the Iraq war resolution, we restricted any military action to Iraq." Then he asked, "So would you agree that if anything were to occur on Syrian or Iranian soil, you would have to return to Congress to get that authorization?" Rice's reply? "Senator, I don't want to try and circumscribe presidential war powers. And I think you'll understand fully that the President retains those powers in the war on terrorism and in the war on Iraq."
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Amazon 'stealth' logging revealed

October 22, 2005 by element115
Scientists from Brazil and the US say new research suggests deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has been underestimated by at least 60%.
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War on Terror fabricated says Australia's top military analyst

October 22, 2005 by element115
Most Australians have suspected for a long time that the 'war on terrorism' is a fabrication. Unfortunately, until today, the news media in Australia are still not allowed to mention what the much of the rest of the world already also suspects: that 911 was an 'inside' jub.
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Controlled Demolition of World Trade Center Is Now a Fact, Not a Theory

October 22, 2005 by element115
In two speeches to overflow crowds in New York last weekend, notable theologian David Ray Griffin argued that recently revealed evidence seals the case that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed by controlled demolition with explosives. Despite the many enduring mysteries of the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Griffin concluded, "It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt, one very important thing: the destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own government."
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Fitzgerald Launches Web Site

October 22, 2005 by element115
Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has just launched his own brand-new Web site.

Could it be that he's getting ready to release some new legal documents? Like, maybe, some indictments? It's certainly not the action of an office about to fold up its tents and go home.
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Death Watch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

October 22, 2005 by element115
White House insiders say George W. Bush's mood swings have increased to the point where meetings with the President must be cancelled, schedules shifted and plans changed to keep a bitter, distracted leader from the public eye.

"He's like a zombie some days, walking around in a trance," says one aide who, for obvious reasons, asks not to be identified. "Other times he launches into angry outbursts, cussing out anybody who gets near him."
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Bush publication ban lifted

October 22, 2005 by element115
A Vancouver lawyer has won a procedural victory in her attempt to prosecute U.S. President George W. Bush under the Criminal Code.

Bush faces prison time if the case goes to trial and he is found guilty.
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Saddam trial lawyer is found dead

October 22, 2005 by element115
Sadoun Nasouaf al-Janabi, who was seized by gunmen at his office in the Iraqi capital on Thursday evening, had been shot in the head.
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Avian flu found in parrot in UK

October 22, 2005 by element115
A parrot that died in quarantine in the UK has tested positive for avian flu, the government has said.
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Israel wants world pressure on Syria

October 22, 2005 by element115
"Israel has no interest in seeing a weakened (Syrian President) Bashar Al Assad stay in power, but only in a change of regime."
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'The Greatest Strategic Disaster in U.S. History'

October 22, 2005 by element115
...two of a number of high-ranking officers, both British and American, who say the Iraq War has not only become a quagmire, but that the Bush Administration has already lost the war.
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Judy in the Sky with Neocons

October 22, 2005 by element115
In July of 2001, Judith Miller wanted the New York Times to write that she "learned from a source about an intercepted communication between two Al Qaeda members who were discussing how disappointed they were that the United States had never attempted to retaliate for the bombing of the USS Cole. Not to worry, one of them said, soon they were going to do something so big that the U.S. would have to retaliate."
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Grandmothers protesting the war in Iraq arrested in Times Square

October 20, 2005 by element115
At least 18 grandmothers opposed to the war in Iraq were arrested today at the Times Square Armed Forces Recruiting Station.
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Saddam's Lawyer Kidnapped In Baghdad

October 20, 2005 by element115
Ten masked gunmen pulled up outside Mr Janabi's office in Baghdad's eastern Shaab district, broke into the building and dragged him out, police said.

Mr Janabi was one of 13 defence lawyers in Wednesday's session, seated at desks along the side of the courtroom.
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Patrick Fitzgerald and the NeoCons

October 20, 2005 by element115
As rumors swirl that key NeoCons are frantically speed-dialing their lawyers in PlameGate, it's important to remember that if and when Richard Perle gets handed an indictment from Patrick Fitzgerald he is the only one we know of who will have to ask -- in what case?
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US planning invasion, says Chavez

October 20, 2005 by element115
Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, says he is in possession of intelligence showing that the United States plans to invade his country.
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Prez Iraq team fought to squelch war critics

October 20, 2005 by element115
It was called the White House Iraq Group and its job was to make the case that Saddam Hussein had nuclear and biochemical weapons.
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Dangerous bugs found in water on US planes

October 20, 2005 by element115
Dangerous levels of bacteria have been found in drinking water aboard 15% of planes at US airports, an investigation carried out by the US Environmental Protection Agency has found.
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DeLay turns himself in

October 20, 2005 by element115
U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on Thursday turned himself in at the Harris County sheriff's bonding office, where he was photographed, fingerprinted and released on bond on state conspiracy and money laundering charges.

"He posted $10,000 bond and they have left the bonding office," Lt. John Martin with the sheriff's department said.
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Journalists with Security Clearances

October 19, 2005 by element115
In Kubrick's brilliant film, "Full Metal Jacket," "Joker" the enlisted "Stars and Stripes" reporter is told by the Saigon bureau chief, a marine lieutenant, that he is to go out and find good news because the "troops need it." "Stars and Stripes" is a "house" newspaper for the armed forces.

Are the New York Times and other media who have gone out to find "good news because the troops need it" house media of the government?
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Helen Thomas - Wings of Justice Honoree

October 19, 2005 by element115
When Helen Thomas was sent to the back seat of the White House briefing room because she asked "real" questions, you knew that she wasn't willing to play the banter game with Bush administration press secretaries.

She's got the stamina and the integrity to take the insults and shabby Bushevik treatment in stride. Thomas knows the future of our country is hanging in the balance -- and it's her role to point out what's at stake and who is responsible.
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Navy, Marines block commercial e-mail sites

October 19, 2005 by element115
On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps blocked all access to commercial e-mail services, such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, America Online and Google, from overseas government computers.
The block includes access to e-mail services from computers at base libraries and liberty centers that are connected to an official government network.
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Revealed: Blair's nuclear bombshell

October 19, 2005 by element115
Tony Blair is facing a political backlash over his decision to order a new generation of nuclear weapons to replace the ageing Trident fleet at a cost of billions of pounds.
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Israel redraws the roadmap, building quietly and quickly

October 19, 2005 by element115
Settler population grows as Sharon grabs more West Bank land than he returned in Gaza.
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Falsified Bush Biography Found on State Department Website (Approved by Harriet Miers?)

October 19, 2005 by element115
On September 29, 2005, investigative journalist Hugh E. Scott found a White House biography on the Internet that claimed President Bush had flown Texas Air National Guard F102 interceptors almost six years when the actual time was 27 months. The text contained other exaggerations as well.
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Cheney resignation rumors fly

October 19, 2005 by element115
...government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would elevate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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Cheney 'cabal' hijacked foreign policy

October 19, 2005 by element115
Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.
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Iraq vote counts 'point to fraud'

October 19, 2005 by element115
BBC ---> ...many provinces' figures were either too high or too low by international standards.
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Baghdad Mayor Killed

October 19, 2005 by element115
The mayor of Baghdad Hatem Mirza Hamza and his driver were killed Wednesday.
A group of gunmen opened fire in the car of the mayor and then escaped.
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Bush knew about Rove and Plame

October 19, 2005 by element115
An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair, sources told the Daily News.
"He made his displeasure known to Karl," a presidential counselor told The News. "He made his life miserable about this."

Bush has nevertheless remained doggedly loyal to Rove, who friends and even political adversaries acknowledge is the architect of the President's rise from baseball owner to leader of the free world.
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Climate Mash

October 19, 2005 by element115
Flash
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Air Force testing new transparent armor

October 19, 2005 by element115
Engineers here are testing a new kind of transparent armor -- stronger and lighter than traditional materials -- that could stop armor-piercing weapons from penetrating vehicle windows.
"The substance itself is light years ahead of glass."
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Second Cheney aide cooperating in leak probe

October 19, 2005 by element115
...several sources familiar with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald?s probe said John Hannah, a key aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and one of the architects of the Iraq war, was cooperating with Fitzgerald after being told that he was identified by witnesses as a co-conspirator in the leak. Sources said Hannah was not given immunity, but was likely offered a ?deal? in exchange for information that could result in indictments of key White House officials.
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Google Earth: the black helicopters have landed

October 19, 2005 by element115
...prove just why Google Earth will eventually provoke the complete collapse of Western civilisation.
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Internet from stratosphere 1000s times faster

October 19, 2005 by element115
A blisteringly fast data downlink provided by a stratospheric balloon floating 24,000 metres above the Earth has been tested for the first time.

The test was a success and sent data to the ground at 1.25 gigabits per second. That is thousands of times the capacity of a home broadband internet connection.
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Film rolls as troops burn dead

October 19, 2005 by element115
US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban and taunted their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensive to Muslims and in breach of the Geneva conventions.

It also filmed a US Army psychological operations unit broadcasting a message boasting of the burnt corpses into a village.
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Former CIA Analyst: Government May Be Manufacturing Fake Terrorism

October 19, 2005 by element115
"We have to be careful, if somebody does this kind of provocation, big violent explosions of some kind, we have to not take the word of the masters there in Washington that this was some terrorist event because it could well be a provocation allowing them, or seemingly to allow them to get what they want."

...the fact that if there was another major attack in the US, it would mean a martial law state (According to General Tommy Franks) and a breakdown in our freedoms.

A President acting like a King cannot be trusted, must be impeached
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Texas Court Issues Warrant for DeLay

October 19, 2005 by element115
Travis County court officials said DeLay was ordered to appear at the Fort Bend County, Texas, jail for booking, where he'd likely be fingerprinted and photographed. DeLay's lawyers had hoped to avoid such a spectacle.
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Saddam pleads not guilty

October 19, 2005 by element115
Saddam Hussein's trial has begun in Baghdad with the ousted Iraqi leader defiantly questioning the validity of the court before pleading not guilty.
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Spanish Judge Issues Warrant for Three GIs

October 19, 2005 by element115
A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers whose tank fired on a Baghdad hotel during the
Iraq war, killing a Spanish journalist and a Ukrainian cameraman, a court official said Wednesday.
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Wilma Now Most Intense Atlantic Storm Ever

October 19, 2005 by element115
Hurricane Wilma brought heavy rains to Central America and Mexico on Wednesday as it swirled into the most intense Atlantic storm ever recorded, a Category 5 monster packing 175 mph winds that forecasters warned was "extremely dangerous."
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Flexible solar panel set to revolutionize renewable energy tapping process!

October 19, 2005 by element115
Imagine being able to paint a renewable energy source on the walls of your house, without having to shell out most of your life's earnings.
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White House set up group to market war in Iraq in 2002

October 17, 2005 by element115
Very little has been written about the White House Iraq Group...
The group had eight members, including Karl Rove, the top political adviser to President George W. Bush, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and then presidential security adviser Condoleezza Rice and others, and itsmission was to market a war in Iraq.
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Torture and misery in name of freedom

October 17, 2005 by element115
By Harold Pinter who last week won the Nobel Prize for Literature

...the invasion of Iraq?
A bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of International Law. An arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public. An act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading - as a last resort (all other justifications having failed to justify themselves) - as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands upon thousands of innocent people.
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An Unholy Alliance

October 17, 2005 by element115
The American-based internet giant, AOL, wholly-owned by Time-Warner, has formed a working partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to permit unlimited surveillance of the millions of AOL online members, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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Absurd level of election fraud in Iraq

October 17, 2005 by element115
One suspected that the Iraqi government so feared a defeat there that they over-did the ballot stuffing and ended up with an implausible result.
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Israel, Iran, and the US: Nuclear War, Here We Come

October 17, 2005 by element115
The stage is set for a chain of events that could lead to nuclear war over chemical weapons in the immediate future. If these events unfold, the trigger will be Israel, the target Iran, the nuclear aggressor the U.S.
These are the reasons --->
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The Good Americans

October 17, 2005 by element115
Bush loves to talk about his bold vision and to brag about the options piled on the table, and his disciples love to hear it. Like their counterparts in 1930s Germany, these vacuous, grinning, paper-mache masses are loyal, patriotic and obedient.

They are the "Good Americans." And they also like to play dress-up. Some don robes of self-righteousness and arrogantly tout religion over christianity. Their wrathful God is back in the driver's seat, and they make no effort to conceal their disdain for His wimpy Son, Jesus, whose liberal teachings are good for nothing but making government larger, creating an expanding population of welfare bottom feeders, and cutting into the profits of hard-working entrepreneurs.
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The Heart of the Matter

October 17, 2005 by element115
What makes Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation compelling, whatever its outcome, is its illumination of a conspiracy that was not at all petty: the one that took us on false premises into a reckless and wasteful war in Iraq. That conspiracy was instigated by Mr. Rove's boss, George W. Bush, and Mr. Libby's boss, Dick Cheney."
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Get Ready for G W Bush's Next Big Job

October 17, 2005 by element115
It was not enough that Bush took our young men and women to war in Iraq, killing thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. He also helped cut the funding for the wetlands and levees that protected New Orleans, southern Mississippi and Alabama?thus, Katrina was the worst disaster in American history. Now Bush wants to hurt the poor and middle class further, with his new tax plans that have been overseen by Connie Mack, a non-intellect, but a bootlicker of the lowest sort.
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CIA leak probe 'widening to include use of intelligence'

October 17, 2005 by element115
Evidence is building that the probe conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor, has extended beyond the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name to include questioning about the administration's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence.
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Bird flu is confirmed in Greece

October 17, 2005 by element115
Greece has become the latest country to report a case of bird flu as the virus appears to spread across Europe.
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Mugabe compares Bush, Blair to Hitler at UN event

October 17, 2005 by element115
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Monday railed against U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them "unholy men" and "international terrorists" bent on world domination.

Mugabe departed from his text at a ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to accuse Bush and Blair of illegally invading Iraq and looking to unseat governments elsewhere.

"Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed (an) unholy alliance ... to attack an innocent country?" he said, occasionally gesticulating for emphasis.
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Soldier Propagandist

October 17, 2005 by element115
Was Murphy like other soldiers, giving Americans a "sincere" assesment from the field -- as Scott McClellan claimed at his White House press briefing Thursday? Or could he be part of a larger scheme -- involving already outed Seargent-cum-shill Corine Lombardo -- to covertly stack the media deck with pro-war, pro-Bush propagandists?
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Ask Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez

October 17, 2005 by element115
President Hugo Chavez will be answering your questions in a special edition of BBC' Talking Point this week.
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Yes, your printer is spying on you

October 17, 2005 by element115
...the EFF researchers were able to reveal a grid of yellow dots that provide information about the date the printout was made, as well as the printer?s serial number.
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Britain denies Iranian bomb claims

October 16, 2005 by element115
Britain has dismissed as "completely without foundation" suggestions by the Iranian leadership that UK forces were involved in twin bombings that killed five people and injured more than 100 in south-western Iran.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he suspected Britain played a role in Saturday's attacks. The ISNA students news agency quoted him as saying: "We are very suspicious about the role of British forces in perpetrating such terrorist acts."
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Chinese astronauts safely return to earth

October 16, 2005 by element115
The Shenzhou 6 spacecraft landed in Inner Mongolia early Monday morning after orbiting the earth for five days.

China is only the third nation to send humans into space without international assistance.

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West Bank shootings

October 16, 2005 by element115
Palestinian gunmen killed three Israelis in two drive-by shootings and Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian militant leader in deadliest day seen in months in the West Bank.

An Israeli military spokesman said the Islamic Jihad commander had opened fire on the soldiers, while a Palestinian witness told the Associated Press that the Israelis fired first.

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Police and/or military behind the Bali bombings

October 16, 2005 by element115
In an one hour documentary on Aussie SBS-channel - called "Inside Indonesia's War on Terror" - from Oct. 12, the former - nearly blind Indonesian President, Abdurrahman Wahid - allegedly disclosed that the Indonesian police or military were/are behind the Bali bombings.

On the SBS-site the story is not accessable right now. It reads - "This transcript is currently unavailable".
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Military police chief found dead

October 16, 2005 by element115
The senior military police investigator in Iraq has been found dead at the British base in Basra, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
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Judy Miller Can't "Recall" Her Plamegate Source

October 16, 2005 by element115
Her Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room
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Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes

October 16, 2005 by element115
Former Naval Weapons Lab Physicist and Weather Modification Expert Reveals That Government knows All About How to Control Hurricanes

Livingston asserts that hurricane control was a national priority of the government in the 60s and they had the ability to do it at that time. That was 40 years ago.
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Gitmo detainees sue the American president

October 16, 2005 by element115
Ten Saudi prisoners held in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, plan to file cases in U.S. federal courts against the American President George W. Bush; demanding to know their charges and requesting a preliminary injunction to release them, Bahrain Center for Human Rights Vice President Nabeel Rajab said, adding that the prisoners will file the lawsuits the coming couple of weeks after the U.S. Center for Constitutional Rights assigned lawyers for each of them.
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Farrakhan's 9/11 Conspiracy Remarks Unreported by Washington Post

October 16, 2005 by element115
Pierre and Harris bury Farrakhan's conspiracy theory rhetoric about the government bombing the levees in New Orleans deep into the article, and they completely ignore Farrakhan's charge that the federal government was involved in 9/11.
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It's Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby

October 16, 2005 by element115
What makes Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation compelling, whatever its outcome, is its illumination of a conspiracy that was not at all petty: the one that took us on false premises into a reckless and wasteful war in Iraq. That conspiracy was instigated by Mr. Rove's boss, George W. Bush, and Mr. Libby's boss, Dick Cheney.
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Casualties of the Bush Administration

October 16, 2005 by element115
Since almost the day he assumed power, George W. Bush has left a trail of broken careers in his wake. Below is a listing of but a handful of the most familiar names on the rolls of the fallen -->
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'Arms smugglers' seized in Kabul

October 16, 2005 by element115
British and US citizens are among eight people arrested on suspicion of arms smuggling in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Afghan police have said.
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The desperation of the neocons

October 16, 2005 by element115
This neocon last gasp at spinning on the Sunday pundit programs is a sign that Fitzgerald will soon be returning multiple indictments against Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, as well as false statement indictments against other White House officials. The desperation of the neocons this Sunday is a sign that the indictments are likely coming within the next few days. The White House is reportedly in a crisis mode unseen since the days before the buildup to the attack on Iraq. Major resignations and a reshuffling are expected in the next few weeks.
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Israel confesses to its crimes

October 16, 2005 by element115
The Israeli Army has taken preliminary procedures to implement the proposal, titled "Switching off the lights behind the escaping houses". The procedures included organising awareness campaigns to advise the senior officers on ways of using forged names to escape legal responsibilities of the savage crimes they are planning or taking part in.

This is the first time that the Israeli Army has been forced to present such a proposal on change of names of senior officers to escape arrest on war crime charges. The proposal is, in fact, a confession by the military command that senior officers of the Israeli Army have committed war crimes throughout the occupation period. This is because the proposal for falsification is an attempt in vain to hide the crimes than a sincere bid to search for evidence to prove their innocence.
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One victim's story

October 16, 2005 by element115
On each stage of his journey, as he descended further and further into the gulags and torture chambers of the war on terror, Benyam Mohammed al-Habashi was shadowed by British intelligence. The British were there in Karachi when Americans interrogated him and Pakistanis tortured him; they were feeding questions to the Moroccan torturers who took a scalpel to his penis; they stood back and watched as he was dragged to an American torture chamber in Afghanistan and then to the gulag of Guantanamo, where he languishes to this day.
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Violence in North Toledo after Nazi march canceled; mayor declares curfew

October 15, 2005 by element115
Mayor Jack Ford declared a state of emergency this afternoon following a violent uprising in North Toledo that erupted following an aborted march by a group of Nazis.

He issued a citywide curfew starting at 8 p.m. tonight, tomorrow, and possibly Monday.

North Toledo descended into chaos for several hours this afternoon after angry crowds who turned out to protest a planned march by a small group of National Socialist Movement calling themselves "America?s Nazi Party" erupted into violence.
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Bush told Blair of 'going beyond Iraq'

October 15, 2005 by element115
George Bush told Tony Blair shortly before the invasion of Iraq that he intended to target other countries, including Saudi Arabia, which, he implied, planned to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
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The Mindless American: A Tragedy In The Making

October 15, 2005 by element115
As a result of nine-eleven's jarring impact upon our nation, journalists have discovered a near paranoid rise in retaliation against individuals attempting to expose governmental malfeasance. Increasingly government officials have begun punishing individuals for nothing more than reasoned attempts to inform the American public concerning: How the military has systematically abused (tortured) foreign detainees; How the government intentionally withheld evidence suggesting that an attack upon the United States by Al Qaeda had been eminent; How the military has begun to wage war upon soldiers who, in good conscience, have come to believe that it is wrong for them to kill in a war that, according to international law, is illegal, one that, the reasons for going to war, were fabricated by the President of the United States; How the United States has a sixty-year history (1945- 2005) of assassinating foreign leaders who have chosen not to support the government?s foreign policy goals, initiating the overthrow of duly-elected foreign democracies, while simultaneously supporting brutal authoritarian dictatorships all in order to fill the coffers of America's military-industrial complex, an egregious imperialistic force with but one goal: To take command of the world economy.
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Special Forces Suicides Raise Questions

October 15, 2005 by element115
They had little in common, other than having served in Iraq with the 10th Special Forces Group based at Fort Carson, Colo. They did not know each other, and they had vastly different duties.

Each, however, committed suicide shortly after returning home, all within about a 17-month period.
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US "private military contractors" already in-country to "deal with" Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez

October 15, 2005 by element115
Intelligence agencies are revealing that US private military contractors, active in Colombia "under various contract umbrellas, including counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency" are building up to yet another attempted coup d'etat against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
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Republican Congressman Slams Bush On Militarized Police State Preparation

October 15, 2005 by element115
Congressman Ron Paul has accused the Bush administration of attempting to set in motion a militarized police state in America by enacting gun confiscation martial law provisions in the event of an avian flu pandemic. Paul also slammed as delusional and dangerous plans to invade Iran, Syria, North Korea and China.
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Another 9/11 Smoking Gun?

October 15, 2005 by element115
"...the Assistant Fire Commissioner stated I thought . . . before . . . No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. . . . I . . . saw a flash flash flash . . . [at] the lower level of the building. You know like when they . . . blow up a building. . . ?" .
In the same statement, the Assistant Commissioner recounts how a lieutenant firefighter he spoke with independently verified the flashes.

and

The captain of emergency medical services said "somewhere around the middle of the world trade center there was this orange and red flash coming out ... initially it was just one flash then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode ... and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides ... as far as could see these popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger going both up and down and then all around the building"
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Transit authority tapes showing 'Heavy Smoke Condition' below WTC on 9/11

October 15, 2005 by element115
Transit Authority conversations between motormen and dispatchers reveal a "heavy smoke situation" on transit line's 1 and 9 adjacent to and in the sublevel basement area near the North Tower just minutes before the jetliner strike.

The obscure tapes, unknown until recently discovered in official transit authority transcripts and released in the Transit Authority News, adds further credibility to the numerous eye-witness claiming to have heard explosions rock the North Tower prior to the jetliner strike.
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Orwell and the 9/11 "Intelligence Triumph"

October 15, 2005 by element115
The preface of veteran Middle East CIA agent Robert Baer's 2002 book See No Evil ends on an astonishing note: "The other day a reporter friend told me that one of the highest-ranking CIA officials had said to him, off the record, that when the dust finally clears, Americans will see that September 11 was a triumph for the intelligence community, not a failure."
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9/11 produced by vast conspiracy

October 15, 2005 by element115
We are told that on 9-11, 2001, we were attacked by a band of terrorist prodigies. 19 fanatical Arab wunderkinds of terror. They eluded our vast intelligence network and somehow managed to take out the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

We?re told the air defenses of the most aggressive military state on the planet could not get it together enough to prevent the last jihadi missile from getting to the nation?s defense center in our capital, though it had been over 70 minutes since four airliners were almost simultaneously hijacked.

We are offered no dignified explanation for the absurd collapse of WTC building 7. There is not one bit of photographic or filmic evidence of the controversial Pentagon strike, because federal agents confiscated all of it, and none of it has been released.

Why do we deny the obvious conspiracy, the one that explodes directly in front of us, smelling like cordite? When any two or more parties convene for the planning or execution of a criminal act, that is a conspiracy, and a common circumstance in any land.
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PNAC Executive Director and Neo-Con/Nazi Propagandist Called 'Real Terrorist' Behind 9/11

October 15, 2005 by element115
The head of a dangerous ultra-conservative Washington think tank is now going public to defend the neo-con's perverted war strategy, taking his "dog and pony show" on the road Tuesday where he will be speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus.

Dr. Gary Schmitt, executive director of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), the Nazi/neo-con radical rightwing group that called for a "New Pearl Harbor" in September 2000, is stepping-up the Bush administration's propaganda pitch to justify the spread of global war and terror.
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Few polling sites in western Iraq, activists claim

October 15, 2005 by element115
Human rights activists in Iraq claim there are no polling stations in parts of the predominantly Sunni province of Anbar, in western Iraq, for a referendum today on the country's new constitution.

U.S. knows how to control the votes
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US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens'

October 15, 2005 by element115
A senior United Nations official has accused US-led coalition troops of depriving Iraqi civilians of food and water in breach of humanitarian law.
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To get away with crimes, pretend to be a crime fighter

October 15, 2005 by element115
Most people think I am exaggerating when I tell them that the 9-11 "truth movement" is dominated by wolves in sheep's clothing.
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A pro-Israel lobby and an F.B.I. sting

October 15, 2005 by element115
...aipac's professional staff?it employs about a hundred people at its headquarters, two blocks from the Capitol-analyzes congressional voting records and shares the results with its members, who can then contribute money to candidates directly or to a network of proIsrael political-action committees. The Center for Responsive Politics, a public-policy group, estimates that between 1990 and 2004 these pacs gave candidates and parties more than twenty million dollars.

...aipac's leaders can be immoderately frank about the group's influence. At dinner that night with Steven Rosen, I mentioned a controversy that had enveloped aipac in 1992. David Steiner, a New Jersey real-estate developer who was then serving as aipac's president, was caught on tape boasting that he had "cut a deal" with the Administration of George H. W. Bush to provide more aid to Israel. Steiner also said that he was "negotiating" with the incoming Clinton Administration over the appointment of a pro-Israel Secretary of State. "We have a dozen people in his"-Clinton's-"headquarters . . . and they are all going to get big jobs," Steiner said.
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Bird flu has entered Europe

October 15, 2005 by element115
Lab tests confirm deadly virus in Romania.

"We have received telephone confirmation from London that it is the H5N1 virus," Alina Monea, spokeswoman at Romania's veterinary and animal health authority, told Reuters.
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Cell phone could identify its owner by their walk

October 15, 2005 by element115
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have developed a prototype of a cell phone that uses motion sensors to record a user's walking pattern of movement, or gait. The device then periodically checks to see that it is still in the possession of its legitimate owner, by measuring the current stride and comparing it against that stored in its memory.
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The White House Attacks A Reporter

October 14, 2005 by element115
Want to know how White House press secretary Scott McClellan deals with tough questions about Iraq?
By suggesting that the questioner-in this case, the curmudgeonly Helen Thomas-is soft on terror.
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Black = Smart

October 14, 2005 by element115
In what may turn out to be one of the biggest free-falls in the history of presidential polling, President Bush's job-approval rating among African Americans has dropped to 2 percent, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Hospitals to treat avian flu epidemic same as terrorist attack

October 14, 2005 by element115
President George Bush last week hinted that should an outbreak of human-to-human avian flu occur in the United States, he would use the military to force a quarantine of the infected area.
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Racism?

October 14, 2005 by element115
Chinese workers at a company in Israel have been forced to agree not to have sex with or marry Israelis as a condition of getting a job.

According to a contact they are required to sign, male workers may not have any contact with Israeli women - including prostitutes, a police spokesman, Rafi Yaffe, said.
The labourers are also forbidden from engaging in any religious or political activity.

...foreign workers, who also come from Thailand, the Philippines and Romania, say they are subject to almost slave conditions, and their employers often take away their passports and refuse to pay them.
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U.S. caught in Iraq car-bombing

October 14, 2005 by element115
It's happened again - allied troops being caught with bombs. This time it is the Americans captured in the act of setting off a car bomb in Baghdad. Last time, as FMNN reported only weeks ago, two British soldiers, apparently working for British intelligence, were caught near Baghdad similarly equipped.
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Israelis disguised as Arabs incited Palestinian youths to throwing stones

October 14, 2005 by element115
The residents said that the disguised troops told the youths to throw the stones and then joined them in doing so. When they were asked their identity, they presented themselves as Arabs.

A few months ago, the same unit was accused of similar activities in a Bil'in demonstration, after which a military court judge ruled that the unit lacks the authority to operate in the Palestinian territories.

An IDF spokesman rejected the claim that the undercover troops incited the youths, saying they joined them after stones were already being thrown.
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EU says internet could fall apart

October 13, 2005 by element115
The European commission is warning that if a deal cannot be reached at a meeting in Tunisia next month the internet will split apart.

At issue is the role of the US government in overseeing the internet's address structure, called the domain name system (DNS), which enables communication between the world's computers.
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US setting up new spying agency

October 13, 2005 by element115
...a new intelligence agency led by the CIA to co-ordinate all American overseas spying activities.
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DeLay's Phone Records Subpoenaed

October 13, 2005 by element115
A Texas prosecutor subpoenaed records for the home telephone of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and the phone of his political campaign Thursday.

Also subpoenaed by prosecutor Ronnie Earle were records for two numbers for DeLay's daughter, Danielle DeLay Ferro.
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Why do we believe in God?

October 13, 2005 by element115
Faith in a higher being is as old as humanity itself. But what sparked the Divine Idea? Did our earliest ancestors gain some evolutionary advantage through their shared religious feelings?
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Chechen rebels on the offensive

October 13, 2005 by element115
...simultaneous attacks against three police stations, the city's airport and the regional headquarters of the Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service

The militants also attacked the regional headquarters of the Russian prison system, the Emergency Situation Ministry's press office said. Interfax said a border guards' office also came under attack.
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The Nexus of politics and terror

October 13, 2005 by element115
...in the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a "terror event" - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning.
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Palestine RIP

October 13, 2005 by element115
Warning: This video has graphic images. Have a strong stomach because truth is ugly sometimes.
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Military Dictatorship USA?

October 13, 2005 by element115
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
James Madison, while a United States Congressman
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The "Broader Conspiracy"

October 13, 2005 by element115
What We Already Know About the White House Iraq Group...
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Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged

October 13, 2005 by element115
U.S. troops told what to ask, what to answer, and to make it upbeat.
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Bombs inside WTC

October 12, 2005 by element115
New York City auxiliary fire lieutenant Paul Isaac Jr. asserted, yet again, that 9-11 was an inside job. "I know 9-11 was an inside job. The police know it's an inside job; and the firemen know it too," said Isaac.

The ramifications of this statement are immense: One of New York?s own firefighters says publicly that 9-11 couldn't have been the work of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, but instead was planned, coordinated and executed by elements within our own government.

"It's amazing how many people are afraid to talk for fear of retaliation or losing their jobs," said Isaac, regarding the FBI gag order placed on law enforcement and fire department officials, preventing them from openly talking about any inside knowledge of 9-11.
There is more information related to Isaac circulating in on-line and print reports, so here again we are hearing first-hand evidence from individuals who were on the scene --->
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Vice President's role in outing of CIA agent under examination

October 12, 2005 by element115
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald have confirmed. Plame?s husband was a vocal critic of prewar intelligence used by President George W. Bush to build support for the Iraq war.
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For President Under Duress, Body Language Speaks Volumes

October 12, 2005 by element115
Bush blinks twice. He touches his tongue to his lips. He blinks twice more. He starts to answer, but he stops himself.

"I'm not going to talk about the case," Bush finally says after a three-second pause that, in television time, feels like a commercial break.
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UN: Israel citing 'security' to limit Palestinian rights

October 12, 2005 by element115
A top United Nations official accused Israel of depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the name of security.

Hina Jilani, special representative of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Human Rights Defenders, said that Israel was blocking lawyers, journalists and rights activists from monitoring potential rights abuses.
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Scientists warn of possibility of drug-resistant avian flu

October 12, 2005 by element115
US scientists warn that a drug-resistant Avian flu strain could arise with unrestrained and improper use of available drugs.
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Mystery stink hits Cardiff Bay

October 12, 2005 by element115
A mystery stench in Cardiff Bay is baffling visitors and infuriating businesses. The vile stink - which some say smells like gas and others like sewage - is so bad that it is actually making people retch in the street.
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Departing German chancellor Schroeder takes swipe at Bush

October 12, 2005 by element115
Schroeder made his comments in a speech to a trade union in Hanover in which he warned of the dangers of eroding the welfare functions of the state.

"I can think of a recent disaster that shows what happens when a country neglects its duties of state towards its people," said Schroeder.
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"He brought it on by his actions,"

October 12, 2005 by element115
A police union official and a lawyer for officers accused in the beating of a retired teacher on Wednesday sharply disputed the man's contention he was brutalized during his arrest, which was captured on video.

"I see an incident of a man trying to be brought under control who doesn't want to be brought under control," DeSalvo said.
"He brought it on by his actions," DeSalvo said.
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You're Trusting Them with WHAT?!?

October 12, 2005 by element115
In April 2005, L-3 Communicatons subsidiary Interstate Electronics Corp. in Anaheim, CA was placed under criminal investigation for providing faulty parts to the CSEL search and rescue GPS/ beacon/ communicators used by US aviators, special forces teams, et. al. - and concealing test failures.

So, naturally, they've just been awarded a contract to support the test instrumentation hardware for most of America's nuclear missile fleet, and all of Britain's.
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Iraqi MPs approve charter changes

October 12, 2005 by element115
Iraq's parliament has approved last-minute changes to the draft constitution aimed at overcoming Sunni Arab objections.
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Mystery fog engulfs Nigerian city

October 12, 2005 by element115
Nigeria's main city of Lagos has been enveloped in a thick, white, malodorous fog, which has caused panic.

Lagos' state governor closed all schools in the city and some residents have complained of irritation to their eyes and stomach pains.
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Vatican astronomer asks: Could you baptise ET?

October 12, 2005 by element115
With increasing numbers of people believing not only in the possibility of intelligent life on other planets, but even claiming encounters with aliens, it is not surprising that the Catholic Church is beginning to explore what effect the discovery of sentient ETs might have on Christian theology.
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NYT reporter testifies again in CIA case

October 12, 2005 by element115
At her second appearance before the grand jury, Times reporter Judith Miller took questions for more than an hour after turning over notes detailing her June 23, 2003, conversation with Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby. An entry in her notes referred to Joseph Wilson, covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's diplomat husband.
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