Halliburton Contracts Illegal

February 15, 2005 by element115
Bush & Cheney say so what
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NSA May Be 'Traffic Cop' for U.S. Networks

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he Bush administration is considering making the National Security Agency - famous for eavesdropping and code breaking - its ``traffic cop'' for ambitious plans to share homeland security information across government computer networks, a senior NSA official says.
Such a decision would expand NSA's responsibility to help defend the complex network of data pipelines carrying warnings and other sensitive information. It would also require significantly more money for the ultra-secret spy agency.
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What We Don't Know About 9/11 Hurts Us

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LAtimes ---> Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
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Stripping Iraq's election down to its bare facts

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-- In western Anbar province, site of Falluja, only 13,893 of 574,138 eligible voters cast ballots?about 2 percent.

-- Kurdish Iraqi voters turned out in force, which is really no surprise and is actually quite ominous, if you think about it. The Kurds want independence, preferably a secular, pan-Kurdish nation that would be carved out of northern Iraq and parts of Turkey and other countries. That's something the Turks can't allow. Look for increasing friction between Turkey and the U.S. over this show of strength by Iraqi Kurds.
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Cat Stevens wins libel damages from British papers

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Pop singer turned Muslim activist Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, said he had obtained "substantial" damages against two British newspapers which alleged he had been involved in terrorism.
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Microsoft to Release New Internet Browser

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In a speech at a major security conference here, Gates said Internet Explorer 7.0, with new anti-spyware features, will be released for preliminary testing this summer.
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Livingstone won't apologize

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London Mayor Ken Livingstone refused Tuesday to apologize for comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
Livingstone told a news conference that he didn't believe he had done anything wrong.
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San Diego resident may be infected

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An unidentified San Diego resident may be infected with the same rare, aggressive and highly drug-resistant strain of HIV found last week in a New York City man who has rapidly become ill with AIDS, health officials said yesterday.
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White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs

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The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Who killed Rafiq al-Hariri?

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Although a previously unheard of outfit calling itself al-Nasir and Jihad Group in al-Sham claimed responsibility for al-Hariri's assassination, commentators said the magnitude of the blast suggested an intelligence agency was behind the explosion rather than a small group.
Reuters reported security sources as saying the explosive device was sophisticated enough to evade jamming equipment so hi-tech that al-Hariri's passing convoy would interfere with cellphones and televisions.
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The Smoking Gun in the White House

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Gannon resigned this week from his position in the elite White House press corps. An Associated Press article suggested that his resignation was fueled by a recent ?pointed? conservative question for President Bush. It also hinted at his link to several gay pornography websites. The real news story is not what the Associated Press said, but rather what they left out.

First and foremost, online bloggers are to thank for exposing this entire scandal. The White House failed to realize Gannon was using a phony name as it gave him top access, and corporate media journalists seemed to turn the other cheek while this shady character was sitting in their midst. Yet a few observant bloggers on the website DailyKos persevered in their online Mystery Machine and ultimately exposed Gannon as a fraud.
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HAARP To Install 516 More Antennas

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This equipment will be manufactured at Antenna Product Corporation's plant in Mineral Wells, Texas, and deliveries are scheduled to begin in June, 2005 and continue monthly through September, 2005. The equipment will be shipped to the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) ionospheric research site near Gokona, Alaska
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Police plan tightest-ever security for Gleneagles G8 summit

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AN UNPRECEDENTED operation to secure Scotland?s ports, airports and roads will swing into action in July to prevent anarchist protesters reaching the G8 summit at Gleneagles, according to the policeman in charge of the security operation.
He also revealed that thousands of officers on duty during the July summit could be used to form a barrier at the five-star resort amid concerns that dedicated protesters will attempt to breach the site to disrupt the meeting of world leaders including Tony Blair, Vladimir Putin and George Bush.
Civil rights campaigners have warned the police that they will be closely monitoring any attempts to restrict the movement of protesters during the build-up to the historic event, which is expected to bring parts of Scotland to a complete halt.
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Russians knew West's germ warfare secrets

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Britain and America's most guarded germ warfare secrets have been known to the Russians for decades and spies continue to operate at the heart of the West's biotechnology industry, a former KGB spymaster says today.
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Biometric device can verify age

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Technology could be used to keep children from adult sites.
Users simply place a middle finger against a device that attaches to a computer. The device uses ultrasound waves to check more than a dozen biometric attributes, including how much calcium is present (children have less than adults).
The device can then determine the probability the user is a child or an adult.
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Lawmakers looking at drug use for foster kids

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Some child advocates say that children are being too heavily medicated once they get in the foster care system. The children go into the system neurologically normal but leave neurologically damaged, one Austin psychologist said.
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Chicago Goes High-Tech with Cameras, Biochemical Sensors

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Using $53 million from a cable company settlement, Chicago will create a fiber-optic grid almost 1,000 miles long with cameras and biochemical sensors to watch for signs of terrorism, crime and traffic tie-ups, city officials announced Thursday.
The new system, dubbed the Homeland Security Grid, will include "a significant increase in the quantity" of surveillance cameras pointed at public spaces across the city, said Ron Huberman, executive director of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
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Annan raises terror threats in plea for overhaul of world security system

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Annan presented an apocalyptic warning as he lobbied for new, common steps after the deep divisions that opened up within the United Nations over the Iraq war in 2003.
"The United Nations must show zero tolerance of terrorism of any kind, for any reason," Annan said.
...he urged the European Union and the United States to work more closely as "the backbone of a new world order in the 21st century."
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Rice names Cheney 's daughter to Middle East post

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Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, will become the second-ranking U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, the State Department said on Monday.
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Bush Urges Renewal of Patriot Act

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been on the job for several days already, but Monday's ceremonial swearing-in gave President Bush the chance to push for renewal of the USA Patriot Act
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