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  • Hamilton Bank, Ex-CIA Operatives, & 9-11 Hijackers
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wayne Madsen
    Researchers and investigators have uncovered links between a Miami bank that collapsed in 2002 amid a fraud scandal that was highlighted by billions of dollars in questionable cash and fraudulent loans and money movements linked to the Bush family and businesses linked to funding pilot training for the 9-11 hijackers. After the collapse of Hamilton Bank of Miami, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), an entity that WMR has reported has been transformed by the (…)

  • TRAILER CASH: US paying $3,300/month to lease trailers for Katrina victims
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If FEMA could distribute the fortune spent on trailers directly to those in need of housing, the recipients might find a much nicer place to live, and even have money left over for home repairs. But there’s a catch: That’s illegal
    Those displaced by Hurricane Katrina and seeking a temporary trailer don’t get to kick the tires or discuss financing plans, but a look at the ultimate sticker price might make them wish they could: $59,800.
    That’s the cost to taxpayers for the trailer’s (…)

  • Hearings, lawsuit slam Bush spying defense
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - The White House has unleashed a hard-line defense of the Bush administration’s spying on Americans without a warrant, claiming that only “credible threats” linked to al-Qaeda have been under surveillance and the snooping is necessary to protect “national security.”
    Conveniently, a new Osama bin Laden tape diverted attention from a tidal wave of angry questions about the spying. But targets of the eavesdropping called it a dangerous assault on their constitutional rights, aimed (…)

  • Some activists, politicians speaking openly about impeachment
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - The word "impeachment" is popping up increasingly these days and not just off the lips of liberal activists spouting predictable bumper-sticker slogans.
    After the unfounded claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and recent news of domestic spying without warrants, mainstream politicians and ordinary voters are talking openly about the possibility that President Bush could be impeached. So is at least one powerful Republican senator, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman (…)

  • US plans to ’fight the net’ revealed
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military’s plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
    Internet cafe in Iraq The document says information is "critical to military success"
    Bloggers beware.
    As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer.
    From influencing public opinion (…)

  • US diplomat flees Venezuela rather than face charges of CIA espionage
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Prensa Latina: The naval attache of the US Embassy in Venezuela, John Correa, has left the country after his participation in an espionage case involving several Venezuelan low-ranking officers was revealed.
    When he realized the espionage network had been discovered, Correa organized the escape of several of the officers involved to Miami, and then he fled when Venezuelan authorities called him up for a meeting, according to a report on Friday’s VEA newspaper.
    Vice President Jose (…)

  • How do you like your democracy now, Mr. Bush?
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hamas’ stunning victory underlines the contradictions and hypocrisies in Bush’s Mideast policies.
    By Juan Cole
    Jan. 27, 2006 | The stunning victory of the militant Muslim fundamentalist Hamas Party in the Palestinian elections underlines the central contradictions in the Bush administration’s policies toward the Middle East. Bush pushes for elections, confusing them with democracy, but seems blind to the dangers of right-wing populism. At the same time, he continually undermines the (…)

  • Pace of US Economy’s Growth Slowest in Three Years
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Alan Fein
    (AXcess News) New York - The US Commerce Department economic report, released Friday, shows that the US economy grew at the slowest pace in three years, rising only 1.1 percent in the last quarter of 2005.
    The economic Report states that for the year, the US economy grew 3.5 percent in 2005 overall.
    The nation’s growth in gross domestic product (GDP) rose a brisk 4.1 percent in the third quarter, in sharp contrast to the 1.1 percent growth in GDP in the fourth-quarter that (…)

  • Abrupt slowdown of US economy in last quarter
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    United States economic growth slowed to its weakest rate in three years in the last quarter of 2005 ending the year with an overall expansion of 3.5%, down from the 4.2% of 2004.
    The US economy grew at an annual rate of 1.1% from October to December, compared with 4.1% in the previous three months. The drop was caused by reduced consumer spending amid soaring fuel prices, while the government also tightened budget expenditure post-Hurricane Katrina.
    However economists predicted the drop (…)

  • Bursting Hollywood’s ’Bubble’
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Steven Soderbergh’s new flick just might be the end of the megaplex.
    By Monica Mehta
    Q: A movie you want to see is releasing today in simultaneous formats. Would you rather:
    1. See it in your living room, where it will air on pay-per-view cable TV at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.? 2. Go to a theater and see it on a big screen? 3. Wait four days, when it comes out on DVD, and buy and see it then?
    Today, the movie industry will have America’s answer to this question.
    It’s the first time a (…)