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  • Passengers did not hear "Bomb" before Air Marshalls shot man on Airplane
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MIAMI (AP) - The passenger shot dead by air marshals in Miami had been agitated before boarding the plane and was singing Go Down Moses as his wife tried to calm him, a fellow passenger said Thursday.
    "The wife was telling him: ’Calm down. Let other people get on the plane. It will be all right,"’ said Alan Tirpak. "I thought maybe he’s afraid of flying," Tirpak said. Tirpak took his seat and Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, and his wife eventually boarded the plane. Then, a few minutes before the (…)

  • news blocked in web search engines?
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Have you noticed that if you do a web search for Walmart Video on Google, all you get is news about renting video’s from Walmart?
    There must be a way to get these engines to be picking up the 6000 showings of the "Walmart Video" as part of these searches. I’ve seen reference to showings in the brief descriptions of some entries. But I’ve been trying for 10 minutes using Google to bring up the webpage of the group that is promoting and selling that video.
    I wonder if there is some (…)

  • Annals of Outrage III
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Katrina Vanden Heuvel
    Last May, I wrote an Annals of Outrage II chronicling the waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government in the first half of 2004. Plenty of time has passed since my last piece and much has happened. Here, then, is my latest attempt to guide you through the Bush Administration’s most egregious corruption scandals. The information comes to us courtesy of the federal government’s internal investigations into administration fraud, waste and abuse. The cronyism and (…)

  • The Night John Lennon Died
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Henry Marchand
    Twenty-five years is a long time, set beside the life span of the average human being. One quarter of a century, that’s time enough to experience all the usual milestones. But sometimes it seems a blink; sometimes, something that happened twenty-five years ago remains so vivid in memory, the passage of so much time is astounding.
    Assassinations. Declarations of war. Natural disasters. Political scandals. These are the kinds of public events, as opposed to personal (…)

  • Goodbye, New Orleans
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Tidwell
    AS WE REACH THE 90-DAY mark since Katrina hit, it’s time we ended our national state of denial. Turns out House Speaker Dennis Hastert had it right all along, though his reasons were flawed. We should call it quits in New Orleans not because the city can’t be made relatively safe from hurricanes. It can be. And not because to do so is more trouble than it’s worth. It’s not. But because the Bush Administration has already given New Orleans a quiet kiss of death now that the (…)

  • Stick To A Good Lie
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STICK TO A GOOD LIE
    By Peter Fredson
    December 10, 2005
    Condi Rice, Bush’s attack dog, the Black Angel of Death, has been high-stepping around Europe lately with the fancy shoes that she bought as Katrina killed many people. I’m surprised she doesn’t wear hip-height rubber boots to wade knee-deep in all the crap she is spreading on European leaders. But she finds time to lecture Syria and Iran and constantly threaten them because that was the neocons plan years ago. She also, following (…)

  • Sacred Terror: The Global Death Squad of George W. Bush
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The much-belated, poll-prompted outcry of a few American elected officials against the widespread use of torture by the Bush Administration - following years of silent acquiescence in the face of incontrovertible evidence of deliberate atrocity - is a welcome development, of course. But it has left an even more sinister aspect of Bushist policy untouched, one that likewise has been hidden in plain sight for years.
    On September 17, 2001, George W. Bush signed an executive order authorizing (…)

  • German Papers: Does Anyone Believe Condoleezza Rice?
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Der Spiegel
    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have left Berlin, but her visit has left all sorts of bad tastes in the mouths of Germans. Nobody seems terribly convinced by her claim that America doesn’t torture. And what is "torture" anyway?
    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have left Berlin, but her lightening visit on Tuesday is still splashed across the headlines on Wednesday. Nobody, of course, expected the issues raised by Rice’s visit to disappear as soon as (…)

  • How America plotted to stop Kyoto deal
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Buncombe in Montreal
    A detailed and disturbing strategy document has revealed an extraordinary American plan to destroy Europe’s support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change.
    The ambitious, behind-the-scenes plan was passed to The Independent this week, just as 189 countries are painfully trying to agree the second stage of Kyoto at the UN climate conference in Montreal. It was pitched to companies such as Ford Europe, Lufthansa and the German utility giant RWE.
    Put (…)

  • The Age of Autism: ’A pretty big secret’
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) — It’s a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.
    But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don’t have autism.
    "We have a fairly large practice. We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we’ve taken care of over the years, (…)