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By Robert Miranda
Wisconsin Governor Doyle’s administration will be holding a public hearing in Milwaukee on December 1st to ask corporate oil executives questions about record profits their companies amassed in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Under the authority of Wisconsin’s trade and consumer protection law, the Governor has subpoenaed oil company executives to appear in Wisconsin for this public hearing. Those served with subpoenas are: David O’Reilly, Chairman and CEO of (…)

by Brendan Coyne
Joining the efforts of a government-founded national organization devoted to finding a workable solution to growing problems with the United States’s healthcare system, one of the nation’s largest unions yesterday announced its intention to actively engage members in the conversation. The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) is the first labor union to join the two-year-old Citizens’ Health Care Working Group.
According to information compiled by the Working Group, (…)

by Ari Berman
Over the Senate’s August recess, John McCain returned to Arizona to quash a brewing conservative insurgency in his home state. The Arizona Republican Assembly, a grassroots right-wing group, had recently censured McCain for "ignoring the opinions of his constituents expressed in numerous polls and personal pleas." The anti-immigrant Minuteman vigilantes had rallied on the Arizona-Mexico border in protest of his progressive immigration policy. Discord gripped the state GOP (…)

Former staff chief says Cheney’s ’flexibility’ helped lead to abuse
WASHINGTON - A former top State Department official said Sunday that Vice President Dick Cheney provided the "philosophical guidance" and "flexibility" that led to the torture of detainees in U.S. facilities.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Larry Wilkerson, who served as former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff, told CNN that the practice of torture may be continuing in U.S.-run facilities.
"There’s no question (…)

by SCOTT FOUNDAS
In the fourth Harry Potter film, the adventures are more perilous, the spells more powerful and the young wizards’ own bodies roiling with tempests of pubescent emotion. In the end, someone even dies. Yes, true to the prerelease hype, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is most definitely not kids’ stuff - the film, and the lives of its characters, have graduated to a PG-13 rating - and as one who has never read so much as one page of one Potter novel, I can only imagine (…)

By Nicholas Wapshott in New York
An exhibition celebrating the life of Charles Darwin has failed to find a corporate sponsor because American companies are anxious not to take sides in the heated debate between scientists and fundamentalist Christians over the theory of evolution.
The entire $3 million (£1.7 million) cost of Darwin, which opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York yesterday, is instead being borne by wealthy individuals and private charitable donations. (…)

BEST SPEECHES MONEY CAN BUY
By Peter Fredson
November 24, 2005
By now everyone knows that all of the Bush speechwriters use Newspeak liberally. This is the fine art of making white appear to be black, war to be peace, incompetence appear to be clever leadership, torture to be simple college pranks, corruption appear to be bookkeeping mistakes, with death and destruction appearing to be joyous preparation for a wonderful eternal world of the future.
Everyone knows that a loyal (…)

by LAURA FRIEL
Collusion: Gerry Adams details among hundreds leaked
The British government tried to suppress it. British sources briefed the media it was a "non story". The PSNI refused to comment and the then British NIO Minister Ian Pearson insisted, "There were no indications the material had fallen into the hands of paramilitaries."
Over a year after secret files containing the personal details of up to 400 republicans and nationalists were stolen from offices used by covert (…)

Brazil’s police ’execute thousands’
By Angus Stickler
Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil, a BBC investigation has found.
The authorities say it is mainly criminals caught in military-style raids on drug gangs but according to a former senior official, new evidence suggests that many of the shootings are cold-blooded executions conducted by the police.
Former police ombudsman Professor Julita Lemgruber has told BBC World Service’s Assignment (…)

It is interesting to note, that especially in the 20th and now the 21st century that the business of banking is the LARGEST and MOST powerful business in the world, claiming secretly ownership of most of the worlds resources, lands, labor forces, and markets. It is interesting because the financial news is full of information about such mind control topics about price of stocks, housing, labor, and a number of other so-called economic factors. But in a system that affects us all it has not (…)