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  • Odigo says workers were warned of attack
    3 October 2005

    By Yuval Dror
    Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.
    Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed (…)

  • 23% Belong to Anti-War Movement
    3 October 2005

    Survey of 1,000 Adults
    September 26-27, 2005
    Do you consider yourself part of the anti-war movement? Yes 23% No 61%
    RasmussenReports.com
    From a political point of view, would you say that most members of the anti-war movement are... Very Liberal 31% Somewhat Liberal 26% Moderate 28% Somewhat Conservative 6% Very Conservative 1%
    RasmussenReports.com
    September 28, 2005—Twenty-three percent (23%) of Americans consider themselves part of the anti-War movement. A Rasmussen (…)

  • Bush is Falling, But the Democrats are Sinking Faster
    2 October 2005

    By RALPH NADER
    You would think that with all the troubles surrounding George W. Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress ­ from the life-costing bungling of Hurricane responses to the deepening quagmire in Iraq to the front page stories of corruption, self-dealing and national security leaks ­ you would think th Democrats would be in the ascendancy.
    Not so. The polls are plummeting for George W. Bush on a whole variety of questions, including the key approval rating being at a (…)

  • David Boren Undermines Investigation of University of Oklahoma Bomb
    2 October 2005

    by Michael P. Wright Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
    Rojan Gunaratna, author of Inside Al Qaeda, is a terrorism expert who testified before the 9/11 Commission. In his book he reports that there was an Al Qaeda cell in Oklahoma in 2001. After 9/11, Norman became famous as the residence of Zacarias Moussaoui for six months, when he was taking flight lessons there. It now appears that Al Qaeda still might be active in the community. On the evening of Saturday, October 1, (…)

  • Spineless, Tired and Uninspired. What Opposition Party?
    2 October 2005

    by Dave Lindorff
    Iraq War going to hell, with U.S casualties approaching 2000 dead and 25,000 wounded, at a cost of $200 billion and rising.
    Poverty in America on the rise in a period of supposed economic growth.
    Republican Party a cesspool of corruption.
    White House being investigated for outing undercover CIA agent.
    Abortion rights under serious threat, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
    New Orleans, just drying out from disastrous flood, being raped by (…)

  • Democrats Sink Deeper into the Ooze
    2 October 2005

    by ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
    Away to prison for three years goes Lynndie England, her pleas for mercy ignored by the military judge in Fort Hood, Texas. So who are the penalized thus far to indicate America’s revulsion over the systematic use of torture by its own forces? It tots up to a handful of rednecks.
    Scot-free go those who inherited a secret system of torture that goes back decades and who ensured that its relentless and widening application would soon bring the (…)

  • Occupied New Orleans and Homegrown Resistance
    2 October 2005

    by Mike Whitney
    The appearance of fully-armed mercenaries on the streets of New Orleans tells us that the city is currently under occupation. Whenever foreign troops are deployed within an urban area it can only mean one thing; the loss of sovereignty. It’s no different here. Blackwater mercenaries are part of a privately owned army that has seized control of the streets from their rightful owners, the people of New Orleans. They are an integral part of a much broader plan to militarize (…)

  • CONSUMER GROUP CALLS BUSH A "LAWSUIT HYPOCRITE"
    2 October 2005

    by Laurie Beacham
    The Center for Justice & Democracy (CJ&D) today called the Bush Administration “the worst kind of hypocrite” for, on the one hand, denouncing injured consumers who file lawsuits, while at the same time filing its own case for civil damages against a manufacturer whose defective product endangered the President.
    It was revealed this week that the secret service purchased for use by high level officials, including President and Laura Bush, defective bullet-proof (…)

  • Pat Robertson gets $11 million of prime American Bacon you bought
    2 October 2005

    Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe snuck $10.8 million into the funding for a highway interchange sought by evangelist Pat Robertson near his Virginia headquarters.
    "I love" Pat Robertson, Chris Casteel of the Daily Oklahoman quoted Inhofe.
    But, the Oklahoma senator says, he earmarked the money for fellow Republican Senator John Warner whose office said they had requested only $5.8 million. Inhofe admits he tossed in the extra $5 million of pork into the new federal highway bill written in his (…)

  • On the recent killing "al-Zarqawi’s 2nd in command"
    2 October 2005

    ​​​"Does Zarqawi have an infinite supply of lieutenants/deputies/aides/associates/second-in-commands/etc., or do we just arbitrarily declare that every 100th insurgent we capture or kill is "a top aide" to Zarqawi? Below is an almost comprehensive list (I’m sure I missed a few) of Zarqawi’s "top lieutenants" we’ve captured, killed, or acknowledged over the last two and a half years. I count 33."
    Kiss of Death September 27, 2005
    Some ’Intelligence’ are intelligent enough to question this (…)