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White House denies lump a radio receiver
By Elisabeth Bumiller
WASHINGTON - What was that bulge in the back of President Bush’s suit jacket at the first presidential debate in Miami?
A still photo from television footage of Bush as he debated Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry on Sept. 30 in Coral Gables, Fla., appears to show a small, boxy shape between the president’s shoulder blades.
According to rumors racing across the Internet, the bulge was a radio receiver, transmitting (…)

What would happen if Americans started to wonder about the roots of the terrorism of Islamic fanatics? Won’t there be some who would argue that America got into the Clash of Civilizations with the Muslim world only because of Israel?
by URI AVNERY
About a hundred years ago, the Russian Czar’s secret police cobbled together a document they called the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The "authors" were not particularly original - they took a satire, written decades earlier about Napoleon (…)

By John Leyden
The FBI yesterday seized a pair of UK servers used by Indymedia, the independent newsgathering collective, after serving a subpoena in the US on Indymedia’s hosting firm, Rackspace. Why or how remains unclear.
Rackspace UK complied with a legal order and handed over hard disks without first notifying Indymedia. It’s unclear if the raid was executed under extra-territorial provisions of US legislation or the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). Provisions of (…)

Just sitting next to a friend who expresses an anti-Bush opinion can get you into big Secret Service trouble in George W. Bush’s United States.
By Frederick Sweet
Recently on Michael Feldman’s National Public Radio show “Whaddya Know?” a high school junior told the audience how he and his friend had recently been stopped on a city bus by the Secret Service.
The two high school students had obtained tickets from an insurance company to attend a pro-Bush campaign rally. Evidently, before (…)

by Madeleine Baran
Civil liberties and immigrant rights advocates say House Republicans are using legislation based on the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations as cover to implement a series of troubling, un-related reforms condoning torture, limiting immigration and increasing surveillance of both non-citizens and citizens.
The House will vote on the 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act this week. Opponents say the Republican leadership rushed the legislation to the floor without much (…)

An article published in the Current Research in Social Psychology journal has revealed that when the US government issues a terrorist warning, presidential approval ratings jump by leap and bounds.
Robb Willer, the assistant director of the Sociology and Small Groups Laboratory at Cornell, tracked 26 instances of federal agency report that showed an increased threat of terrorist activity in the United States between February 2001 and May 2004.
Simultaneously he also tracked the 131 (…)

by Justin Raimondo
Amid the back-and-forth between the Bushies and the Kerry camp, one campaign season fusillade has gone largely unnoticed. Fundie nut-job Pat Robertson exposed the real heart and soul of his movement of moonbats the other day at a news conference in Jerusalem, where he threatened to withdraw his support from the GOP:
"’The President has backed away from [the road map], but if he were to touch Jerusalem, he’d lose all Evangelical support. Evangelicals would form a third (…)

By Bob Gibson / Daily Progress staff writer
Americans who think they are holding a single national election for president on Nov. 2 may be surprised to learn there will be 51 somewhat separate and distinct elections to decide whether Republican George W. Bush or Democrat John F. Kerry will be in the White House on Jan. 21.
For instance, if terrorists try to disrupt the presidential elections by bombing polling places on the morning of Nov. 2, some states may continue voting that day (…)

By Michael Shore WHO BELIEVES THE LIE THAT ANYONE CAN BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A.? The Illuminati rule America! Who are the super rich "elite" Illuminati and their associates? The Queen of England, her husband Prince Philip and the Royal House of Windsor, the hierarchy on the board of directors of the Vatican, including the Pope; the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, Duponts, Fords, Carnegies, Melons, Bush’s etc. To get the details of who the Illuminati are, put Illuminati in (…)

by Erik Fortman
Yes, I said it. The Republicans love Communist China. It was Nixon who turned public opinion in support of their terroristic, Communist regime. In modern times, the Bush Pentagon’s new “world map” indicates that China is our military ally! What the heck is going on here? I understand that Bush is better than Kerry. In this case, lesser-evilism still wreaks mucho evil.
It was a Democrat who took us to fight China’s onslaught into Vietnam, and a Republican who retreated. It (…)