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WATCHING THE NEOCONS SQUIRM
By Peter Fredson
September 2, 2006
For the entire Bush takeover of our country I have watched and listened to his many speeches. Lately they have increased dramatically in number. But they are all the same speech. He repeats identical phrases.
How many times has he referred to 9/11? Has anyone kept count? And how many times has he mentioned Democracy, Liberty, Sovereignty, and Freedom?
What is more to the point is his Orwellian double-think application (…)

CLEVELAND (September 1) Congressman Dennis Kucinich, ranking member on the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, and his wife Elizabeth have just returned from a personal peace-building initiative in the Middle East. Their mission included war-torn Lebanon, where they met separately and at length with Lebanon Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, President Emile LaHoud, General Michel Aoun, former Prime Minister and now leader of the Progressive Patriotic (…)

Media Disinformation on 911: Anatomy of a Hatchet Job: CBC Radio’s “The Current” and Scholars for 9/11 Truth
By Prof. Michael Keefer August 29, 2006
Most of us, I would guess, are well aware of the constructed nature of the news and news commentaries fed to us daily by the corporate or “mainstream” media. We’re not surprised to find, in those cases where we have managed to obtain independent knowledge of a subject, that mainstream news stories are often only tenuously connected (…)

Posted on Fri, Aug. 25, 2006
Veterans exposed to atomic radiation lose court ruling
By Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Radiation exposure took Alice Broudy’s husband a generation ago.
This week, a court ruling sliced away at her bid for redress.
In a quiet ruling that nonetheless resonates nationwide, a federal appellate court rejected efforts by Broudy and others seeking claims on behalf of "atomic veterans." The same court simultaneously rejected bids by other (…)

By Charles Q. Choi Special to LiveScience LiveScience.com 8-31-6
Scientists have for the first time erased long-term memories in rats and also directly seen how the brain is changed by learning. The research points to potential human benefits. These findings could prove key "to understanding how memories can be augmented, for example in diseases that affect memory, like Alzheimer’s," said neuroscientist Mark Bear at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. The (…)

By Mary MacElveen
I want you all to pay close attention to this quote by the Salt Lake City, Utah mayor, Rocky Anderson as he said, “Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism” Since 9/11, many Americans have fallen victim to said blind faith with this administration flogging them all into the most brutal submission that if they dared to speak out, that they were unpatriotic. This administration has created a fascist state even more powerful than prior ones that equally destroyed those (…)

The Painful Lessons Of Hurricane Katrina Government can’t, won’t protect you
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 31 2006
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/310806katrina.htm
One year after Hurricane Katrina and the lessons remain painfully clear - the event paved the way for the standard government response to a crisis - sabotage the rescue efforts, dominate and enslave the victims, then reap the windfall from the tragedy.
Katrina was a trial balloon for (…)

By Jason Miller
Persistently ticking off the precious seconds in humanity’s "Countdown to Extinction", the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists has advanced to seven minutes of midnight. Yet despite nuclear terror unleashed on Japan, an arms race of monumental proportions, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and widespread nuclear proliferation, somehow humanity has managed avoid nuclear apocalypse for 60 years. Perhaps the virtual certainty of "mutually assured destruction" (…)

by Kathlyn Stone
Oil pipeline workers in Basra, Iraq, will resume their strike as early as Sunday if authorities do not meet the remaining demands of workers, the Federation of Workers’ Councils and Unions in Iraq said Thursday.
About 500 oil and gas workers went on strike for 48 hours beginning Aug. 22 for higher pay, overtime, timely pay and ambulances at the work site.
The oil ministry agreed to raise the salaries of workers, which average about $200 a month, but did not commit (…)

Army: Doubting Official 9/11 Story Is ‘Disloyal To The United States’
FT. SAM HOUSTON, Texas - Forty-one-year-old Sergeant First Class Donald Buswell is a hero. Having served over 19 years in the United States Army, Buswell has seen a lot of terrain. On April 15, 2004, he was injured in a rocket attack while serving a tour in Iraq. For this, SFC Buswell was given a Purple Heart. And until recently, Buswell was an Intelligence Analyst stationed at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas.
But if one were (…)