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Warrantless Spy Program Monitoring Peoples Thoughts
From President Richard M. Nixon To George W. Bush
The CIA, obviously, was not afraid of the oversight committees (a dog and pony show for the American people) that were set up to watch over the intelligence community in the 70’s when their CEPO program appears to have first come online. From what I’ve been able to gather, the CIA’s, CEPO program, was a program to detect if a person is lying and/or telling the truth, monitoring peoples (…)

British anger at terror celebration By Ned Parker and Stephen Farrell
The commemoration of Israeli bombings that killing 92 people has caused offence
AS ISRAEL wages war against Hezbollah “terrorists” in Lebanon, Britain has protested about the celebration by right-wing Israelis of a Jewish “act of terrorism” against British rule 60 years ago this week.
The rightwingers, including Binyamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister, are commemorating the bombing of the King David Hotel in (…)

Fighting Back Against The PR Presidency By Walter Pincus July 13, 2006 The Summer 2006 issue of Nieman Reports is about "Reflections on Courage." Veteran Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus thinks that Washington editors and reporters should be brave enough not to cover any statements made by the president or any other government official that are designed solely as a public relations tool, offering no new or valuable information to the public.
Courage in journalism today takes all (…)

Bush’s Bloodbath In Babylon: "Coincidence" And Consequences By Chris Floyd July 18, 2006 Neighbors are Killing Neighbors (Washington Post): After more than a week of some of the most vicious sectarian violence of the war, Baghdad is a skeleton of a city: Many of its shops are shuttered, its streets drained of people.The violence erupted July 9 when Shiite Muslim militiamen rampaged through the al-Jihad neighborhood and killed dozens of Sunni Arabs. By Friday, the sixth day, the death toll (…)

How To Pre-Empt A "November Surprise" By Mark Crispin Miller July 18, 2006 If the GOP should lose the House and/or the Senate on Election Day, they will pick out a handful of the "closest" races—as many as they need to hang on to majority control—and start to scream like hell about ELECTION FRAUD. That’s right: the major perpetrators of such fraud will cast themselves as victims of the very crime that put them where they are, and charge the Democrats with having used the very tactics (…)

Man In Coma For 19 Years Asks To Go Back To Sleep By Andy Borowitz Posted on Jul 14, 2006 In what members of the medical community are calling an unprecedented development, a man who recently awoke from a 19-year coma has asked doctors to put him back to sleep.
At a press conference in Jacksonville, Fla., today, the man, Jason Deloit, 43, told reporters that at first he was excited to be conscious again, “But then I turned on the TV.”
Mr. Deloit said that the first images he saw on (…)

REPORT: Oman Trade Pact Permits Foreign Ownership Of US Nat’l Security Assets By David Sirota 7.18.06 In an explosive report tonight, top House Democrats discovered provisions in the controversial Oman Free Trade Agreement that would permit foreign ownership of U.S. ports and other key national security assets. Three Democrats and one Republican held an emergency press conference today to expose the provisions just before the House is scheduled to vote on the Oman pact on Thursday. As (…)

Is Anyone Still Listening To The Flaming Bush? By Leon Hadar July 14, 2006
Please name the US presidential candidate who made the following point during the 2000 race for the White House: "I think that one of the problems that we have faced in the world is that we are so much more powerful than any single nation has been in relationship to the rest of the world than at any time in history, that I know about anyway, that there is some resentment of US power. So I think that the idea of (…)

Cowboy My Foot By Charley Reese July 19, 2006
It’s amazing how journalism can create instant myths, especially in this age of the Internet and television. Time magazine’s big story about the Bush administration ending "Cowboy Diplomacy" is a good example.
Time writes a lead story asserting that there’s been a big change in President Bush’s approach to foreign policy, and the television chatter heads pick up on it and talk it to death.
In the meantime, nothing has changed in the Bush (…)

Who Is Hoekstra’s Secret Source? Russell Tice May Not Be The One Who Tipped Off Rep. Peter Hoekstra, But He Wanted To Be By Leah A. Nelson WEB ONLY July 19, 2006 Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) must be enjoying himself. Since the New York Times released his May 18 letter to President Bush in which Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, condemned the intelligence community for keeping secrets from Congress, he has been feted as a Republican who is willing (…)