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Adrian Murtagh gains experience as fraudster at Marriott Harrison, then finds a place at government agency where he can put those skills to work
LONDON, ENGLAND — (OfficialWire) — 02/12/06 — Adrian Murtagh (shown here), a former solicitor with City firm Marriott Harrison has found a home at The Financial Services Authority (FSA), in the United Kingdom.
According to The Law Society, Murtagh is now working for the FSA-an independent body that regulates the financial services industry in (…)

The Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (…)

Watch a 9 minute video with Dr. Helen Caldicott explaining what the world’s fate will be should George Bush and/or Vladimir Putin get their nuclear wires crossed and launch thousands of nuclear warheads.
With almost a dozen nukes pointed at all 250 cities in the Northern Hemisphere in every country (w/over 50,000 people each), a strike against Iran, a technical mistake, a drunken rage or even an accident could very well be the flash point which sets an irreversible nuclear, worldwide (…)

Federal Food Policy & Organic Inconsistencies
by Joshua Frank - February 11, 2006
Healthy living has become the national obsession these past few decades. Awareness about food’s nutritional content is also on the rise — many health conscious Americans are concerned with the quality and content of the food they are scarfing down every day.
As these interests have grown, so has the organic food movement. Organics, as the general definition puts it, are products that are not grown (…)

By Barry Chamish
Imagine a dozen cartoons serving the same purpose as Pearl Harbor or Sarajevo, being the final straw that led the planet into world war. Now imagine the cartoons were a staged event, designed purposely to drag us into unimaginable violence. If that is the case, then those who foisted the plot on an unsuspecting world, would be guilty of super-mass-murder.
And what if the latest candidate for the Attila the Hun award goes to Daniel Pipes? That is precisely what is being (…)

Providence, RI - U.S. Senate Candidate Carl Sheeler (D-RI) has challenged his Democratic running mates, Sheldon Whitehouse and Matt Brown, by mail and by phone to support his efforts to call on both Congressmen James Langevin and Patrick Kennedy to support US Representative John Conyers (D-MI) in his impeachment proceedings.
Sheeler, a Marine veteran and self-described 70’s style Democrat, has been tireless since July 2005 in his efforts to call for the withdrawal of our troops in Iraq: (…)

It is genuinely astonishing...but true. The vast majority of the Republican Congress seem to be saying to the world "He’s our President, right or wrong" !
Bush lied us into the war (a criminal act), but "He’s our guy"
Bush ran up the largest budget and trade deficits in history, but "He’s OK"
Bush has presided over huge oil price increases, seriously harming the public, but "He’s not a bad man"
Bush has sneaked into the outrageous new budget his Social Security privatization plan (…)

By ROBERT FISK
So now it’s cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed with a bomb-shaped turban. Ambassadors are withdrawn from Denmark, Gulf nations clear their shelves of Danish produce, Gaza gunmen threaten the European Union. In Denmark, Fleming Rose, the "culture" editor of the pip-squeak newspaper which published these silly cartoons—last September, for heaven’s sake—announces that we are witnessing a "clash of civilisations" between secular Western democracies and Islamic societies. This does (…)

by Michael Brune
Our president almost came clean in his State of the Union speech last week when he finally admitted that "America is addicted to oil." That addiction threatens our national security, our environmental health and our way of life.
It is true that our leaders are exhibiting the classic signs of an addiction denial, aggression, avoidance, blaming others and as a country we are falling far short of reaching our full potential.
America’s stubborn dependence on oil erodes our (…)

Some Prescription Denials Have Heightened Distress
By Susan Levine
Even among the incident reports crossing Craig Knoll’s desk weekly now, this one stood out: A 43-year-old client of Knoll’s mental health agency, a man who suffers from bipolar disorder, had come from his pharmacy frustrated to the point of meltdown. There were snags in his new Medicare drug plan. Of his four medicines, it would fill only two.
"I’m not going to take any of them anymore," he yelled, according to the (…)