Half of House Dems
may vote Hillary at DNC
“It’s a bizarre strategy,” said one Democratic strategist of the roll call.
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Chemical Used in Plastic Bottles
Is Safe, F.D.A. Says

Despite safety concerns of parents, consumer groups and politicians.
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Uncle Sam Wants Your Brain
A range of cognitive technologies that are potentially powerful -- and, perhaps, powerfully troubling.
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USAF still silent on Stephenville
The military refused to release uncensored flight logs of its planes, and claimed it couldn’t find its own radar records.
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How NASA Will Bomb
the Moon To Find Water

Blue Ice and its partners at Northrop Grumman came up with a concept .
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Skeptics question FBI case
The Justice Department considers the 2001 anthrax attacks solved, but for skeptics and conspiracy theorists, it's far from over.
(read more)

Ed Asner Wants New 9/11 Probe
“The original commission didn’t get to the bottom of anything. We need to
investigate from scratch.”
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Russian Cameraman:
CNN Aired Misleading Footage

Showed Georgians attacking South Ossetia, claimed it was Russians attacking Gori.
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Glimpse at New World Order
"What we're basically seeing," says Richard Haass, president of the CFR, "is a redistribution of power."
(read more)

US boasts of laser weapon's
'plausible deniability'

The US could convincingly deny any involvement with the destruction it causes.
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The Rise Of The Droids
The U.S. Air Force is, for the first time, converting a fighter wing from manned
F-16s to unmanned MQ-9 Reapers.
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Cop cameras don't just catch
speeders, they raise cash

3,500 on their first day. Before that,
the norm was six tickets a day.
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Cheney: attack on Georgia 'must not
go unanswered' as war expands

Hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands more fled their homes Sunday.
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Georgia: The Messy Truth
The black-and-white reading of the horrific violence overlooks the role of the ‘war on terror’ in destabilising the region.
(read more)

Fox News Host Refuses To
Talk About Russia-Georgia War,
Insists On Covering Edwards’ Affair

Of course, this is nothing new for Fox.
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China Unveils Frightening Futuristic Police State at Olympics
A backdoor to massively upgrade systems of population control and repression.
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“Mad Scientist” Ivins,
and Other 9/11 Legends

With all the blame on Ivins, the official
story has contradicted itself.
(read more)

Marijuana law goes up in smoke as federal agents raid dispensaries
"The war on drugs is out of control -
it's become a war on people."
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Classified $200m cybersecurity program
The Bush Administration is finalizing
plans to establish yet another
massive surveillance program.
(read more)

China Claims Score
In Weather Manipulation

Baoding, southwest of Beijing, received
the biggest rainfall of 100mm Friday.
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War Crimes And Cheney
We impeached a president for perjury in a civil lawsuit. We're going to proactively pardon a president who authorized torture?
(read more)

Ford told FBI about panel's
doubts on JFK murder

Two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI's conclusion.
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Video shows police punching teen 13 times in face, then tasering him
The 16-year-old had broken his back and heel when the officers began tasering him.
(read more)

Bin Laden Driver Hamdan Sentenced
to Five Years for "War Crime"

Hamdan told the jury today he worked for bin Laden because he needed a job.
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Anthrax case against bio-weapons expert 'staggering for lack of evidence'
Prosecutors could not place Ivins in New Jersey where the letters were posted.
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Oil, war, and interest rates:
Are we witnessing electioneering?

John McCain is going to be all smiles as
we approach the November election.
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Is Your Organic Food Really Organic?
Imported foods found with unacceptable pesticide levels have drawn attention to the USDA's shoddy certification process.
(read more)

Governments caused the credit crisis,
but capitalism gets the blame

"The final straw was the Fed's hopelessly slow tightening from 2004 onwards."
(read more)

U.S. Attacks Russia Through
Client State Georgia

While U.S. media obsesses about John Edwards’ extramarital shenanigans.
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Police State Madness
Dog lovers of the world unite. Our federal government's zero-tolerance anti-drug crusade reached a new low.
(read more)

Doctors must be held accountable for complying with torture, experts argue
"More doctors are involved in torturing prisoners than in treating torture survivors."
(read more)

FBI said to have stalked Ivins' family
Offered his son $2.5mil and tried to turn his hospitalized daughter against him with photographs of dead anthrax victims.
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'Anthrax Killer' a Registered Democrat
Toxic letters sent to Democratic senators were written so as to have appeared
to be from a Muslim extremist.
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An i-9/11 And i-Patriot Act?
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig details government plans to overhaul
and restrict the Internet.
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The Patsy
The media narrative is now being woven around the apparent suicide of U.S. government scientist Bruce E. Ivins.
(read more)

FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare
on Al Qaeda by White House officials

"They couldn't go from box cutters one week to weapons-grade anthrax the next."
(read more)

Justice Department likely to
shut down FBI anthrax investigation

"If all goes well, they're going to try
to wrap it up by Wednesday."
(read more)

Big Oil's biggest quarter ever: $51.5B
Profits of unparalleled size have brought withering criticism from Washington
and disgust from consumers.
(read more)

A Surge on the Homefront?
McCain suggested that military strategies employed in Iraq could be applied to high crime neighborhoods here in the US.
(read more)

Government tries to bury Anthrax story
But its only crackpots who think that
these loose ends point towards
anything sinister, right?
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Is the Bush Administration Using Blackwater Mercenaries in the DEA?
A photo from the LA Times shows
proof of one of two things.
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Senate Passes Bill
Targeting College Piracy

Sections tie college funding to "offering alternatives to illegal downloading."
(read more)

Anthrax suspect dies in apparent suicide
A top government scientist who helped
the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died.
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Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them
The “meeting took place in the
Vice-President’s office."
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U.S. Military Covers up Murder:
Says Soldier Beat Herself to Death

"There was a blood trail from outside a contractor's tent to inside the tent."
(read more)

Big Brother is watching
That sound you hear is George Orwell spinning in his grave, and the
Founding Fathers, too.
(read more)

Justice Department asks court to
keep wiretapping challenges secret

A little-reported brief filed Tuesday with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
(read more)

Citizens use YouTube
to keep government in check

"Sous-veillance might transform political engagement due to its ease of use."
(read more)

Bush signs new rules for spy agencies
Rewrites the rules governing spying by U.S. intelligence agencies, both in
the United States and abroad.
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Destroying the Evidence
As the drums beat for more war in Iran, there is a valid concern that Iran's ancient archaeological sites face risk of destruction.
(read more)

House Panel Cites Rove for Contempt
But it was not clear that the Democrats controlling a lame-duck Congress will
push their case for abuse of power.
(read more)

New Orleans Public Housing
Defenders Face Terror Charges

Activists continue to fight for people's rights to keep their homes, repression is brutal.
(read more)

Unidentified Flying Threats
The government has not investigated UFO sightings since 1969, when the Air
Force ended Project Blue Book.
(read more)

Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis?
The Internet has flourished under the principle that engineers, not bureaucrats, should solve engineering problems.
(read more)

Execution by Military
Is Approved by President

The president has the final authority
to approve capital punishment.
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Of Torture and Terrorism
New book argues that coming to
terms with legacy of secret
torture program is top priority.
(read more)

The 'worst' reconstruction case in Iraq
It cost the U.S. government $40 million to build over three years, before the entire complex was left unattended in 2007.
(read more)

Cops Tase Barely Conscious Boy
With Broken Back 19 Times

Police are trained that "pain compliance," a euphemism for torture, is acceptable.
(read more)

Army recruiters threaten
high school students

The struggle to bring in new U.S.
Army recruits is heating up again.
(read more)

Marginalization of “Third” Parties
The progressivist media has excluded
or severely marginalized progressivist “third” party candidates.
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