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Ashcroft's Desperate 18-City Tour to Propagandize for the Unconstitutional and Unpopular USA Patriot Act
MSNBC
Ashcroft and his top aides are worried that a grassroots campaign to roll back the Patriot Act is gaining momentum. More than 140 local governments—including three states—have passed resolutions condemning the act as an infringement of civil liberties.
His Tour Is Also a Launch Pad for Another Piece of Draconian Legislation -- The Victory Act
Infowars.com
Check out this .pdf file of the draft of the Victory Act, which includes provisions for "administrative subpoenas" -- search warrants automatically issued by the clerk of court, requiring no judge sign-off
Momentum growing against Patriot Act, government tries to shore up support
SF Chronicle
In the two years since passing the Patriot Act, lawmakers have grown uneasy over Attorney General John Ashcroft's use of the expanded surveillance and detention powers. Not only are they leery of his requests for even greater authority, they are moving to curtail some of the tools they granted in the law.
Court: Fake checkpoints OK in search for motorists' illegal drugs
CNN
Colorado police can set up fake checkpoints in hopes of sniffing out illegal drugs, an appeals court ruled in a case where camouflage-clad officers spied on fans during a bluegrass festival in 2000.
Backers of RFID chips banking on Alien concept
Business Journal
The prediction that one day every consumer product will include an electronic chip tracking its every movement from manufacturing plant to store shelf and beyond may not be as sci-fi as it sounds. At least that's what more than a dozen investors in Morgan Hill-based Alien Technology Corp. are hoping.
Treating Your Children Like Prisoners and Conditioning Them for the Police State: S.C. Highway Patrol to start riding school buses
NBC6
South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers are going to start riding on buses and following them in unmarked cars or on motorcycles.
Principal: Parents need ID to pick up kids
St. Petersburg Times
Citing safety concerns and state law, Austin announced Thursday that the school no longer will release students to parents without proper identification. Parents can continue to pull up in their vehicles and pick up students, but they no longer may park - on or off campus - and then wade through the busy parking lot to pick up their children. Parents and children will be given matching cards to help with identification, Austin said.
DARPA's Running Man Website
NORTHCOM to Launch Massive Bioterrorism Test in Nevada
AP
The exercise, dubbed Determined Promise '03, includes a simulated hurricane, real and simulated wildfires, an airborne terrorist threat in Alaska and an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Nevada.
Factories Move Abroad, as Does U.S. Power
New York Times
More than half of the manufactured goods that Americans buy are made abroad, up from 31 percent in 1987. If we continue on our path of ceasing to make merchandise that others want to buy from us, the danger is that these imports will be unaffordable for our descendants.
Trading with the enemy
UPI
It was the 9/11 terrorist attacks that gave life to the prospect of a historic deal on trade. When the world's trade ministers gathered at Doha, in the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar, just two months after al-Qaida's attacks on New York and Washington, the wave of sympathy for the United States helped lubricate the trade talks.
An Invitation To Terrorists?
Time
In those first few moments when the power went down, who didn't wonder: Is this the work of terrorists? Within an hour, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg assured us it was not. Yet we are left with a nagging worry: Even if this was an accident, could terrorists pull off something similar?
W. Nile shot will get trial in Colorado
Denver Post
Researchers across the nation have raced to create the first generation of vaccines to safeguard not just humans but also birds, key players in the spread of West Nile. The only vaccine on the market, an equine vaccine snapped up by veterinarians as well as zoos, lessens symptoms and improves the chances vaccinated horses will survive West Nile.
'How to be Gay' course draws fire at Michigan
Washington Times
A course called "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation," scheduled this fall, has reignited a culture war at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A family-values lobbyist is leading public opposition to the self-proclaimed "uncompromising political militancy" of the professor who teaches "lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender."
US public faces bill for power upgrade
Financial Times
US consumers were warned on Sunday they would bear the brunt of the cost of updating the nation's power grid - put by some observers at up to $50bn - following the biggest power failure ever to hit North America.
Bush blamed for chaos which led to blackouts
London Independent
The Bush administration rushed to defend itself yesterday from accusations that reluctance to upset its friends in the energy industry was to blame for the regulatory chaos leading to last week's massive power blackout across the north-eastern United States and Canada.
First It's the Lights... Now Gas Runs Short in Arizona
The Arizona Republic
After days of skyrocketing gas prices, local drivers encountered more bad news at the pump Sunday: No gas at all.
Study: 9/11-Style Attack on U.S. Likely Yahoo
Another Sept. 11-style terrorism attack is "highly likely" in the United States, which ranks fourth in an index assessing the risk to 186 countries, a research company said Sunday. Illegal Immigrants Buy Into Homeowning Dream
Washington Post
Real estate agents and mortgage brokers say a substantial number of illegal immigrants across the Washington region appear to be finding similar ways to buy their first homes -- their purchases just one more example of the extent to which the nation's estimated 9 million undocumented immigrants have become integrated in American society even as they remain outside the legal system.
Arnold & Buffett's 2002 Rothschild Rendezvous
Yet Another Arnold-NWO Link. Check out this AP story, archived on an Arnold Schwartzenegger fan website, which documents Arnold's and Buffet's 2002 meeting in the Rothschild ancestral home.
Buffett pumps up Arnold's election bid World-Herald
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has signed on as the financial and economic adviser to Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign for governor of California, a move political observers say gives the action-movie hero an Arnold-sized shot of credibility.
Schwartzenegger's Nazi and New World Order Links
The New World Order's darling, Arnold's Nazi links start with his father and go on-- here's the truth on Schwartzenegger's backers from Bohemian Grove to Karl Waldheim. Infowars.com-- click here
Schwartzenegger's Nazi and New World Order Links Revealed
His father was a Nazi and he campaigned for Kurt Waldheim. He was tapped for the Gubernatorial run at the occult-entrenched Bohemian Grove.
Bloomberg
U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's staff helped form the strategy that led to the exposure of David Kelly, the government weapons adviser at the center of allegations that ministers overstated the case for war in Iraq, an inquiry into Kelly's death was told today.
"A Game of Chicken": Number 10's Kelly role outlined BBC
The prime minister's chief-of-staff, Jonathan Powell, said senior officials did not consider the strain and burden that might be imposed on Dr Kelly in being publicly named as the suspected "mole" for a BBC claim Downing Street "sexed up" a dossier on Iraq's weapons.
Blair to give evidence at Kelly inquiry
In Depth: The Mysterious Death of Dr. Kelly
For complete coverage of the scientists "suicide" visit infowars.com's archive, featuring news articles and photos.
Howard push for Pacific union
The Age
The Howard Government has proposed a radical plan for Pacific nations to adopt the Australian dollar, amalgamate key services and set up a regional unit to fight transnational crime and terrorism
US to send signal to North Koreans in naval exercise
The Bush administration, while preparing for talks soon with North Korea, is also stepping up military pressure with plans for a joint naval exercise next month to train for interdicting at sea arms and other materials being transported to and from the North.
S Korea fires on N Korean boat
ABC News
According to Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the 10-tonne North Korean boat crossed into South Korean waters this afternoon.
Man jailed over house extension BBC
A Telford man has been jailed for three months for refusing to pull down an unauthorised extension he built to his house.
Journalists: "It Was Clear He Was a Newsman" -- Reuters Photog Shot Dead in Iraq by US Army While Videotaping Near US-Run Prison
FOX News
Mazen Dana, 41, was shot and killed by U.S. soldiers Sunday while videotaping near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. The U.S. Army said its soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Flashback: Report Says U.S. Did Target Media Outlets In Gulf War II
American Free Press
A newly released report notes that during the coalition air assault on Iraq, Central Command “authorized” bombing strikes against “media facilities” in which a number of journalists were killed and employed weapons that human rights groups want banned.
U.S.-based CPJ wants probe of Reuters man's death
Forbes
The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called for a full investigation into the killing of award-winning Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana, who was shot dead by U.S. troops in Iraq on Sunday.
Military's "Funny" Elvis-Saddam Sightings Mean to Distract and Placate Bored American Masses Who Have Been Distracted from Reality TV Shows by Boring War Footage
Ananova
Methods to "enrage" Saddam include posting Saddam's head on Zsa-Zsa Gabor's body. Where will Goldstein turn up next?
What a Coincidence! Lights Go Out Atop St. Peter's Basilica London Guardian
The lights went out atop St. Peter's Basilica, robbing the Rome skyline of one of its most evocative images and leaving tourists wondering if Vatican City had suffered a blackout.
Nanotechnology's Military Applications -- Tiny Tech Could Become a Big Part of National Security
BBC
Nanotech students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have received a $50 million (£32 million) grant from the US Army, which is hoping for long and short term results.
From Urban "Centibots" to the MATRIX system, DARPA is Engineering the Beast System
Surveys show that on US college campuses over 70% of all science funding comes directly from DARPA. DARPA is the successor to ARPA, a federal bureaucracy created in 1958 to push forward scientific research with potential military applications.
Scientists tout the potentials of nanoscience KRT
Some scientists think the world will be fundamentally altered within 20 years. To get to that new world, they'll need powerful microscopes
Freak Science: Male Moms
The Globe and Mail
The spectre of male pregnancy, though remote in the short term because of health risks, could have broad implications as Canada moves to legalize gay mairriage.
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