From fake fat Bin Ladens to mobile weapon trucks, we've been lied to so many times. Remember this is the same Pentagon that had hundreds of fake letters planted in Newspapers across the country. It may be Saddam, it may be not. It may be a Hollywood production. We all saw Forest Gump shake hands with Kennedy...

Is it real?

Saddam Hussein arrested in Iraq

BBC

"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," US administrator Paul Bremer told journalists in Baghdad, to loud cheers from Iraqis in the audience.

FBI Applies New Rules to Surveillance

Washington Post

The result is that the FBI, unhindered by the restrictions of the past, will conduct many more searches and wiretaps that are subject to oversight by a secret intelligence court rather than regular criminal courts

The Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works

MSNBC

Picture, if you will, an information infrastructure that encourages censorship, surveillance and suppression of the creative impulse. Where anonymity is outlawed and every penny spent is accounted for.

How to delete your child's DNA from databank in Michigan

Politech

Parents with children born in the State of Michigan can request that their children's blood samples be destroyed

Terrorizing Our Kids: Idaho Students Injured by Paintball Guns Fired by Police During Suprise Mock Hostage Drill

ABC

AT LEAST FOUR TEENS SAY THEY WERE INJURED, WHEN POLICE FIRED PAINTBALLS AT THEM DURING A HOSTAGE DRILL.

The Sheriff's Department's “decal controversy” is sticking around 17KGET It all surrounds a patrol car, which carried a message some found offensive. The car decal said, "We'll Kick Your Ass".

Oregon to get Homeland Security funding

FOX 12

The federal agency created after the September 11 terrorist attacks to
coordinate domesticsecurity. It will award a $2.6 million grant to social service agencies and charities in Oregon.

GPS Car Tracking Technology

VBox

The VBOX is a powerful new instrument used for measuring the speed and position of a moving vehicle. It is based on a new generation of high performance satellite receivers, and will measure acceleration figures, braking distances, lap times, cornering forces and much more

The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals

London Guardian

The brother of President George Bush, the Florida governor, Jeb Bush, has been instrumental in securing the release from prison of militant Cuban exiles convicted of terrorist offences

White House verifies immigration review

Washington Times

The White House yesterday said a new immigration review is under way that could lead to amnesty for millions of illegal aliens living and working in the United States.

Congress pushes for larger military

USA Today

Members of Congress from both parties are pushing for the first significant increase in the size of the active-duty military in 16 years, despite resistance from the Pentagon.

Flu forces public school to close

AP

School officials said about 300 students, more than one-third of the student body, and 17 faculty members called in sick Thursday with flu-like symptoms. That was up from 175 student absences Wednesday. Officials said the school will be closed Friday as well.

Abortions and Profits Up at Planned Parenthood

CNS News

In its 2002-2003 annual report, Planned Parenthood reported a profit of $36.6 million, a 300-percent increase over the $12.2 million profit reported the year earlier

Anti-Bush drawing called 'hate speech'

Associated Press

"insurance issues" after a businessman withdrew his $300 prize and called the piece a form of "hate speech."

Tax Protester Wins One Over US Government

American Free Press

Businessman Richard Simkanin, 59, of Bed ford, Texas, recently won a victory against Big Brother. Jurors could not reach a verdict on a 27-count indictment accusing him of failure to withhold taxes from the wages of his employees and of filing fraudulent claims for tax refunds. Jurors said they were deadlocked after eight hours of deliberations

Drinking Water Pathogens and Their Indicators: A Reference Resource

EPA

Cryptosporidium : A Drinking Water Supply Problem 

University of North Carolina

Several waterborne outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis have occurred over the past ten years in the United States and a great deal of concern has been raised about this organism and drinking water supplies.

E. coli 0157:H7 in drinking water -- US EPA

EPA

Fecal coliforms are bacteria that are associated with human or animal wastes.  They usually live in human or animal intestinal tracts, and their presence in drinking water is a strong indication of recent sewage or animal waste contamination. 

Prozac, other drugs detected in streams and their inhabitants

CNN

number of aquatic and amphibian species are being exposed to small amounts of everything from Prozac to perfume to birth control pills that make their way into U.S. rivers and streams.

Had Enough? How do You Protect Yourself?

Infowars.com

Give the gift of Health -- Protect Yourself and Your Family with Powerful British Berkey Water filters

Precident Set: Phoenix school first to install face scanners

Arizona Republic

Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the cameras cost about $3,000 to $5,000 for a school to install and will not violate the privacy of anyone not already in the Arizona sex offender or in the national missing children databases, including possible abductors of missing children. If the camera registers a possible hit, the Sheriff's Office is quietly alerted and will send a deputy or police officer to investigate.

Ft Bragg: Israelis give a course in urban warfare

Taipei Times

Israeli counter-insurgency specialists have been sent to Fort Bragg to teach US special forces how to keep an unruly Iraqi population under control

AP

The China Banking Regulatory Commission and U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees American banks, signed an information-sharing agreement Tuesday, the Chinese agency said on its Web site. It said the two sides plan to formalize the agreement after further talks.

"For a Cooperative World Order"

Interview with Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder

Twas the night before Baghdad

written by Cynthia Anderson, mother of a soldier

Pentagon Finds Halliburton Overcharged

AP

A Pentagon investigation has found overcharging and other violations in a $15.6 billion Iraq reconstruction contract awarded to Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, a defense official said Thursday

Soldiers in Iraq 'did not have WMD protection'

London Independent

British forces went into battle in the Iraq war without protective equipment against weapons of mass destruction -- the very "threat" used by Tony Blair to justify joining the American-led invasion.

Iraqi army walkout over pay

London Guardian

Recruits' mass resignation hits US plan to build up local forces

Iraqi civilian deaths 'avoidable'

BBC

A new report by the New York-based group, entitled "Off Target", examines the circumstances in which civilians were killed.

Italian Senate OKs Fertility Restriction

ABC News

Until Thursday's law, fertility treatment was largely unregulated, with couples, including women in their 60s, flocking to Italy from abroad to take advantage of the vacuum in such areas as upper-age limits for recipients of donated eggs.

Terrorist Acts Organized By Russian Secret Services

Kavkaz Center News

The Press Office of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI) released a statement that the blast near Hotel National in Moscow was organized by Russian secret services. "Terrorism in Russia is organized and directed by Russian secret services and military intelligence for propaganda purposes".

British intelligence helped paramilitaries bomb N. Ireland

London Guardian

The British government today faces tough questions about the controversial role of its intelligence services in Northern Ireland after an Irish report found "grounds for suspecting" that British security forces helped loyalist paramilitaries to bomb the Irish Republic.

Ban on Plastic Guns Extended 10 Years

LA Times

President Bush quietly signed legislation Tuesday that would extend for 10 years a ban on plastic guns that can be slipped past airport metal detectors or through X-ray machines

U.S. intelligence: N. Korea using Internet to indoctrinate the masses

World Tribune

The communist government in North Korea is using information technology and the Internet to indoctrinate Koreans and spread propaganda.

Debate on Selling Morning-After Pill Over the Counter

NYT

Two panels for the Food and Drug Administration will consider early next week whether to allow the so-called morning-after pill, now a prescription drug taken after intercourse to prevent pregnancy, to be sold over the counter.

Mondo Quake in Pacific Northwest? 

Wired

Geologists have discovered evidence of a massively powerful earthquake zone beneath the Pacific Northwest just offshore from the Seattle area.

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