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[03/15/2006] The US Has Run Amok Former CIA Analyst Corruption has run amok in intelligence circles and the president should be impeached, a former CIA analyst says. Also, he said, the United States is undergoing a constitutional crisis. » More
[03/15/2006] 700 Club website scrubbed Robertson\'s controversial comments calling Muslims \"satanic\" The Christian Broadcasting Network has scrubbed from its website Pat Robertson\'s comments on The 700 Club that Muslims who protested controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were \"satanic\" and \"crazed fanatics\" who were \"motivated by demonic power.\" Robertson added that \"the goal of Islam ... is world domination.\" » More
[03/13/2006] U.S. quietly tightens access to classified information National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley quietly revised the guidelines for determining access to classified government information last year, increasing emphasis on allegiance to the United States and allowing the government broader latitude in rejecting candidates without a clearly articulated cause, RAW STORY has found. » More
[03/13/2006] 600 bridges throughout California at risk of collapse in major quake Although the state has made great strides in protecting its own bridges from earthquakes, hundreds of bridges maintained by cities and counties across California remain unfixed. » More
[03/13/2006] Pulpit politics divide Unitarian church Unitarian minister Davidson Loehr was roiling with anger when he sat down to finish writing his sermon on a recent Friday. He\'d been reading \"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man\" by John Perkins, who paints the U.S. government as a corrupt force willing to sacrifice people for profits. » More
[03/06/2006] Guards Fault Homeland Security Protection Guards at the Department of Homeland Security say the agency mishandled a potential anthrax attack on its headquarters, one of several incidents that led two senators to request an investigation of the agency\'s own security. » More
[02/28/2006] Congress Bill Takes Rights To Know What\'s In Your Food Congress Poised to Pass Bill Taking Away Right to Know What\'s in Your Food » More
[02/27/2006] Church politicking \'disturbing\' to IRS The Internal Revenue Service said yesterday it found a \"disturbing\" amount of illegal politicking in churches and charities after investigating complaints coming out of the 2004 election. » More
[02/22/2006] Neocon architect says: \'Pull it down\' NEOCONSERVATISM has failed the United States and needs to be replaced by a more realistic foreign policy agenda, according to one of its prime architects. » More
[02/21/2006] W aides\' biz ties to Arab firm The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House. » More
[02/20/2006] Lawmakers Increase Criticism of Dubai Deal for Ports Legislators from both parties continued today to sharply criticize the Bush administration\'s approval of a recent sale that would give a Dubai company control over shipping facilities at six leading American ports, saying that it raised fundamental security issues. » More
[02/20/2006] Congressmen threaten probe of U.S. seaports deal Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle yesterday threatened a congressional investigation of a deal to give control of six U.S. seaports to an Arab company, while one key Republican said the Bush administration\'s security reassurances were not adequate. » More
[02/14/2006] Chertoff overhauls FEMA, rejects criticism Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday announced wide-ranging changes to the nation’s embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency and rejected criticism that his agency is preoccupied with terror threats, at the expense of preparing for natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. » More
[02/14/2006] United Arab Emirates firm to operate six major U.S. ports The Bush administration has approved a deal in which a United Arab Emirates company would operate six major ports in the United States. » More
[02/13/2006] Report: Pennsylvania \'patriot\' tried to blow up oil pipelines Is he an American patriot, or a terrorist trying to kill the U.S. economy? » More
[12/02/2005] Michael Moore Denies He Owned Halliburton In perhaps the ultimate irony,\" notes Schweizer, \"he also has owned shares in Halliburton. According to IRS filings, Moore sold Halliburton for a 15 percent profit and bought shares in Noble, Ford, General Electric\" and other allegedly evil corporations. » More
[11/09/2005] Libby Establishes a Fund to Help Pay Legal Bills I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney\'s former chief of staff, is establishing a fund to help pay for his legal defense in the C.I.A. leak case, and associates of Mr. Libby have begun soliciting money from his friends and Republican donors, lawyers and people who have been contacted about the fund said on Tuesday. » More
[11/08/2005] Leader Of Racist Aztlan Movement Calls For French-Style Riots In US As we have previously documented, these Mexican Klan groups call for killing all white and black people and taking over the southern states with bloody conquest and yet Alex Jones has been called racist for protesting them. Take a look at what they\'re advocating and then decide who the real racists are. » More
[11/07/2005] Four arrests linked to Chinese spy ring Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships. » More
[11/05/2005] Michael Moore Owns Halliburton Stock » More
[11/05/2005] Michael Moore\'s Tax Return » More
[11/04/2005] \r\nGroup schedules \'nonviolent\' vigil in Austin, vows not to engage KKK We will speak for ourselves and not engage the Klan in their rhetoric. It will be a peaceful, nonviolent demonstration,\" said Glen Maxey, a former legislator who heads the anti-proposition group No Nonsense in November. » More
[11/02/2005] The State Thrives On Hate, Genocide and Racism Dr. Kamau Kambon. a Raleigh, N.C., activist, book store owner, and former professor at North Carolina State University recently advocated the \"extermination of white people\" while speaking at a Pro-black Media Forum at Howard Law School, in an event that was covered in its entirety by C-SPAN. » More
[10/31/2005] It Costs Nothing to be a Patriot Amount of credible state terror whistleblowers reflects unbelievable enlightenment progress since 9/11 » More
[10/31/2005] Man charged in flu shot scam The owner of a Houston health care company remains behind bars today after his company issued more than 1,000 fake flu shots to local Exxon Mobil workers during a safety fair last week. » More
[10/28/2005] White House Fears Indictment for Libby; Rove Likely to Escape » More
[10/28/2005] No Password For Klan Says City Austin City officials deny that the Klan will get a secret password to use for entry into the parking garage below City Hall on Nov. 5, the day of the planned Klan rally. » More
[10/28/2005] Strong, sweet smell reported in Manhattan New York City has many odors, but when the city began to smell a little too good, New Yorkers became alarmed. » More
[10/26/2005] Post reporter, on \'Hardball,\' says agents interviewed Plame\'s neighbors The Washington Post\'s Jim Vandehei told Chris Matthews on Hardball Tuesday that FBI agents, as recently as last night, were interviewing Joe Wilson\'s neighbors to determine whether they knew Valerie Plame Wilson was a CIA agent. » More
[10/26/2005] Expect Indictments to be Public Thursday » More
[10/26/2005] US grand jury meets over CIA leak The federal grand jury which is investigating the leaking by the White House of the identity of a serving CIA officer is due to meet on Wednesday. » More
[10/26/2005] CIA leak charges set to be handed out Indictments in the CIA leak investigation case are expected to be handed down by a grand jury on Wednesday, bringing to a head a criminal inquiry that threatens to disrupt seriously President George W. Bush\'s second term. » More
[10/25/2005] Cheney\'s Role Examined in Probe of CIA Leak The White House on Tuesday sidestepped questions about whether Vice President Dick Cheney passed on to his top aide the identity of a CIA officer central to a federal grand jury probe. » More
[10/24/2005] CIA leak inquiry in final stretch The long-running inquiry into the leaking by the White House of the identity of a serving CIA officer is due to finish this week.\n » More
[10/24/2005] Wilma Continues to Slam Florida Hurricane Wilma plowed into southwest Florida early Monday with howling 125 mph winds and dashed across the state to the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, shattering windows, peeling away roofs and knocking out power to millions of people. At least one death in Florida was blamed on the storm. » More
[10/21/2005] Bush: Investigations have created \'noise\' Bush, jarred by investigations of White House officials and congressional leaders, said there was \"some background noise here, a lot of chatter\" complicating the work of his administration.\n » More
[10/21/2005] Activist: Exterminate White People A Raleigh activist and bookstore owner told a panel at Howard University Law School on Oct. 14 that the solution to many of the problems faced by black people is the extermination of “white people off the face of the planet. » More
[10/20/2005] Washington Insider: White House Informed Of Indictment Outcome Sources familiar with the operations of special prosecutors are of the opinion that given the makeup of the motorcade, the time spent by the party in the courthouse, and the moving of the Grand Jury today to new quarters, the Grand Jury and Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald have concluded their deliberations » More
[10/20/2005] Sheehan thrashing \'war hawk\' Hillary Cindy Sheehan, the so-called \"peace mom\" on a crusade to end U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, is publicly blasting Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for her continued support of the ongoing conflict. » More
[10/20/2005] Indictment Is Easy Way Out For Bush Officials Should Bush Administration Officials be indicted and forced to resign over the Plame case in the coming weeks, the left will undoubtedly declare a major victory for justice and truth. We say that should this happen the truth will consequently be buried and injustice will once again prevail. » More
[10/19/2005] White House Watch: Cheney resignation rumors fly Sparked by today\'s Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney\'s office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would elevate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.\n » More
[10/18/2005] White House was worried about rogue CIA group: reporter cia_leak_10_05 » More
[10/17/2005] \'Hidden Scandal\' in Miller Story, Charges Former CBS Newsman Since the posting of The New York Times lengthy article on Judith Miller\'s involvement in the Plame scandal Saturday, much of the Web has been abuzz with the revelation that she had some sort of special classified status while embedded with troops in Iraq at one point. » More
[10/17/2005] Rape Up, While Murders Down in 2004 crime_stats » More
[10/14/2005] Washington Insider: Rove Threatens Indictment Judge With \'Consequences\' The word inside the Beltway is that if Fitzgerald delivers indictments against senior White House officials he will face unspecified \"consequences.\" » More
[10/13/2005] As Big As Watergate, Iran-Contra Eliminating Witnesses To Treason The media waiting game in CIA Leakgate. There is a sense of anticipation in the air. » More
[10/13/2005] Vice President\'s role in outing of CIA agent under examination, sources close to prosecutor say Fitzgerald’s examination centers on a group of players charged with not only selling the war, but according to sources familiar with the case, to discredit anyone who openly “disagreed with the official Iraq war” story. » More
[10/11/2005] New Leads Temporarily Postpone Indictments Newly-discovered leads are postponing, at least temporarily, the issuance of indictments by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the CIA leak scandal. On October 9, even conservatives on the Sunday pundit programs were resigned to the fact that indictments of top White House officials are imminent. » More
[10/11/2005] PREZ-CIRCLE INDICTMENTS COMING? For many weeks, FMNN has reported on the possibility of major Bush Administration indictments - even reporting speculation that Bush\'s latest odd choice for the Supreme Court was no more than an attempt to add one more loyal follower to the bench in advance of litigation. » More
[10/10/2005] Kristol: “One or More Indictments in the Next Three Weeks” Someone like Bill Kristol doesn’t get information like this by accident. It’s being fed to him so, if there is an indictment, he can prepare the base. » More
[10/10/2005] Boomers\' Overdose Deaths Up Markedly Californians age 40 and older are dying of drug overdoses at double the rate recorded in 1990, a little-noticed trend that upends the notion of hard-core drug use as primarily a young person\'s peril. » More
[10/08/2005] Washington Monument Evacuated
Washington Monument evacuated in part of what may turn out to be a series of hoaxes designed to raise the country\'s fear level. » More
[10/07/2005] Wheels Coming Off White House As Bush-Cheney Indictments Pending ABC News, usually a neo-con mouthpiece, is now confirming, through George Stephanopolis, that reliable sources claim Bush-Cheney indictments are coming down from the Valerie Plame grand jury probe » More
[10/07/2005] Rove missing from White House events Word on Hill is that he has been told he\'s target of probe » More
[10/07/2005] Rove to Testify Again in Grand Jury\'s CIA Leak Probe White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove will again testify to a grand jury that is in the final stages of investigating whether senior Bush administration officials illegally leaked the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media more than two years ago, a source familiar with the arrangement said yesterday. » More
[10/07/2005] Giuliani hints at run for White House Rudolph Giuliani, the highly popular former mayor of New York, has hinted he might seek the 2008 Republican nomination to run for President, although he insisted it was too early to make a firm decision. » More
[10/07/2005] Kids in juvenile jail tell of fight rooms Gladiator rooms. No woofing. Box it out. The slang varies, but teens who stayed at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center are describing the same thing -- staff members letting or even encouraging the kids to settle disputes with a fistfight. » More
[10/06/2005] Arroyo\'s foes used files of FBI agent Politicians opposed to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Thursday that an FBI agent had helped them in efforts to remove the Philippine president by providing information allegedly stolen from the agency. » More
[10/06/2005] Bush lashes out against Islamic militants US President George Bush today accused Islamic militants of seeking to “enslave whole nations and intimidate the world” and charged they have made Iraq their main front. » More
[08/14/2005] CAFTA: Widespread Harm to Workers in the US, Central America » More
[08/14/2005] Bush to push CAFTA in speech to Organization of American States Well, if you thought the middle class was shrinking after the first wave of exporting jobs, then you haven\'t seen anything yet. The Central American Free Trade Agreement is built, initially, for the U.S. to eliminate trade barriers with Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. » More
[08/14/2005] Awake After 20 Years, Sarah Speaks In a two-part series that starts today, The Early Show national correspondent Tracy Smith tells the story of Sarah Scantlin, a woman who woke up from her coma-like state after 20 years. » More
[08/14/2005] Supreme Court delivers blow to property rights; ruling in Conn. case has Toledo implication » More
[08/14/2005] Mass. bill would limit public domain Massachusetts legislators are considering a bill that would limit the power of the local governments take private property. » More
[08/03/2005] Zogby: Bush Still in Poll Slump Despite a big week for the president, the president\'s approval rating is virtually unchanged from polling conducted in late June. » More
[07/31/2005] Abortion pill warnings \'insufficient\' The Food and Drug Administration\'s decision to strengthen language on the \"morning after\" abortion drug is \'insufficient\' after reports that two more women have died, a pro-life advocacy group maintains. » More
[07/31/2005] Which of these is a greater danger? A child is 100 times more likely to drown in a pool than be killed by a gun. Levitt analyzed child deaths from residential swimming pools and guns and found one child under 10 drowns annually for every 11,000 pools. By comparison, one child under 10 each year is killed by a gun for every 1 million guns. » More
[07/31/2005] New Tack Against Illegal Immigrants: Trespassing Charges The police chief of this tiny whitewashed New England town has crafted his own border-control policy -- he has charged illegal immigrants from Mexico with trespassing in New Hampshire. » More
[04/11/2005] FEMA tests digital alert system Technology will send messages to wireless devices, radio, TV and the Internet » More
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