Worldwide Press Freedom rankings released for 2005
• India NewsAsian contenient nations at bottom for freedom of the press. USA falling rapidly in ranking (44th place). [I didn't even know we had a press.]
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GLOBAL BANKING: THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS
• News LinkWhen David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973, the intent was to create a "New International Economic Order" (NIEO). To this end, they brought together 300 elite corporate, political and academic l
DeLay gets ready for his mugshot
• News LinkTom DeLay, the leader of the Republican party in the US House of Representatives, will be formally "booked" today at the sheriff's office in his home county of Fort Bend, Texas.
Astros beat Cardinals, win first pennant
• News LinkST. LOUIS -- Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte grabbed the champagne, went right for Roy Oswalt and showed the Houston Astros how to celebrate a trip to the World Series.
Firefox hits 100m downloads
• News LinkThere's reason to crack open the champagne at the Mozilla Foundation today after Firefox browser downloads reached the 100m milestone. Yup it's party time and fans of the open source browser are invited to upload their celebratory snaps here.
Ford Reports Losing Money in 3rd Quarter
• News LinkFord lost $284 million (15 cents a share) on revenue of $40.9 billion in the third quarter, compared to a $266 million profit (15 cents) and revenue of $39.1 billion for the same period last year.
US and China armies consolidated????!
• News LinkVisiting US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said he hopes exchange and cooperation between the Chinese and US armies would be consolidated.
Secrets, Evasions and Classified Reports
• News LinkThe CIA leak case isn’t just about whether top officials will be indicted. A larger issue is what Judith Miller’s evidence says about White House manipulation of the media.
Witnesses 'too scared' for Saddam trial
• News LinkJudge Rizgar Mohammed Amin said about 30 or 40 witnesses had not come to Baghdad for the trial, which took place in a heavily defended building inside Baghdad's fortress-like Green Zone compound.
Chris Matthews says there are problems for Cheney
• News LinkChris, was on MSNBC Live this morning and gave his analysis of the Plame leak.
‘Cheney cabal hijacked US foreign policy’
• News LinkVice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of St
Colin Powell is the one that'll take down Cheney,... "some people say".
• News LinkNote: This is an e-mail circulating around Capitol Hill that was forwarded to us by a source wishing to remain anonymous (no, not Scooter Libby, for God's sake). We can only offer it up as rumor and speculation, but it certainly is interesting ru
Rice Won't Rule Out Force on Syria, Iran
• News LinkWASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday refused to rule out the possibility of U.S. troops still serving in Iraq in 10 years or U.S. military force against Syria and Iran.
Niger Uranium Forgery Mystery Solved?
• News LinkThe Fitzgerald/Plame investigation goes in a new direction by Justin Raimondo
Talk'n About my Generation
• News LinkWe are a grassroots organization. Together, our growing team of homeschooling families is developing Internet radio programming and a website dedicated to providing a place for liberal and progressive homeschooled kids to sound off and speak out.
Welcome to HomeSchoolers' Free Media!
• News LinkWe are a grassroots organization. Together, our growing team of homeschooling families is developing Internet radio programming and a website dedicated to providing a place for liberal and progressive homeschooled kids to sound off and speak out.
Bill of Rights on public land next to Ten Commandments
• News LinkA Project insiting on the placement of privately funded Bill of Rights monuments wherever there are Ten Commandents on public land.
Bush Administration Updates
• News LinkThe latest info
Wilma Now Most Intense Atlantic Storm Ever
• News LinkGathering strength at a fierce pace, Hurricane Wilma swirled into the most intense Atlantic storm ever recorded Wednesday, a Category 5 monster packing 175 mph wind that forecasters warned was "extremely dangerous."
Electronic Frontier Foundation cracks Secret Service code
• News LinkEFF researchers have cracked a code which allows the US Secret Service to track information from Xerox DocuColor printers. And they believe similar codes may also feature on printers made by Canon, Epson, HP, IBM and Dell, among others
Defiant Saddam Pleads Innocent to Murder
• News LinkThey tried to grab him again, and Saddam struggled to free himself. Saddam and the guards shoved each other and yelled for about a minute.
No Final Report Seen in Inquiry on C.I.A. Leak
• News LinkWASHINGTON, Oct. 18 - The special counsel in the C.I.A. leak case has told associates he has no plans to issue a final report about the results of the investigation, heightening the expectation that he intends to bring indictments, lawyers in the cas
A Year Later, Goss's CIA Is Still in Turmoil
• News LinkA year later, Goss is at loggerheads with the clandestine service he sought to embrace. At least a dozen senior officials -- several of whom were promoted under Goss -- have resigned, retired early or requested reassignment. The directorate's sec
Wilma At Record-Breaking Intensity
• News Link(CBS/AP) Gathering strength at a fierce pace, Hurricane Wilma grew into a Category 5 monster storm early Wednesday with 175 mph winds. Forecasters warned the storm was "extremely dangerous" and said a key reading of its pressure was the low
Letters | ABORTION RIGHTS THE 'FOUNDATION OF FEMINISM'?
• Emily KennedyJILL PORTER, in her column "Be wary of anti-abortionist cloaked as feminist," calls abortion rights "the foundation of the feminist movement." Those who disagree, including me, would say that the foundation is women's suffr
Cheney's Staff Focus of Probe by Richard Sale (Feb 5th 2004 article predicted John Hannah wou
• News LinkAccording to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were the two Cheney employees. "We believe that Hannah was the major player in this," one federal law-enforcement officer said. Calls
Feminism not simply 'girl's stuff'
• Ramsey Tesdell, U-WIRE SERVICEIn a recent class, our professor asked us who considered themselves a feminist. Very few men, if any, raised their hands. As a matter of fact, very few people in general raised their hands -- men or women. Feminism is mostly known by the public
The CIA Leak Case: The Bush spinmeisters' Kabuki dance with Patrick Fitzgerald.
• News LinkThere is an interesting stylized dance taking place between the White House and Patrick Fitzgerald, the Special Prosecutor in the CIA leak case.
Chauvinism: the new feminism
• Clare Malone, The Georgetown VoiceTwelve-year-old boys find me sexy, and they aren't afraid to let me know it. My fellow female lifeguards and I were constantly propositioned this summer by hordes of pre-pubescent punks. Despite their initial creepiness, I had to give the boys
White House sets up group to market war in Iraq in 2002
• News LinkVery little has been written about the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, and only one newspaper article or two have mentioned it in passing reporting that it had been set up by Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, said the article in the newsp
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