News Link • More about
Domestic Policy
The Bush Administration's Assault on Defense Lawyers
10-24-2006
•
by Elaine Cassel (Counterpunch)
In February 2005, attorney Lynne Stewart was convicted of providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy. The charges arose from her representation of Sheik Abdel-Rahman, convicted in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Central Intelligence Agency
Why Didn’t the US Warn Us about the 9/11 Terrorists?
10-24-2006
•
AntiWar.com
Once again, the agency neglected to inform the F.B.I. or the State Department that at least one Al Qaeda operative was in the country. Although the C.I.A. was legally bound to share this kind of information with the bureau, it was protective of sensi
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Privacy Rights
NY Times wrong to report government spying on American's bank
10-24-2006
•
Raw Story
The ombudsman for the New York Times now says that the paper was wrong to report on the Bush Administration's "once-secret banking-data surveillance program." [There's a paper for you.]
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
 |
News Link • More about
Corruption
Speaker Hastert took the following bribes
10-24-2006
•
WotIsItGood4
Hastert took the following bribes: 1) 'suitcases of cash' - delivered to his home - from Turkish heroin dealers. 2) $500,000 for blocking a bill recognizing Turkey's genocide of Armenians. 3) illegal campaign contributions from foreign in
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Social Security
Bush floats indexing benefits for Social Security
10-24-2006
•
Reuters
President George Bush put Social Security reform on his list of "big items" to deal with in the final two years of his presidency, possibly including indexing benefits for wealthier Americans.
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Central Intelligence Agency
What the Brits Said Before Iraq
10-24-2006
•
Newsweek
"I hope we can all agree that we should concentrate on Afghanistan and not be tempted to launch any attacks on Iraq." In Drumheller's account, Tenet replied, "Absolutely, we all agree on that."
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
Feature Article • More about Entertainment: Movies
America: From Freedom to Fascism
On DVD now
Powell Gammill
Own the DVD or watch high quality version online. Lower quality version online for free at Google Video. But this movie is one that you should own, and show y0ur friends. Especially near April 15.
|
|
•
•
|
 |
News Link • More about
Entertainment: Movies
America Freedom to Fascism - Aaron Russo authorized version online (buy DVD)
10-21-2006
•
Google Video
This is the "Director's Final Cut" authorized version of Aaron ... all » Russo's documentary, America: Freedom To Fascism (AFTF). It is being uploaded to Google Video for the first time during the evening of October 19-20th, 2006.
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • More about
Economy - Economics USA
Bush to OPEC: high oil prices may "wreck economies"
10-24-2006
•
Reuters
[We certainly aren't going to blame our foreign debt.] President George Bush warned the OPEC cartel on Monday that high crude oil prices could "wreck economies" and reduce demand for their products if it follows through on a planned out
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Entertainment: Movies
Learn Self Defense: The Cartoon
10-24-2006
•
Chris Harding (audio on)
George learns five practical lessons of self-defense that are perfect for the citizen on the go ... or nation-state on the rampage!
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Voting - Election Integrity
Diebold Source Code Leaked Again
10-24-2006
•
ABC
Source code to Diebold Election Systems voting machines has been leaked once again. Last week, former Maryland state legislator Cheryl Kagan was anonymously given disks containing source code to Diebold's BallotStation and Global Election Managem
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Internet
China moves toward compelled "real name system" for blogs
10-24-2006
•
Reuters
The Internet Society of China has recommended to the government that bloggers be required to use their real names when they register blogs, state media said, in the latest attempt to regulate free-wheeling Web content.
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Gun Rights
No solution in sight for U.S. gun violence
10-24-2006
•
Reuters
It's an American way of death. More than 30,000 people die from gunshot wounds every year, through murder, suicide and accidents.
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
|
|
News Link • More about
TERRORISM
Radical Islam finds US to be 'sterile ground'
10-24-2006
•
Christian Science Monitor
The Islamist radicalism that inspired young Muslims to attack their own countries - in London, Madrid, and Bali - has not yielded similar incidents in the United States, at least so far.
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Transportation: Air Travel
A century on, Brazil still claims flight's first
10-24-2006
•
Christian Science Monitor
In the United States, every schoolboy knows that the Wright Brothers were the first men to fly. In Brazil, everyone knows that's wrong - the father of flight is Alberto Santos-Dumont.
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Government defends 1998 anti-porn law
10-24-2006
•
AP
Eight years after Congress passed a law aimed at protecting children from online pornography, free speech advocates and Web site publishers argued in federal court that the never-enforced measure is fatally flawed.
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Voting - Election Integrity
Election Computers in Trouble
10-23-2006
•
BradBlog.com
Lou Dobbs and Kitty Pilgrim report on the frenzy to hire computer science graduate students by state officials fearing an e-voting machine disaster on election day.
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • More about
Voting - Election Integrity
ZOGBY POLL: CLINT CURTIS / TOM FEENEY RACE NOW A DEAD HEAT!
10-23-2006
•
BradBlog.com
Computer Programmer, Vote-Rigging Whistleblower Now Tied With 24th District Florida Congressman Alleged to Have Asked Him to Create Electronic Election-Flipping Software!
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Ernest Hancock
|
News Link • More about
TERRORISM
Why the NSA wire tap program is useless
10-23-2006
•
Google(Video)
(As if you need me to tell you this) Here's a 13 minute video that explains how this program is useless, and isn't listening in on the "terrorists". (Maybe Stu Krone could explain further)
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • More about
Economy - International
Even drug dealers are giving up on the dollar
10-23-2006
•
Slate
The dollar's decline against the euro shows no sign of ending. Clearly, currency traders have made a long-term judgment about the relative value of the currencies of the Old and New Worlds. That sounds bad enough. But now there are signs
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • More about
Privacy Rights
Privacy pitfalls in no swipe credit card
10-23-2006
•
NY Times
They call it the "Johnny Carson attack," for this comic pose as a psychic divining the contents of an envelope. Tom Heydt-Benjamin tapped an envelope against a black plastic box connected to his computer. Within moments,
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • More about
Police State
Your Papers Please
10-23-2006
•
Reason(Ronald Bailey)
On Monday afternoon, the ACLU member's conference offered a number of panels on various assaults on civil liberties. I decided to listen in on a panel entitled, "Your Papers Please -- National ID Cards for America."
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • More about
Conspiracies
Steven Jones resigns from BYU
10-23-2006
•
AP
A BYU physics professor who suggested the WTC was brought down by explosvies has resigned, six weeks after the school placed him on leave. "I'm electing to retire so that I can spend more time speaking and conducting research of my choosing
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • More about
Bush Administration
Columnist Williams agrees to pay back $34,000
10-23-2006
•
Sign On San Diego
Columnist Armstrong Williams has reached a settlement with prosecutors regarding payments he received by the Education Department to promote President Bush's agenda. Under the settlement, Williams admits no wrongdoing but will pay $34,000
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • More about
Criminal Justice System
FBI setting up lab to track digital data
10-23-2006
•
Louisville Courier-Journal
This week, the FBI announced it's setting up a Regional Computer Forensics Lab in Louisville that will examine digital evidence from law enforcement agencies across Kentucky. "Today almost all crimes ... have digital evidence,"
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • More about
Foreign Policy
US official retracts Iraq remarks
10-23-2006
•
BBC
The US state department official who said that the US had shown "arrogance" and "stupidity" in Iraq has apologised for his comments. Alberto Fernandez, who made the remarks with Arabic TV station al-Jazeera
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Jean Carbonneau
|
News Link • More about
Media: Television
BBC admit bias
10-23-2006
•
YNET
An internal memo, recently discovered by the British media, revealed what the BBC has been trying to hide. Senior figures admitted in a recent 'impartiality' summit that the BBC was guilty of promoting Left-wing views and anti-Christian sent
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Jean Carbonneau
|
Feature Article • More about Military
Pat Tillman's Birthday - By Kevin Tillman
Ernest Hancock
It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military.
|
3
•
•
•
|
News Link • More about
Science, Medicine and Technology
Whales Set Deep-Diving Record
10-22-2006
•
LiveScience.com
In this era of extreme sports, beaked whales take one activity to new depths by diving deeper than any other air-breathing species. Beaked whales are medium-sized toothed whales dove as deep as 6,230 feet for up to 85 minutes
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
News Link • More about
Technology: Computer Hardware
AMD To Ship 65-Nanometer Chips
10-22-2006
•
PC World
Advanced Micro Devices is on schedule to deliver its first processors based on its advanced 65-nanometer manufacturing process in the fourth quarter this year.
|
|
•
•
|
|
Reported by
Powell Gammill
|
|
|
Page 285 of 10725
First • Back • 282 • 283 • 284 • 285 • 286 • 287 • 288 • Next • Last
|
