Duke Lacrosse Case Charges to Be Dropped
• ABCThe office of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper will announce that he is dismissing all charges against three Duke Lacrosse players, ABC News has learned.
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Fed's Plosser: U.S. economy weaker than expected
• ReutersPhiladelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said the US economy is not as strong as the Fed had expected and prices remained higher. Personal consumption and employment were strong but business investment was weaker, Plosser said in
School loan corruption widespread
• APCozy arrangements between colleges and the companies that lend their students billions of dollars are far more widespread than anticipated, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said, just as 2 more college financial aid officers were suspended amid
Imprisoned terrorist hunter to be freed
• APA U.S. citizen is scheduled to be released from an Afghan prison as the State Department and FBI faced a deadline to answer allegations they ordered his torture and manipulated the Afghan judicial system.
Gonzales gets subpoena for documents in firings
• ReutersAttorney General Alberto Gonzales received a subpoena from a U.S. congressional panel for documents related to the firing of federal prosecutors, a controversy that has prompted calls for his resignation.
White House seeks "czar" to oversee wars
• Reuters[It's just no fun anymore.] The White House wants to appoint a high-profile overseer to manage the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but has had trouble finding someone to take the job.
Doomsday for the Greenback
Thomas CostanzoBy Mike Whitney The American people are in La-la land. If they had any idea of what the Federal Reserve was up to they’d be out on the streets waving fists and pitchforks. Instead, we go our business like nothing is wrong. Buy GOLD and SILVER
Pakistan accused of placing bounty on NATO soldiers
• Vancouver SunThe leader of an Afghan district where Canadians are currently deployed says he has reason to believe the Pakistani secret police are offering cash rewards to anyone who uses an explosive device to injure or kill a NATO soldier.
Google Earth maps atrocities in Darfur
• ReutersSearch engine Google and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum launched an online mapping project to provide what the museum said was evidence of atrocities committed in Sudan's western Darfur region.
PATRIOT GAMES
• Free Market NewsCan you say "Thesis, antithesis, synthesis" Politicians excel at "the fine art of crisis creation." Time and again they create policies that fail. Then they exploit those failures to grab more power, and then, almost inevitably, t
Stealing a Nation - Special Report by John Pilger
• News LinkThis an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base.
10 States Introduce Impeachment
• News LinkIn 10 U.S. states, either this year or last year or both, the state legislature has introduced and considered, though not yet passed, a bill to petition the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Bush and Cheney. The question, of course, is what in
What a Lack of Courage Cost<br> by Patrick J. Buchanan
• AntiWarAs Chairman Carl Levin of Senate Armed Services conceded, Congress is not going to de-fund the war in Iraq, even if Bush vetoes every Democratic timetable for withdrawal. The war will go on – backed by a Democratic Congress.
Why So Gloomy?<br>by Richard S. Lindzen
• NewsWeekJudging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing at some level.
Court is urged to keep D.C. gun ban
• APDistrict of Columbia officials warned a federal appeals court yesterday that its rejection of the city's handgun ban created a precedent that could severely limit gun control.
Russian General Says U.S. Continues Preparations for Iran Strike
• Moscow NewsThe release of the 15 British sailors captured by Iran has robbed the US of a pretext to attack Iran, but the US has not given up plans to attack Iran militarily, president of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems Colonel General Leonid Ivashov was q
Congress girds up for return to oversight
• Christian Science MonitorCongress launched probes on allegations ranging from contracting abuses in Iraq and the alteration of scientific findings to the misuse of federal resources for partisan purposes. The firing of 8 US attorneys, others try to uncover any government was
Why are the cost of prescription drugs in the United States are the highest in the world?
Thomas CostanzoAccording to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity, congressmen are outnumbered two to one by lobbyists for an industry that spends roughly a $100 million a year in campaign contributions and lobbying expenses to protect its profits.
Washington Post Liars Caught!
• by Scott Horton (AntiWar blog)The Post ran the story, but apparently one of their editors (liars) realized this might reveal the holes in War Party claims that these new “EFPs” must be coming from Iran. After all, here, supposedly, is a whole EFP factory just a few miles south of
Russia to launch new nuclear submarine
• ForbesRussia will launch its first new strategic nuclear submarine since the downfall of the Soviet Union next weekend, Deput Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov told the Interfax news agency. "This is the first time in 17 years that we are building such a
Confirmed: U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WW II
• Scientific AmericanDespite decades of denials, government records confirm that the U.S. Census Bureau provided the U.S. Secret Service with names and addresses of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Students forced to endure drug raid for growing tomatoes
• Daily EvergreenOn a regular Saturday evening, three roommates stood around their apartment going about their normal routine when suddenly eight to 10 police officers, guns drawn, came into the apartment and served the unsuspecting men a search warrant.
MI5 blunder led to jail for "extremists"
• Times On LineThe papers, released under American freedom of information legislation, appear to show that Mr el-Banna refused offers of money and a new identity while Mr. al-Rawi tried to pull out of an unpaid arrangement with MI5 agents.
US military develops Robocop armour for soldiers
• Daily MailWe may have seen it all before in science-fiction films. But the bionic warrior is in fact a vision of real-life warfare in the 21st century. US defence chiefs hope to have their troops kitted out in the outlandish combat gear as soon as 2020.
Disk with data on 2.9 Million Georgians lost
• APA disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Medicaid and children's health care recipients is missing, Georgia health officials said Tuesday. The state said the security breach was reporrted by
Judge rejects Padilla torture argument
• APA federal judge refused to dismiss terrorism charges against Jose Padilla over claims that the alleged al-Qaida operative wast tortured in US military custody, removing one of the last major obstacles to the start of his trial next week.
US accused of using neutron bombs
• Al-JazeeraThe former commander of Iraq's Republican Guard has accused the US of using non-conventional weapons in its war against the Middle East country. Saifeddin Fulayh Hassan Taha al-Rawi told Al Jazeera that US forces used neutron
Bill ties climate to national security
• Boston GlobeThe CIA and Pentagon would for the first time be required to assess the national security implication of climate change under proposed legislation intended to elevate global warming to national defesne issue. (watch out for those bottom burps)
Have Christians Become Dupes?
Chuck BaldwinAs I peruse the hundreds of email letters I receive, one observation leaps out at me: in the last few years, there has been a distinct philosophical shift taking place in the reasoning of professing Christians.
A Genius with some skills
• www.videoplayerweb.com/author/EclecticAsylumArtArtist worth keeping track of. YouTube files allow you to watch him create.
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