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"The Homeland Security Monstrosity" Congress spent just a few short hours last week voting to create the biggest new federal bureaucracy since World War II, not that the media or even most members of Congress paid much attention to the process. Yet our most basic freedoms as Americans – privacy in our homes, persons, and possessions; confidentiality in our financial and medical affairs; openness in our conversations, telephone, and Internet use; unfettered travel; indeed the basic freedom not to be monitored as we go through our daily lives – have been dramatically changed. The last time Congress attempted a similarly...

GREED AND GUINEA PIGS: RISKING THE HEALTH OF THE U.S. MILITARY by: MAJ GLENN MacDONALD, USAR (Ret) Al Capone would have been proud. Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. William J. Crowe Jr. was part of the crew that sold Saddam Hussein the deadly means to wage war with anthrax germs. That's when the United States wanted the "Butcher of Baghdad" to use anthrax on Iran. Now the admiral, who shocked political observers by endorsing Bill "I loathe the military" Clinton in 1992 and was rewarded the following year with the post of ambassador to Great Britain, ...

Friday, 25 August, 2000, 16:21 GMT 17:21 UK LA Police Sue Own Force The LAPD's reputation has been hit by scandals Dozens of police officers are suing the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), which has been embroiled in long-running corruption scandals. The 41 current and former officers say they were harassed or fired after reporting misconduct. They have now filed a suit demanding compensation and an injunction prohibiting LAPD officials from retaliating against whistleblowers. The Rodney King beating led to the 1993 LA riots Numerous criminal cases have been overturned because of alleged police misconduct and in a trial known ...

Saturday, August 26, 2000 Documents Hold Anthrax Secrets BioPort asks state to help it retrieve recipe from scientists By A.J. Evenson Lansing State Journal Legal transcripts show the recipe for making the U.S. military's anthrax vaccine is among the documents missing from BioPort Corp. The Lansing-based company on Tuesday requested the state's help in retrieving those documents, whose existence surfaced during a dispute with three former state scientists who want royalties for their work on the anthrax vaccine and two other vaccines. The employees worked for the vaccine labs before the state of Michigan sold the operation to BioPort in ...

"Spook Wars Behind the Scene" by Lester K. Coleman 8-24-00 There is a real war behind the banter of the presidential campaign. Pitted against one another are two worlds of spies battling for power and influence. George W’s backers have crawled out from beneath rocks and limbs to place his ole man’s pals from the CIA back at the epicenter in the spy game. For the past eight years, the Pentagon has been top spook after President Clinton beefed up the Defense Intelligence Agency in exchange for support from military brass in his initial bid for the White House in ...

Panama’s President Ignoring Chinese Illegals Smuggling NewsMax.com Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2000 Panama’s President Mireya Moscoso is turning a blind eye toward smugglers bringing in illegal Chinese aliens, some of her own government officials charge. According to the Miami Herald, members of her own government have told her that some of her government officials are allowing smugglers to bring illegal immigrants to Panama, but have been unable to get her to take steps to end the smuggling. Even worse, honest Panamanian officials have been punished for attempting to expose the practice that is turning Panama into a stepping stone for bringing ...

H.R.4453 Sponsor: Rep McGovern, James P. (introduced 5/15/2000) Latest Major Action: 6/12/2000 Referred to House subcommittee Title: To encourage the establishment of a United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security Force. SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED: United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security Force Act of 2000 OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED: To encourage the establishment of a United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security Force. --------------------------------------------------------5/15/2000: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations. 6/12/2000: Referred to the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. -------------------------------------------------------- COMMITTEE(S): Committee/Subcommittee: Activity: House International Relations Referral Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights Referral ...

Treachery At The Top: Five Years Later, Doubts Linger About Yitzhak Rabin's Assassin Who really murdered Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin? Was the killer indeed a fanatic right-wing loner, as the world has been led to believe since that notorious evening on November 4, 1995? Or is the truth much more sinister, cloaked in a scandalous cover-up that involves the country’s top security and political echelons? Barry Chamish, a veteran writer who is the most outspoken and document-laden of the dozens of Rabin murder “conspiracy theorists,” says it is impossible that convicted killer Yigal Amir was the real assassin. In ...

BEWARE LIEBERMAN by Barry Chamish 8-9-00 VP candidate Joseph Lieberman is a member of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR), as are Dick Cheney, and Al Gore. The only candidate [of the two major parties] not on the members' list is George W. Bush, who is a member by proxy. His grandfather Prescott was a CFR pioneer, while dad, George Sr. was an executive of the accursed cult whose aim is a one world government. With only 3000 members, it is clear that only CFR members and loyalists may become President. Last time around the figures were the same, Gore, ...

Patricia Doyle: "As most of you know I am investigating the circumstances of the death of Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi. He was the mycoplasma researcher formerly of Plum Island and later Univ. of Bagdad. He was killed, hit by a truck (arranged), while fixing a flat that had been arranged for him. I received a letter from the NSA [National Security Agency] saying that my FOIA request is denied re: Executive Order 12958. Well here it is in black and white. A matter of National Security and Foreign Relations. Now why do you suppose an accident halfway around the world ...

The Republican Party Leadership - Masters Of Deceit By Joel Skousen 8-4-00 To a great extent the lies and deception underlying the manipulation of conservative sentiment in the US by the Republican party exceed those of the Clinton Democrats--if not in quantity (it's hard to beat Bill Clinton on quantity), at least in the level of danger. With Bill Clinton, most conservatives can easily discern his lies and are mobilized to action against him. With George W. Bush and Bill Cheney, almost all conservatives have been suckered into the false hopes of being saved by "true believers" pushing all the ...

RIGGING THE ELECTIONS, Israeli-Style by Barry Chamish How complacent we acted after Peres was defeated in the presidential vote. One victory and people think the "peace" process is over. So, let's face reality. Peres will be back, probably as Foreign Minister and a terrified Barak must obey his Council On Foreign Relations masters and push thro ugh their war plan at any cost. As he told CNN, "If the Israeli people turn down our referendum, we'll find another way." On the plus side, our strategy is having an effect, even if the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge it. Yesterday, I ...

Spitting In George Washington's Eye By J. Zane Walley and Julie Smithson Article made possible by a grant from the Paragon Foundation The Big and Little Darby creeks meander lazily through the Plains of Central Ohio, winding their way through thickets of wild plum trees, hazel bushes and oaks. The slopes and bluffs along the streams host cascades of purple coneflower, prairie false indigo and Indian paintbrush. Above the sedate waterways lies some of finest agricultural land in America, The Darby Plains. The area covers eight counties, is 106 miles long and up to 35 miles wide. It is 30 ...

HOW CAN YOU BE 100% CERTAIN? Mike McNulty 08/02/00 A few days ago the first words I heard fall from former Senator Jack Danforth's lips about his Waco investigation were, "We are 100% certain about our conclusions." Having spent countless, frustrating hours over the last seven years trying to find anything approaching 100% certainty on any of the issues surrounding the Waco tragedy - I'm afraid the good Senators words rang rather hollow. Perhaps 100% empty. I perceived and dug into Danforth's report of conclusions on the Waco affair. There was precious little in the way of evidence, just a ...

Saturday Morning News Bush-Cheney Take Campaign on the Road; Gore Takes a Vacation Aired July 29, 2000 - 8:00 a.m. ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: We begin this morning, where else? Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. It's the site of a convention. You've heard about it a little bit, the Republican National Convention, which is being carefully orchestrated to send George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to the White House. KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Speaking of brotherly love, Leon Harris joins ...

Former Contra Wins Review of U.S. Drug Ties Bob Egelko San Francisco Examiner July 27, 2000 ------------------------------------------- Fights deportation to Nicaragua, says CIA knew of cocaine deals The former Northern California spokesman for the Nicaraguan contras, facing deportation for cocaine trafficking in the 1980s, will apparently get the chance to convince a federal judge that he was assured the drug deals had U.S. government approval. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a judge should hear and evaluate Renato Pena's claim that a federal prosecutor in San Francisco had told him after his arrest in 1984 that ...

Friday, July 21, 1:23 PM ET UN Says Sanctions Kill Some 500,000 Iraqi Children BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior U.N. official said Friday about half a million children under the age of 5 have died in Iraq since the imposition of U.N. sanctions 10 years ago. Anupama Rao Singh, country director for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), made the estimate in an interview with Reuters. ``In absolute terms we estimate that perhaps about half a million children under 5 years of age have died, who ordinarily would not have died had the decline in mortality that was prevalent over the ...

Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation Note: The first rule and last five (or six, depending on situation) rules are generally not directly within the ability of the traditional disinfo artist to apply. These rules are generally used more directly by those at the leadership, key players, or planning level of the criminal conspiracy or conspiracy to cover up. 1. Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Regardless of what you know, don't discuss it -- especially if you are a public figure, news anchor, etc. If it's not reported, it didn't happen, and you never have to deal with ...

Lurid Sex Tales of the New World Order by Robert Sterling As George Orwell pointed out in 1984, to control a society, an elite must not only establish the official reality, it must control and manipulate the alternatives. That there is some ritual abuse with a socio-political-economic motivation is difficult to argue against; the theory that it is part of some master blueprint which a secret cabal has long followed as script can't be dismissed; assuming that any lurid tale which proclaims itself part of this sinister plan is pure gospel, especially when there is little or no corroborating physical ...

The Golden Road To Unlimited Totalitarianism - Part 4 SIGHTINGS The Golden Road To Unlimited Totalitarianism Part 4 Education as Black Ops By Diane Harvey <merak@sedona.net> 6-11-00     To refer to our modern educational system as a Black Operation, a clandestine and deliberate subversion of any reasonable standard of teaching and learning, would seem rather preposterous to most people. Yet to others, it hardly seems possible to find phrases sufficiently extreme to express our...horror. There is an eerie similarity in experience, when forcing the mind to dwell on what goes on in our schools, to the emotional and ...