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Buddhist needs permit to meditate on his own land


U.S. may have further cases of Mad Cow, Japan says
with comments by Not Taking It Any More and H&HH
Background information
Innoculating yourself from the lies
about Mad Cow Disease

Iraqi women lose legal rights: They must submit to Islamic law
Shari'a and family law...
by River, Baghdad Burning


No news is bad news
by Jim Owens, Unknown News


Operation "Change the Subject"
by Liberez L'Ours, Unknown News


Just another prime time show
by Andrew L., Unknown News


Waiting for the next Bronco chase
by Andrew Ryan, The Globe & Mail [Toronto] 


Venezuela hails Latin American 'axis' against U.S.
Venezuela may let starving steal
with comments by Rebecca

Excerpt:  Under Fontiveros' proposal to the Supreme Court, those who take food, medicine or inexpensive goods without using violence to ease hunger caused by prolonged, extreme poverty would not be punished.

From the archives, Jan. 12, 2004
Coming soon: Another U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela

U.S. killing video becomes viral news
with comments by Sgt. Rock, Leeza M., and Helen & Harry Highwater
Background information
U.S. war crimes

Do you believe in conspiracy theories?
by John Laughland, The Spectator


Sleaze without end: This time it's Ashcroft
Editorial, Washington Post


Attention, anti-American Wal-Mart shoppers
Comments for Tess Ellis, with a reply from H&HH;

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How President Bush is testing the limits of his presidential powers
by John W. Dean, FindLaw
Entropy has degraded the Constitutional design of America. Perhaps, probably it is beyond redemption and must be deconstructed by The People. We retain the sovereign right to alter, abolish, or establish the form of government that suits us.   =Liberez L'Ours=

Dean's essay is a fine summary of the facts. It's a shame he stops short of expressing an opinion.   =H&HH=

Excerpt:  The fact that five cases currently before the Supreme Court address the question of presidential powers -- and whether or not the Bush presidency has exceeded them -- speaks for itself. Bush has had almost twice as many such cases before the Court as Nixon had, in half the time.




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Twelve cops beat my son almost to death
by X, with a reply from H&HH, Unknown News


Cop fired
Entire article:  A Greece, NY police officer, found not guilty last year of raping an 18-year-old woman, was dismissed from the police department this week.

Ronald Hall, 41, was acquitted in state Supreme Court in June of a felony charge of third-degree rape. The woman who accused Hall said she got drunk at a party in July 2002, and had sex with Hall without being able to give her consent.

The Greece Police Department reinstated Hall from paid suspension in early July after the acquittal. But Hall was suspended again with pay a few weeks later pending an internal investigation.

Hall was dismissed this week as a result of that investigation.

Typically, we're told nothing -- not one word, not half a hint -- about what this year's investigation was "investigating.

The punishment for being accused of rape is an extended paid vacation (or as cops call it, "suspension with pay"). And the punishment for _______________ is, you lose your job.

We the people are entitled to know what _______________ is, to judge for ourselves whether the punishment fits the crime.
  =H&HH=

Women say police targeting black men


Forced sodomy gets cop four months paid vacation


Look inside the Bush mindset
by Zachary Roth, Columbia Journalism Review
This link's just for fun, cocktail party chatter. I don't have time to think about "THE PRESS", it would be like a dumpster diver reading-up on the restaurant biz.

That said, I kinda agree with the Scrub on this one. Check out those two 'money quotes' & convince me those reptiles are wrong, no matter how much it may pain me to acknowledge it. AND the writer of this piece is in the pupae stage of the journalist's life-cycle. How did the press get so full-of-themselves?
  =John C.=

It's better than the article it's about (which isn't yet on-line at The New Yorker) -- cuts away all the fat, gets to the mad cow beef. All part of the intertwined problems that trace back to the corporatization of news and media as products solely for profit.   =H&HH=




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New threat to nation: Defense spending
Are people waking up?   =John C.=

Bush loses
WEBSITE LOGIN: horsedoodoo   PASSWORD: unknownnews
When given a choice between an unnamed Democrat and Mr. Bush, 43 percent of the registered voters polled said they would vote for Mr. Bush, while 45 percent said they would vote for the Democrat.

"There's a loose 13-percent of REGISTERED voters floating around in there, but it's a pretty positive sign. Page two points out how Bush gets creamed on jobs and the economy.   =Friend=

Americans evenly divided on whether
Bush is a uniter or a divider

Why the US is running scared of elections in Iraq
This article sums it up nicely. You can see now, more clearly, why Comrade Furher Bush wanted to turn over power in Iraq before the elections in America -- even if the resistance continued, it could be chalked up to internal Iraqi civil unrest, and *their* problem.

And with a carefully chosen puppet regime -- visible or invisible strings -- the US would remain in Iraq in its new bases to safeguard the new Iraqi regime and the oil, basically forever. Regardless of the outcome of *internal* Iraqi struggles, the US could always claim to be defending the legitimate interests of the Iraqis, no matter how ludicrous the arguments might sound.

Finally, if *democracy* did not ever take place, in the sense of normal people doing the *voting* thing, it would be -- again -- an internal Iraqi problem; THEIR fault, not ours, we'll be told.

The key issue is oil. Not just Iraqi oil, but Saudi and Kuwaiti, and the rest of the Middle East. Peak Oil is basically here already. We're pumping faster than we are finding new reserves. Like fuck we're going to allow the Muslims to vote themselves religious governments! No one in our government cares about Muslim human rights, or the right of women to drive cars, or Jesus or any other concept based on morality or ethics. This is only about power and control and wealth. Total Global Domination.

Sooooo ... Be a good German and things will go well for you. Keep your mouth shut and follow orders. Be loyal to your Homeland...
  =Liberez L'Ours=

Bush to unveil workforce training program
Bush apparently will announce "worker retraining grants" during the State of the Union address. But $120-million is laughable.

Even if you believe there are only 6-million unemployed that's fifty bucks per head. Unless this is simply a concrete deal for W's friends (You can't retrain workers without a BRAND, NEW [no-bid, grant-funded] retraining center, can you?), it's simply a roundabout way for banks to loan people (more) money to pay for a job-specific education with the goal of a job that either will or won't be there at some point in the future.

And there's the rub. W promised his tax cuts would be creating 300,000 jobs-per-month by now. He needs ten months of exceptional JOB GROWTH to pull himself out of the hole. 5-months if the goal is to hit the halfway point. But over the past five months his tax cut-driven economy has created about 250,000 jobs. That's 50,000-jobs per month.

Extrapolate the math and it takes the entire second-term just to hit the break even point for all the jobs he lost during his first-term. And I'm not even including whatever ADDITIONAL jobs would be lost during a second-term (which puts it all back in the hole again, maybe way back).

You can't train workers for jobs that aren't being created. However, you can increase competition for existing jobs and drive wages down. That makes profits go up. And isn't that what's important to the Bush administration?
  =Friend=

'State of the Union address' scorecard (or drinking game)
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Martin Luther King streets racially divided
An article from Monday's paper stating the obvious -- streets named for Martin Luther King, Jr. are ALWAYS in "black" neighborhoods. It seems that segregation is alive and well despite his teachings.   =Heather G.=




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The defense budget is bigger than you think
by Robert Higgs, The Independent Institute
Interesting calculations. The author attributes 81.1 percent of the national debt to past "defense" expenditures, working from 1916 forward. That means that in 2002, approximately $138.7 billion of interest payments on the national debt were the result of prior years' "defense" expenditures! Wow. The power of compounded interest...   =Liberez L'Ours=

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Lock-ins concern Wal-Mart workers
Excerpt:  Retailing experts and Wal-Mart's competitors said the company's lock-in policy was highly unusual. Officials at Kmart, Sears, Toys "R" Us, Home Depot and Costco said they did not lock in workers.

"It's clearly cause for concern," said Burt Flickinger, who runs a retail consulting company. "Locking in workers, that's more of a 19th- century practice than a 20th-century one."




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Secret document links vaccines to Gulf War syndrome


Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:
Convictions in 250 'cot death' cases to be reviewed
Excerpt:  To date, some 258 convictions over the past 10 years have been identified involving the murder, manslaughter or infanticide of an infant aged under two years of age by its parent.

Lord Justice Judge, giving the court's reasons today for its decision last month to clear Angela Cannings of murdering her two baby sons said medical science was "still at the frontiers of knowledge" about unexplained infant deaths.

President actually sees protesters
Excerpt:  "They tried to move us back -- but there were just too many of us," said Potts. The group got within 100 yards of the president.

Extreme evangelism: How fundamentalist preachers are using pizza, motorcycles and even Santa Claus to convert public school students — and what you can do about it
by Rob Boston, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Excerpt:  Despite more than 40 years of Supreme Court rulings mandating that public schools refrain from promoting religion, some school board members, teachers and administrators will not accept the fact that they are not supposed to meddle in the private religious lives of students.

Tourists opt for Canada
Entire article:  The number of Scots visiting Canada is set to soar by up to 30 per cent next year, as a result of the United States’ clampdown which requires all visitors from the UK, from October, to be in possession of a "biometric" passport, or a Ł67 visa, available only from London or Belfast.

Tour operators are forecasting that the extra security in the US will boost visitor numbers to its neighbor by up to a third, aided by attractive exchange rates for the Canadian dollar, and significantly increased services from Scottish airports.

Travel to the US has recently been disrupted by security scares involving aircraft flying to and from Britain and long queues at the main US airports, as visitors are subjected to fingerprint and visa checks.

It's a good thing tourism is an insignificant part of the U.S. economy.   =H&HH=

Gay-hating minister convicted of soliciting sex from male teenager


U.S. eyes space as possible battleground
I can't see anyone really being surprised by Bush's sudden interest in space being tied to war aims, but the bit on Helium 3 was something new to me.   =Phillip S.=

I think Comrade Fuhrer Bush is going to face renewed calls to stop spending money like a "drunken sailor". Quite a few of the Repugnants are unhappy with the deficit situation. So there is that to keep in mind.

The deeper reality though is the militarization of space and the many billions to be spend on the "National Space Plane". The Moon/Mars missions are excellent cover for TWD (Total World Domination) from space. Add orbiting nuke powered lasers and any spot on Earth can become fused glass at any time; just "push the button". Now *that* will appeal to the Repugnants and Neocons, no matter how fiscally conservative they fantasize about being. Heh.

It's all bad. Evil personified. The Anti-Christ sits in the Oval Office...
  =Liberez L'Ours=

From the archives, July 29, 2003
U.S. the leader in war plans for space

From the archives, Oct. 16, 2003
U.S. General sees war in space
with comments by Heather G. and H&HH

Heartless 'marriage plans' embarrass America
Editorial, The New York Times
Can this president get any dumber or his handlers any more evil??? But he is thinking of us, you see ...

When you've breathed all the filthy air he has given us,
when you've drunk the leaded water he has given us,
when you can't afford the medical care he has not given us,
at least you won't be alone when your dying from it all.
  =Barbara=

Excerpt:  Women in poor neighborhoods may find bitter amusement in the idea that they need the government's encouragement to search for a husband, or that conflict resolution courses are the way to shore up troubled unions between two poor people.

Electrolux to close refrigerator factory in Michigan
Most of the work will be transferred to Mexico
OK, you gotta choice — we can come to your country and take your jobs, or we can work here in Mexico when your jobs come here. Hey we don't mind, either way we're gonna get your jobs!   =Kathy Fisher=

Canadian newscaster allowed to have libido


"More explosive than the Hatton inquiry"
Excerpt:  At a hearing last November, Gun's legal team indicated that she would use a defense of 'necessity' to argue that she acted to save the lives of British soldiers and Iraqi civilians.

At the time Gun, who was sacked after her arrest and whose case is funded by legal aid, said in a statement: 'Any disclosures that may have been made were justified on the following grounds: because they exposed serious illegality and wrongdoing on the part of the US government who attempted to subvert our own security services; and to prevent wide-scale death and casualties among ordinary Iraqi people and UK forces in the course of an illegal war.'

She added: 'I have only ever followed my conscience.'

From the archives,
Sacked and prosecuted for telling the truth
by Norman Solomon, syndicated columnist

In Iraq, U.S. battles patriotic music


Iraq occupation uses documents from 1918 occupation of Iraq


Israeli envoy wrecks art exhibit





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Too many lies to count
A speech by President George W. Bush, in Cincinnati, Ohio



"There's no telling how many wars it will take
to secure freedom in the homeland."



Republican Party behind Dixie Chicks 'controversy'


Two years of lies about Sept. 11
And now, the new Warren Commission

by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News
Excerpt:  The 9/11 Commission was originally given a budget of $3-million. That's a little less than one-fifth of one percent of one percent — about zero-point-zero-zero-18% — of the $166-billion already spent, committed, and requested just for this year's occupation and 'reconstruction' of Iraq.

The investigation's budget was later increased, after much complaining from the Commission itself, to $12-million. Some reports say the budget is now $14-million.

By comparison, the investigation of February's shuttle disaster was budgeted at $50-million. That investigation was set in motion less than two hours after the astronauts' deaths, and began releasing its findings within a few months.

Even the Warren Commission, the U.S. government's widely-disbelieved investigation of Pres. Kennedy's 1963 assassination, was budgeted at $5.5-million — in 1963 funds. Adjusted for inflation, that's more than $32-million in 2003 dollars.

You might think it would cost substantially more to thoroughly investigate a complicated event — nineteen foreign hijackers commandeering four passenger jets and obliterating the World Trade Center, damaging the Pentagon, and killing thousands of Americans — than to investigate the shooting of the president in a parade.

The Bush Administration seems to disagree. They think it should cost substantially less.



FRIDAY, JAN. 16, 2004

Pentagon withholds human guinea pig medical data
Background information
"Support the troops," they say ...

Bush ends "discrimination" against faith-based charities
with comments by Linda D.


Health care for Congress and everyone else
by Tess Ellis, Unknown News
How many times have we been told this country can't afford universal healthcare? We're the richest country in the world, but we can't afford to give our citizens what most of the rest of the industrialized countries do automatically. Why is that?


No 'Mad Cow' testing in Washington state
No mad cow tests were conducted during the two-year period at any of the six federally registered slaughterhouses in Washington state.

From the archives, Dec. 24, 2003
USDA refused to release mad cow records

Background information
Innoculating yourself from the lies about Mad Cow Disease

Criminology students say they faked evidence
with comments by Grandma & Grandpa


Trying out for The Apprentice
by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News


Bush plans $1.5 billion ad campaign for marriage
It is refreshing to know that America finally has so few problems and such a healthy economy that we can easily afford to blow a billion and a half bucks reminding heterosexuals to get married instead of shackin' up.   =H&HH=

President’s Special Advisory Commission on Healthy Marriage
by Jerome Doolittle, Bad Attitudes

Bush plan to honor ML King stirs criticism
Kind of like Hitler going to see the "Wailing Wall."   =Chris M.=




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with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater


Drunk-driving cop who killed apologizes (just before sentencing)
Oh, I get it. He was sentenced for 'driving drunk' not vehicular homicide, or vehicular manslaughter or destruction of property or being drunk & disorderly and the prosecution got the maximum for that: 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison.

Even killer drunk cops get a free ride in court.
  =John C.=

Panel to open FTAA police probe
Excerpt:  A new Miami civilian panel is in the spotlight as it faces the grueling task of determining whether police mishandled protests at the trade summit.

If it takes this much trouble to discover the obvious, I doubt anything will come of this.   =Marshall=

Three say abusive police got slaps on wrist


Cops spied on church during FTAA meetings


Bicyclists jailed for asking cops directions
Excerpt:  Lachko and Avdeev rode bicycles onto a restricted police parking lot to ask for directions to a rock-climbing gym. They quickly found themselves jailed by wary cops just days before the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist bombings. Both students speak with heavy accents and neither carried identification.

Cop gets six years for killing, cover-up


Cop pleads guilty to three rapes


Cop pleads guilty in on-duty sex case


Man cleared by DNA will be freed from prison





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So why aren't we hunting & eating the rich? Seriously.   =John C.=

The new reality: Laid-off workers just can’t find comparable jobs
Someone at ABC News seems to have briefly woken up.   =H&HH=

How Bush is plundering Social Security to close the deficit


Illegal music downloading climbs


USDA quietly declares emergency in Washington state
Who is more mad, us or the cows?   =Marshall=

Background information
Innoculating yourself from the lies about Mad Cow Disease

Angry citizens back man who shot intruder
Homeowner defended family but charged for violating handgun ban






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More accurate a predictor than those polls, fer sure.   =John C.=

Michael Moore endorses Wesley Clark


Presidential polls


Tests show Washington, D.C. still vulnerable to air attack
But we're getting better. Maybe by the time the next attack occurs, U.S. national defense will be allowed to defend the U.S.   =Marshall and Helen & Harry Highwater=

See the 'Hitler ads' dropped by MoveOn
From the archives, Jan. 6, 2004
MoveOn knuckles under to Republican pressure
with comments by Warren Celli and Helen & Harry Highwater

One in 24 Americans to be "citizen spies"
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JAN. 16, 2004

If there is a draft, there will be riots like haven't been seen since the civil war. There will be nobody to stop the riots because they'll all be somewhere else.
  —marvin a


The historical Jesus was not unfamiliar with violence.

Do you have any information on the Homewood Police in Birmingham, Alabama. They beat my son almost to death on a traffic stop.
  —X


Isn't it interesting that the government, after decades of discouraging marriage among the poor by only giving single women financial help, and among the middle class with the "marriage penalty", they now want to spend 1.5 Billion encouraging people to get married.
  —Tess Ellis


The video will show you exactly what we have bombed -- it is not a pretty picture and requires a strong stomach. I suggest you have your pastor show it to the faithful at his next sermon.

I've tried to see what you're upset about, and it just makes no sense to me. Millions of people who were tortured and enslaved have been rescued. This is heroism to me.
  —Raoul


I view any support of Wal-Mart anti-American ... including yours.
  —Robert C.





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JAN. 16, 2004

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Health care for Congress and everyone else
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No 'Mad Cow' testing in Washington state


Criminology students say they faked evidence
with comments by Grandma & Grandpa


Trying out for The Apprentice
by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News


Deputy pleads guilty to child abuse
with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater


JAN. 15, 2004

Feds drool over saliva-based drug tests


In search of a better deal
by Andrew L., Unknown News


U.S. pilot detained in Brazil in fingerprint spat
with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater


From the desert
by Lisa Walsh Thomas, Unknown News


Stupefyingly long list of Bush-Cheney et al lies updated


Po' boy spag-chili vegetable stew
by Liberez L'Ours, Unknown News


The battle of Athens, Tennessee
by SayUncle, with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News


Weapons, schmeapons: Bush advisors say unfound Iraqi weapons matter little


Official confirms claims that Saddam was Bush’s focus before 9/11: Bush admits he targeted Saddam from inauguration day


No chemical agent in Iraq mortar shells


JAN. 14, 2004

U.S. gets access to Canadian tax data


Sekhmet visits the White House
by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News


Why I stormed out of the Apprentice premiere party
by HappySysiphus, Unknown News


"No President has ever done more for human rights than I have" [Is George W. Bush insane?]


Apocalypsopolis, chapter 2.4
by Ran Prieur, Unknown News


Marijuana activist indicted for refusing DNA
with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater


The never was and the never will be's
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News


Contaminated salmon: More 'bad food news' goes down easy
with comments by John C. and Friend


Random roadblocks OK'd by Supreme Court
with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater


Arms cache in Texas leads to convictions but few answers

with comments by Grandma & Grandpa


Kentucky deputy and convict extort drivers on drunk road trip in cruiser


JAN. 12, 2004

Mad human disease
by Carl Pwccaman, Unknown News


What's another word for 'secret justice'? Injustice.: Secret courts, secret dockets, secret arguments, secret imprisonments


Pretend "free trade" and pretend "freedom"
by Liberez L'Ours, Unknown News


Five impolite questions for the president
by Don Williams, Knoxville News-Sentinel


Why are we so wrapped up in what is so unimportant?
by Zaphod, Unknown News


In New Jersey, a link to mad cow?: Seven who apparently died of a similar illness are getting new attention


Coming soon: Another U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela


Amputee soldier denied access to nightclub: His shoes weren't nice enough


The S factor explains Bush's popularity
by Neal Starkman, Seattle Post-Intelligencer


Hit by a bus
by David H.,
with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News


Reality TV's ultimate jungle: Simulated presidential politics


Republicans want park's name restored to 'Squaw Peak': It had been re-named for soldier killed in Iraq


Feds come down hard on alleged Saddam spy
with comments by John C.


Bush planned Iraq attack months before Sept. 11, Former Treasury Secretary says


Question about flight simulator program brings visit from police
with comments by John C. and Chris M.


Bush drug proposal enrages veterans


Carnegie study states the obvious: Bush lied to take America to war
with comments by Liberez L'Ours


JAN. 7, 2004

Republicans exploit foster kids to get around new campaign finance law
with comments by Madeline Zane


Another year older and none the wiser
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News


MoveOn knuckles under to Republican pressure
with comments by Warren Celli and Helen & Harry Highwater


Howard Dean must die (an endorsement)
by Ran Prieur, Unknown News


Department of Labor advises employers on how to avoid paying overtime
with comments by Chris, Helen & Harry Highwater, Madeline Zane, and the U.S. Department of Labor


The Great Depression of our age: Response to Tess Ellis' Wal-Mart article
by John W., Unknown News


Catholic Church makes big show of passing alleged "audits" based on voluntary self-reporting
with comments by Madeline Zane


Financial poverty and mental wealth
by The Blue Rajah, Unknown News


US troops get big bonus if they extend Middle East duty
with comments by Kathy Fisher


What is a Christian?
by Cynthia Hills, Unknown News


Six cops “sentenced” for beating: House arrest, probation, and suspended sentences — and all remain on payroll


Street won't (yet) be named after Ashcroft
with comments by Barbara


NJ Weedman fires up congressional campaign


When history is hijacked
by Gwynne Dyer, syndicated columnist


JAN. 5, 2004

Pain of cancer makes Republican legislator remember freedom
with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater


The dismal failure of "free trade"
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News


Geezercise and our New Year's resolutions
by Liberez L'Ours, Unknown News


Feds order casinos, airlines to surrender customer data


CIA to install secret police in Iraq
with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater


Coffee and state authority in Colombia
by Josh Frank, Unknown News


America: The real danger lies within
by Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun


Arab-American group launches voting effort
with comments by Madeline Zane


USDA pretends beef supply is safe
with comments by Madeline Zane


NYPD sells stolen loot, keeps proceeds
by Warren Celli, Unknown News




Rest of world gets sick of propping up Bush's deficit
by John Garnaut, Sydney Morning Herald


Various white male hypocrites dominated 2003
by Anna Quindlen, Newsday


U.S. soldiers discharged for beating Iraqis: Two out of three get "honorable discharge"


JAN. 2, 2004

Homeland Security Dept. quietly expands reach
with comments by John C.


Shit happens
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News


Sept. 11 "detainee" cleared but still held: Faces deportation to Algeria, imprisonment or execution there


The Sunday spin cycle
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News


The fish that threatened national security
by Lara Hayhurst, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


Wal-Mart is not the problem
by Tess Ellis, Unknown News


Justice Department pretends to continue investigating White House administration leak retaliating against WMD whistleblower
with comments by Madeline Zane


Revealed: how drug firms 'hoodwink' medical journals
with comments by Madeline Zane


Vote system provides receipt, verification that your vote was counted


Bystander killed as cops fire at moving car
with comments by Helen & Harry Highwater


The truth won't come out at "Saddam Hussein's trial"


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