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November 29, 2005

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CIFA: The Pentagon's COINTELPRO
By Kurt Nimmo

CIFA is little more than an excuse to get the military back in the business
of "investigating" (subverting the Constitutional rights) of Americans. "The
[Bush stacked] commission urged that CIFA be given authority to carry out
domestic criminal investigations and clandestine operations against
potential threats inside the United States," including the threat of
"treason" (not paying fealty to our feudal lord, George Bush, and
criticizing his policies-note the accusation Dubya wanted to bomb Doha-based
al-Jazeera for not censoring news and you get a pretty good idea what our
ill-tempered monarch thinks of people who disagree with him). Our new
COINTELPRO, run by military intelligence and probably the CIA, will make the
old COINTELPRO pale in comparison.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=536&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
TORTURERS 'R' US
By Mumia Abu-Jamal

There have been news reports of a number of secret US prisons in Eastern
European countries. These reports, coming as they do after reports about
torture at Guantanamo Naval Gulag, at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan,
the Diego Garcia base situated in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and, of
course, Abu Ghraib in Iraq, should show us that torture lies at the very
heart of the U.S.-declared 'War on Terror'.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/05/051128_the_tragic_blindness.php
THE TRAGIC BLINDNESS OF THE EMBEDDED BBC:
White Phosphorus, Fallujah And Unreported Atrocities
Media Lens

In light of the Pentagon's admission that US forces +did+ use white
phosphorus (WP) as an offensive weapon, the BBC needs to explain its earlier
silence.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/oneill.php?articleid=8161
Al-Jazeera, Serbia, and Liberal Amnesia: When killing journalists was
permissible
Brendan O'Neill, Antiwar.com

Why, right now, do some journalists seem more outraged by the alleged
threats and slurs made by President Bush against a TV station than they were
about an earlier president's actual bombing of a TV station? Why are they
red-faced with rage and indignation over the Bush and al-Jazeera incident,
yet they turned a blind eye - or even tried to justify - President Bill
Clinton's outrageous bombing of Serbian TV during the Kosovo War in 1999,
which left journalists dead and maimed?

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/291105frogcooked.htm
American Police State: The Frog Has Cooked
Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet

Here we have American police chiefs using military terminology and directing
it against American citizens. The random sieges, ID checking and public
transport casing is the very benchmark of a police state.

http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0375.html
Selling the biggest lie of them all - Capitalism
William Bowles, williambowles.info

Well the jury is no longer out, there is no doubt about it - the history of
Western 'civilisation' is an unmitigated disaster and one based upon a lie
from beginning to what might well be its end in a short space of time.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_277.shtml
How our governments use terrorism to control us
Tim Howells, Online Journal

The sponsorship of terrorism by western governments, targeting their own
populations, has been a taboo subject. Although major scandals have received
cursory coverage in the media, the subject has been allowed to immediately
disappear without discussion or investigation. Therefore the appearance this
year of two major studies of this subject is a welcome breakthrough, and
provides essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the events of
September 11, 2001 and the post September 11 world.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/112805.html
Mystery of Woodward's Three Sources
Robert Parry, Consortium News

Buried deep in an article by the Washington Post's media writer Howard Kurtz
is new evidence that senior Bush administration officials knew their case
for war with Iraq was shaky - and that the Post's star reporter Bob Woodward
ducked his duty to the American people to present this information before
the invasion began.

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/23196
Pharma's Poisoned Generation
Evelyn J. Pringle, Media Monitors

A growing number of professionals in the health care field are reporting
that a relationship exists between the epidemic in neurodevelopmental
disorders of autism, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, and speech or
language delay all across the country, and the use of thimerosal, the
mercury-based preservative used in childhood vaccines.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Berkowitz1128.htm
Christmas Under Attack: A Manufactured Crisis
Bill Berkowitz, Dissident Voice

Conservative Christian fundamentalists, right wing Christian legal groups,
and most of the Fox News Channel's prime time crew are echoing variations on
the same theme: liberals are once again out to destroy Christmas. Instead of
the ancient cry that "Jews killed Christ," fundamentalist Christians and
their conservative allies are accusing liberals -- which in those circles is
often read, Jews -- for trying to remove Christmas from the public square.

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NewsWire

http://www.slate.com/id/2131127/
Goodbye, habeas corpus. Hello, executive detention.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-schmeltzer/neocons-floated-idea-of-b_b_11254.html
Neocons Floated Idea of Bombing Al Jazeera Before

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/28/D8E5RPBO5.html
Domestic shock and awe operation: Miami police will stage random shows of
force at hotels, banks and other public places to terrorize civilians

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1134748,00.html
Stalking the Day Laborers: Minutemen turn inland in their fight against
illegal immigrants. What's the real goal?

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news1.shtml
Another reason to avoid the military

http://www.itn.co.uk/news/1931890.html
Marines caught on camera again

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051128-10055500-bc-iraq-usmunitions.xml
US bomb shortage in Iraq

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article329857.ece
Climate change: It's now or never

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/29/051129134157.iq7vlpbg.html
Global warming set to hit Europe badly

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1129/p01s02-usec.html
If winter is bitter, brace for natural gas crunch

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7717.shtml
Progress remains elusive on gulf coast

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17352073-29277,00.html
Porn 'does not make sex objects': study casts doubt on commonly held view
that pornography shows women as nothing more than sex objects

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