WHAT THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA WON'T SHOW YOU!
May Day March 2008
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Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis
Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger
Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
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FBI Loses National Security Letter Case Against Internet Archive
Colorado approves freeway speed cameras. Creates possibity of ticket for failing to move over for photo radar van.
When the Internet Archive, a project founded in 1996 to create a digital library of the web, was served an illegal National Security Letter (NSL) by the FBI, Archive founder and Digital Librarian, Brewster Kahle, did what any self-respecting defender of free expression would do: he got pissed.
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Colorado: Freeway Photo Radar Approved
Colorado approves freeway speed cameras. Creates possibity of ticket for failing to move over for photo radar van.
The Colorado state legislature gave its final approval last week to legislation allowing the use of speed cameras in highway work zones.
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Pastor who McCain praised said America's historic mission was to 'destroy' Islam
Mother Jones' David Corn has discovered a 2005 sermon in which a fundamentalist pastor Sen. John McCain has praised and campaigned with called Islam "the greatest religious enemy of our civilization and the world," and that the mission of America was to see "this false religion destroyed."
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Hezbollah seizes much of Beirut
Hezbollah gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday as sectarian clashes reminiscent of Lebanon's bloody 15-year civil war raged in the capital.
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CIA torture memo may be released to public
The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ruled Thursday.
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Secretive FEMA Camp Drill Running In Iowa
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) along with other government institutions are currently conducting an 8-day anti-terror and disaster exercise from May 1st through May 8th called National Level Exercise 2-08 in the United States.
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Beating the Drums of a Broader Middle East War
Israel, Syria, and Lebanon Prepare the "Home Fronts"
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War profits taint the greedy hands of more than 25% of members of the US House and Senate!
What do war, Congressmen, Senators, and the defense/offense industry have in common? The answer, if you haven’t already guessed is "profits."
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On Torture and "Administration Interrogation Rules"
From the Department of Justice to Guantánamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules
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