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June 18, 2007
Appeals Court Rules for E-Mail Privacy
Federal investigators overstepped constitutional bounds by searching e-mails without a warrant during a fraud investigation related to an herbal supplement company known for its "Smiling Bob" ads, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
White House Aides' E-Mail Records Gone
E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday.
140 Engineers and Architects Question the 9/11 Commission Report
Court: Police stops can be challenged
A passenger in a car stopped by police has a right, just as the driver does, to challenge the constitutionality of the stop, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
New Report Shows Bush's Presidential Signing Statements Have Been Used to Nullify Laws
A Government Accountability Office report confirms that Bush's use of presidential signing statements have the effect of nullifying the law in question in about 30 percent of cases.
Pace fired to clear way for national emergency, Iran nuclear strike?
By Paul Craig Robert
The Annexation of Mexico
From the Folks Who Brought You Plan Colombia
Credit Cards Cut Off Gas Purchases
Rules to Prevent Credit Card Fraud Are Confusing Consumers at the Gas Pump
North Dakota Farmers File Lawsuit Against DEA Over Hemp Ban
Federal lawsuit by two North Dakota farmers (including a Republican state representative!) against the DEA for its refusal to issue permits allowing them to grow hemp.
9/11 'Truthers' uncovering disturbing anomalies
U.S., Russia: Iraq had no WMDs
The U.S. and Russia have agreed to dismantle the U.N. agency that searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and affirm that Saddam Hussein's government had no such arms at the time of the American invasion in March 2003.
Israel could be responsible for a disaster, Meretz MK says
Politicians at odds over Israel's response to Gaza crisis. While MK Gal-On warns of humanitarian crisis in Strip, National Union MK Eldad calls on government 'not to send them even one crumb of food'
U.S. led air raid kills seven Afghan children
At least seven children have been killed in a U.S. led coalition air strike in a religious school in Afghanistan, the coalition said on Monday, amid rising anger over civilian deaths from foreign military operations.
Your tax dollars at work winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.
CIA renditions case suspended
An Italian judge on Monday suspended the first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme until the country's highest court can rule on the case.
The Italian government has asked the Constitutional Court to deny prosecutors access to key evidence against the 26 American defendants - all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents - accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terrorist suspect from a Milan street on February 17, 2003.
In an argument that would effectively scuttle the case, state lawyers have said that the judge who issued the indictments unlawfully relied on state secrets to justify the charges.
Iraqi Sunni Leader Dies of Heart Attack
Iraq's Top Sunni Arab Religious Leader Dies of Heart Attack
The Immigration Debate: Globalists vs. Nationalists
Iraq on verge of genocidal war, warns ex-US official
The man who led the initial American effort to reconstruct Iraq after the war believes the country is on the brink of a genocidal civil war and its government will fall apart unless the US changes course and allows a three-way federal structure. He has also urged talks with Iran and other regional players.
100 Professors Question The 9/11 Commission Report
US forces bomb Sunni mosque, killing five Iraqis: report
US tanks bombed a Sunni mosque in Baquba Sunday, killing five Iraqis, the Association of Muslim Scholars said in an online statement Monday.
The US tank destroyed the Abdullah Ibn Mubarak mosque in Baquba, 60 kilometres north-east of Baghdad.
Rocket attack on Israel not by Hezbollah
Rockets that slammed into northern Israel from Lebanon were launched by a Palestinian group and not Hezbollah, a spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said here Sunday.
‘The prime minister has been receiving updates from the defence establishment since immediately after the rocket fire and is in constant contact with the defence and foreign ministers,’ Miri Eisin told reporters.
Robo-Tripping at Abu Ghraib
Seventy to ninety percent of the detainees at Abu Ghraib, according to an October 2003 International Committee of the Red Cross report and sworn statements made by members of the 470th Military Intelligence Group, the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, and the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion, were arrested by mistake or had no intelligence value.
Provance met one of the prisoners who seemed to be there for the wrong reason. "They got him to the point where he was naked, shivering, and covered in mud and then showed him to his father. That's what broke [General Zabar] down after a 14-hour interrogation," says Provance. "He said, 'I'll tell you anything.'"
Sarkozy Party Wins, but Not in landslide
President Nicolas Sarkozy's party won a clear parliamentary majority Sunday in elections seen as crucial to his vision for opening up France's economy, although the opposition thwarted a landslide victory by capitalizing on voter fears of giving Sarkozy too much power.
Chinese slave boss shows little remorse
An alleged ringleader in a slave labour scandal that has shocked China expressed little remorse for beating workers and denied responsibility for a brutal brickyard murder, state press said Monday.
Chinese police bust kidnap gangs, free 568 slaves
Police have detained 168 people linked to a human trafficking network supplying slave labour to mines and brick works in northern and central China, state media reported Sunday.
At total of 568 people including children and the mentally handicapped were freed from slavery in brick kilns and illegal mines over the past few days in thousands of sites in northern Shanxi and central Henan provinces, Xinhua news agency reported.
Over 35 killed in Baghdad clashes
As many as 36 people were killed in a fierce battle early today between Shiite militiamen and British forces doing house-to-house searches south of Baghdad, Iraqi police and hospital officials said.
Australia, US launch massive war game
Australia and the United States launched a massive war game Monday aimed at honing their ability to act together against threats to Asia-Pacific security, commanders said.
Gazans stock up on petrol and food as fuel supplies run dry
Gazans rushed to stock up on petrol and food yesterday as Israel cut fuel supplies in its first concrete response to Hamas's seizure of power in Gaza.
The panic-buying came on another frenetic day of politics as President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a new government in Ramallah and outlawed the Hamas militias that deposed the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. He promised their members would be punished for their actions.
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