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August 2, 2007
Diebold E-Voting Flaws Could Compromise Elections
Optical scan voting devices slated to be used presidential primary elections in Florida next year are significantly flawed and could compromise the outcome of the contest, according to a report released Tuesday by Secretary of State Kurt Browning.
The report was compiled by researchers at Florida State University, who were hired by Browning in May to conduct an independent review of optical scan and touch-screen devices made by Diebold Election Systems, one of the largest voting machine vendors in the country and a major supplier of gear to Florida.
Nationwide bridge inspections ordered
U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters notified state transportation departments Thursday to immediately inspect all bridges of the same design as the one that collapsed Wednesday in Minnesota.
First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq
Robots have been roaming the streets of Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time the first time in any warzone the machines are carrying guns.
U.S. spy satellite declared loss, to drop from orbit
The National Reconnaissance Office has deemed an experimental U.S. spy satellite a total loss and will allow it to slowly drop from orbit and burn up in the atmosphere, two defense officials told Reuters this week.
Oil Could Hit $100
Wall Street analysts say it's possible investors' bullish trading in oil futures could drive the price up to $100 a barrel by next year.
Drumming Up a New Cold War
By signing up to Bush’s missile defence programme, the British government shows it doesn’t give a damn about either peace or democracy
100,000% inflation alert
Zimbabwe's inflation rate could hit 100,000 per cent by the end of the year, the International Monetary Fund predicted yesterday
More than 70,000 bridges rated deficient
More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion.
Testimony in Padilla trial focuses on Chechnya relief supplies
A defense witness in the Jose Padilla terrorism support trial described Thursday how an organization operated by a co-defendant in the case generated tons of clothing, medicine, food and even toys for relief efforts in wartorn Chechnya.
The testimony by Erol Bulur was aimed at bolstering claims by Padilla co-defendant Kifah Wael Jayyousi that his group, American Worldwide Relief, was focused on providing humanitarian aid to oppressed Muslims around the globe and not on assisting Islamic extremist warriors.
US economy 'in danger zone with oil price'
Sustained US crude oil prices near the $US80 level could harm the US economy, and both Opec and non-Opec producers should "look at what the facts are," Bodman told reporters.
"We're in a. . . danger zone right now, so that's why I hope that both Opec and non-Opec nations will look carefully at the facts," Bodman told reporters.
Democrats Offer Compromise Plan On Surveillance
Congressional Democrats outlined a temporary plan yesterday that would expand the government's authority to conduct electronic surveillance of overseas communications in search of terrorists.
The proposal, according to House and Senate Democrats, would permit a secret court to issue broad orders approving eavesdropping of communications involving suspects overseas and other people, who may be in the United States. To issue an order, the court would not need to identify a particular target overseas, but it would have to determine that those being targeted are "likely," in fact, overseas.
In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing
Federal officials insist that the Oklahoma City bombing case was solved a decade ago. But a Salt Lake City lawyer in search of his brother's killers has dug up some remarkable clues on cross-dressing bank robbers, the FBI, and the mysterious third man.
Video - Brigadier General Ben Partin speaks about Oklahoma City, Waco & Communism
USAF Brig. General Ben Partin (Ret.) address the Wallace Institute on the Oklahoma City bombing, the Waco massacre, and world communism in Santa Clara, California in June 1998. (44 Minutes)
Video - OKC Bombing Revisited
Uncover the truth behind the OKC bombing and its connections to 9/11. Using Oklahoma or "the axis of evil" alleged terrorists have been working right out of Norman Oklahoma and using it as a hub! Watch and learn because you will never find this culmination of information any where else! (1 Hour 8 Minutes)
Video - Coverup in Oklahoma
This documentary examines eyewitness accounts and news media reports documenting the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City (1 Hour 48 Minutes)
Longtime California reporter, outspoken editor of weekly newspaper shot to death in Oakland
The outspoken new editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death Thursday near a downtown courthouse in what police believe was a deliberate hit.
Chauncey Bailey, who had been a reporter for The Oakland Tribune before moving to the Post in June, was killed around 7:30 a.m., Oakland Police spokesman Roland Holmgren said. He said witnesses told police that a single gunman had shot Bailey and then fled.
Kensinger a no-show at Tillman hearing
Retired Lt. Gen. Philip Kensinger drew the ire of a U.S. House committee chairman Wednesday by failing to appear to answer questions about the friendly-fire death of Pat Tillman.
“General Kensinger refused to appear here today,” Rep. Henry Waxman said. “His attorney informed the committee that General Kensinger would not testify voluntarily, and if issued a subpoena, would seek to evade service.”
Water taps run dry in Baghdad
Much of the Iraqi capital was without running water Thursday and had been for at least 24 hours, compounding the urban misery in a war zone and the blistering heat at the height of the Baghdad summer.
A very private war
There are 48,000 'security contractors' in Iraq, working for private companies growing rich on the back of US policy. But can it be a good thing to have so many mercenaries operating without any democratic control?
Dog Chapman ‘Unleashed’ from Mexican Extradition, Charges
The Chapman trio is well known for their reality show on A&E, now in its 5th season. The show, "Dog the Bounty Hunter" is based on their work in Hawaii and the mainland as bounty hunters, where they chase down and apprehend criminals who've violated the terms of their bail. They’ve rounded up more than 6,000 bail jumpers and criminals in the last quarter of a century.
The Chapmans went to Mexico in 2003 in hot pursuit of a serial rapist, who fled the United States after being convicted in a California court for three rapes. The target was the Max Factor heir Andrew Luster, who is now serving 124 years in prison in the United States as a result of their work. They apprehended Luster on June 18, 2003, and he was jailed the next day
Return of the Robber Barons
By Paul Craig Roberts
Accredited May Face Bankruptcy, Merger in Doubt
Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co., the subprime mortgage company being acquired by Lone Star Funds, cast doubt on the sale and said bankruptcy is possible. The shares lost more than a third of their value.
Fox News Supports Hillary Clinton. . .
According to today’s Wall Street Journal “Washington Wire” News Corp is the 6th largest donor to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Murdoch himself is included on the list.
Return Of Sheiks On A Plane!
CIA Air Charters Flew Saudi Flights
Flatly contradicting the repeated assertions by the White House and FBI that the Bush administration played no role in the flights, an exclusive MadCowMorningNews investigation has uncovered numerous connections between the White House and the air charter companies involved in the evacuation of the members of the Saudi Royal family after the 9/11 attack.
$6.4 Billion for Katrina Rebuilding; $30 Billion for Israeli War Machine
Though a multibillion dollar shortfall threatens to stop homeowner rebuilding and buyout grants by the winter, applications to Louisiana's post-hurricane Road Home program poured in anyway Tuesday to beat a midnight application deadline.
DARPA's 42.8% Efficiency: A New Record for Solar Cells
Narrowly edging out the previous record set by Spectrolab late last year, two scientists at the University of Delaware have just created a new device that can convert 42.8% of the light striking it into electricity. The solar cell, built by Christina Honsberg and Allan Barnett, splits light into three components high, medium and low energy light and directs it to several different materials which can then extract electrons out of its photons.
L.A. City Council votes to outlaw smoking at municipal parks
Violators could be fined up to $250 under the new law, which needs the mayor's approval.
Russia Claims North Pole
Russian explorers dived deep below the North Pole in a submersible on Thursday and planted their national flag on the seabed to stake a symbolic claim to the energy riches of the Arctic.
A mechanical arm dropped a specially made, rust-proof titanium flag painted with the Russian tricolor onto the Arctic seabed at a depth of 4,261 meters (13,980 ft).
Rumsfeld helped Al Qaeda establish a stronghold in Northwestern Pakistan
By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Banana Republic - Chertoff, Chiquita and Right-Wing Death Squads
By Chris Floyd
Licence to kill - Israeli Death Squads
Children being used as 'guinea pigs' in mass Wi-Fi experiment, warn teachers
The use of wireless computer networks in classrooms should be immediately suspended until an inquiry has fully investigated the health threat to millions of pupils, a teachers' chief urged yesterday.
The criminal cover-up of Ohio's stolen 2004 election sinks to the fraudulent, the absurd, the pathetic
The illegal destruction of federally protected 2004 election materials by 56 of 88 Ohio counties has become a fraudulent "dog ate my homework" farce of absurd justifications and criminal coverups.
The mass elimination of the critical evidence that could definitively prove or disprove the presumption that the 2004 election was stolen has all the markings of a Rovian crime perpetrated to hide another one. Indeed, under Ohio law, that's precisely what must be presumed here.
Bush Officials May Face New Subpoenas
High-profile Bush administration officials could be called to the witness stand if two deposed pro-Israel lobbyists have their way in a court case that is moving toward a January 2008 trial date.
Lawyers for two former lobbyists at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee have asked federal judge T.S. Ellis III to subpoena the highest-ranking foreign policy players in the administration, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Hadley’s deputy, Elliott Abrams, and other top officials from the White House, State Department and Pentagon.
Lawyers: Military violated rules in determining enemy combatant status of Gitmo detainees
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees, citing statements by two U.S. military officers, told a federal appeals court Wednesday that the United States violated its own rules when it branded hundreds of prisoners as enemy combatants.
Eric Edelman: key conspirator in Sibel Edmonds case
Researcher's Analysis of al Qaeda Images Reveals Surprises
But more interesting were the examples Krawetz gave of al Qaeda images. Krawetz took an image from a 2006 al Qaeda video of Ayman al-Zawahiri, a senior member of the terrorist organization. The image shows al-Zawahiri sitting in front of a desk and banner with writing on it. But after conducting his error analysis Krawetz was able to determine that al-Zawahiri's image was superimposed in front of the background and was most likely videotaped in front of a black sheet.
U.K. Police want DNA from speeding drivers and litterbugs on database
Police are seeking powers to take DNA samples from suspects on the streets and for non-imprisonable offences such as speeding and dropping litter.
The demand for a huge expansion of powers to take DNA comes as a government watchdog announced the first public inquiry into the national DNA database.
FBI to Congress: Murder, Wrongful Imprisonment May Be Necessary to Preserve Drug Investigations
Last week, a federal judge excoriated the FBI for not only hiding exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated four innocent men who served more than thirty years in prison, but for rewarding those who did the hiding and covering up with bonuses and promotions. For this crime against American citizens, American taxpayers will now shell out more than $100 million. Thus far, none of the government agents actually responsible for this crime have been held accountable. Only rewarded.
Bush bars testimony of top aides in attorney row
President George W. Bush Wednesday barred his political guru Karl Rove from testifying to Congress in a furious political row sparked by a mass firing of federal prosecutors.
Bush invoked "executive privilege" to prevent Karl Rove and Scott Jennings, deputy White House political director, from providing documents and testimony under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Disaster looms in land built for peace and harmony
Politicians fear civil war as Musharraf's regime is battered by suicide attacks, civilian revolt and American threats
US Marine found guilty in 2006 plot to murder Iraqi civilian
A US court martial Wednesday found a Marine corporal guilty of conspiracy, theft and illegal association in a 2006 plot to murder an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania, the military said.
Lockerbie case, arms deal key to medics release: Kadhafi son
Former Libyan secret agent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, who was jailed for the 1988 bombing of a US airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, won the right to a new appeal in June after a court ruled he may have been wrongly convicted.
Attacks across Iraq claim 142 lives
Baghdad shook with bombings and political upheaval Wednesday as the largest Sunni Arab bloc quit the government and a suicide attacker blew up his fuel tanker in one of several attacks that claimed 142 lives nationwide.
The Iraqi Accordance Front's withdrawal from the Cabinet leaves only two Sunnis in the 40-member body, undermining Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's efforts to pull together rival factions and pass reconciliation laws the U.S. considers benchmarks that could lead to sectarian reconciliation.
Teens at Work
Thousands of adolescents work as unpaid baggers in Wal-Mart’s Mexican stores. The retail giant isn’t breaking any law but that doesn’t mean the government is happy with the practice.
Arrested Demonstrators Awarded $1 Million
Protesters arrested during a rally five years ago were awarded $1 million on Wednesday.
In September 2002, 100 people who marched on D.C. to protest the war in Iraq and World Bank policies. They were arrested. They later sued, claiming their arrests were unlawful.
Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US, says PM
Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the United States.
After four hours of one-to-one talks with the US President at his Camp David retreat, Mr Brown told a joint press conference he would make a Commons statement in October on the future of the 5,500 British troops in the Basra region.
In Terrorism-Law Case, Chiquita Points to U.S.
Firm Says It Awaited Justice Dept. Advice
Court Ruling that NSA Wiretapping is Illegal Drives Emergency Push for New Spy Powers
The Bush Administration's hard press for emergency wiretapping powers from Congress before the August break now has an explanation: a secret court decided several months ago that at least one portion of the NSA wiretapping program is illegal, according to MSNBC. That program operated for four years without court supervision, until the Administration bowed to public pressure in January 2007 and allowed the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to review it.
Growing cellphone use a problem for spy agencies
Rapid growth in cellphone use in South Asia and the Middle East has spurred a battle in Congress over whether foreign communications of suspected terrorists can be intercepted by intelligence agencies without court order.
The agencies, backed by Republicans in Congress, are pressing to be allowed to tap phone calls between suspected terrorists abroad without approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court.
Iraqi men join CIA secret prison suit
Two men who say they were flown by the US Central Intelligence Agency to secret overseas prisons where they were interrogated and tortured have joined an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit.
Al Qaeda: Mothers of Invention
What do you do when you need an enemy but there isn't one around? Simple -- make them up.
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