Archive: September 2008
Wachovia has long held a reservation on my blacklist. Fair Finance Watch, among other corporate watchdog groups, maintains that the mortgage house “unfairly imposes higher rates on home loans to African-Americans than non-Hispanic whites and finances pawn shops and payday lenders known for charging high rates for short-term loans to low-income households.” – AC/Source: MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12680868/from/RSS/ ••••••• ” … I
ALSO SEE: “Parliamentary panel gives legal opinion on UK participation in CIA extraordinary renditions” • Responsibility ‘remains with British troops’• Risks could lead to ban on rendition By Duncan Campbellwww.guardian.co.ukSeptember 29 2008 British troops who hand over prisoners in Iraq to US military personnel could find themselves facing prosecution, according to a legal opinion compiled for parliament. The finding has
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writerwww.sfgate.comSeptember 30, 2008 (09-29) 18:44 PDT — The McCain campaign is attempting to do something unheard of in the modern political era. It is not just running against the mainstream media, it is running around it. This strategy is not so much expressed in McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt’s declaration last week that the New York
By Alex Constantine In September 2008, the corporate world was shaken to learn of the brain hemorrhage death of prominent business consultant Michael Hammer while bicycling with a friend in Boston – one of the 25 “most influential” people in America, per Time magazine. His obit: Michael Hammer (1948 – 2008) Champion of ‘Re-Engineering’ Saved Companies, Challenged Thinking By CARI TUNA |
Criminal inquiry comes on recommendation of Justice Department investigators. By Eric Lichtblau, Sharon Otterman THE NEW YORK TIMES September 30, 2008 WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed a special prosecutor Monday to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other officials in connection with the firings of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006.
See: “Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts,” NYT, July 7, 2006 Hate groups infiltrating the US military The [SPLC] report cited accounts by neo-Nazis of their infiltration of the military, including a discussion on the white supremacist Web site Stormfront. “There are others among you in the forces,” one participant wrote. “You are never alone.” An article in
Mind control subject/activist Diana Napolis has released a PDF of a transcribed interview with one of the alleged child victims of Michael Aquino from the Presidio case. I don’t believe this has been available on the internet before: http://diananapolis.wordpress.com/ “This is a Criminal Investigative Division interview tape of an (anonymous) alleged child victim of Michael Aquino?s dated March 15,
By Jeremy R. Hammond/www.atlanticfreepress.com 28 September 2008 A recent New York Times article examined how Arabs in the Middle East don’t believe the official story of what happened on September 11, 2001 and are rather apt to think the U.S. government itself had a hand in the terrorist attacks. The title of the article dismisses the notion,
By Bill Hahn 19 September 2008http://www.jbs.org/index.php/jbs-news-feed/2995 An interesting event occurred late last night. Politico blogger Ben Smith contacted us to ask if a photo of Sarah Palin showed her with a copy of one of our publications. Apparently the Palin family had released the photo to AP and the New York Times picked it up for an article last week. Politico was inaccurate in identifying the reprinted article as the cover of the magazine. Clearly seen in the photo is a reprint of an article from The New American magazine back in 1995, entitled “Con-Con Call” in a three-ring binder in front of her. … Story continues at the JBS website.
Ex-CIA executive pleads guilty to wire fraudAssociated PressSeptember 29, 2008 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – A former executive director of the CIA has pleaded guilty to wire fraud as part of a plea bargain. Kyle “Dusty” Foggo was the number three man in the CIA from 2004 to 2006. At a hearing Monday in federal court in Alexandria, he pleaded guilty