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"'The detective told me if I did not medicate my son, I would be arrested for child abuse and neglect,'" Taylor said." [more]
"It's possible...that even a stable fly, or something as tiny as an aphid, could be used to distribute deadly pathogens over a wide geographical area in a surprisingly rapid and efficient manner. Bugs as delivery systems for weapons of mass terror." [more]
"The Government believes it may have found a way to damage Mark Latham and it's going to try to step it up again in the debate this afternoon. But both independent Meg Lees and Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett believe that the Government's planned Iraq debate is nothing more than a political exercise." [more]
"The measure would give law enforcement increased subpoena powers and more leeway over wire-tap evidence and on classifying some drug offenses as terrorism. 'This bill would allow the government to prosecute most drug cases as terrorism cases,' [one congressional aide said]." [more]
"The missile shipped into the New York area last month was not a real missile — just a mockup — arranged entirely by the government. The government also arranged the meetings at a New Jersey hotel and elsewhere, where Lakhani allegedly told undercover agents posing as al Qaeda terrorists about his support of bin Laden. 'One would have to ask yourself, would this have occurred at all without the government?' said [one] criminal defense attorney." [more]
"Fewer than 10 percent want Turkey to allow the U.S. to attack Iraq from Turkish military bases, [yet] Turkey's cooperation would be essential for opening up a northern front on Iraq." [more]
"A Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll from November 2001 said roughly one-third of Americans would support government-sanctioned torture of terror suspects held in the United States or abroad." [more]
"Police departments and the Pentagon are flocking to Norris' headquarters in San Diego to see this revolutionary technology for themselves. The problem with past attempts to make an acoustic weapon is that sound traveled in every direction, affecting the operator, as well. Norris' narrow ultrasound beam takes care of that problem, meaning police could use it to subdue suspects or quell riots, without hurting bystanders or the operator, because the sound is directional." [more]
"While there have been several reports of civilian casualties ever since the military campaign in Afghanistan began on Oct 7, 2001, the sheer casualty figures in the July 1 attack — the Afghan government estimates 48 people were killed and 117 injured — have raised fears that Washington's precarious battle for minds could tip the wrong way." [more]
"While Americans puzzle over the story of Jose Padilla, a Brooklyn-born hoodlum who was accused this week of plotting to explode a 'dirty bomb' on behalf of Osama bin Laden, the reality is, there are many more like him." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more]
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