February 13, 2005
The Nation, Jan. 20, 2005
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050207&s=wiener
Twenty of the biggest chemical companies in the United States have launched a campaign to discredit two historians who have studied the industry's efforts to conceal links between their products and cancer. In an unprecedented move, attorneys for Dow, Monsanto, Goodrich, Goodyear, Union Carbide and others have subpoenaed and deposed five academics who recommended that the University of California Press publish the book Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner.
New York Times, Jan. 21, 2005
Testifying before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in July 2003 about the rebuilding of Iraq, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told the story of Jumana Michael Hanna, an Iraqi woman...with a tale of her horrific torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein's regime. Hanna's tale - more than two years of imprisonment that included being subjected to electric shocks, repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted - was unusual in that she was willing to name the Iraqi police officials who participated in her torture, "information that is helping us to root out Baathist policemen who routinely tortured and killed prisoners," Wolfowitz said. But Hanna's story, which 10 days before Wolfowitz's testimony had been the subject of a front-page article in the Washington Post, appears to have unraveled. Esquire magazine, in this month's issue, published a lengthy article, by a writer who was hired to help Hanna produce a memoir, saying that her account had all but fallen apart.
Commandos Get Duty on U.S.
Soil
New York Times, Jan. 23, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/national/nationalspecial3/23code.html?ex=1107838800&en=99185a9d16428e44&ei=5070&oref=login
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012405F.shtml - free copy
Mr. Arkin, in the online supplement to his book (codenames.org/documents.html ), says the contingency plan, called JCS Conplan 0300-97, calls for "special-mission units in extra-legal missions to combat terrorism in the United States" based on top-secret orders that are managed by the military's Joint Staff. Mr. Arkin provided The New York Times with briefing slides prepared by the Northern Command, detailing the plan and outlining the military's preparations for the inauguration. Three senior Defense Department and Bush administration officials confirmed the existence of the plan and mission, but disputed Mr. Arkin's characterization of the mission as "extra-legal."
The New Yorker, Jan. 24, 2005
Free trade leaves world food in grip of global giants
Guardian, Jan. 27, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,1399480,00.html
Global food companies are aggravating poverty in developing countries by dominating markets, buying up seed firms and forcing down prices for staple goods including tea, coffee, milk, bananas and wheat, according to a report to be launched today. Two companies dominate sales of half the world's bananas, three trade 85% of the world's tea, and one, Wal-mart, now controls 40% of Mexico's retail food sector. It also found that Monsanto controls 91% of the global GM seed market.
The UFO
Phenomenon -- Seeing Is Believing
ABC, Feb 4,
2005
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=468496&page=1
Almost 50 percent of
Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the
world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief. For
decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of people. On
Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs – Seeing Is Believing" takes a fresh
look at the UFO phenomenon. "As a journalist," says Jennings, "I began this
project with a healthy dose of skepticism and as open a mind as possible. After
almost 150 interviews with scientists, investigators, and with many of those who
claim to have witnessed unidentified flying objects, there are important
questions that have not been completely answered – and a great deal not fully
explained." "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs – Seeing Is Believing" airs
Thursday, Feb. 24 from 8-10 p.m. ET on ABC.
Microchips Counter Andes
Alpaca Smuggling
AP/ABC, Feb. 5,
2005 (More news trying to convince us that
microchipping is a good thing)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=474567
Peruvian alpaca herders are turning to technology to thwart a growing
problem of the high Andes Mountains: the smuggling of prize-winning,
wool-producing alpacas to neighboring countries. An association of alpaca
farmers is surgically implanting microchips into hundreds of alpacas as part of
an effort to reduce illegal transport of the animals. A herd of 700 Alpacas had
microchips implanted in their neck muscles beneath their ears on Friday in the
high plains of Peru near the town of Nunoz, about 540 miles southeast of Lima.
Students ordered to wear tracking tags
MSNBC, Feb. 9, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6942751/
The only grade school in this rural
town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that
can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will rob their
children of privacy. InCom has paid the school several thousand dollars for
agreeing to the experiment, and has promised a royalty from each sale if the
system takes off, said the company's co-founder, Michael Dobson, who works as a
technology specialist in the town's high school.
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 10, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scientists10feb10,0,4954654.story?coll=la-home-nation
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