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The Watchmen Satanism In The Vatican!

Jesus Is Savior

Pope John Paul II - Burning in Hell Please notice the picture above with an upside-down cross. In his article, The Kingdom of Sa…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 5, 2008 at 8:08am — No Comments

The Watchmen Pope Watch: July 5, 2008

Pope calls new Archbishops to ecclesial unity and fidelity

Vatican City, Jun 29, 2008 / 12:06 pm (CNA).- During the celebration of the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul at the Vatican Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI called the Archbishops who had just received the pallium to be shepherds of the whole world. He said the world, like the Gospel’s lost sheep, has lost its way home. The Mass was attended by Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, who in an unprec…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 4, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Subplots on Guantánamo

Written By WILLIAM GLABERSON for the New York Times, July 4, 2008

The long legal story of the Bush administration’s effort to prosecute detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, now has two fast-moving subplots. Either one could soon write something of a final chapter. One plot will proceed in a federal courthouse in Washington, where lawyers for a detainee filed papers on Thursday seeking an injunction that, if granted, could be the death knell for the Bush administrati…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 4, 2008 at 4:20am — No Comments

The Watchmen Celebrity Passport Records Popular

Written by Glenn Kessler for the Washington Post, Friday, July 4, 2008

Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found. One celebrity's records were breached 356 times by more than six dozen people. The audit, by State's inspector general, was prompted by the discovery in March that three of the department's contract wor…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 4, 2008 at 4:16am — No Comments

The Watchmen Debate Over Guantanamo's Fate Intensifies

Written By Dan Eggen and Josh White for the Washington Post, Friday, July 4, 2008

The Bush administration is developing a long-range plan to empty the Guantanamo Bay military prison that could include asking Congress to spell out procedures for scores of suspected terrorists whom the government does not plan to bring to trial, administration officials and others familiar with high-level White House discussions on the issue said yesterday. Under one scenario being…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 4, 2008 at 4:13am — No Comments

The Watchmen Copying Issue Raises Hurdle for Bush Pick

Written by Adam Liptak for the New York Times, July 4, 2008

WASHINGTON — As chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Michael E. O’Neill helped steer the Supreme Court nominations of John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. through the confirmation process. An expert on judicial nominations, Mr. O’Neill later spoke with pride to a legal magazine about helping place “some difficult federal judicial nominees” onto the lower federal courts. The shoe is now o…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 4, 2008 at 4:00am — No Comments

The Watchmen (Admin of Fighting Tyranny) Civil liberties group criticizes new FBI authority

Courtesy of the Associated Press, July 3, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 40 years ago, the FBI was roundly criticized for investigating Americans without evidence they had broken any laws. Now, critics fear the FBI may be gearing up to do it again. Tentative Justice Department guidelines, to be released later this summer, would let agents investigate people whose backgrounds — and potentially their race or ethnicity — match the traits of terrorists. Such profiling…
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Posted by The Watchmen (Admin of Fighting Tyranny) on July 4, 2008 at 3:51am — No Comments

The Watchmen Civil liberties group criticizes new FBI authority

By LARA JAKES JORDAN – 1 day ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 40 years ago, the FBI was roundly criticized for investigating Americans without evidence they had broken any laws. Now, critics fear the FBI may be gearing up to do it again. Tentative Justice Department guidelines, to be released later this summer, would let agents investigate people whose backgrounds — and potentially their race or ethnicity — match the traits of terrorists. Such profiling faintly echoes the FBI's now-defunct COINTE… Continue

Posted by The Watchmen on July 4, 2008 at 1:26am — No Comments

The Watchmen Not So Quiet on the Third Front

Written By Dana Milbank for the Washington Post, Thursday, July 3, 2008

At this rate, the October Surprise won't be very surprising. The threats, counterthreats, and counter-counterthreats between Israel, Iran and the United States have reached new levels of hysteria in recent days. Israel openly threatens to attack Iran's nuclear program, Iran threatens to shut down oil-shipping lanes, and the commander of the U.S. fleet in the Persian Gulf, Vice Adm. Kevi…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 12:13pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Iran's shift in nuclear tone may be to buy time

Courtesy of Reuters, July 3, 2008

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's softer tone towards an offer of nuclear incentives made by world powers may be a bid to buy time rather than a shift to accept a key demand to halt nuclear work, analysts and diplomats said. Despite an unusually public debate about how Tehran should respond involving some senior Iranian politicians, there have been no official indications of any readiness to suspend uranium enrichment -- the demand on whi…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 12:11pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Iraq oil deals fulfill Cheney’s goals

Courtesy of the Online Journal, July 3, 2008

Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain “a prisoner of its energy dilemma” as long as Saddam Hussein was in power. That April 2001 report, “Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century,” was prepared by the James A. Baker Institute for Pub…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 11:59am — No Comments

The Watchmen The Latest Rage: Invasion of the Body Scanners!

Courtesy of JBS.org, July 3, 2008

Unsatisfied with patting down barefoot grandmothers, the TSA is now ready to deploy an even more fun toy — body scanners that allow for a full inspection of the airline security victim’s body through his clothing.

Since the 9/11 attacks, the shape of security has been evolving in ways that some advoca

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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 11:52am — No Comments

The Watchmen The Debate Is Over: Waterboarding Is Torture

Written by Paul Joseph Watson for Prison Planet, July 3, 2008

The U.S. government continually claims that it does not torture people, yet it admits to using “waterboarding” as a method of interrogation. If there was ever a debate about whether or not waterboarding was a form of torture then it has now been definitively answered

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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

The Watchmen The Debate Is Over: Waterboarding Is Torture

Written by Paul Joseph Watson for Prison Planet, July 3, 2008

The U.S. government continually claims that it does not torture people, yet it admits to using “waterboarding” as a method of interrogation. If there was ever a debate about whether or not waterboarding was a form of torture then it has now been definitively answered

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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 11:26am — No Comments

The Watchmen Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?

Written By Rick Shenkman, for Tomdispatch.com via Alternet, July 2, 2008

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid, it would seem, when we come across headlines like this: "Homer Simpson, Yes -- 1st Amendment 'Doh,' Survey Finds" (Associated Press 3/1/06). "About 1 in 4 Americans…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 2:35am — No Comments

The Watchmen The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency

Written by Brad Reed, AlterNet, July 2, 2008

In a lot of ways, choosing the Bush administration's 10 greatest moments -- disastrous failures, all -- is about as pointless as picking out your 10 least favorite hemorrhoids: There are entirely too many of them, and taken together they all add up to a throbbing mass of pain. But unfortunately, history demands that we at least make the effort so that future generation

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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 2:30am — No Comments

The Watchmen EU tries to ease fears on data-sharing talks with U.S.

Written by James Kanter for the International Herald Tribune, Wednesday, July 2, 2008

BRUSSELS: The European Commission sought Wednesday to ease fears that details about the medical conditions and sexual preferences of EU citizens could be abused by the American authorities under a trans-Atlantic system allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information. The European Union…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 2:26am — No Comments

The Watchmen Iraqi hints at delay for U.S. security agreement

Written By Alissa J. Rubin for the International Herald Tribune, Wednesday, July 2, 2008

BAGHDAD: Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari of Iraq appeared to lay the groundwork Wednesday for the possibility of a delay in the strategic security agreement under negotiation with the United States, which expires at the end of the year. At a news conference in Baghdad, Zebari said that intense negotiations under way since early March had made headway, but that many difficult i…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 2:24am — No Comments

The Watchmen Taking steps toward mobile cash

Written By Kevin J. O'Brien for the International Herald Tribune, Wednesday, July 2, 2008

BERLIN: Rushed for time last month, Gerhard Romen jumped on a departing tram in Frankfurt and waved his Nokia cellphone across an electronic reader at the door. The transit operator, Rhein-Main-Verkehrsbund, instantly charged the €2.20, or $3.48, fare to Romen's bank account in Helsinki. The transaction was m…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 2:23am — No Comments

The Watchmen Justice Dept. Admits Error in Supreme Court Case

Written by Linda Greenhouse for the New York Times, July 3, 2008

WASHINGTON — In a highly unusual admission of error, the Justice Department acknowledged on Wednesday that government lawyers should have known that Congress had recently made the rape of a child a capital offense in the military and should have informed the Supreme Court of that fact while the justices were considering whether death was a constitutional punishment for the crime. “It’s true that the…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 1:31am — No Comments

The Watchmen 18,000 women and children trafficked into UK sex trade

Written By Cahal Milmo and Nigel Morris for the Independent, July 3, 2008



Up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, are working in brothels across Britain after being smuggled into the country to meet the booming demand for prostitutes. Police, unveiling the results of the largest ever crackdown on people smuggling yesterday, revealed that nearly five times more women than previously thought are working under duress in mas
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 1:30am — No Comments

The Watchmen US teacher is suspended for letting pupils read bestseller

Written by Suzanne Goldenberg for the Guardian, July 3, 2008

An Indiana teacher who used a much lauded bestseller, The Freedom Writers Diary, to try to inspire under-performing high-school students has been suspended from her job without pay for 18 months. The effective book ban by the school authorities in Perry Township has outraged teachers and education reformers. The Writers Diary, a series of true stories written by inner-city teenagers, was put together by…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments

The Watchmen Politics Failed, but Fuel Prices Cut Congestion

Written By WILLIAM NEUMAN for the New York Times, July 3, 2008

Soaring gas prices and higher tolls seem to be doing for traffic in New York what Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s ambitious congestion pricing was supposed to do: reducing the number of cars clogging the city’s streets and pushing more people to use mass transit. In May, with gasoline at more than $4 a gallon, traffic at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s bridges and tunnels dropped 4.7 percent c…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 12:04am — No Comments

The Watchmen Teachers get guidance on how to relay the lessons of Sept. 11

Written by John Mooney for the Star-Ledger Staff, Wednesday, July 02, 2008

As chairman of the national 9/11 commission, former Gov. Thomas Kean has gone before the president, Congress and other powerful dignitaries with lessons of Sept. 11. Yesterday, Kean spoke to an ar guably more-influential audience when he shared many of those same lessons with educators c…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 3, 2008 at 12:02am — No Comments

The Watchmen Barak: Israel must respond immediately to Jerusalem attack

Courtesy of Haaretz Service, July 2, 2008

Defense Minister Ehud Barak declared Wednesday that Israel must respond immediately after a Palestinian man deliberately plowed a bulldozer into a crowded bus and a string of vehicles in downtown Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding dozens of others. Shortly after the attack, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered ministers to examine the possib…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 2, 2008 at 11:54pm — No Comments

The Watchmen France’s Terrorism Strategy Faulted

Written by Elaine Sciolino for The New York Times, July 3, 2008

PARIS — France’s much-praised system of using sweeping arrests and aggressive interrogations and prosecutions to combat terrorism violates the rule of law and prevents suspects from receiving a fair trial, according to a human rights report released Wednesday. France prides itself on having the most efficient counterterrorism strategy in Europe. French counterterrorism officials insist that the flexib…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 2, 2008 at 11:39am — No Comments

The Watchmen Midwest floods spotlight decrepit infrastructure

Courtesy of Reuters, July 1, 2008

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The latest U.S. natural disaster is triggering fresh rounds of concern and debate about how to repair America's aging infrastructure. The worst Midwest flooding since 1993 has generated images of swamped towns, cracked roads, washed-out bridges, overwhelmed dams, failed levees, broken sewage systems, stunted crops and water-logged refugees. The losses are in the billions of dollars and still mounting, as the c…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 2, 2008 at 3:12am — No Comments

The Watchmen U.S. Deaths Rise in Afghanistan

Written By Josh White for the Washington Post, Wednesday, July 2, 2008

June Is Deadliest Month for Troops as Country Sees Taliban Resurgence June was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the war there began in late 2001, as resilient and emboldened insurgents have stepped up attacks in an effort to gain control of the embattled country. Defense officials and Afghanistan experts said the toll of 28 U.S. combat deaths recorded last month…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 11:07pm — No Comments

The Watchmen In Weighing Death Penalty, a Flaw in Fact

Written by Linda Greenhouse for the New York Times, July 2, 2008

WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court ruled last week that the death penalty for raping a child was unconstitutional, the majority noted that a child rapist could face the ultimate penalty in only six states — not in any of the 30 other states that have the death penalty, and not under the jurisdiction of the federal government…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Sarkozy, Chastened by Chad, Seeks Money for EU Armies

Courtesy of Bloomberg, June 1, 2008

The European Union's biggest peacekeeping mission, the dispatch of 3,700 troops to Chad this year, got off to an inauspicious start: EU governments repeatedly delayed the deployment, halted troop transports when fighting broke out in February, and ultimately had to rely on Russian helicopters to ferry the force to the African desert.…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 10:33pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Iran Is Not The Belligerent Party

Written By Linda S. Heard, Special to Gulf News, July 1, 2008

In recent years Iran has become the target of a belligerent campaign against it, orchestrated by usual suspects the US, Israel and Britain. This aggressive nuclear-armed trio has badgered other nations to back anti-Iranian sanctions without even the flimsiest evidence that Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons. Since 2006, Iran has been…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 10:22pm — No Comments

The Watchmen The Global Seed Police

Written By BINOY KAMPMARK for Counterpunch, July 1, 2008

The latest documentary by French journalist Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto, a production of the national Film Board of Canada, can be viewed as a grand recapitulation of familiar, venal themes in corporate indifference. Monsanto is the bugbear of indigenous markets, rural communities and the developing world. It promotes itself as having the salva… Continue

Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 10:16pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Bush's 'Wonderland' Logic

Written by Robert Perry for Consortium News, July 2, 2008

The first Guantanamo Bay “enemy combatant” review case to go before a federal appeals court has offered a peek down the rabbit hole of capricious irrationality that underlies George W. Bush’s “war on terror.”

The rabbit-hole analogy follows a three-judge panel comparing the Bush administration’s assertion of

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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 10:14pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Strutting Fascism and swaggering militarism

Written by Gaither Stewart for Online Journal, Tuesday, July 1, 2008

“We work for the moral and traditional values which Socialists neglect and despise. . . .” –Benito Mussolini ROME — It’s their strutting. That detestable image of the strutting that links them, the strutting and prancing Fascists and their swaggering and parading military cousins, up front for their conveniently concealed co…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 8:03pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Airport Tyranny: The Introduction of "behavior detection" technology at major US airports

Global Research

It's been at least five years since I've flown commercial, and for good reason: I don't wish to be arrested for questioning actions by often arrogant, rude Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers. Two years ago, my decision was reinforced by my daughter's experience when going through airport security with her two lovebirds. Having shown her ticket and ID to se…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 5:19pm — No Comments

The Watchmen The End of the Anglo-American Empire?

Written by Richard C. Cook for Global Research, June 30, 2008

Much of the world’s history over the last century has been dominated by the United States . But by the turn of the millennium in 2000-2001, the “American Century” had begun to descend into a chamber of horrors. The years since then have been marked by the huge financial bubbles engineered by the U.S. Federal Reserve System and…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 5:18pm — No Comments

The Watchmen US and European Union grant unlimited powers to police and secret services

Written by Silvia Cattori for Global Research, June 22, 2008

The Incredible Story of Youssef Nada Under the cover of the " war against terror ", the United States and the European Union have granted unlimited powers to secret services and police. Emergency measures which were introduced on a provisional basis in 2001, outside any judiciary control, have become permanent. Since September 2…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 5:17pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Telecom Amnesty Foes Lobby Obama Using Obama Tech

An online campaign to scuttle a deal giving retroactive amnesty to telecoms that helped the government warrantlessly wiretap Americans is growing in strength, catching Senator Barack Obama between the Netroots that helped vaunt him to the nomination and a presidential campaign desire to seem strong on national security.

Last year, Obama won accolades from the netroots by vowing to fight

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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 4:39pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Obama Wants to Expand Role of Religious Groups

Written By JEFF ZELENY and BRIAN KNOWLTON for the New York Times, July 2, 2008

ZANESVILLE, Ohio — With an eye toward courting evangelical voters, Senator Barack Obama presented a plan here on Tuesday to expand on President Bush’s program of investing federal money in religious-based initiatives that are intended to fight poverty and perform community aid work. “The fact is, the chall…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 3:06pm — No Comments

The Watchmen US to get access to your personal files - bank details, visited websites, salaries...

Courtesy of the Daily Mail, July 1, 2008

American intelligence agencies may soon be able to access the most private and personal details of British citizens. Under an agreement being negotiated between the EU and Washington., U.…
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Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 2:42pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Anger at extra police powers for Papal tour

Go to Original NEW South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says extra police powers for World Youth Day are neccessary for security at outdoor public events. Mr Scipione said the changes, which have drawn fire from the NSW Bar Association and civil libertarians, were merely an extension of existing powers for officers patrolling sporting facilities. "What's happened here is we are using venues that are not nor… Continue

Posted by The Watchmen on July 1, 2008 at 2:15pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Cameras watch the city almost undetected

Sitting in a dark, secluded spot just off Auckland's K Rd, a group of drug dealers probably thought they'd found the perfect place to sell $75,000 worth of P. But, like many criminals lurking throughout Auckland's CBD, the drug dealers were oblivious to the fact an eagle-eyed CCTV operator was watching their every move and dispatching police to their location. The dealers are now before the courts facing a raft of charges. The recent case is just one of many successes that can be traced to mo… Continue

Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 11:41pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Guantanamo detainees made to feel like ‘nomads’

Courtesy of the Associated Press, June 28, 2008

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are turned into “nomads” to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S. military prison said Friday. Sami al-Haj said moving detainees between camps and from cell to cell appeared to be part of an official policy to destabilize them. “They were made into nomads,” the Al-Jazeera journalist said. Frequent cell transfers at th…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 7:29pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Blind Whistling Phreaks and the FBI's Historical Reliance on Phone Tap Criminality

Written by David Price for Counterpunch, June 30, 2008

In 1971, Ron Rosenbaum’s Esquire article, “Secrets of the Little Blue Box”, introduced America to phone phreaks, a subterranean network of geek explorers who probed the global phone system as the world’s largest pre-Internet interconnected machine. A star of Rosenbaum’s piece was Joe Engressia, a blind telephonic hacking pioneer with perfect pitch and a h…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 7:28pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Pretending That Bush is Not a Tyrant

Written By Robert Parry, for Consortium News via Alternet, June 30, 2008

All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque crimes of state have justified their actions as necessary to protect their governments or their people or themselves. It was true when England’s King Edward I had William Wallace – “Braveheart” – drawn and quartered in 1305 for resisting…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 7:08pm — No Comments

The Watchmen U.S. Continues to Brutalize Iraqis in the Cause of the 'Surge'

Written by Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com via Alternet, June 30, 2008

On March 19, 2003, as his shock-and-awe campaign against Iraq was being launched, George W. Bush addressed the nation. "My fellow citizens," he began, "at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disar…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 7:06pm — No Comments

The Watchmen In Algeria, Insurgency Gains a Lifeline From Al Qaeda

Written by Michael Moss, for the New York Times, July 1, 2008

This article is by Souad Mekhennet, Michael Moss, Eric Schmitt, Elaine Sciolino and Margot Williams. NACIRIA, Algeria — Hiding in the caves and woodlands surrounding this hill-country town, Algerian insurgents were all but washed up a few years ago. Their nationalist battle against the Algerian military was faltering. “We di…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 7:04pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Lloyds TSB gives Visa cards to 11-year-olds

A Lloyds TSB spokesman said: We made it clear that they should let their parents know Courtesy of the Telegraph, June 30, 2008

A leading bank is giving children as young as 11 debit cards without informing their parents, it has emerged. Lloyds TSB is sending the cards directly to chil…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 2:58pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Terror watch uses local eyes

Courtesy of the Denver Post, June 30, 2008

Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and even utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as "Terrorism Liaison Officers" in Colorado and a handful of other states to hunt for "suspicious activity" — and are reporting their fi…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 2:14pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Iran Oil Situation

Reports from The Washington Post, Reuters and the New York Times, Monday, June 30, 2008

Oil Cash May Prove A Shaky Crutch for Iran's Ahmadinejad, Written…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 12:19pm — No Comments

The Watchmen Lieberman Latest To Pitch For New Terror Attack

Written by Paul Joseph Watson for Infowars/Prison Planet, June 30, 2008

Senator Joe Lieberman has echoed a national talking point by promising that the new president will be welcomed by a terror attack in 2009, continuing a disturbing trend of talking heads anxiously relishing a catastrophic pretext to reinvigorate the Neo-Con agenda.

"Our enemies will te

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Posted by The Watchmen on June 30, 2008 at 11:57am — No Comments

The Watchmen It Was Oil, All Along

Written By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship for Consortium News, June 27, 2008

Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be....the bottom line. It is about oil. Alan…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 29, 2008 at 5:10am — No Comments

The Watchmen Defending the President as Tyrant

Written By Robert Parry for Consortium News, June 27, 2008

All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque crimes of state have justified their actions as necessary to protect their governments or their people or themselves. It was true when England’s King Edward I had William Wallace – “Braveheart” – drawn and quartered in 1305 for resisting the crown’s rule in Scotland, and a gruesome death was what King…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 29, 2008 at 5:09am — No Comments

The Watchmen Bush 'Torture' Lawyers Duck Questions

Written By Jason Leopold for Consortium News, June 27, 2008

Mixing haughty disdain with semantic quibbling, two key legal architects behind George W. Bush’s “war on terror” tactics brushed aside congressional questions about how the administration fashioned its harsh interrogation policies that human rights experts say crossed the line into torture. Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo and Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington also downp…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 29, 2008 at 5:08am — No Comments

The Watchmen Guess What "Surprise" Republicans Yearn For

Written By ALEXANDER COCKBURN for Counterpunch, June 28/29, 2008

Everybody knows it, but it took a tacky Republican operator to come right out and say it. Charlie Black, John McCain’s campaign adviser, recently let drop to Fortune magazine that another terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be a "big advantage" for the Republican presidential candidate. Of course McCain lost no time in distancing himself from…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 29, 2008 at 5:05am — No Comments

The Watchmen Taliban to intensify insurgency, says Pentagon

Written by Ed Pilkington for the Guardian, June 28, 2008

The deteriorating military situation in Afghanistan was underlined last night with the release of a Pentagon report which warned that the Taliban have regrouped and are poised to step up their attacks in the coming year. The detailed study and a second report about the Afghan army and police made grim reading for US militar…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 29, 2008 at 4:35am — No Comments

The Watchmen New Yorker reveals covert US ops in Iran



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Posted by The Watchmen on June 29, 2008 at 4:30am — No Comments

The Watchmen Air Base Ex-Guard Convicted of Hiding Muslim Name

Written By Henri E. Cauvin, Washington Post, Saturday, June 28, 2008

A Southeast Washington man who did not disclose his Muslim name on an application for a job as a private security guard at Andrews Air Force Base was convicted yesterday of making a false statement. Darrick Jackson, 38, left his Muslim name off the application, prosecutors said, to conceal his ties to a local imam known for inflammatory comments. Jackson, whose first trial ended last year…
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Posted by The Watchmen on June 29, 2008 at 4:28am — No Comments