http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/sto...256588,00.html
Journalists hit by new US visa rules
Owen Gibson, chief reporter
Thursday July 8, 2004
US: new homeland security rules come into force this autumn
A crackdown by US authorities on issuing visas to foreign journalists threatens to cause chaos for overseas broadcasters and newspapers just five months before the presidential election.
The new rules, which come into force next week, will ban overseas reporters and news crews stationed in the US from renewing their visas without leaving the country first.
Just five months before American voters decide who will be appointed to the most powerful office in the world, the US state department said it would no longer allow overseas journalists to renew visas from within the country.
From next week the estimated 20,000 foreign journalists stationed in the US, who used to be able to renew their visas with ease in any major city, will be forced to leave the country to do so.
Rather than applying to renew their visas in Washington or New York, they will be forced to leave the country and re-apply at a US embassy or consulate abroad, delaying their application for between four weeks and six months.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2670504
Pentagon: Bush record accidentally destroyed
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
New York Times
WASHINGTON -- Military records that could help establish President Bush's whereabouts during his disputed service in the Texas Air National Guard more than 30 years ago have been inadvertently destroyed, according to the Pentagon.
It said the payroll records of "numerous service members," including former First Lt. Bush, had been ruined in 1996 and 1997 by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service during a project to salvage deteriorating microfilm.
No backup paper copies could be found, it added in notices dated June 25.
The destroyed records cover three months of a period in 1972 and 1973 when Bush's claims of service in Alabama are in question.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=39333
Bilderberg 'performance'
key to Edwards VP pick
'He reported back directly to Kerry' said participant in super-secret conference
Editorial link:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO402A.html
The Criminalization of the State
by Michel Chossudovsky
The Criminalization of the State
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Outlook , Issue 7, Spring 2004
www.globalresearch.ca 3 February 2004
The URL of this article is:
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO402A.html
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America’s leaders in Washington and Wall Street firmly believe in the righteousness of war and authoritarian forms of government as a means to "safeguarding democratic values".
According to Homeland Security "the near-term attacks will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks".
An actual "terrorist attack" on American soil would lead to the suspension of civilian government and the establishment of martial law. In the words of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge: "If we go to Red [code alert]... it basically shuts down the country,"
"You ask, 'Is it serious?' Yes, you bet your life. People don't do that unless it's a serious situation." (Donald Rumsfeld)
The "Criminalization of the State", is when war criminals legitimately occupy positions of authority, which enable them to decide "who are the criminals", when in fact they are the criminals.
A terrorist attack on American soil of the size and nature of September 11, would lead ---according to former CENTCOM Commander, General Tommy Franks-- to the downfall of democracy in America. In an interview last December, which was barely mentioned in the US media, General Franks outlined with cynical accuracy a scenario, which would result in the suspension of the Constitution and the installation of military rule in America:
"a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event."1