The Army extended a Halliburton Co. troop support contract over the objections of a top contracting officer, even contending - and then withdrawing - a claim that U.S. forces faced an emergency if the company didn't get the extra work.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4585598,00.html


Expanding Halliburton probe confirms Bush administration is most corrupt in US history

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/hall-o30.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Attorneys representing veterans and soldiers for the past six years were victorious in Federal Court today. Gulf War veterans teamed up with Iraq War and Afghanistan War service members and fought to have the experimental and harmful anthrax vaccine program halted. In a blunt and forceful ruling, the court said, "the involuntary anthrax vaccination program, as applied to all persons, is rendered illegal absent informed consent or a Presidential waiver." This means soldiers have the right to refuse the experimental drug that scientific research has found causes long-term adverse side-effects unless the President orders the soldiers to take the experimental and unproven drug.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2315

Prof. Dr. Erich Schöndorf: Die Lügen der Experten
http://people.blinx.de/sems/recht/schoendorf1.htm

Unabhängigkeit der Experten
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/351706/

Forscher und Forschungsergebnisse von der Industrie bezahlt
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/forscher_und_forschungsergebnisse_von_der_industrie_bezahlt.htm

Dishonesty in Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/391147/

Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/618577/

In the article below, "Soldiers returning from Iraq offered firsthand accounts of the war's turmoil...." In one stunning comment, Jennifer Giese, an Iraq War veteran who served with the 826th Ordinance, complained how her "unit never received body armor, and had to resort to stealing scrap metal for vehicle armor. Bottled water had to be rationed due to shortages, but Giese later filled a swimming pool for a general's use." Someone at the Department of Defense may want to investigate why a general has a pool while soldiers remain thirsty in the hot desert during combat.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2289

http://tinyurl.com/5x5au
http://tinyurl.com/64zxm

Lynne Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney's wife and the former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has placed herself in the company of dictators and slaveholders. At her urging, the Education Department destroyed more than 300,000 copies of a booklet designed to help parents and children learn more about America's past.

http://207.44.245.159/article7073.htm

U.S. Stymies Detainee Access Despite Ruling, Lawyers Say:

More than three months after the Supreme Court declared that hundreds of detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts, none has appeared in a courtroom.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30623-2004Oct13?language=printer
http://snipurl.com/9rvd


From Information Clearing House