Seymour Hersh: 'Executive Assassination Ring' Reported Directly to Cheney Office http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/131144/seymour_hersh%3A_%27executive_assassination_ring%27_reported_directly_to_cheney_office/ "Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths. "Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows A newly leaked military document appears to show the Pentagon knowingly exposed US troops to toxic chemicals that cause cancer, while publicly downplaying the risks exposure might cause. The document, written by an environmental engineering flight commander in December of 2006 and posted on Wikileaks (PDF) on Tuesday, details the risks posed to US troops in Iraq by burning garbage at a US airbase. It enumerates myriad risks posed by the practice and identifies various carcinogens released by incinerating waste in open-air pits. Because of the difficulties in testing samples, investigators could not prove that chemicals exceeded military exposure guidelines. But a military document released last December found that chemicals routinely exceeded safe levels by twice to six times.The leaked report was signed off by the chief for the Air Force's aeromedical services. Its subject is Balad Airbase, a large US military base about 70 kilometers north of Baghdad."In my professional opinion, the known carcinogens and respiratory sensitizers released into the atmosphere by the burn pit present both an acute and a chronic health hazard to our troops and the local population," Aeromedical chief Lt. Colonel James Elliott wrote Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera' in the homes of millions, warns founder of the web The British inventor of the internet has launched a damning attack on plans by BT and other communications firms to spy on the web surfing habits of up to 11million households. 03-11-2009: Nobel Prize Winner Backs Calls For Global Currency KAZAKH President Nursultan Nazarbayev has won backing for his plan for a single world currency from an intellectual architect of the euro currency, Nobel-prize winner Professor Robert Mundell. U.S. President Barack Obama will not cut the billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel, a senior U.S. administration official said Wednesday. The $30 billion in aid promised to Israel over the next decade will not be harmed by the world financial crisis, the official told Israel Radio. He spoke on condition of anonymity http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070318.html The Martyrdom Of Mordechai Vanunu Within days of the announcement of a record 205 nominations for 2009’s Nobel Peace Prize, [one of several prizes endowed by Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel] perpetual nominee Mordechai Vanunu declined the honor in a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo: I am asking the committee to remove my name from the nominations…I cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Simon Peres…Peres established and developed the atomic weapon program in Dimona in Israel…Peres was the man who ordered [my] kidnapping…he continues to oppose my freedom and release…WHAT I WANT IS FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM….FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM I NEED NOW A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies A prominent Massachusetts anesthesiologist allegedly fabricated 21 medical studies involving major drugs. Yikes. Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., has asked several anesthesiology journals to retract the studies, which appeared between 1996 and 2008, the WSJ reports. The hospital says its former chief of acute pain, Scott S. Reuben, faked data used in the studies. FLASHBACK - Left Wing Canadian Paper Says Cheney Directed B52 to Bomb Iran Israeli court orders Palestinian to demolish his own home or face penalty Tamimi said in a statement, "How can I destroy the house in which I lived for 17 years with my own hands! Where will I go with my family? I have paid all fines with the hope of obtaining a construction permit but to no avail". He said that the land is owned by his family and that he had the required documents to prove it. The Israeli occupation authority bans construction or even maintenance of Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem's Old City in a bid to empty the holy city from its indigenous population and replace them with Jewish immigrants. Life insurer laundered drug money Iraq sentences two of Saddam's half-brothers to death The Groundwork Has Already Been Laid for Martial Law The Drug War: An Old Mission for the Pentagon Freeman Blames Israel Lobby for His Exit In Congress, UN Chief Calls US 'Deadbeat' Donor Govt to Stop Protest March With 'Full Force' Some Local Officials Defy Nation Govt Call to Institute Emergency Rule Religious Party Chief Warns Crackdown Could Harm Pakistani Govt British Police Help With Bangladesh Mutiny Probe