This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Boston Globe
October 4, 2007
Is Plymouth really America's hometown? There are some in Jamestown, Va., who think their town is the true birthplace of America, in large part because it was founded first. "Get out from under the rock" was one motto of Jamestown's recent 400th anniversary celebration.
Plymouth backers acknowledge that Jamestown was indeed founded 13 years earlier, but say the colony begun by the Pilgrims in 1620 proved more important to the founding of the American nation.
To
Source: BBC
October 4, 2007
After seven hot summers of digging, an Italian archaeological team believe they have discovered one of the most important sites of the ancient world.
Fanum Voltumnae, a shrine, marketplace and Etruscan political centre, was situated in the upper part of the Tiber river valley....
Fanum was already famous in antiquity as a religious shrine and a meeting place where the 12 members of the Etruscan League, a confederation of central Italian cities, used to gather every spri
Source: channelwebnetwork
October 3, 2007
When Congress asked about 5 million executive branch e-mails that went missing, a White House lawyer pointed the finger at an outside IT contractor.
The only problem? No such IT contractor exists, according to sources close to the investigation of a possible violation of the Federal Records and Presidential Records acts.
White House Office of Administration (OA) Deputy General Counsel Keith Roberts told the House Oversight Committee on May 29 that "an unidentified compan
Source: Media Matters (Liberal media watchdog group)
October 4, 2007
On October 4, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh's website prominently displayed an image of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin with a Media Matters for America logo over the left breast pocket of his uniform. The headline above the image read: "Stalinists Have Taken Over the Left," while the caption read, "They've gone beyond ideology to totalitarianism."
Source: Breitbart
October 4, 2007
A local TV station in Arizona reports that some neo-Nazis in Arizona are using a personalized license plate featuring a combination of letters and numbers that promotes their agenda: SKN and 1488. SKN stands for skin. 1488 refers to Hitler.
Source: oregonlive.com
October 4, 2007
Lurid stories of kidnappers seizing drunken or drugged men and whisking them through a network of underground tunnels are a cornerstone of old Portland lore. The kidnappers, as legend has it, sold the hapless men to ship captains desperate for crewmen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The so-called Shanghai tunnels have been immortalized by travel writers, television shows and even by the Portland Oregon Visitors Association, which dangles the story as a lure to out-of-town
Source: Washington Times
October 4, 2007
It's going to take more than getting fired to stop former professor Ward Churchill from teaching at the University of Colorado.
The ex-professor was back on campus Tuesday at the invitation of students to teach an unsanctioned course, "ReVisioning American History: Colonization, Genocide and Formation of the U.S. Settler State."
Always a popular figure on campus, Mr. Churchill, 52, was met with applause by the 30 or so students and well-wishers who attended t
Source: New York Sun
October 4, 2007
More than 50 requests for public access to records from President Clinton's White House have been cleared for release by archivists and are in a sort of presidential limbo, awaiting review by Mr. Clinton's aides or President Bush's deputies, according to new court filings and National Archives officials.
Some or all of the records could emerge in the coming months as Senator Clinton presses her bid for the presidency.
Historians, journalists, authors, and watchdog group
Source: WSJ
October 4, 2007
The "Monuments Men" of World War II dashed around Europe saving humankind's historical and artistic heritage from destruction. They were American soldiers tasked with a mission that didn't benefit the U.S. in any direct way, yet they performed it unsparingly and with unprecedented honesty. This June, Congress officially honored their memory, and more recently PBS ran a documentary, "The Rape of Europa," telling their story. In the era of chaos in Iraq, it has been all too eas
Source: NYT
October 3, 2007
A federal appeals court yesterday extended a long-running dispute over unpaid life insurance claims brought by victims of the Holocaust and their families, potentially reopening a case that many thought had been resolved.
Lawyers for Assicurazioni Generali, an Italian insurance company at the center of the dispute, interpreted the court’s decision as limited. But the lawyer who brought the appeal said it cleared the way for renewed arguments about many issues regarding insurance cla
Source: NYT
October 3, 2007
NANTUCKET — Since 1850, the Sankaty Head Lighthouse has guided boaters and pilots home to the east shore of this island. This week, the lighthouse is being steered to a safe harbor of its own.
Much of the cliff where the working lighthouse sits has been eaten away by storms, threatening to send it plummeting into the Atlantic Ocean.
The only original lighthouse left on Nantucket — two others were destroyed and rebuilt — the Sankaty tower with the red band painted around
Source: BBC
October 2, 2007
Controversial plans for a new Bodleian Library in Oxford are now on hold because critics say the new scheme will spoil the city's world-famous skyline.
Fourteen councillors have successfully petitioned for the plans to be debated at a meeting next month.
The council's planning team originally voted in favour of the development, which will be in the Osney Mead area.
Source: Earth Times
October 1, 2007
The reclusive main owners of the BMW car company said Monday that allegations in a television documentary about their ancestors' wartime business dealings were hardly new. The one-hour programme, The Silence of the Quandts, was aired without advance notice by ARD public television just before midnight Sunday. ARD denied the unscheduled showing had been designed to avoid legal intervention.
The documentary detailed how Guenther Quandt, who died in 1954, owned battery factories which
Source: http://www.zawya.com
October 2, 2007
A property advert featuring a picture of German dictator Adolf Hitler has sparked outrage across the UAE.
Conqueror Real Estate used an image of the Führer alongside the strapline: "The World Is Yours".
And yesterday the firm's general manager admitted he authorised use of the image to attract attention to his firm.
But his choice has been criticised by experts and residents, who have branded the advert insulting and of bad taste.
Hit
Source: Telegraph (UK)
October 4, 2007
The King of Spain was forced to defend the royal family this week after a wave of protests against the monarchy and calls for him to abdicate.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
October 3, 2007
A mountaineering expert will today claim that Sir Edmund Hillary was not the first man to scale Everest - and that it was in fact conquered three decades before by the British climber George Mallory.
Graham Hoyland has spent years researching a story he was told as a boy: Mallory, who took part in the first three British expeditions and who is widely accepted as having just failed to reach the summit, did in fact succeed and was on his way down when he died.
Mallory and
Source: Fox News
October 3, 2007
A crossword puzzle assigned as a homework lesson for fifth-graders studying a book about the 19th-century South asked them to use a racial slur — the N-word — as an answer.
At least one parent complained and the teacher, who is white, apologized to the parents of her students, said Donald Johnson, principal of Sequatchie County Middle School.
Johnson said the teacher obtained the crossword from a Web site, edHelper.com, a membership Web site that offers reading lessons,
Source: WaPo
October 3, 2007
Abandoned near the Potomac River headwaters in western Maryland are several old coal-mining villages historians believe are at risk of being forgotten forever.
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VINDEX, Md. You could say that this old town is just a memory now, but even that might be giving it too much credit.
Actual memories of the place, from back when it had a school, two churches and a row of flimsy houses built by the coal company, are scarce now. The people who saw it that way are
Source: Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists
October 3, 2007
Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama"will reverse
this [Bush Administration] policy of secrecy," his campaign stated this
week, and he addressed the subject in a high-profile address at DePaul
University on October 2."I'll lead a new era of openness," he said.
"I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information, and
restore the balance we've lost between the necessarily secret and the
necessity of openness in a democratic society by creating a new
Nat
Source: Lee White at the website of the National Coalition for History (NCH)
October 3, 2007
On October 2, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, (ID-CT) called for an end to the hold that has been blocking Senate consideration of “The Presidential Records Act Amendment of 2007.” (H.R. 1255)
H.R. 1255 would revoke Executive Order 13233 that was issued in 2001 by President George W. Bush broadening the ability of former presidents, their heirs and former vice presidents to withhold the release of records. When Democrats sought to
