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30 GOP Senators Vote to Defend Gang Rape
Post Date: 2009-10-12 03:55:09 by wudidiz
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30 GOP Senators Vote to Defend Gang Rape A new low, by any account. It is stunning that 30 Republican members of the United States Senate would vote to protect a corporation, in this case Halliburton/KBR, over a woman who was gang raped. The details from Think Progress:In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and "warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job." (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her ...
Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-10-11 21:46:43 by gengis gandhi
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Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership Politico Featured Topics: * Barack Obama George's Bottom Line on Tea Parties Play Video ABC News – George's Bottom Line on Tea Parties * Raw Video: Tea party protesters converge on D.C. Play Video Video:Raw Video: Tea party protesters converge on D.C. AP * Protestors Expected in Washington, D.C. Play Video Video:Protestors Expected in Washington, D.C. ABC News Alex Isenstadt Alex Isenstadt – Sun Oct 11, 8:00 am ET While the energy of the anti-tax and anti-Big Government tea party movement may yet haunt Democrats in 2010, the first order of business appears to be remaking the Republican Party. Whether it’s the loose ...
School Children Banned From Kensington Public Parks
Post Date: 2009-10-10 14:12:27 by freepatriot32
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WATCH VIDEO HERE KENSINGTON, Md. - Public parks are usually the places where children go to have fun. But the town of Kensington just passed a new rule that bans kids over five years old from playgrounds during the daytime. "It's like a sad children's story," said Joe McPherson, headmaster of the Brookewood School. But it's no fable. The girls at Kensington's Brookewood School are banned from using a public park right across the street for recess "I don't think it's really fair because we're part of the community too and we want to play in the park," said Jill Collins, a fifth-grade student. The town council unanimously passed a ...
Do Gun Shows Have Loopholes?
Post Date: 2009-10-10 09:14:49 by Ada
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Thursday’s Nashville Tennessean newspaper’s lead story headline is "NY slams gun show ‘loophole’ in Tenn." The story is about a purported undercover investigation of gun shows done by the City of New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has long been an anti-gun activist. Apparently, Bloomberg sent investigators to gun shows in Tennessee and other states, using tiny hidden cameras to record what they considered illegal activity. They allege that guns from Southern states are regularly found to be used in felonies in New York, and that it is too easy for criminals to buy guns at gun shows. The article spotlighted one gun show held in Nashville that attracts 250 gun ...
TARP deadbeats
Post Date: 2009-10-09 23:47:13 by DeaconBenjamin
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Thirty-three TARP recipients missed a scheduled dividend payment to taxpayers last month, according to the Treasury Department, including 18 banks that missed a payment for the first time. It’s a powerful indication that the U.S. banking system remains troubled. And it throws cold water on talk that taxpayers are “making money” on the bailout. “It’s too early to tell if we’re making money on TARP,” according to Eric Fitzwater, an associate director at SNL Financial in Virginia. “Certainly the vast majority of the bailout money is still outstanding. While a lot of larger recipients say they plan to pay it back, we’re still waiting.” ...
NYPD tracking cell phone owners, but foes aren't sure practice is legal
Post Date: 2009-10-09 19:36:51 by Jethro Tull
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The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects' phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes. In the era of disposable, anonymous cell phones, the file could be a treasure-trove for detectives investigating drug rings and other criminal enterprises, police sources say. "It's used to help build cases," one source said of the new initiative. "It doesn't replace the human element, like debriefing prisoners, but it's another tool to use that we didn't have in the past." A recent internal memo says that when cops make an arrest, they should remove the suspect's cell ...
Snitch Training / John Elway
Post Date: 2009-10-09 06:11:21 by noone222
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Poster Comment:Geez, everybody's a terrorist ... and if anyone pisses anyone else off ... call CIAC and ruin their life ! 1-800-FUC-KYOU
Sweatshop Conditions in US Cities
Post Date: 2009-10-09 06:06:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Sweatshop Conditions in US Cities - by Stephen Lendman A new low-wage industry study by the Center for Urban Economic Development, the National Employment Law Project, and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment exposes the dark side of workforce exploitation in America's three largest cities - New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. From January through August 2008, researchers conducted 90-minute interviews with 4,387 "front- line" workers, aged 18 or older, using "innovative, rigorous methodology" to reach vulnerable people "often missed in standard surveys, such as (undocumented) immigrants and those paid in cash." The goal was to be as ...
Police stop more than 1 million people on street
Post Date: 2009-10-08 23:14:44 by Jethro Tull
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NEW YORK – A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street. These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by police using a law-enforcement practice called stop-and-frisk that alarms civil libertarians but is credited by authorities with helping reduce crime. Police in major U.S. cities stop and question more than a million people each year — a sharply higher number than just a few years ago. Most are black and Hispanic men. Many are frisked, and nearly all are innocent of any crime, ...
Pelosi says new VAT tax is 'on the table'
Post Date: 2009-10-07 18:20:16 by DeaconBenjamin
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A new value-added tax (VAT) is "on the table" to help the U.S. address its fiscal liabilities, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday night. Pelosi, appearing on PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" asserted that "it's fair to look at" the VAT as part of an overhaul of the nation's tax code. "I would say, Put everything on the table and subject it to the scrutiny that it deserves," Pelosi told Rose when asked if the VAT has any appeal to her. The VAT is a tax on manufacturers at each stage of production on the amount of value an additional producer adds to a product. Pelosi argued that the VAT would level the playing field between ...
NYC Undercover Stings Expose 'Gun Show Loophole'
Post Date: 2009-10-07 11:24:17 by Brian S
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(10-07) 08:08 PDT New York (AP) -- New York City officials secretly videotaped dozens of firearm purchases they say were illegal at gun shows in states that have not closed the "gun show loophole." The sting, described in a city report released Wednesday, was conducted at seven gun shows in Tennessee, Ohio and Nevada. Those states are among the many that permit private unlicensed dealers, known as "occasional sellers," to sell weapons at gun shows without conducting background checks. Gun-control advocates say the loophole makes it easier for criminals to acquire guns and prevents law enforcement from being able to trace those weapons if they are used in crimes. Nine ...
Elites and Tyrants
Post Date: 2009-10-07 08:21:00 by Eric Stratton
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Elites and Tyrants Walter E. Williams Wednesday, October 07, 2009 Rep. Diane Watson said, in praising Cuba's health care system, "You can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met." W.E.B. Dubois, writing in the National Guardian (1953) said, "Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. ... But also -- and this was the highest proof of his greatness -- he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate." Walter Duranty called Stalin "the greatest living statesman . . . a quiet, unobtrusive man." George Bernard Shaw expressed admiration for ...
At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech.
Post Date: 2009-10-06 11:50:01 by freepatriot32
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You Can't Say That: At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech. This article, by Anne Bayefsky, originally appeared in The Weekly Standard. The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended in Geneva on Friday. American diplomats were there for the first time as full Council members and intent on making friends. President Obama chose to join the Council despite the fact that the Organization of the Islamic Conference holds the balance of power and human ...
Montana Gun Suit Challenges Federal Authority
Post Date: 2009-10-06 06:35:48 by Ada
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A Montana lawsuit filed on Thursday challenges federal authority to regulate guns manufactured and sold within the state, an argument that would effectively invalidate federal firearm laws in Big Sky Country if adopted by the courts. The lawsuit arose out of a state law signed by Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer that took effect on October 1. It says that firearms, ammunition, and accessories manufactured entirely inside Montana are not subject to federal regulation, including background checks for buyers and record-keeping requirements for sellers. They would remain subject to state regulation, and machine gun manufacturing is not permitted. This is part of a new grassroots movement ...
FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case
Post Date: 2009-10-05 20:11:08 by tom007
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FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case Details panic inside the Bureau, executive effort to 'keep this whole thing quiet' when matter first came to light in 2002 Further confirms FBI translator/whistleblower's allegations, credibility... An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. John M. Cole, who now works as an intelligence contractor for the Air Force, made his comments during an audio interview released late last week with radio journalist Peter B. ...
Net Neutrality Rules Face Mounting GOP Opposition
Post Date: 2009-10-05 16:38:49 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican opposition is mounting as federal regulators prepare to vote this month on so-called "network neutrality" rules, which would prohibit broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain types of Internet traffic flowing over their lines. Twenty House Republicans — including most of the Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee — sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Monday urging him to delay the Oct. 22 vote on his net neutrality plan. Genachowski, one of three Democrats on the five-member commission, wants to impose rules to ensure that broadband providers ...
Arrest Puts Focus on Protesters’ Texting (Twittering considered a crime, not free speech)
Post Date: 2009-10-05 12:18:36 by Ferret Mike
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As demonstrations have evolved with the help of text messages and online social networks, so too has the response of law enforcement. On Thursday, F.B.I. agents descended on a house in Jackson Heights, Queens, and spent 16 hours searching it. The most likely reason for the raid: a man who lived there had helped coordinate communications among protesters at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh. The man, Elliot Madison, 41, a social worker who has described himself as an anarchist, had been arrested in Pittsburgh on Sept. 24 and charged with hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a communication facility and possession of instruments of crime. The Pennsylvania State Police ...
N.Y. Man Accused Of Tweeting Police Actions At G-20 Protests
Post Date: 2009-10-04 18:54:29 by Brian S
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A self-described New York City anarchist, whose home was raided last week, is accused of tweeting the location of police officers to protesters trying to evade them during the G-20 summit. Pennsylvania State Police arrested Elliot Madison, 41, on Sept. 24 in a motel room in Indiana Township, alleging that he used Twitter to direct the movement of protesters and inform them about law enforcement actions at last month's summit. He was freed on $30,000 to await a hearing Oct. 13 in Municipal Court on charges of hindering apprehension, criminal use of a communication facility, and possessing instruments of crime. The New York Post yesterday reported that documents filed in federal court ...
APF - Scalps nailed to the barn
Post Date: 2009-10-03 21:05:30 by randge
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Poster Comment:The wheels just had to come off this. The APF operation was just too shady for words. The Big Chief with the Serb accent is wanted in a neighboring state. Whoever financed this thing is off their rocker. They should be institutionalized in a joint for the dangerously insane.
Judge: Texas Ban On Queer Marriage Unconstitutional
Post Date: 2009-10-03 06:31:20 by noone222
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A Dallas judge ruled Thursday that Texas' ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional as she cleared the way for two gay men to divorce, the Dallas Morning News reported. State District Judge Tena Callahan said the state’s bans on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law. While the Texas attorney general had stepped into the case to say that because a gay marriage isn’t recognized in Texas, a Texas court can’t dissolve one through divorce, Tena denied the intervention. The two Dallas men in the case married three years ago in Massachusetts, the first state to allow gays to marry. Ruling Clears Way for Gay Dallas Couple to ...
Judge to Prop. 8 backers: Turn over your papers
Post Date: 2009-10-02 22:53:38 by freepatriot32
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(10-02) 18:10 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge has ordered sponsors of California's Proposition 8 to release campaign strategy documents that opponents believe could show that backers of the same-sex marriage ban were motivated by prejudice against gays. Plaintiffs in a federal suit seeking to overturn Prop. 8 - two same-sex couples, a gay-rights organization and the city of San Francisco - contend that the measure's real purpose was to strip a historically persecuted minority group of rights held by the majority. If the courts find that the ballot measure was motivated by discrimination, they could strike it down without having to decide whether gays and lesbians have a ...
No Mayhem Charge For Calif. Dad Who Tattooed Son
Post Date: 2009-10-02 14:50:17 by Brian S
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(10-02) 10:12 PDT Fresno, Calif. (AP) -- A judge has ruled that a California man who tattooed his son with a gang symbol will not face a charge of mayhem, which carries a potential life sentence. Enrique Gonzalez and a friend who admitted he applied the tattoo, Travis Gorman, still face seven to 10 years on a new charge of child endangerment, plus the original gang enhancements. They were arrested in April after Gonzalez's estranged wife reported finding a quarter-sized paw print — representing the Bulldogs street gang — tattooed on her son's hip. Fresno County Superior Court Judge Hillary Chittick agreed with defense attorneys Friday that any damage left by a small ...
Justices to Decide if State Gun Laws Violate Rights
Post Date: 2009-09-30 23:55:21 by buckeroo
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Justices to Decide if State Gun Laws Violate Rights Court, Which Reversed D.C. Ban, Will Look to Local Level in 2nd Amendment Case By Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 1, 2009 The Supreme Court set up a historic decision on gun control Wednesday, saying it will rule on whether restrictive state and local laws violate the Second Amendment right to gun ownership that it recognized last year. The landmark 2008 decision to strike down the District of Columbia's ban on handgun possession was the first time the court had said the amendment grants an individual right to own a gun for self-defense. But the 5 to 4 opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller did not ...
Drug Cases Dismissed Following Pleas By Corrupt Narcotics Cops
Post Date: 2009-09-30 15:17:37 by Brian S
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BENTON HARBOR — Berrien County Prosecutor Arthur Cotter has dismissed 40 drug convictions since members of Benton Harbor’s police narcotics unit pleaded guilty to federal charges that they made up evidence, conducted illegal searches and wrongfully arrested people. Officer Andrew Collins pleaded guilty to participation in a pervasive pattern of police corruption last year and is serving 37 months in federal prison. This month Officer Bernard Hall, Collins’ supervisor, admitted that he allowed, and benefited from, corruption that included stealing seized property from the police department. Hall is expected to be sentenced in December. Cotter said that he is continuing to ...
Detroit Illegal Cavity Search Lawsuit Goes To Jury
Post Date: 2009-09-30 15:15:01 by Brian S
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(09-30) 12:03 PDT DETROIT, (AP) -- A jury has cleared a Detroit police officer in a lawsuit alleging he wrongfully stuck his finger in the rectum of a drug suspect during a traffic stop. The jury deliberated for about an hour Wednesday before clearing Sgt. Michael Osman and his partner, Officer Michael Parish, of wrongdoing. Twenty-eight-year-old Terence Hopkins accused Osman of sticking his finger in Hopkins' rectum during a 2006 drug arrest while Parish stood by. Hopkins was seeking $1 million or more. The city of Detroit has paid more than $700,000 in settlements to four men who made similar allegations against the officers. Those settlements were deemed inadmissible as evidence ...
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