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How Ethics Disappear
Post Date: 2009-08-15 10:26:45 by Eric Stratton
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How Ethics Disappear Paul Greenberg Friday, August 14, 2009 Gosh, what a surprise: A committee of their fellow senators has decided that Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad did nothing unethical when they took out loans from Countrywide Financial on the kind of favorable terms not available to us mere mortals without their financial or political standing -- or a personal connection to the head of Countrywide. The very Select Committee on Ethics did recognize that the whole deal looked bad, and gave its colleagues a gentle pat on the wrist for creating "the appearance that you were receiving preferential treatment based on your status as a senator." But in the end one hand washed the ...
Atheist Bus Ads Create Free Speech Debate In Iowa
Post Date: 2009-08-14 12:42:51 by Brian S
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(08-14) 09:14 PDT Des Moines, Iowa (AP) --
A dispute about bus advertisements seeking to publicize atheist views has touched off a free speech debate after the signs were torn down — then posted again — on the sides of Des Moines city buses. More News
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The ads, sponsored by the Iowa Atheists & Freethinkers, pictured white puffy clouds against a blue sky and read: "Don't believe in God? You are not alone." The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority stripped the signs after ...
On Becoming Europe - Thoughts of Our European Future to Come
Post Date: 2009-08-14 11:27:53 by Flintlock
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On Becoming Europe Posted By Victor Davis Hanson On August 12, 2009 @ 12:28 pmThoughts of Our European Future to Come After concluding another 16 days in Europe. I am again reminded how different their form of socialism is, and yet how closely it resembles the model that Obama seeks for America. The vast majority of citizens lives in apartments, even in smaller towns and villages. Cars are tiny. Prices are higher than in the states; income is lower (The government taxes you to pay for things like “free” college, so you won’t have much to spend on antisocial things like your Wal-Mart plastic Christmas Tree or your second K-Mart plasma TV.) Mass transit is frequent and ...
foia request reveals govt got info of 'potential right wing terrorists' from...., (i shit you not) SORCHA FAAL!!! HAHAHAHA
Post Date: 2009-08-13 20:28:58 by gengis gandhi
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holy shitballs batman. these bastards are dumber than nine chickens and having reached rock bottom, have begun to dig. you can't make this shit up, and no one should even try. sorcha fucking faal....that, me hearties, is totally scary. The obama Role in the DHS Assault on Freedom: When Did He Know, and Why Didn't He Stop It? * By: admin * On: 08/12/2009 09:35:52 * In: Homeland Security * Comments: 0 In April of this year, the obama Administration deliberately – and deceptively -- used a frighteningly kooky website to condemn tens of millions of innocent Americans who have fought for their country, cherish the sanctity of life, or stand up for the 10th Amendment. There ...
Mercenaries training US local police a new trend
Post Date: 2009-08-13 18:01:16 by X-15
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There are many police and law enforcement officials who are concerned with the growing trend of using military-experienced mercenaries to train and work with local police officers in the United States, but there are many who believe the events of September 11, 2001 dictate the need for this new paradigm. For example, Kentucky’s Lexington Police Department contracted Blackwater Security International to provide what’s described as homeland security training. Meanwhile that city’s Mayor Jim Newberry and its chief of police Anthony Beatty refused free training provided by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement federal program that prepares police officers to enforce ...
ACLU: Peace Activist Can Compete Against Military Recruiters In Rural NC School District
Post Date: 2009-08-12 11:42:20 by Brian S
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10:07 AM CDT, August 12, 2009 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A rural North Carolina school district with a proud military tradition has surrendered to a Quaker peace activist's request for access to high school students so she can warn them about joining the military, attorneys said Wednesday. For years, Sally Ferrell had been asking permission to talk to students about alternatives to joining the military. The Wilkes County School Board had denied her access, even though military recruiters are typically allowed in school, and the superintendent had called her activities unpatriotic. The American Civil Liberties Union, which argued that Ferrell's plight was a matter of free speech, ...
California could get nine House seats it doesn’t deserve because illegal aliens will be counted in 2010.
Post Date: 2009-08-12 11:03:58 by PSUSA
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Next year’s census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t. Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons physically present in the country—including large numbers who are here illegally. The result will unconstitutionally increase the number of representatives in some states and deprive some other states of their rightful political representation. Citizens of “loser” states should be outraged. Yet few are even aware of what’s going on. ...
Government Proposes Massive Shift In Online Privacy Policy- Changes Would Pose Serious Threat To Americans’ Personal Information, Says ACLU
Post Date: 2009-08-11 11:33:21 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union submitted comments today to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) opposing its recent proposal to reverse current federal policy and allow the use of web tracking technologies, like cookies, on federal government websites. Cookies can be used to track an Internet user’s every click and are often linked across multiple websites; they frequently identify particular people. Since 2000, it has been the policy of the federal government not to use such technology. But the OMB is now seeking to change that policy and is considering the use of cookies for tracking web visitors across multiple sessions and storing their unique ...
Government Prepares for “unwillingness to follow government orders”
Post Date: 2009-08-11 10:36:54 by gengis gandhi
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Government Prepares for “unwillingness to follow government orders” http://www.new-fields.com/ISFC/brochure.pdf The International Swine Flu Conference is being held in Washington D.C. next week. Top leaders and key decision-makers of major companies representing a broad range of industries will meet with distinguished scientists, public health officials, law enforcers, first responders, and other experts to discuss pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and recovery at the 1st International Swine Flu Summit. http://www.new-fields.com/ISFC/brochure.pdf Read the agenda for the breakout sessions, especially the session on “psychological issues” (Session #2) and ...
More pigs behaving badly
Post Date: 2009-08-10 10:07:26 by PSUSA
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Pig News XLII Posted on 08/10/2009 by psusa | Edit Bleiweiss Broward IN Deputy charged with sexually assaulting illegal aliens Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Bleiweiss, 29, was arrested on Monday, and faces 14 charges, including three counts of sexual battery by a person in authority, four counts of battery and one count of stalking. The charges against the Broward Sheriff Office’s Oakland Park 2008 Employee of the Year stem from allegations that he used his power as a police officer to coerce eight males including one minor to engage in oral sex with him when he had stopped them for routine traffic stops. He allegedly used the intimidation of his office to coerce ...
(vid) The Worlds Most Dangerous Street Gang
Post Date: 2009-08-10 08:41:02 by PSUSA
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Let’s Talk Astroturf-Ads found offering to pay canvassers for supporting Obama Commiecare
Post Date: 2009-08-10 06:11:12 by gengis gandhi
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Let’s Talk Astroturf Posted by Caleb Howe (Profile) Sunday, August 9th at 4:45PM EDT 59 Comments So I received an email/comment this morning about a craigslist ad soliciting health care activism for money. “Activism for money,” I thought!! Was this it at last? The missing link Democrats have been searching for? Obamacare opponents turning up at town halls really are a mob? We really are nothing but a slew of paid hacks drummed up by the promise of easy cash by cynical Obamacare opponents to create an artificial appearance of opposition?!? Ummmm, no. (click for full size) But wait, there’s more! So I started searching around, and posting links on Twitter, and ...
No Letup in Political Witch-Hunts Under Obama
Post Date: 2009-08-10 05:53:31 by Stephen Lendman
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No Letup In Political Witch-Hunts Under Obama - by Stephen Lendman For eight years, the Bush administration relentlessly targeted Muslim, environmental, and animal rights activists as national security or terrorist threats. Shamefully, Obama continues the same practice. On May 20, the FBI arrested four New York men, claiming they planned to bomb a Bronx synagogue and community center and shoot down Newburgh, New York-based Air National Guard jets with stinger missiles. The same day Justice Department press release said: The charges against James Cromite (aka Abdul Rahman and Abdul Rehman), David Williams (aka Daoud and DL), Onta Williams (aka Hamza), and Laguerre Payen (aka Amin and ...
Gun owners sue DC for right to carry weapons
Post Date: 2009-08-09 17:15:58 by buckeroo
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WASHINGTON – The attorney who got the Supreme Court to overturn the District of Columbia's handgun ban is now challenging rules that prohibit gun owners from carrying their weapons outside their homes. Attorney Alan Gura filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court challenging the gun laws the city passed in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling. Those laws allow people to keep registered guns only at home for self-defense. Three of the plaintiffs in the case are licensed D.C. gun owners who had applications rejected when they applied to carry their guns outside their homes. Another from Maryland applied to carry his gun for self-defense while visiting D.C. after he was stopped for ...
Army Looking Into Monitoring of Protest Groups
Post Date: 2009-08-07 22:29:50 by rack42
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SEATTLE — The Army says it has opened an inquiry into a claim that one of its employees spent more than two years infiltrating antiwar groups active near one of the nation’s largest military bases. The groups say the employee infiltrated their activities under an assumed name and gained access to their plans as well as names and e-mail addresses of some members. The man, John J. Towery, a civilian employee at Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma, Wash., works as a criminal intelligence analyst for the post’s Force Protection Division, say officials at Fort Lewis, the nation’s third largest Army post. The Army would not disclose the nature of the investigation or address the ...
Turning the US army against Americans
Post Date: 2009-08-07 19:51:05 by X-15
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It was an odd little story, tucked well inside the front section of this past Sunday's New York Times. An antiwar activist in the state of Washington had been exposed as an undercover informant for the US army, stationed at massive Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma. And in one of those Kafkaesque twists for which our government is renowned, the army is now investigating itself to determine how such an arrangement came to pass. Although the Times gave no credit, the story had been broken on 28 July by Democracy Now!, a leftwing television programme co-anchored by Amy Goodman, a longtime progressive journalist. For nearly an hour, two former associates of John Towery – a civilian ...
Health Care Town Hall Turns Violent in Tampa
Post Date: 2009-08-07 08:09:46 by gengis gandhi
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Health Care Town Hall Turns Violent in Tampa A town hall meeting to discuss President Obama's health care reform descended into shouting and violence in a Tampa, Fla., suburb Thursday as angry opponents clashed with event organizers. FOXNews.com Friday, August 07, 2009 3 x in order to recommend a story, you must login or register. 90 Comments | Add Comment ShareThis * Photos Town hall scuffle Amateur video captures two men in an altercation as a crowd shouts "You work for us!" and "Hear our voice!" at the entrance to a health care town hall meeting in Ybor City, Fla. PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ * White House Vows to Defend Democrats on Health Reform, Will ...
Senate confirms Sotomayor for Supreme Court
Post Date: 2009-08-06 15:42:52 by Lysander_Spooner
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Senate confirms Sotomayor for Supreme Court By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve. Democrats praised the 55-year-old Sotomayor as a mainstream moderate. But most Republicans voted against her, saying she'd bring personal bias and a liberal agenda to the bench. Senators took the rare step of assembling at their desks on the Senate floor for the historic occasion, rising from their seats to cast their ...
The Right to Medical Care and the Causes of the Medical Crisis
Post Date: 2009-08-06 15:32:14 by Original_Intent
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This is an excerpt from a longer article and analysis. The whole thing is worth reading but I thought this long excerpt covered some of the key issues and as such stands by itself. 2. The Right to Medical Care and the Causes of the Medical Crisis The causes of the present crisis in medical care, namely, its runaway cost, which the Clinton plan is intended to address, can all be subsumed under one essential heading: the government's violation and/or perversion of the individual's actual, rational right to medical care. I use the concept of "rights" in the sense in which Ayn Rand uses it, and in which, at least implicitly, John Locke and the Founding Fathers of the ...
Why I believe in the link economy
Post Date: 2009-08-06 14:22:01 by DeaconBenjamin
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The following is a guest column by Chris Ahearn, President, Media at Thomson Reuters. “Do unto others” It’s a simple standard my mom taught me when I was a kid – yours probably taught it too. It isn’t always easy, but in business it’s a good guiding light if you don’t want your company to be evil. Recently there has been a rising crescendo of finger-pointing, shrieking, braying and teeth-gnashing about the future of the news. In the last couple of weeks there have been many comments on the AP’s proposals, Attributor’s proposals, Ian Shapira’s story and fair use. After some of the AP commentary, I posted a tweet directed at Jeff Jarvis ...
House Orders Up Three Elite Jets
Post Date: 2009-08-05 12:53:56 by X-15
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Last year, lawmakers excoriated the CEOs of the Big Three automakers for traveling to Washington, D.C., by private jet to attend a hearing about a possible bailout of their companies. But apparently Congress is not philosophically averse to private air travel: At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress. The Air Force had asked for one Gulfstream 550 jet (price tag: about $65 million) as part of an ongoing upgrade of its passenger air service. But the House Appropriations Committee, at its own initiative, added to the 2010 Defense appropriations bill another ...
Judge says U.S. must return rare coins to Phila. family
Post Date: 2009-08-03 21:48:19 by DeaconBenjamin
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A judge in Philadelphia has ruled that the federal government must return 10 extremely rare gold coins to the family of a late Center City jeweler or outline its case for keeping them in a forfeiture filing. U.S. District Judge Legrome Davis issued the ruling Tuesday in the case of the 10 1933 "double eagle" gold coins, which experts say could fetch millions at auction. The lawyer representing the family said the coins are thought to be the most valuable gold coins in the world. The federal government seized the coins in 2004 when the daughter and grandsons of the late jeweler Israel Switt brought them to the U.S. Mint to be authenticated. Joan Langbord and her sons Roy and ...
Woman Murdered, Baby Cut from Womb
Post Date: 2009-08-03 19:58:16 by farmfriend
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Woman Murdered, Baby Cut from Womb Written by Selwyn Duke It's hard to imagine anything more evil: a woman kills a friend so that she can steal her unborn baby by ripping it from her womb. But it has happened before in recent years, and now it has happened again in Worcester, Massachusetts. Boston.com reports on the crime, writing: Julie Corey, 35, had lived with her parents for several months over the last year before returning to Worcester and telling acquaintances she was pregnant. Police believe that Corey never gave birth, that she may have faked her pregnancy, and that the newborn girl she was showing off last weekend was really the daughter of Darlene Haynes, a 23-year-old ...
Another installment of Pig News
Post Date: 2009-08-02 13:08:04 by PSUSA
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Pig News XLI Posted on 08/02/2009 by psusa | Edit Hollywoof FL pigs record themselves framing a woman for causing a crash, get PAID VACATION. Suspended in the incident are pigs Joel Francisco and Dewey Pressley, Sgt. Andrew Diaz, Karim Thomas and Andrea Tomassi. Here’s the video. DALLAS TX pig Sr. Cpl. Michael Vaughn gets 1 DAY SUSPENSION for murdering a boy. DALLAS – Sr. Cpl. Michael Vaughn hung his head low and apologized in an emotional and confidential Internal Affairs hearing Thursday afternoon on the second floor of police headquarters. He received a one-day suspension, to be served immediately, for accidentally hitting and killing 10-year-old Cole ...
Hollywoof FL pigs get paid vacation, record themselves framing a woman for causing a crash
Post Date: 2009-08-02 12:27:26 by PSUSA
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Four Hollywood, Florida, police officers and a crime scene technician are suspended with pay -- and probably contemplating career changes -- after being recorded by a police dashboard camera conspiring to frame a civilian driver for a crash. Alexandra Torrensvilas was arrested for driving under the influence only after a police officer rear-ended her at a traffic light, and that officer and his colleagues openly discussed, within range of the camera's audio pickup, doctoring their stories and the evidence to blame the woman for the collision. One of the officers can be heard saying, "I don't want to make things up ever, because it's wrong, but if I need to bend it a little ...
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