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Meet Whistleblower and Hero Lt. Eric Shine
Post Date: 2008-06-26 21:52:44 by rack42
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Striking at the Heart of Unconstitutional Darkness in America's Military America has deliberately driven hundreds, perhaps thousands, of political prisoners insane. What is on happening in the United States is not just one man's mental state. It is the whole system of US psychological torture. The whole story can be encapsulated in one man's story. Lt. Eric Shine's background reads like a packet of pedigrees: his father and brother attended West Point, and he himself graduated with the highest honors from Kings Point, the sister academy to West Point and Annapolis which ranks even higher than M.I.T. for having graduates as C.E.O's, Presidents of Boards of Corporations, ...
Government Permission Required For Parents To Kiss Children
Post Date: 2008-06-26 15:48:17 by Horse
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Sweeping new policies set to be introduced in the UK will mandate parents to get government permission to kiss their children or take them to the swimming pool in public, measures that are "poisoning" relationships between the generations, according to respected sociologist Professor Frank Furedi. A quarter of the entire adult population of the United Kingdom will be mandated to pass a state check operated by a newly formed government agency to have any physical contact with children under the age of 16 in public - including their own kids. "From next year the new Independent Safeguarding Authority will require any adult who come into contact with children or vulnerable ...
Mayor Daley calls Supreme Court's gun-ban reversal 'a very frightening decision' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-06-26 13:11:11 by Rotara
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An angry Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday called the Supreme Court's overturning of the Washington D.C. gun ban "a very frightening decision" and vowed to fight vigorously any challenges to Chicago's ban. The mayor, speaking at a Navy Pier event, said he was sure mayors nationwide, who carry the burden of keeping cities safe, will be outraged by the decision. Chicago's handgun ban, which has lasted for more than a quarter-century, came under threat earlier in the day when the Supreme Court decided that Washington D.C.'s law against handgun ownership is unconstitutional. In a 5-4 decision, the high court determined that Americans have the right to own guns for ...
Court rules in favor of Second Amendment gun right
Post Date: 2008-06-26 10:30:14 by Rotara
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The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.The court's 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision goes further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact. The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2008. The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child, and also cut the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon ...
The Supremes rule in favor of the 2nd in the Wash. DC case
Post Date: 2008-06-26 10:17:50 by Jethro Tull
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Obama, of course, disagreed.
US MILTARY COMMANDER ADVOCATED TESTING NEW WEAPONS ON AMERICANS FIRST
Post Date: 2008-06-25 19:53:14 by Rotara
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An American military commander is advocating the testing of so-called nonlethal weapons on American citizens prior to using them on our enemies in the Global War on Terrorism.While most Americans and members of the mainstream news media are all wrapped up in coverage of the 2008 presidential election, media critics are complaining about how many important news stories are being ignored. And here's an example: a shocking statement by a top Pentagon official appears to have slipped through the cracks.Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne told a Houston Chronicle reporter that nonlethal weapons such as high-powered microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control ...
Elites Seek Control Over Rising Cashless Society
Post Date: 2008-06-25 15:20:59 by christine
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The terrorists in the federal government are continuing their push to implement a cashless economic enslavement system. According to a legislative notice from the U.S. Senate, a new Housing Bill (HR 3221) contains a provision that will require nearly every online credit card transaction to be reported directly to the Internal Revenue Service. The insanity of this is obvious and it is nothing more than a way to give the government a means to track and trace as many private transactions as humanly possible. Previously, Visa’s CEO has stated that it is their goal to establish a cashless society by the year 2012. As technology increases, a greater number of businesses are accepting credit ...
Dam Inspection Data Withheld From Press Under Patriot Act
Post Date: 2008-06-25 12:38:42 by Horse
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NEW YORK News outlets seeking inspection and safety data on local dams, in light off the recent string of floods in the Midwest, have been stonewalled by government officials who have withheld such data as part of the Patriot Act, according to Investigative Reporters and Editors. IRE Data Base Library Director Jeremy Milarsky, who oversees the group's handling of data requests from news organizations, said at least a dozen news outlets requested such background data on dam inspections from IRE in the last week. He said that is up from the usual three or four in any given year. Such information, however, has been unavailable since 2002, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began ...
World Publics Reject Torture
Post Date: 2008-06-25 08:55:42 by PSUSA
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Illinois sues Countrywide Financial
Post Date: 2008-06-25 08:43:02 by DeaconBenjamin
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The Illinois attorney general is suing Countrywide Financial, the troubled U.S. mortgage lender, and Angelo Mozilo, its chief executive, contending that the company and its executives defrauded borrowers in the state by selling them costly and defective loans that quickly went into foreclosure. The lawsuit, which was expected to be filed Wednesday in Illinois state court, accused Countrywide and Mozilo of relaxing underwriting standards, structuring loans with risky features and misleading consumers with hidden fees and fake marketing claims, like its heavily advertised "no closing costs loan." Countrywide also created incentives for its employees and brokers to sell ...
Harvard's Gitmo Kangaroo Law School-The School for Torturers
Post Date: 2008-06-24 00:24:41 by Horse
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Boumediene v Bush, 553 U.S. Supreme Court, June 12, 2008 Versus Harvard's Gitmo Kangaroo Law School-- The School for Torturers Not surprisingly, the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Imperial Law--otherwise known as the self-styled American Journal of International Law but founded and still operated by U. S. State and War Departments' apparatchiks and their professorial fellow- travelers-- published an article by Harvard Law School's recently retired Bemis Professor of International Law Detlev Vagts (who only taught me the required course on Legal Accounting) arguing in favor of the Pentagon's Kangaroo Courts System on Guantanamo despite the fact that they ...
Eminent Domain Plaintiffs Head to State Court as US Supreme Court Denies Petition
Post Date: 2008-06-23 14:59:39 by Rotara
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BROOKLYN, NY -- The United States Supreme Court denied the petition to grant a hearing (cert petition) to eleven property owners and tenants who asked the court to hear their appeal on the Second Circuit Court’s dismissal of their challenge to the use of eminent domain for Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards development proposal in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The petition received serious consideration by the Court. In a rare statement accompanying the denial (it's unusual to have any statement at all when a petition is denied), Justice Alito said he would grant the petition. However, four Justices are required to accept the case. The petition had asked the Court to address ...
Kid gets sunburn, father goes to jail and is barred from seeing his son.
Post Date: 2008-06-22 16:58:58 by Artisan
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Haditha victims' kin outraged as Marines go free
Post Date: 2008-06-22 09:42:39 by Ada
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HADITHA, Iraq — Khadija Hassan still shrouds her body in black, nearly three years after the deaths of her four sons. They were killed on Nov. 19, 2005, along with 20 other people in the deadliest documented case of U.S. troops killing civilians since the Vietnam War. Eight Marines were charged in the case, but in the intervening years, criminal charges have been dismissed against six. A seventh Marine was acquitted. The residents of Haditha, after being told they could depend on U.S. justice, feel betrayed. "We put our hopes in the law and in the courts and one after another they are found innocent," said Yousef Aid Ahmed, the lone surviving brother in the family. ...
Do not photograph 3701 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA
Post Date: 2008-06-21 09:36:38 by Rotara
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This is Officer Malara, Arlington County Police Department, working a private detail commissioned by the occupants of 3701 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA. Officer Malara stopped to take information from a friend and I on the grounds that he observed us taking photographs in a “high security area.” And by “taking photographs in a ‘high security area’” I mean being in possession of a camera while walking down the street opposite several blocks of non-descript office buildings, less than a block from the Virginia Square-GMU Metro station. Unfortunately, that we weren’t breaking any law, nor were we disobeying any posted warning became a moot point once we ...
Government Is Sued Over Seizure of Liberty Dollars
Post Date: 2008-06-21 09:33:28 by DeaconBenjamin
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The federal government's attempt to stop a group of gold-standard activists from minting an alternative to the greenback is about to face its first legal test. Share Share Email A dozen people around the country filed suit in U.S. District Court in Idaho this week demanding the return of all the copper, silver, gold, and platinum coins — more than seven tons of metal in all — that the FBI and Secret Service seized in November during raids of a mint in Idaho and a strip mall storefront in Indiana. The Justice Department had decided that the coins, many of which bear the familiar symbol of Lady Liberty and the phrase "TRUST IN GOD," were being illegally marketed ...
Constitutional expert: FISA bill 'is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment'
Post Date: 2008-06-20 20:43:09 by rack42
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"Never appease political bullies, President Bush admonished at the Israeli Knesset," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann opened. "Oddly, House Democrats chose to ignore him on the subject of dealing with him." Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley sees a "very frightening bill" in a proposed "compromise," currently in the House, that would update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to effectively grant immunity from civil lawsuits to telecommunications companies that agreed to spy on their customers as part of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, starting shortly before the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. If the ...
CityNews Exclusive: The Mother, The Child, The School Board And The Psychic
Post Date: 2008-06-20 14:28:22 by PSUSA
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Colleen Leduc already had a lot going against her. The Barrie woman was holding down a job while struggling to raise her autistic 11-year-old daughter. She couldn't afford to give the child the intensive therapy she needed, and was forced to send her to a public school in the area. So she was completely unprepared for what happened to her and the youngster, an almost unbelievable tale of red tape involving a strange claim from a teaching assistant, a bizarre decision by a school board, a visit from the Children's Aid Society (CAS) and most improbably of all, the incorrect pronouncements of a psychic. Leduc's weird tale began on May 30, when she dropped young Victoria off for ...
Former aide: Bush should tell all on CIA leak
Post Date: 2008-06-20 12:08:24 by tom007
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Former aide: Bush should tell all on CIA leak By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer 13 minutes ago WASHINGTON - A former White House spokesman told Congress on Friday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted him to say that Cheney's chief of staff wasn't involved in the leak of a CIA operative's identity, an assertion that turned out to be false. ADVERTISEMENT Scott McClellan, Bush's spokesman from 2003-2006, said he had reservations about publicly clearing the name of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff at the time. Later, Libby was convicted of obstructing the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA ...
It’s finally over … or is it?
Post Date: 2008-06-20 11:48:08 by Rotara
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How can one resist an unlawful arrest? That is the question I asked the judge when I was informed of the jury’s verdict, which came in at 11:45 p.m. , after almost two-and-a-half hours of deliberations: Not guilty of disobeying a police officerNot guilty of disorderly conductGuilty of resisting arrest without violence. Judge Jose L. Fernandez, who turned out to have an extreme contempt for me, was unable to answer that question, even though he had asked if I had any questions after the verdict was read. Instead, Fernandez said I was guilty of obstructing traffic, the single charge the jury was not allowed to rule on because it is considered a traffic infraction and not a misdemeanor ...
FEDS to CRACK DOWN ON PERVERTS AT CAPE COD (Not Ted Kennedy)
Post Date: 2008-06-20 07:11:09 by noone222
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Park officials target sex in the dunes Text Size: A | A | A Print this Article Email this Article ShareThisBy Mary Ann Bragg mbragg@capecodonline.com June 13, 2008 PROVINCETOWN — It's a slow week in the northern territory of the Cape Cod National Seashore when a man with a yellow towel flashing passers-by is the sole complaint about public sex acts. In the past decade, the number of complaints about explicit, open public sex in the Provincetown and Truro portions of the national park has more than tripled, Seashore acting chief ranger Craig Thatcher said. The activity ranges from flashing to masturbation to men's outdoor orgies, he said. NORTHERN EXPOSURE Disorderly conduct ...
SPYING ON AMERICANS APPROVED BY CONS in CONgress !
Post Date: 2008-06-20 07:04:55 by noone222
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Surveillance Bill Offers Protection To Telecom Firms Deal Would Extend U.S. Wiretap Power, Shield Providers Facing Privacy Lawsuits By Dan Eggen and Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, June 20, 2008; A01 House and Senate leaders agreed yesterday on surveillance legislation that could shield telecommunications companies from privacy lawsuits, handing President Bush one of the last major legislative victories he is likely to achieve. The agreement extends the government's ability to eavesdrop on espionage and terrorism suspects while effectively providing a legal escape hatch for AT&T, Verizon Communications and other telecom firms. They face more than 40 lawsuits ...
John Yoo, Totalitarian
Post Date: 2008-06-20 06:39:54 by Ada
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John Yoo stands outside the Anglo-American legal tradition. His views lead to self-incrimination wrung out of a victim by torture. He believes a president of the US can initiate war, even on false pretenses, and then use the war he starts as cover for depriving US citizens of habeas corpus protection. A US attorney general informed by Yoo’s memos even went so far as to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Constitution does not provide habeas corpus protection to US citizens. Yoo’s animosity to US civil liberties made him a logical choice for appointment to the Bush Regime’s Department of Justice (sic), but his appointment as a law professor at the University of ...
Habeas Corpus Barely Saved
Post Date: 2008-06-20 06:27:24 by Ada
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Once in a while the fading embers of freedom flare with defiant vigor. That happened the other day when the U.S. Supreme Court sternly informed the Bush administration that it may not hold people suspected of being terrorists indefinitely without charge and without judicial review at its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a too-close-for-comfort 5-4 ruling, the Court reminded the American people — indeed, the world — that arbitrary power destroys individual liberty. Where government can lock people up and throw away the key — answerable to no one at all — there liberty does not dwell. That is what the Bush administration has aspired to, but last week the Court drew a ...
Tolstoy's Majority
Post Date: 2008-06-20 01:59:11 by Horse
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We – and not just those of us attending this wonderful conference – understand that the American imperial experiment is ending. The results were not as the experimenters envisioned. Yet the results have been very much as the anti-federalists foresaw, as the so-called Old Right witnessed against, and as many in this room, and by extension, their extensive networks of free market ideology and small-L libertarianism implicitly understand. The American Empire is over. Our fiat money is increasingly valueless and garners a generalized disgust around the world. Our economic engine was once driven by a purer form of capitalism and by people who could think and compete, and aspired to do ...
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