|
Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
US financial system faced collapse, bank regulators tell Senate hearing on Bear Stearns bailout
Post Date: 2008-05-02 15:04:19 by richard9151
0 Comments
At a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, top financial regulators said the unprecedented actions by the Federal Reserve Board last month to prevent the failure of investment bank Bear Stearns were taken to avert a collapse of the entire US financial system. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox and Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Robert K. Steel defended the government bailout of Bear Stearns and the decision to lend Federal Reserve funds to all of the major US investment banks as emergency measures necessitated by a mounting panic on Wall ...
Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes to Attack Obama
Post Date: 2008-05-02 14:59:01 by ghostdogtxn
0 Comments
Baptist minister nabbed by Secret Service and cops for asking McCain if it's true he called his wife a c-nt
Post Date: 2008-05-02 10:50:02 by aristeides
9 Comments
Baptist minister nabbed by Secret Service and cops for asking McCain if it's true he called his wife a c-nt by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/01/2008 10:56:00 PM ET No Baptists need apply. Oh, and three reporters say McCain did call his wife the c-word. I think that's a character issue conservative Christians, and a lot of Americans, might just care about. It hardly deserves being picked up by the cops and the Secret Service. From IowaPolitics via Huff Post: Clive businessman Marty Parrish was escorted from Sen. John McCain's town hall meeting by Des Moines police and members of the Secret Service after asking McCain if he had called his wife Cindy an expletive in 1992. ...
Exclusive Raw Story: Break-ins plague targets of US Attorneys
Post Date: 2008-05-01 12:03:16 by robin
4 Comments
The Permanent Republican Majority Part VI MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – In two states where US attorneys are already under fire for serious allegations of political prosecutions, seven people associated with three federal cases have experienced 10 suspicious incidents including break-ins and arson. These crimes raise serious questions about possible use of deliberate intimidation tactics not only because of who the victims are and the already wide criticism of the prosecutions to begin with, but also because of the suspicious nature of each incident individually as well as the pattern collectively. Typically burglars do not break-into an office or private residence only to rummage through ...
The Right of Juries to Judge the Justice of the Laws
Post Date: 2008-05-01 11:04:35 by ghostdogtxn
6 Comments
A Bill to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech Across America (HR 1955)
Post Date: 2008-04-30 06:37:41 by Itisa1mosttoolate
15 Comments
A Bill to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books and Free Speech Across America (HR 1955) The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. Full Story www.naturalnews.com/022308.html
FLDS teen gives birth to boy while Texas officials stand by
Post Date: 2008-04-30 05:09:34 by noone222
5 Comments
SAN MARCOS, Texas - Child welfare officials who have taken hundreds of young polygamist-sect members into state custody have yet another child to place: One of the teens has given birth to a boy. "The boy is healthy and the mother is doing well," Patrick Crimmins, spokesman for the state Child Protective Services, said of the birth Tuesday at Central Texas Medical Center. The mother is "younger than 18" and will remain with her son in a nearby foster care facility until a formal custody hearing will determine the pair's fate sometime before June 5, Crimmins said. He declined to give any other details about the teen or where she and the baby would stay. The ...
Letters Give C.I.A. Tactics a Legal Rationale
Post Date: 2008-04-29 19:15:55 by richard9151
0 Comments
29/04/08 "New York Times" -- 27/04/08 -- - WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law. The legal interpretation, outlined in recent letters, sheds new light on the still-secret rules for interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency. It shows that the administration is arguing that the boundaries for interrogations should be subject to some latitude, even under an executive order issued last summer that President Bush said meant that the C.I.A. would comply with international strictures ...
Gov's GITMO Prosecutor Under Oath: Political Pressure (COL. DAVIS)
Post Date: 2008-04-29 15:10:22 by aristeides
3 Comments
Gov's GITMO Prosecutor Under Oath: Political Pressure by RenMin [Subscribe] Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 08:09:37 AM PDT There are two surprises about this story in the Washington Post this morning: A military prosecutor was willing to go on record, under oath, concerning the abuses of the military commissions kangaroo court set up by the Bush administration, and the Post put it on the front page. The former terrorism chief prosecutor, Col. Morris Davis, testified under oath that high level Defense Department officials pressured him to bring prosecutions before the elections, for political purposes: Davis told Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, who presided over the hearing, that top Pentagon ...
Bush / Cheney to Attempt Possible Coup
Post Date: 2008-04-29 12:24:16 by Itisa1mosttoolate
35 Comments
Bush / Cheney to Attempt Possible Coup Bush signs unconstitutional "power grab" presidential directives NSPD51 and HSPD20, giving him full-dictatorial powers in the event of a loosely defined "catastrophic emergency." The directives define "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function." It also states, "The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government." In other words, the president ...
Hicks should never have been charged: former US prosecutor
Post Date: 2008-04-29 09:56:20 by bush_is_a_moonie
2 Comments
Australia's former Guantanamo Bay inmate, David Hicks, should never have been charged, according to the former Chief Prosecutor at the US military prison, Colonel Morris Davis. In the latest twist in the long-running efforts by the Bush administration to get trials up and running at Guantanamo, the former prosecutor has been called as a defence witness at a pre-trial hearing for one of the detainees. Colonel Davis was originally a staunch supporter of the military commissions set up to try Guantanamo prisoners. He quit the system last year shortly after Hicks was convicted, claiming there had been political interference in the cases selected for trial. Others too have left citing ...
Ex-Prosecutor Tells of Push by Pentagon on Detainees
Post Date: 2008-04-29 09:53:15 by bush_is_a_moonie
0 Comments
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The former chief prosecutor here took the witness stand on Monday on behalf of a detainee and testified that top Pentagon officials had pressured him in deciding which cases to prosecute and what evidence to use. The prosecutor, Col. Morris D. Davis of the Air Force, testified that Pentagon officials had interfered with his work for political reasons and told him that charges against well-known detainees “could have real strategic political value” and that there could be no acquittals. His testimony completed one of the more unusual transformations in the contentious history of Guantánamo. Colonel Davis, who is on active duty as a senior ...
Are There Limits to Lincoln Idolatry?
Post Date: 2008-04-29 06:26:14 by Ada
5 Comments
The answer to the question posed in the title of this article is: No. There are no limits to the lies and misrepresentations about Lincoln’s political legacy – and about those who question the Official Version of it – that are spread by what I call the Lincoln cult. It almost seems congenital. As soon as The Real Lincoln was published in 2002, the Lincoln cult swung into action with outlandish and outrageous misrepresentations of what I say in the book in an obvious attempt to keep people from reading it. I was surprised to learn from various hatchet men associated with the Claremont Institute, for example, that I am a Marxist; that there is not a single Lincoln quote in my ...
Students allowed protest rights but not wearing empty holsters
Post Date: 2008-04-28 21:54:45 by X-15
1 Comments
TCC is one of two schools to prohibit a student organization from wearing empty holsters on campus. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is currently holding a nationwide protest at 300 colleges, including UT-Arlington. Protesters are wearing empty holsters to class April 21-25. “These empty holsters are designed to show the current state laws and campus policies leave students defenseless, with nothing but an empty holster,” Brett Poulos, a South Campus student and a national media liaison for SCCC, said in an e-mail to The Collegian. The protest regulations, posted on www.concealedcampus.org, cite multiple times not to put anything in the holster and not to carry anything ...
Cooking the Books
Post Date: 2008-04-28 21:05:12 by DeaconBenjamin
0 Comments
To get a read on the vital signs of our increasingly shaky economy, media turn to those all-important stats: unemployment, consumer price index, GDP. But Kevin Phillips, political and economic commentator, says that for decades administrations have been altering the definitions of those stats to paint a rosier outlook. BROOKE GLADSTONE: One of 2008's top stories so far has been our economic woes, and so the media are closely watching those bellwether statistics regarded as the vital signs of the economy – unemployment numbers, the consumer price index, and, of course, the gross domestic product, or GDP. [CLIP] FEMALE CORRESPONDENT: The US economy has added the equivalent of ...
CNN, FOX, CBS, ABC, NBC and MSNBC decline PBS’ interview request over the “Military Generals’ scandal
Post Date: 2008-04-27 22:32:07 by robin
2 Comments
PBS did an excellent report on the explosive NY Times story which says: the Pentagon may influence the analysis of some retired military personnel who appear on television news programs. Oh, really? Wow, I never would have guessed. I’ve covered this scandal at length already, but since Network News refuses to comment on this report, I’ll keep pushing it. And I thank PBS for also not sticking their heads in the sand. Download | Play Download | Play (big file 30 mgs) Woodruff: And for the record, we invited Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBC to participate, but they declined our offer or did not respond. We’ve been talking to the Pentagon since Monday about ...
Rachel Learns Budgeting...From Congress
Post Date: 2008-04-27 19:09:34 by Turtle
1 Comments
Poster Comment:A video is worth 10,000 words.
Calling the Kettle Black
Post Date: 2008-04-26 21:49:30 by nolu_chan
0 Comments
http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/mariner/20080423.html ---- Calling the Kettle Black By JOANNE MARINER ---- Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008 "It's Malaysia's Guantanamo," the woman told me. I was visiting Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week, to talk to an activist from a local human rights group. The group, SUARAM, has been leading a fierce campaign to abolish Malaysia's Internal Security Act (ISA), a law under which more than 70 men are currently held in preventive detention. Some of the men are suspected of belonging to Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant Islamist group responsible for terrorist bombings in Bali and elsewhere. Others are accused of common crimes like forgery. What ...
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats
Post Date: 2008-04-26 11:05:33 by Ferret Mike
0 Comments
FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending. Specialist Jeremy Hall, 23, outside Fort Riley, Kan., where he has been stationed since being sent home early from Iraq because of threats from fellow soldiers. But minutes into the talk, the officer, Maj. Freddy J. Welborn, began to berate Specialist Hall and another soldier about atheism, Specialist Hall wrote in a sworn statement. “People like you are not holding up the Constitution and are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!” Major Welborn said, ...
FLDS Raid - A Dangerous Legal Precedent
Post Date: 2008-04-26 04:21:48 by noone222
6 Comments
I waited a week to comment on the Texas case, separating 437 children from their FLDS parents, to see if any substantive evidence of abuse would emerge. It hasn't. Even if it had, those could have been handled individually. But no, Texas plans instead to make every member of the group pay the supreme price: to strip away their beloved children. This case is about group punishment. In spite of a search warrant tainted by a false witness (the "Sarah" who doesn't exist), no actual specific evidence of abuse, or any unwilling participants in this polygamous compound, a self-righteous Texas judge had decreed that all 400 + children will not be returned to the custody of their ...
FBI wants widespread monitoring of 'illegal' Internet activity
Post Date: 2008-04-25 22:31:49 by richard9151
2 Comments
April 23, 2008 11:48 AM PDT WASHINGTON--The FBI on Wednesday called for new legislation that would allow federal police to monitor the Internet for "illegal activity." The suggestion from FBI Director Robert Mueller, which came during a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing, appears to go beyond a current plan to monitor traffic on federal-government networks. Mueller seemed to suggest that the bureau should have a broad "omnibus" authority to conduct monitoring and surveillance of private-sector networks as well. The surveillance should include all Internet traffic, Mueller said, "whether it be .mil, .gov, .com--whichever network you're ...
Schwarzenegger opposes eminent domain measure
Post Date: 2008-04-25 21:14:37 by farmfriend
1 Comments
Schwarzenegger opposes eminent domain measure By John Hill - jhill@sacbee.com Last Updated 4:35 pm PDT Friday, April 25, 2008 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Friday that he will oppose an initiative on the June 3 ballot to restrict governments' ability to use eminent domain to seize property. Schwarzenegger said he was opposing Proposition 98 in part because it might block the building of water projects crucial to farmers and residential users. "Eminent domain is an issue worth addressing," Schwarzenegger said in a prepared statement. "However Proposition 98 would undermine California's ability to improve our infrastructure, including our water delivery and ...
CIA Admits They Will Continue Rendition Program, Which Allows Torture Overseas
Post Date: 2008-04-25 16:59:45 by ghostdogtxn
4 Comments
Fact Check: Obama's Consistent Position on the Patriot Act
Post Date: 2008-04-25 14:25:03 by aristeides
11 Comments
Fact Check: Obama's Consistent Position on the Patriot Act January 05, 2008 Rhetoric: "Sen. Obama Promised to Support Repealing PATRIOT Act, Then Voted to Extend It" Reality: Obama Has Consistently Said He Would Support A Patriot Act That Would Strengthen Civil Liberties Without Sacrificing The Tools That Law Enforcement Needs To Keep Us Safe Obama Said That the Senate Compromise on the PATRIOT Act Was "Far From Perfect" But Modestly Improved the Original Law By Strengthening Civil Liberties Without Sacrificing the Tools That Law Enforcement Needs to Keep Us Safe. "Let me be clear: this compromise is not as good as the Senate version of the bill, nor is it ...
3 NYPD detectives acquitted in 50-shot killing
Post Date: 2008-04-25 12:43:41 by Jethro Tull
12 Comments
3 NYPD detectives acquitted in 50-shot killing New York police detectives acquitted in 50-shot killing of man on his wedding day By TOM HAYS Associated Press Writer NEW YORK Apr 25, 2008 (AP) Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower. Scores of police officers surrounded the courthouse to guard against potential chaos, and as news of the verdict spread, many in the crowd began weeping. Others were enraged, swearing and screaming "Murderers! Murderers!" or "KKK!"
Poster ...
Latest [Newer] 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 [Older]
|