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Life with Big Brother: Driver's licenses to feature radio chips
Post Date: 2008-04-08 17:53:03 by robin
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Life with Big Brother: Driver's licenses to feature radio chipsState introducing cards that encode personal informationBy Jerome R. CorsiGlobal Research, April 8, 2008WorldNetDaily.com The state of Washington announced a pilot project to introduce a driver's license "enhanced" with a radio frequency identification, or RFID, chip that would encode personal information and possibly serve as a passport-alternative if approved by the Department of Homeland Security. Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire signed a bill March 23 allowing Washington residents to apply for the $40 voluntary driver's license beginning in January. Gregoire spokeswoman Kristin Jacobsen told WND in an ...
Going After the Lawyers
Post Date: 2008-04-08 06:05:12 by Ada
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In her Sunday column yesterday, St. Petersburg Times columnist Robyn Blumner tells an ominous story that describes the Bush administration’s attitude toward criminal-defense attorneys, an attitude that is remarkably similar to that held by Bush war-on-terrorism partner Pervez Musharraf, the brutal military dictator of Pakistan. Roy Black is one of the most prominent and successful criminal-defense attorneys in the nation. He was the lawyer who represented William Kennedy Smith on charges of rape many years ago, winning an acquittal. He also represented Rush Limbaugh on charges relating to alleged misuse of OxyContin. He serves as a professor at the University of Miami School of Law. ...
When Lawyers Are War Criminals
Post Date: 2008-04-08 00:19:13 by nolu_chan
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balkin.blogspot.com/2006/...rs-are-war-criminals.html Sunday, October 08, 2006 When Lawyers Are War Criminals Scott Horton To the memory of Helmuth James von Moltke "In France, innumerable summary executions occur, even as I sit here writing. Each day certainly more than a thousand people are killed, and thousands of German men experience murder as a matter of routine. And yet all of that is child's play compared to what's going on in Poland and Russia. Can I learn about this and just sit at the table in my heated apartment and drink tea? Don't I establish my complicity simply by doing nothing? What will I say in the future, when someone asks me: and what did you do ...
Evidence Grows of U.S. Use Of Drug On Prisoners
Post Date: 2008-04-07 10:59:30 by richard9151
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06/04/08 "CQ" -- - There can be little doubt now that the government has used drugs on terrorist suspects that are designed to weaken their resistance to interrogation. All that’s missing is the syringes and videotapes. Another window opened on the practice last week with the declassification of John Yoo’s instantly infamous 2003 memo approving harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects. Yoo advised top Bush administration officials that interrogators could employ mind-altering drugs if they did not produce “an extreme effect” calculated to “cause a profound disruption of the senses or personality.” Yoo had first rationalized the use of ...
If Americans Knew
Post Date: 2008-04-07 10:58:02 by richard9151
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Must watch 5 minute video It’s not a coincidence that Pro-Israel Jewish Americans, like Eliot Abrams, Dennis Ross, and Martin Indyk, are usually appointed in charge of Middle East policy, especially the Israeli Palestinian conflict. www.ifamericansknew.org/ HERE: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19688.htm Click for Full Text!
Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail
Post Date: 2008-04-07 10:49:52 by richard9151
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Drugging Detainees Is Among Techniques 06/04/08 "Washington Post " -- - -- Thirty pages into a memorandum discussing the legal boundaries of military interrogations in 2003, senior Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo tackled a question not often asked by American policymakers: Could the president, if he desired, have a prisoner's eyes poked out? Or, for that matter, could he have "scalding water, corrosive acid or caustic substance" thrown on a prisoner? How about slitting an ear, nose or lip, or disabling a tongue or limb? What about biting? These assaults are all mentioned in a U.S. law prohibiting maiming, which Yoo parsed as he clarified the legal outer ...
The Presidency End the war on terror as a legal paradigm, abolish military commissions, and restore FISA.
Post Date: 2008-04-07 06:16:32 by Ada
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With President Bush's approval rating hovering in the 30s, just about everyone has an opinion on what George W. has done wrong in the past seven years. But not everyone can explain what the next president must do to fix it. So we've called in some experts to tell us. Fixing It is a 10-part series to be published over the course of the week by some of our favorite writers, offering detailed policy prescriptions for the next president, whoever that may be, on how to quickly undo some of the damage that's been wrought. One of our contributors wryly describes the series as "News You Can Use. If You Happen To Be President." Read the other entries here. President George W. ...
Continuity of Government and the "ENDGAME" Scenario
Post Date: 2008-04-06 14:48:20 by robin
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Continuity of Government and the "ENDGAME" ScenarioBy Tom BurghardtGlobal Research, April 6, 2008 Antifascist Calling...Back in 1987 during joint congressional hearings into the Iran-Contra affair, Rep. Jack Brooks (D-TX) asked Lt. Col. Oliver North, Reagan's point-man on the National Security Council: Brooks: Colonel North, in your work at the N.S.C. were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster? Brendan Sullivan [North's counsel]: Mr. Chairman?Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI), immediately squelched Brooks' inquiry:Inouye: I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so ...
THE QUESTIONS NOT ASKED THAT HAVE RUINED A NATION
Post Date: 2008-04-06 14:01:03 by christine
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The answers to the following questions are among the most important ones ever sought. If they had been asked, and honest, accurate, answers offered, the American people would have held the potential solutions to this nation’s most crushing problems within their minds and also within their grasp. Because they were not asked, or asked by only a tiny number of caring, astute, educated, constitutionally literate citizens, most of us have fiddled while Washington burned. It is so late in the day, I do not believe that if we moved right now with every resource at our disposal, this nation can be saved from the ultimate ride into the septic tank of history, due to the flushing action of the ...
6th Closed Door Session of Congress in 176 Years
Post Date: 2008-04-05 14:44:42 by christine
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Last week's session (Th 3/13/08) was only the 6th time in the last 176 years that Congress has closed its doors to the public.
the imminent collapse of US federal government finances by February 2009;
the possibility of Civil War inside the USA as a result of the collapse;
advance round-ups of "insurgent U.S. citizens" likely to move against the government;
the detention of those rounded-up at "REX 84" camps constructed throughout the USA (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84);
the possibility of retaliation against members of Congress for the collapses;
the location of "safe facilities" for members of Congress and their families to reside during expected massive ...
Secretive Pentagon Spy Unit: Closed or Outsourced?
Post Date: 2008-04-05 12:02:58 by robin
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Secretive Pentagon Spy Unit: Closed or Outsourced?By Tom BurghardtGlobal Research, April 4, 2008 Antifascist Calling.The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Pentagon is "expected to shut a controversial intelligence office that has drawn fire from lawmakers and civil liberties groups who charge that it was part of an effort by the Defense Department to expand into domestic spying."The Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), created by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld after the September 11 attacks, illegally conducted broad domestic operations that targeted antiwar and other dissident domestic groups.Mark Mazzetti writes, The move, government officials say, ...
Towards Monarchy
Post Date: 2008-04-05 07:20:51 by Ada
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As if we didn't already know, we have yet another piece of evidence that one of the major "accomplishments" of the Bush administration (and you didn't think there were any) has been a relentless push for more executive power. It is hardly a secret, of course, that "regaining" unbridled and untrammeled executive power has been an obsession of Dick Cheney's ever since Watergate, which he saw not as an outrageous abuse of power but as an unfortunate incident whose uncovering led to a few modest checks on executive power – hardly as many as the framers of the Constitution envisioned, given that executive power has been expanded relentlessly since Roosevelt ...
State extends Blackwater's deal a year
Post Date: 2008-04-05 00:18:12 by richard9151
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1 hour, 20 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians and allegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA's multimillion-dollar contract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the State Department said Friday. A final decision about whether the private security company will keep the job is pending, the department said. Moyock, N.C.-based Blackwater is one of the largest private military contractors, receiving nearly $1.25 billion in federal business since 2000, according to a House committee estimate. Blackwater provides security for diplomats in Baghdad, where the sprawling U.S. Embassy is headquartered. Its private guards act as ...
Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations
Post Date: 2008-04-04 20:28:01 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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What Could It Mean for Warrantless Domestic Surveillance? Update: Click here to read the AP article on the Yoo memo and the Fourth Amendment. Today's Washington Post reports on a newly released memo, "Memorandum for William J. Haynes II, General Counsel of the Department of Defense Re: Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States" (March 14, 2003) , which which was declassified and released publicly yesterday. Balkinization has commentary on the very troubling opinion. While the newly released memo focuses on "asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators," it ...
(Jonathan Turley) Constitutional lawyer: Bush 'ordered war crimes'
Post Date: 2008-04-04 19:42:49 by robin
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This week's revelation of another secret Bush administration memo that seemed to eliminate any boundaries on the treatment of detainees added to the already substantial evidence that US military and intelligence interrogators have abused and perhaps even tortured prisoners rounded up during the "war on terror." Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo wrote in 2003 that Bush's seemingly supreme authority in wartime trumped federal laws "prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes," as the Washington Post reported. For constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley, the latest memo should be more than enough reason for Congress to begin some serious investigations, ...
Veto Threat Leveled at Bill to Overturn FCC Media Concentration Rule
Post Date: 2008-04-04 15:30:30 by aristeides
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Veto Threat Leveled at Bill to Overturn FCC Media Concentration Rule By Kathryn A. Wolfe, CQ Staff The administration leveled a veto threat Thursday against a Senate bill that would nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule allowing more media consolidation. In a letter to Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said he will recommend the bill (S J Res 28) be vetoed. “The administration supported this FCC action and strongly opposes any attempt to overturn these rules by legislative means,” the letter reads. The letter was dated April 1, the same day Commerce was scheduled to ...
FBI tracked King's every move
Post Date: 2008-04-04 13:45:16 by robin
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FBI tracked King's every moveStory HighlightsFBI memo called King the "most dangerous ... effective Negro leader" in U.S.Hidden wiretaps turned up no Communist Party ties, just extramarital affairsJ. Edgar Hoover's contempt for MLK's private behavior shows in private memosBy Jen Christensen CNN(CNN) -- FBI wiretaps have "given us the most powerful and persuasive source of all for seeing how utterly selfless Martin Luther King was," as a civil rights leader, according to a leading civil rights scholar."You see him being intensely self-critical. King really and truly believed that he was there to be of service to others. This was not a man with any ...
Pilotless drones to battle pot growers
Post Date: 2008-04-04 12:21:37 by robin
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Forest Service Buys a Pair of Flying Drones to Help Find Marijuana Growers in California The U.S. Forest Service has bought a pair of flying drones to track down marijuana growers operating in remote California woodlands. Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees the Forest Service, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the pilotless, camera-equipped aircraft will allow law enforcement officers to pinpoint marijuana fields and size up potential dangers before agents attempt arrests. Rey said there are increasing numbers of marijuana growers financed by Mexican drug cartels using California's forests to stage their operations. "We're dealing with organized ...
US declassifies 'torture' memo
Post Date: 2008-04-03 22:36:28 by richard9151
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The US justice department has released a declassified 2003 memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation methods on al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects held abroad. The memo, which was subsequently overruled, said George Bush's authority as president superseded international bans on torture. "Our previous opinions make clear that customary international law is not federal law and that the president is free to override it at his discretion," the memo, written by John Yoo, who was then deputy assistant attorney general for the US Office of Legal Counsel, said. The document was released in response to a legal action launched by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ...
Memo: Laws Didn't Apply to Interrogators
Post Date: 2008-04-03 22:31:45 by richard9151
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Justice Dept. Official in 2003 Said President's Wartime Authority Trumped Many Statutes By Dan Eggen and Josh White Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, April 2, 2008; A01 The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes. The 81-page memo, which was declassified and released publicly yesterday, argues that poking, slapping or shoving detainees would not give rise to criminal liability. The document also appears to defend ...
Empire or Humanity? What the classroom didn't teach me about the American empire
Post Date: 2008-04-03 22:01:53 by richard9151
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02/04/08 "TomDispatch" -- -With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire. Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned into a boastful, unashamed embrace of the idea. However, the very idea that the United States was an empire did not occur to me until after I finished my work as a bombardier with the Eighth Air Force in the Second World War and came home. Even as I began to have second thoughts about the purity of the "Good War," even after being horrified by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even after rethinking my own ...
REAL ID, REAL TYRANNY?
Post Date: 2008-04-03 17:17:58 by robin
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Though it may come as a surprise, the true effects of the tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001 have not yet been felt. The Bush administration´s plan for a safe America (and everywhere else) continues to unfold with the REAL ID Act. This act, passed in 2005, establishes a directive for a tamper proof ID system, hence the birth of a national identification card coming to your wallet very soon. After years of careful deliberation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a decree to all states: participate by May 11, 2008 or your residents will be denied the use of a driver´s license to board an airplane or enter a federal building. (States can request an extension ...
Did Nazis Really Target Takimag?
Post Date: 2008-04-03 17:13:55 by aristeides
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Did Nazis Really Target Takimag? Posted by John Zmirak on April 03, 2008 Two days I ago I asserted that an organized campaign had arisen to clog Takimag.com with neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic material. Here is the evidence for that assertion, from the Web site of the lovely and gracious Alex Linder: I encourage VNN people, as part of our outreach, to visit these two paleoconservative sites. Takimag http://www.takimag.com/ Chronicles magazine http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/ Both of these allow posts to appear immediately. Posting forces them to take positive action to censor you, and often your posts will stand for hours, or not be deleted at all. Be polite but firm in message. If they ...
Memo justified warrantless surveillance
Post Date: 2008-04-03 12:01:14 by robin
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Secret Memo That Justified Warrantless Domestic Surveillance Comes to Light For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil didn't apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism. That view was expressed in a secret Justice Department legal memo dated Oct. 23, 2001. The administration on Wednesday stressed that it now disavows that view. The October 2001 memo was written at the request of the White House by John Yoo, then the deputy assistant attorney general, and addressed to Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel at the time. The ...
Lynne Stewart's Long Struggle for Justice
Post Date: 2008-04-03 06:22:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Lynne Stewart's Long Struggle for Justice - by Stephen Lendman On April 9, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft made a symbolic visit to "Ground Zero." While in New York, he held a well-publicized press conference at the US Attorney's Office and used the occasion for an indictment. Four individuals were named on charges of conspiracy and materially aiding a terrorist organization. One of them was long-time civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart. On the same day, FBI agents arrested her at her home and illegally seized documents there and from her office that are protected by attorney-client privilege. In July 2003, Federal District Court Judge John Koeltl (a 1994 Clinton ...
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