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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Albany police accused again. Rape under color of authority.
Post Date: 2008-03-17 12:11:20 by PSUSA
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ALBANY -- Another woman has publicly accused the Albany police of conducting an improper cavity search. On Monday, a 22-year-old Troy woman who said she was unlawfully strip-searched by members of the Albany Police Department and then forced to undergo a pelvic cavity search at Albany Medical Center Hospital on Jan. 28 filed a notice of claim against the city. That legal filing comes a little more than a week after police leaders defended their internal investigation into a complaint by a Ravena woman who said she was subjected to a cavity search on a public street during a traffic stop on Dec. 22. The January incident allegedly unfolded when a vehicle in which Crystal Royal, 22, was ...
They’ve Ironed the Wrinkle Out of the Jury
Post Date: 2008-03-17 06:37:46 by Ada
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I’m the wrinkle, and I was ejected from a deliberating federal jury on March 13. The case was United States v. Robert Luisi, and I was thrown out because I refused to take a second oath of jury service that would have required that I suspend my common sense, and even suspend my belief in an objective reality. This second oath would literally have bound me to find the defendant guilty if the judge had instructed me that "the law says all Italians are guilty." (Luisi is of Italian heritage.) All jurors in federal courts, according to the jury handbook I was given, take "an oath to decide the case ‘upon the law and the evidence.’" The handbook then ...
Today We're All Irish: Debt Serfdom Comes to America
Post Date: 2008-03-16 22:03:28 by richard9151
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17/03/08 "Global Research" -- - March 17 is St. Patrick's Day, when people of all national origins raise a glass and declare, "Today we're all a bit Irish!" This may be truer than we know. The Irish were driven to America by debt, and they are leading the Western world in household debt today. The London Daily Telegraph reported on March 13, 2008 that household debt in Ireland has reached 190 percent of disposable income, the highest in the developed world; and that the Irish banking system is suffering such acute strains from the downturn in the housing market that it may have to nationalize its banks.1 The same may soon be happening in the United States, and ...
U.S. Chief Auditor Leaves -- Giving Dire Warning About National Debt
Post Date: 2008-03-16 21:29:57 by richard9151
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16/03/08 "Washington Post" -- -It was sheer coincidence that David M. Walker spent his last day Wednesday as comptroller general of the United States at the same time that the House and Senate were beginning to debate their budget resolutions for next year. As the head of the Government Accountability Office, the auditing arm of Congress, Walker has been perhaps the most outspoken official in Washington warning of the fiscal train wreck that awaits this country unless it mends its ways. The budget resolutions approved last week both envisage an increase in the deficit next year. The Senate predicts $366 billion, the House $340 billion. Meanwhile, over the next five years, ...
The Amazon, The Mau Mau, and the Devil
Post Date: 2008-03-16 10:47:28 by YertleTurtle
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There are three tribes represented by the remaining, viable, presidential candidates: 1) John ‘The Devil Man’ McCain represents the Neocon Tribe, 2) Hillary Clinton, the Feminist-Amazon Tribe, and 3) Barack Obama, the African Tribe. The Neocons’ first choice was Rudi Giuliani, but they will gladly settle for McCain because the continuance of the capitalist war in the Middle East is the Neocons’ top priority. One cannot appeal to the Neocons’ sense of humanity; they have none, but you would think that such learned men, who fancy themselves hard-headed realists, would be able to grasp the simple fact that every country in history that has squandered its money on ...
JFK vs. The Federal Reserve
Post Date: 2008-03-15 23:55:25 by richard9151
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This is a PDF file, and I can not copy it here. However, it is worth your time to read. This covers Excutive Order 11110, signed by JFK, which basically put the Federal Reserve Bank out of business, and, this Excutive Order has never been repealed. I have known about this Order for many years, but I did not have the many details that have been uncovered by the group who posted this info. FIND IT HERE; ecclesia.org/forum/uploads/bondservant/jfkP.pdf Click for Full Text!
The Biometric Cataloging of Americans at Home
Post Date: 2008-03-15 13:47:51 by robin
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The Biometric Cataloging of Americans at HomeBy Dahr JamailGlobal Research, March 12, 2008 Dahr Jamail Dispatches "Avoid the hassle of airport security every time you fly."This is the rhetoric being used to entice U.S. citizens to voluntarily provide their biometric information to the U.S. government.The program, called "clear," is being installed at airports around the country now. For a little background on this, view a post at this website from September 2005, called Securitizing the Global Norm of Identity: Biometric Technologies in Domestic and Foreign Policy. In Fallujah, the cataloging of human beings has been involuntary since the U.S. siege of that city in ...
Spanish firm using loan from U.S. to build segments of Texas toll road
Post Date: 2008-03-14 22:20:37 by gengis gandhi
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Spanish firm using loan from U.S. to build segments of Texas toll road Officials with the Spanish toll road operator Cintra have announced that the company has secured $430 million in loans from the U.S. government to build and operate two segments of a toll road in central Texas. Cintra officials announced the company’s financial plan for the $1.36 billion Highway 130 segments on Monday, March 10. OOIDA Senior Government Affairs Representative Mike Joyce told Land Line that the Association does raise red flags when federal dollars are used to subsidize private investors. Officials with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association are not, however, categorically opposed to a ...
Congress Holds Rare, Secret Spying Session Thursday - Update
Post Date: 2008-03-14 21:32:47 by gengis gandhi
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Congress Holds Rare, Secret Spying Session Thursday - Update By Ryan Singel EmailMarch 13, 2008 | 3:31:31 PMCategories: NSA The House of Representatives will shutter C-Span's cameras Thursday afternoon and evict citizens and reporters from the chambers to hold an extremely rare, one-hour secret session where Republicans say they will present information about the current spying debate that cannot be publicly discussed. The secret session, only the sixth in the House's history and the first since 1983, comes just hours ahead of a planned vote pushes until Friday a vote on a new proposal from House Democrats who oppose giving amnesty to telecoms that helped President Bush's ...
NRCC Says Ex-Treasurer Diverted Up to $1 Million
Post Date: 2008-03-14 20:23:16 by robin
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NRCC Says Ex-Treasurer Diverted Up to $1 MillionBy Paul KaneWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, March 14, 2008; A01The former treasurer for the National Republican Congressional Committee diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars -- and possibly as much as $1 million -- of the organization's funds into his personal accounts, GOP officials said yesterday, describing an alleged scheme that could become one of the largest political frauds in recent history.For at least four years, Christopher J. Ward, who is under investigation by the FBI, allegedly used wire transfers to funnel money out of NRCC coffers and into other political committee accounts he controlled as treasurer, NRCC leaders ...
Credit Card or Bank Transaction: Somebody Watches
Post Date: 2008-03-14 18:46:40 by robin
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Credit Card or Bank Transaction: Somebody Watches Think Twice Before You Swipe That Card, Because Everything Is Being Tracked By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ ABC NEWS Business Unit March 14, 2008— Every time you swipe your credit card, take cash out of an ATM or transfer money into your bank account, a sophisticated network of computers is keeping track. The fraud detection systems which security experts say vary widely want to know: Are you trying to launder money or has somebody stolen your credit card or ATM card and making purchases? Some data is kept by the banks and credit card companies and other information is passed on to the federal government. "People aren't really ...
Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime (ELIOT SPITZER ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S COMPLICITY IN SUBPRIME CRISIS)
Post Date: 2008-03-14 17:32:09 by aristeides
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Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers By Eliot Spitzer Thursday, February 14, 2008; Page A25 Several years ago, state attorneys general and others involved in consumer protection began to notice a marked increase in a range of predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders. Some were misrepresenting the terms of loans, making loans without regard to consumers' ability to repay, making loans with deceptive "teaser" rates that later ballooned astronomically, packing loans with undisclosed charges and fees, or even paying illegal kickbacks. These and other practices, we noticed, were having a ...
Eliot’s Mess (GREG PALAST: SPITZER SCANDAL AND BANK BAILOUT)
Post Date: 2008-03-14 17:24:47 by aristeides
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Eliot’s Mess The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked by Greg Palast Reporting for Air America Radio’s Clout While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators. Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there’s a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush’s man Bernanke was using ours. This week, Bernanke’s Fed, for the first time in its history, loaned a ...
House Passes Surveillance Bill - Ignoring Bush Demands, Measure Does Not Offer Telecom Immunity
Post Date: 2008-03-14 16:59:57 by robin
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House Passes Surveillance BillIgnoring Bush Demands, Measure Does Not Offer Telecom ImmunityBy Jonathan WeismanWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, March 14, 2008; 3:21 PMA deeply divided House approved its latest version of terrorist surveillance legislation today, rebuffing President Bush's demand for a bill that would grant telecommunications firms retroactive immunity for cooperation in past warrantless wiretapping and deepening the impasse on a fundamental national security issue.Congress then defiantly left Washington for a two-week spring break.The legislation, approved 213-197, would update the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to expand the powers of intelligence ...
Bush and Clinton’s secret billions of dollars in trouble as Carlyle Capital Corp could go bankrupt unless its private equity founder injects more money – financial meltdown continues
Post Date: 2008-03-13 14:23:23 by aristeides
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Bush and Clinton’s secret billions of dollars in trouble as Carlyle Capital Corp could go bankrupt unless its private equity founder injects more money – financial meltdown continues Harry Patil Mar. 8, 2008 Carlyle Group, walking a narrow path is in the art of doing business at the murky intersection of Washington politics, national security, and private capital; mastering it, has enabled the group to amass $12 billion in funds under management. For 14 years now, with almost no publicity, the company has been signing up an impressive list of former politicians - including White House Budget Advisor, Bush/Clinton Administrations, Darman, the first President Bush and his ...
Documents feed debate on FEMA trailers
Post Date: 2008-03-13 13:05:42 by robin
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Documents feed debate on FEMA trailers Lawyer: Federal Documents Raise New Questions About Toxins in Trailers for Katrina Victims MICHAEL KUNZELMAN AP News Mar 12, 2008 22:43 EST Federal officials issued trailers to Hurricane Katrina victims even though some workplace safety tests detected high levels of formaldehyde at government staging areas for the structures just weeks after the storm, a lawyer for hundreds of occupants said Wednesday. Documents from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration raise new questions about how much federal officials knew about the units, which were sent to tens of thousands of displaced residents, said attorney Anthony Buzbee. But they ...
Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America
Post Date: 2008-03-13 06:19:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America - by Stephen Lendman Yassin Aref is a 37 year old Albany, New York resident and one of many Muslim victims of police state justice in post-9/11 America. They've been hunted down, rounded up, held in detention, kept in isolation, denied bail, restricted in their right to counsel, tried on secret evidence and trumped-up charges, then incarcerated as political prisoners or deported to where they face possible arrest and torture. Because of his faith and ethnicity, Aref was victimized by US "justice" in a post-9/11 climate of fear. He's an Iraqi Kurd who emigrated to the US as a UN refugee in 1999 with his wife ...
'The War on Democracy'
Post Date: 2008-03-12 21:27:35 by richard9151
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'The War on Democracy' is John Pilger's first major film for the cinema - in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. "The film tells a universal story," says Pilger, "analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called war on terror". VIDEO HERE; www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18236.htm Click for Full Text!
Nadler Disses Voters on Impeachment
Post Date: 2008-03-12 11:45:20 by richard9151
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11/03/08 "ICH" -- -- You would not know it for the news blackout, but New Yorkers of Congressman Jerrold Nadler’s district held a Town Hall/Impeachment Forum on Sunday to encourage Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney. Panelists included former congresswoman Liz Holtzman, former Reagan Justice Department attorney Bruce Fein, human rights attorney and Harpers commentator Scott Horton, and John Nirenberg, the activist who at the turn of the year walked from Boston to Washington, D.C., in a futile attempt to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on impeachment. The organizers ...
Another Milestone on the Road to Serfdom
Post Date: 2008-03-12 11:32:39 by richard9151
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08/03/08 "Harpers" -- -- This weekend, the darkness continues to descend in Washington, the powers of the state continue to grow and the mechanisms of accountability rot away unused. Americans are focused on the selection of a new president. Many of them share the naïve assumption that on January 20, 2009, when a new leader takes the oath of office from the south steps of the Capitol Building, the Founders’ constitutional order will once more be set aright and the extra-constitutional excesses of the Bush years will be but a bad memory. But whoever is installed as the new guardian of presidential power will not likely part with many of the rights that Bush claimed and ...
British Cop Who Investigated CIA Found Dead (what a surprise - not!)
Post Date: 2008-03-12 10:35:33 by ghostdogtxn
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House Fails To Override Bush's Veto On CIA Waterboarding Bill
Post Date: 2008-03-11 19:14:57 by Brian S
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(03-11) 16:11 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- House Democrats on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush's veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects. The vetoed legislation would have limited the CIA to using only the 19 interrogation methods approved in the Army field manual. That guidebook bans the use of waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning. CIA Director Michael Hayden has confirmed that the spy agency used the technique on three terrorist suspects in 2002 and 2003. The 225-188 House roll call was 51 votes short of the two-thirds majority required to overturn a veto. Bush has ...
The Abuser Abused: Eliot Spitzer Meets the Real Governor of New York
Post Date: 2008-03-11 17:30:00 by aristeides
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The Abuser Abused: Eliot Spitzer Meets the Real Governor of New York By Chris Floyd Tuesday, 11 March 2008—Scott Horton points to several glaring pieces of evidence indicating that Eliot Spitzer was targeted for political destruction by the partisan apparatchiks of George W. Bush's thoroughly corrupt Justice Department. It turns out that Spitzer was the subject of a secret, free-floating federal investigation, with much money and manpower employed in trawling through his finances and private life until something juicy finally turned up. As Horton notes, Bush prosecutors are a dab hand at this kind of dirty pool by now, although usually they have to trump up entirely specious ...
Internet activity is tracked more than we realize
Post Date: 2008-03-10 23:46:43 by robin
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Internet activity is tracked more than we realize By LOUISE STORYThe New York Times A famous New Yorker cartoon from 1993 showed two dogs at a computer, with one saying to the other, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." That may no longer be true. A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning more than ever before the gritty details of what people search for and do on the Internet, gathering clues about the tastes and preferences of a typical user several hundred times a month. These companies use that information to predict what content and advertisers people most likely want to see. They can charge steep prices for ...
The Racial Murder and Rape of White Women in America
Post Date: 2008-03-10 05:26:41 by Liberate Jim Traficant
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Lauren Burk, a freshman at Auburn University and Eva Carson of UNC. Also pictured are their accused murderers. The Racial Murder and Rape of White Women in America How the so-called “Civil Rights” Movement in America has led to loss of the most important civil right of all: life. The almost simultaneous murders of White co-eds at two different, prominent universities, Auburn and University of North Carolina, should bring attention to an epidemic of brutal African-American crimes against White women in the United States. The murder of Eve Carson, Student Body President of UNC has shocked her campus and its surrounding community to its core. Ms. Carson was found murdered in the ...
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