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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Cops molest woman in illegal search
Post Date: 2008-03-03 11:11:18 by gengis gandhi
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Police: 'You fit the profile' By BRENDAN J. LYONS, Senior writer Police: 'You fit the profile' By BRENDAN J. LYONS, Senior writer Click byline for more stories by writer. First published: Sunday, March 2, 2008 ALBANY-- The cops in the marked patrol car had circled through West Hill a couple times keeping an eye on their female target. They were part of the Street Drug Unit, an aggressive squad assigned to help rid Albany's neighborhoods of drug dealers and addicts blamed for much of the city's problems. It was early evening and already dark when the patrol car's emergency lights flashed in the rearview mirror of Lisa Shutter's Mitsubishi sedan on Quail ...
COLUMN: Health care system already socialized
Post Date: 2008-03-01 00:37:15 by Jethro Tull
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COLUMN: Health care system already socialized From:University WireDate:October 4, 2007Author:Mike WofseyMore results for:american socialized health care University Wire 10-04-2007 (The Crimson White) (U-WIRE) TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Back before I returned to graduate school, I was an employee at a Fortune 500 company, and health care was simple. I had a few hundred pre-tax dollars a month deducted from my paycheck for some very good health insurance. My company paid for the rest. My contribution was about 40 percent -- theirs was about 60 percent. I figured the system worked for most Americans since it worked so well for me. Then I came to graduate school at the university. Suddenly, health ...
Mukasey refuses probe of Bush aides
Post Date: 2008-02-29 19:23:13 by richard9151
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16 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer the House's contempt citations against two of President Bush's top aides to a federal grand jury. Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers committed no crime. As promised, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she has given the Judiciary Committee authority to file a lawsuit against Bolten and Miers in federal court. "The House shall do so promptly," she said in a statement. Mukasey said Bolten and Miers were right in ignoring subpoenas to provide Congress with White House documents or testify about the firings of federal ...
Behind the Wiretapping Immunity Fight
Post Date: 2008-02-29 18:33:54 by robin
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President George W. Bush warned on Thursday that U.S. telephone companies won't help the government in the war on terror if they are facing lawsuits from Americans who claim to have been spied on. "How can you listen to the enemy if the phone companies aren't going to participate with you?" Bush said in an impassioned news conference. "And they're not going to participate if they get sued." Bush was urging Congress to pass a new law that would give the companies immunity from prosecution on eavesdropping charges. "I just can't tell you how important it is to not alienate, or not discourage, these phone companies." AT&T and Verizon face some ...
US: World's #1 Incarceration Rate
Post Date: 2008-02-29 01:57:55 by snoopdougg
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— For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America's rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. Using state-by-state data, the report says 2,319,258 Americans were in jail or prison at the start of 2008 — one out of every 99.1 adults. Whether per capita or in raw numbers, it's more than any other nation. The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. ...
Granting Immunity Rewards Lawlessness
Post Date: 2008-02-28 20:40:23 by richard9151
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02/28/2008 "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" -- - President Bush addressed the nation in December 2005, a day after The New York Times revealed that for several years he had been authorizing illegal wire taps on the telephones and computers of thousands of Americans believed to be communicating with foreigners who might wish us ill. Bush's attempted justification, however, was as legally baseless as President Richard M. Nixon's when he similarly was caught. Asked, years after his resignation, to justify his actions, Nixon crudely stated, "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." In his address, Bush said he had "authorized the National ...
Air Force Blocks Access to Many Blogs (WIRED)
Post Date: 2008-02-28 17:27:12 by aristeides
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Air Force Blocks Access to Many Blogs The Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read, cutting off access to just about any independent site with the word "blog" in its web address. It's the latest move in a larger struggle within the military over the value -- and hazards -- of the sites. At least one senior Air Force official calls the squeeze so "utterly stupid, it makes me want to scream." Until recently, each major command of the Air Force had some control over what sites their troops could visit, the Air Force Times reports. Then the Air Force Network Operations Center, under the service's new "Cyber Command," took ...
PELOSI THROWS DOWN THE GAUNTLET (LETTER TO AG MUKASEY)
Post Date: 2008-02-28 16:52:08 by aristeides
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February 28, 2008
The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
The Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001
Dear Mr. Attorney General:
In accordance with 2 U.S.C. ยง 194 and the attached House Resolution 979 (adopted on February 14, 2008), I have today sent a certification to the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeffrey Taylor, advising him of the failure of former White House Counsel, Harriet Miers, to appear, testify and produce documents in compliance with a duly issued subpoena of a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee and of the failure of Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff ...
IRS Threatens Church's Tax Status Over Obama's Hartford Speech; Perez Asks Congress to Investigate IRS
Post Date: 2008-02-28 16:08:18 by aristeides
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IRS Threatens Church's Tax Status Over Obama's Hartford Speech; Perez Asks Congress to Investigate IRS Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez asked Congress today to investigate the IRS' threat to strip the United Church of Christ of its tax-exempt status over Barack Obama's speech to a church convention in Hartford in 2007. "If the IRS is successful, every church synagogue and mosque that invites an elected official to speak on issues such as the war in Iraq, abortion, the environment, labor and other issues of social justice could fear loss of their non-profit status," Perez said. He is asking U.S. Sens. Christopher Dodd and Joseph Lieberman and U.S. Rep. John B. ...
House Could Take Up Surveillance Legislation Next Week
Post Date: 2008-02-28 15:14:42 by aristeides
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House Could Take Up Surveillance Legislation Next Week By Keith Perine, CQ Staff House Democrats are planning floor action next week on a new version of contentious electronic surveillance legislation, but it’s unclear what the bill will contain. “We don’t have agreement, but ... I am very hopeful that we will have legislation on the floor next week, “ House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., told Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo. The House and Senate have each passed versions of a surveillance measure (HR 3773) that are significantly different, and there is as yet no agreement between the parties or the two chambers. Hoyer was to meet later with top lawmakers to ...
Bush Pressures Congress to Pass Surveillance Bill (News Conference)
Post Date: 2008-02-28 10:34:12 by angle
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The president will speak to reporters at the White House at 10:05 a.m. EST. President Bush on Thursday urged Congress to pass a law that mkes it easier for the government to eavesdrop on terrorism suspects. The president wants Congress to renew a temporary law that expired earlier this month. The House and Senate have passed different versions of the measure, which would continue authorization of a program that lets the government listen in on the phone calls of suspected terrorists and view their e-mails. Bush wants the House to adopt the version passed by the Senate. That bill gives retroactive immunity from lawsuits to telecommunications companies that provided information to the ...
Mukasey Makes First Trip to Guantanamo : Attorney General Reviews Detention Facility, Meets With Lawyers Working on Detainee Cases
Post Date: 2008-02-27 19:02:13 by aristeides
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Mukasey Makes First Trip to Guantanamo Attorney General Reviews Detention Facility, Meets With Lawyers Working on Detainee Cases By JASON RYAN and THERESA COOK Feb. 27, 2008 Attorney General Michael Mukasey made his first visit to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday. He planned to assess the detention center and discuss upcoming military trials for six detainees, according to a Justice Department spokesman. "The visit provided him with the opportunity to see firsthand the state-of-the-art detention facility at the station," spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement. "During the visit, he also met with military personnel and other officials involved in ...
Barack Obama on Senator Dodd's Endorsement (OBAMA OPPOSES TELECOM IMMUNITY, TORTURE, SUPPORTS HABEAS CORPUS & CONSTITUTION)
Post Date: 2008-02-27 17:28:00 by aristeides
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Barack Obama on Senator Dodd's Endorsement Remarks on Chris Dodd Endorsement As Prepared for Delivery Senator Barack Obama February 26, 2008 It has been my pleasure to serve alongside Chris Dodd in the United States Senate. It was a privilege to share the stage with him during his principled run for the presidency. And it is an honor to stand here with him today, and to accept his endorsement of my candidacy for President of the United States of America. I say that because Chris Dodd loves his country – and believes in the ideal of public service – as much as anyone I know. From his years as a young Peace Corps worker in the 1960s to this very day, Senator Dodd has ...
Vice President's Remarks to Soldiers of the First Cavalry Division (FORT HOOD, FEB. 26)
Post Date: 2008-02-27 11:25:47 by aristeides
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Vice President's Remarks to Soldiers of the First Cavalry Division First Cavalry Division Parade Grounds Fort Hood, Texas 10:05 A.M. CST THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. And General, I appreciate the kind words, and I thank all of you for that warm welcome today. It's a great day to be in Texas, to stand with the men and women we proudly call the First Team -- the First Cavalry Division of the United States Army. (Applause.) I've been to Fort Hood a number of times over the years -- as Vice President, member of Congress, Secretary of Defense -- and it's a pleasure to return. In this place we've given generations of soldiers the finest training we ...
AN S.O.S. TO AMERICA, GET TO A LIFEBOAT
Post Date: 2008-02-27 09:26:44 by christine
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I have waited an extra week to see if the following letter would generate any response from those in authority over us. I have been grievously disappointed, but not at all surprised. To the hundreds of you who so graciously and forcefully responded, all I can offer you is deep gratitude for your efforts. We collectively made our last best try. No one can say we did not do our best. The result was predictable but necessary, at least in my view, because what follows in the next few weeks and months will be so difficult for this nation as to be nearly indescribable. I pray to God Almighty that I am wrong about this, but I fear not. The United States of America is collapsing from within at an ...
Judge is asked to rescind shutdown of website
Post Date: 2008-02-27 08:01:46 by HOUNDDAWG
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Media and public interest organizations tell the jurist that his order violates constitutional provisions against prior restraint of free speech. By Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer February 27, 2008 A coalition of media and public interest organizations went to federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday urging a judge to reconsider his order to shut down a muckraking website that publishes leaked documents from businesses and government agencies worldwide. Lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, Public Citizen and several news organizations, told U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White that two orders he issued last week against ...
Hillary Clinton /Waco:New Revelation(Part 11 of 12)MUST SEE
Post Date: 2008-02-27 00:08:55 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Poster Comment:Hillary Ordered The Final Massacre At Waco freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=73470
The Great Tennessee Valley Blackout (AL TV BLACKS OUT 60 MINUTES ON GOV. SIEGELMAN)
Post Date: 2008-02-26 15:59:53 by aristeides
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The Great Tennessee Valley Blackout My mailbox has filled up with comments from people focusing on the “technical difficulties” that stopped transmission of the Don Siegelman feature—and just that segment—in last night’s 60 Minutes. In a sense, this was symptomatic of what I’ve discovered in eight months of burrowing into the intersection of law and politics in Alabama. It always reminds me of that powerful opener in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet.” We see a bucolic scene in small town America—everything is happy and wonderful. Then the camera burrows into the grass and zooms in and we see that it’s filled with menacing, frightening wicked ...
Soros gives support to Obama
Post Date: 2008-02-26 14:13:29 by Jethro Tull
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Soros gives support to Obama From:International Herald TribuneDate:January 24, 2008Author:Alan Cowell The New York Times Media GroupMore results for:obama and soros support International Herald Tribune 01-24-2008Soros gives support to Obama Byline: Alan Cowell The New York Times Media Group Edition: 4 Section: FINANCE/BUSINESS What's the latest chatter at the World Economic Forum? Here are excerpts from Davos Diary, a blog by our correspondents on the ground. To read more or respond, log on to www.iht.com/davos. * At a lunch he gave Wednesday for reporters in a hotel here, George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire and former hedge fund manager who is a regular participant at ...
Taxi To The Dark Side (documentary about the reckless abuse of power by the Bush admin which won an Oscar--watch the trailer)
Post Date: 2008-02-26 13:17:29 by christine
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Justices Weigh if Cash Hidden in Cash Laundered
Post Date: 2008-02-26 12:52:55 by ghostdogtxn
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The Vandalism of Banks Has Begun (news you'll never hear elsewhere)
Post Date: 2008-02-26 11:55:33 by gengis gandhi
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Cryptic Notes Left At Vandalized Bremerton Banks POSTED: 10:08 am PST February 21, 2008 UPDATED: 4:11 pm PST February 21, 2008 [NEWSVINE: Cryptic Notes Left At Vandalized Bremerton Banks] [DELICIOUS: Cryptic Notes Left At Vandalized Bremerton Banks] [DIGG: Cryptic Notes Left At Vandalized Bremerton Banks] [FACEBOOK: Cryptic Notes Left At Vandalized Bremerton Banks] [REDDIT: Cryptic Notes Left At Vandalized Bremerton Banks] [RSS] [PRINT: Cryptic Notes Left At Vandalized Bremerton Banks] [EMAIL: Cryptic Notes Left At Vandalized Bremerton Banks] BREMERTON, Wash. -- Bremerton police said four banks were vandalized early Thursday, with each incident involving windows broken with pieces of ...
Crossing the Rubicon -- Posse Comitatus
Post Date: 2008-02-26 11:26:04 by richard9151
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After Hurricane Katrina, President Bush called for the weakening of “The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878” to allow more federal "control" of emergency situations. But would the elimination of that legislative Act of the Congress United States increase any lawful authority for the federal military to use its power and might to control the population of America? This is a controversial look at a controversial subject. It is presented here with the hope of giving everyone the knowledge, tools, and freedom to make essentially moral and informed decisions in the face of deception, tragedy, and usurpation. The full text of "Crossing the Rubicon, Posse Comitatus" is ...
Corporate Takeover Of Government Well Underway
Post Date: 2008-02-26 10:36:22 by richard9151
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"Still think you're free? Still think all you have to do is vote the incumbent out of office and everything will automatically return to 'normal.' It's too late. Protesting, voting, or - laughably - letters to the editor won't change anything. Look at the corporate info I found at the Delaware Secretary of State website: INTERNAL REVENUE TAX AND AUDIT SERVICE (IRS) For Profit General Delaware Corporation Incorporation date 7/12/33 File No. 0325720 FEDERAL RESERVE ASSOCIATION (Federal Reserve) Non-profit Delaware Corporation Incorporation date 9/13/14 File No. 0042817 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AUTHORITY INC. (CIA) For Profit General Delaware Corporation Incorporation ...
To Impeach or Not To Impeach?
Post Date: 2008-02-26 06:36:43 by Ada
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Could the Democrats in the House be slithering out of a primeval slime to evolve from a pusillanimous sea slug (native to the Sea of Hypocrisy), into something that breathes air, walks upright and as a rule does not eat its own young? Since September 11th, the Democrats in Congress have been on a downward evolutionary spiral; could that trend have been thrown into reverse by the doings of an even more degenerate species? To be sure, some members of Congress have been doing their duty to uphold the Constitution. John Conyers has been actively pushing impeachment of Bush and Cheney since 2005. And Rep. Robert Wexler has his campaign. Last November, Rep. Dennis Kucinich led the charge to ...
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