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Supreme Court Rejects Katrina Victims' Flood Insurance Case
Post Date: 2008-02-19 11:14:46 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to offer help to Hurricane Katrina victims who want their insurance companies to pay for flood damage to their homes and businesses. The justices rejected appeals from Xavier University and 68 other individuals and businesses seeking to allow their lawsuits against the insurers to go forward. Xavier asked the court to step in after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the policies did not cover damage from floods, even those that resulted from man-made failures such as the collapsed levees in New Orleans. Other cases working their way through state courts have so far reached differing conclusions. A Louisiana appeals ...
Supreme Court Won't Review Bush Domestic Spying Case
Post Date: 2008-02-19 11:13:05 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a legal challenge to the warrantless domestic spying program President George W. Bush created after the September 11 attacks. The American Civil Liberties Union had asked the justices to hear the case after a lower court ruled the ACLU, other groups and individuals that sued the government had no legal right to do so because they could not prove they had been affected by the program. The civil liberties group also asked the nation's highest court to make clear that Bush does not have the power under the U.S. Constitution to engage in intelligence surveillance within the United States that Congress has expressly ...
The Invasion of America
Post Date: 2008-02-19 05:59:17 by Ada
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Creeping intrusions against our privacy rights are an assault on the Constitution. When President Nixon was in his pre-Watergate heyday, he ordered the FBI and the CIA to electronically monitor the private behavior of his domestic political adversaries. Shortly after Nixon resigned, investigators discovered hundreds of reports of break-ins and secret electronic surveillance. None of it was authorized by warrants, and thus all of it was illegal. But it had been conducted pursuant to the president's orders. Nixon's defense was, "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." He made that infamous statement in a TV interview years after he left office, but ...
The dirty little secret everyone in Washington knows
Post Date: 2008-02-18 20:39:37 by richard9151
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David Walker, comptroller general of the U.S., totaled up our government's income, liabilities and future obligations. He concluded the numbers don't add up. Steve Kroft reports for 60 Minutes. (CBS) This segment was originally broadcast on March 4, 2007. It was updated on July 8, 2007. HERE; http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19381.htm Note; when you read/watch this, remember the ongoing discussion about inflation and deflation. This info is important to understand what is coming.
What Do We Stand For?
Post Date: 2008-02-18 20:14:30 by richard9151
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18/02/08 "ICH" --- - Americans traditionally thought of their country as a "city upon a hill," a "light unto the world." Today only the deluded think that. Polls show that the rest of the world regards the U.S. and Israel as the two greatest threats to peace. This is not surprising. In the words of Arthur Silber: "The Bush administration has announced to the world, and to all Americans, that this is what the United States now stands for: a vicious determination to dominate the world, criminal, genocidal wars of aggression, torture, and an increasingly brutal and brutalizing authoritarian state at home. That is what we stand for." Addressing his ...
Concentration camps in America: The consequences of 40 years of fear
Post Date: 2008-02-18 12:19:44 by robin
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Concentration camps in America: The consequences of 40 years of fear
By William John Cox
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Feb 18, 2008, 00:56
If you type the phrase "concentration camps" into your Internet search engine, you will find page after page of references to martial law and the construction of concentration camps in the United States on behalf of the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
A close examination reveals that many of these references lack sufficient facts to support their conclusions; however, taken as a whole, there is an abundance of factual information showing an alarming ...
Kristol: It’s ‘Unbelievable’ That Congress Won’t Give Bush ‘The Benefit Of The Doubt’ On Spying
Post Date: 2008-02-17 15:58:47 by Brian S
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Today on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol mourned that an “emboldened” Congress refused to give telecommunications companies retroactive immunity for cooperating with the administration’s warrantless wiretapping. Kristol said it was “unbelievable” for lawmakers to question the judgment of administration officials. Instead, he argued, Congress should just give them the “benefit of the doubt”: I think it’s kind of unbelievable, frankly. It’s a judgment call. We don’t know. Not to give the administration the benefit of the doubt when they have career people, military people, intelligence people like Mike McConnell and Mike ...
Baby locked up at Honolulu airport dies (DHS)
Post Date: 2008-02-16 15:05:10 by robin
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Luaipou Futi and a nurse banged on a locked door at Honolulu International Airport Friday morning and begged for medical help for Futi's 14-day-old son, who had flown here from American Samoa for heart surgery and was becoming distressed in the warm room. According to Futi's attorney, from the other side of the door, the women heard voices telling them to remain calm. After 30 minutes in the room, Futi, her son, Michael Tony Futi, and the traveling nurse, Arizona Veavea, were released, attorney Rick Fried said. City paramedics took Michael to Kaiser Permanente's Moana-lua Medical Center, but he died later that morning. Emergency Services Department officials said they ...
The 545 People Responsible For All Of U.S. Woes
Post Date: 2008-02-16 11:19:04 by wbales
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The 545 People Responsible For All Of U.S. Woes [issue date unknown] BY Charley Reese (Date of publication unknown)-- -- - Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code. Congress does. You ...
Clinton Appointee "Democracy" SCOTUS Justice Breyer is CFR
Post Date: 2008-02-16 09:23:53 by buckeye
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Poster Comment:"Three CFR members (Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Sandra Day O'Connor) sit on the supreme court." --Why isn't the CFR in the History Books? Breyer admits to being in the CFR, and ays that the CFR is a good group when We Are Change confronts him in this video. Wikipedia page for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Breyer: In describing his interpretive philosophy, Breyer has sometimes noted his use of six interpretive tools: text, history, tradition, precedent, the purpose of a statute, and the consequences of competing interpretations. The same article refers to him as a "living documentarian."
Psychotropic Drugs & Gun Free Zones Again The Cocktail For A Killer: Shooting again precede major gun control legislative case
Post Date: 2008-02-16 07:54:02 by Kamala
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Psychotropic Drugs & Gun Free Zones Again The Cocktail For A Killer: Shooting again precede major gun control legislative case Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Saturday, February 16th, 2008 As the media prepares to launch another blitz of gun control propaganda in the wake of the Northern Illinois University shootings, it's no surprise to learn that killer Steven Kazmierczak had been taking psychotropic drugs and that the campus was a victim disarmament zone - the two major factors which always breed this kind of tragedy. Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, as well as 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, the Oregon killer who gunned down his parents and classmates, and Cho ...
FISA Talks Start as White House, Republicans Assail Democrats
Post Date: 2008-02-15 14:59:46 by aristeides
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FISA Talks Start as White House, Republicans Assail Democrats By Tim Starks, CQ Staff Congressional Republicans and the White House feuded anew with Democrats Friday over the impending expiration of a temporary surveillance law, as top Democrats began meeting on a more lasting electronic eavesdropping overhaul. The temporary law, which expanded executive branch surveillance authority (PL 110-55), expires Saturday. Both chambers were in pro forma session Friday, and most members had left town for the Presidents Day recess. The White House this week refused to support a short extension of the existing law, demanding instead that the House clear, without change, a long-term bill (HR 3773) ...
Executive Order-Blocking Property in Connection With the National Emergency With Respect to Syria
Post Date: 2008-02-15 10:05:02 by aristeides
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Executive Order 13460--Blocking Property of Additional Persons in Connection With the National Emergency With Respect to Syria By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the Government of Syria continues to engage in certain conduct that formed the basis for the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, including but not limited to ...
Creating a Transatlantic Common Market
Post Date: 2008-02-14 19:19:21 by A3rdrightwing
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Creating a Transatlantic Common Market By: Dennis Behreandt February 7, 2008 Practically everyone has heard of the efforts made by the Bush administration to advance the integration of the United States with Canada and Mexico in what many have called a North American Union. This magazine has distributed nearly 1 million copies of a special issue on the subject, CNN’s Lou Dobbs frequently discusses the issue on his nightly news program, and presidential candidate Ron Paul has even discussed the NAU during some of the Republican debates. The NAU gets all the press, but for internationalists seeking a more integrated world, it is not the only game in town. Very quietly, behind the ...
Arrested, caged and DNA tested - for using MP3
Post Date: 2008-02-14 17:18:56 by aristeides
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Arrested, caged and DNA tested - for using MP3 A commuter was arrested at gunpoint and had his DNA and fingerprints taken simply for listening to his MP3 player while waiting for a bus. Darren Nixon was surrounded by armed police after his music player was mistaken for a gun. When a passer-by saw the 28-year-old get out his black Philips machine to change tracks, she panicked and dialled 999. Police tracked Mr Nixon using CCTV. As he got off the bus home from work he was surrounded by a firearms unit, who bundled him into a van. He was then put in a cell and his fingerprints, DNA and mugshot were taken before he was released. Although police realised it was a false alarm, Mr Nixon, ...
Blue Dogs Defect on Surveillance Bill
Post Date: 2008-02-14 11:27:52 by aristeides
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Blue Dogs Defect on Surveillance Bill By Tim Starks, CQ Staff A day of intense House debate over an update of electronic eavesdropping rules ended with a rebuff of Democratic leaders — and little clarity about what would come next. The House rejected Wednesday a 21-day extension of a temporary law governing electronic surveillance. Dozens of Democrats defected, as the short-term bill (HR 5349) failed, 191-229. The defeat followed a parliamentary battle that raged all day on the floor. Democrats closed ranks to kill a Republican procedural move to replace the Democratic leaders’ short-term bill with a White House-backed Senate bill that would rewrite and extend surveillance ...
Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons
Post Date: 2008-02-14 11:14:21 by richard9151
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Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq? They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for Channel 4 . It’s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you’re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying. Press play to view - Video may take a minute or so to load. HERE; www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm Click for Full Text!
Real ID Act a Real Intrusion On Rights, Privacy
Post Date: 2008-02-14 11:11:35 by richard9151
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12/02/08 "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" 06/02/08 -- - -With the announcement last month by Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff of the final implementing regulations for the much-delayed Real ID Act, the debate over this thinly veiled national identification card project moved into high gear. The federal government for several years now has been fighting a guerrilla action with citizen groups and a number of state legislatures over imposing on the states and the citizenry this privacy-intrusive and costly mandate. With the announcement Jan. 11 of the final regulations, the debate is fully joined and pits those who support the principle of states’ rights against the ...
Scalia Defends Torture: It’s ‘Absurd’ To Say The Gov’t Can’t ‘Smack’ A Suspect ‘In The Face, Stick Something Under The Fingernails’
Post Date: 2008-02-14 00:56:49 by Brian S
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Today in an interview with BBC Radio’s Law in Action, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended torture, claiming that it is not necessarily barred by the Constitution: Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited under the Constitution? Because smacking someone in the face would violate the 8th amendment in a prison context. You can’t go around smacking people about. Is it obvious that what can’t be done for punishment can’t be done to exact information that is crucial to this society? It’s not at all an easy question, to tell you the truth. ...
Guantanamo Comes to Main Street U.S.A.
Post Date: 2008-02-13 22:30:30 by richard9151
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12/02/08 "ICH" -- -- They say that the difference between how democracy in Europe has evolved compared to that of the United States is that in Europe the government is afraid of the People whereas in the United States the People are afraid of the government. That's a dangerous state of affairs and it looks like it's going to get worse. It's not only a matter of who you vote for... it's a matter of how well informed you are when you do vote... and Americans now are notorious for not being nearly as well informed as the citizens of many other countries are. So in America, we don't really think that deeply about the range of choices that are or are not available ...
Court Declares Corporations Are People, Some Human Beings Are Not
Post Date: 2008-02-13 22:09:28 by richard9151
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12/02/08 "Reclaim Democracy" - -- - In evaluating allegations that U.S. military forces deprived four British men of human rights during two years they were held captive in Guantanamo Bay prison, a U.S. appeals court found an innovative way to let the Bush administration off the hook. Two of three judges ruled the men -- because they are not U.S. citizens and, technically, were not imprisoned in the U.S. -- were not legally "persons" and, therefore, had no rights to violate. While those judges were defying common sense and decency by denying legal personhood to living human beings, an appeals court in Boston has been reviewing an April 2007 decision by Federal Judge ...
Cop Dumps Paralyzed Man Out of Wheelchair
Post Date: 2008-02-13 21:11:40 by YertleTurtle
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Poster Comment:Soon, one less bad cop.
Following Orders
Post Date: 2008-02-13 21:04:10 by richard9151
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12/02/08 "ICH " -- - If I have my facts straight, Hitler killed only one person in his lifetime: himself. All the other atrocities that are attributed to him were carried out by people who were only following orders. If it is true that the war in Iraq is illegal, as I and others believe it is—including the Secretary General of the United Nations—then all the deaths and atrocities that have occurred to date, inflicted by our coalition forces, are the acts of individuals who, knowingly or unknowingly, with good intentions or not, have been willing to break the law in order to follow the orders of superiors. Each member of the US military took an oath to preserve, protect ...
Rule by fear or rule by law?
Post Date: 2008-02-13 21:01:25 by richard9151
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"Hitler killed only one person in his lifetime: himself. All the other atrocities that are attributed to him were carried out by people who were only following orders" Mark A. Goldman "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." - Winston Churchill, Nov. 21, 1943 12/02/08 "San Francisco Chronicle" -- 04/02/08 -- - Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to ...
Congress Defies Bush Veto Threat, Votes To Outlaw CIA Waterboarding
Post Date: 2008-02-13 20:28:44 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led Congress defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques. On a largely party-line vote of 51-45, the Senate passed a broad intelligence measure earlier approved by the House of Representatives and sent it to President George W. Bush to sign into law. But White House spokesman Tony Fratto said, "For a number of reasons, the president's advisers would recommend a veto of this bill. Parts of this bill are inconsistent with the effective conduct of intelligence gathering." Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the leading Republican presidential candidate ...
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