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US Lawmakers Defy Bush On Wiretap Bill
Post Date: 2008-02-13 19:37:29 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers defied a warning from US President George W. Bush Wednesday to reach a quick decision and agreed to debate a controversial wiretapping law for three more weeks. With the current legislation set to expire on Friday, Bush had pushed for the House of Representatives to follow the Senate's example and pass a new text this week authorizing the tapping of foreign telephone calls and emails. "Time for debate is over. I will not accept any temporary extension. House members have had plenty of time to pass a good bill," Bush said in a statement delivered in the Oval Office. The Senate on Tuesday bowed to pressure and passed the controversial ...
Bush admits telecoms spied
Post Date: 2008-02-13 15:35:41 by aristeides
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Bush admits telecoms spied John Byrne and Nick Juliano Published: Tuesday February 12, 2008 In Oval Office address, president pledges veto of any temporary FISA expansions Well, he finally dropped the "allegedly." President Bush at long last admitted what everyone has suspected for years -- the nation's telecommunications companies closely cooperated with the National Security Agency and his administration to implement large-scale spying on Americans. Bush was praising the Senate for approving his long-sought update to a foreign surveillance law. Critics say the bill legalizes his warrantless wiretapping program, which was implemented outside the boundaries of the law, ...
Bush Rejects Extension of Temporary Electronic Surveillance Law
Post Date: 2008-02-13 12:06:52 by aristeides
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Bush Rejects Extension of Temporary Electronic Surveillance Law By Tim Starks, CQ Staff As the House prepared to consider a 21-day extension of a temporary law governing electronic surveillance, President Bush said Wednesday he would refuse to sign it. House Republicans forced a series of procedural votes in a bid to derail the extension, arguing that the House should simply take up and send to the White House a surveillance overhaul bill (HR 3773) that was passed by the Senate on Tuesday. The extension (HR 5349) is designed to give House and Senate conferees time to resolve their differences over the long-term legislation overhauling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. A ...
Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
Post Date: 2008-02-13 10:54:42 by Indrid Cold
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This morning I’ll be escorting my wife to the hospital, where the doctors will perform a caesarean section to remove our first child. She didn’t want to do it this way – neither of us did – but sometimes the Fates decide otherwise. The Fates or, in our case, government employees. On the morning of October 26th Mary and I entered Portland International Airport, en route to the Las Vegas wedding of one of my best friends. Although we live in Los Angeles, we’d been in Oregon working on a film, and up to that point had had nothing but praise to shower on the city of Portland, a refreshing change of pace from our own suffocating metropolis. At the security checkpoint I ...
Egomaniac Thug Cop Assaults 14 Year Old Kid
Post Date: 2008-02-12 21:36:35 by robin
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Is it a man? Is it a dude? No, it's officer Rivieri of the Baltimore Police Department who is the latest small membered thug cop to believe that it is his duty to go around bullying and wrestling discipline into innocent children. Unfortunately for this PC podge, he is also the latest cop caught on camera and made famous by Youtube. On the video, the officer, Salvatore Rivieri, puts the boy in a headlock, pushes him to the ground, questions his upbringing, threatens to "smack" him and repeatedly accuses the youngster of showing disrespect because the youth refers to the officer as "man" and "dude." reports the Baltimore Sun. "I'm talking to you, ...
Retroactive Telecom Immunity Passed - Roll Call
Post Date: 2008-02-12 16:28:10 by angle
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U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress - 2nd Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate See link above. To call your worthless POS Senator who voted for this: nevermind...ain't gonna make a damn bit of difference.
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk: Second Amendment Battle in DC
Post Date: 2008-02-12 12:46:39 by Brian S
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As a United States Congressman, I take my oath to uphold all of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights very seriously. Unfortunately, too many in Washington DC believe they can pick-and-choose which provisions of the constitution they can uphold. For example, many politicians, judges, and bureaucrats believe they have the power to disregard our right to own guns, even though the second amendment explicitly guarantees the people's right to "keep and bear arms." Like the Founding Fathers, I believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to a free society. Where law-abiding citizens are most freely allowed to defend themselves, communities are safer, while crime ...
US: Police Set To Search Homes For Guns Without A Warrant
Post Date: 2008-02-11 12:30:01 by Brian S
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As Boston police prepare to go into some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, knock on doors of private houses, and ask if they can search for illegal guns without a warrant, officials are trying to pitch the idea of the plan as friendly cooperation to residents who still see it as a threatening intrusion. more stories like this Man fatally shot on Dorchester street on way to work Man, 35, fatally shot on Dorchester street Murray blasts anti-Clinton stands by men Dorchester man indicted in shopowner's slaying Boston police arrest over 80 people in weekend crime sweep A friendly looking logo - a drawing of a house surrounded by the sun - adorns the brochure police have ...
San Francisco Chronicle Acknowledges ENDGAME By Homeland Security
Post Date: 2008-02-11 10:33:19 by robin
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In a rare breath of fresh air, The San Francisco Chronicle has now written an article confirming concentration camps in the United Sates and the possible impact of “Endgame” - and based on the few comments that were made, people don’t want to believe the truth. Unfortunately, Americans are acting the same as the Jews, disabled, and dissidents did during Hitler’s Third Reich, always believing it could never happen to them… When presented with the evidence that our own government is readying itself to imprison hundreds of thousands, or even millions of patriotic Americans that refuse to support a criminal and perhaps mentally unbalanced President LINK LINK - the ...
Mayor kicks Marines out of Toledo (1-24th Marines were scheduled for weekend urban warfare training in downtown Toledo, when Carty gave them the boot)
Post Date: 2008-02-10 23:20:39 by _______
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TOLEDO, OH -- Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was supposed to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown.The mayor’s spokesperson, Brian Schwartz said, “The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people. He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area."Toledo police said they knew about the training and had approved the unit’s use of the Madison Building and the Promenade Park area. The training was scheduled to start Friday afternoon and last until Sunday. Police said the unit’s presence would ...
OAKLAND, CA: Police Collect (buyback) More Than 1,000 Weapons
Post Date: 2008-02-10 19:39:43 by Brian S
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Soon after Oakland streets again exploded in violence, police collected more than 1,000 handguns and assault weapons Saturday in three no-questions-asked buyback events. State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, who was carjacked at gunpoint Dec. 29 in North Oakland, was the first to surrender a gun. He gave police the handgun he bought 15 years ago after receiving death threats during his fight to ban assault weapons. "There's too many damn guns in our society, and they're too easy to get," he said at the buyback event at Allen Temple in East Oakland. "The fact is, if I had reached for that gun when I was being carjacked, I'd be dead right now. ...
Waterboarding for God and Country
Post Date: 2008-02-10 16:47:23 by richard9151
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"They are torturing people. They are torturing people on Guantanamo Bay. They are engaging in acts which amount to torture in the medieval sense of the phrase. They are engaging in good old-fashioned torture, as people would have understood it in the Dark Ages". Richard Bourke, Australian attorney "We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country". George W. Bush [Interview with Australian TV - October 18, 2003] [torture] "presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others' suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the ...
BUSH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: WHAT CONSTITUTION?
Post Date: 2008-02-09 21:04:06 by robin
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The Solicitor General, Paul D. Clement, of the United States is the lawyer for the Justice Department. On January 11, Clement dropped a bomb designed to destroy the Second Amendment. The bomb was a friend of the court brief that is a marvelous work of Newspeak as described by George Orwell in his novel of a horrifying future where words mean the opposite of their original definitions. On the one hand, the brief argues that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms that predated the creation of the U.S. government by the people. On the other hand, it concludes that any and all guns can be controlled or banned if a federal court finds that to be reasonable ...
Hayden Admits: Contractors Lead 'Enhanced Interrogations' at CIA Black Sites
Post Date: 2008-02-09 19:46:02 by Horse
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In testimony before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, Director of Central Intelligence Mike Hayden admitted to using contractors for "enhanced interrogation" at the CIA's secret prisons, the so-called black sites. It was an issue first raised last summer on The Spy Who Billed Me. From Tuesday's exchange: FEINSTEIN: I'd like to ask this question: Who carries out these [enhanced interrogation] techniques? Are they government employees or contractors? HAYDEN: At our facilities during this, we have a mix of both government employees and contractors. Everything is done under, as we've talked before, ma'am, under my authority and the authority of the ...
Martial-Law Enforcement Has Been Privatized!
Post Date: 2008-02-09 11:29:53 by Zoroaster
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Martial-Law Enforcement Has Been Privatized! Jim Kirwan 2-8-8 "Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does-and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to "shoot to kill" in the event of martial law. InfraGard is "a child of the ...
"67 Million People Don't File Income Tax Returns" - Sherry Jackson, Former IRS Agent - They'll Have To If They Want The "Rebate"
Post Date: 2008-02-08 22:31:47 by Uncle Bill
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"67 Million People Don't File Income Tax Returns" Internal Revenue Service Whistleblowers Q: What do you have to do to get the rebate? A: Eligible people must file a 2007 tax return with a Social Security number for each person listed.
The FBI Deputizes Business
Post Date: 2008-02-08 21:36:07 by robin
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Published on Thursday, February 7, 2008 by The Progressive The FBI Deputizes Business by Matthew Rothschild Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does-and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law. ...
The Torture State's Domestic Face
Post Date: 2008-02-08 10:35:01 by robin
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Caveat Lector: The following essay includes exceptionally disturbing video footage and one very offensive photograph. They are both indispensable to the story told below.An additional note: Literally minutes after I posted this essay, the embedded videos of Hope Steffey's molestation were removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim by the television station that originally aired them. The video is still available here.This sort of thing isn't supposed to happen -- at least not to attractive, middle-class, middle-aged American women.We've become at least somewhat inured to the spectacle of sadistic violence being inflicted on dusky-skinned foreign terrorist suspects, or the ...
The Case for Impeachment
Post Date: 2008-02-08 06:48:53 by Ada
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Raoul Berger, Impeachment: An Instrument of Regeneration, Harper’s Magazine, January 1974. As the final eleven months of the Bush Administration are being counted off in Washington, the accepted wisdom is that impeachment must be taken off the table. The end is now so close by—what’s the point? Moreover, the American people would, we are told, view it as an act of over zealous partisanship, and would strike back at the polls. But these responses reflect a misunderstanding of the role that impeachment has historically played in the American democracy, and the English roots of impeachment as a constitutional device. They see in impeachment a measure which is purely ad ...
I TRIED TO OPEN LINKS ABOUT AN FBI AGENT....
Post Date: 2008-02-07 18:51:51 by HOUNDDAWG
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There was a link Entitled "EX GALLUP FBI AGENT GUILTY OF FRAUD" on WRH, and it wouldn't open so I GOOGLED it, and found five more that also won't open. When I returned to WRH my screen was distorted and nearly unreadable, and my computer suddenly became very "user unfriendly." The same problems prevented me from researching Bush's "war record" (THIRTY SECONDS OVER HOUSTON!) about a month ago. The FBI story has been removed from WRH, and even the search functions on WRH and GOOGLE take too long to find the links that won't open. (link below) Do you suppose that our tax dollars pay spooks to discourage the reading of certain news items? This ...
Bush 'kills' Freedom of Information Act compliance officer (position)
Post Date: 2008-02-07 12:15:40 by robin
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Buried on page A17 of Wednesday's Washington Post is a bit of a non-surprise: President George W. Bush has effectively killed a position monitoring compliance with government efforts to release documents. Late last year, Washington watchdogs won over a reluctant President Bush, who agreed to sign a law enforcing better compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. "But in his budget request this week," the Post's Elizabeth Williamson writes, "Bush proposed shifting a newly created ombudsman's position from the National Archives and Records Administration to the Department of Justice. Because the ombudsman would be the chief monitor of compliance with the new ...
A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.''
Post Date: 2008-02-07 12:04:50 by richard9151
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"Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.'' -- Arthur S. Miller George Washington University Professor of Law quotes.liberty-tree.ca/qu.../Arthur.Miller.Quote.4FAE "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the [public] is an important element in democratic society. Those who ...
In search for foreign intelligence, spies turn to YouTube, MySpace, blogs
Post Date: 2008-02-07 11:13:32 by robin
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With rapidly advancing technology spreading across the globe, US spies are shifting their focus from surreptitiously photographing secret Soviet documents to trolling the Internet for what could be the next key nugget of foreign intelligence. Among the most valuable sources, one top spook says, are blogs, MySpace and other Web 2.0 hallmarks. "We're looking now at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence," Doug Naquin, director of the CIA's Open Source Center said in a recent speech to CIA retirees. The speech was posted this week on SecrecyNews, the blog of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy. "I ...
Senate Rejects Four-Year FISA Sunset; Immunity Issues Irk House’s Hoyer
Post Date: 2008-02-07 10:41:55 by aristeides
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Senate Rejects Four-Year FISA Sunset; Immunity Issues Irk House’s Hoyer By Edward Epstein and Tim Starks, CQ Staff The Senate on Wednesday rejected an amendment to electronic surveillance legislation that would have moved up the bill’s expiration date to four years. The underlying bill (S 2248) to overhaul the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would sunset in six years. The effort to shorten the bill’s lifespan by two years failed, 49-46. Under an agreement governing consideration of all but one of the amendments to the bill, that proposal would have needed 60 votes for adoption. “I think it’s very important that the next administration focus on this ...
Colbert: Waterboarding would be adorable if giraffe was involved
Post Date: 2008-02-06 17:56:03 by robin
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Stephen Colbert announced at the start of a segment on waterboarding that he was determined to begin with something "uplifting and cheerful," which he provided in the form of video of an adorable new-born giraffe in a British zoo.
Colbert then turned directly to "another cheerful story," reporting that "Attorney General Michael Mukasey was called before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week to answer questions as to whether waterboarding is torture."
Drawing a comparison between the picture of the baby giraffe being fed from a bottle and familiar images of waterboarding, Colbert suggested, "Just switch out the giraffe's head for a terrorist's, stuff a rag in his mouth, and put ...
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