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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Bush may veto spy measure extension: spokesman (Wants it PERMANENT)
Post Date: 2008-01-29 19:02:29 by robin
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President George W. Bush will veto a 30-day extension of a controversial spying program due to expire February 1, the White House said Tuesday, after months of calling the effort vital to US security. "We would veto a 30-day extension," said spokesman Tony Fratto. "What we want to do is make the law permanent." Bush's Democratic foes, who control the US Congress, say the extension will ensure that there is no "intelligence gap" while lawmakers reconcile rival Senate and House versions of legislation to make the initiative permanent. "What's important for the intelligence community is that they have certainty in the law in order to put in place ...
President Bush Signs H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 into Law (NEW BUSH SIGNING STATEMENT)
Post Date: 2008-01-29 11:47:51 by aristeides
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President Bush Signs H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 into Law Today, I have signed into law H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. The Act authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, for military construction, and for national security-related energy programs. Provisions of the Act, including sections 841, 846, 1079, and 1222, purport to impose requirements that could inhibit the President's ability to carry out his constitutional obligations to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, to protect national security, to supervise the executive branch, and to execute his ...
ANATOMY OF A PANIC: "There are $750 trillion worth of credit derivatives"
Post Date: 2008-01-29 06:42:57 by Uncle Bill
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Anatomy of a Panic Huffington Post By Ron Insana January 28, 2008 The global financial markets have just begun to recover from a financial panic that has driven some 43 stock markets around the world down over 20 percent a piece from their most recent all-time highs. In the parlance of the financial world, that means that there are 43 "bear markets" in stocks occurring simultaneously around d the planet, including a bear market that's mauling Wall Street. The financial market pressure was so intense over the last 48 hours that the Federal Reserve, our nation's famous central bank, took the nearly unprecedented step of slashing short-term interest rates by three-quarters ...
White House Says No to 30-Day Surveillance Law Extension
Post Date: 2008-01-28 15:41:45 by aristeides
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White House Says No to 30-Day Surveillance Law Extension By Tim Starks, CQ Staff The White House on Monday formally threatened to veto a 30-day extension of a temporary law that has broadly expanded President Bush’s surveillance authority. The threat came just hours before the House was set to vote on the measure, and as Bush was set in his State of the Union Address to repeat his demand that Congress make permanent the temporary law (PL 110-55) set to expire Feb. 1. “Patchwork extensions of critical national security tools do not give our intelligence community the long-term certainty they need to do their jobs and protect our nation,” the White House Office of ...
Canine Unit Being Contracted For My Kids' Private School (How Would You Respond? Please Help))
Post Date: 2008-01-28 15:30:11 by IndieTX
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We are contracting with Interquest, a canine unit, which will come onto our campus periodically. Though **** has great kids, we are not immune from drug and alcohol issues. This is the same company that serves the AISD, Nolan, FW Christian, Southwest Christian, etc. If you have any questions, please contact me. --principal
Poster Comment:For some perspective, I'm an ex-cop. I believe marijuana should be legalized. Regardless, I've spent tons of time at their school during school hours, after school hours and at extracuricular events. I know many of the kids. I have NEVER mentally sensed something was up, smelled anything, seen anything, noticed anything but the best behavior among ...
Government the Destroyer
Post Date: 2008-01-28 10:11:38 by christine
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This talk was delivered at the 2008 Mises Circle in Houston. The claim of the Austrian School that has scandalized members of other schools for 150 years is the following. The propositions of economics are universal. The principles apply in all times and all places, because they derive from the structure of reality and human action. What brought about economic growth, inflation, or the business cycle in China 300 BC are the same institutions that drive phenomena in the United States in AD 2008. The circumstances of time and place change, but the underlying economic reality is identical. That claim has made other economists – to say nothing of sociologists, historians, and ...
Reviewing Jennifer Van Bergen's "The Twilight of Democracy"
Post Date: 2008-01-28 06:07:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Reviewing Jennifer Van Bergen's "The Twilight of Democracy" - by Stephen Lendman Jennifer Van Bergen is an author, activist and educator who currently teaches English and writing at Sante Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida. Professionally, she's also a journalist, legal analyst and non-practicing attorney who's written, spoken out and debated widely on Patriot Act justice and other civil liberties issues. Her newest book is titled "Archetypes for Writers: Using the Power of Your Subconscious." It analyzes the component skills writers need to learn about their "own already-existing characters" through a series of exercises in the book. ...
Inflation -- Deflation? What is going on?!
Post Date: 2008-01-27 19:44:50 by richard9151
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Inflation? Deflation? What is going to happen? Having read many of the posts over the last several weeks about inflation and pending deflation or not (the inflation is a given, as it exists), I have come to the conclusion that people simply, really, do not understand the mechanisms in place and how they work. Quite frankly, after reading many of the posts, most of the writers do not understand either! Perhaps, if we were to have a conversation, I could explain a little and help to clear up some of the confusion. Or, perhaps not, but what say we try? OK? I will be me, naturally, and, you will be you, of course! Me; So, with all of this talk about inflation and deflation, you do ...
Why We Must Form a New Nation
Post Date: 2008-01-27 15:08:27 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Why We Must Form a New Nation... Document # 100.0.0.2.......03 of 37.... Subject: Why We Must Form a New Nation... From: "Bob Schulz" bob@givemeliberty.org To: clmmam@digitalusa.net Subject: Dear Government, why won't you answer? One man hungers. A nation prays. As America watches. On July 1, 2001, Bob Schulz, Chairman of the We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, will begin a fast which will continue until he dies or until IRS Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti delivers to him a list of the government's experts who will meet on September 18, 2001, in a public forum, at the National Press Club in Washington DC, with tax law researchers from the tax ...
The Lid On America's Coffin [The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007]
Post Date: 2008-01-27 13:45:07 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Commentary - 12/01/2007 The Lid On America's Coffin [The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007] Quietly, the PATRIOT Act was introduced into the House on October 23, 2001. [Though there were some objections and concerns raised about the legislation, the vote was held under a suspension of the rules to cut short the debate and pass the bill. America's coffin was being built, being opposed by only one vote, the sole dissenting Senator being Russ Feingold. (More below.)] Quietly, H.R. 1955 was passed through the House of Representatives. [Oct 23, 2007: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by roll call vote. The vote was held under a ...
Strike at the Federal Reserve on April 15 2008--
Post Date: 2008-01-27 11:55:06 by gengis gandhi
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Calling for a General Strike against the Illegal Federal Reserve System April 15 2008 Show your support A General Work Stoppage Spend No money that day Wear White armbands to show your support Remove most of your money from the Banks in the days preceeding the Strike
Why America Needs Jury Nullification
Post Date: 2008-01-27 11:23:19 by snoopdougg
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Letters to the EditorRocky Mountain News101 W. Colfax Avenue, Suite 500Denver, CO 80202 Editor:I want to commend Chris Maj on his fine letter of January 24 on the rights of jurors.Jurors’ rights are the most forgotten rights of all. Indeed, from before the Revolution up through the Civil War, jurors had the power to judge not only the facts of a case but also the law pertaining to that particular case. If a juror thought the law under which the defendant was being tried was unconstitutional, unjust, immoral or just plain stupid, that juror could vote to acquit and the defendant would walk. The best example of jury nullification at work can be found with regard to the Fugitive Slave ...
The Bankers Manifesto of 1892
Post Date: 2008-01-26 21:04:15 by richard9151
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Revealed by US Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. from Minnesota before the US Congress sometime during his term of office between the years of 1907 and 1917 to warn the citizens. "We (the bankers) must proceed with caution and guard every move made, for the lower order of people are already showing signs of restless commotion. Prudence will therefore show a policy of apparently yielding to the popular will until our plans are so far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of any organized resistance. The Farmers Alliance and Knights of Labor organizations in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to ...
The Homeland Security Campus: Repress U
Post Date: 2008-01-26 17:02:27 by robin
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The Homeland Security Campus: Repress UBy Michael Gould-WartofskyGlobal Research, January 25, 2008 The Nation Free-speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors. Welcome to the homeland security campus. From Harvard to UCLA, the ivory tower is fast becoming the latest watchtower in Fortress America. The terror warriors, having turned their attention to "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention"--as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives bill of the same name--have set out to reconquer that traditional hotbed of radicalization, the university. Building a homeland security campus and ...
Impeachment: No More Investigations Please !
Post Date: 2008-01-26 16:59:56 by robin
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Impeachment: No More Investigations Please !Kidnapping innocent people, denying justice to prisoners, torturing, murdering, circumventing U.S. and international law...By David SwansonGlobal Research, January 26, 2008 Afterdowningstreet.orgIn a December 31, 2007, editorial, the New York Times faulted the current president and vice president of the United States for kidnapping innocent people, denying justice to prisoners, torturing, murdering, circumventing U.S. and international law, spying in violation of the Fourth Amendment, and basing their actions on "imperial fantasies."Bush's and Cheney's crimes stand open on the table before us. Their lies about Iraqi ties to al ...
How the CIA Inflitrated the DEA
Post Date: 2008-01-26 16:15:21 by robin
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A CounterPunch Special Investigation How the CIA Inflitrated the DEA Operation Two-Fold By DOUGLAS VALENTINE The DEA and its predecessor federal drug law enforcement organizations have always been infiltrated and, to varying degrees, managed by America's intelligence agencies. The reason is simple enough: the US Government has been protecting its drug smuggling allies, especially in organized crime, since trafficking was first criminalized in 1914. Since then drug law enforcement has been a function of national security in its broadest sense; not just protecting our aristocracy from foreign enemies, but preserving the Establishment's racial, religious and class prerogatives. ...
[Chalmers A. Johnson] Republic or empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States
Post Date: 2008-01-26 12:58:59 by robin
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A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States 11. The CIA's website defines a National Intelligence Estimate as “the most authoritative written judgment concerning a national security issue prepared by the Director of Central Intelligence.” These forecasts of “future developments” and “their implications for the United States” seldom are made public, but there are exceptions. One was the NIE of September 2002, “Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction,” which became notorious because virtually every word in it was false. Another, an April 2006 NIE entitled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United ...
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: A LEGENDARY DEPARTMENT IN ROTTEN DECAY
Post Date: 2008-01-26 12:21:57 by richard9151
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For most Americans the Federal Bureau of Investigation ranked up there with motherhood and cherry pie. They were a legend, clean as the fabled hound's tooth - an investigative agency whose work went unchallenged. Like the Canadian Mounties, they always got their man. Their state-of-the art crime laboratories, their sophisticated investigative techniques and the dedication of their agents in the field to leave no stone unturned made them an unparalleled and universally admired law enforcement organization. That's all over now - in the wake of the revelations about their activities in the Oklahoma bombing case they have been shown to be a dangerously unreliable government agency which ...
Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring: Intelligence Agencies to Track Intrusions (ON INTERNET)
Post Date: 2008-01-26 11:00:47 by aristeides
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Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring Intelligence Agencies to Track Intrusions By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 26, 2008; Page A03 President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies' computer systems. The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the intelligence agencies, in particular the National Security Agency, to monitor the computer networks of all federal agencies -- including ones they have not previously monitored. Until now, the government's efforts to protect itself from cyber-attacks ...
NH Secretary of State Calls For Temporary Halt in Republican Hand Count, Candidate Albert Howard Objects
Post Date: 2008-01-25 18:34:50 by angle
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A representative of Republican Albert Howard's New Hampshire hand count called this morning to say that, without giving any specific details, NH SoS office informed them today that "We're gonna have to stop the recount for a couple of days" next week. No reason, other than "legislative business" was given. A few minutes ago, Howard, who had patiently waited for nearly two weeks while NH SoS Bill Gardner began the counting for the Democratic request, claiming they couldn't count the two different primaries at one time (though it seems they couldn't even count one primary at the same time!), sent us the following note, objecting to the delay in counting. ...
Constitution Party
Post Date: 2008-01-25 15:05:52 by FOH
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The Constitution Party The Democrats and Republicans have squandered the Founders' legacy of liberty and justice under the Constitution. Countless government officials in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government ignore their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. Join the Constitution Party in its work to restore our government to its Constitutional limits and our law to its Biblical foundations Seven Principles of the Constitution Party are: 1. Life: For all human beings, from conception to natural death; 2. Liberty: Freedom of conscience and actions for the self-governed individual; 3. Family: One husband and one wife with their children as ...
Senate Rejects Secret Court Measure (FISA)
Post Date: 2008-01-25 14:34:27 by FOH
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday rejected an attempt to expand a secret court's oversight of government eavesdropping, sticking instead with a surveillance bill favored by the White House. The bill, which failed 60-36, would have strengthened the oversight powers of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It would have given the court the authority to monitor and enforce how the government protects the identities of innocent Americans whose communications may be inadvertently collected. The Senate is grappling with a bill written by the Senate Intelligence Committee to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The law, first enacted in 1978, dictates when ...
ENEMIES OF THE STATE
Post Date: 2008-01-25 12:17:12 by richard9151
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October 3, 2004 An excerpt from the book, Whatever Happened To America? In 1917 Woodrow Wilson's Congress enacted the Trading With the Enemy Act to regulate—not forbid—trade with belligerent nations. The language of this piece of legislation defined precisely who was, and who was not, an enemy of the United States. Specifically excluded from that classification were the citizens of the United States. That was an oversight that would be corrected three days after Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the mantle of the presidency on March 6, 1933. During the first 100 days of Roosevelt's administration, Congress passed a litany of legislative programs ostensibly designed to ...
The Prison-Industrial Complex
Post Date: 2008-01-24 20:42:06 by richard9151
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Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars—the majority of them nonviolent offenders—mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers 04/01/08 "The Atlantic" - -- - In the hills east of Sacramento, California, Folsom State Prison stands beside a man-made lake, surrounded by granite walls built by inmate laborers. The gun towers have peaked roofs and Gothic stonework that give the prison the appearance of a medieval fortress, ominous and forbidding. For more than a century Folsom and San Quentin were the end of the line in California's penal system; they were the ...
Feds Charge Man Dangling Nooses With Federal Hate Crime
Post Date: 2008-01-24 20:07:33 by Brian S
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ALEXANDRIA, La.—A white man accused of driving past a group of black civil rights activists with two nooses dangling from the back of his pickup truck has been indicted on federal hate crime and conspiracy charges, federal prosecutors said Thursday. more stories like thisJeremiah Munsen, 18, was arrested in September after driving past a crowd of people who had attended a civil rights march in Jena, about 40 miles northeast of Alexandria, police have said. The Jena march drew an estimated 20,000 protesters, and many stayed in the towns and cities surrounding the tiny town, including Alexandria. The indictment accuses Munsen of conspiring to threaten and intimidate the marchers and ...
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