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New York State has begun an official inquiry into Suffolk County law enforcement’s handling of the investigation into the 1988 murders of a Long Island couple
Post Date: 2007-12-29 10:18:07 by PSUSA
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New York State has begun an official inquiry into Suffolk County law enforcement’s handling of the investigation into the 1988 murders of a Long Island couple, Arlene and Seymour Tankleff, according to people involved with the inquiry. Skip to next paragraph Kirk Condyles for The New York Times Martin Tankleff at a bail hearing before he was released. The inquiry began quietly more than a year ago when the State Investigation Commission started gathering legal documents in the long-disputed case, people familiar with the inquiry said. The Tankleffs were fatally bludgeoned and slashed in their home in Belle Terre overlooking Long Island Sound. Their son, Martin, was imprisoned after ...
Oregon domestic partnership law halted
Post Date: 2007-12-29 01:09:59 by richard9151
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Fri Dec 28, 8:17 PM ET PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal judge on Friday placed on hold a state domestic partnership law that was set to take effect Jan. 1, pending a February hearing. The law would give some spousal rights to same-sex couples. Opponents asked U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman to intercede after the Oregon secretary of state's office ruled in October that they had failed to collect enough valid signatures on a referendum to block the law. The Oregon measure covers benefits related to inheritance rights, child-rearing and custody, joint state tax filings, joint health, auto and homeowners insurance policies, visitation rights at hospitals and others. It does not affect ...
TSA's new forbidden item: >2 gm lithium batteries
Post Date: 2007-12-28 20:55:07 by Zipporah
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The TSA has discovered that on January 1st, 2008 lithium batteries are going to become more dangerous than they were on December 31, 2007. Thankfully, they've taken action by forbidding them beginning in 2008. Lithium Metal Battery, Spare or Installed (over 2 grams lithium): In checked bag? ForbiddenCarry-on? Forbidden The Department of Transportation's web site doesn't say why they're forbidden. They just are. Link
Creeping Fascism: History's Lessons
Post Date: 2007-12-28 19:49:11 by richard9151
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Creeping Fascism: From Nazi Germany to Post 9/11 America
By Ray McGovern, Consortium News
Posted on December 29, 2007, Printed on January 6, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/71881/
"There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the theater ... Perhaps the only comparably odd thing is the way that now, years later ..."
These are the words of Sebastian Haffner (pen name for Raimund Pretzel), who as a young lawyer in Berlin during the 1930s experienced the Nazi takeover and wrote a firsthand account. His children found the manuscript when he ...
Paul Craig Roberts: We Are All Prisoners Now
Post Date: 2007-12-27 18:23:26 by Zipporah
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We Are All Prisoners Now By Paul Craig Roberts “They’re locking them up today They’re throwing away the key I wonder who it’ll be tomorrow, you or me?” The Red Telephone (LOVE, 1967) At Christmas time it has been my habit to write a column in remembrance of the many innocent people in prisons whose lives have been stolen by the US criminal justice (sic) system that is as inhumane as it is indifferent to justice. Usually I retell the cases of William Strong and Christophe Gaynor, two men framed in the state of Virginia by prosecutors and judges as wicked and corrupt as any who served Hitler or Stalin. This year is different. All Americans are now imprisoned ...
We Are All Prisoners Now
Post Date: 2007-12-27 05:48:37 by Ada
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"They’re locking them up today They’re throwing away the key I wonder who it’ll be tomorrow, you or me?" ~ The Red Telephone (LOVE, 1967) At Christmas time it has been my habit to write a column in remembrance of the many innocent people in prisons whose lives have been stolen by the US criminal justice (sic) system that is as inhumane as it is indifferent to justice. Usually I retell the cases of William Strong and Christophe Gaynor, two men framed in the state of Virginia by prosecutors and judges as wicked and corrupt as any who served Hitler or Stalin. This year is different. All Americans are now imprisoned in a world of lies and deception created by the Bush ...
The Pretender
Post Date: 2007-12-26 21:01:04 by buckeye
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Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark
And so it all began
Send in your skeletons
Sing as their bones come marching in...again
They need you buried deep
The secrets that you keep are at the ready
Are you ready?
I'm finished making sense
Done pleading ignorance
That whole...defense
Spinning infinity, boy
The wheel is spinning me
It's never-ending, never-ending
Same old story
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?
What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of ...
Gun Seized After Katrina? NRA Wants You
Post Date: 2007-12-26 19:07:44 by Brian S
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(12-26) 15:59 PST New Orleans (AP) -- The National Rifle Association has hired private investigators to find hundreds of people whose firearms were seized by city police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to court papers filed this week. The NRA is trying to locate gun owners for a federal lawsuit that the lobbying group filed against Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley over the city's seizure of firearms after the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane. In the lawsuit, the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation claim the city violated gun owners' constitutional right to bear arms and left them "at the mercy of roving gangs, home invaders, and other ...
We Are All Prisoners Now
Post Date: 2007-12-26 18:36:17 by richard9151
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“They’re locking them up today They’re throwing away the key I wonder who it’ll be tomorrow, you or me?” The Red Telephone (LOVE, 1967) 12/26/07 "ICH" -- - At Christmas time it has been my habit to write a column in remembrance of the many innocent people in prisons whose lives have been stolen by the US criminal justice (sic) system that is as inhumane as it is indifferent to justice. Usually I retell the cases of William Strong and Christophe Gaynor, two men framed in the state of Virginia by prosecutors and judges as wicked and corrupt as any who served Hitler or Stalin. This year is different. All Americans are now imprisoned in a world of lies ...
OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS BY THE SURVIVORS OF THE USS LIBERTY
Post Date: 2007-12-26 15:49:49 by robin
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OPEN LETTER TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS BY THE SURVIVORS OF THE USS LIBERTYDecember 26, 2007I have been writing letters to our elected officials for the past 20 years, trying to get a congressional investigation into the deliberate attack on the USS LIBERTY on June 8, 1967 by the government of Israel. This atrocity and cold-blooded murder of America’s sons on the high seas was an act of war against the United States of America, not to mention the numerous war crimes committed against the crew of the USS LIBERTY.Being that this is America where there exists at least a small shred of freedom, including freedom of speech and the right of redress to our government, let me speak to you ...
Newspaper Reporter Arrested Covering Story
Post Date: 2007-12-26 13:46:44 by robin
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Newspaper Reporter Arrested Covering Story By Bill Lawson Maumelle Monitor Editor's Note: This is a first-person account of Bill Lawson's arrest by a state trooper while attempting to take pictures at a house fire in Maumelle on Monday evening. MAUMELLE -- Having lived 59 years, battled cancer, worn the country's uniform for 26 years and proudly worked as a journalist -- a profession I always admired -- I thought I'd seen it all. That is until Monday night, when I was arrested and charged with a criminal offense just for trying to do my job and take photos of a residential fire in Maumelle. Being arrested, searched, having my camera, reporter's notebook and billfold ...
Green Bay - Police Begin Fingerprinting on Traffic Stops
Post Date: 2007-12-25 13:47:00 by robin
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If you're ticketed by Green Bay police, you'll get more than a fine. You'll get fingerprinted, too. It's a new way police are cracking down on crime. If you're caught speeding or playing your music too loud, or other crimes for which you might receive a citation, Green Bay police officers will ask for your drivers license and your finger. You'll be fingerprinted right there on the spot. The fingerprint appears right next to the amount of the fine. Police say it's meant to protect you -- in case the person they're citing isn't who they claim to be. But not everyone is sold on that explanation. "What we've seen happen for the last couple of ...
Blackwater critics to Pentagon: Don't say we didn't warn you
Post Date: 2007-12-25 13:06:58 by robin
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Blackwater critics to Pentagon: Don't say we didn't warn you12/24/2007 @ 11:02 am Filed by Jason Rhyne Defense and legal experts issued two years worth of warnings to the Pentagon about its heavy reliance on Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms in Iraq -- and watched as the Defense Department continued to expand its use of the contractors, according to a new report. In a series of memos, letters and in-person meetings with high-level officials in the US and Iraq, critics had warned of a "lack of control" over the private guards, writes the the Washington Post's Steve Fainaru. But despite a growing number of incidents in which Blackwater ...
FCC chief defends media ownership plan
Post Date: 2007-12-24 22:43:53 by richard9151
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52 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is disputing Democratic assertions that a new rule loosening restrictions on media ownership is full of loopholes and will lead to a wave of mergers and fewer choices for consumers. Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps described the commission's decision approving the measure as "one that would make George Orwell proud," referring to the English author best known for his novels critiquing totalitarianism and for popularizing the phrase "Big Brother is watching you." FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said the commission action was a "relatively minor loosening" of a ...
Bush's Class Warfare
Post Date: 2007-12-23 20:36:39 by richard9151
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12/23/07 "Huffington Post" -- - Just a week before Christmas, President Bush gave corporate America two big presents. On Tuesday, his Federal Communications Commission changed the rules to allow the nation's giant conglomerates to further consolidate their grip on the media by permitting them to purchase TV and radio stations in the same local markets where they already own daily newspapers. As a gift to the country's automobile industry, Bush's Environmental Protection Agency ruled Wednesday, over the objections of the agency's staff, that California, the nation's largest and most polluted state, and 16 other states, can't impose regulations to limit ...
CIA chief to drag White House into torture cover-up storm (SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON)
Post Date: 2007-12-23 09:43:15 by aristeides
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CIA chief to drag White House into torture cover-up storm Sarah Baxter THE CIA chief who ordered the destruction of secret videotapes recording the harsh interrogation of two top Al-Qaeda suspects has indicated he may seek immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying before the House intelligence committee. Jose Rodriguez, former head of the CIA’s clandestine service, is determined not to become the fall guy in the controversy over the CIA’s use of torture, according to intelligence sources. It has emerged that at least four White House staff were approached for advice about the tapes, including David Addington, a senior aide to Dick Cheney, the vice-president, but ...
You Only Think You Own Much Of Anything
Post Date: 2007-12-22 23:07:56 by robin
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Here's the bottom line on the ever-expanding asset-forfeiture laws in Amerika: Travel with more than a couple thousand dollars and it will be seized if found and you will pay hell in getting it back - we're familiar with this scenario, of course. Now, even your home cash/gold/silver/food stash is in danger when found by authorities, who may legally assume it is theirs unless you can "prove" you earned it. See the article below for an example of the current status of asset forfeiture laws. Logical extension: Can you "prove" your wife's wedding ring is yours? Can you "prove" much of anything you possess is yours? I'm not sure what to call this ...
Report: Hoover had plan for mass arrests
Post Date: 2007-12-22 18:30:08 by richard9151
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Sat Dec 22, 3:02 PM ET WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document. Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in military and federal prisons. Hoover had wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests necessary to "protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage," The New York Times ...
VIDEO: Jamie Leigh Jones takes her Halliburton gang rape account to the House Judiciary Committee
Post Date: 2007-12-22 13:43:40 by robin
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VIDEO: Jamie Leigh Jones takes her Halliburton gang rape account to the House Judiciary Committee12/20/2007 @ 8:42 pm Filed by Nick Langewis Jamie Leigh Jones, former KBR employee and founder of the Jamie Leigh Foundation, testified to the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about the events, and the aftermath, of a 2005 assault that she charges took place at the hands of her coworkers while she was working in Iraq. Documented evidence of the drugging and gang rape by fellow KBR contractors, as obtained directly from KBR, a division of Halliburton, and the U.S. Army, was offered to the Committee along with her testimony. A private arbitration agreement threatens to block legal recourse ...
Hearing Impaired Man Tased by Police
Post Date: 2007-12-22 13:35:16 by robin
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(Wichita, KS) Donnell Williams had just gotten out of the bath tub, wearing only a towel around his waist, when he turned the corner to see guns pointing right at him. "I ain't never been so scared," says Williams. Police forced entry into Williams home while responding to a shooting, but it turned out to be a false call. They had no idea at the time the call wasn't real and that Williams is hearing impaired. Without his hearing aid he is basically deaf. "I kept going to my ear yelling that I was scared. I can't hear! I can't hear!" Officers were worried about their own safety because at the time it appeared Williams was refusing to obey their ...
Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sought to suspend habeas corpus
Post Date: 2007-12-22 13:21:36 by robin
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12/22/2007 @ 12:52 pm Filed by RAW STORY According to a newly declassified document, the New York Times reports, a plan by former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sought to suspend habeas corpus during wartime, with the intention of imprisoning thousands of Americans indefinitely. Hoover's plan was submitted to the White House twelve days after the start of the Korean War. Under the plan, approximately 12,000 people deemed as "potentially dangerous" to national security, 97% of whom were American citizens, would have been rounded up and sent to military prisons without due process. # EXCERPTS: The prisoners eventually would have had a right to a hearing under the Hoover ...
The Skeleton in Uncle Sam's Closet -- Hartford Van Dyke and the Truth About Pearl Harbor
Post Date: 2007-12-22 11:35:39 by richard9151
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"We knew well in advance that the Japanese were going to attack. It was a lie that we didn't have direct radio communication with Washington DC." Lt. Col. Clifford M. Andrew The opening line to a rare 1975 document entitled The Skeleton in Uncle Sam's Closet reads, "I am Hartford Van Dyke, a Non Union lawyer. I have become sensitive to political situations because my family was involuntarily involved in the treasonous murder of 4000 men1 at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. My relatives knew it was going to happen beforehand." In a letter to Paranoia dated December 17, 2003, Hartford Van Dyke provided a history of the publication of this important document, ...
More on the Great Seal of the United States
Post Date: 2007-12-22 11:28:42 by richard9151
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Go to the site for pictures of the Great Seal. Many companies use the pyramid within their logos. James Walker, a 32º Mason, shares some facts with us about the above symbols: 13 leaves in the olive branch 13 bars and stripes in the shield 13 arrows in the right claw 13 letters in the "E Pluribus Unum" on the ribbon 13 stars in the green crest above 32 long feathers on its right wing representing the 32º in Freemasonry 13 granite stones in the Pyramid. (The 13 layers represent the 13 Illuminati bloodlines) 13 letters in Annuit Coeptis It should also be noted that the Eagle has 32 feathers right wing, but 33 in its left wing. The 32 feathers representing the ...
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics
Post Date: 2007-12-22 09:49:37 by gengis gandhi
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FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics $1 Billion Project to Include Images of Irises and Faces By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 22, 2007; Page A01 CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad. Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled, secure basement here. Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would significantly expand the ...
Judge delays decision on CIA inquiry
Post Date: 2007-12-21 19:21:07 by richard9151
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17 minutes ago WASHINGTON - A federal judge appeared reluctant Friday to press for details about the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes while the Justice Department is conducting its own inquiry. U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy is considering whether to schedule a hearing to delve into the matter and, if so, how deeply to probe the spy agency. The Bush administration is urging him to back off while it investigates. "Why should the court not permit the Department of Justice to do just that?" Kennedy asked at a court hearing. The hearing marked the first time the administration has been forced into court about the matter since the CIA disclosed this month ...
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