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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Wi fi providers turned into spooks
Post Date: 2007-12-07 12:12:35 by christine
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THE former colony of Virgina, which revolted against British rule so its denizens could be 'free', has just passed a law ordering its citizens with wi-fi to monitor the web or face a fine. The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that demands that anyone who has an open wi-fi connection to the public must tell the police about any illegal child porn, or "obscene" cartoons and drawings. If they do not monitor the content, or allow material to be stored, they will be fined $300,000. The shanghaied spooks will be anyone who provides Wi-Fi for customers or even left their wi-fi connection open for war chalkers to use. If you own a wi-fi connection you are ...
Schedule crunch precludes congressional delegation to Bali (BUT LARRY CRAIG ALREADY THERE)
Post Date: 2007-12-07 11:42:10 by aristeides
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Schedule crunch precludes codel to Bali By Mike Soraghan | Posted: 12/06/07 2:34 PM [ET] December 06, 2007 The combined crush of energy and global warming legislation before Congress is having one immediate impact before the bills even pass. Work on the measures forced Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) to cancel their congressional delegation trip (codel) to Bali for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. “Senate business has required Sen. Boxer to stay in Washington,” said a Senate staffer. Markey’s staff indicated similar issues led to his decision to stay stateside. The Bali conference started Dec. 3 and runs through ...
Blackwater's Bu$ine$$
Post Date: 2007-12-07 09:54:29 by richard9151
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12/06/07 "The Nation" -- -- Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled "criminal." Multiple Congressional investigations. A federal grand jury. Allegations of illegal arms smuggling. Wrongful death lawsuits brought by families of dead employees and US soldiers. A federal lawsuit alleging war crimes. Charges of steroid use by trigger-happy mercenaries. Allegations of "significant tax evasion." The US-installed government in Iraq labeling its forces "murderers." With a new scandal breaking practically every day, one would think Blackwater security would be on the ropes, facing a corporate meltdown or even a total ...
Christian Right Just Doesn't Get It -- BALDWIN!!!
Post Date: 2007-12-07 00:58:01 by snoopdougg
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These are people I have known most of my life. They are my friends. I have spoken at their gatherings and rallies, participated in their discussions, and prayed with them. Of course, I'm talking about the fine men and women who can be categorized as the Christian Right. On the whole, we share the same values and principles. We are pro-life; we stand for marriage as God defined it; we believe in the right to keep and bear arms; we support capital punishment (albeit I will be the first to admit that there are many inequities in the application of capital punishment that desperately need to be rectified); we believe children should have the right to pray in school; we believe former ...
Stars & Stripes: Helping inform candidates’ views on torture
Post Date: 2007-12-06 22:02:16 by Zipporah
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Opinion: Helping inform candidates’ views on torture By Joseph P. Hoar, and David M. Maddox, Special to Stars and StripesPacific edition, Thursday, December 6, 2007 We have watched with growing concern over the last several months the manner in which the issue of torture has been raised in the presidential campaign — in debates and on the campaign trail. We recognize that campaigns are often more about scoring points against opponents than responsibly staking out affirmative positions. In too many instances, the debate about interrogation methods and prisoner treatment has lacked an understanding about the impact that torture (or as some have termed it, “enhanced ...
Detainee Attorney: Guantanamo Legal Mess To Last 'For Years To Come'
Post Date: 2007-12-06 21:50:02 by Zipporah
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Yesterday the Supreme Court heard arguments in what may be the most important constitutional case of the decade: whether the men detained at Guantanamo have a right to a fair trial before a real court. I spoke with Erwin Chemerinsky about the case. A professor of law at Duke, and Dean of the new UC Irvine law school, Chemerinsky represents one of the Gitmo detainees whose case is before the court, Salem Gherebi. At issue is the Military Commissions Act, passed by Congress in 2006. Chemerinsky called it "one of the worst laws in all of American history with regard to civil liberties." The provision before the court yesterday says that no non-citizen held as an enemy combatant ...
Sibel Edmonds update {with videos!}
Post Date: 2007-12-06 18:40:09 by Zipporah
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Sibel Edmonds update (with videos!)by lukery Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 07:37:55 AM PSTFormer FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has offered to tell us everything she knows - regarding illegal weapons sales, money laundering, drug trafficking, nuclear black market, terrorism and the corruption of the US Govt - if one of the major broadcast networks will let her tell her story. Not surprisingly, the silence from the corporate media is still deafening, but I've got some other tidbits for you while we wait. And wait. And wait. lukery's diary :: :: First up, I've put together three new YouTube videos on Sibel's case. The first is called "Sibel Edmonds, Greatest Hits." It's ...
C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations
Post Date: 2007-12-06 18:00:54 by aristeides
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C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations By MARK MAZZETTI Published: December 6, 2007 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives in the agency’s custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about the C.I.A’s secret detention program, according to current and former government officials. The videotapes showed agency operatives in 2002 subjecting terror suspects — including Abu Zubaydah, the first detainee in C.I.A. custody — to severe interrogation techniques. They were destroyed in part because officers were concerned that ...
Is our government legitimate?
Post Date: 2007-12-06 09:55:16 by richard9151
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Buried in section 111 of Title I, "Miscellaneous Provisions and Offsets," of Division J, "Other Matters," in H.R. 4818, "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005," which became Public Law 108-447 on December 8, 2004, is the congressional decree that redesignates September 17th as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day instead of what was just Citizenship Day. This law requires the head of each federal agency or department to provide: - each new employee of the agency or department with educational and training materials concerning the U.S. Constitution as part of the orientation materials provided the new employee; and - educational and training materials ...
Extended Tenure for Some Temporary Federal Judges
Post Date: 2007-12-05 15:41:24 by aristeides
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Extended Tenure for Some Temporary Federal Judges By Kathleen Hunter, CQ Staff Legislation that would extend some temporary district court judgeships passed the Senate on Tuesday. The bill (S 1327), which passed by voice vote, would add at least 10 years to temporary judgeships in Hawaii, Kansas and the northern district of Ohio. It also would temporarily add, for at least a decade, an additional district judge in Nebraska and one in the eastern district of California. The Judiciary Committee approved the legislation, sponsored by Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., by voice vote May 24. During the committee markup, Arizona Republican Jon Kyl considered offering an amendment to add ...
America is going fascist
Post Date: 2007-12-05 10:49:43 by richard9151
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The signs are all there for anyone to see, and time is getting short for action By Michael Nenonen 12/04/07 "The Republic" -- -- Reading Naomi Wolf’s The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007), I realized the hour is later than I thought. Many of us have watched the Bush regime’s actions with a growing feeling of horror intertwined with a sense that somehow we’ve seen all of this before, but we aren’t sure where. We’re confused because what we’re seeing conflicts with unexamined and deeply held assumptions we have about American freedom. Wolf’s short but meticulously documented book shows that ...
Timeline of Bill of Rights under Bush
Post Date: 2007-12-04 21:39:06 by Zipporah
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Phil Leggiere, writing for QuestionAuthority, has complied a timeline of the fate of the Bill of Rights under Bush. Spring 2001 Bush administration order authorizes NSA monitoring of domestic phone and internet traffic. Link May 2001 US Supreme Court rules that medical necessity is not a permissible defense against federal marijuana statutes. Link October 2006 John Warner Defense Authorization Act is passed. The act allows a president to declare a public emergency and station US military troops anywhere in America as well as take control of state based national guard units without consent of the governor or other local authorities. The law authorizes presidential deployment of US ...
Fox won't air pro-constitution ad
Post Date: 2007-12-03 23:58:04 by kiki
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Fox News has refused to air an ad produced by the Center for Constitutional Rights that criticizes the Bush administration for "destroying the Constitution" by the use of renditions, torture, and other tactics. The ad, "Rescue the Constitution," which is narrated by actor Danny Glover, can be viewed here and here. In an email provided to Media Matters for America by the Center, Fox News account executive Erin Kelly told Owen Henkel, the Center's e-communications manager, that Fox would not run the ad: Hi Owen -- We cannot approve the spot with it being Danny Glover's opinion that the Bush Administration is destroying the Constitution. If you have ...
Reason TV: paramilitary raid on veterans' poker game
Post Date: 2007-12-03 18:47:36 by Zipporah
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Recently, Dallas police staged a paramilitary-style raid on a poker game at a Veterans of Foreign Wars Post. Here's a video from Reason.tv hosted by Drew Carey, that looks into the raid and the subsequent closure of the post. "Poker is about as American as baseball and apple pie," Carey says in the Reason.tv video. "It was born here in America. Mark Twain loved it. He's a great American. Until recently, Supreme Court justices had a monthly game. They're great Americans. You'd think playing poker in a VFW hall would be about as American as anything you could do." "This story highlights the hypocrisy that surrounds gambling in this ...
CREW: White House lost at least 10 million e-mails
Post Date: 2007-12-03 15:29:38 by robin
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Doubles previous estimate of extent of communications improperly deleted They could be anything from spam offering male enhancement to furtive exchanges of political strategy with convicted lobbyists, but observers say the White House deleted more than twice as many e-mails as previous estimates, bringing the total number of missing communications involving administration aides like Karl Rove and others to higher than 10 million. Anne Weismann, the top lawyer for a watchdog group suing the White House, said sources close to Congressional and private investigations doubled previous estimates of the number of deleted e-mails. "I will tell you, by the way, that it's way higher than ...
White House Obstructing Plame Investigation
Post Date: 2007-12-03 15:16:42 by robin
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The Bush Administration is actively blocking Congress' investigation into the outing of once-covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to House Oversight Committee chairman Henry Waxman. In a letter sent today to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Waxman notes that "White House objections are preventing Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald from disclosing key information to investigating officials." Among the documents being withheld are interviews taken from White House officers during Fitzgerald's investigation into the leak of Plame's identity. "Over the summer, Mr. Fitzgerald agreed to provide relevant documents to the Committee, including records of ...
Netherlands Television Documentary: America Is A Economic Fiscal Nightmare - Complete Dollar Collapse - Depression - End Of America
Post Date: 2007-12-02 00:38:52 by Uncle Bill
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Direct link to documentary, partly dutch, also much in english: http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/vpro/tegenlicht/bb.20051120.asf A great documentary 2 years ago: The day the dollar falls (Dutch but some English interviews) of the Tegenlicht series. It describes the events that lead up to the moment the Dollar is worth nothing and a Dutch woman has to pay her cab with some cigarettes. In the documentary you hear some opinions of dutch and foreign traders,investors and millionaires that underline the message: It is unavoidable, the only question is how and when. Israel Lobby in US: http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=4337248&md5=9daaa82679c4fe8831398daba0d71d48
Judge: Gov't Can't ID Online Book Buyers
Post Date: 2007-12-01 12:48:26 by kiki
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Judge: Gov't Can't ID Online Book Buyers U.S. prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena seeking the identities of thousands of people who bought used books through online retailer Amazon.com Inc., newly unsealed court records show. The withdrawal came after a judge ruled the customers have a right to keep their reading habits from the government. "The (subpoena's) chilling effect on expressive e-commerce would frost keyboards across America," U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker wrote in a June ruling. "Well-founded or not, rumors of an Orwellian federal criminal investigation into the reading habits of Amazon's customers could frighten countless potential ...
Senate Bill 1959 To Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books And Free Speech Across America
Post Date: 2007-11-30 19:42:55 by Mind_Virus
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Senate Bill 1959 To Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, Books And Free Speech Across America Wednesday, November 28, 2007 by: Mike Adams The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent. All over ...
To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood
Post Date: 2007-11-30 16:14:10 by Split
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Thomas Paine said it best. “It has been thought,” he wrote in The Rights of Man in 1791, “…that government is a compact between those who govern and those who are governed; but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have ...
Bogus FEMA 'reporters' promoted despite role in fake press conference
Post Date: 2007-11-30 15:22:40 by robin
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Bogus FEMA 'reporters' promoted despite role in fake press conference11/30/2007 @ 9:26 am Filed by Jason Rhyne Two FEMA public relations staffers who posed as reporters during a staged news conference about the California wildfires last month no longer have their jobs -- but only because the disaster management agency has promoted them to better ones. Despite their participation in the bogus presser, FEMA's former deputy director of public affairs, Cindy Taylor, and another employee, Mike Widomski, are both receiving the promotions they were earlier promised, Washington Post columnist Al Kamen reports. "On Oct. 23, the day of FEMA's now infamous phony news ...
TSA to Rummage Through Emotional Baggage As Well
Post Date: 2007-11-29 23:47:36 by snoopdougg
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On an episode of South Park taking aim at the airline industry, Mr. Garrison (still a man at that point) invented a mode of transportation where riders had to have a metal prod inserted into their backsides in order to avoid falling off the vehicle. The response of those enduring such discomfort and humiliation was that it was still less than what passengers had to endure at the airport. While the bit might have been a bit over the top in terms of propriety, it was pretty much on target in terms of how most Americans feel regarding the bureaucratic procedures implemented in the name of “transportation security” since September 11th. As fairly good natured people content with the ...
Let the People Decide
Post Date: 2007-11-29 06:36:36 by Ada
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President Bush is disdained by seven in ten Americans. That’s bad enough, but only one in five Americans believe Congress is doing a good job. Most of us believe our government is the best one money can buy, and that it benefits those who spend the most to buy it. We are right. Campaign finance laws won’t fix the problem by limiting political speech. Busting the occasional crooked Senator or Representative isn’t making the underlying problem any better. Electing new crooks won’t repair government. Is there any hope for putting government back on the right track? Yes, we can put the people in charge. Although politicians always pay lip service to the people being ...
Does marriage require a license?
Post Date: 2007-11-28 23:53:01 by snoopdougg
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WHY do people — gay or straight — need the state’s permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn’t, because marriage was a private contract between two families. The parents’ agreement to the match, not the approval of church or state, was what confirmed its validity. For 16 centuries, Christianity also defined the validity of a marriage on the basis of a couple’s wishes. If two people claimed they had exchanged marital vows — even out alone by the haystack — the Catholic Church accepted that they were validly married. In 1215, the church decreed that a “licit” marriage must take place in church. But people who married ...
MITT IS A POS!
Post Date: 2007-11-28 21:32:33 by Zipporah
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JERK ..
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