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Fla. Companies Forbidding Smoking In Private Lives
Post Date: 2007-11-10 09:46:08 by Ferret Mike
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- A growing number of companies in Florida are forbidding their workers from smoking not only at work, but also in their private lives. Westgate Resorts, the largest private employer in Central Florida, has banned smoking and won't budge from a policy of not hiring smokers and firing employees who do smoke. "When I found out it was legal to discriminate against smokers, I put the policy in place," Westgate president and CEO David Seigel said. Seigel told Local 6 that the policy was prompted by the death of his close friend -- a heavy smoker who died of cancer. "If you are too stupid to understand that smoking is going to kill you, then we are going to ...
Restoring Rights
Post Date: 2007-11-10 09:35:50 by Ada
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If leading spokespersons of both the right and the left in America enthusiastically back passage of any piece of legislation, there should be headlines in the various elements of the mass media. Anything attracting that kind of bipartisan support must certainly be dramatically important — so weighty that all conscious Americans ought to examine it. Claiming to be among the “conscious,” we hereby provide a serious look at H.R. 3835, the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007. It was introduced in the House of Representatives by Texas Republican Ron Paul on October 15, 2007. If enacted, H.R. 3835 would: repeal the 2006 Military Commissions Act that denies habeas corpus (the ...
Mukasey Connecting the Dots
Post Date: 2007-11-10 07:44:11 by Zipporah
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Mukasey was confirmed.. how they voted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_B._Mukasey Mukasey was born in NYC His father emigrated from the Russia after WWII and he was educated at Columbia and Yale law school. Mukasey has given very controversial rulings and opinions .. and some of his connections are more than suspect: Mukasey's editorial defending the Patriot Act appeared in the "..a statute called the USA Patriot Act has become the focus of a good deal of hysteria, some of it reflexive, much of it recreational." Mukasey's son, Marc, also a former federal prosecutor, is a partner in Bracewell-Giuliani. Marc Mukasey is currently representing ...
RED ALERT!!! 2008 Defense Authorization Bill authorizes use of US military for domestic purposes!
Post Date: 2007-11-09 21:52:04 by robin
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Dennis Kucinich: 2008 Defense Authorization Bill authorizes use of US military for domestic purposes Fri Nov 09th 2007, 09:01 AMRepresentative Dennis Kucinich reported this during an interview with WINZ Miami radio station this morning. He is reading through this bill and for the first time last evening, noticed this language that has been inserted into the 2008 Defense Authorization Bill.He said that this language jumped off the page at him and that he was very concerned that people learn about this provision that would authorize domestic operations for the US military.This is a PDF file. I have typed out the pertinent section.HR 1585Section 1615, page 672 (of 794)(Under TITLE XVI, ...
Los Angeles Police Plan to Map Muslims
Post Date: 2007-11-09 17:36:25 by aristeides
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Los Angeles Police Plan to Map Muslims November 9, 2007 10:54 AM EST LOS ANGELES — Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Los Angeles Police Department to map the city's Muslim communities, calling it racial profiling. The LAPD's counterterrorism bureau plans to identify Muslim enclaves in order to determine which might be likely to become isolated and susceptible to "violent, ideologically based extremism," said Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing on Thursday. "We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities," said Downing, who heads the counterterrorism bureau. Downing said the plan is still ...
Kill The Messenger (Sibel Edmonds)
Post Date: 2007-11-08 23:09:07 by robin
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Details the tribulations of U.S Government "whistle blower" Sibel Edmonds and her fight to reveal a spy ring within the FBI Translation ... all » Service. Edmonds found evidence of narcotics trafficking, arms dealing in both conventional and nuclear and money laundering involving Israel, U,S and Turkey. Strange bedfellows indeed but when you look deeper it all becomes clear. Watch and be amazed by this video.
Poster Comment:Scott Horton Interviews Luke Ryland: re Sibel Edmonds posted 7 days ago by ZipporahFBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds: 'I Will Tell All & Name Names' posted 10 days ago by Zipporah
C-SPAN caller asks “arrogant right-wing Republican” apologist to try waterboarding
Post Date: 2007-11-08 19:13:39 by Zipporah
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On Tuesday’s “Washington Journal” a caller from Florida asks former Reagan Justice Dept. official and current torture-apologist David Rivkin to volunteer to be water boarded so he can decide whether or not it should considered torture. Play (4791) Let’s hear what a different former Reagan Justice Dept. official has to say.
Marine Lawyer Gagged by Pentagon
Post Date: 2007-11-08 17:05:01 by aristeides
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Marine Lawyer Gagged by Pentagon Today a House Judiciary Subcommittee is holding hearings on torture—excuse me, highly coersive interrogation technique—and how they affect potential trials before the Military Commissions. Marine Lieutenant Colonel V. Stuart Couch was invited to give testimony before the Congressional committee. The Wall Street Journal reports this morning on what happened next: Col. Couch says he informed his superiors and that none had any objection. Yesterday, however, he was advised by email that the Pentagon general counsel, William J. Haynes II, “has determined that as a sitting judge and former prosecutor, it is improper for you to testify about ...
DOJ Torture Memo # 6 Identified
Post Date: 2007-11-08 15:35:57 by aristeides
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DOJ Torture Memo # 6 Identified I recently examined how the Bush Justice Department was developing a “Culture of Torture,” that is, the Bush Administration’s addiction to torture has become its defining element. Opposition to torture policies is not tolerated, as Daniel Levin and Michael Mukasey have learned. Silence can be tolerated among career employees, perhaps, but it will certainly check their advancement. And now, courtesy of the ACLU, we learn some more about the logical corollaries of the culture of torture: secrecy and lies. Legal papers filed in federal court Monday in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations disclose that ...
IMPEACH VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY (FLOOR STATEMENT OF REP. KUCINICH, NOV. 7, 2007)
Post Date: 2007-11-08 11:04:40 by aristeides
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IMPEACH VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I brought articles of impeachment before this House. The articles have been referred to the Judiciary Committee, and the people of the United States now have a chance to become engaged in a broad discussion about the importance of this action. People ask, why now? Well, recently, the administration asked for millions of dollars to be included in the defense budget to retrofit Stealth B-2 bombers with 30,000-pound bombs that can be used to bomb nuclear research labs in Iran at Natans and Bushir. Think of ...
Was Jesus – or Lincoln – the Savior of the World?
Post Date: 2007-11-08 06:30:33 by Ada
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According to the neocon Manhattan Institute, the answer to the question posed in the title of this article is . . . . . drum roll please . . . . . Lincoln. For those Christians who are skeptical of the notion that they should abandon their faith and embrace their new savior, "Father Abraham," it is all explained to them in an October 23 City Journal online article entitled "How Lincoln Saved the World" by Michael Knox Beran. Just how did the atheistic railroad industry lawyer/lobbyist/pork barrel politician from Springfield, Illinois, save the world, according to Beran? For one thing, he pandered more than any other Northern politician to the white supremacists of the ...
AT&T Whistleblower Speaks Out Against Retroactive Immunity
Post Date: 2007-11-07 20:19:37 by Zipporah
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We are the Thought Police
Post Date: 2007-11-07 17:18:57 by aristeides
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We are the Thought Police Orwell's Big Brother never showed up. Instead of centralized Iraq war propaganda, we have an America in which the public and the press jointly impose their own controls. Nov. 6, 2007 | At first glance, the war in Iraq would seem to represent the realization of George Orwell's darkest fears. In "Politics and the English Language," he expressed alarm over how political speech and language, degraded by euphemism, vagueness, and cliché, was used to defend the indefensible, to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. Three years later, in "1984," Orwell offered an even grimmer vision, one in which an all-powerful Party, ...
Mad Cow Nation: America's Willing Surrender
Post Date: 2007-11-07 17:10:28 by aristeides
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Mad Cow Nation: America's Willing Surrender Written by Chris Floyd Tuesday, 06 November 2007 Michael Massing has written a very important story about a very important truth: the main reason that the American people are so deeply uninformed about the reality of the war of aggression being waged in their names in Iraq is that they do not want to know. Massing shows that the rigorous self-censorship practiced by the American people and the media is actually worse than the machinations of Big Brother in Orwell's 1984; at least in that fictional world, the draconian repression of reality was imposed by force at the hands of an all-powerful state – but today we are doing it to ...
Collusion Course: Dems Play Impeachment Farce as Republic Burns
Post Date: 2007-11-07 17:00:27 by aristeides
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Collusion Course: Dems Play Impeachment Farce as Republic Burns Written by Chris Floyd Wednesday, 07 November 2007 I was planning to write on the malevolent farce played out in Congress yesterday, when the Democratic leadership floundered around in a sweaty panic trying to prevent Dennis Kuchinich's impeachment resolution from even being discussed, much less voted upon. But AArthur Silber is already on the case, as we'll see below. Silber also makes a broader point whose stinging truth should – but won't – spread across the "progressive" movement. As Silber notes, the Republicans proudly champion torture, Hitlerite aggressive war, and iron-fisted ...
The Capitulation "Strategy"
Post Date: 2007-11-07 15:58:09 by aristeides
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The Capitulation "Strategy" by kos Wed Nov 07, 2007 at 12:08:59 PM PST From Novak's email newsletter: Democrats' public objections to Mukasey centered on whether water-boarding fit the definition of torture. Raising these objections allowed them to turn the Mukasey nomination into another flashpoint for rallying their base against the Bush Administration's conduct of the War on Terror, but their eventual capitulation also followed their pattern on this issue area: Raise a cry, attack the White House and then give the White House what it wants. That's pretty much it: Sound the alarm. Talk tough. Capitulate. It's why they look as weak as they do, and ...
GOP turns impeachment resolution against Dems
Post Date: 2007-11-07 15:52:19 by aristeides
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GOP turns impeachment resolution against Dems By Jonathan E. Kaplan November 07, 2007 House Republicans on Tuesday nearly forced Democratic leaders to vote on a resolution to impeach Vice President Cheney. Anti-war presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced a privileged resolution, used to circumvent the committee process, to get his impeachment measure to the House floor. The vote to kill Kucinch’s privileged resolution began as a largely party-line affair, but halfway through the vote, Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) persuaded Republican leaders to get rank-and-file GOP lawmakers to change their votes to force the debate. At one point, the vote to table the ...
15,000 want off the U.S. terror watch list
Post Date: 2007-11-07 11:29:24 by Horse
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WASHINGTON — More than 15,000 people have appealed to the government since February to have their names removed from the terrorist watch list that delayed their travel at U.S. airports and border crossings, the Homeland Security Department says. TERROR WATCH: List swells to more than 755,000 The complaints have created such a backlog that members of Congress are calling for a speedier appeal system that would help innocent people clear their names so they won't fall under future suspicion. Among those who have been flagged at checkpoints: toddlers and senior citizens with the same names as suspected terrorists on the watch list. "To leave individuals in this purgatory is ...
FBI will have anyone you call a terrorist detained
Post Date: 2007-11-06 19:56:48 by Zipporah
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A man in Sweden didn't like the way his son-in-law was acting, so he sent a note to the FBI accusing the guy of being an Al Qaeda operative just before he took a trip to the USA. When he landed, the DHS held him in a cell for 11 hours, then deported him. Can't be too safe, dontcha know. The wife didn't want him to travel since she was sick and wanted him to help care for their children, regional daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet said without disclosing the couple's names. When the husband refused to stay home, his father-in-law wrote an email to the FBI saying the son-in-law had links to al-Qaeda in Sweden and that he was travelling to the US to meet his contacts. He ...
Rudy On Torture: Intensive Questioning Works
Post Date: 2007-11-06 19:20:39 by Zipporah
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ACLU learns of third 'secret' torture memo from Gonzales Justice Department
Post Date: 2007-11-06 18:54:44 by Zipporah
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Legal papers filed in federal court Monday in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations disclose that the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued three secret memorandums relating to interrogation practices of detainees -- one more than has been publicly revealed. The New York Times revealed two memoranda authored in 2005 relating to "harsh interrogation" of prisoners held by the CIA. One explicitly authorized interrogators to use combinations of psychological “enhanced” interrogation practices including waterboarding, head slapping, and stress positions. The second declared that none of the CIA’s ...
Citizen cops: Police Volunteer Program Sees Growing Participation, Duties
Post Date: 2007-11-06 10:23:20 by Jethro Tull
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Citizen cops: Police Volunteer Program Sees Growing Participation, Duties. From:Paducah Sun (Paducah, KY)Date:February 22, 2006More results for:police use citizens traffic tickets Feb. 22--Fellow citizens, dressed in khakis and polo shirts, soon could be writing tickets in downtown Paducah for those who abuse the two-hour time limit for parking.Police hope the use of volunteers for parking enforcement frees up officers to investigate higher-priority crimes while alleviating some serious parking concerns, mainly on Broadway. Eventually, the department may further utilize the public's help by assigning volunteers other duties usually reserved for uniformed officers.The program is ...
E-Mail Privacy To Disappear
Post Date: 2007-11-06 10:16:55 by Brian S
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On October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati granted the government's request for a full-panel hearing in United States v. Warshak case centering on the right of privacy for stored electronic communications. At issue is whether the procedure whereby the government can subpoena stored copies of your e-mail -- similar to the way they could simply subpoena any physical mail sitting on your desk -- is unconstitutionally broad. What is important in this case is not the ultimate resolution of that narrow issue, but the position that the United States government is taking on the entire issue of electronic privacy. That position, if accepted, may ...
Federal Prosecutors--a human pestilence
Post Date: 2007-11-05 06:56:53 by Ada
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There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. -- Dr. Ferris, a bureaucratic parasite, explains the governing principle of “soft totalitarianism” to industrialist Hank Rearden in Atlas Shrugged Oh, what fun it is to tear up the Constitution and ruin lives needlessly! Federal Prosecutor Randy Massey clearly enjoys his work. After all, there's not as much money in his former career as a Captain Kangaroo Impersonator. The April 28, ...
Congress' Unused War Powers
Post Date: 2007-11-05 06:03:24 by Ada
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Americans are wondering, with the lassitude of uninvolved spectators, whether the president will initiate a war with Iran. Some Democratic presidential candidates worry, or purport to, that he might claim an authorization for war in a Senate resolution labeling an Iranian Revolutionary Guard unit a terrorist organization. Some Democratic representatives oppose the president's request for $88 million to equip B-2 stealth bombers to carry huge "bunker-buster" bombs, hoping to thereby impede a presidential decision to attack Iran's hardened nuclear facilities. While legislators try to leash a president by tinkering with a weapon, they are ignoring a sufficient leash -- the ...
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